24 1 [3] Kings xiii. 4.
25 Deut. vi. 5.
26 Ezek. xxi 14.
27 Cant. iv. 8.
28 Cant. i. 2, Cant. i. 3.
29 Cant. i. 3, Cant. i. 4.
30 Cant. viii. 9.
1 This is Liberius, Bishop of Rome a.d. 352-366, who temporized with Arianism. [St. Hil. Pict. Fragm. VI.; St. Athan. Apol. C. Arian. 89; Hist. Arian. 41; St. Jerome, De Vir. Ill. 97, etc.] He subsequently returned to the Catholic teaching and atoned by later acts for his temporary weakness.
2 Evidently a public profession with receiving the veil, etc.
3 S. John ii. 9.
4 S. Luke ix. 13.
5 Cant. v. 1.
6 S. John i. 1.
7 S. John i. 1.
8 S. John i. 1.
9 S. Luke xviii. 19.
10 Ps. cx. [cix.] 3.
11 Ps. xlv. [xliv.] 1.
12 S. Matt. xvii. 5.
13 1 Cor. i. 30.
14 Wisd. xxiv. 3.
15 Col. ii. 9.
16 S. John v. 23.
17 1 John ii. 23.
18 Ps. ciii. [cii.] 5.
19 Gen. xxiv. 65.
20 Gen. xxix. 11.
21 Ecclus. ix. 5.
22 Prov. x. 19.
23 Gen. iv. 7.
24 S. Luke ii. 19.
25 S. Matt. iv. 4.
26 Ps. cxix. [cxviii.] 164.
27 S. Matt. xxvi. 41.
28 It is doubtful whether incense was burnt as an adjunct of Christian worship so early as the time of St. Ambrose, and the reference here may be to the offering at evening in the Jewish temple. He speaks again of incense in Expos. Ev. sec. Lucam. §28, but again there is no conclusive proof. It was certainly used as a perfume.
29 Pythagoras.
30 Ps. vi. 6.
31 S. Lukv vi. 21.
32 Cant. iii. 6.
33 Ps. xli. [xl.] 3.
34 Rom. vii. 24.
35 S. John xi. 35.
36 S. John xix. 34.
37 Ps. xli. [xl.] 3.