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Latin adds that it had its beginning with the Rabbins and Cabbalists. 
See p. 263. [16] Mark xiii. 31. [19] Comp. Luke xxiv. 5. [28] The 
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authority of one who is treating of a different subject is of small 
_ weight, i.e, in regard to those things which he only mentions in- 
cidentally, 
P. 263. [5] Matt. xxiv. 35. Noli altum sapere was the motto of the 
printer Robert Stephens, [12] See, for an example of answers of this 
kind, Luke ix. 47, 48. : 
P. 264. [20-32] For...times: Omitted in the Latin. In its place 
is substituted an application to theology of the illustration he makes 
use of in Ess. lvi. p. 223, in reference to the administration of justice: 
‘And where the wine-presse is hard wrought, it yeelds a harsh wine, 
that tastes of the grape-stone.’ The following is Mr. Spedding’s trans- 
lation of the passage in the De Augm.: ‘Certainly as we find it in 
wines, that those which flow freely from the first treading of the 
grape are sweeter than those which are squeezed out by the wine- 
press, because the latter taste somewhat of the stone and the rind; 
so are those doctrines most wholesome and sweet which ooze out of 
the Scriptures when gently crushed, and are not forced into controversies 
and common places.’ [21] Livy ix. 19. [26] island: So edd. 1629, 
1633; ‘islands’ in ed. 1605. [Ib.] Brittany: ‘ Brittanie’ in ed. 1605. 
[33] Paragraphs 19-25 (The matter... sowing of tares) are omitted in 
the Latin. 
P. 265. [8] Comp. Ess. iii. p. 8: ‘For you may imagine, what kinde 
of faith theirs was, when the chiefe doctors, and fathers of their church, 
were the poets. But the true God hath this attribute, that he is a 
jealous God; and therefore, his worship and religion will endure no 
mixture, nor partner.’ 
P. 266. [1] privately: So edd. 1605, 1629, 1633. Mr. Spedding, with 
great probability, reads ‘privatively.’ [20] thought, word, or act: Comp. 
Plato, Protag. i. 348 D. [32] man: So edd. 1629, 1633; ‘mans’ in ed, 
1605. 
P. 267. [2] John iv. 23, 24. [Ib.] Hosea xiv. 2. [15] privative: 
‘ primitive’ in ed. 1605, corrected in Errata and edd. 1629, 1633. [22] 
witchcraft is the height of idolatry: See King James’s treatise on 
Demonology, iii. 6: ‘it is the highest point of Idolatry.’ [26] 1 Sam. 
xv. 23. 
P. 268. [23] question: i.e. the raising of doubts, which he describes 
just before as ‘litigious arguments,’ [26] See Lev. i. 8, 12, &c, 
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