²²⁹ Cf. Greg. Nyss., in Maxim.; Nemes., ch. 29.

²³⁰ Nemes., ch. 30.

²³¹ Ibid., ch. 31.

²³² Ibid., ch. 32.

²³³ Ibid., ch. 30.

²³⁴ Nemes., ch. 33.

²³⁵ rou= au0tecousi/ou. See also III. 34.

²³⁶ Nemes., ch. 39.

²³⁷ Text, tafron. Variant, ra/fon.

²³⁸ Text, pra/cewj. mss. pra/cewn, as in Nemesius.

²³⁹ peri\ tw=n ginome/nwn.

²⁴⁰ Nemes., ch. 40.

²⁴¹ ta\yuxika\ pa/nta.

²⁴² Nemes., ch. 37.

²⁴³ This is supplied by Combefis from Nemesius.

²⁴⁴ Nemes., ch. 41.

²⁴⁵ This sentence is omitted in Basil and some mss.

²⁴⁶ Nemesius speaks of this at greater length.

²⁴⁷ Wisd. i. 13.

²⁴⁸ Nemes., ch. 43.

²⁴⁹ Ibid., ch. 42.

²⁵⁰ Ps. cxxxv. 6.

²⁵¹ Rom. ix. 19.

²⁵² Nemes., ch. 44.

²⁵³ The words pa/nta e0painei=n are wanting in Cod. R. 2 and in Nemes., ch. 44.

²⁵⁴ kat 9 eu0doki/an.

²⁵⁵ kata\ sugxw/rhsin.

²⁵⁶ There is a hiatus here in Edit. Vernon. and in Cod. R. 2927. Various readings are found in other mss., some with no ssense and ohters evidently supplied by librarians. It is best supplied from Nemesius, ch. 44, th=j de\ sugxwrh\sew= polla\ ei!dh, "but there are many forms of concession."

²⁵⁷ Nemes, ch. 44.

²⁵⁸ Job i. II.

²⁵⁹ 2 Cor. ii. 7.

²⁶⁰ Nemes., ch. 44.

²⁶¹ St. Luke xvi. 19.

²⁶² St. John ix. I.

²⁶³ Nemes., ch. 37.

²⁶⁴ Cf. Nemes., c. 27; also Cicero's statement on Providence in the Academ. Quest.

²⁶⁵ See the reference in Migne.

²⁶⁶ St. Matt. xxvi. 24.

²⁶⁷ See Chrysostom, Hom. I, in Epist. ad. Ephes., and Hom. 18, in Epist. ad Hebraeos.

²⁶⁸ I Tim. ii. 4.

²⁶⁹ These words are wanting in two mss.

²⁷⁰ This last sentence is absent in one Codex.

²⁷¹ St. Matt. viii. 30 seqq.

²⁷² Chrys., Hom. 12 in Epist. ad. Ephes.

²⁷³ Cf. Maximus, Vita, n. 8; Just. Martyr, Apol. I; Tatian, Or. ad. ad Graecos; Prigen, Ep. ad Rom. I; Jerome, on Exek. c. xxiv., &c.

²⁷⁴ Act. S. Max.

²⁷⁵ Cf. Clem. Alex., Strom., bk. vi.; Jerome, on Ep. ad Gal., ch. I; Greg. Naz, Carmen de virt. hum.

²⁷⁶ Cf. Clem. Alex., Quis dives salvetar; Greg. Naz., Orat. 31; Chrysost., Hom. 45 in Joann., Hom. in Ep. ad Hebr. xii. 2, Hom. 15 in Ep. ad Rom.; Cyril, De ador. in Spir. et ver., p. 25; Petavius, Dogm., vol. i., bk. ix. c. 4, &c.

²⁷⁷ Cf. ingra,bk. iii. ch. 14.

²⁷⁸ o0 prognw/sthj Qeo/j. See Athanas., in Psalm I; Chrysost. in Hom. 18 in Gen.; Greg. Nyss., De opif. hom.; Athanas., Minor, Quest. 50 ad Antioch.; Thomas Aquinas I., Quaest. 98, Art. 2.