18 John iii. 5.

19 Et effectum et affectum.

1 Ps. xlix. 12.

2 Gen. ii. 7.

3 Dilectioni tuae.

4 Ecclus. iii. 21, 22.

5 Animentur = "are furnished with their animae."

6 Gen. vii. 8, 9.

7 Wisd. xiii. 9.

8 These vessels which carry the blood from the heart were formerly supposed, from being found empty after death, to contain only air; and hence, indeed, their name,-for "the artery" was originally the windpipe. Comp. Cicero (De Nat. Deor. ii. 55, 138): "Sanguis per venas in omne corpus diffunditur, et spiritus per arterias": i.e. Blood is diffused throughout the body by the veins, and by air by the arteries.

9 [The names of these various medical schools may be found explained in the article "Medicine" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopoedia Britannica, vol. xv. See especially p. 802.-W.]

10 Ps. cxxxix. 6.

11 2 Cor. xii. 4.

12 Rom. viii. 26.

13 Phil. iii. 13, 14.

14 Rom. viii. 26.

15 2 Cor. xii. 7, 8.

16 Rom. viii. 26, 27.

17 Gal. iv. 6.

18 Rom. viii. 15

19 See above, Book i. 17 [xiv.], and following.

20 This repetition of one word for rhetorical effect is characteristic of our author (as, before him, it was of the Apostle Paul): "Intellige quid non intelligas, ne totum non intelligas...qui ut veraciter intelligat, quod non intelligit hoc se non intelligere intelligit."

21 Ps. xlix. 12, 13.

22 See Rom. v. 18.

23 [The author seems here to have such texts as 1 Thess. v. 23 in mind (see below, chs. 19 and 36), and to mean that sometimes the whole inner man is called "spirit," and sometimes "spirit" is distinguished from "soul."-W.]

24 1 Cor. xv. 40.


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