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I have endeavoured to give references to the principal quotations from Holy Writ. Some will assuredly have escaped me, and I shall be grateful to him who points out to me any omissions.

The reader must not forget that it was the Latin Vulgate which was used by the author of the "Sacrum Commercium." To be faithful, therefore, I could not take my quotations straight from the "Authorised Version." I have translated