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one can reasonably charge Passages as the Interpo-lations of Transcribers, who is not able to pro-duce Copies or Versions that are without them *.Otherwise, as Father Simon well observes, the en-tire Epistle of Jude might be discarded by the sameMethod. It is but laying that he, who forgedthe Epistle , affixed thereto the Name of Jude, andthe Business is done. For if mere Aslertions, andutterly unsupported, may pass in the one Case,why not in the other ? Indeed such Objections areutterly against Reason in all Cases, and the Maximof Father Simon on this Occasion, deserves theRegard of every Christian and well-minded Critic.“ Arguments that are merely Critical, ought ne-" ver to be opposed against Acts that are ancient" and generally received by all the World. " OurAuthor further urges from Grotius , that if thisEpistle had been Apostolical, it would have beentranslated into the other Languages , and receivedby all the Churches , which it was not. AnJ'w.No more was the Book of Revelations , which Gro­ tius nevertheless owns to have been an ApostolicalWriting. Besides, that the Epistle of Jude wasnot from the Beginning translated into all Langua-ges , and received by all Churches, proves only, thatall Nations and Churches did not at first own itsApostolical Character. It might nevertheless beApostolical, and was originally esteemed as such byseveral Churches, those of Palœjline in particular.

* We are sure that the Words H ’Iwas the

Reading of the Greek Copies so early as the Days of Origen. Forin his Comment on St. Matt. p. raz. he assures us that it was soin the following Words. Km ey^-^e ¥ hrifoXiv cA lyoe/KOt

si VMrXncaj&jtw '•) ¥ ¥ ippoptyw XoyaiV

vrgjo'filca ’Ititces lyri XgAfit J'aA©'’, dUebfpos j ’laxw*>x.

Nor