³⁵⁷¹ Ps. civ. 29.

³⁵⁷² Ps. cxlvi. 4.

³⁵⁷³ Luke xii. 20.

³⁵⁷⁴ The Canaanite name for Jerusalem.

³⁵⁷⁵ By Alaric the Goth, 408 a.d.

³⁵⁷⁶ By Alaric, 410 a.d.

³⁵⁷⁷ Isa. xv. 1.

³⁵⁷⁸ Ps. lxxix. 1. LXX.

³⁵⁷⁹ Ps. lxxix. 1-3.

³⁵⁸⁰ Virg. A. ii. 361.

³⁵⁸¹ Virg. A. vi. 266.

³⁵⁸² Job 1. 21, LXX.

³⁵⁸³ Spes in ea magis laudanda est quam res. Cic. de Rep. Jerome again quotes the words in Letter CXXX.

³⁵⁸⁴ cf. Hor. 1 S. i. 25, 26.

³⁵⁸⁵ Numb. xi. 4, Numb. xi. 20, Numb. xi. 31.

³⁵⁸⁶ Prov. v. 3.

³⁵⁸⁷ Rev. x. 9. Rev. x. 10.

³⁵⁸⁸ Lev. ii. 11.

³⁵⁸⁹ Ex. xxvii. 20.

³⁵⁹⁰ Ex. xii. 8.

³⁵⁹¹ 1 Cor. v. 8.

³⁵⁹² Jer. xv. 17, LXX.

³⁵⁹³ 1 Cor. vii. 24.

³⁵⁹⁴ 1 Cor. vii. 18.

³⁵⁹⁵ Gen. iii. 21.

³⁵⁹⁶ Gen. iii. 25.

³⁵⁹⁷ Thess. iv. 4.

³⁵⁹⁸ Jer. ii. 13, Cisternas dissipates.

³⁵⁹⁹ Prov. v. 15.

³⁶⁰⁰ 1 Cor. vii. 21, 1 Cor. vii. 22.

³⁶⁰¹ 1 Pet. iii. 7.

³⁶⁰² Eph. v. 13, R. V.

³⁶⁰³ Male pacatae, a pun on Pacatula, which means `Little Peaceful.0'

³⁶⁰⁴ Lanifica. Cf. the well-known epitaph on a Roman matron: "She stayed at home and spun wool."

³⁶⁰⁵ Already quoted in Letter CVII.

³⁶⁰⁶ cf. Letter CXXIII. 15.

³⁶⁰⁷ Nu. xvi. 46-48, Vulg.

³⁶⁰⁸ Ex. xxxii. 10.

³⁶⁰⁹ Rom. ix. 3.

³⁶¹⁰ Isa. xxiv. 2.

³⁶¹¹ Ex. xxxii. 32.

³⁶¹² Prov. xiv. 28.

³⁶¹³ Cicero in his Dialogue on the Republic. Cf. Or. xxx.

³⁶¹⁴ Rom. xii. 1.

³⁶¹⁵ Pontifex.

³⁶¹⁶ 2 Cor. xi. 2.

³⁶¹⁷ Ps. xlv. 9, Ps. xlv. 13, Ps. xlv. 14.

³⁶¹⁸ i.e. After receiving the veil.

³⁶¹⁹ Cant. i. 4.

³⁶²⁰ Ps. xlv. 13.

³⁶²¹ 1 Cor. iii. 6.

³⁶²² In the year 395 a.d.

³⁶²³ Which took place before the fall of Rome in 410 a.d.

³⁶²⁴ Matt. xi. 8.

³⁶²⁵ 2 Kings i. 8: Matt. iii. 4.

³⁶²⁶ Matt. xi. 14: Luke i. 17.

³⁶²⁷ Luke i. 41.

³⁶²⁸ Matt. xi. 7-14. Jerome here borrows a phrase from Cyprian, de Op. et El. xv.

³⁶²⁹ Luke ii. 36, Luke ii. 37.

³⁶³⁰ Acts xxi. 9.

³⁶³¹ Esther xiv. 16.

³⁶³² A virgin 13 years old beheaded at Rome uncier Diocletian after vain efforts first made to overcome her faith by subjecting herto assault and outrage.

³⁶³³ See §7 for the cruelties of the Count Heraelian.

³⁶³⁴ Quam habitura pronubam?

³⁶³⁵ Wedding songs so called from the place of their origin, Fescennia in Etruria. See Catullus LXI. for the several customs here mentioned.

³⁶³⁶ 1 John iv. 18.

³⁶³⁷ Eph. vi. 14-17.