Annotation CCI

”The beginning, who also speak to you.” — John 8:25

"Beginning" [principium].

Thomas Cajetan is here reproved by Ambrosius [Catharinus], because, for the particle which in Greek is read τὴν ἀρχὴν, and in the Vulgate edition is rendered principium [beginning], he himself — having changed not only the word “beginning,” but also the sense of the same word — reads “In the first place” [In primis]; and expounds it not as a noun, as Ambrose and Augustine expounded [it], but as an adverb, in the manner in which Erasmus reads [it]. This very [thing] he [Catharinus] condemned in

—[condemned this] in Erasmus [did] Edward Lee, in the Annotations and censures published against the same Erasmus; whose reasons, studying brevity, I omit.