1 Nothing is known of this Pope Laurentius. The title "Papa," at first Riven to Bishops promiscuously, was not yet restricted to the Bishop of Rome. Gregory VII., in a Council held at Home in 1073, forbade it to be given to any other.
2 Isaiah x. 22, Isaiah x. 23, Septuag., and so cited Rom. ix. 28.
4 Dan. xii. 10, or Is. vii. 9.
10 Compare Cyril's words, Quod omnium teneat potentatum - Lordship over all; o pantokratwr, o pantwn kratwn, o pantwn ecousiazwn. (Catcech., 8, §3). Rufinus evidently had St. Cyril's exposition in view here as repeatedly elsewhere.
14 Baruch iii. 35-37. Baruch is not specified by name in Rufinus's list of the Canonical books, but it is in Cyril's, as though a part of Jeremiah, "Jeremiah, with Baruch, and the Lamentations and the Epistle." (Catech. 4, §36.)
15 That is Joshua the son of Nun. It does not appear what passage is referred to.
17 Isa. lxi. 1. Comp. Luke iv. 18.
23 Corresponding to the Greek word Economy-the "arrangement" or "plan" by which the Word became incarnate.