²³⁹¹ Also named Nebridius, Prefect of Gaul, then of the East.

²³⁹² See letter CXXIV.

²³⁹³ Luke xviii. 1-5.

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.

²³⁹⁶ Acts x. 1, Acts x. 2.

²³⁹⁷ Wisdom iv. 11, Wisdom iv. 14.

²³⁹⁸ Acts x. 34, Acts x. 35.

²³⁹⁹ Matt. viii. 10.

²⁴⁰⁰ Gen. xli. 42-44.

²⁴⁰¹ Gen. xli. 50-52.

²⁴⁰² Eccl. vii. 12.

²⁴⁰³ Matt. xix. 23, Matt. xix. 24.

²⁴⁰⁴ Mark x. 27.

²⁴⁰⁵ 1 Tim. vi. 17-19: AV. has "eternal life" in the last verse.

²⁴⁰⁶ Animal tortuosum. The epithet recurs in Letter CVII.

²⁴⁰⁷ Ps. lv. 6.

²⁴⁰⁸ Matt. xiii. 31, Matt. xiii. 32.

²⁴⁰⁹ Isa. lx. 6.

²⁴¹⁰ Gen. xxxvii. 25.

²⁴¹¹ Jer. viii. 22.

²⁴¹² So the Vulgate renders Zaphnath-Paaneah the name given to Joseph by Pharaoh. (Gen. xli. 45).

²⁴¹³ Horace, Epist. I. vii. 30, 31.

²⁴¹⁴ 1 Tim. vi. 9.

²⁴¹⁵ Matt. xix. 21.

²⁴¹⁶ Luke xvi. 9.

²⁴¹⁷ Matt. iv. 18-22.

²⁴¹⁸ 2 Cor. viii. 14.

²⁴¹⁹ 1 Tim. vi. 8.

²⁴²⁰ Ecclus. iii. 30.

²⁴²¹ Cf. Dan. iii. 25.

²⁴²² Gen. xxxix. 12.

²⁴²³ The allusion is to the word "officer" in Gen. xxxvii. 36. See AV. margin.

²⁴²⁴ Rom. vii. 23.

²⁴²⁵ Arcadius and Honorius.

²⁴²⁶ Isa. xl. 6.

²⁴²⁷ Gen. iii. 19.

²⁴²⁸ Wisd. iv. 9.

²⁴²⁹ Wisd. iv. 13.

²⁴³⁰ Virg. A. iii. 490.

²⁴³¹ Virg. G. iv. 82.

²⁴³² Arcadius.

²⁴³³ Eudoxia.

²⁴³⁴ Ps. cxxvii. 3.

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.

²⁴³⁷ 1 Tim. iv. 12.

²⁴³⁸ Gal. ii. 9, Gal. ii. 10.

²⁴³⁹ Cf. 1 Tim. v. 3.

²⁴⁴⁰ 1 Tim. ii. 15. AV. has `sobriety0' for `chastity.0'

²⁴⁴¹ 1 Tim. v. 22.

²⁴⁴² 1 Tim. v. 6.

²⁴⁴³ Acts ix. 15.

²⁴⁴⁴ 2 Cor. xiii. 3, Vulg.

²⁴⁴⁵ Rom. vii. 19.

²⁴⁴⁶ 1 Cor. ix. 27.

²⁴⁴⁷ 1 K. iii. 3.

²⁴⁴⁸ Many drew a distinction between the flesh of quadrupeds and that of birds, abstaining from the former but using the latter.

²⁴⁴⁹ 1 Tim. iv. 4.

²⁴⁵⁰ Rom. xiv. 21.

²⁴⁵¹ Eph. v. 18.

²⁴⁵² 1 Cor. vii. 34.

²⁴⁵³ Virgil, Aen. iv. 28, 29.

²⁴⁵⁴ Dido, queen of Carthage.

²⁴⁵⁵ Quoted from Tertullian (ad Mart. IV.). The same words recur in Letters CVII. and CXXX.

²⁴⁵⁶ Prov. iv. 23.

²⁴⁵⁷ Matt. xv. 19.

²⁴⁵⁸ Gen. viii. 21.

²⁴⁵⁹ Gal. v. 19-23.

²⁴⁶⁰ Horace, Sat. I iii. 68, 69.

²⁴⁶¹ Horace, Sat. I. vi. 66.

²⁴⁶² Ps. lxxvii. 4.

²⁴⁶³ Ps. iv. 4, LXX. Quoted Eph. iv. 26.

²⁴⁶⁴ A pythagorean philosopher, mathematician, general, and statesman. He was a contemporary of Plato.

²⁴⁶⁵ Jas. i. 20.

²⁴⁶⁶ 1 Cor. vii. 9.

²⁴⁶⁷ Heb. xiii. 4.

²⁴⁶⁸ 1 Tim. v. 14, 1 Tim. v. 15.