205 We follow the reading, per summam praescientiam.
207 He treats it in his Epistle, 166; in his work, De Animâ et ejus Origine; and in his De Libero Arbitrio, 42.
1 [This commentary is also made known to us by Marius Mercator's Commonitoria, cap. 2, and has been preserved for us among the works of Jerome (Vallarsius' ed., tom. xi.), although probably not without alterations. It seems to have been composed before A.D. 410, at Rome.-W.]
6 [Or "because they lack my own faculty of understanding the subject."].
17 "Adam formam futuri;" see Rom. v. 14.
18 Comp. above, Book i. c. 13; Epist. 157; De Nuptiis, ii. 44; and Contra Julianum, vi. 8.
19 See Cyprian's Epistle, 64 (ad Fidum): also Augustine. Epist. 166; De Nuptis, ii. 49; Contra Julianum, ii. 5; Ad Bonifacium, iv. 3; Sermons, 294.
20 The word implies "of ripe age;" i.e., for "baptism."
25 Or "who have treated of both languages of the divine Scriptures."
26 Probably in the year 411, when a conference was held at Carthage with the Donatists. Augustine says that he then saw Pelagius; see his work, De Gestis Pelagii, c. 46.
27 [This "Christian Epicurus," as he is called by the intemperate zeal of the asceticism of his day, was condemned as a heretic by councils at Rome and Milan in 390. According to Jerome, who wrote a book against him, he not only opposed asceticism, but also contended for the essential equality of all sins and of the punishments and rewards of the next world, and for the sinlessness of those baptized by the Spirit.-W.]
28 See Jerome's work Against Jovinian, ii. near the beginning.