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[227] P. 177, l. 3. Quis mihi, etc.—Numbers xi, 29. Quis tribuat ut omnis populus prophetet?
[228] P. 177, l. 25. Maccabees.—2 Macc. xi, 2.
[229] P. 177, l. 7. This book, etc.—Is. xxx, 8.
[230] P. 178, l. 9. Tertullian.—A Christian writer in the second century after Christ. The quotation is from his De Cultu Femin., ii, 3.
[231] P. 178, l. 16. (Θεὸς), etc.—Eusebius, Hist., lib. v, c. 8.
[232] P. 178, l. 22. And he took that from Saint Irenæus.—Hist., lib. x, c 25.
[233] P. 179, l. 5. The story in Esdras.—2 Esdras xiv. God appears to Esdras in a bush, and orders him to assemble the people and deliver the message. Esdras replies that the law is burnt. Then God commands him to take five scribes to whom for forty days He dictates the ancient law. This story conflicted with many passages in the prophets, and was therefore rejected from the Canon at the Council of Trent.
[234] P. 181, l. 14. The Kabbala.—The fantastic secret doctrine of interpretation of Scripture, held by a number of Jewish rabbis.
[235] P. 181, l. 26. Ut sciatis, etc.—Mark ii, 10, 11.
[236] P. 183, l. 29. This generation, etc.—Matthew xxiv, 34.
[237] P. 184, l. 11. Difference between dinner and supper.—Luke xiv, 12.
[238] P. 184, l. 28. The six ages, etc.—M. Havet has traced this to a chapter in St. Augustine, De Genesi contra Manichæos, i, 23.
[239] P. 184, l. 31. Forma futuri.—Romans v, 14.
[240] P. 186, l. 13. The Messiah, etc.—John xii, 34.
[241] P. 186, l. 30. If the light, etc.—Matthew vi, 23.
[242] P. 187, l. 1. Somnum suum.—Ps. lxxvi, 5.
[243] P. 187, l. 1. Figura hujus mundi.—1 Cor. vii, 31.
[244] P. 187, l. 2. Comedes panem tuum.—Deut. viii, 9. Panem nostrum, Luke xi, 3.
[245] P. 187, l. 3. Inimici Dei terram lingent.—Ps. lxxii, 9.
[246] P. 187, l. 8. Cum amaritudinibus.—Exodus xii, 8. The Vulgate has cum lacticibus agrestibus.
[247] P. 187, l. 9. Singularis sum ego donec transeam.—Ps. cxli, 10.
[248] P. 188, l. 19. Saint Paul.—Galatians iv, 24; I Cor. iii, 16, 17; Hebrews ix, 24; Romans ii, 28, 29.
[249] P. 188, l. 25. That Moses, etc.—John vi, 32.
[250] P. 189, l. 3. For one thing alone is needful.—Luke x, 42.
[251] P. 189, l. 9. The breasts of the Spouse.—Song of Solomon iv, 5.
[252] P. 189, l. 15. And the Christians, etc.—Romans vi, 20; viii, 14, 15.
[253] P. 189, l. 17. When Saint Peter, etc.—Acts xv. See Genesis xvii, 10; Leviticus xii, 3.
[254] P. 189, l. 27. Fac secundum, etc.—Exodus xxv, 40.
[255] P. 190, l. 1. Saint Paul.—1 Tim. iv, 3; 1 Cor. vii.
[256] P. 190, l. 7. The Jews, etc.—Hebrews viii, 5.
[257] P. 192, l. 15. That He should destroy death through death.— Hebrews ii, 14.
[258] P. 192, l. 30. Veri adoratores.—John iv, 23.
[259] P. 192, l. 30. Ecce agnus, etc.—John i, 29.
[260] P. 193, l. 15. Ye shall be free indeed.—John viii, 36.
[261] P. 193, l. 17. I am the true bread from heaven.—Ibid., vi, 32.
[262] P. 194, l. 27. Agnus occisus, etc.—Apoc. xiii, 8.
[263] P. 194, l. 34. Sede a dextris meis.—Ps. cx, 1.
[264] P. 195, l. 12. A jealous God.—Exodus xx, 5.
[265] P. 195, l. 14. Quia confortavit seras.—Ps. cxlvii, 13.
[266] P. 195, l. 17. The closed mem.—The allusions here are to certain peculiarities in Jewish writing. There are some letters written in two ways, closed or open, as the mem.
[267] P. 199, l. 1. Great Pan is dead.—Plutarch, De Defect. Orac., xvii.
[268] P. 199, l. 2. Susceperunt verbum, etc.—Acts xvii, 11.
[269] P. 199, l. 20. The ruler taken from the thigh.—Genesis xlix, 10.
[270] P. 208, l. 6. Make their heart fat.—Is. vi, 10; John xii, 40.
[271] P. 209, l. 1. Non habemus regem nisi Cæsarem.—John xix, 15.
[272] P. 218, l. 17. In Horeb, etc.—Deut. xviii, 16-19.
[273] P. 220, l. 34. Then they shall teach, etc.—Jeremiah xxxi, 34.
[274] P. 221, l. 1. Your sons shall prophesy.—Joel ii, 28.
[275] P. 221, l. 20. Populum, etc.—Is. lxv, 2; Romans x, 21.
[276] P. 222, l. 25. Eris palpans in meridie.—Deut. xxviii, 29.
