¹⁶² [1 Cor. iii. 2, 3. S.]

¹⁶³ [See note supra, p. 239. S.]

¹⁶⁴ nhpi/wn.

¹⁶⁵ Heb. v. 12-14.

¹⁶⁶ e0leu/qepon a0nalabo/ntej fro/nhma.

¹⁶⁷ Cf. Rom. i. 14.

¹⁶⁸ Cf. Prov. viii. 5.

¹⁶⁹ Cf. Prov. ix. 4.

¹⁷⁰ Cf. Prov. ix. 5, 6.

¹⁷¹ dia\ ta\ e0gkei/mena.

¹⁷² loidori/aj ma=llon h@ kathgori/aj.

¹⁷³ The allusion is to the practice of wealthy Greeks and Romans having among their slaves artificers of various kinds, for whose service there was constant demand in the houses and villas of the rich, and who therefore had their residence in or near the dwelling of their master. Many of these artificers seem, from the language of Celsus, to have been converts to Christianity.

¹⁷⁴ Para/sthson tou\j didaska/louj a!llouj para\ tou\j filosofi/aj didaska/louj, h@ tou\j kata/ ti tw=n xrhsi/mwn pepoihme/nouj..

¹⁷⁵ fwnh\n suneto/j.

¹⁷⁶ [Much is to be gathered from this and the following chapters, of the evangelical character of primitive preaching and discipline.]

¹⁷⁷ a9plw=j.

¹⁷⁸ eu0daimoni/an.

¹⁷⁹ makario/thta.

¹⁸⁰ Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 6.

¹⁸¹ Wisd. Solom. i. 4.

¹⁸² Cf. Ps. cxli. 2.

¹⁸³ Cf. 1 Cor. ii. 7.

¹⁸⁴ Matt. ix. 12.

¹⁸⁵ Rom. xvi. 25, 26.

¹⁸⁶ Cf. 2 Tim. i. 10.

¹⁸⁷ to\ h9gemoniko/n.

¹⁸⁸ a0yedh=.

¹⁸⁹ sukofantwn.

¹⁹⁰ [The reproaches of the scoffer are very instructive as to the real nature of the primitive dealing with sinners and with sin.]

¹⁹¹ u9pecairomenou tou= kata\ to\n 'Ihsou=n nooume/nou a0nqrw/pou.

¹⁹² Rom. vii. 9.

¹⁹³ Cf. Matt. xxiii. 12.

¹⁹⁴ 1 Pet. v. 6.

¹⁹⁵ pro\j kolakei/an.

¹⁹⁶ In the text it is put interrogatively: ti/j a!nqrwpoj telewj di/kaioj; h@ ti/j a0nama/rthtoj; The allusion seems to be to Job xv. 14 (Sept.): ti/j ga\r w@n broto\j, o!ti e!stai a!memptoj\ h@ w9j e0so/menoj di/kaioj gennhto\j gunaiko/j.

¹⁹⁷ Matt. xi. 28.

¹⁹⁸ Ps. cvii. 20.

¹⁹⁹ Luke xviii. 13.

²⁰⁰ Luke xviii. 11.

²⁰¹ Luke xviii. 14.

²⁰² kai\ ou0 para\ to\n o0rqo\n lo/gon prosa/goito u9po= tou= e0pi\ pa=si dikastou=.. [See infra, book iv. cap. lxxix, and Elucidations there named.]

²⁰³ [e0pimo/wj bebamme/noi. S.]

²⁰⁴ [w9spegei\ deusopoihqe9ntej a9po\ th=j kaki/aj. S.]

²⁰⁵ [Let us note this in passing, as balancing some other expressions which could not have been used after the Pelagian controversy.]

²⁰⁶ He is said to have been either a Babylonian or Tyrrhenian, and to have lived in the rein of Nero. Cf. Philostratus, iv. 12. - Ruaeus.

²⁰⁷ kai\ to\ e0cakouo/menon a0po\ th=j le/cewj w0j dunato\n h9mi=n, a0netre/yamen.

²⁰⁸ e0pi\ te/gouj. ["Ut quidam scripserunt," says Hoffmann.]

²⁰⁹ miarw/taton a0nqrw/pwn.

²¹⁰ 'Alla\ th\n me\n ta/cin kai\ su/nqesin kai\ fra/sin tw=n a0po\ filosofi/aj lo/gwn.

²¹¹ The reading in the text is a!llwj, for which which a!llouj has been conjectured by Ruaeus and Boherellus, and which has been adopted in the translation.

²¹² i0diwtikou/j..

²¹³ eu0staqe/staton.

²¹⁴ pistikh\ a0po\ pneu/matoj.

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