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876 Acts xxi. 9.

877 Acts xi. 28; Acts xxi. 10, Acts xxi. 11.

878 1 Cor. xii. 28; cf. Eph. iv. 11.

879 A presbyter of the Libyan Pentapolis who taught at Rome in the early years of the third century. He "confounded the persons" of the Trinity and was subsequently accounted a heretic. Cf. Letter XV.

880 1 Tim. v. 14.

881 Viz. the period between Easter Day and Whitsunday.

882 Called by the Montanists the New Jerusalem.

883 Oeconomos-according to a probable emendation. The text has cenonas.

884 Ezek. xviii. 23.

885 Jer. viii. 4.

886 Jer. iii. 22.

887 Mysteria.

888 Victuro martyre confarrata. The precise meaning of the words is obscure.

889 Some suppose him to have been a priest of Cybele, but it would be a mistake to lay too much stress on Jerome's words.

890 1 Cor. xiii. 9, 1 Cor. xiii. 12.

891 Novatian, a Roman presbyter in the middle of the third century, held that the "lapsed," who had failed during the persecutions, could not be readmitted to the church. His sect upheld an extreme moral puritanism, as is shown in the speech of Constantine to their bishop at the Council of Nicaea: "Acesius, you should set up a ladder to heaven, and go up by yourself alone."

892 Matt. xii. 32.

893 Matt. xxi. 33.

894 Matt. xviii. 11.

895 Matt. xii. 25, Matt. xii. 26.

896 Matt. xii. 24.

897 Viz. denial of Christ by Christians.

898 Matt. xxvi. 74.

899 Matt. xxvi. 33-35; Joh. xiii. 38.

900 Joh. xxi. 15-17.

901 Viz. Matt. xii. 32, quoted above.

902 Commentariolum.

903 For the meaning of these epithets as applied to Origen see Letter XXXIII.

904 Luke xii. 20.

905 Nummus. Sc. Sestertius = 4 cents = 2 pence.

906 Obolus = 3 1-2 cents = 1 penny 3 farthings.

907 Ps. lxxiii. 20, Vulg.

908 Gen. i. 26.

909 These were worn by both Greek and Roman actors.

910 Joh. xv. 19.

911 Ps. lxxiii. 28.

912 Senatus Matronarum. Comp. Letter XXXIII. 4: "Rome calls together its senate to condemn him."

913 Ps. lxxiii. 25.

914 Cf. Col. ii. 5.

915 Cf. Letter CXXX.

916 Matt. xxv. 1.

917 Ps. xxiii. 5, according to the Gallican psalter.

918 Eccles. x. 1, Vulg.

919 Rom. xiv. 4.

920 Ps. ii. 4.

921 Cf. 1 Sam. xii. 3.

922 Damasus meus sermo erat, or "spoke of none but me."

923 Ironical.

924 Matt. vii. 3.

925 Joh. xv. 18.

926 Haggai i. 1.

927 Ps. cxxxvii. 4.

928 Luke x. 30-35.

929 Joh. viii. 48.

930 Joh. viii. 49.

931 I.e. Paul. See 2. Cor. vi. 9.

932 1 Cor. x. 13.

933 He means the sin of incontinence.

934 2 Cor. vi. 8.

935 Rom. xiv. 10.

936 Sus Minervam.

937 2 Esdras. i. 30; Matt. xxiii. 37.

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