2. Matthew 7. 25.
3. The much quoted words of Terence ( Heauton. Timoroumenos 77) here take on a new significance, from the Christian connotation. "I am a man, nothing human is alien to me"----Salvian's wide sympathies echo the spirit of these words many times, but the secrets of God, he says, pass man's understanding. Salvian's acquaintance with Terence is indicated by his use of a line from the Andria in Ad ecclesiam III. 12.
4. See Lactantius op. cit. II. 5. 2-3; 8. 69, 71.
5. I Thessalonians 3. 3.
6. The definition is repeated in IV. 1 infra.
7. Matthew 5. 44.
8. Galatians 6. 3.
9. I John 3. 15.
10. Matthew 5. 22.
11. Ibid. 5. 22. See also Gregory Moralia 21. 5: " Racha indeed in the Hebrew tongue is the exclamation of the angry man, which shows his intention without fully expressing his wrath in words." For other contemporary discussions cf. Baluze ad loc.
12. Luke 14. 33; Matthew 10. 38.
13. I John 2. 6.
14. Galatians 4.19; I Corinthians 11.1.
15. II Timothy 4. 7-8.
16. II Corinthians 6. 4-5.
17. Ibid 11. 21, 23-25.
18. Here Salvian makes use of his fundamental thesis, that the disasters of the Romans are due to their sins. The first part of this sentence would suggest to his readers the losses due to the barbarian invasions; in the conclusion he reminds them of the real danger they face.
19. Matthew 5. 40.
20. Ibid. 5.39.
21. Ibid. 7. 12.
22. See Luke 2. 47-48.
23. I Corinthians 10.24; Philippians 2.4.
24. See Cyprian Ad Demetrianum 8: "You yourself exact servitude from your slave and, yourself a man, compel a man to obey you, though you share in the same lot of birth, the same condition of death, like bodily substance, the same mental frame, and by equal right and the same rule come into this world and later leave it. Yet unless he serves you according to your will, unless he is subservient to your whim, you act the imperious and over-exacting master, afflicting and torturing him often with stripes, lashes, hunger, thirst, nakedness and the sword, with chains and imprisonment. And do you not recognize your God and master, who yourself exercise mastery in this fashion?"
25. James 2.10.
26. Rittershausen, commenting on the "elegant phrasing" of this sentence, cites Petronius Carmen de bello civili 228: Absentem votis interficit hostem.