3279 Gen. xxxviii. 12-18.

3280 Hos. i. 2, Hos. i. 3.

3281 Cf Jer. v. 8.

3282 Luke xvii. 27-29.

3283 Gen. i. 28, Gen. ix. 7.

3284 1 Cor. x. ii, R.V.

3285 1 Cor. vii. 29.

3286 Matt. iii. 10.

3287 Eccles. iii. 5.

3288 Jer. xvi. 2.

3289 Cf. Ezek. xxiv. 16-18, Ezek. xxiv. 27.

3290 Ps. cxxviii. 3, Ps. cxxviii. 6.

3291 1 Cor. vi. 17.

3292 Ps. lxiii. 8.

3293 Matt. v. 38, Matt. v. 39.

3294 Ps. xlv. 3.

3295 Matt. xxvi. 52.

3296 A gnostic of the second century who rejected the whole of the old testament as incompatible with the new.

3297 Gal. iv. 22-26.

3298 Gen. xxix. 17, Gen. xxix. 18.

3299 Gen. xxv. 22, Gen. xxv. 23.

3300 Gen. xxxviii. 27-30.

3301 Eph. ii. 14.

3302 Gomer the wife of Hosea.

3303 Hos. ii. 7, Hos. iii. 3.

3304 Rom. xi. 25, Rom. xi. 26.

3305 Virg. A. iv. 32-34: 548, 552.

3306 From Tert. de Exh. Cast. xii.

3307 Matt. vi. 33.

3308 Matt. vi. 26, Matt. vi. 28.

3309 1 Tim. v. 11.

3310 1 Tim. v. 2. Jerome substitutes `love0' for `rebuke.0'

3311 Rom. xii. 17, cf. Letter cxvii.

3312 Rom. ii. 24.

3313 1 Cor. ix. 5.

3314 1 Cor. x. 29.

3315 1 Cor. ix. 14.

3316 1 Cor. iv. 12: 1 Thess. ii. 9: 2 Cor. xii. 14.

3317 1 Cor. viii. 13.

3318 Matt. vi. 25, Matt. vi. 27, Matt. vi. 34.

3319 Gen. xxviii. 11-13.

3320 Cf. Letters cviii. and cxviii.

3321 Gen. xxxii. 7, Gen. xxxii. 10.

3322 Matt. x. 9, Matt. x. 10.

3323 2 Cor. vi. 10.

3324 Acts iii. 6.

3325 1 K. xix. 11-13, cf. Exod. xxxiii. 21-23.

3326 Cf. Juv. i. 88.

3327 Jerome follows Tertullian, Irenaeus, and the majority of the fathers in supposing the apostle to allude to the Roman Empire. See Letter CXXI. Comm. in Hierem. xxv. 26, Comm. in Dan. vii, 7, 8.

3328 2 Thess. ii. 7, 2 Thess. ii. 8.

3329 Matt. xxiv. 19.

3330 Ps. lxxxiii. 8.

3331 Now Maintz.

3332 Now Worms.

3333 Tribes whose memories linger in the names Amiens and Arras.

3334 See note on Letter LIV.

3335 Arcadius and Honorius.

3336 Stilicho who induced the senate to grant a subsidy to the Gothic King Alaric. See Gibbon, C. xxx.

3337 This, one of Jerome's few criticisms on the public policy of his day, shows him to have taken a narrow and inadequate view of the issues involved.

3338 In the year 390 §.

3339 i.e. Galatia.

3340 The great Carthaginian general in the second Punic war.

3341 King of Epirus who invaded Italy in the years 280, 279, 276, 275 b.c.

3342 Hannibal.

3343 Pyrrhus.

3344 Lucan, Phars. v. 274.

3345 Virg. A. vi. 625-627.

3346 See note on Letter CXXX.

3347 1 Tim. v. 13.

3348 Phil. iii. 19.

3349 Letter XXII.

3350 Letter LIV.

3351 Letter LXXIX.