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Ps. xl. 4.

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Or, according to another reading, "Which I briefly said in these verses in praise of a taper."

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Cant. ii. 4.

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See De Doct. Christ. i. 28.

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Ps. civ. 4.

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On these kinds of devils, see the note of Vives in loc., or Lecky's Hist. of Rationalism, i. 26, who quotes from Maury's Histoire de la Magie, that the Dusii were Celtic spirits, and are the origin of our "Deuce."

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2 Pet. ii. 4.

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Mark i. 2.

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Mal. ii. 7.

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Gen. vi. 1-4. Lactantius (Inst. ii. 15), Sulpicius Severus (Hist. i. 2), and others suppose from this passage that angels had commerce with the daughters of men. See further references in the Commentary of Pererius in loc.

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Aquila lived in the time of Hadrian, to whom he is said to have been related. He was excommunicated from the Church for the practice of astrology; and is best known by his translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, which he executed with great care and accuracy, though he has been charged with falsifying passages to support the Jews in their opposition to Christianity.

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Ps. lxxxii. 6.

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Baruch iii. 26-28.

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Lit.: "The Lord thought and reconsidered."

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Gen. vi. 5-7.

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1 Tim. ii. 5.

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In his second homily on Genesis.

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Acts vii. 22.

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This book is referred to in another work of Augustine's (contra Advers. Legis et Prophet. i. 18), which was written about the year 420.

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Gen. vi. 19, 20.

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Gen. ix. 25.

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Gen. ix. 26, 27.

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See Contra Faust. xii. c. 22 sqq.

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Song of Solomon i. 3.

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1 Cor. xi. 19.

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Prov. x. 5 (LXX.).

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Matt. vii. 20.

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Phil. i. 18.

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Isa. v. 7.

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Matt. xx. 22.

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Matt. xxvi. 39.

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2 Cor. xiii. 4.

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1 Cor. i. 25.

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Augustine here follows the Greek version, which introduces the name Elisa among the sons of Japheth, though not found in the Hebrew. It is not found in the Complutensian Greek translation, nor in the mss. used by Jerome.

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Gen. x. 21.

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Gen. xi. 1-9.

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Ex. x.

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Ps. xcv. 6.

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Job xv. 13.

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1 Cor. iii. 9.

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Gen. i. 26.

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Gen. xi. 6.

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Virgil, Æneid, iv. 592.

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Here Augustine remarks on the addition of the particle ne to the word non, which he has made to bring out the sense.

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Gen. i. 24.

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Pliny, Hist. Nat. vii. 2; Aulus Gellius, Noct. Att. ix. 4.

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From πυγμή, a cubit.

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Gen. x. 25.

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Ps. xiv. 3, 4, liii. 3, 4.

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Gen. x. 25.

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Josh. xxiv. 2.

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Gen. xi. 27-29.

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Gen. xi. 31.

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Gen. xxiv. 10.

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Judith v. 5-9.

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Gen. xi. 32.

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Gen. xii. 1.

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Gen. xii. 4.

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Gen. xi. 1.

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Gen. xii. 1.

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Acts vii. 2, 3.

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Acts vii. 4.

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Gen. xii. 1.

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Various reading, "of our Lord Jesus Christ."

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Gen. xii. 1-3.

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Acts vii. 2.

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Gen. xii. 7.

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Gen. xiii. 8, 9.

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Gen. xiii. 14-17.

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Various reading, "the express promise."

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Ps. cx. 4.

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Rom. iv. 3; Gen. xv. 6.