³⁹⁰⁷ 2 Cor. xii. 4.

³⁹⁰⁸ Matt. xxiii. 10.

³⁹⁰⁹ Acts i. 7.

³⁹¹⁰ Ps. xxxix. 4.

³⁹¹¹ Job xiv. 5, LXX.

³⁹¹² i.e. you may be quite sure that souls are created by God.

³⁹¹³ Letter CXXXI., ante.

³⁹¹⁴ Letter CXXXII., ante.

³⁹¹⁵ 1 Cor. vii. 27.

³⁹¹⁶ Matt. xxiv. 17, Matt. xxiv. 18.

³⁹¹⁷ Luke ix. 62.

³⁹¹⁸ Gen. xxxix. 12.

³⁹¹⁹ Luke xiv. 26, Luke xiv. 27.

³⁹²⁰ Pravitates, deformities. Matt. xix. 24.

³⁹²¹ Matt. xix. 21.

³⁹²² 2 Cor. viii. 12.

³⁹²³ Luke xxi. 1-4.

³⁹²⁴ Luke xv. 20-23.

³⁹²⁵ Isa. xxxii. 6, RV.

³⁹²⁶ Acts vi. 1, Acts vi. 2.

³⁹²⁷ Ad quorum preces Christi corpus sanguisque conficitur. Cp. Letter XIV.

³⁹²⁸ Ph. i. 1.

³⁹²⁹ Sacerdotes.

³⁹³⁰ Acts xx. 28, RV.

³⁹³¹ A.V. `elders.0'

³⁹³² Tit. i. 5-7.

³⁹³³ Tim. iv. 14.

³⁹³⁴ AV. `of God.0'

³⁹³⁵ 1 Pet. v. 1, 1 Pet. v. 2. The last clause from RV.

³⁹³⁶ episkopoj.

³⁹³⁷ Mark iii. 17.

³⁹³⁸ Joh. xiii. 23.

³⁹³⁹ 2 Joh. 1.

³⁹⁴⁰ 3 Joh. 1.

³⁹⁴¹ Orbis major est urbe.

³⁹⁴² In this passage Jerome does his best to minimize the distinction between bishops and presbyters. Elsewhere also he stands up for the rights of the latter (see Letter LII.

³⁹⁴³ At Rome there were only seven, that having been the number of `servers0' appointed by the apostles. (See Acts vi. and Sozomen H. E. vii. 19.)

³⁹⁴⁴ Contrary to the eighteenth canon of Nicaea.

³⁹⁴⁵ Acts vi. 2.

³⁹⁴⁶ This analogy had become very common in Jerome's day. The germ of it is to be found in Clem. ad Cor. I. xl.

³⁹⁴⁷ 1 Sam. xv. 11, 1 Sam. xv. 17.

³⁹⁴⁸ 1 Cor. v. 1.

³⁹⁴⁹ 2 Cor. xii. 21.

³⁹⁵⁰ Luke xvi. 13, Luke xvi. 16.

³⁹⁵¹ Phil. iii. 19.

³⁹⁵² Rom. ii. 4, Rom. ii. 5.

³⁹⁵³ Ex. v. 2.

³⁹⁵⁴ Ezek. xii. 27, Ezek. xii. 28.

³⁹⁵⁵ Ps. lxxiii. 11, Ps. lxxiii. 12.

³⁹⁵⁶ Ps. lxxiii. 13.

³⁹⁵⁷ So the Vulgate, from which Jerome quotes.

³⁹⁵⁸ Ps. lxxiii. 3-9.

³⁹⁵⁹ Cf. Matt. x. 23.

³⁹⁶⁰ Matt. x. 24, Matt. x. 25.

³⁹⁶¹ Luke xxiii. 31.

³⁹⁶² So the Latin.

³⁹⁶³ Mal. iii. 14, Mal. iii. 15, Mal. iii. 18.

³⁹⁶⁴ A writer and actor of mimes, probably in the first century of the Empire.

³⁹⁶⁵ Am. i. 3, LXX.

³⁹⁶⁶ Ezek. xxxiii. 11.

³⁹⁶⁷ Luke v. 31.

³⁹⁶⁸ Cf. Ezek. xvi. 6.

³⁹⁶⁹ Ex. xx. 5.

³⁹⁷⁰ Ezek. iii. 1: Ezek. ii. 9, 10, Vulg.

³⁹⁷¹ Is. xxviii. 15.

³⁹⁷² Isa. xxii. 12-14.

³⁹⁷³ 1 Sam. xv. 11.

³⁹⁷⁴ Acts vi. 5.

³⁹⁷⁵ Rev. ii. 6, Rev. ii. 15.

³⁹⁷⁶ Women guilty of adultery were legally punishable with death until the time of Justinian.

³⁹⁷⁷ Ps. lxxxv. 11, Ps. lxxxv. 12.

³⁹⁷⁸ Mimus, scurra, atellanus.

³⁹⁷⁹ 1 Cor. xi. 5, 1 Cor. xi. 6.