235 John vi. 44.

236 Ecclus. xv. 16, 17.

237 Matt. v. 10; 1 Pet. ii. 20.

238 Acts v. 29.

239 Prov. xiv. 28.

240 Luke xxiv. 46, 47.

241 Acts i. 8.

242 Ex. xxxii. 28-32.

243 Mal. i. 11.

244 Ps. cxiii. 3.

245 Ps. l. 14.

246 1 John iii. 15.

247 Matt. iv. 6, 7.

248 John xviii. 10, 11; Matt. xxvi. 52.

249 Ps. cxx. 6, 7, cp. Hieron.

250 See Contr. Cresc. l. III. c. 67, l. IV. cc. 60, 61.

251 John xii. 24.

252 Veracissime. Another reading is "feracissime," "most abundantly".

253 Matt. v. 39.

254 2 Cor. xi. 20, 23.

255 Deut. xix. 21.

256 2 Mac. vii.

257 Dan. iii.

258 Matt. ii. 16.

259 Dan. vi.

260 Matt. xxvii. 26.

261 1 Cor. ii. 6-8.

262 John xvi. 2.

263 1 Kings xxi.

264 Matt. xiv. 8, 9.

265 Matt. xxvii. 24-26.

266 Ps. ii., cp. Hieron.

267 Matt. xxvii. 24.

268 Some editions have Varius in the place of Geta, referring to Aurelius Antoninus Heliogabalus, of whom Lampridius asserts that he derived the name of Varius from the doubtfulness of his parentage. Aelii Lampridii Antoninus Heliogabalus, in S.S. Historiae Agustae. The Mss. agree, however, in the reading "Geta," which was a name of the second son of Severus, the brother of Caracalla.

269 Optatus defends the cause of Macarius at great length in his third book against Parmenianus. Of Ursacius he says in the same place: "You are offended at the times of a certain Leontius, of Ursacius, Macarius and others." And Augustine, in his third book against Cresconius, c. 20, introduces an objection of the Donatists against himself: "But so soon as Silvanus, bishop of Cirta, had refused to communicate with Ursacius and Zenophilus the persecutors, he was driven into exile." Usuardus, deceived by a false story made up by the Donatists, enters in his Martyrology, that a pseudo-martyr Donatus suffered on the 1st of March, under Ursacius and Marcellinus, to this effect: "On the same day of the holy martyr Donatus, who suffered under Ursacius the judge (or dux), and the tribune Marcellinus."

270 1 Kings xxi.

271 Prov. xviii. 21.

272 Constitutio quam impetraverunt. Some editions have "quam dederunt Constantio;" but there is no place for Constantius in this history of the Donatists, nor was any boon either sought or obtained from him in their name. The Louvain editors therefore restored "constitutio," which is the reading of the Gallic Mss.

273 Matt. vii. 3.

274 Gen. xx.

275 Gen. xxvi. 11.

276 Gen. xlvii.

277 Gen. xxxix., xli.

278 Gen. xlii. 15.

279 Ex. ii. 10.

280 1 Sam. xxvii.

281 1 Kings xviii. 44-46.

282 2 Kings iv. 13.

283 Dan. iii.-vi.

284 John xvi. 2.

285 Phil. iii. 5, 6.

286 Acts xxiii. 12-33.

287 The reign of Constantine lasted about thirty-two years, from 306 to 337 A.D. Julian succeeded Constantius, and reigned one year and seven months, dying at the age of thirty, in a war against the Persians, in 363 A.D.

288 Gen. ix. 5.

289 Ps. ii. 10-12.

290 Ps. ii. 7, 8.

291 Isa. ii. 18; Zech. xiii. 2.