3 In his epistle (157) to Hilary, written a little while before this work, he mentions Coelestius and the condemnation of his errors in a Council held at Carthage: he expresses also some apprehension of Coelestius attempting to spread his opinions in Sicily: "Whether he be himself there." says Augustin, "or only others who are partners in his errors, there are too many of them; and, unless they be checked, they lead astray others to join their sect; and so great is their increase, that I cannot tell whither they will force their way," etc.
5 Sociorum ejus. It has been proposed to read sectatorum ejus,-not unsuitably (although not justified by Ms. evidence), because Coelestius "had," to use Jerome's words, "by this time turned out a master with a following,-the leader of a perfect army."-Jerome's Epistle to Ctesiphon, written in the year 413 or 414.
8 [An accident "is a modification or quality which does not essentially belong to a thing, nor form one of its constituent or invariable attributes: as motion & relation to matter, or heat to iron."-Fleming: Vocabulary of Philosophy.-W.]
10 [Coelestius had in the previous breviate confined sin to either nature or accident: Augustin declares it to be a property. By this he apparently means that it is a non-essential attribute, without which man would remain man, but yet not what is called a "separable accident."-W.]
25 An application of Rom. ix. 28.
39 5Ina mh a\ a_n qelhte, tau=ta puih=te.
47 See above, in his work De Spiritu et Litterâ, 64; also De Naturâ et Gratiâ, 45.