⁵⁰⁹ Letter XL. 6, p. 274.

⁵¹⁰ Gal. v. 6 and vi. 15.

⁵¹¹ John xiv. 6.

⁵¹² Letter XXVIII. ch. ii. p. 251.

⁵¹³ De optimo genere interpretandi.

⁵¹⁴ Letter LXXI., sec. 5, p. 327.

⁵¹⁵ The critic here referred to was Canthelius, whom Jerome abuses in his commentary on the passage, insinuating that the reason why the gourds found in this scion of a noble house a champion so devoted, was that they had often rendered him a service which ivy could not have done, screening his secret potations from public notice.

⁵¹⁶ Alluding to the extent to which Rome was indebted to Africa for corn.

⁵¹⁷ Ps. iv. 2.

⁵¹⁸ Ps. ii. 7,8.

⁵¹⁹ Gal. iii. 16.

⁵²⁰ Gen. xxii. 18.

⁵²¹ The original here is antithetical: "jam vos videtis, et adhuc invidetis."

⁵²² Ps. xxii. 16, 17, 18.

⁵²³ Ps. xxii. 27,28.

⁵²⁴ Psl. 1, 2.

⁵²⁵ Luke xxiv. 44, 47.

⁵²⁶ Matt. xxiv. 12, 13.

⁵²⁷ Matt. xiii. 30-39.

⁵²⁸ Proceedings before Munatius Felix, Letter LIII. sec. 4, p. 299.

⁵²⁹ Optatus, Donatist bishop of Thamugada, was cast into prison A.D. 397, and died there. He was a partisan of Gildo in his rebellion against Honorius, and shared the misfortunes, as he had participated in the crimes, of his chief.

⁵³⁰ Jer. xxxvi. 23, 30.

⁵³¹ Num. xvi. 31-33.

⁵³² Matt. xxiv. 12,13.

⁵³³ Matt. vii. 2.

⁵³⁴ He refers to their visiting the tomb of Felix of Nola, in the hope that by some miracle there the innocent and the guilty would be distinguished. See Letter LXXVIII. sec. 3, p. 346.

⁵³⁵ Rom. xv. 4.

⁵³⁶ Matt. xiii. 43.

⁵³⁷ Matt. xviii. 7..

⁵³⁸ Matt. xxiv. 12,13.

⁵³⁹ Jn iv. 24.

⁵⁴⁰ 1 Cor. xii. 9, 10, 30.

⁵⁴¹ Third Council of Carthage, A.D. 397, Can. 7, 8.

⁵⁴² 2 Cor. xi. 12.

⁵⁴³ 1 Pet. v. 8.

⁵⁴⁴ 2 Cor. vi. 14.

⁵⁴⁵ Aug translates, "be sober and righteous."

⁵⁴⁶ 1 Cor. xv. 33, 34.

⁵⁴⁷ "Nor count it is a great thing that they despise you."-Aug.

⁵⁴⁸ Isa. li. 7, 8.

⁵⁴⁹ 1 Cor. iv. 5.

⁵⁵⁰ Deut. xxix. 29. This verse is the nearest I can find to the words here quoted by the apostle. The reference in the Bened. edition to 1 Cor. v. 12 must be a mistake.

⁵⁵¹ 2 Cor. xi. 29.

⁵⁵² Ps. lxix. 26, as translated by Aug.

⁵⁵³ Ps. lxix. 12.

⁵⁵⁴ Luke xvi. 21-23.

⁵⁵⁵ 2 Cor. vii. 5 and xi. 26.

⁵⁵⁶ Ps xciv. 12, 13.

⁵⁵⁷ Donatist bishop of Hippo.

⁵⁵⁸ 1 Cor. i. 31.

⁵⁵⁹ Eph. iv. 20, 21.

⁵⁶⁰ Matt. xxiii. 3.

⁵⁶¹ 1 Cor. ix. 27.

⁵⁶² Gen. ix. 27.

⁵⁶³ Gen. xxi. 10.

⁵⁶⁴ Mal. i. 2.

⁵⁶⁵ Gen xlix. 4.

⁵⁶⁶ 2 Sam. xiii. 14.

⁵⁶⁷ Phil. ii. 20, 21.

⁵⁶⁸ Rev. xxii. 11.

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