44. Phil. ii. 6.7.
45. 1 Cor. xv. 28.
46. Ib. xi. 1.
47. Phil. iii. 8.
48. S. Luke ix. 23.
49. Forum Cornelii was on the Via Aemilia, about 23 miles S.E. of Bononia. It was at this time in the Province Aemilia. The modern name is Imola.
50. The Benedictine Fathers refer this to the ravages of the Goths after Valens' defeat at Hadrianople A.D. 375. It is on this that they found the date of the letter, but the reference is somewhat vague.
51. Deut. xix. 14.
52. tubera
53. Amentata illa non manipularis sententia. Ed. Ben. refers to Junius, Adagiorum Centuriae 3, 10, who says 'Amentatam sententiam dixit D. Am-brosius pro valida et haud vulgari firmisque argumentis roboratit. Est antem amentum lori genus quo hasta praeligata validius certiusque libratur evibraturque: hinc amentata senten-tia ea est quae neutiquam trivialis est et pedanea, cujusmodi manipularis vocatur, velut a gregario milite profecta, sed eximia et artificio vallata.' He quotes two passages from Cicero, De Orat. 1 57, 242. Brut. 78. 271, in both which places he uses 'amentatae hastae' of arguments, and also Tertull. adv. Marc. iv. ,33 where he says that our Lord amentavit [Phariseis] hanc sententiam, non potestis Deo servire et mammonae, where it plainly means, 'gave them this home-thrust.'
54. puleium, lit. the herb penny royal.
55. Bassianus is mentioned among the Bishops who took part in the Council of Aquileia, as Bishop of Laus Pompeia, now Lodi Vecchio, S. E. of Milan. The modern town of Lodi is about 5 miles from the site of the ancient one.
56. He means the day of his consecration as Bishop. So S. Ambr. speaks of his own consecration day as his birthday, Comm. in Luc. vii. 78.
57. Heb. ix. 4.
58. Col. i. 15. Exod. xxv. 22.
59. Ps. lxxviii. 2.
60. Numb. xvi. 48.
61. Deut. xv. 8.
62. S. Luke x. 2.
63. Comum is the modern Como, at the southern extremity of the Lake which takes its name from it.
64. S. Luke xv. 8, 9.
65. S. Matt. vi. 22.
66. Prov. xiii. 8.
67. Exod. xxx. 12 -15.
68. Ib. xvi. 17, 18.