8 The reference is to Gen. xviii.

9 A faith having no regard to either rewards or punishments.

10 Ex. xx. 14.

11 Lev. xix. 18.

12 Deut. vi. 13.

13 Ex. xx. 3, &c.

14 Ps. cxi. 1.

15 Ps. cxlix. 5.

16 Ps. cxii. 10.

17 Isa. v. 8.

18 The divine omnipresence is here denoted.

19 Or, according to another punctuation, "inconceivable in nature, infinite in power."

20 Clericus thinks this expression unscriptural, and fitted to support heresy. But it may be justified by such a passage as Acts xx. 28, if qeouj can be accepted as the correct reading, which is now generally agreed upon.

21 St. Matt. xxii. 13.

22 Ps. xxxiv. 10: the above rendering entirely departs from the Hebrew text.LETTER 2

23 "per summum sacerdotem."

1 Rom. xii. 1.

2 1 Cor. vi. 17.

3 "sopire luxuriam," lit. to put to sleep.

4 "a filiis et filiabus": a mistaken rendering of the Hebrew text.

5 Isa. lvi. 5.

6 Matt. xix. 12.

7 Rev. xiv. 4.

8 The text is here most uncertain; that adopted by Halm seems unintelligible.

9 "quod sine aeternae vitae merito neminem consequi posse satis certum est."

10 Matt. xix. 17.

11 "supra mandatum": Clericus remarks on this, "Non supra, sed proeter, nam ea de re nihil praecepit Christus."

12 1 Cor. vii. 25.

13 Ps. xxxiv. 14.

14 Rom. xii. 15.

15 Matt. vii. 12.

16 Matt. xxv. 41.

17 James ii. 10.

18 The genuineness of this clause is very doubtful, and the text is, at best, exceedingly corrupt.

19 1 Cor. vii. 34.

20 The text is here very uncertain; we have followed that of Halm, but with hesitation.

21 Phil. iv. 8, with the addition of e0pisth/mhj.

22 Matt. xiii. 43.

23 Eccl. xxvi. 24.

24 "Blasphemet."

25 Eccl. iv. 21.

26 The text here is most uncertain; Halm's "ut non aurea reticula capillus portet" is "that thy hair may not carry golden nets."

27 Prov. iii. 3.

28 Wisd. i. 11.

29 Ps. xxxiv. 13.

30 Rom. xii. 14.

31 1 Thess. v. 15; 1 Pet. iii. 9.

32 James iii. 2.

33 Eccl. xxviii. 24.

34 2 Pet. ii. 8.

35 Eccls. iv. 31.

36 Prov. iv. 26.

37 Prov. iv. 23.



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