ael heard one of Junius' letters read before it
was published, and as the last was published in January, 1772, it follows,
assuming that he was the eldest child, born in nine months to the hour, and
that it was the very last letter that he heard read, he _may have been_
five years and seven months old--a very "young man" indeed; or rather, all
circumstances considered, as precocious a youth as he who found out the
vellum-bound copy years before it was known to be in existence.

I regret to have occupied so much of your space. But speculation on this
subject is just now the fashion. "NOTES AND QUERIES" is likely hereafter to
become an authority, and if these circumstantial statements are admitted
into its columns, they must be as circumstantially disproved.

M. J.

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Replies to Minor Queries.

_The Ten Commandments_ (Vol. iii., p. 166.).--The controversy on the
division of the Ten Commandments between the Romanists and Lutherans on the
one side, and the Reformers or Calvinists on the other, has been discussed
in the following works--1. Goth (Cardinalis), _Vera Ecclesia, &c._, Venet.,
1750 (Art. xvi. s. 7.); 2. Chamieri _Panstratia_ (tom i. l. xxi. c. viii.);
3. Riveti _Opera_ (tom. i. p. 1227., and tom. iii. _Apologeticus pro vera
Pace Ecclesiastica contra H. Grotii Votum_.); 4. Bohlii _Vera divisio
Decalogi ex infallibili principio accentuationis_; 5. Hackspanii _Notae
Philologicae in varia loca S. Scripturae_; 6. Pfeifferi _Opera_ (Cent. i.
Loc. 96.); 7. Ussher's _Answer to a Jesuit's Challenge (of Images) and his
Serm. at Westminster before the House of Commons, out of Deuteronomy, chap.
iv. ver_. 15, 16., _and Romans, chap. i. ver._ 23.; 8. Stillingfleet's
_Controversies with Godden, Author of "Catholics no Idolaters," and_ {413}
_with Gother, Author of "The Papist Misrepresented," &c._

The earliest notices of the division of the Decalogue, are those of
Josephus, lib. iii. c. 5. s. 5.; Philo-Judaeus _de Decem Oraculis_; and the
Chaldaic Paraphrase of Jonathan. According to these, the third verse of
Exod. xx. contains the first commandment; the fourth, fifth, and sixth, the
second. The same distinction was adopted by the following early
writers:--Origen (_Homil. viii. in Exod._), Greg. Nazienzen (_Carmina Mosis
Decalogus_), Irenaeus (lib. iii. c. 42.), Athanasius (_in Synopsi S.
Scripturae_), Ambrose (_in Ep. ad Ephes. c. vi._).

It was first abandoned by Augustine, who