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Poul writiþ to þe romayns.
This Reference belongs to what goes before, not to what follows. Mr. Vaughan, in his Life of Wycliffe[108], not perceiving this, has altered the Text to make the Sense perfect, and quotes the Passage thus: “So, when we were sinful, and the Children of Wrath, God’s Son came out of Heaven, and praying His Father for His Enemies, He died for us. Then much rather shall we be saved, now we are made righteous through His Blood. St. Paul writeth to the Romans, that Jesus should pray for us, and that He went into Heaven to appear in the Presence of God for us. The same also he writeth to the Hebrews, the which Presence may He grant us to behold, who liveth and reigneth without End.—Amen.”
Mr. Vaughan, however, does not tell his Readers what Passage of the Epistle to the Romans, occurring, also, in the Epistle to the Hebrews, he supposes our Author to have quoted. There exists, in Fact, no such Passage; nor does the Text stand in Need of any Emendation. The References, in both Cases, come after the Passages quoted; and this removes all the Difficulty which Mr. Vaughan appears to have found in the Reading of the original Manuscript.
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FOOTNOTES
[1] Milner, Hist. of the Church, vol. iv. p. 121. Lond. 1819.
[2] Cent. vi. p. 450.
[3] The Hist. of the Life of John Wiclif, D.D. By John Lewis, M.A. Oxf. 1820.