802 Ps. lxxiii. 13, Ps. lxxiii. 14.
803 Ps. lxxiii. 16, Ps. lxxiii. 17.
810 2 Cor. xii. 8, 2 Cor. xii. 9, 2 Cor. xii. 10.
813 Wisd. iv. 11, Wisd. iv. 14.
819 A famous stoic who committed suicide in extreme old age. See Diogenes Laertius (vii. I) for an account of his death.
820 An academic philosopher of Ambracia, who is said to have killed himself after reading the Phaedo of Plato.
821 Cato of Utica, who, after the battle of Thapsus (46 b.c.), committed suicide to avoid failing into the hands of Caesar.
825 Viz. Paulina, wife of Praetextatus and priestess of Ceres. See Letter XXIII.
830 Gen. iii. 24: cf. Ezek. i. 15-20. Here as in his Comm. on Eccles. iii. 16-22, Jerome follows Origen, who, in his homily de Engastrimytho, lays down that until Christ came to set them free the patriarchs, prophets, and saints of the Old Testament were all in hell.
831 Apud inferos-Luke xvi. 23.
835 Nu. xx. 29; Deut. xxxiv. 6-8.
837 Ad inferos. Hades is meant, not Gehenna.
839 The Greek form of Joshua. Cf. Acts vii. 45, A. V.
840 I learn from Dr. Neubauer, of Oxford, that this is still a practice during mourning among the Jews of the East. He refers to Tur Joreh Deah. §378.
852 Or Melania. She went with Rufinus to the East, and settled with him on the Mt. of Olives; and incurred Jerome's resentment as Rufinus' friend. See Ep. cxxxiii. 3. "She whose name of blackness attests the darkness of her perfidy."
858 Jer. xiii. 6, Jer. xiii. 7.
861 Amos vii. 12, Amos vii. 13.
864 Nasus. A play on the name Onasus.
867 Onasus means "lucky" or "profitable;" it is another form of Onesimus.
868 Quoted from Quintilian i. 6, 34 (lucus a non lucendo).
869 Parcae, from parcere, to spare.
870 Eumenides, the Greek name for the Furies.
872 Montanus lived at Ardaban, in Phrygia, in the second half of the second century, and founded a sect of prophetic enthusiasts and ascetics, which was afterward joined by Tertullian.