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be just as sutiicieat to display it, as it" lie introduced what was 

 only accessory and succedaneous. However, independent of 

 this, Origen was by no means so accurate and correct in his 

 quotations, that we may always rely upon the conclusion they 

 would seem to indicate : it is very evident to the inquisitive 

 reader of his works, that he frequently alledges his authorities 

 from memory, and the lapses of which he has been guilty, 

 are obvious hints against an unhesitating reliance on the 

 fidelity of his statements. 



I shall produce an example of this which is rather par- 

 ticular, I give it in the translation of Vigerus, as verbal 

 accuracy is not here requisite or necessary. 



Quod autem ipsi (Satana;) peccator tradatur Paulus te 

 docebit, ubi (luidem loquens de Phygello & Hermogenc 

 " quos tradidi,"-inquit, " Satanfe ut discant non blasphemare. 

 In the passage, however, in which St. Paul speaks thus, (1. 

 Tim. 1. 20.) it is Ilymenctus and Alexander whom he men- 

 tions; and in another text, (2 Tim. 1. 15.) bespeaks merely 

 of Hermogenes and Phygcllus being " turned au-ay from 

 him." (Origenis Commen. in S. S. cura liuetii, Commcn. on 

 Jeremiah Horn. IS. Vol. 1. p. 179) 



i\s, however, the learned and inquisitive reader may desire 

 to see at length the passage of Origen, on which so much 

 stress has been laid, I have transcribed and collated it with 

 some accuracy, with the Sixtine Septuagint, to which only, 

 and the version in the London Polyglott, does it agree. It 



may 



