⁵ 1 Cor. iii. 16.

⁶ Gal. iii. 27.

⁷ Matt. xxv. 36.

⁸ [Primitive Christians were grateful for opportunities to distribute gifts. Rom. xii. 13.]

⁹ [An immense contribution, for the times. In our money reckoned (for temp. Decii) at $3,757. For the Augustan age it would be $4,294. The text (sestertia) dubious. Ed. Paris.

¹⁰ [The diptychsare here referred to; that is, lists (read at the Eucharist) in which benefactors, living or dead, were gratefully remembered. Anglice, "beadroll."]

¹ Oxford ed.: Ep. ii. CircaA.D. 249.

² [In the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican, to the disgrace of the pontifical court, the fine music is obtained by recourse to this expedient, inflicted upon children.]

¹ Oxford ed.: Ep. iv. He suggests the kind of discipline by which virgins may be kept in their duty, and some matters concern, ing the power of (excommunication in the Church. CircaA.D. 249.

² [See vol. ii. p. 57, Elucidation II.]

³ Jer. iii. 15.

⁴ Wisd. iii. 11.

⁵ Ps. ii. 12(LXX.).

⁶ Some editors read here "fructu" for "ructu;" but Goldhorn observes that a similar collocation of eructationwith error is found in Horace, Ep. ad Pis., 457.

⁷ [How coarse and brutal the pagan manners, which even the Gospel could not immediately refine!]

⁸ Eph. iv. 27.

⁹ 1 Cor. viii. 13.

¹⁰ [This abomination may have lingered in Africa much longer that elsewhere among the Punic converts from Canaanite manners. Ezek. viii. 13, 14.]

¹¹ Deut. xvii. 12, 13.

¹² Prov. xv. 12, 10.

¹³ [The frightful condition of heathen society inspired the effort to maintain celibacy, but all this suggests the divine wisdom and clemency in restricting it to the few. Matt. xix. 11.]

¹⁴ Gal. iv. 16.

¹⁵ Gal. i. 10.

¹⁶ [The horrible subject of this letter is treated in a valuable note (k) in the Oxford trans., p 7. It began earlier (see Hermas) than that learned annotator supposes; but the silence of Minucius Felix, and the pagan objector of his story, as to this specific reproach, suggests that it was of rare occurrence. Vol. ii. p. 235.]

¹ Oxford ed.: Ep. lxiii. A.D. 253.

² [A kindly rebuke of those Encratites who were called Hydroparastatae. Epiphan., iii. p. 9, ed. Oehler.]

³ [1 Cor. xi. 2. Our author evidently has this in mind. He is admonishedby such Scriptures to maintain apostolic traditions.]

⁴ [1 Cor. xi. 2. Our author evidently has this in mind. He is admonishedby such Scriptures to maintain apostolic traditions.]

⁵ John xv. 1.

⁶ Gen. xiv. 18.

⁷ Ps. cx. 4.

⁸ Gal. iii. 6-9.

⁹ Matt. iii. 9.

¹⁰ Luke xix. 9.

¹¹ Prov.ix. 1-5.

¹² Gen. xlix. 11.

¹³ Isa. lxiii. 2.

¹⁴ Isa. xliii. 18-21.

¹⁵ [For a full view of all theories of election, see Faber, On the Rrimitive Doctrine of Election, New York, ed. 1840.]

¹⁶ Isa. xlviii. 21.

¹⁷ John vii.37-39.

¹⁸ Matt. v. 6.

¹⁹ John iv. 13, 14.

²⁰ [See Justin, vol, i. p. 185, this series.]

²¹ Matt. xxvi. 28, 29.

²² 1 Cor. xi. 23-26.

²³ Gal. i. 6-9.

²⁴ Ps. xxiii. 5. [ Vulgate, "calix inebrians." Ps. xxii. 5.]

²⁵ [A happy conception of the inebriationof the Spirit, "where drinking largely sobersus again."]

²⁶ Apoc. xvii. 15.

²⁷ [This figure, copied by St. Augustine (vol. v. p. 1247, ed. Milne). is retained in the liturgy of the Reformed Dutch communion.]

²⁸ John xv. 14, 15.

²⁹ Matt. xvii. 5.

³⁰ Isa. xxix. 13.

³¹ Mark vii. 13.

³² Matt. v. 19.

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