V.
I am aware that very many other matters were
discussed by them, some of them with considerable probability, and
others of them as matters of the clearest demonstration,
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by which they
endeavour to prove that the festival of the Passover and unleavened
bread ought by all means to be kept after the equinox. But I
shall pass on without demanding such copious demonstrations (on
subjects
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) from which the
veil of the Mosaic law has been removed; for now it remains for us with
unveiled face to behold ever as in a glass Christ Himself and the
doctrines and sufferings of Christ. But that the first month
among the Hebrews is about the equinox, is clearly shown also by what
is taught in the book of Enoch.
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κυριακὰς
ἀποδείξεις
—Christophorsonus
renders it
ratas
; Rufinus gives
validissimas
assertiones
. The Greeks use
κύριος
in this sense,
κυρίαι
δίκαι,
δοξαι
, &c.,
decisive,
valid
, judgments, opinions, &c.
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The
text gives
ἀπαιτῶν ὧν
περιῄρηται
,
&c.; various codices read
ἀπ᾽
αὐτῶν
, &c. Valesius now
proposes
ὕλας
ἀπαιτῶν· ᾧ
περι
ᾑρηται
,
I shall pass on
without…for the veil is removed from me.
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An
apocryphal book of some antiquity, which professes to proceed from the
patriarch of that name, but of whose existence prior to the Christian
era there is no real evidence. The first author who clearly
refers to it by name is Tertullian. [Vol. iii. p. 62, and iv.
380.]