[707] Novum Testamentum, 2nd ed. pp. 19, 20.
[708] Novum Testamentum, 2nd ed. pp. 28, 29.
[709] Novum Testamentum, 2nd ed. pp. 34, 35.
[710] Ibid. p. 32.
[711] Novum Testamentum, 2nd ed. p. 32. These passages are abridged in the translation.
[712] Novum Testamentum, 2nd ed. pp. 35, 36.
[713] Novum Testamentum, 2nd ed. p. 42.
[714] Ibid. p. 61.
[715] When, after the 3rd edition had been published and a 4th was in preparation, in 1526, a Doctor of the Sorbonne attacked the New Testament of Erasmus, he was able triumphantly to ask him, ‘what he wanted?’ His New Testament had already been ‘scattered abroad by the printers in thousands of copies over and over again.’ His critic ‘should have written in time!’—Erasmus to the Faculty of Paris. Jortin, ii. App. No. xlix. p. 492.
[716] Eras. Op. iii. pp. 374, 375.