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Conf. § 3. Quae est sub omni caelo. om. omni BR. 



§ 7. Perdes eos qui loquntur. omyies for eos BE. 

 §13. Et 1108 Domini. A hdiS dominicati ; CF^^domni, 

 § 18. Pt lit uenirem. A om. et ; CF3 corr ut et. 

 § 18. Hoc ohtinuit for ohtinui. 



Boll. E. 



§ 23. Ut iiel modo ego pod, &c., om. ego Boll. E; CFaF^ 

 read me. 



ABF3. 



Conf. § 17. Et nihil metueham. CF4 have Ex nihilo met. 



§ 55. Qmtidie spero. CF4 have Qtiotidie sperm. See also 

 § 22 noted above (p. 214). 



ABE. 



Conf. § 14. Pei nomen uhique expander e. CF3F4 ins. nomine bef. 

 uhique. 



The inartificial character of CF3F4 is perhaps most clearly 

 perceived on an examination of the Biblical citations in cases where 

 the apparatus criticus of the Confessio and Epistola exhibits variants. 

 A scribe is always liable to the temptation to write quotations from 

 the Bible in the phraseology that is most familiar to him. Speaking 

 generally, the text of the Latin Bible that was current when these 

 Mss. were written, is that of the Yulgate as usually printed. In the 

 subjoined list, the Biblical quotations are taken from the Clementine 

 Vulgate, those words only being italicised of which there are variants 

 in the mss. of St. Patrick. The list is restricted to passages from the 

 Psalms and ISlew Testament, as being from their familiarity most 

 liable to emendation. 



Ps. V. 7. Conf. §7. Perdes omnes qui loquunter mendacium. So BE. 



eos AF3F4 ; Perdes qui C. 

 Ps. xxxiii. 4. Conf. § 34. Ex altemus nomen eius. So Boll., Exaltarem 



. . . nomen tuum. ExuUarem CF3F4. 

 Ps. cxv. 12. Conf. § 57. Pro omnibus quae retrihuit mihi. So B. 



retrihuat CF3F4. 



S. Matt. iv. 19. Conf. § 40. Uenite post me, et faciam uos fieri 

 piscatores hominum. So A. Boll. om. et\ CF3F4 om. fieri yfiih. 

 h, Ambr, Aug. 



