[28]. Lardner, vol. xiv. p. 455.
[29]. Lardner, vol. xiv. p. 458.
[30]. Lardner, vol. i. p. 313.
[31]. Iren. advers. Haer. quoted by Lardner, vol. xv. p. 425.
[32]. Lardner, vol. viii. p. 106.
[33]. See the tracts written in the controversy between Tunstal and Middleton upon certain suspected epistles ascribed to Cicero.
[34]. I believe that there is a great deal of truth in Dr. Lardner’s observations, that comparatively few of those books, which we call apocryphal, were strictly and originally forgeries. See Lardner, vol. xii. p. 167.
[35]. Lardner, vol. x. p. 103.
[36]. Lardner, vol. xi. p. 88.
[37]. לך שבע שנים are wanting only in 85 and 112 of Kennicott.