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4 See above, Book i. ch. 1 of this treatise.
6 Book i. of this treatise, ch. 1.
7 See The Unfinished Work, i. 64.
10 He calls Florus "most holy father" elsewhere (see The Unfinished Work, iv. 5). This man, to whom Julianus dedicated his work, is called a colleague or fellow-bishop of Julianus by Augustin (The Unfinished Work, iii. 187).
11 Conditor nascentium, i.e. the Maker of all men's births.
12 For a description of this curious mode of capture, see Dr. Smith's Greek and Roman Antiquities, S. V. Rete.
13 See The Unfinished Work, i. 3.
19 See The Unfinished Work, iii. 101.
24 The words "in body" are added here in the text of the Benedictine edition, though it is found in almost none of the Mss., because it is found in the passage as quoted in the Unfinished Work, iii. 138.
25 This clause alludes to the Imperial edicts which Honorius issued, enacting penalties against the Pelagian heretics.
28 Compare Eph. v. 32 with Gen. ii. 24.
31 For once a difficulty occurs (for which, however, St. Augustin is not responsible) in the construction of the original. The obscure passage is here translated in accordance with a suggestion in some of the editions. It stands in the original thus: "Quorum tamen efficientiae potentiâ operationis intervenit omne quod est eâ administrans virtute quâ condidit." Some editors suggest "potentia" (nominative) "Dei operationis intervenit;" but there is no Ms. authority for the Dei.
39 Ambrose On Isaiah; see also his Epistle (81) to Siricius.
40 This is the Benedictine reading; but another reading has "he answers," which seems to suit the context. See the following: "again he answers,"