2391 Also named Nebridius, Prefect of Gaul, then of the East.
2394 Aelia Flaccilla, the wife of Theodosius who is here called "the unvanquished emperor."
2395 Salvina was the daughter of Gildo who at the time was tributary king of Mauritania.
2397 Wisdom iv. 11, Wisdom iv. 14.
2403 Matt. xix. 23, Matt. xix. 24.
2405 1 Tim. vi. 17-19: AV. has "eternal life" in the last verse.
2406 Animal tortuosum. The epithet recurs in Letter CVII.
2408 Matt. xiii. 31, Matt. xiii. 32.
2412 So the Vulgate renders Zaphnath-Paaneah the name given to Joseph by Pharaoh. (Gen. xli. 45).
2413 Horace, Epist. I. vii. 30, 31.
2423 The allusion is to the word "officer" in Gen. xxxvii. 36. See AV. margin.
2435 1 Tim. v. 9, 1 Tim. v. 10.
2436 The three degrees of chastity are those of a virgin, a widow, and a wife.
2440 1 Tim. ii. 15. AV. has `sobriety0' for `chastity.0'
2448 Many drew a distinction between the flesh of quadrupeds and that of birds, abstaining from the former but using the latter.
2455 Quoted from Tertullian (ad Mart. IV.). The same words recur in Letters CVII. and CXXX.
2460 Horace, Sat. I iii. 68, 69.
2463 Ps. iv. 4, LXX. Quoted Eph. iv. 26.
2464 A pythagorean philosopher, mathematician, general, and statesman. He was a contemporary of Plato.