1 Jer. ix. i.

2 I Cor. iii. 16, 17; and vi. 19. Ignatius the martyr had the name Qeoqo/roj, "the God-hearer, " which was probably given at the time of his conversion, or of baptism, to remind him continually of his Christian privileges and duties. See note, p.73.

3 Ps. cxiii. 7-9.

4 Prov. xviii. 3. LXX.

5 Ps. cxxiii. 2,3.

6 Rom. viii. 24.

7 mu/loj o0ko/j, lit. the mill-stone turned by an ass, as being heavier than the common hand-mill. So in Matt. xviii. 6.

8 Is. xxii. 4

9 1. Ps. vi. 5

10 Dan. iv. 27.

11 Dan. ii.

12 Dan. iv.

13 Isa. lvii. 17, 18. LXX., whicb has after "sorrowfully" the words "in his ways." I beheld his ways and healed him, etc.

14 I Kings xxi. 29. The words "because he hath wept before me," are not in the LXX.

15 2 Chron. xxxiii. 10-19.

16 Ps. xcv. 9.

17 Jer. viii. 4.

18 Luke xv. 4, 5.

19 Luke xv. 29, 30.

20 Jer. xxiii. 23, where the passage is interrogatory, "Am I a God at hand and not?" etc., being a warning addressed to those who hoped to elude the vigilance of God, so that it is not quite appropriate here.

21 Isa. lix. 2. Chrysostom by mistake attributes the quotation to Jeremiah.

22 1 Cor. v.5.

23 2 Cor. ii. 6.

24 Gal. iii. 5.

25 Gal. iii. 4.

26 Gal. v.2, 4.

27 Gal. iv. 19.

28 Matt. xxv. 34.

29 Luke xvi. 26.

30 2 Cor. vi. 2.

31 Isa. xxxv. 10.

32 Rom. viii. 21.

33 Matt. xvii. 2.

34 Matt. xvii. 4.

35 1 Cor. xiii. 22.

36 Heb. i. 3. The other expressions in this passage are most of them taken from Isaiah xl.

37 Ps. iv. 4.

38 There is a variation from the LXX. here.

39 The LXX. has qumwqh/setai, "shall be made wroth."

40 Isa. xiii. 9, 13.

41 Isa. xxiv. 19-22, a very loose quotation from the LXX.

42 Mal. iii. 2, 3.

43 Mal. iv. 1.

44 Dan. vii. 9. 10. Slightly varied from the LXX.: for the designation of Daniel as "greatly beloved," see Dan. x.11.

45 Dan. vii. 13-15, a closer rendering of the Hebrew than the LXX.

46 Isa. xxxiv. 4.

47 Matt. xxiv. 29.

48 I have not succeeded in fimding the source of this quotation. Comp. Ps. i. 5.

49 Isa. lxiv. 4, quoted in 1 Cor. ii. 9

50 Ps. xlv. 12.

51 Ezek. xvi. 33, an inexact quotation from LXX.

52 Jer. iii. 2.

53 Hagg. ii. 10.

54 Matt. xxiii. 37.

55 2 Cor. v. 19, 20.

56 Rom. viii. 7.

57 Dan. x. 6.

58 Luke xx. 36.

59 2 Cor. iv. 17.

60 1 Cor. xv. 31; also 2 Cor. xi 23-28.

61 1 Kings xi. 11.

62 2 Kings xix. 34.

63 Matt. x. 28.

64 Jonah iii. 4, LXX.

65 Jonah iii. 9, 10.

66 Isa. lv. 8, 9, varied a little from the LXX.

67 Jer. iii. 7.

68 Deut. v.29.

69 Deut. x. 12.

70 Isa. xliii. 26.

71 Luke vii. 44-48

72 i.e., the life of monaotic seclusion.

73 The story is told by Clement of Alexandria in his treatise entitled "Who is the rich man that is saved?" and has been inserted by Eusebius in his History, iii. 23.



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