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LAudable (a) and] A diuersitie of reading: but of no moment. (b) God forbid] Thus may we answere those that say the Iewes haue corrupted the old Testament, and the Greekes the new, least we should go to drinke at truths spring-head. (c) Because in the] I conceiue 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 meaning here: Hierom and the seauentie, read both that Mathusalem was a hundred eightie and seauen when hee begot Lamech: vnlesse Augustine had read it otherwise in some other▪ (d) Beleeue] This Hierom admireth and reason inuiteth vs to•…•… no man of wit will gaine∣say it: but in vaine doe good iudgements defend this, for blockishnesse lyes against it like a rock, not that they onely are ignorant in those tongues, for Augustine had no Hebrew, and very little Greeke, but they want his modesty: hee would euer learne, and they would neuer learne, but would teach that wherein they are as skilfull as a sort of Cumane Asses.