¹⁰⁵ Lit. age. The word may come either wrong meaning of the Greek word for Stature, or may be a synonym for the word Aeon, which would here mean a range or order of being.

¹⁰⁶ Didymus, the blind teacher of Alexandria. Jerome who admired him, though he was a disciple of Origen, delights in calling him, in contrast to his blindness, the Seer.

¹⁰⁷ John viii, 9.

¹ Letter lxxxiv. 3 (end).

² Stromateis, meaning collections of short essays on important subjects, disconnected, and thrown out like things scattered or strewn on the ground.

³ Eph. iv, 25.

⁴ 1 Cor. ii, 6.

⁵ Ps. xix, 2.

⁶ Matt. v, 14.

⁷ Ps. xviii, 9.

⁸ Ps. xviii, 11.

⁹ Matt. vii, 6.

¹⁰ Matt. v, 33, Matt. v, 34.

¹¹ Matt. vii, 16-20.

¹² Luke vi, 44.

¹³ See letter xxii. to Eustochium. In it Jerome pointed out the worldliness of professing Christians, and the inconsistencies and hypocrisies of many of the clergy and monks.

¹⁴ Letter xxii. c. 27 (end).

¹⁵ Of goats' hair, used by soldiers and sailors.

¹⁶ Letter xxii. c. 29 (middle).

¹⁷ Id. c. 28.

¹⁸ Id. 29 (end).

¹⁹ Id. 30.

²⁰ Cicero, Horace and Virgil.

²¹ Letter lvii.

²² Discerns it. Vulg. Rom. xiv, 23. He that doubteth A.V.

²³ In the translation of the Arxwn made by Jerome for Pammachius and Oceanus, he rendered word for word.

²⁴ Letter lvii. 5.

²⁵ Matt. vii, 1, Matt. vii, 2.

²⁶ Ep. 1.

²⁷ Ep. l. 1.

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