77. formaretur (cf. p. 283, note 3).
78. It was provided that St. Peter ('the sinner') should open for the other Apostles ('the guiltless').
79. A schismatic or other sinner could not comply with the command of living within the Unity of the Church ('the unity which is necessary'), unless recovery were possible for him on repentance. So Peter holds the Keys, and through his ministry the gates of the Church on earth and of Paradise above are always open for the sinner who will turn from sin and seek the admittance which will never be denied him.
80. quando. Quando in several places is used by St. Optatus to = How (e.g. ii, 21).
81. pio sinu.
82. Eccles. x, 1.
83. illum scilicet liquorem.
84. ex.
85. Albaspinaeus observes that the heretics of his day in like manner called the holy Chrism 'oil' out of contempt. This fact is familiar to all students of the letters of both the English and foreign Reformers. They habitually wrote of Ordination as 'greasing.'
86. antequam fiat.
87. de.
88. suavitas de confectione, i.e. through consecration.
89. quisquis est talis tractator ex vobis.
90. si apud vos putatis esse confectionem. Catholic writers often use the phrase conficere sacramentum, and even conficere Corpus Domini.
91. Catholics never questioned the validity of Donatist orders. Consequently such an Episcopal act as the consecration of Chrism (however illicitly) was validly performed.
92. merito.
93. The baptised man was regarded as baptised, the priest as a priest, the Bishop as a Bishop, etc.
94. By re-baptising or re-confirming or re-ordaining converts from Donatism.
95. oleum tale esse, quale et natum est. Cf. natus est hoc facere in late Latin (it is his nature to do this), and the classical fruges consumere nati (whose nature it is).
96. conficiatur.
97. confectum.
98. quomodo possumus uno facto et conficere et corrumpere?
99. suavitas enim legitur non natura posse corrumpi (cf. supra).
100. exclusa.
101. cutem conscientiae.