11 This sentence is very unintelligible, but it is the nearest approach to a meaning that can be gathered from the original.
12 [ Gen. ix. 3. The Noachic covenant was Catholic, and foreshadowed Acts x. 15, although clean and unclean beasts were recognised as by natural classification. Gen. vii. 2. Argue as in Gal. iii. 17.]
13 Or, as some read, "for eating," substituting " esum" for " usum."
15 [See chap. ii. p. 645, note 9. supra.]
17 [The moral uses of the animal creation are recognised in all languages: as when we say of men, a serpent, a fox, a hog, an ass, etc.; so otherwise, a lion, a lamb, an eagle, a dove, etc.]
18 [Novatian was a keen analyst, and his allegorial renderings are logical generally, though sometimes fanciful.]
19 Lev. xi. 4. [Jones of Nayland, vol. iii., Disquisition, ed. 1801.]
20 " Enervem," but more probably " informem."
27 [Or lower bowel, Mark vii. 19; Matt. xv. 17. See cap. i. note 7, p. 645, supra. It throws off refuse, leaving food only to the system.]
32 " Attonitus" is assumed to be rightly read " attentus."
33 [ 1 Tim. iv. 4, 1 Tim. vi. 17. Against the Encratites (vol i. p. 353) but not against moderation (vol. ii. p. 237, this series).]
38 Scil. abstain. [But see 1 Cor. viii. 4, etc.]
1 "Papa" [as applied to all bishops. See p. 154, supra.]
2 Reference is made to this council in Epistles of Cyprian, No. lxxiii., and at large in Epistles lxix. to lxxiv., pp. 375-396, supra.
1 [By Dr. Wallis, editor of voL xiii., Edinb. series.]
2 Epistles, liii. p. 336, supra.
3 Ch. (or sec.) 6, p. 659 infra.
4 Hist. Gen. des Auteurs, tom. iii. ch. i. art. 4, sec. 2, note 4.