21. Salvian, in Ep. V. 4, his letter to "sister Cattura," in which he congratulates her not only on recovery from an illness but also on the illness itself, which had strengthened her soul at the expense of her body. See also note 14.
22. I Timothy 2. 2.
23. Genesis 2. 7-8.
24. Ibid. 4. 3-5.
25. Ibid. 6.5-7.
26. Ibid. 6.13.
27. Ibid. 7. 11-12.
28. Ibid. 7. 21, 23.
29. Ibid. 18.20.
30. Rittershausen, Salviani opera (Altdorf 1611), ad loc, cites a verse listing the five sins that were proverbially said to cry for justice to heaven:
"Clamitat in caelum vox sanguinis, et Sodomorum,
vox oppressorum, viduae, pretium famulorum."
31. II Peter 2. 6.
32. Another instance of details added without scriptural authority: in fact the instances of leprosy and death among the Israelites during the march seem directly contradictory to Salvian's statements.
33. Again an addition not justified by the words of the Old Testament. Salvian, in common with other early Christian writers, not infrequently names Christ when we should expect the name of God instead. And the "throngs of people" were expressly excluded from familiar intercourse with God; cf. Exodus 19. 21-24; 24. 1-2.
34. Exodus 19. 9.
35. Ibid. 19. 16.
36. Ibid. 19.20.
37. Ibid. 33. 9-11.
38. Publilius Syrus, verse 28. Salvian's text here is influenced by Seneca De ira 3. 31. 1.
39. Rittershausen, ad loc, cites the proverb: Superflua non nocent. The phrasing suggests a legal connotation, in connection with which he cites Paulus and Ulpian on the value of more than the required number of witnesses to a will, or more written evidence than is actually needed to prove a case.
40. Exodus 32. 35.
41. Leviticus 24.10-14.
42. Ibid. 10.1-2.
43. Numbers 12. 8-15, condensed. Note that Salvian uses the name Mary for the Biblical Miriam.