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Christ " ; this phrase is not incompatible with the fullest 

 belief in our Lord's Divinity, and you will remember how 

 the risen Saviour in St. John (xx, 17) said " I ascend unto my 

 Father and your Father, and my God and your God." In 

 some cases (e.g., II Corinthians xi, 31, Ephesians i, 3, cf. 

 I Peter i, 3) the phrase has been allowed to stand in the 

 Clementine text ; but in Colossians i, 3, a comma has been 

 inserted " Gratias agimus deo, et Patri Domini nostri Iesu 

 Christi," compare Ephesians i, 17, where the " Deus Domini 

 nostri Iesu Christi pater gloriae " has been altered into 

 " Deus, Domini nostri Iesu Christi pater, gloriae," in defiance 

 of the sense ; in both these passages the change has apparently 

 been made in order to avoid speaking of " the God of our Lord 

 Jesus Christ " ; and in Colossians ii, 2, an " et " has been 

 added after " Patris " with the same motive (" in agnitione 

 mysterii Dei Patris et Christi Jesu "). 



I may perhaps also be allowed to mention tw T o very small 

 cases which shew what a different sense can be given to *a 

 sentence by the use. or omission, of capital letters ; there is no 

 doctrinal significance here ; I just mention them for their 

 interest. In Acts xvii, (5, the Jews at Thessalonica, complaining 

 of St. Paul's preaching, cry out " hi qui orbem concitant et hue 

 venerunt " ("those that have turned the world upside down have 

 come here also "); orbem very naturally got corrupted into urbem 

 — the city — in a good many MSS., and the Clementine Vulgate 

 adopts this reading ; but not contented with that, it prints the 

 word with a capital U, and " Urbem " in a Bible printed at 

 Borne could hardlv mean anything but the Eternal City 

 itself. 



In Acts xix, 9, exactly the contrary procedure is shewn : 

 " quotidie disputans in schola Tyranni " means that St. Paul held 

 forth daily in the school of a man named Tyrannus ; but the 

 Clementine Yulgate prints the word with a small t, and thus 

 makes the word an epithet, not a proper name; St. Paul 

 disputed in the school of a certain tyrant ; and this w T as the 

 interpretation of the passage amongst a good many of the 

 mediaeval commentators — De Lyra, Caietan, Yatablus, etc. 



I must now close this long paper ; long as it is, I cannot 

 claim to have treated the subject exhaustively or even very 

 methodically. I have done little more than jot down and 

 discuss the instances — mainly from the New T Testament — which 

 I have gradually collected during my years of work at the 

 Vulgate ; that work has been carried on with a different object, 



