¹ It is very doubtful whether Cassian ever carried out the intention, of which he here speaks, of visiting the Thebaid. So far as we can trace the course of his wanderings, he does not seem to have penetrated farther into Egypt than the desert of Scete.

² Thennesus, a town at the Tanitic mouth of the Nile near Lake Menzaleh. For the description of the neighbouring country compare Conference VII. c. xxvi.

³ Archebius has already been mentioned in Conference VII. xxvi; and in the Institutes V. xxxvii., xxxviii., two stories are told illustrative of his kindness and goodness of disposition; but he is not known to us from any other source except Cassian's writings.

⁴ For the situation of Panephysis, see the note on the Institutes, Book IV. c. xxx.

⁵ Ps. cvi. (cvii.) 33 sq.

⁶ Chaeremon is perhaps the same person of whom a short account is given in the Lausiac History of Palladius, c. xcii.

⁷ Prov. viii. 13.

⁸ Ps. xxxiii. (xxxiv.) 23.

⁹ 1 Cor. xiii. 8.

¹⁰ 1 Pet. iv. 8.

¹¹ 1 Cor. xiii. 13.

¹² Prov. xvi. 4.

¹³ S. Luke xvii. 10.

¹⁴ S. Luke xv. 17-19.

¹⁵ S. John xvi. 15.

¹⁶ 1 Cor. iii. 22.

¹⁷ St. Matt. v. 48.

¹⁸ 1 John iv. 18, 19.

¹⁹ Mal. i. 6.

²⁰ S. Luke xii. 47.

²¹ Ps. cxv. 7, 8 (cxvi. 16, 17); xciii. (xciv.) 17.

²² S. Matt. v. 44.

²³ Ib. 45.

²⁴ 1 John iv. 17.

²⁵ 1 John iii. 9; v. 18.

²⁶ Ib. ver. 16.

²⁷ 1 John i. 8, 10.

²⁸ S. Luke xxiii. 34.

²⁹ Gal. vi. 2.

³⁰ 1 Cor. xiii. 4-7.

³¹ Prov. xii. 10 (LXX.).

³² Prov. xiii. 17; xxi. 13.

³³ Ps. xxxiii. (xxxiv.) 10.

³⁴ Ps. cxviii. (cxix.) 112.

³⁵ Heb. xi. 24-26.

³⁶ 1 Cor. xv. 41, 42.

³⁷ Ps. cxxvii. (cxxviii.) 1.

³⁸ 1 John iv. 18.

³⁹ Ps. ii. 11; Is. xlix. 6; S. Matt. xxiv. 46.

⁴⁰ S. John xv. 14, 15.

⁴¹ S. John xv. 13.

⁴² Ps. lxxxiii. (lxxxiv.) 8.