¹⁸⁸ This is the way Oehler's punctuation reads. Migne's reads as follows: -

... "Of whom the first

Whom mightiest Rome bade take his place and sit

Upon the chair where Peter's self had sat," etc.

¹⁸⁹ "Is spostolicis bene notus." This may mean (a) as in our text; (b) by his apostolically-minded writings - writings like an apostle's; or (c) by the apostolic writings, i.e., by the mention made of him, supposing him to be the same, in Phil. iv. 3.

¹⁹⁰ Legem.

¹⁹¹ Legis.

¹⁹² Germine frater.

¹⁹³ An allusion to the well-known Pastor or Shepherd of Hermas.

¹⁹⁴ Our author makes the name Anicetus. Rig. (as quoted by Oehler) observes that a comparison of the list of bishops of Rome here given with that given by Tertullian in de Praescr., c. xxxii., seems to show that this metrical piece cannot be his.

¹⁹⁵ The state of the text in some parts of this book is frightful. It has been almost hopeless to extract any sense whatever out of the Latin in many passages - indeed, the renderings are in these cases little better than guess-work - and the confusion of images, ideas, and quotations is extraordinary.

¹⁹⁶ See the preceding book.

¹⁹⁷ I have changed the unintelligible "daret" of the edd. into "docet." The reference seems to be to Matt. xxiii. 8; Jas. iii. 1; 1 Pet. v. 2, 3.

¹⁹⁸ Molem belli deducere terrae.

¹⁹⁹ Aemulamenta. Migne seems to think the word refers to Marcion's "Antitheses."

²⁰⁰ i.e., apparently Marcion's.

²⁰¹ Monumenta.

²⁰² See the opening of the preceding book.

²⁰³ "Conditus;" i.e., probably (in violation of quantity) the past part. of "conditio" = flavoured, seasoned.

²⁰⁴ I have altered the punctuation here.

²⁰⁵ Inferni.

²⁰⁶ Locator.

²⁰⁷ These lines are capable, according to their punctuation, of various renderings, which for brevity's sake I must be content to omit.

²⁰⁸ i.e., the People of Israel. See the de Idol., p. 148, c. v. note 1.

²⁰⁹ See Deut. vi. 3, 4, quoted in Mark xii. 29, 30.

²¹⁰ This savours of the Nicene Creed.