¹ The people demanded, requested, or acclaimed some one as bishop [postulavit], and he was then elected, if they thought well, by the clergy. St. Ambrose makes this clear [Ep. XV. 12], saying of Acholius. "Ad summum sacerdotium a Macedonicis obsecratus populis, electus a sacerdotibus."

² S. Matt. xviii. 21.

³ S. John i. 26.

⁴ Ps. xix. [xviii.] 1.

⁵ Acts vii. 56.

⁶ Dan. vii. 9.

⁷ Ps. lxxxii. [lxxxi.] 1.

⁸ There were two apostate monks, followers apparently of Jovinian, who was condemned by synods at Rome and Milan a.d. 390.

⁹ 1 Cor. ix. 27.

¹⁰ S. John ii. 19.

¹¹ 1 Cor. v. 9.

¹² This was one of the errors of Jovinian.

¹³ 1 Cor. v. 10, 1 Cor. v. 11.

¹⁴ Eph. v. 3.

¹⁵ Eph. v. 5.

¹⁶ Rom. vi. 3.

¹⁷ Rom. viii. 17.

¹⁸ 1 Cor. x. 7.

¹⁹ See de Off. i. 50.

²⁰ Who this may be is unknown, and the name, even, owing to various readings, is uncertain.

²¹ S. Matt. iv. 3.

²² S. Matt. iv. 4.

²³ S. Matt. xvii. 21.

²⁴ Acts x. 10.

²⁵ Ex. xxxiv. 28.

²⁶ Dan. vi. Dan. vii.

²⁷ Tobit xii. 8, Tobit xii. 9.

²⁸ 1 Cor. xv. 32.

²⁹ 1 Cor. xv. 33.

³⁰ Demarchus is mentioned by no writer besides St. Ambrose. The Benedictine editors suggest that Hermachus is meant, who succeeded Epicurus as leader of his school.

³¹ Acts xvii. 18.

³² Gen. ix. 20.

³³ 1 Tim. v. 23.

³⁴ 1 [3] Kings xix. 6.

³⁵ Ex. xvii. 6.

³⁶ Dan. i. 8.

³⁷ Dan. vi. 22.

³⁸ Dan. iii. 27.

³⁹ Judg. xiii. i6.

⁴⁰ Esth. iv. 16.

⁴¹ S. Luke ii. 37.

⁴² 2 [4] Kings iv. 39.

⁴³ Ezra vii. 6.

⁴⁴ 2 Cor. xi. 27.

⁴⁵ Isa. lviii. 11.

⁴⁶ Ps. xxiii. [xxii.] 5 [LXX.].

⁴⁷ Ecclus. xviii. 30, Ecclus. xviii. 31.

⁴⁸ Ecclus. xix. 2.

⁴⁹ Col. i. 9.

⁵⁰ i.e. Miriam, the Hebrew form of the name.

⁵¹ Ex. xv. 20.

⁵² 1 Cor. vii. 25.

⁵³ Cant. iv. 12.

⁵⁴ 2 Cor. xi. 2.

⁵⁵ 1 Cor. vii. 26.

⁵⁶ 1 Cor. vii. 32.

⁵⁷ Rom. xiv. 2.

⁵⁸ 1 Cor. vii. 37-40.

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