I will further remark, that it is always interesting, sometimes instructive, after detecting the remote origin of an ancient blunder, to note what has been its subsequent history and progress.
Some specimens of the thing referred to I have already given in another place.

The reader is invited to acquaint himself with the strange process by which the '276 souls' who suffered shipwreck with St.Paul (Acts xxvii.

37), have since dwindled down to 'about 76[27].'-- He is further requested to note how 'a certain man' who in the time of St.
Paul bore the name of 'Justus' (Acts xviii.

7), has been since transformed into '_Titus_,' '_Titus Justus_,' and even '_Titius Justus_[28].'-- But for a far sadder travestie of sacred words, the reader is referred to what has happened in St.Matt.xi.

23 and St.Luke x.