118 "The eyes of the earth are closed" is the reading of other editions.
119 [It is hard for us to retain the fact that for three hundred years to be a Christian was to be a martyr, at least in spirit and in daily liability. 1 Cor. xv. 31; 1 Pet. iv. 12.]
1 [Addressed to Quirinus, and dated A.D. 248.]
2 This sentence is otherwise read, "whereby it may be perceived and known that it is He Himself who was foretold."
3 [P. 227, note 3, supra. I cannot but note repeatedly how absolutely the primitive Fathers relied on the Holy Scriptures, and commended a Berean use of them. Acts xvii. 11.]
4 [The canon assumed to be universally known.]
5 [These twenty-four propositions are specially worthy of the consideration of the young theologian who would clearly comprehend the Old Law and the New as St. Paul has expounded them in his Epistle to the Romans, and elsewhere.]
14 The word- "and again" are sometimes omitted; and sometimes "Moreover, in the same place."
22 According to the Oxford edition: "The turtle and the swallow knoweth its time," etc.
23 Six ancient authorities have "your measurement."
33 2 Cor. iii. 14-16. There is a singular confuson in the read of this quotation. The translator has followed Migne's text.