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94 [The Edin. Trans. Has "best at everything," but I have corrected it in closer accord with the comparative degree in the Greek.]
97 [It is a sad token of our times that some women resent this law of the Christian family. In every society there must be presidency even among equals; and even Christ, though "equal to the Father," in the Catholic theology, is yet subordinate. See Bull, Defens. Fid., Nicaen. Works, vol. v. p. 685.]
98 Col. iii. 18-25, iv. 1, iii. 11.
100 Col. iii. 12-15. [Again let us note this Catholic democracy of the Christian brotherhood (see p. 416, supra), for which indeed we should be thankful as Christ's freemen.]
101 [Book iii. cap. iii., supra.]
102 [He who studies the Sapiential books of the Bible and Apocrypha and the Sermon on the Mount, is a philosopher of the sort here commended.]
106 [Rom. x. 10. The indifference of our times is based on an abuse of the principle that God sees the heart, and needs no public (sacramental) profession of faith. Had this been Christ's teaching, there would have been no martyrs and no visible Church to hand down the faith.]
107 [Rom. x. 10. The indifference of our times is based on an abuse of the principle that God sees the heart, and needs no public (sacramental) profession of faith. Had this been Christ's teaching, there would have been no martyrs and no visible Church to hand down the faith.]
108 [Absolutely necessary (i.e., open profession of Chirst) to the conversion of others, and the perpetuation of the Christian Church.]
112 [As a reflection of the condition and fidelity of Christians, still "sheep for the slaughter." At such a period the tone and argument of this touching chapter are suggestive.]
114 [An excellent rendering, which the Latin translator misses (see ed. Migne, ad loc.), the refernece being to Jas. ii. 7.]
115 [An excellent rendering, which the Latin translator misses (see ed. Migne, ad loc.), the refernece being to Jas. ii. 7.]
117 Wisd. iii. 1. [This is pronounced canonical Scripture by the Trent theology, and yet the same theology asserts a purgatory to which none but the faithful are committed.]
119 [This exposition of Basilides is noteworthy. It is very doubtful, whether, even in poetry, the Platonic idea of pre-existence should be encouraged by Christians, as, e.g., in that sublimest of moderns lyrics, Wordsowrth's ode on Immortality and Childhood.]
121 The text has paideutikh=j te/xnhj th=j toia/de, for which Sylburgius suggests toia=sde, as translated above.
124 [See the Valentinian jargon about the Demiurge (rival of the true Creator), in Irenaeus, vol. i. p. 322, this series.]
125 Phil. i. 29, 30; ii. 1, 2, 17.
129 [The valuable note of Routh, on a fragment of Melito, should be consulted. Reliquiae, vol i. p. 140.]
149 Heb. xi. 36-40, xii. 1, 2.
150 Who lived before Christ. [Moses was a Christian.]
151 Heb. xi. 26, 27. [Moses suffered "the reproach of Christ."]
154 [The use of this title is noticeable here, on many accounts, as historic.]
155 [See vol. i. p. 5-11, et seqq. S.]