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44 solue it. And no maruel. For Venerable Bede could not, whose words are these: S. Luke vseth rather the Greeke testimonies then the Hebrew: wherof hapeneth that I much maruel at, and for dulnes of wit, being strucken with great admiration, I can not throughly scan, seeing in the Hebrew veritie are founed only ten generations from the floud vnto Abraham, by what meanes S. Luke, who (the Holie Ghost gouerning his pen) could in no sort write false, would rather set downe eleuen generations in the Ghospel, Cainan adioyned according to the seuentie Interpreters. Thus writeth S. Bede, reuerently admiring that he could not vnderstand. For being assured that the Holie Ghost gouerned the pennes both of Moyses and S. Luke, and that he is not contrarie to himselfe, it must needes be true which each of them writeth, though other learned men can not reach the profoundnes of some difficulties that occure. And therfore Beza was extreme saucie to dash Cainan out of S. Lukes Ghospel, and that wittingly and most impudently, saying, in his Annotations: Non dubitauimus expungere: We doubted not to put it out. The former English Editions, otherwise corrupt in manie places, haue Cainan in the text of S. Lukes Ghospel, but their latter translaters are in this point pure Bezites.

The end of the second age. Rh