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-good Reason accounts for the first Omission ofi John v. 7. this way, so he ought to have ad-mitted of the fame Salvo in the Behalf of Lukexvii. 36.

III. John V. 27. ’E&oiccv ItJWgy am H xfiVtv

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The new Text leaves out A which Mills af-firms, Prol. 1200, to have been added for Emphasisfake. But how if the Alexandrian and Colber-tin MSS. as also the Vulgar Arabick and Æthi-opick Versions omitted it as a superfluous Parti-cle : This very oft happened, and consideringthat all other MSS. Versions, (fe. retain itis the more probable Supposition of the two.Besides % here is explanatory, and therefore notto be spared. Us has given him Power, saysour Lord, even that of judging., because he isthe Son of Man,, i. e. the Person designed underthat Name, Dan. vii. 13, 14. to whom the Pro-ffhet in a Vision saw the antient of Days givePower.

IV. John xvii. 11. e Ous <fe'JWass f. mi.

Instead of the new Text has &>, whichReading Mills approves of. For this Changethe Editor has also the Authority of many MSS.and Versions, C 7C. But then the old Reading,which is likewise supported by many good GreekMSS. besides Jerome, Vulgar and the ÆthiopickVersion, makes better Sense, and is more agree-able to the Context than the new one, which,in both these Respects is very obnoxious. Forit makes our Lord fay, Father, preserve them