[9] Scholia in Pentateuchum.
[10] Die Genesis Erklärt; Leipzig: 1852.
[11] This is the literal translation of the Hebrew text, see Pagnini, Rosenmüller etc.
[12] Our readers are no doubt aware that the proper names of the Bible are differently spelled in the different versions. The orthography uniformly followed by Catholics is derived from the Septuagint, which was in general use throughout the Church in the very earliest ages. Among Protestants, on the other hand, an attempt is made to approach more closely to the orthography of the Hebrew text. Dr. Colenso has naturally taken the proper names as he found them in the English authorized version, and to avoid confusion in answering his arguments, we shall follow the spelling which he has adopted.
[13] In fact it is quite clear from several passages that Abraham had servants of both classes. See, for example, Gen., xvii. 12, 13, 23, 27.
[14] The death of Isaac must have taken place just ten years before the Descent into Egypt. Isaac was 60 when Jacob was born (Gen., xxv. 26); and Jacob was 130 when he went down to Egypt (Gen., xlvii. 9): therefore Isaac, if then living, would have been 190. But we know that he died at the age of 180 (Gen., xxxv. 28); that is to say, ten years before.
RICHARD FITZ-RALPH, ARCHBISHOP OF ARMAGH.
§ VI. HIS NOMINATION TO THE SEE OF ARMAGH.
The see of Armagh became vacant by the death of David O'Hiraghty, which took place, according to the Annales Nenaghtenses, on the 16th May, 1346. Dr. O'Hiraghty had been Dean of Armagh, and was elected by the chapter of Armagh, quasi per inspirationem divinam, as John XXII. mentions in the bull by which, on July 4th, 1334, he ratified the election.[15] He was consecrated at Avignon, and having ruled his diocese for nearly twelve years, died in 1346. On the 31st July, 1346, Clement VI., jure provisionis, appointed to the vacant see Richard Fitz-Ralph, then Dean of Lichfield. The bull of nomination contains that the chapter of Armagh had already unanimously elected the same Richard, and that he had given his consent to the election.[16] The Four Masters place in the year 1356 the death of Farrell (son of Jeffrey) MacRannall, Primate of Armagh and representative of St. Patrick. This, as Dr. O'Donovan remarks, is evidently a mistake of the Four Masters, as Richard Fitz-Ralph was certainly not one of the Mac Rannalls. We may say that, besides the mistake in the names, there is also a mistake in the dates. It was precisely in 1356 that Archbishop Fitz-Ralph set out upon that visit to London which was the occasion of his controversy with the Franciscans. The mistake made by the Four Masters is all the more incomprehensible for this reason, that of all the primates who sat at Armagh since the days of St. Francis of Assisi, no one was more likely to be remembered by the Franciscans than Archbishop Fitz-Ralph.