3289 Cf. Ezek. xxiv. 16-18, Ezek. xxiv. 27.
3290 Ps. cxxviii. 3, Ps. cxxviii. 6.
3293 Matt. v. 38, Matt. v. 39.
3296 A gnostic of the second century who rejected the whole of the old testament as incompatible with the new.
3298 Gen. xxix. 17, Gen. xxix. 18.
3299 Gen. xxv. 22, Gen. xxv. 23.
3304 Rom. xi. 25, Rom. xi. 26.
3305 Virg. A. iv. 32-34: 548, 552.
3306 From Tert. de Exh. Cast. xii.
3308 Matt. vi. 26, Matt. vi. 28.
3310 1 Tim. v. 2. Jerome substitutes `love0' for `rebuke.0'
3311 Rom. xii. 17, cf. Letter cxvii.
3316 1 Cor. iv. 12: 1 Thess. ii. 9: 2 Cor. xii. 14.
3318 Matt. vi. 25, Matt. vi. 27, Matt. vi. 34.
3320 Cf. Letters cviii. and cxviii.
3321 Gen. xxxii. 7, Gen. xxxii. 10.
3325 1 K. xix. 11-13, cf. Exod. xxxiii. 21-23.
3327 Jerome follows Tertullian, Irenaeus, and the majority of the fathers in supposing the apostle to allude to the Roman Empire. See Letter CXXI. Comm. in Hierem. xxv. 26, Comm. in Dan. vii, 7, 8.
3328 2 Thess. ii. 7, 2 Thess. ii. 8.
3333 Tribes whose memories linger in the names Amiens and Arras.
3336 Stilicho who induced the senate to grant a subsidy to the Gothic King Alaric. See Gibbon, C. xxx.
3337 This, one of Jerome's few criticisms on the public policy of his day, shows him to have taken a narrow and inadequate view of the issues involved.
3340 The great Carthaginian general in the second Punic war.
3341 King of Epirus who invaded Italy in the years 280, 279, 276, 275 b.c.