²³ From this point the manuscripts are defective to ch. xx.

²⁴ i.e., Venus the bald.

²⁵ i.e. Jupiter the baker.

²⁶ Terriculas. There is another reading, "terricolas." See note at Institutes, book i. ch. 22 p 38, supra.

²⁷ See preceding note and reference.

²⁸ Comparari. Others read "compatari."

²⁹ Ex responso. The common reading is "ex persona."

³⁰ Ea enim visa est aptior victima, quae ipsi, cui mactatur, magnitudine virilis obsceni posset aequari.

³¹ De Nat. Deor., vi. 52.

³² Quare tremunt. Another reading is, "qua reddunt," which is unintelligible.

³³ a!nqowpoj, man; said to be compounded of a#nw, tre/pw, and w!y, to turn the face upwards. [Needlessly repeated from p. 41, supra.]

³⁴ Inerrabiles. There is another reading, "inenarrabiles," indescribable.

³⁵ Humanis visibus.

³⁶ Inspiravit ad vitam.

³⁷ Paradiso.

³⁸ Irrepere.

³⁹ Parricidam. The word first means the murderer of a parent or near relative; then simply a murderer.

⁴⁰ [This is a curious enlargement of the idea as taught elsewhere. See vol. ii. p. 142, this series.]

⁴¹ Plena terroris. Another reading is, "aut plane terrores."

⁴² a0rxh/n. Others read daimonarxi/an, "the power of demons."

⁴³ Lib. vi. 1.

⁴⁴ Propter quem homines fecisse dicatur Deus. Others read, "Quem propter homines," etc.

⁴⁵ Quasi mutuo adversoque fulta nisu consistere.

⁴⁶ Appositione. Others read "oppositione."

⁴⁷ [Philosophically, not dogmatically, asserted. God's wisdom in permitting evil (which originated in the fall of free intellects) to last for a season, will vindicate itself in judgment.]

⁴⁸ Philosophy.

⁴⁹ De Offic., ii. 2.

⁵⁰ i.e., philosophy.

⁵¹ In ipso cardine. [Horace, Sat., book ii. 6, 71-76.]