³² John x. 37.

³³ John viii. 44.

³⁴ Matt. xxiii. 33-35.

³⁵ Ps. xiv. 5, LXX, cp. Hieron.

³⁶ Ps. xiv. 6, LXX. cp. Hieron.

³⁷ A suggested reading is, "nos esse viperas."

³⁸ These both with others are celebrated in the martyrology of the Donatists, see IIII. Idas Martii Sermo de Passione SS. Donati et Advocati, c. 340; Passio Marculi sacerdotis Donatistoe qui sub Macario interfectus a Donatistis pro Martyre habebatur (Dec. 25, a. 348), and others. See Du Pin Monumenta vetera ad Donatistarum Historiam pertinentia, in his edition of Optatus.

³⁹ See below, c. 20, 46: and Contra Crescon. III. 49, 54.

⁴⁰ Ps. xxii. 27.

⁴¹ Gen. xxii. 18.

⁴² Rom. iv. 3.

⁴³ Ps. lvii. 4.

⁴⁴ Ps. xix. 4.

⁴⁵ Luke xxiv. 44-47.

⁴⁶ Ps. xiv. 5-8, cp. LXX. and Hieron., the last verse only being in the Hebrew.

⁴⁷ Wisd. i. 11.

⁴⁸ Rom. iv. 5.

⁴⁹ Rom. iii. 26.

⁵⁰ John xx. 19, 21.

⁵¹ Matt. vii. 15, 16.

⁵² Matt. xxiv. 23.

⁵³ 2 Cor. xi. 14, 15.

⁵⁴ Gen. vi. 3.

⁵⁵ Matt. xxv. 41.

⁵⁶ 1 Cor. vi. 3.

⁵⁷ "Perdiderunt," which the Benedictines think may be a confusion for "perierunt."

⁵⁸ Novissimus.

⁵⁹ 1 Cor. xv. 9.

⁶⁰ 2 Cor. xi. 26.

⁶¹ Portenta.

⁶² Down to this point Augustine had already answered Petilianus in the First Book, as he says himself below, III. 50, 61.

⁶³ Matt. x. 23.

⁶⁴ Matt. x. 16, 28.

⁶⁵ 1 Pet. iii. 15.

⁶⁶ Matt. v. 39.

⁶⁷ 1 Kings xviii.

⁶⁸ Wisd. xii. 23.

⁶⁹ Acts ix. 4, 5.

⁷⁰ Ps. cv. 15.

⁷¹ Vivacem Christum.

⁷² Rom. xiii. 2, 4.

⁷³ 1 John iii. 15.

⁷⁴ Acts ix. 4-18.

⁷⁵ John xiii. 10, 11.

⁷⁶ John xv. 3, 4.

⁷⁷ John xiv. 27.

⁷⁸ 1 Tim. i. 7.

⁷⁹ Mark x. 35-39.

⁸⁰ Matt. v. 10.

⁸¹ Optatus Gildonianus is the person to whom he refers.