799 Ezek. xviii. 20.

800 Ezek. xviii. 4.

801 Ex. xx. 5.

802 Ps. lxxiii. 13, Ps. lxxiii. 14.

803 Ps. lxxiii. 16, Ps. lxxiii. 17.

804 Ps. xxxvi. 6.

805 Rom. xi. 33.

806 Job i. 21.

807 Ps. cxix. 137.

808 Ps. xcvii. 8.

809 Rom. x. 10.

810 2 Cor. xii. 8, 2 Cor. xii. 9, 2 Cor. xii. 10.

811 Cf. Tertullian, Apol. 33.

812 Acts ix. 15.

813 Wisd. iv. 11, Wisd. iv. 14.

814 2 Cor. v. 4.

815 2 Cor. v. 6.

816 Ps. cxx. 5, 6, Vulg.

817 Joh. i. 5.

818 Eph. v. 8.

819 A famous stoic who committed suicide in extreme old age. See Diogenes Laertius (vii. I) for an account of his death.

820 An academic philosopher of Ambracia, who is said to have killed himself after reading the Phaedo of Plato.

821 Cato of Utica, who, after the battle of Thapsus (46 b.c.), committed suicide to avoid failing into the hands of Caesar.

822 Isa. lxvi. 2.

823 Jon. ii. 2-7.

824 1 Thess. iv. 13.

825 Viz. Paulina, wife of Praetextatus and priestess of Ceres. See Letter XXIII.

826 Gen. xxxvii. 35.

827 2 Sam. xviii. 33.

828 Deut. xxxiv. 8.

829 Nu. xx. 29.

830 Gen. iii. 24: cf. Ezek. i. 15-20. Here as in his Comm. on Eccles. iii. 16-22, Jerome follows Origen, who, in his homily de Engastrimytho, lays down that until Christ came to set them free the patriarchs, prophets, and saints of the Old Testament were all in hell.

831 Apud inferos-Luke xvi. 23.

832 2 Sam. xvii. 1-4.

833 Acts viii. 2.

834 Gen. 1. 7-10.

835 Nu. xx. 29; Deut. xxxiv. 6-8.

836 Josh. xxiv. 30.

837 Ad inferos. Hades is meant, not Gehenna.

838 Rom. v. 14.

839 The Greek form of Joshua. Cf. Acts vii. 45, A. V.

840 I learn from Dr. Neubauer, of Oxford, that this is still a practice during mourning among the Jews of the East. He refers to Tur Joreh Deah. §378.

841 Gen. xxv. 34.

842 Gal. iii. 27.

843 1 Pet. ii. 9.

844 Lev. x. 6, Lev. x. 12.

845 Lev. xxi. 10-12.

846 Luke ix. 59-62.

847 Lev. xxi. 12, Vulg.

848 1 Joh. ii. 27.

849 Gen. xii. 1-4.

850 Ruth i.

851 Matt. i. 5.

852 Or Melania. She went with Rufinus to the East, and settled with him on the Mt. of Olives; and incurred Jerome's resentment as Rufinus' friend. See Ep. cxxxiii. 3. "She whose name of blackness attests the darkness of her perfidy."

853 Mark v. 39.

854 Luke xxiv. 5.

855 Joh. xx. 17.

856 Luke ii. 36, Luke ii. 37.

857 Isa. xx. 2.

858 Jer. xiii. 6, Jer. xiii. 7.

859 Ezek. iv. 9-16.

860 Ezek. xxiv. 15-18.

861 Amos vii. 12, Amos vii. 13.

862 Gal. iv. 16.

863 John vi. 60, John vi. 66.

864 Nasus. A play on the name Onasus.

865 Cf. Persius, l. 33.

866 Virg. A. vi. 497.

867 Onasus means "lucky" or "profitable;" it is another form of Onesimus.

868 Quoted from Quintilian i. 6, 34 (lucus a non lucendo).

869 Parcae, from parcere, to spare.

870 Eumenides, the Greek name for the Furies.

871 Pers. ii. 37, 38.

872 Montanus lived at Ardaban, in Phrygia, in the second half of the second century, and founded a sect of prophetic enthusiasts and ascetics, which was afterward joined by Tertullian.

873 Joh. xiv. 28; Joh. xv. 26.

874 Acts ii. 14-18.

875 Matt. xvi. 18.