191 Pelagius, the friend of Timasius and Jacobus.
196 Luke i. 6. See Ambrose in loco (Exp. 61, 3. 17).
200 Compare Chrysostom's Homily on Eph. ii. 3.
201 This passage, which Pelagius had quoted as from Xystus the Roman bishop and martyr, Augustin subsequently ascertained to have had for its author Sextus, a Pythagorean philosopher. See the passage of the Retractations, ii. 42, at the head of this treatise.
207 Jerome on Matt. v. 8 (Comm. Book i. c. 5).
208 Jerome, Against Jovinianus, ii. 3.
212 Augustin, De Libero Arbitrio,iii. 18 (50).
214 Augustin gives a similar reply to the objection in his Retractations, i. 9.
217 De Libero Arbitrio, iii. 19.
219 This passage, and others in this and the following chapters, are marked as quotations, apparently cited from Pelagius by Augustin.
220 For the "difficulty," which is one of the penal consequences of sin, see last chapter, about its middle.
225 Deut. xxx. 14, quoted Rom. x. 8.
226 According to the Septuagint, which adds after e0n th= kardi/a sou the words kai\ e0n tai=j xersi/ sou. This was probably Pelagius' reading. Compare Quaestion. in Deuteron.Book v. 54.
235 See note at beginning of ch. 82 for the meaning of this mark of quotation.
1 These breves definitiones, which Augustin also calls ratiocinationes, are short argumentative statements, which may be designated breviates.
2 [Probably Spanish refugees; they had recently presented to Augustin a memorial against certain heresies. Oros. ad Aug. 1.-W.]