110 2 Tim. i. 12. St. Paul's phrase, th=n paraqhkhn mou, has been taken in two senses, as (1) what God had entrusted to him; and (2) what the apostle had entrusted to God's keeping. St. Augustin, it will be seen, here takes the latter sense.
111 There seems to be a corruption in the text here: "Quid alind apostolo Petro Dominus commendavit orando." Another reading inserts de before the word apostolo. Our version is rather of the apparent sense than of the words of the passage.
115 This is a poor imitation of Augustin's playful words: "Me potius onerabo quam illum honorabo."
121 In a conference held at Jerusalem at the end of July in the year 415, as described by Orosius in his Apology.
126 See the treatise De Peccatorum Meritis, iii. 1.
128 Avitus, perhaps, Passerius, and Dominus ex duce, whose names do not occur in the Acts of the Synod of Diospolis, but are mentioned by Orosius Apol. 3.
129 Augustin here refers to the Proceedings of the conference at Jerusalem before its bishop John, which sat previous to the Council of Diospolis. See above, 37 (xiv.).
133 We have preferred the reading gratis creatam to the obscure gratiam creaturam.
141 See Augustin's Epist. 168.