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[386] [This is said not absolutely but in contrast with extreme license; but it shows the Supremacy of Scripture. Compare De Monogam, cap. 4.]
[387] [Elucidation I., and see Bunsen’s Church and House Book, pp. 19–24.]
[388] [There is here an allusion to the Roman form of recognizing a lawful child. The father, taking up the new-born infant, gave him adoption into the family, and recognised him as a legitimate son and heir.]
[389] [Men and women, rich and poor.]
[390] i.e., of the Cross.
[391] Vulgate, Dan. xiii. 32. [See Apocrypha, Susanna 32.]
[392] [Observe it must (1.) be based on Apostolic grounds; (2.) must not be a novelty, but derived from a time “to which the memory of men runneth not contrary.”]
[393] [I slightly amend the translation to bring out the force of an objection to which our author gives a Montanistic reply.]
[396] [See luminous remarks in Kaye, pp. 371–373.]
[397] [This teacher, i.e., right reason, under the guidance of the Holy Ghost. He is here foisting in a plea for the “New Prophecy,” apparently, and this is one of the most decided instances in the treatise.]
[398] Kaye [p. 187,] has some valuable remarks on this testimony to the senses in Christian Philosophy, and compares Cicero, I. Tusc. cap. xx. or xlvi.]
[402] [Plays were regarded as pomps renounced in Baptism.]
[405] 2 Tim. iv. 13. [This is a useful comment as showing what this φαιλόνη was. Our author translates it by pænula. Of which more when we reach the De Pallio.]
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