¹⁴ Ps. cxix. [cxviii.] 9.

¹⁵ S. Matt. xii. 36.

¹⁶ Eccles. iii. 7.

¹⁷ Sus. v. 35.

¹⁸ S. Matt. xxvi. 63.

¹⁹ Prov. iv. 23.

²⁰ Isa. vi. 5.

²¹ Ecclus. xxviii. 24, Ecclus. xxviii. 25.

²² Ps. xii. [xi.] 6.

²³ Isa. i. 6 [LXX.].

²⁴ Ps. iv. 4.

²⁵ Ps. xc. 3 [LXX.].

²⁶ Symmachus, said to have been an Ebionite, lived c. 193-211. He translated the Old Testament into Greek. This was one of the versions Origen made use of in his Hexapla edition of the Bible.

²⁷ Ps. xxxix. [xxxviii.] 2.

²⁸ Ps. xxxix. [xxxviii.] 2.

²⁹ 2 Sam. [2 Kings] xvi. 6 ff.

³⁰ This psalm in the Hebrew is inscribed to Jeduthun, one of the three leading musicians in the temple services.

³¹ A Stoic philosopher who lived and taught at Athens, c. b.c. 120. His chief work was a treatise peri tou kaqhkoutoz, which Cicero himself afterward used as the groundwork of his own book de Officiis.

³² Cic. de Off. I. 2.

³³ Luke i. 23. The Vulgate has officii; the Greek text reads: thj leitonrgiaj.

³⁴ In this section it is impossible to give the point in a translation, but the passage does not affect the argument. The text runs as follows: "Nec ratio ipsa abhorret, quandoquidem officium ab efficiendo dictum putamus, quasi efficium: sed propter decorera sermonis una immutata litera, officium. nuncupari, vel certe, ut ea agas quoe nulli officiant, prosin omnibus."

³⁵ Cic. de Off. I. 3, §9.

³⁶ Cic. de Off. I. 3.

³⁷ S. Luke xvi. 25.

³⁸ Cic. de Off. I. 27.

³⁹ Ps. lxv. [lxiv.] 1.

⁴⁰ Tit. ii. 1.

⁴¹ Heb. ii. 10.

⁴² Ps. xxxviii. [xxxvii.] 13.

⁴³ Prov. xxvi. 4.

⁴⁴ Cic. de Off. I. 3, §8.

⁴⁵ S. Matt. xix. 17, Matt. xix. 18, Matt. xix. 19.

⁴⁶ S. Matt. xix. 20, Matt. xix. 21.

⁴⁷ S. Matt. v. 44.

⁴⁸ S. Matt. v. 45.

⁴⁹ Job xxix. 15, Job xxix. 16.