42 Prov. xiv. 6; Deut. xxxii. 31; Prov. xxi. 30 (LXX.).
44 Eph. vi. 12; 1 Cor. ix. 26; 2 Tim. iv. 7.
45 Ps. cxxxix. (cxl.) 10.; vii. 17; xxxiv. (xxxv.) 8.
46 Ps. xii. (xiii.) 4, 5; xxxiv. (xxxv.) 24, 28; 16, 17; ix. (x.) 9; ciii. (civ.) 21.
47 Ps. xxxix. (xl.) 15; xxiv. (xxv.) 26; xxix. (xl.), 15.
54 So centuries later it is told of a Jesuit father that when one wanted to relax the strictness of his fast, he replied, "Eat an ox, but be a Christian."
55 Is. i. 25, 26; Prov. xvii. 3 (LXX.); Ecclus. ii. 5; Heb. xii. 6.
56 On Macarius see the note on the Institutes V. xli.
63 The question whether the Holy Communion should ever be given to those possessed is discussed by S. Thomas Aquinas, in the Summa III. Q. lxxx. Art. 9, and answered in the affirmative, the authorities quoted in its favour being this passage from Cassian, and the third Canon of the 1st Council of Orange (a.d. 441).
69 "Planoi/," "Seducers," if the reading be correct: but some mss. have "Fauni."
70 The origin of this term is obscure.
75 Cf. Is. xiii. 21, 22; xxxiv. 13, 15; Ps. xc. (xci.) 13; S. Luke x. 19; S. John xiv. 30. Eph. vi. 12.