143. Cf. Num. xx, 12; Deut. i, 37.
144. in praesenti exemplo. Casaubon suggests in praecepta = against the Commandments. But in praesenti exemplo means as contrasted with the later offence of striking the rock.
145. inpune.
146. innovata lex. Cf, p. 300, note 6.
147. populorum.
148. tradita.
149. Cf. 1 Kings v, 1.
150. haec ratio redderetur.
151. arulam ardentem.
152. concisum minutatim. Cf. Jer. xxxvi, 19, 21.
153. capitulum libri.
154. Jer. xxxvi, 27, 28.
155. nec Hieremias a Deo contemptus est.
156. gravis culpa.
157. in ipso interiori homine.
158. legitime sine lege.
159. 2 Cor. iii, 3.
160. Jer. xxxi, 33. (Cf. Heb. x, 16.)
161. secundo loco est charta, secundo loco membranae.
162. librorum milia ubique recitantur.
163. quamquam et si illorum unitas fieret, et si ad Ecclesiam Catholicam sponte venissent, etc. Casaubon suggests that it should be ' etsi illorum unitas fieret,' and that the si in next clause ought to be omitted. If this emendation can be adopted, the translation will be much easier.
164. (See page 276, line 22, for continuation.)
165. Cf. Ex. xxxiv, 28; i Kings vi, 2 seq.; Jer. xxxvi, 27 seq.
166. capitale.
167. unusquisque eorum.