23 John xvi. 15.

24 John vi. 51.

25 John x. 14. John x. 15.

26 Coloss. i. 18.

27 I. Cor. xv. 20.

28 I. Pet. i. 1.

29 Luke xxiii. 46.

30 Luke xxiii. 46.

31 Mark xv. 39.

32 Matt. xxvii. 50.

33 John xix. 30.

34 Col. ii. 14.

1 Isaiah iii. 3. Sept.

2 Irenaeus, Count of the Empire and afterwards bishop of Tyre, was a friend and frequent correspondent of Theodoret. He was deposed at the Latrocinium in 449. cf. Epp. XII, XVI, XXXV.

3 I. Cor. iv. 5.

4 I. Cor. ix. 20, I. Cor. ix. 21.

5 Matt. x. 23.

6 The word in the text for basket is sarganh, a basket of twisted work (gr#$

) commonly rope - the word used by St. Paul himself in II. Cor. xi. 33. In Acts ix. 25 St. Luke writes en spuridi, spurij (? speirw) being the large rope basket of Matt. xv. 37, and distinguished from the kofinoj of Matt. xiv. 20 and of Juvenal III. 14, "Judoeis quorum cophinus foenumque supellex," and VI. 542.

7 Acts xxiii. 6.

8 Acts xxii. 25.

9 "Dolus an virtus quis in hoste requirat?" Virg Aen. ii. 390.

10 Acts xxv. 11.

11 Acts xii. 12, etc.

12 Exod. ii. 11 etc.

13 I. Kings xix. 1 etc.

14 Matt. iv. 6.

15 Matt. xxvi. 41.

16 Luke xi. 4.

17 Probably the condemnation referred to is the imperial Edict of March 449 relegating Theodoret to the limits of his own diocese. cf. Epp. 79. 80.

18 Vide note on Letter III.

19 Job xl. 3, lxx.

20 On the wine of Lesbos cf. Hor. Car. i. 17, "innocentis pocula Lesbii_" Aulus Gellius tells the story how Aristotle, when asked to nominate his successor, and wishing to point out the superiority of Theophrastus to Menedemus, called first for a cup of Rhodian, and then of Lesbian, and after sipping both, exclaimed huiwn o Lesbioj. Nact. Att. xiii. 5.


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