3638 Virg., A. ii. 774.
3639 Over Hannibal, b.c. 216. Jerome is quoting from Cicero, Brutus, III.
3640 The reference is to the siege of the Capitol by Brennus and the Gauls, b.c. 390.
3641 See note on Letter LXXIX.
3642 i.e. Juliana and Proba, the mother and grandmother of Demetrias.
3643 Luke xvi. 9.
3644 i.e. Olybrius, the father of Demetrias.
3645 Horace, Carm. iii. 3. 7, 8.
3646 Job 1. 16.
3647 Job vii. 1.
3648 Matt. iv. 1, sqq.
3649 Gen. xxii. 1.
3650 Rom. v. 3-5.
3651 Rom. viii. 35, Rom. viii. 36.
3652 Isa. xxviii. 9, 10, LXX.
3653 Rom. viii. 18.
3654 Heraclian, Count of Africa.
3655 Honorius.
3656 i.e. Pluto, king of the lower world.
3657 Sabinus, the son-in-law of Heraclian.
3658 Virg., A. x. 79.
3659 Jerome here apostrophizes Heraclian.
3660 Alaric the Goth.
3661 Reading dedignatus for dignatus.
3662 Virg., A. iii. 435.
3663 Matt. xiii. 25.
3664 Cant. iii. 1: Cant. i. 7.
3665 Ps. lxiii. 8.
3666 Jer. xvii. 16, LXX.
3667 Nu. xxiii. 21, LXX.
3668 i.e. The Indian Ocean.
3669 Matt. viii. 12.
3670 Joh. viii. 12.
3671 Matt. v. 25, Matt. v. 26.
3672 Matt. xii. 36.
3673 Eccles. x. 4. Jerome takes `the ruler0' to be the devil.
3674 Ps. xl. 2.
3675 Ps. civ. 18.
3676 Gen. iii. 16.
3677 Cant. ii. 16.
3678 Rev. xiv. 4.
3679 Eccles. ix. 8.
3680 Cant. ii. 1.
3681 Matt. x. 23.
3682 Ps. cxlii. 4.
3683 Ps. civ. 18.
3684 Isa. xi. 6-8.
3685 Eccles. x. 4.
3686 Prov. iv. 23.
3687 Ps. xix. 12-14.
3688 Ps. cxxxvii. 9.
3689 Ps. xix. 13.
3690 Nu. xiv. 18.
3691 Amos i. 3.
3692 Exod. xii. 23, Exod. xii. 20.
3693 Ps. lvii. 7, Ps. lvii. 8.
3694 Isa. xxiii. 15, Isa. xxiii. 16.
3695 See Letter CXXII.
3696 1 Cor. ix. 27.
3697 Rom. vii. 24, Rom. vii. 18, Rom. vii. 19.
3698 Rom. viii. 8, Rom. viii. 9.
3699 Ps. lxix. 10.
3700 Ps. cii. 9.
3701 Ps. xxxv. 13, Vulg.
3702 Deut. viii. 3.
3703 Joh. xiii. 15: 1 Pet. ii. 21.
3704 Matt. iv. 1.
3705 Rom. xvi. 20.
3706 Matt. iv. 3.
3707 Lev. xxiii. 27, Lev. xxiii. 29.
3708 Job xl. 16. Cf. Letter XXII.
3709 Jas. iii. 6, R.V. marg.
3710 Hos. vii. 4, Vulg.
3711 Eph. vi. 16.
3712 Song of the Three Holy Children, 24.
3713 Dan. iv. 16, Dan. iv. 25, Dan. iv. 32.
3714 Lev. xxv. 8.
3715 Dan. iii. 25.
3716 Acts ix. 15.
3717 1 Cor. vii. 25.
3718 See Letter CVIII.
3719 Mhden 'agan quoted by Terence (Andria, 61).