1024 Ps. lxxxiii. 9, Ps. lxxxiii. 10.
1027 I.e. his wife. Cf. 1 Cor. ix. 5.
1029 Dan. ix. 23, A.V. marg. Desiderius means "one who is an object of desire."
1030 Cf. 2 Peter ii. 7, 2 Peter ii. 8.
1031 I.e. the historian Suetonius.
1032 Probably Apollonius of Tyre, who appears to have written an account of the principal philosophers who followed Zeno.
1033 See this work in Vol. III. of this series.
1034 Cf. 1 Cor. xv. 8, 1 Cor. xv. 9.
1036 Marcus Antonius, a Roman orator spoken of by Cicero. Orator c. 5, De Oratore i. c. 21, 47, 48. His treatise "De ratione dicendi" is lost. See Quintal iii. 1, 192.
1037 Marcus Antonius, a Roman orator spoken of by Cicero. Orator c. 5, De Oratore i. c. 21, 47, 48. His treatise "De ratione dicendi" is lost. See Quintal iii. 1, 192.
1038 Eccl. vii. 16: see Ag. Jov. i. 14.
1040 A Gnostic presbyter of the second century who rejected the Old Testament.
1041 An Eastern teacher of the third century, a.d., the main feature of whose system was its uncompromising dualism.
1042 A Syrian rhetorician converted to Christianity by Justin Martyr. He wrote a harmony of the Gospels called Diatessaron.
1043 I.e. "the abstainers," or "the continent," a Gnostic sect in the second century.
1050 From this passage compared with Ep. cxxiii. 9, and Bede De Temporum Ratlone, c. 1. (De Loquetâ Digitorum), it appears that the number thirty was indicated by joining the tips of the thumb and forefinger of the left hand, sixty was indicated by curling up the forefinger of the same hand and then doubling the thumb over it, while one hundred was expressed by joining the tips of the thumb and forefinger of the right hand. See Prof. Mayor's learned note on Juv. x. 249.
1051 E.g. Cyprian and Origen (Hom. i. in Jos.).
1052 Paterfamilias. Vide Cypr. de Hab. Virg. 21.
1058 Gen. xxxix. 12, Gen. xxxix. 13.
1069 Acc. to the Vulgate. In A.V. it is the 45th.
1071 1 Pet. iii. 7; 1 Pet. iv. 10.
1089 Jerome here explains the word aperispastwj (A.V. "without distraction") in 1 Cor. vii. 35.
1090 Eccles. i. 13; Eccles. iii. 10.