82 Stone, i.e. the tomb in which his father was buried.
83 Which I have resigned, i.e., Sasima. Accepted, i.e., Nazianzus.
84 He who has. S. Gregory the elder was the principal mover in S. Basil's election and consecration.
4 Anthony, "the founder of asceticism," the most celebrated of the monks and hermits of the Thebaid desert. His life by S. Athanasius is certainly genuine, and even if, as some suspect, interpolations have been inserted, its substantial integrity is undoubted. (Newman, Ch. of the Fathers, p. 176.)
5 Body of Christ i.e., the Church, His mystical body.
15 The throne, etc., as Patriarch of Alexandria. The date of his consecration is A.D. 326.
16 The Sanctuary, or "the Sacraments." Exod. xxvi. 33.
17 To offer more sacrifices, i.e., These priests are to only "men which have infirmity." who need to offer for their own sins, as well as for those of the people; but because they are even more sinful than their flocks, they need a greater and more frequent atonement.
20 St. Paul. To whom here the Ep. to the Hebrews is assigned.
23 Christs. i.e., Ps. cv. 15. "Touch not Mine anointed." (LXX..) and Vlg. "my Christs."
25 Cenobites miga/dej. Cf. Orat. ii. 29: xliii. 62.
27 Under the yoke, i.e. "Married." Cf. Orat. xlii. 11.
30 Sextuses. Sextus Empiricus (cent. 3 a.d.) a leader of the later Sceptic school. Pyrrho of Elis (cent 4 b.c.) was the founder of the earlier.
33 Frenzy. Cf. Orat. ii. 37; xxxiv. 8.
34 A profane spot, lit "porfane places" - plural as contrasted with the e'n to/pw a 9gi/w. Lev. vi. 16. etc., etc.: in which the priests must eat of the sacrifices. The meaning of the phrase is "Arius died excommunicated" - indeed on the eve of the day on which the Emperor Constantine had ordered him to be restored to communion.
35 Like Judas. C.f. Epiph. Haer. 68. 7; Socr. i 38. Theodoret i.4.
37 In name,, etc., i.e., They used the name Trinity, although it was rendered meaningless by their false doctrine as to the inequality of the Tree Blessed Persons.
38 To contract, etc. On this whole passage cf. Orat. ii. 36, 37, notes.
39 Which refers, etc., or "which consists in personal relations." Cf. on i'dio/thj. Orat. xliii. 30.
40 Nicaea, A.D. 325. Athanasius was present as theological assistant to Alexander of Alexandria.
41 Isai. v. 2 (lxx.); vii. 23, v. 1. "in a vineyard."
43 Namesake. Gregory, a Cappadocian, nominated to the see of Alexandria, by the Arian Bishops at Antioch, after the banishment of Athanasius, A.D. 340.
44 h 9 xe\ir 0 Abessalw!m. "The hand of Absalom," prob. a misquotation of 2 Sam. xiv. 19. "The hand of Joab." 2 Sam. xv. 5.
45 Corpse, etc. Athanasius was charged with having murdered Arsenius, and his enemies produced a hand which, they said, had belonged to the dead man.
52 His lot, lit. "the dreadful (thing)" i.e. "reproach him, as having brought his sufferings upon himself" - or `reproach him with impiety 0' - the cause of his sufferings.
53 Enevy, i.e. of the devil. Wisdom ii. 24. Cf. § 32 of this Oration.
57 Homes, etc. The monasteries of lower Egypt and the Thebaid. This was A.D. 356.