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Book 6 Minor Writers
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[1171] The text gives ἀπαιτῶν ὧν περιῄρηται, &c.; various codices read ἀπ᾽ αὐτῶν, &c. Valesius now proposes ὕλας ἀπαιτῶν· ᾧ περι ᾑρηται, I shall pass on without…for the veil is removed from me.
[1172] An apocryphal book of some antiquity, which professes to proceed from the patriarch of that name, but of whose existence prior to the Christian era there is no real evidence. The first author who clearly refers to it by name is Tertullian. [Vol. iii. p. 62, and iv. 380.]
[1173] xiv. luna. The Romans used the phrase luna prima, secunda, &c., as meaning, the first, second day, &c., after new moon.—Tr.
[1175] Exod. xii. 15; Levit. xxiii. 6.
[1176] Matt. xxvi. 17; Mark xiv. 12; Luke xxii. 7.
[1177] But the text gives 12th.
[1178] [Vol. iii. p. 630. The convenire ad of Irenæus is thus shown to be geographical, not ecclesiastical. Vol. i. pp. 415, 569.]
[1181] Lucidum.
[1183] Celeberrimus, honoured, solemn.
[1184] Solemn.
[1185] [The sanctification of the Lord’s Day is thus shown to be a Christian principle. The feast of Easter was the Great Lord’s Day, but the rule was common to the weekly Easter.]
[1186] Annorum circuli principium inchoandum est.
[1187] Bissextile reckoning. [Compare note 2, p. 110, supra.]
[1188] Bissextile reckoning. [Compare note 2, p. 110, supra.]
[1189] In quo autumnalis novissima pars vincitur.
[1190] Lunæ orsibus.
[1191] Diminuitur. [This year (1886) we have the lowest possible Easter.]
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