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Apocrypha of the New Testament
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Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
[1652] One ms. has: When two days were past. Another: On the thirteenth day.
[1654] The siclus aureus, or gold shekel, was worth £1, 16s. 6d.
[1655] One ms. has: Gaspar gave Myrrh, Melchior frankincense, Balthusar gold.
[1657] One ms. has: And when Herod, coming back from Rome the year after, saw.
[1660] One of themss. has: Then Joseph put the blessed virgin and the boy upon a beast, and himself mounted another, and took the road through the hill country and the desert, that he might get safe to Egypt; for they did not want to go by the shore, for fear of being waylaid.
[1663] Or, Sotrina.
[1664] No nation was so given to idolatry, and worshipped such a countless number of monsters, as the Egyptians.—Jerome on Isaiah.
[1665] Cf. 1 Sam. v. 3.
[1668] Matt. ii. 26. One of the mss. here has: And Joseph and Mary went to live in the house of a certain widow, and spent a year there; and for the events of the year it gives a number of the miracles recorded in the early chapters of the Latin Gospel of Thomas.
[1669] Other forms of the name are: Zachias, Zachameus, Zacheus, Zachæus.
[1670] Or, seeing that there was in Him an insuperable knowledge of virtue.
[1671] Tischendorf thinks that the text is corrupt. But the meaning seems to be: You are not a whit better than your neighbours; for all of you teach what you have named, and you can teach nothing else. But he alone (ipse, i.e., Christ) can teach more who is worthy.
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