[II. Cor. v. 10.] For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that everyone may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad. [↑]
[17] [Acts xvi, 1, 2, 3]. Then came he to Derbe and Lystra, and behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman which was a Jewess, and believed, but his father was a Greek; which was well reported of by the brethren that were at Lystra and Iconium. Him would Paul have to go forth with him, and took and circumcised him, because of the Jews which were in those quarters, for they knew all that his father was a Greek. [↑]
CORNELL UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
In the library of Cornell University, at Ithaca, N. Y., is a large collection of Spinoza manuscripts and printed books by the same author. The collection was left to the library, and is known as the “Strauss Collection.” In the collection is a manuscript copy of “La vie et l’esprit de M. Benoit de Spinosa,” which includes “Le traité des trois Imposteurs.”
This particular manuscript is much longer than any of the printed editions of Traité des Trois Imposteurs, and includes several more chapters than another manuscript which is in same library.
The printed editions usually contain six chapters, although the edition à Philadelphie, 1796, alluded to on pages 18–19, contains nine chapters. None of the printed editions that I have seen contains a chapter entitled Numa Pompilius.
The manuscript in Cornell library has six additional chapters more than our manuscript, 1716, which chapters are entitled: 1. Religions. 2. Of the Diversity of Religions. 3. Divisions of Christians. 4. The Superstitious,—of the superstition and credulity of the people. 5. Of the Origin of Monarchies. 6. Of Legislators and Politicians, and how they serve themselves with Religion.
These chapters being but an elaboration of the matters and ideas contained in our English translation.—A. N.