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Vulgata nova. Et factum est, cum consummasset Jesus sermones 

 istos, migravit se a Galilsea, et venit in fines Judasae et trans Jorda- 

 nem, et secutae sunt eum turbae multse, et curavit eos. 



Blanchini's four versions are so similar, that 1 do not think' it 

 necessary to transcribe them, the four MSS. in Bib. T. C. D. above 

 noticed, come yet nearer to the Vulgates. 



It is evident that the version in this book is very incorrect, nor 

 is it supported by the authority of any of the Greek MSS. that are 

 quoted by Mill, or by Wetstein. This cannot therefore be the 

 Italic, which has been so long a desideratum, and w^hich is alleged 

 by St. Augustine, and supposed by all the commentators, to have 

 been the most correct translation of the Gospels into Latin. It 

 affords, hovt^ever, a collateral proof, to be added to many already 

 often insisted on, that the Irish church was, in those remote ages 

 not very slavishly dependant on the See of Rome. There is in this 

 book a very extraordinary various reading, on which I think it ne- 

 cessary to enlarge. After the 48th verse of the 27th chapter of St. 

 Matthew, the following is inserted : " alius autem, capta lanced, pu- 

 " pungit latus ejus, et exivit aqua et sanguis ;" — the next proceeds, 

 " Jesus autem damans," &c. This reading, which is to be found 

 in four * Greek MSS., in the Ethiopian version of the New Tes- 

 tament, and in the works of St. Chrysostom, does not occur in the 

 Vulgates which Sabbatier has published, or in any of the four 

 Italic texts of Blanchini. Its history is curious, as it is related by 

 Wetstein. In the time of Pope Clement V. this additional verse 

 was very generally received ; but that Pontiff, considering it to con- 

 tain heretical doctrine, that our Saviour had been wounded before 

 his death, as this text imports, condemned it at the Comicil of 



* Viz. Cod. Step. S arid n, Bodl. 7. and Huntington 2. See Mill's and Wetstein's New Tes- 

 tament. 



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