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1.4.

| | | The example of the Clementine Homilies shows conspicuously the extremely deceptive character of the argument from silence.

All the quotations from the Old Testament found in them are taken from five Homilies (iii, xi, xvi, xvii, xviii) out of nineteen, although the Homilies are lengthy compositions, filling, with the translation and various readings, four hundred and fourteen large octavo pages of Dressel's edition [Endnote 38:1].

Of the whole number of quotations all but seven are taken from two Homilies, iii and xvi.