stars, etc.] they are innumerable. I have therefore denoted these degrees by the Greek letters, a, j3, y, d, z.
No one, I conceive, can be so obstinately hostile, or so slavishly devoted to the more received text, as to object to these sugges tions (Monita). Some of them are more fully explained here after, with the addition of examples, in various parts of the epistle to the Romans, that of St James, and the Apocalypse. I do not, however, advance anything new. I have always en tertained and expressed the same views. Theophilus a Yeritate1 says, that the learnings, ichich the learned have found it necessary to give against my edition of the Neiv Testament, are well known. — See his Beleuclitung, p. 27. I suppose he means those learned men, to whom I replied in my Second Defence. I wish, there fore, that he would weigh it carefully, and also refer to and ex amine my edition with regard to those charges, which he brings against me in p. 58, and at the end of p. 64. He will then discard the exception, which he employed in declaring his can dour towards me. I do not think that I need or ought to defend myself very laboriously for the future, lest I should seem to prize inadequately the support of those men, distinguished by their piety, zeal, orthodoxy, and literary eminence, who defend me by their well-known judgments and vindications, and repel and vanquish those who are otherwise disposed, whilst I remain quiescent. And now I will rather proceed to show the real value of those guides, whom most men follow.