[10:1] Much harm has been done by rashly pressing human metaphors and analogies; such as, that Revelation is a _message_ from God and therefore must be infallible, &c. This is just the sort of argument that the Deists used in the last century, insisting that a revelation, properly so called, _must_ be presented with conclusive proofs, _must_ be universal, _must_ be complete, and drawing the conclusion that Christianity is not such a revelation. This kind of reasoning has received its sentence once for all from Bishop Butler. We have nothing to do with what _must_ be (of which we are, by the nature of the case, incompetent judges), but simply with what _is_.
[18:1] Cf. Westcott, _Canon_, p. 152, n. 2 (3rd ed. 1870).
[18:2] See Lightfoot, _Galatians_, p. 60; also Credner, _Beiträge_, ii. 66 ('certainly' from St. Paul).
[20:1] _The Old Testament in the New_ (London and Edinburgh, 1868).
[21:1] Mr. M'Clellan (_The New Testament_, &c., vol. i. p. 606, n. c) makes the suggestion, which from his point of view is necessary, that 'S. Matthew has cited a prophecy spoken by Jeremiah, but nowhere written in the Old Testament, and of which the passage in Zechariah is only a partial reproduction.' Cf. Credner, _Beiträge_, ii. 152.
[25:1] We do not stay to discuss the real origin of these quotations: the last is probably not from the Old Testament at all.
[27:1] The quotations in this chapter are continuous, and are also found in Clement of Alexandria.
[34:1] It should be noticed, however, that the same reading is found in Justin and other writers.
[38:1] _Clementis Romani quae feruntur Homiliae Viginti_ (Gottingae, 1853).
[39:1] _Beiträge zur Einleitung in die biblischen Schriften_ (Halle, 1832).
[40:1] _The Epistles of S. Clement of Rome_ (London and Cambridge, 1869).
[49:1] The Latin translation is not in most cases a sufficient guarantee for the original text. The Greek has been preserved in the shape of long extracts by Epiphanius and others. The edition used is that of Stieren, Lipsiae, 1853.
[49:2] Horne's _Introduction_ (ed. 1856), p. 333.
[52:1] Ed. Dindorf, Lipsiae, 1859. [The index given in vol. iii. p. 893 sqq. contains many inaccuracies, and is, indeed, of little use for identifying the passages of Scripture.]