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by the Authority which thou hast given me.As if he had no proper Authority of his own,but all was given to the Son j or as if the Sonwould call that his Father s Authority which wasmade over to himself. Besides, though ovoy-ac.in other Parts of this Gospel, does sometimessignify Authority , it always signisies differently inthis Chapter. Thus, Ver. 6. our Lord fays,IqcLvtgpm, <ra to Cvofxct roi5 dvSrgpTois as S'iShjystifj.oi jc. t. A. i. e. I have made known thy straths(not thy Authority) unto the Men whom thouhast given me. But the nth Ver. is a continu-ed Prayer for the same Persons: So that 'ripytrovciurvs h -rd ovo'fj.&'h <nt must there signify pre-serve them in thy Truth. Besides, 5>-o^ in thelast Verse of this Chapter apparently signifies thesame, as at Ver. the 6th, which makes it veryimprobable that a new Sense of that Word wouldbe introduced in the intermediate Verses, whereshe same Discourse was continued throughout.Further still, Granting that cyo/xa. in this divinePrayer might signify Authority , admitting like-wise what is not to be denied, that the Son re-ceived his Authority from the Father, yet thatSense is never expressed, as it must be here, ac-cording to Dr. Mills s Interpretation. The Fa-ther is said to have given Christ a Name abso-lutely, but is never said relatively to have givenhis own Name or Authority to him, as theDoctor here represents our Lord’s Sense to be.That Reading therefore, which makes such Formsof Speech necessary, as do not occur elsewhere inthe New Testament , fe not likely to be a ge-latine one. The same learned Person thinks « the

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