68 Ps. cx. [cix.] 4.

69 Wisd viii. 2.

70 S. Luke xvii. 14.

71 Eph. v. 14.

72 1 Cor. vi. 12.

73 Rom. vii. 2.

74 1 Cor. vii. 4.

75 1 Cor. vii. 23.

76 1 Cor. vii. 14.

77 1 Cor. vii. 15.

78 1 Cor. vii. 28.

79 1 Cor. vii. 25.

80 S. Matt. xix. 18-21.

81 S. Luke xvii. 10.

82 S. Matt. xix. 27.

83 S. Matt. xix. 28.

84 S. Matt. xxv. 21.

85 S. Matt. xxv. 11, Matt. xxv. 12.

86 There would seem to be a passage lost here.

87 S. Matt. v. 28.

88 Gal. v. 12 [very loose].

89 S. Matt. xix. 12.

90 Prov. xi. 1.

91 Prov. xx 10.

92 S. Matt. xix. 12.

93 S. John vi. 9.

94 S. Matt. xxvi. 26.

95 1 Cor. vii. 25.

96 1 Cor. vii. 26.

97 1 Cor. vii. 1.

98 1 Cor. vii. 7.

99 1 Cor. vii. 8.

100 1 Cor. vii. 26.

101 The reference would seem to be to the "Lex Julia et Papia Poppoea," but the object of this law was not, as St. Ambrose seems to imply, to check celibacy, but to meet the growing licentiousness of the age, which avoided the obligations of married life while indulging in every kind of impure abominations.

102 Gen. ii. 24.

103 Eph. v. 32.

104 Gen. xxiv. 67.

105 Gen. xxv. 10.

106 Gen. xxix. 28 ff.

107 This is really in excess of the number which are now to be considered as fixed in date.