3571 Ps. civ. 29.

3572 Ps. cxlvi. 4.

3573 Luke xii. 20.

3574 The Canaanite name for Jerusalem.

3575 By Alaric the Goth, 408 a.d.

3576 By Alaric, 410 a.d.

3577 Isa. xv. 1.

3578 Ps. lxxix. 1. LXX.

3579 Ps. lxxix. 1-3.

3580 Virg. A. ii. 361.

3581 Virg. A. vi. 266.

3582 Job 1. 21, LXX.

3583 Spes in ea magis laudanda est quam res. Cic. de Rep. Jerome again quotes the words in Letter CXXX.

3584 cf. Hor. 1 S. i. 25, 26.

3585 Numb. xi. 4, Numb. xi. 20, Numb. xi. 31.

3586 Prov. v. 3.

3587 Rev. x. 9. Rev. x. 10.

3588 Lev. ii. 11.

3589 Ex. xxvii. 20.

3590 Ex. xii. 8.

3591 1 Cor. v. 8.

3592 Jer. xv. 17, LXX.

3593 1 Cor. vii. 24.

3594 1 Cor. vii. 18.

3595 Gen. iii. 21.

3596 Gen. iii. 25.

3597 Thess. iv. 4.

3598 Jer. ii. 13, Cisternas dissipates.

3599 Prov. v. 15.

3600 1 Cor. vii. 21, 1 Cor. vii. 22.

3601 1 Pet. iii. 7.

3602 Eph. v. 13, R. V.

3603 Male pacatae, a pun on Pacatula, which means `Little Peaceful. 0'

3604 Lanifica. Cf. the well-known epitaph on a Roman matron: "She stayed at home and spun wool."

3605 Already quoted in Letter CVII.

3606 cf. Letter CXXIII. 15.

3607 Nu. xvi. 46-48, Vulg.

3608 Ex. xxxii. 10.

3609 Rom. ix. 3.

3610 Isa. xxiv. 2.

3611 Ex. xxxii. 32.

3612 Prov. xiv. 28.

3613 Cicero in his Dialogue on the Republic. Cf. Or. xxx.

3614 Rom. xii. 1.

3615 Pontifex.

3616 2 Cor. xi. 2.

3617 Ps. xlv. 9, Ps. xlv. 13, Ps. xlv. 14.

3618 i.e. After receiving the veil.

3619 Cant. i. 4.

3620 Ps. xlv. 13.

3621 1 Cor. iii. 6.

3622 In the year 395 a.d.

3623 Which took place before the fall of Rome in 410 a.d.

3624 Matt. xi. 8.

3625 2 Kings i. 8: Matt. iii. 4.

3626 Matt. xi. 14: Luke i. 17.

3627 Luke i. 41.

3628 Matt. xi. 7-14. Jerome here borrows a phrase from Cyprian, de Op. et El. xv.

3629 Luke ii. 36, Luke ii. 37.

3630 Acts xxi. 9.

3631 Esther xiv. 16.

3632 A virgin 13 years old beheaded at Rome uncier Diocletian after vain efforts first made to overcome her faith by subjecting herto assault and outrage.

3633 See §7 for the cruelties of the Count Heraelian.

3634 Quam habitura pronubam?

3635 Wedding songs so called from the place of their origin, Fescennia in Etruria. See Catullus LXI. for the several customs here mentioned.

3636 1 John iv. 18.

3637 Eph. vi. 14-17.