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We have seen (p. 225) reason to believe that his theological training 

 was acquired in Gaul, possibly South Gaul ; and he would naturally 

 use the Biblical text current there. If he had written more, we should 

 doubtless be better able to explain the nature of his Biblical text. 

 He has two readings (St. Matt. viii. 11 ; Phil. ii. 9) identical with 

 those of Irenaeus; three or four agreeing with Cyprian (Is. xlii. 25 ; 

 xliii. 21 ; Ps. xlix. 15; St. John viii. 34); and one (Mai. iv. 2, 3) 

 which is so exactly identical with the citation of the text as given by 

 St. Augustine, that Prof. J. H. Bernard has suggested that it may be 

 a citation from the Be Civitate Dei rather than from the Bible. The 

 remarkable doublet in Rom. viii. 26 (Conf. 25) is also found in a ms. of 

 Yisigothic origin; and the rendering of Rom. xiii. 9 (Ep. 9) is 

 characteristic of Southern Gaul (Berger, La Vulgate, I.e.). It is to be 

 hoped that some scholar who has a wide knowledge of 0. L. and 

 mixed Vulgate texts may, from the materials here supplied, construct 

 an acceptable theory. The phenomena certainly are not inconsistent 

 with the hypothesis that St. Patrick brought with him to Ireland a 

 copy of the text current in Southern Gaul. Professor Lawlor {Boole 

 of Mulling, p. 134) sums up a very full discussion of the affinities of 

 the Irish 0. L. texts thus: — "The version upon which the Irish 

 recension was founded, and from which its African, Italian, and d 

 elements were derived, may have been imported from the region which 

 gave birth to the text represented by A." But the extremely fragmen- 

 tary nature of the extant Irish 0. L. mss. (ri, r^^ /x) renders it impossible 

 to state positively what the relation of St. Patrick's text was to 

 that subsequently current in Ireland. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



The Latin writings of St. Patrick are extant in the following 

 editions : — 



(1.) S. Patricio . . . adscripta Opuscula : ... opera et studio Jacobi Waraei Equ. 



Aurati. 8°. Londini, 1656. This edition is professedly based on ACF3F4, 



but is very inaccurate. Beyond noting in the Confessio the portions not 



extant in A, there is no attempt to indicate the variants of the mss., which 



are also constantly ignored. 

 (2.) The edition by Andreas Denis in the Acta Sanctorum, Martii, torn, ii., has 



been sufficiently discussed in tlie Introduction. 

 (3.) Rerum Hibernicarum Scriptores Veteres, Auct. Carolo O'Conor, S.T.D. 



Buckinghamiae, 1814, Tom. i., p. cvii ; from C collated with A. 

 (4.) Irish Antiquarian Itesearches, hy Sir W. Bethara. Dublin, 1827. Part II. of 



this contains the Co/i fesno with the other Patrician documents in the Book 



of Armagh. 



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