dlcaxuffi, T«X/v yidyiri tig rrtv aXXjjv." Flee ye into the other;1 and if they persecute you in that other, flee ye again into the other.2 Francis Lucas3 of Bruges quotes old Latin Codices in favour of that reading. Thence, too, the Anglo-Saxon version has — " and thonne hi on thoere eovv ehtath, fleotli on tha thryddan;" i.e. " and when they persecute you in that [city],yfee to the third." Ambrose4 also, in his treatise, De Fugd Seculi (ch. 4), says, " But if they shall persecute you in one, flee ye into another." And Juvencus5 renders the passage thus : —
" Profugite e tectis quse vos sectabitur urbis
Inde aliam, mox INDE ALIAM, conquirite sedem." " Flee from the roofs of the city u'hich persecutes you ; thence seek another, and THEN AGAIN ANOTHER abode" Thus Augus tine; thus the Armenian Version. The Codex Cantabrigiensis, the Codices Colbertini 2467 and 3947, Parisiensis 6, and the Codex Stephani ?j (to which some add the Codex Gonvillianus), contain this passage in various forms of words. The variety of the Greek words6 suggests the suspicion that this verse has been
1 TJJ» ertpetv. — erspos signifies originally, other in opposition to one, though it has also the force of other in opposition to many. — (I. B.)
2 rv\v oi^.'hrtv. — ofAXoj signifies originally, other in opposition to many, though it is used also to represent other in opposition to one. Here T«JJ> oiKhfiv appears to have the force of the former. — (I. B.)
3 FRANCIS LUCAS was born at Bruges in the sixteenth century. He studied under Arius Montanus, and became a Doctor of Louvain, and Dean of the Church of St Omer. He was profoundly skilled in the Greek, He brew, Syriac, and Chaldee languages, and is considered a judicious critic. He died hi 1619.— (I. B.)
4 Born at Treves A.D. 340 ; consecrated, in 374, Bishop of Milan, where he died in 397. He was an eloquent preacher, and an able and voluminous writer.— (I. B.)
5 C. AQUILINUS VETTIUS (al. VECTIUS, or VESTIUS) JUVENCUS, a Spanish priest of good family, who flourished in the fourth century. He wrote, be sides other works, a history of our Lord in good hexameter verse, considered both poetical and faithful, and published it about 330. — (I. B.)
6 Lachm. reads eripoui, with Ed Orig. 1.295; 380; 3.473C; 709 ; cod. 4,398. But Tischend. aXA>,t/, with Dabc Vulg. Origen 3, 709, and Rec. Text. Lachm. adds in brackets. x.av lv TV tripce. t>iux.aaiv i/px.:, (fnvynf si; TVV »~Ah-/iv, with DL (ex, TXVTYI; fxbt*%uot» — r. trtpetv) ab Orig. 1,2956 ; 380a; Ilil. 656. But Be Vulg. and Rec. Text omit these words. Probably they come from a transcriber who fancied that (ptvytrs tl$ r/,v frspetv, sc. " a second city," was incomplete without a clause, " And when they persecute you in