92 2 Cor. iv. 18.

93 S. Luke xi. 28.

94 S. Matt. xii. 50.

95 Acts xxvi. 22.

96 S. Luke ii. 25.

97 Gen. xli. 9 ff.

98 Dan. ii.

99 Cic. de Off. II. 10, §36.

100 Ex. xviii. 13.

101 Ezek. xxviii. 3.

102 Bel and the Dragon v. 39.

103 Gen. xli. 33 ff.

104 Cic. de Off. II. 10, §36.

105 Vide Virg. Aen. IV. 13: "degeneres animos timor arguit."

106 Wisd. vii. 29, Wisd. vii. 30.

107 Wisd. vii. 22, Wisd. vii. 23.

108 Wisd. viii. 7.

109 Cic. de Off. II. 11.

110 Ecclus. xxxi. 9.

111 Cic. de Off. II. 9, §32.

112 This was in the year 378. These provinces were invaded by the Goths, who after the defeat and death of Valens at Hadrianople ravaged the whole country, and carried away with them a vast number of captives and afterwards sold them into slavery. St Ambrose busied himself in redeeming all he could. He tells us himself how his efforts were met by the Arian party.

113 Cic. de Off. II. 16.

114 1 Tim. v. 16.

115 Cic. de Off. II. 15, §52.

116 Gen. xiv. 16.

117 Gen. xli. 53-57.

118 Cic. de Off. II. 15, §55.

119 Cic. de Off. II. 15, §54.

120 Gen. xlvii. 14-20.

121 Cic. de Off. II. 21.

122 Gen. xlvii. 25.

123 Cic. de Off. II. 23, 83.

124 Gen. xli. 17 ff.

125 Gen. xli. 22 ff.

126 Gen. xxxvii. 28.

127 Gen. xliv. 2 ff.

128 Gen. xlix. 22, Gen. xlix. 25, Gen. xlix. 26.

129 Deut. xxxiii. 16, Deut. xxxiii. 17.

130 1 Cor. vii. 25.

131 1 Tim. iv. 12 ff.

132 "propter me." Cod. Dresd., Ed. Med. have "proeter me."

133 Gen. xxxix. 8, Gen. xxxix. 9.

134 "humilitatis, quia domino deferebat; honorificentioe, quia referebat gratiam." Others read: "humilitatis ...deferebat honorificentiam, quia," etc.