[3218] Cf. Letter LX. § 6.
[3219] Letters LIV., LXXV., LXXIX., and others.
[3220] Ageruchia = Greatheart.
[3221] Luke ii. 36, 37.
[3222] See Letter XLVIII., § 2; also § 9 infra.
[3223] Cf. Letter LXXVII. § 3.
[3224] 1 Tim. v. 14, 15.
[3225] 1 Tim. v. 9, 10.
[3226] 1 Tim. v. 5.
[3227] 1 Tim. v. 11, 12.
[3228] 1 Tim. v. 14, 15.
[3229] So Vulg.
[3230] Ovid, Am. iii. 2, 83.
[3231] 1 Cor. vii. 8, 9.
[3232] Cf. Letters XLVIII. § 19, and LXXIX. § 10.
[3233] So R.V. marg.
[3234] 1 Cor. vii. 39, 40, cf. Rom. vii. 2.
[3235] 2 Cor. vi. 14-16.
[3236] Deut. xxii. 10.
[3237] 1 Tim. v. 9.
[3238] 1 Cor. vii. 29.
[3239] 1 Tim. v. 3-5, 16.
[3240] 1 Tim. v. 17.
[3241] Ex. xx. 12.
[3242] Mark vii. 11.
[3243] Text corrupt: probably quasi' should be substituted for si.'
[3244] Cf. Luke xvi. 9.
[3245] A reminiscence of Tert. de Exh. Cast. vii.
[3246] 1 Cor. vii. 8, 9.
[3247] Jerome seems to be here relying on tradition.
[3248] Lev. xxii. 12, 13.
[3249] From Tert. de Exh. Cast. xiii.
[3250] Julian, Orat. v.
[3251] See Dict. Antiq. s.v. flamen.
[3252] The sacred bull of Memphis, generally called Apis.
[3253] Dido.
[3254] Who refused to survive the fall of Carthage. The story is told by Polybius.
[3255] See Livy, I. cc. 57, 58.
[3256] Against Jov. i. 20.
[3257] The battle of Aix was fought in 102 b.c.
[3258] The priestesses in these temples seem to have been vowed to chastity.
[3259] Val. Max. vi. 1.
[3260] Jer. iii. 3.
[3261] 2 Tim. ii. 20.
[3262] Matt. xiii. 8: for this explanation of the parable see Letter XLVIII. § 2.
[3263] See Letter XLVIII. § 2 and note there.
[3264] Luke xiii. 32.
[3265] Cf. Joh. iv. 18.
[3266] 1 Cor. vi. 12.
[3267] Matt. xix. 12.
[3268] Job i. 21.
[3269] Gen. ii. 21, 22.
[3270] Gen. ii. 24, LXX.
[3271] Eph. v. 31, 32.
[3272] Gen. iii. 20.
[3273] Gen. iv. 19.
[3274] Rev. ii. 9.
[3275] Cant. vi. 8, 9.
[3276] 2 Joh. i. In Latin choice' and elect' are one word.
[3277] 1 Pet. iii. 20, 21.
[3278] Gen. vii. 13.
[3279] Gen. vii. 2.
[3280] Gen. viii. 20.
[3281] Gen. xxxviii. 12-18.
[3282] Hos. i. 2, 3.
[3283] Cf. Jer. v. 8.
[3284] Luke xvii. 27-29.
[3285] Gen. i. 28; ix. 7.
[3286] 1 Cor. x. 11, R.V.
[3287] 1 Cor. vii. 29.
[3288] Matt. iii. 10.
[3289] Eccles. iii. 5.
[3290] Jer. xvi. 2.
[3291] Cf. Ezek. xxiv. 16-18, 27.
[3292] Ps. cxxviii. 3, 6.
[3293] 1 Cor. vi. 17.
[3294] Ps. lxiii. 8.
[3295] Matt. v. 38, 39.
[3296] Ps. xlv. 3.
[3297] Matt. xxvi. 52.
[3298] A gnostic of the second century who rejected the whole of the old testament as incompatible with the new.
[3299] Gal. iv. 22-26.
[3300] Gen. xxix. 17, 18.
[3301] Gen. xxv. 22, 23.
[3302] Gen. xxxviii. 27-30.
[3303] Eph. ii. 14.
[3304] Gomer the wife of Hosea.
[3305] Hos. ii. 7; iii. 3.
[3306] Rom. xi. 25, 26.
[3307] Virg. A. iv. 32-34: 548, 552.
[3308] From Tert. de Exh. Cast. xii.
[3309] Matt. vi. 33.
[3310] Matt. vi. 26, 28.
[3311] 1 Tim. v. 11.
[3312] 1 Tim. v. 2. Jerome substitutes love' for rebuke.'
[3313] Rom. xii. 17, cf. Letter cxvii. § 4.
[3314] Rom. ii. 24.
[3315] 1 Cor. ix. 5.
[3316] 1 Cor. x. 29.
[3317] 1 Cor. ix. 14.
[3318] 1 Cor. iv. 12; 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Cor. xii. 14.
[3319] 1 Cor. viii. 13.
[3320] Matt. vi. 25, 27, 34.
[3321] Gen. xxviii. 11-13.
[3322] Cf. Letters cviii. § 13 and cxviii. § 7.
[3323] Gen. xxxii. 7, 10.
[3324] Matt. x. 9, 10.
[3325] 2 Cor. vi. 10.
[3326] Acts iii. 6.
[3327] 1 Kings xix. 11-13, cf. Exod. xxxiii. 21-23.
[3328] Cf. Juv. i. 88.
[3329] Jerome follows Tertullian, Irenæus, and the majority of the fathers in supposing the apostle to allude to the Roman Empire. See Letter CXXI. § 11, Comm. in Hierem. xxv. 26, Comm. in Dan. vii. 7, 8.
[3330] 2 Thess. ii. 7, 8.
[3331] Matt. xxiv. 19.
[3332] Ps. lxxxiii. 8.
[3333] Now Maintz.
[3334] Now Worms.
[3335] Tribes whose memories linger in the names Amiens and Arras.
[3336] See note on Letter LIV. § 11.
[3337] Arcadius and Honorius.
[3338] Stilicho who induced the senate to grant a subsidy to the Gothic King Alaric. See Gibbon, C. xxx.
[3339] This, one of Jerome's few criticisms on the public policy of his day, shows him to have taken a narrow and inadequate view of the issues involved.
[3340] In the year 390 b.c.
[3341] i.e. Galatia.
[3342] The great Carthaginian general in the second Punic war.
[3343] King of Epirus who invaded Italy in the years 280, 279, 276, 275 b.c.
[3344] Hannibal.
[3345] Pyrrhus.
[3346] Lucan, Phars. v. 274.
[3347] Virg. A. vi. 625-627.
[3348] See note on Letter CXXX. § 5.
[3349] 1 Tim. v. 13.
[3350] Phil. iii. 19.
[3351] Letter XXII.
[3352] Letter LIV.
[3353] Letter LXXIX.