77 [The Lord's prayer: p. 454, note 1, supra.]
78 [By Dr. Wallis, as before, p. 655.]
79 [By Dr. Wallis, as before, p. 655.]
80 Gennadius, de Script. Ecclec., cap. xxvii.
1 [" In the name," etc., implies as Jesus Christ commanded, St.Matt. xxviii. 19.]
2 [This was assumed by the Westems to be the general rule,whereas it was only local. See p. 408, note 7, supra.]
4 [The bitterness with which Vincent follows up the assumption, that there was a general custom of all the churches, shows how: sadly this controversy became envenomed in the West. Cap. vi. is a blemish on his Commonitory.]
9 There is something needed to make the connection of this passage complete.
14 [It was a notable compliance with the example of Christ, Matt. iii. 15. "They had received," etc., yet that was no reason why ordinance o( Christ should be slighted.]
24 [Isa. xiv. 12. The sin of Lucifer had, very possibly, been this of rebelling against the Incarnation and the introduction thereby of an order of beings higher than himself. Hence our Lord recognised in Peter's words the voice of the old adversary, and called him " Satan." A premonition of his lapse.]
26 [It has been profoundly felt, that, as the Church of Rome in her early rectitude (Rom. i. 8) reflected Peter's confession, so in her lapse (Rom. xi. 20, 21) she reflects this terrible rebuke. If she was once identified with Peter's Rock, so now, alas! with Peter's Satan.]
28 Scil. the bishop. [The plural of "solidarity." See p. 128, note 5, supra, and Elucidation XI p. 159.]
30 By him who hears the word is meant a catechumen (Rigaltius). [Bunsen, vol. ii. p. 317. He quotes the Apostolical Constitutions (Alexandria), "Let the catechumens be three years hearing the word," etc.]
32 The original interpolates " non."
33 [Scil. baptisms (?) i.e., of water and of blood.]
37 [Ezek. xxxiii. 12. On the principle that what is deepest in man's heart proves, finally, the character; Phil. ii. 12. A very solemn consideration an human accountability (1 Pet. i. 17), but not to be disjoined from 2 Cor. vi. 10.]
38 [Vol i. p. 505, note 12, this series.]
47 Unius atque ejusdem species.
51 John iii. 5. [Greek, pneuma,Syriac as here rendered.]
53 Rigaltius says that Jerome mentions this document, and regards it as apocryphal. And Eusebius refers to the Periodoi Petrou, which,according to the common reading of Peter for Paul in the text, may point to the same document. [Vol. ii. 341, note 10; and vol. iv., p. 246.]