[3397] Luke xxiii. 43.
[3398] Joh. xiii. 26.
[3399] Matt. xxvi. 49.
[3400] Joh. iv.
[3401] Lev. ii. 13.
[3402] Col. iv. 6.
[3403] Matt. v. 13.
[3404] Luke xiv. 35.
[3405] Luke ix. 62.
[3406] Acts x. 3-16.
[3407] Matt. v. 8.
[3408] 1 Tim. vi. 10.
[3409] Gal. v. 15.
[3410] Lybicæ Syrtes.
[3411] An important city of Abyssinia in Jerome's day, 120 miles from the Red Sea. It is now in ruins.
[3412] Gen. ii. 11.
[3413] Matt. xiii. 45-46; vi. 19, 20.
[3414] The Old Comedy at Athens ridiculed citizens by name. Most of the extant plays of Aristophanes belong to it.
[3415] Pietas.
[3416] Virgil, Æn. iv. 67.
[3417] Pontifex.
[3418] Mark i. 6.
[3419] 2 Kings iv. 38, 39; vi. 1, 2.
[3420] i.e. garden.'
[3421] Matt. xviii. 8, 9.
[3422] Matt. v. 28.
[3423] Prov. xx. 9.
[3424] Job xxv. 5, 6.
[3425] Isa. xxxiv. 5, R.V.
[3426] Gen. iii. 18.
[3427] Acts ix. 15.
[3428] 1 Cor. ix. 27.
[3429] Rom. vii. 24.
[3430] Prov. iv. 23.
[3431] Luke viii. 21.
[3432] 1 Sam. i. 27, 28.
[3433] Jer. xxxv. 6, 7.
[3434] See Letter LVIII. § 5 and note there.
[3435] An allusion to the word monachus,' solitary' or monk.'
[3436] Acts vii. 29, 30.
[3437] Matt. iv. 19.
[3438] Rom. xii. 1.
[3439] Letter LII.
[3440] Cf. Letter CXXX. § 17.
[3441] Rom. xiv. 4.
[3442] 2 Kings vi. 5, 6.
[3443] Ex. xv. 23, 27.
[3444] 1 Sam. xxv. 38.
[3445] Luke xii. 20.
[3446] 1 Thess. v. 17.
[3447] Ps. xix. 13.
[3448] 1 Cor. ix. 14.
[3449] 1 Thess. ii. 9; 1 Cor. iv. 12.
[3450] 1 Cor. ix. 11.
[3451] Virg., G. i. 108-10.
[3452] Prov. vi. 8, LXX.
[3453] Prov. xiii. 4, LXX.
[3454] Ezek. xvi. 25.
[3455] Cf. Letter XXII. § 7.
[3456] In Letter XVIII. § 10 Jerome speaks of his teacher as one so learned in the Hebrew language that the very scribes regarded him as a Chaldæan (i.e., as a graduate of the Babylonian school of Rabbinic learning).
[3457] 2 Cor. ii. 7.
[3458] Cic., T. Q. iv. 35.
[3459] Esth. ii. 1-4.
[3460] Ps. xxxiv. 14.
[3461] Phil. iv. 7.
[3462] Ps. lxxvi. 2, LXX.
[3463] Rom. xii. 13, R.V. marg.
[3464] Pliny, N. H. x. 32.
[3465] Romulus and Remus, the first of whom slew the second.
[3466] Gen. xxv. 22.
[3467] When Jerome wrote, these terms had but recently come into use in the West; no doubt, however, the offices described by them were of older date. Archpresbyters seem to have been the forerunners of those who are now called "rural deans."
[3468] 1 Cor. xiv. 15.
[3469] Eph. v. 19.
[3470] Ps. xlvii. 7.
[3471] Deut. xxvii. 9, R.V.
[3472] Cic., Off. 1. 36.
[3473] Caninam exercent facundiam. The phrase recurs in Letter CXXXIV. § 1.
[3474] See also Lactantius, vi. 18.
[3475] The most celebrated physician of antiquity.
[3476] 1 Tim. vi. 8.
[3477] 'agoranmoi .
[3478] Phil. iii. 13.
[3479] Imitated from Persius (I. 58-60).
[3480] i.e., Rufinus who was now dead. The nickname is taken from a burlesque very popular in Jerome's day entitled "The Porker's Last Will and Testament." In this the testator's full name is set down as Marcus Grunnius Corocotta, i.e., Mark Grunter Hog. In the beginning of the twelfth book of his commentary on Isaiah Jerome mentions the "Testament" as being then a popular school book.
[3481] Plautus, Aulularia, I. 1. 10.
[3482] A Platonist of the third century after Christ, much celebrated for his learning and critical skill. "To judge like Longinus" became a synonym for accurate discrimination.
[3483] A martinet of the old school, who did his utmost to oppose what he considered the luxury of his age. He was censor in 184 b.c.
[3484] Lucr. V. 905, Munro. The words come first from Homer, Il. vi. 181.
[3485] Ps. cxli. 4, Vulg.
[3486] Ps. l. 20.
[3487] Ps. lvii. 4.
[3488] Ps. lv. 21.
[3489] Eccl. x. 11, R.V. marg.
[3490] Ps. cxli. 4.
[3491] Gal. vi. 7.
[3492] 1 Sam. xvi. 7.
[3493] Prov. xxv. 23.
[3494] Ps. lxxviii. 57.
[3495] Ecclus. xxvii. 25.
[3496] Isa. xxxiii. 15.
[3497] Prov. xxiv. 21, 22 Vulg.
[3498] 1 Tim. v. 19, 20 (inexact).
[3499] Ps. cxli. 5. LXX.
[3500] Heb. xii. 6.
[3501] Isa. iii. 12. LXX.
[3502] Matt. xviii. 15-17.
[3503] Eph. v. 27.
[3504] 2 Cor. xi. 2.
[3505] Matt. xxv. 1-10.
[3506] He was bishop of Massilia (Marseilles).
[3507] Num. xx. 17.
[3508] Isa. xxvi. 12. LXX.
[3509] Bishop of Toulouse. See Letter LIV. 11, and Pref. to Comm. on Zech.
[3510] 1 Kings xvii. 8-16.
[3511] John ii. 14-16; Matt. xxi. 12, 13.
[3512] Gen. xii. 1; Heb. xi. 8.