Two letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc, late Divinity Professor of the Remonstrants in Holland the former containing a dissertation upon the reading of the Greek text, I John v. 7. The latter upon that of I Timothy iii. 16 / Published from authentick MSS in the Library of the Remonstrants in Holland.
- Isaac Newton
- Date:
- 1754
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Credit: Two letters of Sir Isaac Newton to Mr. Le Clerc, late Divinity Professor of the Remonstrants in Holland the former containing a dissertation upon the reading of the Greek text, I John v. 7. The latter upon that of I Timothy iii. 16 / Published from authentick MSS in the Library of the Remonstrants in Holland. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![as in our printed books. The learned Editor of his works, in anfwer to a charge brought againil Jerome for being a falfary, and the firft author of this interpolation, remarks,* “ That it is a fufficient confuta- cC tion of this very heavy calumny» brought tc againil St. Jerome, that Cyprian has ic quoted it [‘ the teilimony of the Three in <c Heaven’,] who wrote not only before “ the time of Jerome, but even that of Cf Arius, and before the commencement of £c the long controverfy about the Trinity.’' I wonder much to find it here affirmed, that Cyprian has quoted the teilimony of “ the Three in Heaven”; all that can poffibly be imagined is, that he had it in his thoughts at thoie times; and if I am not very much miilaken, it was not even there. For a fufficient account may be given of his « * Cui graviflimse calumniae de D. Hieronimo ci falfario, et S. Scripturarum interpolatore amoliendae “ fufHcere poterit, Cyprianum citafie (nempe triplex « teftimonium Patris, Verbi et Spiritus San&i in coelo iC teftantium) non modo ante Hieronimi tempora, fed « Arii ipiius, et litem de dogmate illo de trino et uno “ Deo, feripterem ; qui tamen hic loci, et in epiilola *c Jubaianum hanc pericope agnofeit.”—Not.Pearfim> in Cypriani Traci at. de Unit. Ecclefue^ p. 109 words,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30374893_0010.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)


