6. Therefore, thus saith the Lord God: Because thine heart has been lifted up as though it were the heart of God,
8. Thou shalt die the death of them that are slain [Tyconius has morte vulneratorum ] in the heart of the sea.
9. Wilt thou still say before them that slay thee "I am God," whereas thou art a man and not God, and art in the hand of them that slay thee?'
81. in qua re media est fides, etc. Du Pin explains thus: 'Testis est conscientia eius.' Albaspinaeus understands Fides to mean Lex Christiana.
82. ut solus secreto nescio quid ageret et postea ceteris perfunctorie misceretur. Du Pin thinks that by the first phrase of this sentence it is to be inferred that Donatus offered the Divine Mysteries by himself, and held aloof from the public meetings of the other Bishops, clergy or faithful, with whom he would only mix from time to time ( perfunctorie ) as a great act of condescension.
83. sc. of the Bishops of Africa, where Carthage was the chief See.
84. nihil humanum voluit habere.
85. Ez. xxviii, 6.
86. a ceteris hominibus aliquid plus esse.
87. Ez. xxviii, 2.
88. quod effectum huius vocis impleret.
89. quia quicquid est supra homines, iam quasi Deus est.
90. quid apud vos agitur de parte mea ?
91. i, 22.
92. Cf. note 3, p. 43.
93. in Christi Catholica habitabant.
94. quorum nomina bene nosti, et ubi fuerint non ignoras, et qui vel a quo petierint et qualem rogaverint, ut redirent et tecum redirc potuissent, et nos didicimus, etc. St. Optatus quite lost his thread in this long sentence, where we find one of his numerous anacolutha. In my English rendering I have endeavoured to make it grammatical----involved it must always remain.
95. Cf. once more note 3, p. 43.
96. alio modo ---- aliquo modo.
97. Matt, x, 32. Luke xii, 8.
98. illum.
99. The reference is to Ez.xxviii, 8: 'Morieris in interitu occisorum in corde marts '---- in the heart of the sea.
100. id est in amore saeculi. That is, he was beloved by worldly people.
101. hanc sapientiam eius evacuavit Deus.
102. Ez. xxviii, 3.