²³ Ps. cxxvii. 1.

²⁴ Ps. cxxi. 4.

²⁵ Gal. iii. 16.

²⁶ Gal. iii. 29.

²⁷ Gen. xii. 3 and xxii. 18.

²⁸ Luke xii. 35, 36.

²⁹ Mark xiii. 8.

³⁰ Luke i. 33.

³¹ Virg. Aeneid, i. 282-283 (Dryden).

³² Luke xxi. 33.

³³ Georg. ii. 489.

³⁴ Ad delicias.

³⁵ Matt. xxiii. 37.

³⁶ 1 Cor. iv. 12, 13.

³⁷ Ps. cxv. 4.

³⁸ Ps. cxv. 5.

³⁹ Tutelary goddess of Carthage. De Civit. Dei, ii. 4 and 26; Ps. 62, § 7, 98, § 14. Tert. Apol. i. 12, 24.

⁴⁰ By Alaric, Gibbon, vol. 4, 109, etc.

⁴¹ King of the Goths, who invaded Italy, A.D. 406, four years before the taking of Rome by Alaric, 410, Gibbon, Rom. Emp. vol. 4, 31-38.

⁴² Ps. xxxiv. 1.

¹ Luke xi. 39.

² Acts xv. 9.

³ 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.

⁴ Luke xi. 41.

⁵ Matt. xxiii. 23.

⁶ Luke xi. 42.

⁷ Ecclus. xxx. 23, Vulgate.

⁸ Matt. xxii. 37, etc.

⁹ John vi. 41.

¹ pa/shj, for th=j, pleoneciaj-A. B. D. K. L. M. Q. X., etc., Verss. ap. Scholz. Griesbach regards it as the more probable reading. [Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort read pa/shj with )

² Luke xii. 15.

³ Luke xii. 13.

⁴ Ps. lxxxii. 6.

⁵ Luke xii. 14.

⁶ 1 Cor. i. 10.

⁷ 1 Cor. i. 12, 13.

⁸ Luke xii. 15.

⁹ Luke xii. 16.

¹⁰ Successerat.

¹¹ Luke xii. 18, 19.

¹² Luke xii. 20.

¹³ Iniquius.

¹⁴ Vid. Serm. xxii. (lxxii. Ben.) 4 (iii.); xxxii. (lxxxii. Ben.) 14 (xi.); xxxv. (lxxxv. Ben).

¹⁵ Casulem.

¹⁶ Ventres.

¹⁷ Ezek ix. 4.

¹⁸ Against the Donatists.

¹⁹ Ezek ix. 6.

²⁰ Divinitate.

²¹ In allusion to the Circumcelliones amongst the Donatists. See ab. p. 305, note.

²² Quibus male inhaesisti.

²³ Proscribor.

²⁴ Job i. 21.

²⁵ Ps. cxxxii. 9.

²⁶ Wisd. i. 11.

¹ Matt. xxviii. 20.

² Rom. vi. 9.

³ John i. 10.

⁴ The troubles through the incursions of the barbarian tribes, as heralds of the end. See St. Cyprian, Ad Demetr. 2, p. 201, Oxf. tr.; De Mort. v. 2, p. 216, 7.

⁵ Matt. v. 15.

⁶ Matt. v. 16.