²⁰⁷² Joh. iii. 23.

²⁰⁷³ Matt. iii. 13, Matt. iii. 17.

²⁰⁷⁴ The turning of the water into wine at Cana (Joh. ii. 1, Joh. ii. 11).

²⁰⁷⁵ Joh. iv. 13, Joh. iv. 14.

²⁰⁷⁶ Joh. iii. 5.

²⁰⁷⁷ Joh. xix. 34: Jerome here follows Tertullian and Cyril of Jerusalem.

²⁰⁷⁸ Matt. xxviii. 19.

²⁰⁷⁹ Acts ii. 38.

²⁰⁸⁰ Isa. lxvi. 7, Isa. lxvi. 8.

²⁰⁸¹ Gen. xlix. 27.

²⁰⁸² Acts ix. 17, Acts ix. 18. Comp. Letter LX. 8.

²⁰⁸³ Acts viii. 27-38.

²⁰⁸⁴ Jer. xiii. 23.

²⁰⁸⁵ Acts xix. 1-7.

²⁰⁸⁶ Ps. xxix. 3, Ps. xxix. 10. AV. `the Lord sitteth upon the flood.0'

²⁰⁸⁷ Cant. iv. 2.

²⁰⁸⁸ Gal. iv. 19.

²⁰⁸⁹ 1 Cor. iii. 2.

²⁰⁹⁰ AV. "though wilt cast all their sins."

²⁰⁹¹ Mic. vii. 19.

²⁰⁹² Ps. xxxii. 1-2.

²⁰⁹³ Ezek. ii. 1.

²⁰⁹⁴ Ezek. xxxvi. 24-26. AV. punctuates differently.

²⁰⁹⁵ Gal. vi. 15, 'nature for `creature,0' a slip of memory.

²⁰⁹⁶ Rev. xiv. 3.

²⁰⁹⁷ Eph. iv. 22.

²⁰⁹⁸ Rom. vii. 6.

²⁰⁹⁹ Rev. ii. 17.

²¹⁰⁰ Rom. vi. 3, Rom. vi. 4.

²¹⁰¹ Col. ii. 13, Col. ii. 14.

²¹⁰² Doctor Gentium.

²¹⁰³ 1 Tim. iii. 1-7.

²¹⁰⁴ Tit. i. 6.

²¹⁰⁵ AV. `sober.0'

²¹⁰⁶ Lev. x. 9.

²¹⁰⁷ Cic. de Or. i 29.

²¹⁰⁸ Cf. 2 Cor. x. 14.

²¹⁰⁹ Cf. Dt. xvii. 9-11.

²¹¹⁰ Tit. i. 9-14.

²¹¹¹ Cf. 1 Tim. v. 6.

²¹¹² Gen. ix. 20, Gen. ix. 21.

²¹¹³ Gen. xix. 30-38.

²¹¹⁴ Isa. l. 6.

²¹¹⁵ 1 Pet. ii. 23.

²¹¹⁶ AV. `patient.0'

²¹¹⁷ 1 Sam. xii. 3-5.

²¹¹⁸ Cf. 1 Tim. vi. 8.

²¹¹⁹ Tit. i. 7.

²¹²⁰ 1 Sam. ii. 12-17, 1 Sam. ii. 22.

²¹²¹ The case of Ambrose.

²¹²² AV. `patient.0'

²¹²³ Sacerdos: as usual a bishop is meant.

²¹²⁴ Lit. `chair.0'

²¹²⁵ Jas. ii. 11.

²¹²⁶ Jas. ii. 10.

²¹²⁷ Either a teacher of civil law mentioned by Pliny (viii. 40), or else one of the writers of the Augustan History.

²¹²⁸ The authority for this is Josephus.

²¹²⁹ Prov. i. 1-6.

²¹³⁰ Tit. i. 12.

²¹³¹ 1 Cor. xv. 33. The line is also attributed to Euripides.

²¹³² Acts xvii. 28.

²¹³³ Acts xvii. 22.

²¹³⁴ Cf. 1 Sam. xvii. 50, 1 Sam. xvii. 51.

²¹³⁵ Deut. xxi. 10-13.

²¹³⁶ Hos. i. 2-4.

²¹³⁷ Isa. vii. 20.

²¹³⁸ Ezek. v. 1-5.

²¹³⁹ i.e. Lactantius, vide Inst. v. 4.

²¹⁴⁰ The author of a polemical treatise against Christianity, fragments of which still persuaded in Origen's reply. He was a Platonist.

²¹⁴¹ A neoplatonist writer who flourished in the third century.

²¹⁴² See note on Letter XLVIII.

²¹⁴³ Contemporary with Eusebius the historian. His Symposium still extant proves him to have been a warm admirer of Plato.

²¹⁴⁴ The learned bishop of Caesarea (a.d. 260-340). His Church History and other works are translated or described in Vol. i. of this series.

²¹⁴⁵ Probably the learned Bishop of Laodicea, whose views were condemned at Constantinople in 381.

²¹⁴⁶ Julian was emperor from a.d. 261 to a.d. 263. He reverted from Christianity to paganism and did all in his power to harass the Church.

²¹⁴⁷ According to Theodoret (H. E. iii. 25) Julian's last words were "Though hast conquered, O Galilaean."

²¹⁴⁸ A Jew born at Jerusalem a.d. 37. His historical works, still extant, are of great value.

²¹⁴⁹ See note on Letter XXII.

²¹⁵⁰ The author of an apology for the Christians presented to the Emperor Hadrian. Only small fragments of the work are now extant. See for him and Aristides Jerome's Book on Famous Men, in Vol. iii. of this series, c. xix. xx.

²¹⁵¹ Another Athenian apologist contemporary with Quadratus. His Apology has lately been published. Cambridge, Eng., 1891.

²¹⁵² Commonly called Justin Martyr. Born in Samaria of Greek parents, he is said to have undergone martyrdom at Rome. Fl. a.d. 140-150.

²¹⁵³ Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

²¹⁵⁴ Fl. a.d. 170. He composed an Apology addressed to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius.

²¹⁵⁵ A highly esteemed writer, from 171 a.d. onwards, who wrote many treatises, amongst which were an apology addressed to Marcus Aurelius, and several works against Montanism.

²¹⁵⁶ Fl. a.d. 171, the writer of several pastoral letters to other churches famous in their day but no longer extant.

²¹⁵⁷ See note on Letter XLVIII.

²¹⁵⁸ Born at Edessa c. 155 a.d. died 223 a.d. A mystical theologian of a gnostic type who held a high position at the court of the Abgars. His writings have perished.

²¹⁵⁹ Bishop of Lyons in the latter half of the second century. He was a native of Asia Minor and his younger days had known Polycarp.

²¹⁶⁰ Bishop of Lyons, suffered martyrdom under Marcus Aurelius.