58 Ps. lxxvi. (lxxvii.) 6, 7. Scobebam (which Petschenig edits from the mss.) = scopebam, which is found in the Gallican Psalter as in the old Latin in this passage. It is merely a Latinized form of skopeisn.
62 Ut efficiamur secundum proeceptum Domini probabiles trapezitoe. The saying to which Cassian here alludes, gi/nesqe trapecitai do/kimoi, is not found anywhere in the Gospels, but "is the most commonly quoted of all Apocryphal sayings, and seems to be genuine." Westcott, Introd. to the Gospels, p. 454. It is quoted among others by Origen in Joann. xix., and Jerome Ep. 152. See these and other reff. in Anger's Synopsis, p. 274; and cf. the note of Gazaeus here.
63 Obrizum. The word occurs in the Vulgate five times for "pure gold." See 2 Chr. iii. 5; Job xxviii. 15; xxxi. 24; Isa. xiii. 12; Dan. x. 5; and is akin to the Greek o!brnzon. Cf. Pliny Nat. Hist. xxxiii. c. 3. and Jerome De Nom. Hebr. s. v. Ophaz.
66 S. Matt. iv. 6; Ps. xc. 11, 12.
71 On this John of Lycon or Lycopolis see the note on Inst. IV. xxiii.
73 Embrimium. The word is possibly of Egyptian origin. It occurs also in Cyril in Vita S. Euthymii Abbatt, n. 90, and in Apophthegm, Patrum num. 7, and is possibly the same word as "Ebymium," which occurs in the Rule of Pachomius, c. xiv. See Ducange, sub voce.
3 Cf. the note on the Institutes, V. iv.
17 Gazaeus thinks that this is a different person from the man of the same name mentioned by Palladius, Hist. Laus. c. xxxii.
18 On Paphnutius see the note on III. i.
19 Pausantium, i. e. those at rest. The word is used for the departed in a similar way in the 6th Canon of the Council of Aurelia (Orleans) a.d.. 511. "Quando recitantur pausantium nomina." And the phrase "Pausat in pace" is occasionally found in sepulchral inscriptions. Inscr. Boldetti Cimeter. p. 399; Inscr. Maff.. Gall. Antiq. p. 55.
20 Mazices: a people of Mauritania Caesariensis, who joined in the revolt of Firmus, but submitted to Theodosius in 373. See Ammianus Marcellinus XXIX. v. § 17.