Memorials of human superstition ; being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne ... / By one who is not Doctor of the Sorbonne.

  • Lolme, Jean Louis de, 1740-1806.
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M DCC LXXXIV
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    cording to St. Matthew, v. 19; and in the xxvitb of the fame, v. 26. In the xvlh chap- ter of St. Mark's Gofpel, v. o,^. In the icviith cha-pter of the Gofpel according to St. Luke, V. 33 ; and in the xUih chapter of the l)]ow : on which the Reader may obferve (which, no doubt, will be matter of agreeable furprife to him) that what is called in plain Englifli a hlack- cye, was expreffed in Greek by the word vnuirw. Beiides trying to fubftitute another word to that attributed to St. Paul in the common Greek Edi- tiojis of the New Teflament, our Author pro- duces feveral pailages from Greek and Latin Fa- thers, to fliew that they thought that St. Paul meant no more than to fpeak of his great labour?, abftinence, continence, &:c. The principal end of this Chapter is, therefore, to difcufs the interefting queftion, whether St. Paul ufed to flagellate himfelf: and I have prefer- red to give the above compendious account of the contell on the fubjeit, rather than introduce the long difcuffion of Greek words, and ufe the whole fkring of paffages from Greek and Latin Fathers, contained in the Abbe Boileau's Book. By that means, the preient Chapter has, for the fake of the Reader, been fliortened to ten pages, inftead of thirty, it muft otherwife have contained, D 4