and Kennicott (diss. 2, p. 416) take
notice: the old Alexandrian MS. kept in the British Museum at
London, is thought by Grabe to have been written about the year 396;
by Mills and Wetstein, (in their _Prolegom. in Nov. Test. Gr._) about
one hundred years later. It was published by Grabe, though not pure;
for in some places he gives the reading of this MS. in the margin,
and prefers some other in the text. Though none of Origen's Asterics
are retained, it comes nearest to his edition in the Hexapla, as
Grabe, Montfaucon, and Kennicott agree: in some places it is
conformable to Theodotion, or Symmachus, and seems mostly the
Hesychian edition. See Montfaucon, Praelim. in Hexapla; Kennicott,
diss. 2.
3. [Greek: Aposunagwgos emo ne.]
4. [Greek: Arxontos]
5. 2 B. 2, c. 12, 13.
6. The Arians boasted that Arius had received his impious doctrine from
St. Lucian: but he is justified with regard to that calumny by the
silence of Saint Athanasius; the panegyrics of St. Chrysostom and
St. Jerom; the express testimony of the ancient book, On the
Trinity, among the works of St. Athanasius, Dial. 3, tom. 2, p. 179;
his orthodox confession of faith in Sozomen, l. 3, c. 5, p. 502; and
the authority of the church, which from his death has always ranked
him among her illustrious martyrs.
7. Saussaye Mart. Gallic. t. 1, p. 17. Chatelain, p. 114.

ST. CEDD, BISHOP OF LONDON.

HE was brother to St. Chad, bishop of Litchfield, and to St. Celin, and
Cimbert, apostolic priests, who all labored zealously in the conversion
of the English Saxons, their countrymen. St. Cedd long served God in the
monastery of Lindisfarne, founded by St. Aidan, and for his great
sanctity was promoted to the priesthood. Peada, the son of Penda, king
of Mercia, was appointed by his father king of the midland English; by
which name Bede distinguishes the inhabitants of Leicestershire, and
part of Lincolnshire and Derbyshire, from the rest of the Mercians. The
young king, with a great number of noblemen, servants, and soldiers,
went to Atwall, or Walton, the seat of Oswy, king of the Northumbers,
and was there baptized with all his attendants, by Finan, bishop of
Lindisfarne. Four priests, Saint Cedd, Adda, Betta, and Diuma, the last
a Scot, the rest English, were sent to preach the gospel to his people,
the midland English; among whom great multitudes received the word of
life with joy. K