[Footnote 6: Erasmus's edition of 1516 was the first _published_ Greek Testament. Its dedication to Leo X., and its publication at the expense of the Archbishop of Canterbury, sufficiently disclose to us the Catholic auspices under which it appeared. In the dedication, which is dated the 1st of February, 1516, Erasmus commemorates the many glories of the house of Medici, and especially the zeal of Pope Leo in promoting religion and literature, and adds: "Quamquam ut ingenue dicam, quidquid hoc est operis videri poterat humilius quam ut ei dicandum esset quo nihil majus habet hic orbis, nisi conveniret, ut quidquid ad religionem instaurandam pertinet haud alii consecretur quam summo religionis principi et eidem assertori". As regards the Archbishop of Canterbury, Erasmus writes of him that he deservedly held the post of _legate_ of his Holiness: "Cui meipsum quoque quantus sum debeo non modo universum studii mei proventum".] [Footnote 7: _Hefele_, pag. 157, and _Gomez_, pag. 38.] [Footnote 8: Pag. 140, seq.] [Footnote 9: Chap. xxi., pag. 522.] [Footnote 10: See Brunet. _Manuel de libraire_, Brux. 1888, tom. 2, pag. 444] [Footnote 11: St. Jerome, _Prologus Galeatus_.] [Footnote 12: _Isaias_, xxxiv. 4 _Id._, xl. 26. _Id._, xlv. 12, _Jer._, xxxiii. 22. _Dan._, viii. 10.] [Footnote 13: _Ps._, cxlviii. 2. III. _Kings_, xxii. 19. II. _Paral._, xviii. 18.] [Footnote 14: Shirley's royal and other historical letters illustrative of the reign of Henry III., vol. i., pag. 4.] * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: The Hebrew fragments in the section "Dr. Colenso and the Old Testament may be further reviewed in Strong's Numbers as follows (using the modern transliterations): chamushim: 2571. chamesh: 2568. kol: 3605. yatsa: 3318. tsaba: 6635. Minor obvious typographic errors have been corrected. Inconsistencies in the usage of capitalization, accents and ligatures are preserved as printed. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865, by Various