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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