⁶⁰ Ezek. ii. 9 [LXX.].

⁶¹ Eccles. vii. 4.

⁶² S. Luke vi. 21.

⁶³ Mic. vii. 2 [LXX.].

⁶⁴ Prov. xviii. 17.

⁶⁵ S. John xi. 34.

⁶⁶ S. John xi. 34.

⁶⁷ S. John xi. 43.

⁶⁸ Rom. x. 10.

⁶⁹ S. John xi. 47.

⁷⁰ S. John xii. 10.

⁷¹ S. John xii. 3.

⁷² 1 Cor. xii. 27.

⁷³ 2 Cor. xiii. 3.

⁷⁴ 1 Cor. v. 1.

⁷⁵ 2 Cor. ii. 10.

⁷⁶ 2 Cor. ii. 15.

⁷⁷ S. John xii. 4.

⁷⁸ S. Luke xv. 24.

⁷⁹ S. Matt. ix. 11, Matt. ix. 12.

⁸⁰ Cant. i. 2.

⁸¹ Ps. vi. 6.

⁸² Obed. 12.

⁸³ Gen. xxxviii. 26.

⁸⁴ Rom. vii. 23 ff.

⁸⁵ S. Matt. vii. 4, Matt. vii. 5.

⁸⁶ Mic. vii. 8, Mic. vii. 9, Mic. vii. 10.

⁸⁷ Mic. vii. 1.

⁸⁸ Acts v. 1, Acts v. 2.

⁸⁹ S. Luke xxi. 3.

⁹⁰ S. Matt. vii. 6.

⁹¹ A good deal of controversy has arisen about this passage, which certainly appears, prima facie, to contrast confession to God and to a man obviously priest or bishop. The Benedictine editors insist much upon the use of the singular number, homini, a man. But the word might conceivably be used in a general sense. There is no real doubt as to the practice of the Early Church. See note at the end of this treatise.

⁹² Ps. cii. [ci.] 9.

⁹³ Ps. cxix. [cxviii.] 136.

⁹⁴ Rev. v. 4.

⁹⁵ Rev. xvii. 4.

⁹⁶ S. Matt. xvi. 24.

⁹⁷ Col. ii. 21. We have here an instance of a very extreme kind, of the way in which St. Ambrose and other writers occasionally quote the words of holy Scripture without reference to their context or real meaning. The words suit the argument of St. Ambrose and he uses them. But they mean almost the very opposite in the original. They are part of the argument which St. Paul is opposing, not his argument.