19. I Tim. iii, 6.
20. Job xxxviii, 7.
21. Luke xv, 7.
22. Gr. to_ nohto_n . ----Montfaucon translates this by intelligentum, but what Cosmas means is that the soul is discerned by the intellect and not by the senses.
23. Gen. i, i.
24. Rom. i, 23.
25. Compare Ovid, Metamorph., Book i, 11. 84-86:
Pronaque cum spectent animalia caetera terram,
Os homini sublime dedit, coelumque tueri
Jussit, et erectos ad sidera tollere vultus.
26. Gr. e1kstasin .
27. Gen. ii, 23.
28. Gen. ii, 18.
29. This is Eusebius, the father of ecclesiastical history, who succeeded Agapius as Bishop of Caesareia in 315. He was a native of Palestine, and took the surname Pamphili as a token of his great affection for the martyr Pamphilus, who had been the bishop of the same See, and of whom he wrote a life, now lost.
30. Gen. i, 1.
31. Gen. ii, 3.
32. Exod. xxv, 40.
33. . See Strabo, xv, iii, 13
34. Matt, viii, 29.
35. Matt, xiv, 30.
36. "The expression e3wj tri/tou ou)ranou~ is founded on Jewish phraseology, by which heaven was considered as threefold, consisting of: 1. the aerial (or skyey); 2. the sidereal (or starry); and 3. heaven itself, the abode of God and the angels."----Bloomfield, Note on II Corinthians xii, 2. The interpretation put upon the expression by Cosmas is manifestly disingenuous.
37. Matt, xxiii, 37, 38.
38. Matt, xxiv, 1.
39. Matt, xxiv, 2.
40. John xvi, 33.