1719 Jerome's Vulgate version supplied from the Hebrew the omissions and removed the redundancies of the old Latin version. These were due to the uncertain text of the LXX., on which alone the old Latin version was founded.
1720 This statement is not borne out by the facts.
1723 Lit. `with the heaven and with the earth 0' (Gen. i. 1). In Hebrew the preposition `with 0' is identical in form with the sign of the accus. Hence Aquila's rendering.
1724 Jerome apostrophises his critic.
1725 The famous grammarian and critic of Homer.
1727 Oleum perdit et impensas qui bovem mittit ad ceroma.
1728 Rufinus and Melania, who were believed by Jerome to have instigated the theft. Their names are inserted in some copies.
1729 Plato, Apol. Soc. 21, 22.
1730 This saying is variously attributed to Chilon and others of the seven wise men of Greece.
1739 Ps. lv. 13: Consessu substituted for consensu of the Vulgate.
1759 Only the second sentence was spoken in the temple: the first was uttered in the chamber of the last supper.
1767 Hadrian died in 138 a.d.; Constantine became Emperor in 306 a.d.
1770 For the tradition that Christ was born in a cave Justin Martyr is the earliest authority (dial. c. Try. 78).
1771 Adonis, killed by a boar and spending half his time in the upper, half in the lower world, is a type of summer overcoming and overcome by winter.
1775 Monachus, lit. "a solitary." Men frequently at this time made vows, especially those of celibacy, without entering a monastery.
1776 2 Kings vi. 1, 2 Kings vi. 2.
1779 This title occurs only in the LXX.
1780 2 Kings, x. 15, 2 Kings, x. 16.
1782 Therasia, the wife of Paulinus is meant.
1787 Probably a quotation from memory incorrectly made up from Lucan's `Nomina vana Catonis 0' (i. 313).
1789 Quintilian, Inst. Or. viii. Procm.
1792 2 Cor. iii. 14, 2 Cor. iii. 15.
1793 i.e., the new testament as well as the old may have its true meaning concealed from some.