[277] P. 222, l. 26. Dabitur liber, etc.—Is. xxix, 12. The quotation is inaccurate.
[278] P. 223, l. 24. Quis mihi, etc.—Job xix, 23-25.
[279] P. 224, l. 1. Pray, etc.—The fragments here are Pascal's notes on Luke. See chaps. xxii and xxiii.
[280] P. 225, l. 20. Excæca.—Is. vi, 10.
[281] P, 226, l. 9. Lazarus dormit, etc.—John xi, 11, 14.
[282] P. 226, l. 10. The apparent discrepancy of the Gospels.—To reconcile the apparent discrepancies in the Gospels, Pascal wrote a short life of Christ.
[283] P. 227, l. 13. Gladium tuum, potentissime.—Ps. xlv, 3.
[284] P. 228, l. 25. Ingrediens mundum.—Hebrews x, 5.
[285] P. 228, l. 26. Stone upon stone.—Mark xiii, 2.
[286] P. 229, l. 20. Jesus Christ at last, etc.—See Mark xii.
[287] P. 230, l. 1. Effundam spiritum meum.—Joel ii, 28.
[288] P. 230, l. 6. Omnes gentes ... eum.—Ps. xxii, 27.
[289] P. 230, l. 7. Parum est ut, etc.—Is. xlix, 6.
[290] P. 230, l. 7. Postula a me.—Ps. ii, 8.
[291] P. 230, l. 8. Adorabunt ... reges.—Ps. lxxii, 11.
[292] P. 230, l. 8. Testes iniqui.—Ps. xxv, 11.
[293] P. 230, l. 8. Dabit maxillam percutienti.—Lamentations iii, 30.
[294] P. 230, l. 9. Dederunt fel in escam.—Ps. lxix, 21.
[295] P. 230, l. 11. I will bless them that bless thee.—Genesis xii, 3.
[296] P. 230, l. 12. All nations blessed in his seed.—Ibid., xxii, 18.
[297] P. 230, l. 13. Lumen ad revelationem gentium.—Luke ii, 32.
[298] P. 230, l. 14. Non fecit taliter, etc.—Ps. cxlvii, 20.
[299] P. 230, l. 20. Bibite ex hoc omnes.—Matthew xxvi, 27.
[300] P. 230, l. 22. In quo omnes peccaverunt.—Romans v, 12.
[301] P. 230, l. 26. Ne timeas pusillus grex.—Luke xii, 32.
[302] P. 230, l. 29. Qui me, etc.—Matthew x, 40.
[303] P. 230, l. 32. Saint John.—Luke i, 17.
[304] P. 230, l. 33. Jesus Christ.—Ibid., xii, 51.
[305] P. 231, l. 5. Omnis Judæa, etc.—Mark i, 5.
[306] P. 231, l. 7. From these stones, etc.—Matthew iii, 9.
[307] P. 231, l. 9. Ne convertantur, etc.—Mark iv, 12.
[308] P. 231, l. 11. Amice, ad quid venisti?—Matthew xxvi, 50.
[309] P. 231, l. 31. What is a man, etc.—Luke ix, 25.
[310] P. 231, l. 32. Whosoever will, etc.—Ibid., 24.
[311] P. 232, l. 1. I am not come, etc.—Matthew v, 17.
[312] P. 232, l. 2. Lambs took not, etc.—See John i, 29.
[313] P. 232, l. 4. Moses.—Ibid., vi, 32; viii, 36.
[314] P. 232, l. 15. Quare, etc.—Ps. ii, 1, 2.
[315] P. 233, l. 8. I have reserved me seven thousand.—1 Kings xix, 18.
[316] P. 234, l. 27. Archimedes.—The founder of statics and hydrostatics. He was born at Syracuse in 287 B.C., and was killed in 212 B.C. He was not a prince, though a relative of a king. M. Havet points out that Cicero talks of him as an obscure man (Tusc, v, 23).
[317] P. 235, l. 33. In sanctificationem et in scandalum.—Is. viii, 14.
[318] P. 238, l. 11. Jesus Christ.—Mark ix, 39.
[319] P. 239, l. 7. Rejoice not, etc.—Luke x, 20.
[320] P. 239, l. 12. Scimus, etc.—John iii, 2.
[321] P. 239, l. 25. Nisi fecissem ... haberent.—Ibid., xv, 24.
[322] P. 239, l. 32. The second miracle.—Ibid., iv, 54.
[323] P. 240, l. 6. Montaigne.—Essais, ii, 26, and iii, 11.
[324] P. 242, l. 9. Vatable.—Professor of Hebrew at the Collège Royal, founded by Francis I. An edition of the Bible with notes under his name, which were not his, was published in 1539.
[325] P. 242, l. 19. Omne regnum divisum.—Matthew xii, 25; Luke xi, 17.
[326] P. 242, l. 23. Si in digito ... vos.—Luke xi, 20.
[327] P. 243, l. 12. Q. 113, A. 10, Ad. 2.—Thomas Aquinas's Summa, Pt. I, Question 113, Article 10, Reply to the Second Objection.
[328] P. 243, l. 18. Judæi signa petunt, etc.—I Cor. i, 22.
[329] P. 243, l. 23. Sed vos, etc.—John x, 26.
[330] P. 246, l. 15. Tu quid dicis? etc.—John ix, 17, 33.
[331] P.
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