1183 Tert. de Exh. Cast. I.

1184 Matt. vi. 24.

1185 Gal. v. 17.

1186 Ag. Jov. i. 31.

1187 Joh. xx. 19.

1188 Joh. xix. 41.

1189 Cant. iv. 12.

1190 Joel, iii. 18; according to the LXX. and Hebrew. A.V. has "vale of Shittim" (thorns).

1191 LXX.

1192 Hebrew.

1193 Cf. Prov. v. 22.

1194 Matt. xiii. 7.

1195 Ezek. xliv. 2, Ezek. xliv. 3.

1196 Mal. iv. 2.

1197 Heb. v. 10.

1198 Joh. xx. 19, Joh. xx. 27.

1199 Cf. Letter XXII.

1200 Luke xvi. 19-25.

1201 Hor. AP. 390.

1202 See the Preface to Jerome's Comm. on Daniel.

1203 1 Cor. vii.

1204 1 Corinthians.

1205 1 Cor. vii. 7.

1206 Master of the catechetical school of Alexandria, 265 a.d. His writings have perished. His name occurs again in Letter LXX.

1207 Ad optata caeptaque pervenies.

1208 Pontifex.

1209 Sacerdos.

1210 Thus including Daniel.

1211 The Hebrew word for "Kings."

1212 Virg. A. iv. 298.

1213 Ps. l. 20.

1214 Matt. vii. 3-5.

1215 A philosopher of the Academy noted for his opposition to stoicism.

1216 Eight years.

1217 Jas. iii. 2.

1218 Lam. iii. 27, Lam. iii. 28.

1219 An early Roman dramatist of whose works only a few fragments remain. He is said to have translated the Electra of Sophocles, but for the most part to have preferred comedy to tragedy.

1220 Virgil, Aen. xi. 283, 284.

1221 Persius i. 29.

1222 Characters in the Eunuchus and Phormio of Terence.

1223 Juv. i. 15.

1224 Hor. S. i. iv. 34.

1225 Isa. l. 6.

1226 1 Pet. ii. 23.

1227 Luke xxiii. 34.

1228 Viz. Jerome and Jovinian.

1229 According to both these philosophers pleasure is the highest good.

1230 The followers of Jovinian.

1231 Jovinian himself.

1232 Virg. A. xii. 50, 51.

1233 Cic. pro Caelio xv.

1234 Jer. xii. 13, LXX.

1235 A play on words. Clericatus ("clerical position") is a derivative of clerus (klhroj), the word used in the LXX. for "lot."

1236 Matt. v. 22.

1237 Isa. xviii. 2, LXX.

1238 Cf. 2 Cor. x. 14.

1239 Rom. xii. 9.

1240 Paulinian, Jerome's brother, at this time about 28 years of age.

1241 I.e. the short service which preceded the eucharist. The words might, however, be rendered, "When the congregation was gathered together."

1242 Subdeacons cannot be traced back earlier than the third century. At first their province seems to have been to keep the church doors during divine service.

1243 It seems to be implied that John had done so.

1244 2 Cor. x. 8.

1245 That is, Origenistic heresies.

1246 Ps. cxli. 4, acc. to the Gallican Psalter.

1247 Acts ii. 40.

1248 Epiphanius, on a visit to Jerusalem, had preached against Origenism in the presence of John. See "Ag. John of Jerus.," §11.