0' See note on Letter LXX.
2567 The doctrine alluded to is probably that of the Trinity.
2568 i.e. the Bishops present at Nicaea.
2569 The founder of a Gnostic sect in the second century. He taught first in Egypt and afterwards in Rome.
2570 See note on Letter XLVIII.
2571 The Montanists were so called because the headquarters of their sect were at Pepuza a small village in Phrygia.
2572 Croesus when he asked whether he should resist Cyrus was told that, if he did so, he would overthrow a mighty kingdom, a prophecy fulfilled in his own destruction; while Pyrrhus long afterwards received an equally evasive answer in the words, "Pyrrhus the Sons of Rome may well defeat."
2573 1 Cor. xv. 40.
2574 Article XI. of the Apostles' Creed speaks in the original forms of the resurrection not of "the body" but of "the flesh:" and it is still found in this shape in the Anglican office for the visitation of the sick.
2575 Cf. Matt. xxii. 30.
2576 Cf. Luke xxiv. 39.
2577 A favourite metaphor with Jerome to describe the nature of Christian penitence.
2578 Ps. xcv. 6, Vulg.
2579 AV. `prove.
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2580 1 Thess. v. 21.
2581 See note on above.
2582 Acts iii. 21.
2583 See Jerome's preface to his version of Origen's Homilies on Ezekiel: and his preface to his own Treatise on Hebrew Names. See also Letter XXXIII.
2584 Origen died at Tyre about the year 255 a.d.
2585 See note on Letter LXX.
2586 tomoi.
2587 Tractatus.
2588 Hexaëmeron: an account of the creation is meant.
2589 Gen. xxxiv. 30.
2590 His father Leonides suffered martyrdom in the persecution of Severus.
2591 Rom. x. 2.
2592 i.e. Judas the Gaulonite whose fanatical rising against the Romans is mentioned in Acts v. 37.
2593 Hor. A. P. 359, 360.
2594 Cf. Gal. i. 8.
2595 Rom. i. 8.
2596 The (traditional) founders of the Roman Church.
2597 Jerome was baptized at Rome about the year 367 a.d.
2598 Pelusiotae, men of Pelusium, supposed to be derived from phloj, "clay." See Jerome's Comm. on Jer. xxix. 14-20.
2599 Gal. iv. 26.
2600 See the description of Rufinus in Letter CXXV. 18.
2601 Matt v. 44 from memory.
2602 This treatise the joint work of Eusebius and his friend Pamphilus has perished. Part of the Latin version of Rufinus still remains. Jerome at this time erroneously supposed that the two friends had written separate works in defence of Origen. (See De VV. Ill. c. 75, 81, in vol. iii. of this series.)
2603 In accordance with this edict (promulgated in 88 b.c.) all the Romans in Pontus were massacred in one day.
2604 This letter is no longer extant.
2605 A wealthy Alexandrian, who employed shorthand writers to take down Origen's lectures. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. B. vi. c. 23.
2606 If the text is sound here Jerome is again misled by supposing that Eusebius and Pamphilus had written separate books in defence of Origen.
2607 Eusebius calls himself Eusebius Pamphili, that is, `the friend of Pamphilus.
2608 Rom. ix. 16.
2609 1 Cor. vii. 14.
2610 Cf. Hor. S. II. viii. 21.
2611 Dionysius of Heraclea called the renegade because he abandoned the Stoic for the Cyrenaic school.
2612 Isa. v. 20.
2613 Ad. Ux. ii. 2.
2614 AV. `purified.
2615 2 Sam. xi. 4.