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 | | From the former circumstance we may infer, that in adopting a text, the Alexandrian church was not influenced by him; from the latter, that, on the same subject, he was not influenced by it; but followed the copies of the country in which his writings were published and dispersed. |
 | | On reviewing the translations of the eastern text, and considering the Coptic, in the first place, which reads, in the disputed passages, against the Received Text, and with the Corrected, the fact is not to be denied. |
 | | This division of the text, as we have seen, St. Jerome was aware in adopting it in the Vulgate, was of infinite service to those who had to struggle with great inconveniences in reading from the lack of a systematic mode of punctuation. |
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