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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