Footnotes

²⁶Tit. ii. 14; I Pet. ii.9

²⁷Eph. v. 22.

²⁸I Cor. vii. 22.

²⁹There was a prevalent opinion among the ancient Christian writers, that all these holy men lived a life of [chaste] celibacy.

³⁰Or, "it is not because, etc., that I have mentioned these."

³¹Eph. vi. 4.

³²Prov. xxiii. 24.

³³Job xxxi. 13, 15.

³⁴Gal. iii. 28.

³⁵I Sam. xviii. 18; 2 Sam. vii. 18.

³⁶Phil. ii. 25.

³⁷Literally, "having proclaimed in reference to the Gospel."

³⁸In Christ.

³⁹Literally, "people-deceiving."

⁴⁰Comp. Ps li. 12 (LXX.).

⁴¹Literally, "teaching."

⁴²Or, "wrought."

⁴³Literally, "Judaism."

⁴⁴Literally, "oppressed."

⁴⁵Or, "will."

⁴⁶Some render, "come together into the same place."

⁴⁷Apparently by attempting to impose the yoke of Judaism.

⁴⁸Comp. John viii 44.

⁴⁹Literally, "beneath."

⁵⁰Comp. John viii 44.

⁵¹Comp. The reading sanctioned by the ancient authorities, John i. 13.

⁵²From a Hebrew word meaning "poor."

⁵³Or, "these things."

⁵⁴Literally, "the end of happiness."

⁵⁵Comp. Eph. ii. 2.

⁵⁶Literally, "oppressed."

⁵⁷Some render, "come together into the same place."

⁵⁸Phil. ii. 2.

⁵⁹John iii. 8.

⁶⁰Some translate, "as foreseeing the division to arise among you."

⁶¹Literally, "did not know from human flesh."

⁶²Literally, "your flesh."

⁶³Comp. 1 Cor. iii. 16, vi. 19.

⁶⁴Literally, "your flesh."

⁶⁵Literally, "prepared for."

⁶⁶Literally, "to the assembly of the bishop."

⁶⁷The meaning here is very doubtful. Some read en toij arxaioij, as translated above; others prefer en toij arxeioij, as in the longer recension.

⁶⁸i.e., the system of Christian doctrine.

⁶⁹Literally, "to the assembly of the bishop."

⁷⁰Comp. Isa. lviii. 6.

⁷¹Phil. ii. 3.

⁷²Or, "the archives of the Spirit are not exposed to all."

⁷³Acts xxvi. 14.

⁷⁴i.e., the Jewish priests.

⁷⁵Literally, "proclaimed as to him."

⁷⁶The meaning is doubtful. Comp. 2 Tim. i. 10.

⁷⁷i.e., the Jewish priests.

⁷⁸John xiv. 6.

⁷⁹1 Cor. x. 4.

⁸⁰Literally, "the hedge."

⁸¹John x. 11.

⁸²John x. 9.

⁸³Gen. xlix. 10.

⁸⁴Matt. xxviii. 19.