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135 [1 Cor. iii. 13-15. An approximation to this truth is recognised by our author in a heathen poet. See p. 217, n. 2.]
137 Cum trepidatione mobili. [See vol. vi. p. 375, note 1.]
138 Perstringentur igni atque amburentur. [See p. 216, n. 5, supra.] This idea of passing through flames of the final judgment has in it nothing in common with "purgatory" as a place and as a punishment from which admission into heaven may be gained before judgment.]
139 [See vol. iii. p. 59, supra, Elucidation X.]
142 Postliminio. For the uses of this word, see Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities.
143 Resignata est, properly "unsealed."
145 [This is "the first resurrection" as conceived of by the ancients, and the (Phil. iii. 11) e0cana/stasij of St. Paul.]
147 [This rationale of the Orphica and Sibyllina deserves thought.]
148 Vector, i.e., the passenger, as opposed to one who sails in a ship of war.
149 Virg., Bucol., iv. 21-45. The order of the lines is changed. [This, the famous Pollio, greatly influenced Constantine. See p. 140, note 7, supra.]
151 [See p. 218, supra, and Victorinus, sparsim, infra.]
152 [Again a reference, as on p. 213 note 1, supra.]
153 rumh. There are other readings, as pu=r and "pyra."