¹ Nothing is known of this Pope Laurentius. The title "Papa," at first Riven to Bishops promiscuously, was not yet restricted to the Bishop of Rome. Gregory VII., in a Council held at Home in 1073, forbade it to be given to any other.

² Isaiah x. 22, Isaiah x. 23, Septuag., and so cited Rom. ix. 28.

³ Heb. xi. 10.

⁴ Dan. xii. 10, or Is. vii. 9.

⁵ Matt. xvii. 5.

⁶ John xiv. 9.

⁷ John x. 30.

⁸ John xvi. 28.

⁹ Deum, not, as before, Deo.

¹⁰ Compare Cyril's words, Quod omnium teneat potentatum - Lordship over all; o pantokratwr, o pantwn kratwn, o pantwn ecousiazwn. (Catcech., 8, §3). Rufinus evidently had St. Cyril's exposition in view here as repeatedly elsewhere.

¹¹ Col. i. 16.

¹² Heb. i. 2.

¹³ Heb. iv. 8.

¹⁴ Baruch iii. 35-37. Baruch is not specified by name in Rufinus's list of the Canonical books, but it is in Cyril's, as though a part of Jeremiah, "Jeremiah, with Baruch, and the Lamentations and the Epistle." (Catech. 4, §36.)

¹⁵ That is Joshua the son of Nun. It does not appear what passage is referred to.

¹⁶ Acts x. 38.

¹⁷ Isa. lxi. 1. Comp. Luke iv. 18.

¹⁸ 1 Tim. i. 17.

¹⁹ 1 Cor. xi. 3.

²⁰ Matt. xii. 33.

²¹ Matt. xiii. 47.

²² 1 Cor. viii. 6.

²³ Corresponding to the Greek word Economy-the "arrangement" or "plan" by which the Word became incarnate.

²⁴ Isa. vii. 14.

²⁵ Ezek. xliv. 2, LXX.

²⁶ Matt. i. 21.

²⁷ Luke i. 31, Luke i. 34, Luke i. 35.

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