0'
3932 Tit. i. 5-7.
3933 Tim. iv. 14.
3934 AV. `of God.
0'
0' appointed by the apostles. (See Acts vi. and Sozomen H. E. vii. 19.)
0'
3935 1 Pet. v. 1, 1 Pet. v. 2. The last clause from RV.
3936 episkopoj.
3937 Mark iii. 17.
3938 Joh. xiii. 23.
3939 2 Joh. 1.
3940 3 Joh. 1.
3941 Orbis major est urbe.
3942 In this passage Jerome does his best to minimize the distinction between bishops and presbyters. Elsewhere also he stands up for the rights of the latter (see Letter LII.
3943 At Rome there were only seven, that having been the number of `servers
3944 Contrary to the eighteenth canon of Nicaea.
3945 Acts vi. 2.
3946 This analogy had become very common in Jerome's day. The germ of it is to be found in Clem. ad Cor. I. xl.
3947 1 Sam. xv. 11, 1 Sam. xv. 17.
3948 1 Cor. v. 1.
3949 2 Cor. xii. 21.
3950 Luke xvi. 13, Luke xvi. 16.
3951 Phil. iii. 19.
3952 Rom. ii. 4, Rom. ii. 5.
3953 Ex. v. 2.
3954 Ezek. xii. 27, Ezek. xii. 28.
3955 Ps. lxxiii. 11, Ps. lxxiii. 12.
3956 Ps. lxxiii. 13.
3957 So the Vulgate, from which Jerome quotes.
3958 Ps. lxxiii. 3-9.
3959 Cf. Matt. x. 23.
3960 Matt. x. 24, Matt. x. 25.
3961 Luke xxiii. 31.
3962 So the Latin.
3963 Mal. iii. 14, Mal. iii. 15, Mal. iii. 18.
3964 A writer and actor of mimes, probably in the first century of the Empire.
3965 Am. i. 3, LXX.
3966 Ezek. xxxiii. 11.
3967 Luke v. 31.
3968 Cf. Ezek. xvi. 6.
3969 Ex. xx. 5.
3970 Ezek. iii. 1: Ezek. ii. 9, 10, Vulg.
3971 Is. xxviii. 15.
3972 Isa. xxii. 12-14.
3973 1 Sam. xv. 11.
3974 Acts vi. 5.
3975 Rev. ii. 6, Rev. ii. 15.
3976 Women guilty of adultery were legally punishable with death until the time of Justinian.
3977 Ps. lxxxv. 11, Ps. lxxxv. 12.
3978 Mimus, scurra, atellanus.
3979 1 Cor. xi. 5, 1 Cor. xi. 6.
3980 At the Eucharistic service the gospel was commonly though not exclusively read by a deacon. (See Const. Apost. II. 57, 5, and Sozomen, H. C. VII. 19.)
3981 Gal. iv. 16.
3982 The goddess who in the Roman pantheon presided over funerals. The gladiators meant are the so-called bustuarii who were engaged to fight at the funeral pile (bustum) in honour of the dead.
3983 i. e. by the use of depilatories.
3984 Jer. iii. 3.
3985 Mal. iii. 7.
3986 Rev. iii. 17.
3987 Cf. Cyprian, Epist. ad Demet. xxv.
3988 Luke x. 30-34.
3989 Joh. xi. 39, Joh. xi. 44.
3990 Luke i. 79.
3991 Matt. ix. 27: cf. Luke xviii. 35-38.
3992 Mark x. 50.
3993 Isa. xxx. 15, LXX.
3994 Ps. li. 5, Ps. li. 7.
3995 Luke xiii. 11-13.
3996 Gen. iv. 7, LXX.
3997 An etymological allusion. Nod = `ebb and flow.
3998 Num. xxv. 6-8.
3999 2 Sam. xiii. 14.
4000 1 Kings xxi. 13.
4001 1 Kings xxi. 29.
4002 Ezek. xviii. 4.
4003 1 Sam. viii. 3.
4004 1 Sam. ii. 12-17, 1 Sam. ii. 22.
4005 1 Sam. iv. 18.
4006 2 Sam. vi. 6, 2 Sam. vi. 7.
4007 Sacerdotes, lit. priests.
4008 2 Cor. xi. 14, 2 Cor. xi. 15.
4009 Matt. vii. 15.
4010 i.e. to the church at large represented by individual virgins.
4011 Heb. vi. 6, Heb. vi. 7-8.