152 [ Eccles. v. 6. A striking text when compared with the "Angel of the Covenant" ( Angelus Testamenti, Vulgate), Mal. iii. 1.]
153 Gen. xxxii. 24-27. [Vol. iv. 390, this series.]
157 [A very beautiful patristic idea of the dim vision of the cross to which the Fathers were admitted, but which they understood not,: even when they predicted it. 1 Pet. x. 11.]
158 According to Pamelius, ch. xv.
159 [ Ps. xcvii. 7; John x. 36; Hippol., p. 153, supra.]
162 [The full meaning of which only comes out in the Gospel and in 2 Pet. i. 4. The lie of Gen. iii. 5, is made true in Christ.]
165 According to Pamelius, ch. xvi.
169 [ John v. 19 The infirmities of language are such that cunning men like Petavius can construct anti-Nicene doctrine out of Scripture itself; and the marvel is, that the Christian Fathers before the Council of Nicaea generally use such precision of language, although they lacked the synodical definitions.]
174 Col. i. 15. [But not a creature, for the apostle immediately subjoins that He is the Creatpr and final Cause of the universe. Moreover, the first-born here seems to mean the heir of all creation, for such is the logical force of the verse following. So, prwtotokeia (in the Seventy) = heirship. Gen. xxv. 31.)
177 Perhaps the emendation komine instead of homo is right. "He puts on and puts off humanity, as if it were a kind of tunic for a compacted body."
179 According to Pamelius, ch. xvii.
181 [Not "a seipso Deus." See Bull, Defens., vol. v. p. 685.]
182 According to Pamelius, ch. xviii.
183 [The Noetians, Hippol., p. 148, supra.]
184 [ Irenaeus, vol. i. p. 527.]
185 According to Pamelius, ch. xix.
189 "The miraculous generation is here represented as the natural,but by no means as the only cause for which He who had no human father was to receive the name of God's Son."-Oosterzee, in loco, on Luke.-Tr.
191 The edition of Pamelius reads: ut sequela nominis in Filio Dei et hominis sit. The words Dei et were expelled by Welchman,whom we have followed.
192 According to Pamelius, ch. xx.
194 [ Luke xx. 38. A solemn admonition is found in the parallel Scripture, Matt. xxii. 29, which teaches us how much we ought to find beneath the surface of Holy Writ.]
195 According to Pamelius, ch. xxi.
200 Isa. xlv. 1. Some transcriber has written Kuriw for Kurw,"the Lord" for "Cyrus," and the mistake has been followed by the author.
212 [ Cap. xxi. p. 632, supra.]
213 According to Pamelius, ch. xxii.
214 John x. 30; scil. " unum," Gr. en.
215 Original, " unas." Scil. person.