27. I Corinthians 6.10.
28. See Romans 1. 30-32; Psalms 140.11; Proverbs 21. 28.
29. Ephesians 4. 31.
30. Philippians 2.14-15.
31. Matthew 5. 28.
32. See Lactantius De opificio Dei 8.11: "The mind is that which sees through the eyes, placed in front of it, as if through windows covered with translucent glass or mica."
33. Among the parallels quoted by Rittershausen ad loc, note especially Seneca De remediis fortuitorum 12.
34. See Mark 9.43-47; Matthew 18.8-9.
35. See Proverbs 1. 24; Micah 3. 4; Psalms 18. 41; Jeremiah 11. 11; Zechariah 7.13.
36. Rittershausen cites this as a passage used by Cujas and other jurists in their commentaries on the Corpus Juris. Cf. Cod. Just. XII. 19 on those who have the right of access to the officials of the highest grade.
37. The slight lacuna in the MSS is here supplied according to Pauly 's conjecture.
38. See Psalms 109. 7.
39. On the curials cf. V. 4 infra. The curials, once honored as the local aristocracy, making up the chief governing body of the municipalities of the Empire, the curia, had now, through the financial stringencies of the administration, become a class as much oppressed by the imperial financial agents as they were hated by those from whom they themselves exacted payments. The requirement that the curials of a district must make up from their own fortunes any deficit in the payments due had made it increasingly difficult to keep up the required number, and the injustice of which Salvian spoke worked in more than one direction. The burdens and difficulties of the office are best illustrated by the 192 sections of Cod. Theod. XII. 1.
40. James 2.5-7.
41. Ezekiel 14.14, 16.
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