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lieved it to be genuine. Nor did the Ariam, thatwe can find, object to it. So that the contendingParties of those Days seem to have agreed in re-puting that PaJJ'age authentic.

6. Twenty >three Years after this, another Or-

thodox Writer of the fame Countrey, viz. Fulgen-tius Rufpenjis , An. 507, cites the controverted jWords in three several Places of his Works. Which ifurther evinces, that the Ariam about Hunneric , '

had not been able to disprove that Text . For ifthey had, no Writer for the Catholic Side of theQuestion, would have dared to use a baffled Te-stimony, whilst the Memory of that Defeat was yet -recent. ' ;

7. About the Middle of the fame Century, lived !Cafjiodorns, or rather Cajiodorius , a Patrician ofRome , a Person remarkable for zealously recom-mending the Choice of ancient and cor re A Copies

of the Bible to the Monks under his Direction, for \their constant Use, Copies purged from Error by -;Collation with the GreekTcxt ; and that, in doubt- <ful Places, they should consult two or three ancientand correct books. So affectionately concerned s

was he for the Purity of the sacred Text, that j

whilst he left the correcting of other Books to his /Notaries , he would trust no Hand but his own in .reforming the Bible . Further, he himself declares, 'that he wrote his Treatise of Orthography, pur-posely to promote the faithful transcribing of theScriptures. It must therefore be of considerableImportance, in the present Dispute, to know the ■Reading of his Copy, 1 John v. 7. And of all his ITracts, none was so likely to satisfy our Curiosity ,as that entitled Complexiones, which were short and7 running