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24 doctrine which is declared expressly by the Pope in the Brief Multiplices inter to be heretical. If he does this, I will readily admit him to be right, but not otherwise.

Finally, to those of my readers who are anxious about the fidelity of quotations from the Holy Scriptures, I must acknowledge my obligation to give them a trifling explanation. The question concerns the words of Christ to St. Peter: 'I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not; and do thou in turn one day strengthen thy brethren' (p. 49), upon which translation the Augsburg reviewer remarks: 'The author quotes, we know not why, the passage incorrectly, for it runs, "Do thou, when thou hast con verted thyself, strengthen," &c.' I will tell him why I quoted this passage as I did. I did so because, following Dr. Schulte, I made use of Dr. Molitor's translation of the 'Dogmatic Constitution upon the Church of Christ' without alteration, as the attentive reader will have already observed from my pamphlet itself, where I expressly said so, and because this translation of Dr. Molitor gives this passage as it appears in my work, p. 49. The reviewer may see the reasons why this passage is so translated by consulting those commentators on Scripture who have paid particular attention to the Hebrew modes of speech.