2321 Letter XXXIX.

2322 Letter LX.

2323 Letter LXVI.

2324 Ennius.

2325 Matt. xix. 9. 1 Cor. vii. 11.

2326 1 Cor. vi. 16.

2327 A Roman jurist of great renown who held high legal office first under Marcus Aurelius and afterwards under Severus. He was put to death by Caracalla.

2328 1 Cor. vii. 9.

2329 Rom. vii. 23.

2330 1 Tim. v. 14.

2331 1 Tim. v. 15.

2332 A senator who having conspired against Nero was by that emperor put to death. His palace on the Aelian Hill was long afterwards bestowed by Constantine upon pope Silvester who made it a church which it has ever since remained.

2333 Joh. xviii. 15-27: Joh. xxi. 15-17.

2334 Ex. xxxii. 30-35.

2335 2 Sam. xii. 16.

2336 Ps. li. 4, Ps. li. 12.

2337 1 Kings xxi. 25.

2338 1 K. xxi. 19, 1 K. xxi. 21.

2339 1 K. xxi. 27.

2340 1 K. xxi. 28, 1 K. xxi. 29.

2341 2 Chr. xxxiii. 12, 2 Chr. xxxiii. 13.

2342 Jon. iii. 5-10.

2343 Luke xviii. 13.

2344 Rigourists who denied the power of the Church to absolve persons who had fallen into sin.

2345 Ph. iv. 18.

2346 Ps. li. 17.

2347 Cf. Ezek. xviii. 23.

2348 Bar. v. 5, cf. Isa. lx. 1.

2349 Luke ix. 26.

2350 Nu. xii. 14.

2351 Isa. xlvii. 1, Isa. xlvii. 2.

2352 Isa. xlvii. 14, Vulg.

2353 Linteamina.

2354 Ecclus. xi. 25.

2355 Dilapidare, vendre pierre àpierre-Goelzer.

2356 Luke xvi. 19-24.

2357 Virg. Aen. vi. 625-627.

2358 Eccl. i. 18.

2359 Nu. xxiv. 15-19.

2360 Nu. xxxiii.

2361 Letter LXIV.

2362 Letter LXXVIII. on the Mansions or Halting-places of Israel in the Desert.

2363 The Sea of Azov.

2364 The Don.

2365 An Asiatic tribe to the East of the Caspian Sea.

2366 Hdt. i. 106, (of the Scythians).

2367 The Origenistic controversy in which Jerome, Paula and Epiphanius took one side, John bishop of Jerusalem, Rufinus, and Melania the other.

2368 Letter XIV.

2369 i.e. in the desert where many women lived as solitaries.

2370 Like that in which Abraham entertained the angels. See Letter LXVI. 11.

2371 Num. xxiii. 21. LXX.

2372 Acts xxviii. 7.

2373 Rom. viii. 28: note that Jerome substitutes `fear 0' for `love. 0'

2374 The remnant of her fortune.

2375 Luke xvi. 9.

2376 Virg. A. xi. 139.

2377 Virg. A. viii. 287, 288.

2378 Eph. vi. 12.

2379 Luke xv. 7, Luke xv. 10.

2380 i.e. Letter LXXVIII. q. v.

2381 Eccl. ix. 8; Rev. iii. 4.

2382 Rev. xiv. 4.

2383 Matt. xx. 15.

2384 Luke x. 30; Luke xv. 5.

2385 Joh. xiv. 2.

2386 Rom. v. 20.

2387 Luke vii. 47.

2388 Matt. xi. 29.

2389 Lev. xix. 15.

2390 Isa. xli. 8; Jas. ii. 23.