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    fraud of the A Hans , who had struck out that passage concerning the Trinity . [ Id . ] But what's all this ? Jerome says he was very exact , that he might discover the cheat of the A rians ; not that he had effectually done it ;

    and , indeed , that want of this place fully satisfies us of the contrary . And , certainly , this opinion is much more rational than that of the Doctor , who supposes it was omitted by the error

    of the copier . For it is very unlikely that he should be so stupid or negligent , to leave out those very things upon whose account the translation was chiefly undertaken , as the Preface would inform him : but there

    needs not much confutation , since our author obligingly hhnself has taken the pains to do it . For he says , that in many other places he hath seen ancient MS . Bibles which have wanted that passage ; though the same Preface of St . Jerome hath been prefixed to them . And first he mentions those of Basil .

    TakeJiis very words , ' There are two Greek MSS . of the Epistles at Basil that seem to be about 500 years old , in neither of which this passage is to be found : they have also an ancient

    Latin Bible , which is about 800 years old , in which , though St . Jerome ' s Prologue is inserted , yet this passage is wanting . Secondly , those at Strasburg : at Strasburg I saw four very ancient MSS . of the New Testanient

    in Latin : three of these seem to be about the time of Charles the Great , but the fourth seemed to be much ancienter , and may belong to the seventh century : in it neither the Prologue nor the place is extant , but it is added at the foot of the page with another hand . In two of the other the

    Prologue is extant , but the place is not : only in one of them it is added in the margin /* [ Id . P . 45 . ] ' * Were so many copiers therefore exact in every thing else , and did they , through negligence , fail in the translation of this only passage ; or , did they commit an error by joint consent ? Nevertheless I do not say thus

    * < Dr . B . adds , " In the fourth , the Prologue is extant , so is the place likewise ; but it comea vafier the verse of the other three . and ia joined to it thus , sieut tres sunt in cgIo ** 1 P . 45 .

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    much to defend Arianism , which i * not indeed my sentiment , but to shew the cunningness and malignity of our author , who ( as many others have done ) seems to oppose that sect with such weak arguments , on purpose to establish it the better . " Pp . 45—48 .

    M . bchelstrate appears to have supposed , that Jerome failed to ** discover the cheat of the Arians , " because they had not been guilty of any fraud ; and , upon the whole , he seems to have agreed with that learned priest of his communion , F . Simon , who gives up this text as unauthentic , in the 18 th

    chapter of his Critical History , where he introduces Calvin explaining away the systematic importance of the passage , by declaring that the expression " Three are One , does not deriote the Essence but the Consent , ' C . H . Pt . ii . p . 14 .

    Bishop Burnet , in 1694 , when he wrote the Exposition , was still only doubtful as to the authenticity of the text , and not , as these Roman Catholic divines appear to have been , convinced of the forgery . He thus writes on the first Article :

    " I do not insist on that contested passage of St . John ' s Epistle . There are great doubtings made about it . The main ground of doubting being the silence of the Fathers , who never made use of it in the disputes , with the A rians and Macedonians . There are

    very considerable things urged on the other hand to support the authority of that passage ; yet I think it is safer to build upon sure and indisputable ground : so I leave it to be maintained by others , who are more fully persuaded of its being authentic ^! . There is no need of it . This matter

    is capable of a very full proof , whether that passage in believed to be a part of the Canon , or not . " Whatever may be thought of the Bishop ' s " sure and indisputable grounds , " on which to raise such a structure as a Trinity in Unity , he

    doubtless imagined that he had found €€ sure proof * of that dogma in the Scriptures- How unjust then , in the author of these Reflexions , to charge him with the * ' cunningness and malignity" of having served the cause of Arianum , by designedly opposing it with insufficient arguments ! VERMICULUS .

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    530 Reflections on Burnett Travels *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1817, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2468/page/18/