[73] Tyndale, the Great Bible, and the Genevan render correctly.
[74] So the Rheims, “Why do you also trangresse the commaundement of God for your tradition?”
[75] So Wycliffe, “for they ben feithful and loued, the whiche ben parceners of benefice;” and the Rheims, “because they be faithful and beloued which are partakers of the benefite.”
[76] Here all the older versions go wrong.
[77] The first four books of the Annals of Tacitus are found only in a single MS. (the Medicean) of the eleventh century. The nine books of the Letters of Pliny the Younger are found complete in one MS. only, of the tenth century; this also is in the Medicean Library.
[78] From the Latin uncia, an inch.
[79] In some MSS. called palimpsests, the more ancient, and to us the more valuable, writing has been partially washed away, in order that the vellum might be used again for some more recent work. In these cases it is exceedingly difficult to decipher, beneath the later and darker writing, the traces of the older writing; indeed, not unfrequently the characters are so faded that they cannot be read at all until revived by some chemical preparation. The Ephraem Codex is a MS. of this kind.
[80] Commonly referred to under the symbol א, the Hebrew letter, Aleph.
[81] Referred to as B.
[82] Referred to as A.