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 Such a specimen of biblical criticism would not be expected in a comment upon Telemaque. It is brought in in the course of the author's remarks upon Fenelon's explanation of the name of Œdipus.

Manoel Valle de Moura wrote a treatise towards the middle of the seventeenth century to show that the wounds of St. Francis were inflicted upon him by an angel, not by Christ himself. De Stigmatibus S. Francisco impressis ab Angelo, non ab ipso Jesu Domino nostro crucifixo. A Franciscan of Moura assured Nicolas Antonio that the writer had been stricken blind as a punishment for this opinion!

 

James I. has often been ridiculed for his Demonologie, but with great injustice, because he only erred in common with the age, and because he had not only the sagacity at last to discover his