to weaken the arguments which I there brought together on this point, whereas something has occurred to confirm them veiy greatly: I allude to a passage in Enthymius, who flourished at the beginning of the twelfth century. For when inveighing against the Bogomili1 for not using this clause, he does so only on the ground that it was an addition of the Fathers, calling it TO 'Tra.pa, ruv Qticav puffrripuv xai rrig txx\ri<siac xa^yjjroiv VpwfrtCft axpo- reXsvriov g-r/^wvjj/^a, The choral conclusion added by those who were the divine illuminators and guides of the Church. La Croze,2 relying on this testimony, clearly prefers in this passage the Latin to the Syriac version ; see his Histoire du Christianisme des Indes, p. 313. One thing ought to be considered again and again : the more that any one diminishes the authority of the Vulgate on this passage, so much the more does he injure his own cause if he maintains the genuineness of that most import ant passage in 1 John v. 7 : for it at present rests solely on the
non ad clausulam, quanquam in Homil. ad. capp. v. vi. vii. Matth. earn tractat. Appendicem earn esse persuadent nobis rationes § ix. collectae ; quan quam margo noster in suspense rem reliquit, dum rationes fuissent expositas : et plane pro appendice habet Brentius; Hunnius vel pro appendice vel pro epiloffo, cujus moderationera recte sequentur, qui nil certi secum hie possunt constituere. Liberum saltern est privatim vel Matthsei receptam, vel Lucae lectionem in orando sequi : quin etiam publice, in choro ccenobiorum Wir- tembergicorum, et alibi hodienum prsetermitti solita est clausula. Cavendum vero, ne idiotse intempestivis de hac clausula sermonibus perturbentur. Hac quoque in re et veritati et paci inserviendum est. " Sincera crisis," etc., as in the Gnomon Ed. MDCCLIX, which is followed in this translation. — (I. B.)
1 The BOGOMILES were a sect of heretics which arose about the year 1 079. Their founder was Basilius, a monk, who was burnt at Constantinople in the reign of Alexius Comnenus. He maintained that the world and all animal bodies were formed, not by the Deity, but by an evil demon who had been cast down from heaven by the Supreme Being. Hence that the body was only the prison of the soul, and was to be enervated by fasting, contem plation, etc., that the soul might be gradually restored to its primitive liberty. Marriage therefore was to be avoided. Basilius also denied the reality of Christ's body, which he considered to be only a phantom, rejected the law of Moses, and maintained that the body on its separation by death returned to the malignant mass of matter, without possibility of a future re surrection to life and felicity. — See Mosheim. — (I. B.)
2 MATHURIN VEYSSIERE DE LA CKOZE, a distinguished Oriental scholar, born at Nantes in 1661. In the course of his life he abjured Romanism, and died at Berlin in 1739.— (I. B".)