32 John x. 37.

33 John viii. 44.

34 Matt. xxiii. 33-35.

35 Ps. xiv. 5, LXX, cp. Hieron.

36 Ps. xiv. 6, LXX. cp. Hieron.

37 A suggested reading is, "nos esse viperas."

38 These both with others are celebrated in the martyrology of the Donatists, see IIII. Idas Martii Sermo de Passione SS. Donati et Advocati, c. 340; Passio Marculi sacerdotis Donatistoe qui sub Macario interfectus a Donatistis pro Martyre habebatur (Dec. 25, a. 348), and others. See Du Pin Monumenta vetera ad Donatistarum Historiam pertinentia, in his edition of Optatus.

39 See below, c. 20, 46: and Contra Crescon. III. 49, 54.

40 Ps. xxii. 27.

41 Gen. xxii. 18.

42 Rom. iv. 3.

43 Ps. lvii. 4.

44 Ps. xix. 4.

45 Luke xxiv. 44-47.

46 Ps. xiv. 5-8, cp. LXX. and Hieron., the last verse only being in the Hebrew.

47 Wisd. i. 11.

48 Rom. iv. 5.

49 Rom. iii. 26.

50 John xx. 19, 21.

51 Matt. vii. 15, 16.

52 Matt. xxiv. 23.

53 2 Cor. xi. 14, 15.

54 Gen. vi. 3.

55 Matt. xxv. 41.

56 1 Cor. vi. 3.

57 "Perdiderunt," which the Benedictines think may be a confusion for "perierunt."

58 Novissimus.

59 1 Cor. xv. 9.

60 2 Cor. xi. 26.

61 Portenta.

62 Down to this point Augustin had already answered Petilianus in the First Book, as he says himself below, III. 50, 61.

63 Matt. x. 23.

64 Matt. x. 16, 28.

65 1 Pet. iii. 15.

66 Matt. v. 39.

67 1 Kings xviii.

68 Wisd. xii. 23.

69 Acts ix. 4, 5.

70 Ps. cv. 15.

71 Vivacem Christum.

72 Rom. xiii. 2, 4.

73 1 John iii. 15.

74 Acts ix. 4-18.

75 John xiii. 10, 11.

76 John xv. 3, 4.

77 John xiv. 27.

78 1 Tim. i. 7.

79 Mark x. 35-39.

80 Matt. v. 10.

81 Optatus Gildonianus is the person to whom he refers.