¹⁶³ Rhagas vel exochas.

¹⁶⁴ Megalius, Bishop of Calama and Primate of Numidia, by whom two years before Augustin had been ordained Bishop of Hippo. The reflections upon anger which follow the allusion here to the death of Megalius were probably suggested by the remembrance of an incident in the life of that bishop. While Augustin was a presbyter, Megalius had written in anger a letter to him for which he afterwards apologized, formally retracting calumny which it contained.

¹⁶⁵ Matt. vi. 6.

¹⁶⁶ Eph. iv. 26.

¹⁶⁷ [Papa.]

¹⁶⁸ John xvi. 33.

¹⁶⁹ [Velut officiosa mendacia.]

¹⁷⁰ Gal. i. 20.

¹⁷¹ Gal. ii. 14.

¹⁷² [Obolis meis.]

¹⁷³ 1 Cor. ix. 20.

¹⁷⁴ Gal. ii. 14.

¹⁷⁵ Rom. x 3.

¹⁷⁶ 2 Macc. vii. 1.

¹⁷⁷ Phil. iii. 8.

¹⁷⁸ 1 Cor. ix. 22.

¹⁷⁹ 2 Cor. xi. 29.

¹⁸⁰ The reference here is to the story of the poet Stesichorus, who, having lost his sight as a judgment for writing an attack on Helen,was miraculously healed when he wrote a poem in retractation.

¹⁸¹ [Epist. XXVIII.]

¹⁸² See Letter XXVIII. sec. 5.

¹⁸³ Ps. cxxvi. 1.

¹⁸⁴ Matt. v. 16.

¹⁸⁵ Ps. cxxii. 1.

¹⁸⁶ 1 Cor. ix. 13.

¹⁸⁷ Ps. xciv. 19.

¹⁸⁸ On this work of Tychonius, see Augustin, De Doctrina Christiana, b. iii., in which these seven keys for the opening of Scripture are stated and examined.

¹⁸⁹ See Epistle XXXI. p. 258.

¹⁹⁰ Tit. iii. 10, 11.

¹⁹¹ 1 Thess. iii. 12.

¹⁹² 2 Tim. ii. 25, 26.

¹⁹³ Matt. v. 9.

¹⁹⁴ Tubursi, a town recently identified' half-way between Calama and Madaura.

¹⁹⁵ They asked judges from Gaul, as a country in which none had been guilty of surrendering the sacred books under pressure of persecution. The bishops appointed were Maternus of Agrippina, Rheticius of Augustodunum, and Marinus of Arles. They were sent to Rome with fifteen Italian bishops; Melchiades, Bishop of Rome, presided in their meeting in A.D. 313, and acquitted Caecilianus.

¹⁹⁶ "In qua semper apostolicae cathedrae viguit principatus." The use in the translalion of the indefinite article, "an apostolic chair," is vindicated by the language of Augustin in sec 26 of this letter regarding Carthage, and by the words in Letter CCXXXII. sec. 3: "Christianae societatis quae per sedes apostolorum et successiones episcoporum certa per orbem propagatione diffunditur."

¹⁹⁷ Rom. ii. 1.

¹⁹⁸ Ecclus. xi. 7.

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