1. I Cor. xii, 28.
2. For a notice of Athanasius and his Festal Epistles, see note 3, p. 290.
3. Montfaucon here notes that he had published the passages adduced by Cosmas in vol. xxvi, column 1431, of the Patrologia. So they do not appear either in the Greek or Latin texts.
4. Matt, xxv, 21.
5. St. Gregory, the son of Gregory Bishop of Nazianzus, was born in the year A.D. 329, and was eminent for the zeal with which he defended the Nicene creed against the attacks of the Arians. When offered by his friend St. Basil the See of Sasima, he declined it, but he was afterwards installed as the Patriarch of Constantinople,----an office which he resigned after only a brief tenure. He died in 389 or 390.
6. Theophilus became Bishop of Alexandria in 385 A.D. He was one of the most violent and unscrupulous ecclesiastics of his time. He opposed Chrysostom, persecuted the Origenists, and took violent measures to drive all the Pagans out of his diocese. His turbulent career came to an end in 412.
7. Gr. th_n diabath&rion tou~ Qei/ou Pa&sxa ----"transitoriam divini paschatis celebritatem"---- Montfaucon. Philo also uses diabath&rion to designate the Passover.
8. Matt, xxvi, 17.
9. Gr. deute/rwn pragma&twn .
10. Regarding Severianus, see note 2, p. 291.
11. Psalm cxiii, 5.
12. Gr. e0n oi1kw| diwro&fw| .
13. Psalm civ, 3.
14. Gen. i, 2.
15. Ibid., 3.
16. Exod. xx, 1 1.
17. Gr. po&qen genna~| . Montfaucon renders this by quomodo generabit.
18. Gen. i, 6.
19. Gen. i, 6.
20. Psalm cl, 1.
21. Isai. li, 6.
22. Psalm cxlviii, 4.
23. Gen. xxvii, 23.
24. Severianus.
25. Gr. ou)rani/skoj . Aristotle uses ou)rano&j itself in this meaning: tou~to d' ei0j me\n to_n e0gke/falon ou)k e1xei po&ron, ei0j de\ to_n tou~ stomatoj ou)rano&n . ---- Hist. Anim., i, 11.