27. 2 Kings. vi. 18.
28. Ib. vii. 6.
29. 2 Kings ii. 4.
30. S. Matt. xxv. 21.
31. 1 Kings x. 24.
32. Deut. xxxiii. 8.
33. Ib. 9.
34. Ecclus. xliv. 15.
35. The Benedictine text here reads 'claudebatur.' Several MSS, as the editors mention in a note, have 'claudebat.' They themselves suggest 'claudieabat.' But 'claudebat' really gives the same meaning, and there seems little doubt that it is the true reading. It comes from claudeo or claudo, (for both forms are to be found,) meaning 'to be lame,' 'to halt.' It occurs three times in Cicero.
36. Deut. xxxiii. 9.
37. Deut. xxxiii.16.
38. 2 Cor. xii. 2.
39. S. Matt. xii. 48.
40. 2 Chron. ix. 21.
41. Ps. lxviii. 14.
42. Cant. v. 2.
43. Gen. xxviii.13.
44. Wisd. iv. 9.
45. Isa. lx. 8.
46. 2 Chron. ix. 21.
47. Ps. xcvi. 5.
48. 'fisco vel arcae.' The 'fiscus,' or imperial treasury, received whatever was assigned to the Emperor individually, distinguished from the 'acrarium,' which received what belonged to the senate, as representing the old respublica: 'area' is sometimes used in late writers as equivalent to 'fiscus,' sometimes, when distinguished from it, as here, it signifies the city funds, which were distinct from both.
49. Julian's edict, forbidding the Christians to teach in the schools of grammar and rhetoric, is mentioned with disapproval by Gibbon ch. xxiii.
50. i. e. his half brother Gratian.
51. S. Luke xvi. 13.