118. erroris divitias dederunt spiritui et pulmonibus suis.
119. sal infatuatum. Cf. S. Aug. De Serm. Dom. i, 6: 'si sal infatuatum fuerit, in quo salietur . . . ergo ad nihilum valet sal infatuatum, nisi ut mittatur foras, et calcetur ab hominibus . . . qui persecutionem timendo infatuatur, calcatur ab hominibus,' and S. Hilar. in Matt. iv: 'si sal infatuatum fuerit, ad nihilum valet id quod salietur.'
120. St. Optatus forgot for a moment that salt does not produce sweetness.
121. aliter.
122. quasi infatuatos (with reference to sal infatuatum supra).
123. infatuatos esse.
124. Chapters VI and VII have been placed at the end of Book III, to which they belong as an Appendix (v. p. 175-179).
125. necessitas. Here this word does not mean necessity literally, but rather dire straits.
126. Exodus xx, 13, 14.
127. There is here an anacoluthon in the Latin.
128. capitate.
129. primis temporibus.
130. Cf. Ex. xxxii, 19; Deut. ix, 17.
131. vel incisi et incensi.
132. cum eodem nomine legis parentum vestrorum et Moysi una fuerit caussa, possent dicere parentes vestri etc. Both Du Pin and Ziwsa print a full stop after caussa, but this punctuation seems to obscure the sense.
133. unum.
134. capitate.
135. poma.
136. quod erogatum est.
137. si in origine sua salvum est.
138. post tabulas sparsas legis et comminutas.
139. Cf. Ex. xxxiv, 2; Deut. x, 1.
140. et secundum legem innovatam accepit, quam prodiit titulus libri, qui Graeco vocabulo Deuteronomos scribitur. For prodiit Casaubon conjectured prodidit. I have translated secundum as an adverb = secundo, though for this it is hard to find authority. Ziwsa in his index says that secundum is here a preposition, but it is very difficult thus to get even fair sense. 'He received the renewed Law in accordance with the Law' hardly seems satisfactory. I am much tempted to think that secundum is a mistake for secundam. The reference to Deuteronomy makes this to me almost certain. ('The very title Deuteronomy,' our author seems to say, 'bears witness to the second Law.') But as secundam has no MS. authority, and has occurred to no one else, I have not ventured to translate it in the text. It is hardly necessary to say that in Greek Deuteronomy means 'The Second Law,'
141. leve.
142. Cf. Rom. vii, 12.