³⁹⁸⁰ At the Eucharistic service the gospel was commonly though not exclusively read by a deacon. (See Const. Apost. II. 57, 5, and Sozomen, H. C. VII. 19.)

³⁹⁸¹ Gal. iv. 16.

³⁹⁸² The goddess who in the Roman pantheon presided over funerals. The gladiators meant are the so-called bustuarii who were engaged to fight at the funeral pile (bustum) in honour of the dead.

³⁹⁸³ i. e. by the use of depilatories.

³⁹⁸⁴ Jer. iii. 3.

³⁹⁸⁵ Mal. iii. 7.

³⁹⁸⁶ Rev. iii. 17.

³⁹⁸⁷ Cf. Cyprian, Epist. ad Demet. xxv.

³⁹⁸⁸ Luke x. 30-34.

³⁹⁸⁹ Joh. xi. 39, Joh. xi. 44.

³⁹⁹⁰ Luke i. 79.

³⁹⁹¹ Matt. ix. 27: cf. Luke xviii. 35-38.

³⁹⁹² Mark x. 50.

³⁹⁹³ Isa. xxx. 15, LXX.

³⁹⁹⁴ Ps. li. 5, Ps. li. 7.

³⁹⁹⁵ Luke xiii. 11-13.

³⁹⁹⁶ Gen. iv. 7, LXX.

³⁹⁹⁷ An etymological allusion. Nod = `ebb and flow.0'

³⁹⁹⁸ Num. xxv. 6-8.

³⁹⁹⁹ 2 Sam. xiii. 14.

⁴⁰⁰⁰ 1 Kings xxi. 13.

⁴⁰⁰¹ 1 Kings xxi. 29.

⁴⁰⁰² Ezek. xviii. 4.

⁴⁰⁰³ 1 Sam. viii. 3.

⁴⁰⁰⁴ 1 Sam. ii. 12-17, 1 Sam. ii. 22.

⁴⁰⁰⁵ 1 Sam. iv. 18.

⁴⁰⁰⁶ 2 Sam. vi. 6, 2 Sam. vi. 7.

⁴⁰⁰⁷ Sacerdotes, lit. priests.

⁴⁰⁰⁸ 2 Cor. xi. 14, 2 Cor. xi. 15.

⁴⁰⁰⁹ Matt. vii. 15.

⁴⁰¹⁰ i.e. to the church at large represented by individual virgins.

⁴⁰¹¹ Heb. vi. 6, Heb. vi. 7-8.

¹ See life of Paulus above.

² Matt. xi. 18.

³ Luke xiv. 33.

⁴ Isa. xiv. 14.

⁵ 2 Thess. iii. 10.

⁶ Exod. xv. 1.

⁷ Ps. xx. 7.

⁸ Luke v. 31.