⁸ Gen. v. 1, ix. 6.

⁹ Deut. xviii. 15; Acts iii. 22, vii. 37.

¹⁰ Literally, "after these things."

¹¹ Isa. xliv. 6.

¹² Isa. ix. 6.

¹³ Isa. vii. 14; Matt. i. 23.

¹⁴ Isa. liii. 7; Jer. xi. 19.

¹⁵ John xvii. 3.

¹⁶ John i. 1.

¹⁷ John i. 14.

¹⁸ Matt. i. 1.

¹⁹ 1 Cor. viii. 4, 6; Gal. iii. 20.

²⁰ Eph. iv. 5, 6; 1 Tim. ii. 5.

²¹ 1 Tim. ii. 5.

²² Comp. John vi. 70. Some read, "the son of the devil."

²³ Or, "that cannot be known."

²⁴ Comp. 1 John ii. 22, iv. 3; 2 John 7.

²⁵ Jer. xvii. 5.

²⁶ Phil. iii. 18, 19.

²⁷ The text is here doubtful.

²⁸ Literally, "fox-like thoes," lynxes being perhaps intended.

²⁹ Some think that this is the same person as the Euodias referred to by St. Paul, Phil. iv. 2; but, as appears from the Greek (ver. 3, aitinej), the two persons there mentioned were women.

³⁰ 1 Cor. xvi. 22.

³¹ Comp. 1 Cor. iv. 16.

³² Comp. Col. iv. 18.

³³ 1 Pet. v. 2.

³⁴ 2 Tim. iv. 6.

³⁵ Phil. iii. 8.

³⁶ Comp. 1 Pet. iii. 6.

³⁷ Eph. vi. 1, 3.

³⁸ Literally, "if I did despise."

³⁹ Or, "judgment."

⁴⁰ Job xxxi. 13, 14.

⁴¹ Comp. 2 Thess. iii. 10.

⁴² Eph. v. 3.

⁴³ 1 Tim. v. 6, 11.

⁴⁴ Literally, "the name desirable to me," referring to Hero the deacon.

⁴⁵ A class of persons connected with the Church, whose duty it was to bury the bodies of the martyrs and others.

⁴⁶ Such as voluntarily confessed Christ before Gentile rulers.

⁴⁷ Some insert here a clause referring to widows.

⁴⁸ Or, as some read, "Demas."

⁴⁹ 2 Cor. xiii. 12.

⁵⁰ Literally, "before ages."

¹ Gal. i. 4.

² Gal. vi. 2.

³ Literally, "having leisure for."

⁴ Literally, "cast thyself down."

⁵ Isa. i. 19.

⁶ Gen. ix. 3.

⁷ Ps. civ. 15.

⁸ Eccles. ii. 25 (after LXX.); Zech. ix. 17.

⁹ Comp. 1 Tim. iv. 13.

¹⁰ Literally, "athlete."

¹¹ 2 Tim. ii. 4.

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