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tecoft. Those Days, properly speaking, wereajjtMgstt T8 TCirj/tt, and therefore the last ofthem only could be ripee# Trev'mx.odi too W<^a,which was its proper Name, though for Bre-vity it was called and some-

times barely 7rM»xo^i. Philo de Decal. p. 7 66.mentions the wevlmosti vpe&t.' as the ending,of the seven Weeks from the ‘Passover , but ne-ver speaks plurally of any ‘Days of Pentecost .Since therefore the Hellenistick Idiom will admitof the singular Reading tipeest-v* and since theplural one is an Expression, for ought that ap-pears, utterly unknown to J exists Writers: Last-ly , Since the most valuable and numerous Autho-rities are with Stephens's Text, it ought not tohave been altered. Besides, the Evidences forthe new Text are not so many, as they are re-,presented to be. For Mills reckons the Æthio-.pick Version as one. And yet if the Latin maybe credited, his original Copy had tL/J.

Again, Scaliger , according to Mills, affirms thatall the Fathers read Now few Latin

Writers before Castlodore cite this Place, dm-hrofe indeed does, and reads plurally, cum com -plerentur dies. But as to Greek Fathers, Chry-sostom will always be an Exception to Scaliger sgeneral Assertion, who has tiMesw both in Textand Commentary. Lastly , It is easy to accountfor the Alteration from singular to plural, fromthe Custom that prevailed in the Christian Church,to call the entire Season between Easter andWhitsuntide , the Days of Pentecost . But noChristian Transcriber would change the pluralReading into the singular, in Contradiction to the

Way.