²⁴ Matt. vii. 14.

²⁵ Heb. xi. 38.

²⁶ Ps. xvii. 4, LXX.

²⁷

²⁸ Vide Bel and the dragon.

²⁹ Phil. ii. 8.

³⁰ 1 Thes. v. 11.

¹ Ranked with the preceding, and of dubious genuineness.

² a'ggareuo/menoj. cf. Matt. v. 41.

¹ To be ranked with the former letter.

² One ms. adds, in a later hand, Alexius.

³ i/ereu/j. When first this word and its correlatives came to be used of the Christian ministry it was applied generally to the clergy. cf. Letter of the Council of Illycricum in Theod., Ecc. Hist. iv. 8, and note on Letter liv. p. 157.

⁴ cf. Amos iii. 12.

⁵ df. Jer. viii. 4.

⁶ cf. Ezek. xviii. 32.

⁷ Prov. xviii. 3, LXX.

⁸ cf. Ps. i. 1.

⁹ cf. 1 Tim. vi. 12.

¹⁰ Is. xxii. 4.

¹ To be ranked with the preceding.

² cf. note on Letter xlii. p. 145. Maran, Vit. S. Bas. cap. xii., regards this implied sojourn at Jerusalem as unfavourable to the genuineness of the letter; but supposing the letter to be genuine, and grounds to exist for doubting Basil to have spent any long time in the Holy Land, there seems no reason why "Jerusalem" may not be taken in a figurative sense for the companionship of the saints. See also Proleg. on Basil's baptism.

³ cf. Matt. v. 37.

⁴ John xvi. 33.

⁵ cf. Prov. vii. 22, 23, LXX.

⁶ Luke xiii. 27.

¹ Placed with the preceding.

² Jer. ix. 1.

³ Is. xxii. 2.

⁴ Deut. v. 21.

⁵ Matt. v. 28.

⁶ cf. Letter ccxvii. § 60.

⁷ Ta/gmata, with two mss. The alternative reading is pneu/mata.

⁸ cf. Heb. xi. 4.

⁹ Matt. xiv. 4.

¹⁰ 2 Tim. ii. 9.

¹¹ cf. 1 Tim. vi. 12.

¹² These words occur in the mss. after "moderate fare," below, where they make no sense. The Ben. Ed. conjectures that they may belong here.

¹³ Vide note above.

¹⁴ eph. ii. 2.

¹⁵ Is. i 21.

¹⁶ cf. Jer. xviii. 13.

¹⁷ cf. Hosea ii. 19.

¹⁸ The numfagwgo/j wasthe friend who conducted the bride form her parents'' or her own house to the bridegroom's. cf. Luc., Dial Deor. 20, 16.

¹⁹ Job iii. 25.

²⁰ 2 Cor xi. 2.

²¹ 2 Cor. xi. 3.

²² 1 Cor. vii. 34.

²³ 1 Cor. iii. 17.

²⁴ 1 Thess. v. 23.

²⁵ 1 Cor. vi. 15,

²⁶ Jer. ii. 10, 11.

²⁷ cf. Jer. ii. 12, 13, LXX.

²⁸ cf. Rom. vi. 19.

²⁹ cf. Hosea ii. 13.

³⁰ cf. Luke xvii. 2.

³¹ St. Basil has no idea of the image and likeness of God being a bodily likeness, as in the line of Xenophanes.

³² i.e. by the old Jewish law. Deut.xvii. 6. Adultery was not capital under the Lex Julia, but was made so by Constantine.

³³ cf,. Heb. x. 29.

³⁴ cf. Mark xiv. 21.

³⁵ cf. Matt. xviii. 7.

³⁶ Jer. viii. 4.

³⁷ Jer. iii. 7.

³⁸ Jer. viii. 22.

³⁹ Ps. I. 3.

⁴⁰ cf. John v. 29.

⁴¹ Dan. vii. 9, 10.