10. Psalms 22. 7.
11. Jeremiah 20. 7; Psalms 35. 16.
12. 1 John 3.15.
13. Acts 17.16-34. One scarcely expects to find the Athenian Ecclesia cited as an example of a wild and barbarous assembly.
14. Acts 14.
15. See Cicero Or. Philippica II. 3. 5.
16. Galatians 6. 7.
17. Jeremiah 50. 29.
18. Here Pauly inserted the negative minime, for which the MSS give no authority. I have omitted it as unnecessary; without it the sentence furnishes a characteristic example of Salvian's irony. See H. K. Messenger, op. cit., sec. 48.
19. Here ends the text as it is preserved in the MSS. Whether the succeeding chapters have been lost, or the author left his work unfinished, cannot now be determined. In view, however, of the many years between the composition of the book and Salvian's death, the former alternative seems the more probable.
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