[303] I have numbered the clauses for convenience.--It will perhaps facilitate the study of this place, if (on my own responsibility) I subjoin a representation of the same words in Latin:-- (1) Diligite inimicos vestros, (2) benedicite maledicentes vos, (3) benefacite odientibus vos, (4) et orate pro calumniantibus vos, (5) et persequentibus vos. [304] Opp. iv. 324 _bis_, 329 _bis_, 351. Gall. xiv. App. 106. [305] 'A large majority, all but five, omit it. Some add it in the margin.' Traditional Text, p. 149. [306] Opp. p. 79, cf. 146. [307] Scap. c. 1. [308] Opp. iv. 946. [309] Haer. III. xviii. 5. [310] Dem. Evan. xiii. 7. [311] In Bapt. Christ. [312] Orig. Opp. i. 812. [313] Opp. i. 768: iv. 353. [314] Opp. i. 827: ii. 399. [315] Spect. c. 16: (Anim. c. 35): Pat. c. 6. [316] [In Ep. Joh. IV. Tract, ix. 3 (1, 3 (ver. 45 &c.)); In Ps. cxxxviii. 37 (1, 3); Serm. XV. 8 (1, 3, 5); Serm. LXII. _in loc._ (1, 3, 4, 5).] [317] In Ps. xxxviii. 2. [318] Opp. pp. 303, 297. [319] Pro S. Athanas. ii. [320] Ps. cxviii. 10. 16; 9. 9. [321] Ep. ii. [322] Opp. iii. 167: iv. 619: v. 436:--ii. 340: v. 56: xii. 654:--ii. 258: iii. 41:--iv. 267: xii. 425. [323] Opp. iii. 379. [324] Praep. 654: Ps. 137, 699: Es. 589. [325] Pp. 3. 198. [326] Opp. p. 605 and 307. [327] Leg. pro Christian. 11. [328] Ad Autolycum, iii. 14. [329] Opp. i. 40. [330] Ad Philipp. c. 12. [331] Sec. 1. [332] Theodoret once (iv. 946) gives the verse as Tischendorf gives it: but on two other occasions (i. 827: ii. 399) the same Theodoret exhibits the second member of the sentence thus,--[Greek: eulogeite tous diokontas humas] (so pseud.-Athan. ii. 95), which shews how little stress is to be laid on such evidence as the first-named place furnishes. Origen also (iv. 324 bis, 329 bis, 351) repeatedly gives the place as Tischendorf gives it--but on one occasion, which it will be observed is _fatal_ to his evidence (i. 768), he gives the second member thus,--iv. 353: [Greek: kai proseuchesthe huper ton epereazonton humas].... 1. 4. Next observe how Clemens Al. (605) handles the same place:-- [Greek: agapate tous echthrous humon, eulogeite tous kataromenous humas, kai proseuchesthe huper ton epereazynton humin, kai ta homoia.]... 1, 2, 4.--3, 5. Justin M. (i. 40) quoting the same place from memory (and with exceeding licence), yet is observed to recognize in part _both_ the clauses which labour under suspicion:... 1, 2, 4.--3, 5. [Greek: euchesthe huper ton echthron humon kai agapate tous misountas humas], which roughly represents [Greek: kai eulogeite tous kataromenous humin kai euchesthe huper ton epereazonton humas]. The clause which hitherto lacks support is that which regards [Greek: tous misountas humas]. But the required help is supplied by Irenaeus (i. 521), who (loosely enough) quotes the place thus,-- _Diligite inimicos vestros, et orate pro eis, qui vos oderunt._ ... 1 (made up of 3, 4).--2, 5.