whence sprang the LATIN RACE,) and which is so generally approved by Commentators, that I shall give the Doctor's own opinion concerning it. "Many Names," says the Doctor, "have been proposed, from time to time, as applicable to the Beast, and at the same time containing 666. We will only notice ONE Example, that famous one of Irenæus, which has been approved of by almost all Commentators, who have given any sort of tolerable exposition of the Revelation. The word alluded to is Aarêtvos.' &c. Surely it may in truth be affirmed, that all Commentators and writers on this Number xs', who have preferred their own Chimeras to the irrefutable Opinion of IRENEUS, have most miserably mistaken their subject; for it is by the individual LETTERS which compose the Name of the Man, that his Number 666 must be found to harmonize, and thus alone can an end be put to all strife. At length, however, the Triumph of "well done good and faithful” IRENEUS shall be re-echoed through the Christian world, to the confusion of the POPE and his spurious LATIN Church. There can be little doubt entertained that Professor Lee, noticing the vast variety of speculations which had been ventured on, relative to the Number xs' or 666, and knowing that they were utterly irreconcilable with the words of St. John, has chosen the shortest method of settling the business, namely, by discarding the Number altogether, even as Archbishop Laud 1 Rev. xiii. 18. had done before him. However, it is most easy to place the whole matter beyond the possibility of future doubt or disputation, as will be seen by attending to the following Ancient and Classical Authorities in favour of the Diphthong, or Broad, or circumflexed iota, as e, or d, or 7 in Aarêɩvos, and by showing why the Name LATEINOS (which is the point in question) has been so often rejected, and that is, because the Orthography of the Diphthong was not generally acknowledged or understood, although IRENEUS, Dr. Henry More, Bishop Newton, and many others, had led the way for its establish ment. CHAPTER XV. OBSERVATIONS ON THE DIPHTHONG, OR THE BROAD, OR CIRCUMFLEXED IOTA IN THE NAME Λατινος, Λατίνος, Λατίνος, THAT IS, el, ord, or . It has been already proved that the following Epithets, Names, and Sentences, are wholly insufficient for establishing the NAME of a MAN, namely. Αποςατης, Μαομετις, η Λατινη βασίλεια, Εκκλησια Ιταλικα, &c. and that neither Professor Lee, nor Archbishop Laud are justified in their rejection of the Number xgs'. We now proceed (in maintaining the Name Aarêvos,) to the production of those authorities (hitherto too much wanting) for the genuine use of the Diphthong, or Broad, or circumflexed iota, e, d, or, which will lay a foundation for the full establishment of the Orthography of IRENEUS, which has been so unceremoniously and unjustifiably assailed by the ipse dixit of Cardinal Bellarmine, Grotius, The Rev. George Stanley Faber, Dr. Adam Clarke, and others, the former of whom has displayed his Jesuitical cunning for the preservation of his despotic LATIN or Papal Church, as the three latter have evinced their Ignorance of Antiquity, both with respect to the prevalence of the Diphthong or e, and to the circumstance of the circumflexed iota, î, being generally, if not always equivalent to a Diphthong. It will only be necessary, therefore, to produce a sufficient number of Classical and ancient examples for the frequent use of the Diphthong, Broad, Long, or Circumflexed Iota, and thus silence all further doubts or disputes respecting the Name Aarêivos, in this point of view. The simple fact that Irenæus has used two Names, pertaining to the elucidation of the numbered Man, viz. Λατινοs and Τεῖταν, in each of which thee is expressed, (and not Aari vos and Τίταν without the e as written in modern times) might be considered a sufficiently ancient authority for the use of the Diphthong or Long e, in the Name in question, as he lived in times when the said Diphthong was in common use, both among the Greeks, and Romans, or Latins. But as this matter has been heedlessly questioned by Cardinal Bellarmine, Grotius, Rev. G. S. Faber, Dr. Adam Clarke, and others, I would beg to call the attention of my Readers to the following notable authorities, and if they can be overthrown, I will then give up the point, but not till then. 1ENNIUS is, perhaps, one of the most ancient 1 Ennius, Lib. vi. 26. See Dr. Henry More's Works, p. 595, and Bishop Newton's Dissert. II. p. 299. LATIN authors who has given us the name LATEINOS with two diphthongs in it, and not only so, but he has set forth five examples of the broad EI, (as in common use among the Romans,) in one single line, Quam prEimum cascEI Popolei tenuere LatEINEI.' Also in the seventh Book of his Annals, as quoted by Dr. Henry More, we have the two following examples; the same Author assuring us that in ENNIUS there are infinite examples of a similar use of the Diphthong, and in this opinion Dr. More is followed by Bishop Newton, Quorum virtutEI bellEI fortuna pepercit, 'Horundem me lEibertatЕI parcere certum est.' also: 'PoinEI sunt soliter sos sacrificare puellos 'DiVEIS: ' to which I shall add another, 'CiVEIS RomanEI tunc factEI sunt CampanEI. 'Nos sumu' RomanEI, qui fuvimus ante RudinEI. ⚫ Omneis mortalEIS sese laudari exoptant. 'Forteis RomanEI, quanquam Cœlus profundus.' 1 M. TERENTIUS VARRO is another very ancient writer, who has given us so many examples of the broad EI, that from the ivth to the 1xth Book inclusive, concerning the Latin Tongue," De Linguâ Latina," I have counted 1060 at least, a few of which I shall here produce : : Quæ ideo videtur à LatinEIS, Juno Lucina dicta,' 1 M. Terentii Varronis Opera in Lib. de Ling. Lat. edit. Parisiis, 1585. |