237 Or, "carpets." Xenoph., Memorabilia, II. i. 30; The Words of Virtue to Vice.
239 i.e., Permanent state and nature.
240 [See Epiphan., Opp., ii. 391, ed. Oehler.]
242 parousia| substituted by Grabe for par0r9hsi/a|.
243 Matt. v. 8. [On the Beatitudes, see book iv. cap. 6, infra.]
245 [See note, book ii. cap. 7, p. 352, supra.]
246 Barnabas, Epist., cap. xvi. vol. i. p. 147.
247 [Clement does not credit the apostasy of the deacon Nicolas (Acts vi. 5), though others of the Fathers surrender him to the Nicolaitans. See book iii. cap. iv. infra.]
248 kata/pausma (in Theodoret), for which the text reads kata/plasma.
250 After this comes w\j e!rwta, which yields no meaning, and has been variously amended, but not satisfactorily. Most likely some words have dropped out of the text. [The note in ed. Migne, nevertheless, is worth consultation.]
257 The text has a0retw=n, virtues, for which, in accordance with Pythagoras' well-known opinion, a0riqmw=n has been substituted from Theodoret.
258 For kata/plhcin of the text, Heinsius reads a0kata/plhcin, which corresponds to the other term ascribed to Democritus-a9qambi/hn.
269 [He places the essence of marriage in the chaste consummation itself, the first after lawful nuptials. Such is the force of this definition, which the note in ed. Migne misrepresnets, as if it were a denial that second nuptials are marriage.]
273 [The offering of the purification has a beautiful regard to the example of the turtle-dove; and the marriage-ring may have been suggested by the ringdove, a symbol of constancy in nature.]
274 Gen. ii. 18. [A beautiful tribute to the true wife.]