4. aenigmata
5. praetulisti, perhaps as a false front. [Tr.]
6. repetas added V .
7. esset added V .
8. Judg. 13, 18.
9. intended, doubtless, to refer to the admission of the lapsed, who had sacrificed in the Capitol, see ab. on S. Cypr. Ep. 8. §. 2. p. 18. n. u.
10. Rom. 11, 16.
11. see ab. S.Cypr. Ep. 52. §.3. p. 113.
12. finxit. Novatian's consecration, although wholly irregular, does not appear to have the irregularity here seemingly ascribed to it. Yet S. Cyprian is thought to speak of the absence of consecration in terms equally strong (de Laps. §. 10. p. 138. Oxf. Tr. see Tillemont, H. E. t. 3. p. 350. note g. sur S. Corneille.
13. linteata sedes. "used in investitures." Hoffm.
14. illis added V. R.
15. tune for tunc V.
16. "disputandum! Quid ergo dixeram? aut quos Virgilii" inserted from Vat. after Virgilii, omitted through the
17. Aen. v. 302.
18. Coteler. (quoted by Galland.) on the Recogn. ii. 42. conjectures, that CXX has been substituted for lxx, according to the distribution of languages into lxxii, or lxxv. see his note, t. i. p. 513. and Abp. Potter on S. Clem. Al. Strom, i. p. 404. Else the number might have been taken from Acts 1, 15.
19. Acts 17, 28.
20. Tit. 1, 12.
21. ver. 16.
22. ut om. V.
23. Acts 17, 21.
24. Col.2,8.
25. regum et persecutionem Edd. impius et persecutiones V. impietatem Marg. regum imperiis R.
26. Rom. 3, 3.
27. the Catholic Faith.
28. Doubtless, Nero, who Philastrius (Haer. c. 29.) says was present, with which correspond the tales of Dio Chrys. Or, 21. and especially Sueton. (vi. 12. quoted by Baronius and Tillemont, H. E. S. Pierre Art. 34.) as to a juggler, who promised Nero to fly, and tell to the ground in his presence.