²³²¹ Letter XXXIX.

²³²² Letter LX.

²³²³ Letter LXVI.

²³²⁴ Ennius.

²³²⁵ Matt. xix. 9. 1 Cor. vii. 11.

²³²⁶ 1 Cor. vi. 16.

²³²⁷ A Roman jurist of great renown who held high legal office first under Marcus Aurelius and afterwards under Severus. He was put to death by Caracalla.

²³²⁸ 1 Cor. vii. 9.

²³²⁹ Rom. vii. 23.

²³³⁰ 1 Tim. v. 14.

²³³¹ 1 Tim. v. 15.

²³³² A senator who having conspired against Nero was by that emperor put to death. His palace on the Aelian Hill was long afterwards bestowed by Constantine upon pope Silvester who made it a church which it has ever since remained.

²³³³ Joh. xviii. 15-27: Joh. xxi. 15-17.

²³³⁴ Ex. xxxii. 30-35.

²³³⁵ 2 Sam. xii. 16.

²³³⁶ Ps. li. 4, Ps. li. 12.

²³³⁷ 1 Kings xxi. 25.

²³³⁸ 1 K. xxi. 19, 1 K. xxi. 21.

²³³⁹ 1 K. xxi. 27.

²³⁴⁰ 1 K. xxi. 28, 1 K. xxi. 29.

²³⁴¹ 2 Chr. xxxiii. 12, 2 Chr. xxxiii. 13.

²³⁴² Jon. iii. 5-10.

²³⁴³ Luke xviii. 13.

²³⁴⁴ Rigourists who denied the power of the Church to absolve persons who had fallen into sin.

²³⁴⁵ Ph. iv. 18.

²³⁴⁶ Ps. li. 17.

²³⁴⁷ Cf. Ezek. xviii. 23.

²³⁴⁸ Bar. v. 5, cf. Isa. lx. 1.

²³⁴⁹ Luke ix. 26.

²³⁵⁰ Nu. xii. 14.

²³⁵¹ Isa. xlvii. 1, Isa. xlvii. 2.

²³⁵² Isa. xlvii. 14, Vulg.

²³⁵³ Linteamina.

²³⁵⁴ Ecclus. xi. 25.

²³⁵⁵ Dilapidare, vendre pierre àpierre-Goelzer.

²³⁵⁶ Luke xvi. 19-24.

²³⁵⁷ Virg. Aen. vi. 625-627.

²³⁵⁸ Eccl. i. 18.

²³⁵⁹ Nu. xxiv. 15-19.

²³⁶⁰ Nu. xxxiii.

²³⁶¹ Letter LXIV.

²³⁶² Letter LXXVIII. on the Mansions or Halting-places of Israel in the Desert.

²³⁶³ The Sea of Azov.

²³⁶⁴ The Don.

²³⁶⁵ An Asiatic tribe to the East of the Caspian Sea.

²³⁶⁶ Hdt. i. 106, (of the Scythians).

²³⁶⁷ The Origenistic controversy in which Jerome, Paula and Epiphanius took one side, John bishop of Jerusalem, Rufinus, and Melania the other.

²³⁶⁸ Letter XIV.

²³⁶⁹ i.e. in the desert where many women lived as solitaries.

²³⁷⁰ Like that in which Abraham entertained the angels. See Letter LXVI. 11.

²³⁷¹ Num. xxiii. 21. LXX.

²³⁷² Acts xxviii. 7.

²³⁷³ Rom. viii. 28: note that Jerome substitutes `fear0' for `love.0'

²³⁷⁴ The remnant of her fortune.

²³⁷⁵ Luke xvi. 9.

²³⁷⁶ Virg. A. xi. 139.

²³⁷⁷ Virg. A. viii. 287, 288.

²³⁷⁸ Eph. vi. 12.

²³⁷⁹ Luke xv. 7, Luke xv. 10.

²³⁸⁰ i.e. Letter LXXVIII. q. v.

²³⁸¹ Eccl. ix. 8; Rev. iii. 4.

²³⁸² Rev. xiv. 4.

²³⁸³ Matt. xx. 15.

²³⁸⁴ Luke x. 30; Luke xv. 5.

²³⁸⁵ Joh. xiv. 2.

²³⁸⁶ Rom. v. 20.

²³⁸⁷ Luke vii. 47.

²³⁸⁸ Matt. xi. 29.

²³⁸⁹ Lev. xix. 15.

²³⁹⁰ Isa. xli. 8; Jas. ii. 23.