2649 The allusion is to Rufinus.
2654 Many of the Egyptian Origenists had fled to Constantinople and thrown themselves on the kindness of the patriarch John Chrysostom.
2658 He was already dead when these words were written.
2662 1 Cor. vii. 13, 1 Cor. vii. 14, the word `believing 0' is twice inserted by Jerome.
2664 Cf. Luke xxiii. 42, Luke xxiii. 43.
2666 The Persian sun-god, at this time one of the most popular deities of the Roman pantheon. Gracchus appears to have done this as Urban Praetor, A. C. 378.
2667 In the year 389 a.d. the temple of Serapis at Alexandria had been pulled down and a Christian church built upon its site.
2668 Elsewhere (Life of Hilarion §20) Jerome relates an extraordinary story about the discomfiture of this `demon. 0'
2669 A well-known Thracian tribe not to be confounded with the Goths.
2670 Cf. Hor. A.P., 21, 22. Amphora caepit Institui: currente rots cur urceus exit?
2671 The books of Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings are called in the Hebrew Bible the Former Prophets.
2675 Cf. Letter LXXIX. Apparently Jerome means that the difficulty of penitence is as great as that of the camel passing through the eye of a needle. John, he implies, by wearing the camel's hair shows that he has surmounted this.
2678 The contemporary and rival of Cicero.
2679 Horace, Epist. I. ii. 69.
2686 Tim. ii. 15 A.V. has `sobriety 0' for `chastity 0' but Jerome deliberately prefers the latter word.
2688 Babylon, the world-power. Jer. l. 23.
2693 The letter Y used by Pythagoras to symbolize the diverging paths of good and evil. Cf. Persius. iii. 56.