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ostendere tempus quadra- 

 ginta & sex annorum com- 

 pleri ab eo tempore quo 

 David iiiquit ad Nathan 

 prophetam consulens de 

 ajdificationem templi : " an 

 ego liabito in domo cedrina 

 & area Dei nianet in medio 

 tentorio ? and a little after, he 

 saysjQuaresi potent quis os- 

 tendere principium praepara- 

 tionis templi tuisse colligente 

 eo materiam oonvenientem a 

 tempore quinti anni regni 

 sui poterit, si urgeatur de 

 quadraginta sex anuis. 



lapides dolatos & dolaverunt 

 servi Salomonis & servi chi- 

 nem & Gibbii, &c. In anno 

 quarto] Maeclisque ad illiid 

 " & domus' in Comp. legun- 

 tur" in extremo hoc capite 

 ut in Vulfrala. 



I have compared this with the edition of the complut. Greek, Latin, Hebrew, ami 

 Chaldaic of Plantin, Ant. 1571. by Perniissior. of Philip II. and I find It correct. 



I might, were it necessary here, also remark, that it is 

 rather an unfortunate argument and quotation against the 

 authority of the contested reading, to produce the passage 

 of an author, who evidently mistook the subject on which he 

 is writing, and confounded the second temple with the first, 



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* He, indeed, mentions the temple of Esdras, as supposed by some to be meant, btit 

 rejects it, sinct ihe history of the Maccabees is so vnccrluin : '.' 



