Colloquies of Erasmus, Volume I. by Desiderius Erasmus
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_Ti._ What does he say? _Eu._ Read it yourself. _Ti._ It is too far off for my Eyes. _Eu._ Here's a reading Glass, that will make you another _Lynceus._ _Ti._ I see the Latin. _Si vis ad vitam ingredi, serva mandata_, Mat. 19, 17. If thou wilt, enter into Life, keep the Commandments. _Eu._ Now read the _Greek_. _Ti._ I see the _Greek_, but I don't well know what to make on't; I'll refer that to _Theophilus_, who's never without _Greek_ in his Mouth. _Th._ [Greek: Metanoêsate kai epistrepsate. Praxeôn tô tritô.] _Repent and be converted._ Acts 3. 19. _Ch._ I'll take the _Hebrew_ upon myself, [Hebrew: vetsadik be'emunato yihyeh] _And the Just shall live by Faithfulness._ _Eu._ Does he seem to be an unmannerly Porter, who at first Dash, bids us turn from our Iniquities, and apply our selves to Godliness, and then tells us, that Salvation comes not from the Works of the Law; but from the Faith of the Gospel; and last of all, that the Way to eternal Life, is by the Observance of evangelical Precepts. _Ti._ And see the Chapel there on the right Hand that he directs us to, |
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