⁹ Oracularepresenting the lo/gia of the New Testament (viz. Acts vii. 38, Rom. iii. 2, &c.).

¹⁰ Cf. Ep. xxviii. (Tome) 5, aperto per militis lanceam latere crucifixi intelligat unde sanguis et aqua fluxerit ut ecclesia Dei et lavacro rigaretur et poculo, and almost immediately afterwards, where he interprets the spirit, water and blood of 1 S. John v. 8, as spiritus sanctificationis et sanguis redemptionis et aqua baptismatis.

¹¹ 1 John iv. 2, 3: see Letter XXVIII. (Tome) 5, n. 7, on the various reading.

¹² Exequentes apostolicoe pietatis exemplum.

¹³ 2 Cor. xi. 29; Rom. xii. 15.

¹⁴ Ps. cxlvi. 7,8.

¹ Narratio evangeticoe lectionis. This, according to Bright's n. 46 (q.v.) "refers to the reading of passages of Scripture by the Lector as a part of the church service."

² Is. lii. 10,15.

³ Rom. viii. 35.

⁴ Cf. Tertullian's famous boast in his Apologeticus (chap. 1., 76), semen est Christianorum sanquis, and Leo's own words again, Serm. LXXXII. 6, non minuitur persecutionibus ecclesia sed augetur.

⁵ The warning of this chapter is insisted on not only by Leo himself often elsewhere (see references in Bright's note 51), but, among others doubtless, by Cyprian in more than one passage esp. in De Lapsis, where he accuses even the clergy of worldliness in the strongest terms.

⁶ Cf. Cypr. de lapsis v. traditam nobis divinitus disciplinam pax longa corruperat.

⁷ Titus i. 16.

⁸ Ps. vi. 6.

⁹ Ib. cxlv. 14,19.

¹⁰ Ib. cxlv. 14,19.

¹ Cf. Gal. v. 17: and below, Rom. vi. 12.

² Cf. Gal. v. 17: and below, Rom. vi. 12.

³ 1 S. John iv. 4.

⁴ Ut audistis, viz. in the Gospel for Quadragesima, or the First Sunday in Lent then apparently as now S. Matt. iv. 1-11: cf. Serm. XL. 3.

⁵ Ecclus. ii. 1.

⁶ Eph. vi. 12.

⁷ Eph. vi. 14-17.

⁸ S. Matt. xv. 13.

⁹ S. Matt. vi. 12, 14, 15.

¹⁰ S. Matt. vi. 12, 14, 15.

¹¹ Cf. 1 Cor. v. 8.

¹ 2 Cor. vi. 2 from the Epistle for the First Sunday in Lent: cf. Serm. XXXVI. I, n. 7.

² Viz. by baptism at the Easter festival.

³ Ut evangelica patefecit historia, cf. Serm. XXXIX. 3, n. 8.

⁴ S. Matt. iv. 3.

⁵ Ib. iv. 4, quoted from Deut. viii. 3.

⁶ S. Matt. v. 6.