144 Matt. xxiii. 2-4.

145 Isa. xxix. 13.

146 Rom. x. 3, 4.

147 Ex. iii. 7, 8.

148 Matt. xix. 17, 18, etc.

149 Harvey here remarks: "In a theological point of view, it should be observed, that no saving merit is ascribed to almsgiving: it is spoken of here as the negation of the vice of covetousness, which is wholly inconsistent with the state of salvation to which we are called."

150 Luke xix. 8.

151 That is, as Harvey observes, the natural man, as described in Rom. ii. 27.

152 Matt. v. 27, 28.

153 Matt. v. 21, 22.

154 Matt. v. 33, etc.

155 Matt. v. 20.

156 Matt. xix. 21.

157 Luke vi. 29-31.

158 Matt. v. 41.

159 Matt. v. 45.

160 John xv. 15.

161 Jas. ii. 23.

162 John viii. 58.

163 John xvii. 5.

164 John xv. 16.

165 John xvii. 24.

166 Isa. xliii. 5.

167 Matt. xxiv. 28.

168 Luke xv. 22, 23.

169 Rev. i. 15.

170 Ex. xxv. 40.

171 1 Cor. x. 11.

172 Deut. v. 22.

173 Ezek. xx. 24.

174 [Acts vi. 3-7. It is evident that the laity elected, and the apostles ordained.]

175 Amos v. 25, 26.

176 In accordance with the Codex Bezae.

177 Acts vii. 38, etc.

178 Ex. xxxiii. 2, 3.

179 Matt. xix. 7, 8.

180 1 Cor. vii. 12.

181 1 Cor. vii. 6.

182 1 Cor. vii. 25.

183 1 Cor. vii. 5.

184 Matt. xx. 5.

185 [Note this stout assertion of the freedom of human actions.]

186 Gen. vii. 9-11.

187 Ezek. xx. 12.

188 Ex. xxi. 13.

189 Col. ii. 11.

190 Deut. x. 16, LXX. version.

191 The Latin text here is : "Sabbata autem perseverantiam totius diei erga Deum deservitionis edocebant;" which might be rendered, "The Sabbaths taught that we should continue the whole day in the service of God;" but Harvey conceives the original Greek to have been, thn kaqhmerinhn diamonhn thj peri ton Qeon latreiaj.

192 Rom. viii. 36.

193 Matt. vi. 19.

194 Jas. ii. 23.

195 Massuet remarks here that Irenaeus makes a reference to the apocryphal book of Enoch, in which this history is contained. It was the belief of the later Jews, followed by the Christian fathers, that "the sons of God" (Gen. vi. 2) who took wives of the daughters of men, were the apostate angels. The LXX. translation of that passage accords with this view. See the articles "Enoch," "Enoch, Book of," in Smith's Dictionary of the Bible. [See Paradise Lost, b. i. 323-431.]

196 Deut. v. 2.

197 1 Tim. i. 9.

198 [Hearts and souls; i.e., moral and mental natures. For a correct view of the patristic conceptions of the Gentiles before the law, this is valuable.]

199 i.e., the letters of the Decalogue on the two tables of stone.

200 Deut. viii. 3.

201 Deut. v. 22.

202 Deut. x. 12.

203 Deut. xxx. 19, 20.

204 [Most noteworthy among primitive testimonies to the catholic reception of the Decalogue.]

205 Deut. iv. 14.

206 Matt. xii. 36.

207 Matt. v. 28.

208 Matt. v. 22.

209 1 Pet. ii. 16.

210 1 Sam. xv. 22.

211 Latin, "aures autem perfecisti mihi;" a reading agreeable to neither the Hebrew nor Septuagint version, as quoted by St. Paul in Heb. x. 9. Harvey, however, is of opinion that the text of the old Latin translation was originally "perforasti;" indicating thus an entire concurrence with the Hebrew, as now read in this passage. [Both readings illustrated by their apparent reference to Ex. xxi. 6, compared with Heb. v. 7, 8, 9.]

212 Ps. xl. 6.

213 Ps. li. 17.

214 Or, "the beauty," species.

215 Ps. l. l9.

216 Ps. l. 14, 15.

217 Isa. i. 11.


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