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.