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.