72. 1 Cor. xv. 41.
73. Ps. xx. 7.
74. 2 Kings vi. 16 sqq.
75. 2 Cor. iii. 18.
76. Ps.xix.2.
77. S. Matt. viii. 29.
78. S. John ix. 25.
79. S. John xiv. 12.
80. S.Mark i. 24.
81. S. John ix. 29.
82. Gen. iv. 10.
83. The word is 'Enneacaidecateris.' Mr. Hensley remarks in his article on Easter, ' It has been often stated that the Council established a particular cycle, that of nineteen years, but this is a mistake.'
84. S. Luke xxii. 7-12.
85. Gal. iv. 10, 11.
86. 'Nam iriripit espe contrarium.' According to Ducange 'incipio' is used in late Latin in the sense of the Greek verb me/llw , and here, as it would seem, with the force with which that verb is so often used as equivalent to 'it is likely' or 'it is sure' that such and such is the case: see Lidd. and Scott. me/llw , ii. 3, 4.
87. An allusion to Virg. Georg.,1, 276.
Ipsa dies alios alio dedit ordine luna
Felices operum; quintam fuge, etc.
88. Days immediately following the Kalends, Nones or Ides, considered unlucky by the Romans. See, A. Gellius. v. 17. What the 'Egyptian days' were is not ascertained.
89. Ps. cxviii. 24.
90. This is the ordinary phrase for the day of the lunar month. See Bright Early Engl. Ch. Hist. p. 195.
91. Ib. [Ps.] lxxxix. 36, 37.
92. S. John xvii. 1.
93. S. Luke xiii. 32.
94. Ps. cxix. 126.