Calmet

We cannot but adopt the opinion of the learned Calmet, which is that of the most respectable interpreters.

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To this article let us add what Calmet says in his dissertation on the following passage of the Epistle of John the Evangelist:

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Calmet discovers a great affinity between this story and the fable which Ovid relates in his “Fasti,” of

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Josephus says truly that Babel signifies confusion; Calmet says, with others, that Bilba, in Chaldæan, signifies confounded, but all the Orientals have been of a contrary opinion.

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The God of the Jews was the God of armies, but Calmet was not His secretary; he cannot have known, but by revelation, how the armies of the Amalekites, the Moabites, the Syrians, and the

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The judicious and profound Calmet affirms that a part of this book was written by

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Calmet, whose judgment and sagacity are known to every one, says that she might be his niece.

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Calmet, shows evidently that this is the country of Colchis and the golden fleece is a proof of it.

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Calmet acknowledges that these two verses are not in any ancient bible; indeed, it would be very strange if St. John had spoken of the Trinity in a letter, and said not a word about it in his Gospel.

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The same Calmet, at the end of his preface, has these words:

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