¹⁵⁸ See above, c. 11.

¹⁵⁹ The allusion is to Heb. vii. 9.

¹⁶⁰ [See Gelasius, in his Treatise against the Pelagians.]

¹⁶¹ 1 Cor. vii. 14.

¹⁶² See above, Book i. chs. 21-23.

¹⁶³ See Rom. v. 18.

¹⁶⁴ Catechumens received the sacramentum salis-salt placed in the mouth-with other rites, such as exorcism and the sign of the cross; the Lord's Prayer and other invocations concluding the ceremony. See Canon 5 of the third Council of Carthage; also Augustin's De Catechiz. Rud. 50; and his Confessions, i. 11, where (speaking of his own catechumenical course) he says: "I was now signed with the sign of His cross, and was seasoned with His salt."

¹⁶⁵ 1 Tim. iv. 5.

¹⁶⁶ Mark vii. 19.

¹⁶⁷ John vi. 27.

¹⁶⁸ See below, Book iii. ch. 21; and his Sermons. xxix. 4.

¹⁶⁹ 1 Cor. vii. 14.

¹⁷⁰ John iii. 3.

¹⁷¹ Rom. vi. 12.

¹⁷² Rom viii. 8, 9.

¹⁷³ We follow the reading, lex [scil. peccati] concupiscentialiter, etc.

¹⁷⁴ Compare Augustin's Contra Julianam, vi. c. 22.

¹⁷⁵ Luke ii. 11.

¹⁷⁶ Rather to Joseph, Mary's husband; Matt. i. 21.

¹⁷⁷ John xiv. 30, 31.

¹⁷⁸ 1 Cor. xv. 21, 22.

¹⁷⁹ Col. ii. 14. Chirographa, i.e. "handwritings."

¹⁸⁰ Matt. xxvi. 28.

¹⁸¹ 1 Thess. iv. 17. Compare Retrac. ii. 33 and Letter 193.

¹⁸² Augustin constantly quotes this text with the active participle sperantium, instead of sperandorum. The Greek e0lpizome0nwn is not always construed passively in the passage; some regard it as of the middle voice.

¹⁸³ Heb. xi. 1.

¹⁸⁴ Heb. xi. 13.

¹⁸⁵ Heb. xi. 39, 40.

¹⁸⁶ Heb. ii. 14.

¹⁸⁷ John xiv. 30, 31.

¹⁸⁸ Hab. ii. 4.

¹⁸⁹ John xvi. 7.

¹⁹⁰ John xvi. 8-10.

¹⁹¹ Gen. iii. 18, 19.

¹⁹² Gen. iii. 16.

¹⁹³ John xv. 13.

¹⁹⁴ 1 John iii. 16.

¹⁹⁵ See also his treatise, De Naturâ et Gratia, ch. xxiii.

¹⁹⁶ Prov. iv. 27.

¹⁹⁷ Same verse [in the Latin and Septuagint; the clause does not occur in the Hebrew].

¹⁹⁸ [See the last note.]

¹⁹⁹ Num. xiv. 29, 31.

²⁰⁰ Josh. xxiii. 6, 8.

²⁰¹ Rom. vii. 14.

²⁰² Ps. xxv. 22.