73 See on Profit of Believing, c. 1, p. 347.
75 Gal. iv. 30; and Gen. xxi. 10.
76 Gen. xxi. 12; and Rom. ix. 7, 8.
1 The date may be conjectured from the order of the Retractations, where this book is mentioned next after the Enchiridion aa Laurentium, which was not finished earlier than A. D. 421. The first two paragraphs of this treatise will be found quoted by Augustine in his Book On Eight Questions of Dulcitius, Quaest. ii. 2, 3. Ben. ed. Paulinus, to whom it was addressed, was Bishop of Nolae, and took great pains to honor the memory of St. Felix, who is mentioned in the beginning of it. Several poems of his on the subject are extant.
10 Luke xxi. 18; xii. 4-7; Matt. x. 28-30.
14 Lucan vii. 819, speaking of the slain in the battle of Pharsalia, whose bodies Caesar forbad to burn or inter..
15 Gen. xxiii.; xxv. 9, 10; xlvii. 30.
19 On the City of God, book i. chap. xii. 13. Vol. ii. p. 10.
23 Eusebius, H. E. book v. chap. i. relates, that the bodies of these martyrs of Lyons lay exposed in the open air for six days successively, and were then burned and cast into the Rhone.-Ben. ed.