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inquired into are equally agreeable to the Reasonof Things, to the Context and the Style of theWriter. If these Advantages appear only or e-minently for one of the Lections , they supersedeall further Judgment, and fix an incontestibleCharacter of Genuineness wherever they light.Such is the old Text of Rev. xii. 18. now beforeus. So that the Learned Doctor here, as oft else-where, errs by beginning his Judgments at thewrong End.

XV. Rev. xxii. 14. 01 rd s

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The new Text reads thus. Ma.i&etot 01 nr'hi-vovrss rd; so?-.d; dvrdv upon the Authority oftwo Greek MSS. the Velejian Readings, theVulgar and Æthiopick Versions. But then withthe old Text stand all the Greek MSS. save two;the ItalicR as appears from I’ertullian andSt. Cyprian , the Syriack and Arabick Versionsand Arethas: So that the most ancient, as wellas the most numerous Evidences appear for thecurrent Reading. Mills favours the New one,and takes the other to have been originally aMarginal Scholion explanatory of the mysticalWords of wafting their Garments. But this isvery unlikely, because such explanatory Scholia are rather to be expected, the first Time the ob-scure Expression occurs, which is Rev. vii. 14.But there we find no Footsteps of this Scholion .On the other Hand, the likeness between the twoReadings of Rev. xxii. 14. makes it more pro-bable, that the Difference was owing to Care-lessness. Some early Copift having the Text ofi Re 0 .