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Treatises joined with C\'pmM!i''s Works. A. D. 243. 73
or, as another copy has it, evarioelists ; and twelve apostles ;
and that the gospel is one divided into four parts.
3. He has not mentioned the names of the evangelists, but
he has quoted words of the gospels of St. Matthew, St. Luke,
and St. John. I shall transcribe a few passages, chiefly to
show the author's method of citing-, and his respect for the
scriptures in general.
4. ' These" are the days, of which the Lord says in the
gospel ; " And except those days Avere shortened, there
should be no flesh saved :" ' Matt. xxiv. 22.
5. ' Of whomP Simeon, a just man, holding' him in his
hands, said to Mary, his mother ; " Behold this [|child] is
set for the fall and rising* again of many in Israel, and for a
sign which shall be spoken against :" ' Luke ii. 28, 34.
6. ' And rightly i said our Lord and Master himself to
" If ye were Abraham's children, ye would do the
the Jews ;
works of Abraham :" ' John viii. 39.
7. He has a remarkable quotation of the Acts in this
manner ;
' From"^ Joshua the son of Nun to Samuel the judge,
and priest of God, according- to the blessed apostle Paul,
who has taught by the Spirit of God, were filled four hundred
and fifty years :' See Acts xiii. 20.
This seems to show at once that the Acts was esteemed a
book of the inspired scriptures, and that it was ^vell known
otherwise, the author Avould have shown more particularly
where these words of the apostle Paul were to be found.
8. He** says, ' We are built upon the words of the apos-
tles.' Perhaps he refers to Eph. ii. 20: but whether he
does or not, this observation is worthy of our notice.
9. ' Which make,' says*^ he, ' according to the Revelation,
" a thousand two hundred and sixty days;" in which days
that antichrist will make a great destruction ; and therefore
no christian will be able to offer sacrifice to God, because
that most wicked one will begin to sit in the temple of God,
and to say to the ignorant that he is God ; whom our Lord
et tres menses per quatuor tempora, id est, per quatuor evangelia, a ChrLsto
electos xii. apostolos nobis demonstraverunt. p. G9. b.
° Ipsi sunt dies, de quibus ait Dominus in evangelio, &c. p. 68. b.
P P. 69. a. b. "i Et merito Dominus et Magister noster dicebat
Judseis, &c. p. Gl. a. —a Jesu filio Nave usque ad Samuelem
judicem, et Dei sacerdotem, secundum Pauli B. apostoli sermonem, qui Spiritu
Dei edoctus retulit eos implevisse annos cccl. p. 67. a.
^ See before note '. ' —qui fiunt dies, secundum Apocalypsim,
mille cclx. in quibus diebus ille antichristus magnam faciet vastationem : et
ideo tunc nemo Christianorum poterit Deo sacnficium offerre, quoniam ipse
nequissimus incipiet in templo Dei sedere, et ignorantibus se Deum affirmare
quem oportet Jesiun Dominum et Salvatorem nostrum spiritu oris sui inter-
ficere, et praesentia adventus sui evaciiare. p. 68. a. b.
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