14. So quoted also by Lucif. Calar. de non parc. in D.del. p. 237 h. quoted by Sabat. ad loc. and in the latter clause, Opt. c. Don. vii. Breviar. fid. c. Arian. ap. Sirm. quoted ib. on S. Matt. 12, 32.
15. Latinius' coni. "deque"'for "de quo" gives an easier reading, "If God hath punished even past sins, andhas appointed punishment and suffering for things past and overlooked, say, hath He it not in His power to change His sentence."
16. LXX.so quoted nearly by S. Cypr. Ep. ad Fortun. §. 5. p. 284. Oxf. Tr. Lucif. Cal. de non parc. in D. del. p. 228. d.
17. as if it had been to_ ponhro_n , which S. Aug. qu. 39. in Deut. observes, it is not.
18. Prov, 18, 19. so quoted by S. Cypr. ab. Ep. 55. §.15. p. 126. and by S. Paulinus. see Sabat. ad loc.
19. which the dove was supposed not to have. Horus Hierogl. i. 54.
20. See above on S. Cypr. Ep. 71. §. 1. p. 238. n. b.
21. de Laps. §. 12. p. 166. Oxf. Tr.
22. Noah, in S. Cypr.
23. This break has been necessarily made, although there is no distinction in the present text, of which the former part plainly belongs to the Catholics, the latter to the Novatians.
24. It must be borne in mind in these contrasts, that the Novatians, as the Donatists afterwards, claimed to be the whole Church; they do not apply to us, who, however outwardly rent, claim to be a portion only.
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