[1532] S. John xxi. 23.
[1533] 1 Cor. xv. 53.
[1534] 1 Cor. xv. 36.
[1535] Scripturarum. It is impossible to suppose that St. Ambrose here means Holy Scripture, but is referring to such writers as Herodotus, Tacitus, and Pliny. Other Fathers, Tertullian, St. Cyril of Jerusalem, St. Basil, with several more, refer also to the fable of the Phoenix in speaking of the Resurrection.
[1536] St. Ambrose may have believed that the world would end with a.d. 1000, or possibly a thousand is simply taken as a number signifying completeness, as St. Augustine (De Civ. Dei, XX. 7) explains the thousand years of Rev. xx. 1.
[1537] 1 Cor. xv. 42 ff.
[1538] S. John xx. 29.
[1539] S. Matt. xx. 6.
[1540] 1 Cor. xv. 43.
[1541] Ps. cxlviii. 5.
[1542] The immortality of the soul may be believed by those who deny the resurrection of the body, and was taught by many philosophers amongst the heathen. The resurrection of the body is a matter of divine revelation, and the very highest and best amongst the heathen seem not to have admitted it even as a speculation.
[1543] Dan. xii. 1, 2, 3.
[1544] Job xix. 26. Somewhat loosely from the LXX.
[1545] Is. xxv. 8, 9.
[1546] Is. xxvi. 18-21 [LXX.].
[1547] Ezek. xxxvii. 1-7.
[1548] Ezek. v. 7.
[1549] Gen. i. 11.
[1550] Num. xx. 11.
[1551] Ex. iv. 3.
[1552] Ps. cxiv. [cxiii.] 3.
[1553] Ex. xiv. 22 ff.
[1554] Ezek. xxxvii. 9-14.
[1555] 1 Cor. xv. 52.
[1556] 1 Thess. iv. 17.
[1557] S. John xi. 43.
[1558] 1 Cor. xv. 52.
[1559] inseparabili gressu, separabilique progressu. A literal version is impossible. His feet were bound, yet he as it were walked, the usual mode of progress when the limbs are free.
[1560] agebatur prius quam parabatur incessus.
[1561] S. Luke xiv. 7, 8.
[1562] S. Mark v. 38-43.
[1563] 2 [4] Kings iv. 34; xiii. 21.
[1564] 1 [3] Kings xvii. 22.
[1565] Acts ix. 40.
[1566] S. Matt. xxvii. 50-53.
[1567] Gen. i. 6 ff.
[1568] Ps. xxxiii. [xxxii.] 9.
[1569] S. Luke iv. 3.
[1570] Prov. viii. 27, 30.
[1571] Is. lxvi. 22-24.
[1572] Gen. xv. 6.
[1573] Ps. cxvi. [cxv.] 10.
[1574] 2 Cor. iv. 14.
[1575] S. John vi. 39.
[1576] Ibid .
[1577] 1 Cor. xv. 21.
[1578] 1 Cor. xv. 28.
[1579] 2 Cor. v. 16.
[1580] 1 Cor. xv. 23.
[1581] Col. i. 18.
[1582] 1 Cor. xv. 22.
[1583] 1 Cor. xv. 23.
[1584] 1 Cor. xv. 52.
[1585] Eph. v. 14.
[1586] 1 Thess. iv. 14.
[1587] 1 Thess. iv. 17.
[1588] Gen. v. 24.
[1589] 2 [4] Kings ii. 11.
[1590] S. Matt. xvi. 28.
[1591] S. Luke xx. 38.
[1592] Gen. xv. 5.
[1593] Gen. xviii. 2.
[1594] Gen. xv. 6 ff.
[1595] Gen. xiv.
[1596] Gen. xv. 6.
[1597] Gen. xxii. 11.
[1598] Gen. xxii. 13.
[1599] Rom. viii. 32.
[1600] Gen. xxviii. 12.
[1601] Gen. xxxii. 25.
[1602] S. Matt. viii. 11.
[1603] Gal. vi. 7.
[1604] 1 Cor. xv. 13.
[1605] Rev. xxi. 1.
[1606] Ps. lxxxviii. [lxxxvii.] 4, 5.
[1607] S. John ii. 19.
[1608] Phil. ii. 7, 8.
[1609] S. John i. 14.
[1610] Ps. xxxiii. [xxxii.] 9.
[1611] Col. i. 17.
[1612] 1 Cor. xv. 52.
[1613] Rev. viii. 2.
[1614] Rev. xi. 15.
[1615] Rev. iv. 1.
[1616] Ps. lxxxi. [lxxx.] 3.
[1617] Ps. cl. 3.
[1618] Eph. vi. 12.
[1619] 2 Cor. x. 4.
[1620] 1 Cor. xiv. 8.
[1621] Lev. xxiii. 24, 25.
[1622] Num. x. 1-10.
[1623] St. Ambrose translates the Septuagint as usual, but there are some variations. Probably Libanus is a copyist's mistake for Liba [Liba] the W.S.W. wind. So, too, Boream perhaps should be mare [parathalassan]. In ch. 115, St. Ambrose in explaining the third trumpet speaks of the sea. The third and fourth trumpets are not mentioned except in the Septuagint, and it may be noticed that St. Ambrose changes the description of the positions of the camps [paremballousai], consttuta, into a direction, constituentur.
[1624] Rom. vii. 14.
[1625] Col. ii. 16.
[1626] S. John xii. 29.
[1627] 1 Thess. iv. 16.
[1628] S. Luke xvii. 37.
[1629] 1 [3] Kings xix. 18.
[1630] 1 Cor. xiii. 12.
[1631] Ex. xxiv. 15.
[1632] 1 Cor. xiv. 15.
[1633] Num. x. 8.
[1634] Rom. x. 10.
[1635] Ps. xlii. [xli.] 4 [LXX.].
[1636] Ps. cl. 3.
[1637] Prov. xxvii. 16 [LXX.].
[1638] S. Luke xiii. 26.
[1639] Ps. xix. [xviii.] 6.
[1640] S. Matt. xii. 28, 29.
[1641] Cant. iv. 16.
[1642] Cant. iv. 7, 8.
[1643] Rev. xxi. 7.
[1644] Rev. xx. 12, 13.
[1645] Rev. xxi. 3.
[1646] 1 Cor. xv. 19.
[1647] Ps. cxx. [cxix.] 5.
[1648] Jer. xx. 18.
[1649] 1 Kings xix. 4.
[1650] Cicero, Tusc. Disp. I.; Plato, Phædo.
[1651] From the Egyptians this opinion seems to have passed on to Pythagoras and Plato.
[1652] Ovid, Metamorph. XIV. 1.
[1653] Verg. Ecl. VI. 51.
[1654] Ovid, Metam. II. 4.
[1655] Metam. VIII. 3.
[1656] Rev. xiv. 2.
[1657] Rev. xv. 3, 4.
[1658] Ps. lxv. [lxiv.] 3.
[1659] Ps. xxvii. [xxvi.] 4.
[1660] 1 Cor. xv. 53.
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