¹⁵¹ The cross.

¹⁵² Eph. iv.13.

¹⁵³ Ex. xxv. 23. The table is said to be two cubits in length, a cubit in breadth, and a cubit and a half in height; therefore it was six cubits round.

¹⁵⁴ Ex. xxv. 24.

¹⁵⁵ The three styles of Greek music were the e0narmoniko/n, dia/tonon, and xrwmatiko/n.

¹⁵⁶ i.e., of Christ.

¹⁵⁷ 1 Cor. x. 26, etc.

¹⁵⁸ ya/llontej is substituted by Lowth for ya/llein of the text, e0n tw=| ya/llein has also been proposed.

¹⁵⁹ Ps. xlv. 9.

¹⁶⁰ Ps. xlv. 14. [Elucidation VII.]

¹⁶¹ didaktikh/n, proposed by Sylburgius, seems greatly preferable to the reading of the text, didakth/n, and has been adopted above.

¹⁶² Wisd. vi. 10.

¹⁶³ Wisd. vii. 16.

¹⁶⁴ Wisd. xiv. 2, 3.

¹⁶⁵ That is, resurrection effected by divine power.

¹⁶⁶ Such seems the only sense possible of this clause,-obtained, however, by substituting for suna/logoi lo/gou, k.t.l., su/llogoi lo/gon k.t.l..

¹⁶⁷ John iii. 30.

¹⁶⁸ John i. 3.

¹⁶⁹ Eph. ii. 20, 21.

¹⁷⁰ Matt. xiii. 47, 48.

¹⁷¹ Prudence, fortitude, justice, temperance. [Known as the philosophical virtues.]

¹⁷² i.e., that mentioned in the last sentence of chap xi., which would more appropriately be transferred to chap. xii.

¹⁷³ Wisd. ii. 22, 25.

¹⁷⁴ Ps. xvii. 3, 4.

¹⁷⁵ Sylburgius proposes kosmika/j, worldly, instead of kosmi/aj, decorous; in which case the sentence would read: "and [true] poverty, destitution in worldly desires."

¹⁷⁶ Gen. xviii. 12.

¹⁷⁷ The reading of the text has, "not of the same mother, much less of the same father," which contradicts Gen. xx. 12, and has been therefore amended as above.

¹⁷⁸ 1 Sam. i. 13.

¹⁷⁹ Or, "judging from the motion of the soul;" the text reading here ou0 kinh/matoj yuxh=j, for which, as above, is proposed, ou0k e0k kinh/matoj yuxh=n.

¹⁸⁰ Tob. xii. 8.

¹⁸¹ Metaphorical expression for perfect. The phrase "a quadrangular man" is found in Plato and Aristotle. [The proverbial tetra0gonoj a!neu yo/gou, of the Nicomach. Ethics, i. 10, and of Plato in the Protagoras, p. 154. Ed. Bipont, 1782.]

¹⁸² 2 Cor. vi. 7.

¹⁸³ Ex. xxxiv. 29.

¹⁸⁴ Matt. v. 48.

¹⁸⁵ John xiii. 33.

¹⁸⁶ This is cited by Diogenes Laertius as the first dictum of Epicurus. It is also referred to as such by Cicero, De Natura Deorum, and by others.

¹⁸⁷ In opposition to the heretical opinion, that those who are saved have an innate original excellence, on account of which they are saved. [Elucidation VIII.]

¹⁸⁸ Or, "elected"-xeirotonou/menoj Acts xiv. 23, "And when they had ordained (xeirotonh/santej) them elders in every church." A different verb (kaqi/sthmi) is used in Tit. i. 5.

¹⁸⁹ Presbytery or eldership.

¹⁹⁰ pswtokaqedri/a, Mark xii. 39, Luke xx. 46.

¹⁹¹ Rev. iv. 4, xi. 16.

¹⁹² Eph ii. 14, 15, 16, iv. 13.

¹⁹³ prokopai/. [Book vii. cap. i, infra.]

¹⁹⁴ 1 Thess. iv. 17.

¹⁹⁵ 1 Cor. xv. 41.

¹⁹⁶ Eph. iv. 13.

¹⁹⁷ Ps. xv i.

¹⁹⁸ John i. 47; Matt v. 8.

¹⁹⁹ e/poptei/a, the third and highest grade of initiation of the Eleusinian mysteries (Liddell and Scott's Lexicon).

²⁰⁰ John x. 16.

²⁰¹ John x. 27.

²⁰² Mark v. 34, etc.

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