I regret to have occupied so much of your space. But speculation on this subject is just now the fashion. "NOTES AND QUERIES" is likely hereafter to become an authority, and if these circumstantial statements are admitted into its columns, they must be as circumstantially disproved. M. J. * * * * * Replies to Minor Queries. _The Ten Commandments_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--The controversy on the division of the Ten Commandments between the Romanists and Lutherans on the one side, and the Reformers or Calvinists on the other, has been discussed in the following works--1. Goth (Cardinalis), _Vera Ecclesia, &c._, Venet., 1750 (Art. xvi. s. 7.); 2. Chamieri _Panstratia_ (tom i. l. xxi. c. viii.); 3. Riveti _Opera_ (tom. i. p. 1227., and tom. iii. _Apologeticus pro vera Pace Ecclesiastica contra H. Grotii Votum_.); 4. Bohlii _Vera divisio Decalogi ex infallibili principio accentuationis_; 5. Hackspanii _Notae Philologicae in varia loca S. Scripturae_; 6. Pfeifferi _Opera_ (Cent. i. Loc. 96.); 7. Ussher's _Answer to a Jesuit's Challenge (of Images) and his Serm. at Westminster before the House of Commons, out of Deuteronomy, chap. iv. ver_. 15, 16., _and Romans, chap. i. ver._ 23.; 8. Stillingfleet's _Controversies with Godden, Author of "Catholics no Idolaters," and_ {413} _with Gother, Author of "The Papist Misrepresented," &c._ The earliest notices of the division of the Decalogue, are those of Josephus, lib. iii. c. 5. s. 5.; Philo-Judaeus _de Decem Oraculis_; and the Chaldaic Paraphrase of Jonathan. According to these, the third verse of Exod. xx. contains the first commandment; the fourth, fifth, and sixth, the second. The same distinction was adopted by the following early writers:--Origen (_Homil. viii. in Exod._), Greg. Nazienzen (_Carmina Mosis Decalogus_), Irenaeus (lib. iii. c. 42.), Athanasius (_in Synopsi S. Scripturae_), Ambrose (_in Ep. ad Ephes. c. vi._). It was first abandoned by Augustine, who was instigated to introduce this innovation by the unwarranted representation of the doctrine of the Trinity by the First Tablet containing three commandments. The schoolmen followed his example, and accommodated the words of God to the legislative requirements of their new divinity, progressive development, which terminated in the Church of Rome, in compelling them to command what He strictly prohibits (See Ussher's _Answer_.)