142 John i. 3.

143 Vexat. Another reading has vitiat, "corrupts."

144 John i. 3.

145 Matt. i. 21.

146 See below, Book iii. c. 2.

147 See below, ii. 13, 15.

148 See Augustine's letter 190, ch. 1.

149 See Book ii. 17.

150 See Book i. 34.

1 Written about the end of 419.

2 [The Edinburgh translator conjectures minime dubitandam here: "on which he seemed to himself to be holding no doubtful, but a perfectly well-known and certain opinion."-W.]

3 Rom. xi. 6.

4 John iii. 5.

5 Matt. x. 39.

6 [Augustine here confesses the validity of the "baptism of blood," that is, martyrdom, which may take the place of baptism. See the next chapter, and also Book ii 17.-W.]

7 Cyprian's Letter to Jubianus. See likewise Augustine's work Against the Donatists, iv. 29; also On Leviticus, question 84; also his Retractations, ii. 18, 55.

8 2 Macc. xii. 43.

9 Rom. v. 16.