Popery condemned by scripture and the fathers - End Time Deception

208 POPERY CONDEMNED B^
can teach him to solve this difficulty, without
9 supposing any part of the scriptures lost. Sr.
Augustine mentions, that the word Jeremiah
was to be found, in his days, only in some copies
of this evangeHst, while others had merely
" the prophet ;" and therefore he conchides the
last to be the genuine reading *. The same
w^ord is also wanting in the Syriac and Persic
versions. It is therefore with reason supposed,
that some transcriber had, by mistake, placed
the name Jeremiah in the margin as a reference,
which afterward came to be inserted in
the text.
As a farther proof of the mutilation of the
scriptures, the R. produces another proof from
the gospel of Matthew "
; It was spoken by the
*'
prophets, he shall be called a Nazarearu
" ii.
23.'"
This he supposes a quotation from formxCr
writers, whose works have perished. After
telling us that St. Jerom.e was " a ,man pro-
" foundly versed in the scriptures^/ who with
*'
every advantage from nature, vitid every ex-
" ternal adventitious aid, had made them the
*'
study of a long and laborious lifef," he can
have no objection to give his observations on
these words a hearing. " If the Evangelist,''
says he, " had referred to any particular pas-
*'
sage of Scripture, he would not have said, It
" vjas
* De Consent. Evang. Lib. 5. f
P. 177.