89 1 Tim. vi. 3-5. [He treats the sophists with Platonic scorn, but adopts St. Paul's enlarged idea of sophistry.]
91 [He has no idea of salvation by any other name, though he regards Gentile illumination as coming through philosophy.]
98 The empirics were a class of physicians who held practice to be the one thing essential.
99 Prov. xxii. 20, 21. The Septuagint and Hebrew both differ from the reading here.
101 ["Eat it according to reason." Spiritual food does not stultify reason, nor conflict with the evidence of the senses.]
102 [This constant appeal to the Scriptures, noteworthy.]
105 A victory disastrous to the victor and the vanquished.
110 [Revelation is complete, and nothing new to be expected. Gal. i. 8, 9.]
111 Plato's Politicus, p. 261 E.
112 Plato's Theaetetus, p. 184 C.
114 The story of Oedipus being a myth.
115 The possessor of true divine knowledge
"[Fit audience find though few."
Paradise Lost, book. vii. 31.
Dante has the same thought. Pindar's fwna=nta sunetoi=sn, Olymp., ii. 35.]
117 [Here I am sorry I cannot supply the proper reference. Clement shows his Attic prejudice in adding the epithet, here and elsewhere (Boeotian), which Pindar felt so keenly, and resents more than once. Olymp., vi. vol. i. p. 75. Ed. Heyne, London, 1823.]
121 2 Cor. i. 9, 10; 1 Cor. ii. 5, 15.
125 [Revived by some "scientists" of our days.]
126 The apostle says "foolish," 2 Tim. ii. 23.
131 [A special Providence notably recognised as a Christian truth.]
133 [The Epicureans whom he censures just before.]
136 Gen. xxi. 10; Gal. iv. 30.