It was the one point in which the Erasmian creed was at fault.
Of all the triumphs of the Erasmian "If," none is more complete or more significant than this.
The reason for the inclusion of the Erasmian essay is never clearly stated in the other sections of the Treatise.
There are a number of proofs that the Erasmian pronunciation is radically wrong, and that the modern Greek is the correct one.
I know of nothing in me, he wrote, why anyone should wish to be Erasmian, and I altogether hate that term of division.