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[1515
Vehementer enim scire cupio
Dignus est cui morem
Romam auolamus.
Cum eum
agimus idem.
14. genealogiam] On pp. 19-31 of
Reuchlin’s Rudimenta Hebraica, Pforz¬
heim, Anshelm, 27 March 3506. It
is compounded of the two given for
Joseph in Matt. r and Luke 3; and
follows the latter, vv. 31-8, from
Adam to David, and 24-7, from
Shealtiel to Matthat, the former, vv.
6-12, from David through Solomon to
Shealtiel. The pseudo-Philo’s Brewia¬
rium de Temporibus, which was printed
in Latin at Rome and Venice in 1498
and at Paris in 1510 and 1512 in
a small collection of writers on
chronology, perhaps forged by their
first editor, Annius of Viterbo, repre¬
gents the seed of Solomon as being cut
off and one of the descendants of
Nathan as carrying on the line; thus
agreeing with Luke. Reuchlin’s
genealogy makes Matthat the father of
Jehoiakim (whose name he states on
the authority of the same Brewiarium
to be equivalent to the Heli who in
Luke is the father of Joseph) and
Jehoiakim the father of Mary. He
uses it merely as a convenient instru¬
ment for teaching Hebrew letters and
syllables ; and states in his prefatory
remarks that his readers will have
heard it ‘saepe in ecclesia, licet
Reuchlin on behalf of an English
theologian ; see his Resp. ad Annot, Lei,
Basle, Froben, 21 July 1520, p. 73 (LB.
ix. 160 4). But ifso, his memory was
at fault in the details.
27. Romam] Mr. Nichols proposes to
read statim, on the ground that Erasmus
could hardly have been contemplating
a journey to Rome so shortly before he
actually went to England ; but Ep. 323.
21 shows that he had fixed 1 March as
the date of his departure for Italy ; for
the motive of the journey see Ep. 328.
36n. From Ep. 322 it appears that
he was hesitating between Italy and
England.
28. tuorum laborum] Pellican (CPR.
pp. 38,9) states that in 1508 he began
at John Amorbach’s request to revise
the Hebrew passages in Jerome ; and
that Reuchlin had already done the
same for the Greek. But in view of
RE. tog and RE. p. 360 Pellican’s date
should probably be 1509. In July¬
Aug. 1510 Reuchlin visited Basle to
give further assistance with the
Hebrew (MHE. i. 1). See also iv.
260 and RE. In 1509 Conrad Leon¬
torius (RE. pp. 360,1) and in 1512
Sapidus (Basle MS. G. II. go. 178. 4)
also took some part in the work.
31. Hebraicis literis] In the Jerome
Erasmus had help from the Amorbachs
for the Hebrew (Adag. 2001 fin. and