1: 1 Cor. 1:20.<br><br> 2: Wis. 6:26 (Vulgate).<br><br> 3: Rom. 16:19.<br><br> 4: A later interpolation, not found in the best MSS., adds, "As no one can exist from himself, so also[...] 5: Job 28:28. <br><br> 6: A transliteration of the Greek, literally, a handbook or manual.<br><br> 7: Cf. Gal. 5:6.<br><br> 8: Cf. 1 Cor. 13:10, 11.<br><br> 9: 1 Cor. 3:11.<br><br> 10: Already, very early in his ministry (397), Augustine had written De agone Christiano, in which he h[...]
11: The Apostles' Creed. Cf. Augustine's early essay On Faith and the Creed.<br><br> 12: Joel 2:32.<br><br> 13: Rom. 10:14.<br><br> 14: Lucan, Pharsalia, II, 15.<br><br> 15: Virgil, Aeneid, IV, 419. The context of this quotation is Dido's lament over Aeneas' prospective ab[...] 16: Heb. 11:1.<br><br> 17: Sacra eloquia - a favorite phrase of Augustine's for the Bible.<br><br> 18: Rom. 8:24, 25 (Old Latin).<br><br> 19: James 2:19.<br><br>
20: One of the standard titles of early Greek philosophical treatises would translate into Latin as De [...] 21: This basic motif appears everywhere in Augustine's thought as the very foundation of his whole syst[...] 22: This section (Chs. III and IV) is the most explicit statement of a major motif which pervades the w[...]
23: Isa. 5:20.<br><br> 24: Matt. 12:35.<br><br> 25: This refers to Aristotle's well-known principle of "the excluded middle." <br><br> 26: Matt. 7:18.<br><br> 27: Cf. Matt. 12:33.<br><br>
28: Virgil, Georgios, II, 490.<br><br> 29: Ibid., 479.<br><br> 30: Sed in via pedum, non in via morum.<br><br> 31: Virgil, Eclogue, VIII, 42. The context of the passage is Damon's complaint over his faithless Nyssa[...] 32: Cf. Matt. 5:37.<br><br> 33: Cf. Confessions, Bk. X, Ch. XXIII.<br><br>
34: Ad consentium contra mendacium, CSEL (J. Zycha, ed.), Vol. 41, pp. 469-528; also Migne, PL, 40, c. [...] 35: Sallust, The War with Catiline, X, 6-7.<br><br>
36: Cf. Acts 12:9.<br><br> 37: Virgil, Aeneid, X, 392.<br><br> 38: This refers to one of the first of the Cassiciacum dialogues, Contra Academicos. The gist of August[...] 39: Hab. 2:4; Rom. 1:17.<br><br> 40: A direct contrast between suspensus assenso - the watchword of the Academics - and assensio, the ba[...] 41: See above, VII, 90.<br><br> 42: Matt. 5:37.<br><br> 43: Matt. 6:12.<br><br>
45: Cf. Luke 20:36.<br><br> 46: Rom. 4:17.<br><br> 47: Wis. 11:20.<br><br> 48: 2 Peter 2:19.<br><br> 49: John 8:36.<br><br> 50: Eph. 2:8.<br><br> 51: 1 Cor. 7:25.<br><br> 52: Eph. 2:8, 9.<br><br> 53: Eph. 2:10.<br><br> 54: Cf. Gal. 6:15; I1 Cor. 5:17.<br><br> 55: Ps. 51:10.<br><br> 56: Phil. 2:13.<br><br> 57: Rom. 9:16.<br><br> 58: Prov. 8:35 (LXX).<br><br> 59: From the days at Cassiciacum till the very end, Augustine toiled with the mystery of the primacy of[...] 60: Ps. 58:11 (Vulgate).<br><br> 61: Ps. 23:6.<br><br> 62: Cf. Matt. 5:44.<br><br> 63: The theme that he had explored in Confessions, Bks. I-IX. See especially Bk. V, Chs. X, XIII; Bk. [...]
