1717 According to the LXX.

1718 Amos vi. 4-6.

1719 Jerome's Vulgate version supplied from the Hebrew the omissions and removed the redundancies of the old Latin version. These were due to the uncertain text of the LXX., on which alone the old Latin version was founded.

1720 This statement is not borne out by the facts.

1721 Cf. Deut. vii. 13.

1722 proarqra.

1723 Lit. `with the heaven and with the earth 0' (Gen. i. 1). In Hebrew the preposition `with 0' is identical in form with the sign of the accus. Hence Aquila's rendering.

1724 Jerome apostrophises his critic.

1725 The famous grammarian and critic of Homer.

1726 Juv. i. 15.

1727 Oleum perdit et impensas qui bovem mittit ad ceroma.

1728 Rufinus and Melania, who were believed by Jerome to have instigated the theft. Their names are inserted in some copies.

1729 Plato, Apol. Soc. 21, 22.

1730 This saying is variously attributed to Chilon and others of the seven wise men of Greece.

1731 Matt. xii. 35.

1732 Luke vi. 44.

1733 Luke xiv. 10.

1734 Wisd. iv. 9.

1735 Nu. xi. 16.

1736 Story of Susannah.

1737 Acts ix. 15.

1738 1 Cor. xv. 10.

1739 Ps. lv. 13: Consessu substituted for consensu of the Vulgate.

1740 Virgil, Aen. xii. 603.

1741 Matt. xxiii. 27.

1742 Matt. xix. 21.

1743 Compare Letter LII.

1744 Cf. Luke xvi. 12.

1745 Cicero, pro Murena, V.

1746 Matt. xxiii. 37.

1747 Ps. xlvi. 4.

1748 Matt. v. 14.

1749 Gal. iv. 26.

1750 Phil. iii. 20., RV.

1751 Joh. iv. 24.

1752 Joh. iii. 8, RV. marg.

1753 Ps. xxiv. 1.

1754 Judg. vi. 36-40.

1755 Luke xiii. 29.

1756 Luke xvi. 22.

1757 Ps. lxxvi. 1.

1758 Ps. xix. 4.

1759 Only the second sentence was spoken in the temple: the first was uttered in the chamber of the last supper.

1760 Joh. xiv. 31.

1761 Matt. xxiii. 38.

1762 Luke xxi. 33.

1763 Jer. vii. 4.

1764 2 Cor. vi. 16.

1765 Rom. viii. 11.

1766 Luke xvii. 21.

1767 Hadrian died in 138 a.d.; Constantine became Emperor in 306 a.d.

1768 Ps. lxxxv. 11, Vulg.

1769 Ezek. viii. 14.

1770 For the tradition that Christ was born in a cave Justin Martyr is the earliest authority (dial. c. Try. 78).

1771 Adonis, killed by a boar and spending half his time in the upper, half in the lower world, is a type of summer overcoming and overcome by winter.

1772 Cf. Luke, vi.

1773 Acts iv. 37.

1774 Castella.

1775 Monachus, lit. "a solitary." Men frequently at this time made vows, especially those of celibacy, without entering a monastery.

1776 2 Kings vi. 1, 2 Kings vi. 2.

1777 Jer. xxxv.

1778 Jer. xxxv. 19.

1779 This title occurs only in the LXX.

1780 2 Kings, x. 15, 2 Kings, x. 16.

1781 Jer. xxxv. 11.

1782 Therasia, the wife of Paulinus is meant.

1783 Matt. x. 16.

1784 Matt. xv. 26.

1785 Matt. xxv. 40.

1786 Cicero, de Off. 11. xv.

1787 Probably a quotation from memory incorrectly made up from Lucan's `Nomina vana Catonis 0' (i. 313).

1788 Persius, iii. 30.

1789 Quintilian, Inst. Or. viii. Procm.

1790 Plautus, Curc. I. i. 55.

1791 Ps. cxix. 18.

1792 2 Cor. iii. 14, 2 Cor. iii. 15.

1793 i.e., the new testament as well as the old may have its true meaning concealed from some.

1794 Luke viii. 8, Luke viii. 10.

1795 Rev. iii. 7.