45 1 Cor. xv. 55. Cf. Incarn. 27.
54 A line or two is preserved here in the original Greek in Cosmas Topog. Christ. p. 316.
55 Gregory Nazianzen speaks of the Lenten fast as kaqarsij proetioj, vol. i. p. 715. §30. ed. Ben. fol. Par. 1778.
57 The Saturdays and Sundays during Lent were not observed as fasts, with the exception of the day before Easter-day S. Ambrose says,. Quadragesima tot's praeter Sabbatum et Dominicam jejunatur diebus. vol. i. p. 545, §34. ed Par. 1686nd;90.
58 Cf. Dionys Alex. ad Basilid, in Routh Rell. Sac. iii. 226.
1 The twentieth Letter, as far as it is extant, bears a great resemblance with this. In both, the comparison between natural and spiritual food is enlarged upon, and several of the same quotations are adduced tn them, to illustrate the character of sinners and their food, as contrasted with righteous, and the nourishment they derive from God.
7 Ib. 14, reading with R.V. marg. and Vulg. against Text. Rec. and Pesh.
21 The quotation is uncertain, but see ad Diognet. v. 9; cf. also Phil. iii. 20, with which the passage in the text is coupled, and ascribed to `the Apostle,' in the probably spurious Homily on Matt. xxi. 2 (Migne xxviii. p. 177).
22 Cf. Letter iii. `What else is the feast, but the service of God?'
27 Vid. Letter vi. 2, note 10.
29 Ps. 1. 16; Ecclus. xv. 9. These two texts are also quoted in juxta position, supr. p. 224.
47 Prov. x. 3; Matt. v. 6; Ps. cxxxii. 15, he notices the various reading of the LXX, on the latter, Exp. in Ps. in loc.
48 Ps. xlii. 1; Ps lxii. 1, Ps lxii. 2.
57 1 Tim. iv. 6; 2 Tim. i. 13.