Reading

⁴ Some read "breathes."

⁵ Luke xxi. 31.

⁶ Or, "security."

⁷ Some add, "for ever."

⁸ [To live by faith = to be just, through Christ the object of faith. The Fathers always accept "justification by faith." See Faber's Primitive Doctrine of Justificatioin; and compare Bull, Harmonia Apostolica.]

⁹ Luke ii. 29.

¹⁰ Baluzius interpolates here, without authority, "true."

¹¹ John xvi. 20.

¹² John xvi. 22.

¹³ Or, "Master and Teacher."

¹⁴ John xvi. 28.

¹⁵ Phil. i. 21.

¹⁶ [The Christian is not exempted from the common lot of humanity; but all men, if they would live godly, would escape many evils (1 Tim. vi. 6), even in the light of 2 Tim. iii. 12.]

¹⁷ A few codices read, for "the Spirit," " Christ."

¹⁸ Ecclus. ii. 1, 4.

¹⁹ Ecclus. ii. 5.

²⁰ Job i. 21. [" The Christian's sorrow," says Bishop Home, "is better than the world's joy." John xvi. 33.]

²¹ Job i. 8.

²² Job ii. 10.

²³ Tob. ii. 14.

²⁴ Tob. xii. 11-15.

²⁵ Num. xvii. 10.

²⁶ Ps. li. 17.

²⁷ Deut. viii. 2.

²⁸ Deut. xiii. 3.

²⁹ According to some, "the ship's helmsman." [Vol. i. 94.]

³⁰ Some read, "of virtue." [In the Ignatian manner. Compare vol. i. p. 45.]

³¹ 2 Cor. xii. 7-9.

³² Ecclus. xxvii. 5.

³³ Some read, "rather it behoves us to rejoice."

³⁴ Or, "of the way."

³⁵ Some add, "on the poor."

³⁶ Or "perceived."

³⁷ Apoc. ii. 23.

³⁸ Some originals read, "does not desire our blood, but asks for our faith."

³⁹ [Sciamus non eos amitti sed praemitti. Current even in our day.]

⁴⁰ [The clouds of black which are still customary in affliction are not according to the faith, in Cyprian's idea. Leighton, St. Peter, ii. 24.]

⁴¹ 1 Thess. iv 13.

⁴² John xi. 25.

⁴³ "Transformed."

⁴⁴ Phil. iii. 21.

⁴⁵ John xvii. 24.

⁴⁶ Gen. v. 24.

⁴⁷ Wisd. iv. 11.

⁴⁸ Ps. lxxxiv. 1.

⁴⁹ 1 John ii. 15.

⁵⁰ Some have "heavenly."

⁵¹ [A prelude to the Te Deum, and very possibly from a Western hymn: -Apostolorum gloriosus chorus; Prophetarum exultantium numerus; Martyrum innumerabilis populus.]

¹ [Numbered x. in Oxford ed., assigned to A. D. 254.]

² A slight and scarcely noticeable difference occurs here in the Oxford text, which reads the passage, "that the Son was sent, and willed to be called the Son of man."

³ Portaverat; "had brought" (Oxf. transl.).

⁴ "Poisons of the old serpent."

⁵ [The beauty of Cyprian's exordiums and perorations proves that he was a true orator. "Great and manifold," etc., Translators of King James.]

⁶ Prov. xvi. 6. [" By mercy and truth," etc., Eng. Version ]

⁷ Ecclus. iii. 30.

⁸ Luke xi. 41.

⁹ Prov. xx. 9.

¹⁰ 1 John i. 8, 9. Oxford editors add: "If we confess our sin.i, the Lord is faithful and just to forgive us our sins." [They remind us that this passage is expounded in the Anglican Book of Homilies, Hom. xi. part ii. p. 347, ed. Philadelphia, 1844.]

¹¹ Isa. lviii. 1.

¹² Isa. lviii. 1-9.

¹³ Ecclus. xxii. 12.

¹⁴ Prov. xxi. 13.

¹⁵ Ps. xli. 1.

¹⁶ Some editors read "parcens " instead of "patiens," making the meaning "sparing to thy sins."

¹⁷ Dan. iv. 27.