Note 18 — Chapter I
Reading edition
In chapter xv., after cautioning his copyists against rash corrections of apparent faults in the Sacred MSS., he says: Ubicunque paragrammata in disertis hominibus [Hodgkin interprets this term as referring to classical authors] reperta fuerunt, intrepidus vitiosa recorrigat. (Wherever mistakes in syntax are found in classical authors, he fearlessly corrects them.) The larger part of chapter xxviii. is devoted to an argument against respuere sæcularium literarum studia (rejecting the study of secular literature).