⁴ S. Luke iv. 27.

⁵ Deut. xiii. 1-3.

⁶ S. Matt. xxiv. 24.

⁷ 1 Cor. xii. 8-10.

⁸ 1 Cor. xii. 31.

⁹ This was the "Egyptian," not the "Alexandrian" Macarius. See the note on the Institutes, V. xli. The story is also given by Rufinus, History of the Monks, c. xxviii.; as well as Sozomen, H.E. III. xiv., and by both of these writers is expressly ascribed to the Egyptian Macarius.

¹⁰ 1 Cor. iv. 20.

¹¹ Cf. S. James ii. 14.

¹² Possibly the same person as the author of Conference xxiv., but nothing further appears to be known of him.

¹³ i.e. the fifty days from Easter to Whitsuntide; cf. the note on the Institutes, II. xviii.

¹⁴ Acts iii. 12.

¹⁵ S. Luke ix. 49, 50.

¹⁶ S. Matt. vii. 22, 23.

¹⁷ S. Luke x. 20.

¹⁸ S. Matt. xi. 28, 29.

¹⁹ S. John xiii. 34, 35.

²⁰ Prov. x. 4.

²¹ Prov. xxv. 14

²² S. Luke x. 20.

²³ Cf. the note on the Conferences III. i.

²⁴ Athera. This is noticed by Pliny (Hist. Nat. xxii. 25, 57, § 121) as the Egyptian name for a decoction made from grain.

²⁵ i.e. the sign of the cross.

¹ Nothing further appears to be known of this Joseph than what Cassian here states.

² viz., the first of ths Second Part of the Conferences, i.e., Conference XI.

³ See on Conference XIV. c. iv.

⁴ Ps. lxvii. (lxviii.) 7.

⁵ Ps. cxxxii. (cxxxiii.) 1.

⁶ Acts iv. 32.

⁷ Ex persona. See note on VIII. xxxv.

⁸ S. John vi. 38.

⁹ S. Matt. xxvi. 39.

¹⁰ S. John xiii. 35.

¹¹ S. Matt. v. 23, 24.

¹² Eph. iv. 26; S. Matt. v. 22.

¹³ 1 Tim. ii. 4.

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