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the Thessalonians, the apocryphal Epistle to the Laodiceans* is intro- 
duced, with this marginal observation, however: ‘‘ Laodicensium epis- 
tola ab alio sub nomine_pauli putatur edita.” With the exception of the 
last-mentioned, which is left uncommented, the Epistles are all accom- 
panied with an interlinear gloss, and are elucidated by ample marginal 
quotations from the following Fathers and theological writers: St. Gre- 
gory, St. Jerome, St. Augustine, Fulgentius, Origen, Cassian, Haimon, 
Leo, and Alcuin; and also from the Liber Pastoralis, Petrus Diaconus, 
Ambrosiaster (now rejected in tom. ii., ed. Maur. Paris, Append. p. 21), 
and Pelagius} (whose Commentarii in Paulinas may be seen, tom. X1., 
Opp. 8S. Hieronymi, edit. Vallars. col. 835). As far as the Epistle to the 
Colossians, the prevailing extracts are from St. Gregory; and from that 
to the end the most frequent are from the false Ambrosius. Denis sug- 
gests that improved readings of the text of the Fathers might be, per- 
haps, obtained by a collation of their works as printed, with the 
passages quoted from their writings in this MS., which exhibit in many 
instances considerable variations from the usually accepted readings. 
The first six folia are taken up with the following introductory 
matter :— 
I. Incipit Prologus Hieronimi in epistolam ad Romanos, which 
opens :— 
-i, quando ad eos scripsit 
Romanos non dum uiderat apostolus: nec Romani sunt 
qui ex iudeis 
i, romanis .i. paulus -L gentibus | ‘ gentibusque cre- 
in eis ipse ut in ceteris primus fidei diderunt. 
-i, barnabas7 clemens uf in 
iacerat fundamentum. Sed aliis discipulis 
libro clementis dicitur 
crediderant predicantibus. Ab apostolo 
-i, in fide cepta per predicationem discipulorum 
solo indigent confirmari. 
and so forth, ending on fol. 2 facie, thus :— 
et non in vanis et corruptibilibus nomen ueritatis 
ascribere simulacris. 
Throughout the above passage Denis remarks that there are many 
readings different from those printed. 
* In the Book of Armagh this spurious epistle comes in between Colossians and 1 Ti- 
mothy, with the salvo, “ Sed Hirunimus etiam negat esse Pauli,” fo. 138aa. See Calmet 
on Col. iv. 16, where it is printed with various readings. It exists in many MSS., and 
has even found its way into printed Bibles. 
t In the Book of Armagh are some prologues bearing the name of Pilagius, who is 
also cited in the Irishman Sedulius’ commentary on St. Paul’s Epist., under the signature 
Pil. 
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