64: Cf. Ps. 90:9.<br><br> 65: Job 14:1.<br><br> 66: John 3:36.<br><br> 67: Eph. 2:3.<br><br> 68: Rom. 5:9, 10.<br><br> 69: Rom. 8:14. <br><br> 70: John 1:14.<br><br> 71: Rom. 3:20.<br><br> 72: Epistle CXXXVII, written in 412 in reply to a list of queries sent to Augustine by the<br>proconsul[...] 73: John 1:1.<br><br> 74: Phil. 2:6, 7.<br><br> 75: These metaphors for contrasting the "two natures" of Jesus Christ were favorite figures of speech i[...]
110: Reading the classical Latin form poscebat (as in Scheel and PL) for the late form poxebat (as in Ri[...] 111: Cf. Ps. 113:3.<br><br> 112: Here reading unum deum (with Riviere and PL) against deum (in Scheel).<br><br> 113: A hyperbolic expression referring to "the saints." Augustine's Scriptural backing for such an unusu[...] 114: 1 Cor. 6:19.<br><br> 115: 1 Cor. 6:15.<br><br> 116: Col. 1:18.<br><br> 117: John 2:19.<br><br> 118: 2 Peter 2:4 (Old Latin).<br><br> 119: Heb. 1:13.<br><br> 120: Ps. 148:2 (LXX).<br><br> 121: Col. 1:16.<br><br> 122: Zech. 1:9.<br><br> 123: Matt. 1:20.<br><br> 124: Gen. 18:4; 19:2.<br><br> 125: Gen. 32:24.<br><br>
141: This chapter supplies an important clue to the date of the Enchiridion and an interesting side ligh[...] 142: A short treatise, written in 413, in which Augustine seeks to combine the Pauline and Jacobite emph[...] 143: Gal. 5:6.<br><br> 144: James 2:17.<br><br> 145: James 2:14.<br><br> 146: 1 Cor. 3:15.<br><br> 147: 1 Cor. 6:9, 10.<br><br> 148: 1 Cor. 3:11, 12.<br><br> 149: 1 Cor. 3:11-15.<br><br> 150: Ecclus. 27:5.<br><br> 151: Cf. 1 Cor. 7:32, 33<br><br> 152: See above, XVIII, 67.<br><br> 153: Matt. 25:34, 41.<br><br>
154: Ecclus. 15:20.<br><br> 155: John 3:5.<br><br> 156: Matt. 6:9-12.<br><br> 157: Cf. Luke 11 :41.<br><br> 158: This is a close approximation of the medieval lists of "The Seven Works of Mercy." Cf. J.T. McNeill[...] 159: Matt. 5:44.<br><br> 160: John 14:6.<br><br> 161: Matt. 6:14, 15.<br><br>
186: For example, Contra Faust., XXII, 78; De pecc. meritis et remissione, I, xxxix, 70; ibid., II, xxii[...] 187: Ps. 27:1.<br><br> 188: 2 Tim. 2:25 (mixed text).<br><br> 189: Cf. Luke 22:61.<br><br> 190: Cf. John 20:22, 23.<br><br> 191: This libellus is included in Augustine's Sermons (LXXI, PL, 38, col. 445-467), to which Possidius g[...]
199: Ps. 100:1 (Vulgate); cf. Ps. 101:1 (R.S.V.).<br><br> 200: Matt. 11:21.<br><br> 201: This is one of the rare instances in which a textual variant in Augustine's text affects a basic is[...] 202: Cf. Ps. 113:11 (a mixed text; composed inexactly from Ps. 115:3 and Ps. 135:6; an interesting insta[...] 203: 1 Tim. 2:4.<br><br> 204: Matt. 23:37.<br><br>
229: Another example of Augustine's wordplay. Man's original capacities included both the power not to s[...] 230: Again, a wordplay between posset non mori and non possit mori.<br><br> 231: Prov. 8:35 (LXX).<br><br> 232: Rom. 6:23.<br><br> 233: Cf. John 1:16.<br><br> 234: Rom. 9:21.<br><br> 235: 1 Tim. 2:5 (mixed text).<br><br>
241: Note the artificial return to the triadic scheme of the treatise: faith, hope, and love.<br><br> 242: Jer. 17:5.<br><br> 243: Matt. 6:9, 10.<br><br> 244: Matt. 6:11-13.<br><br> 245: Luke 11:2-4.<br><br>
246: Matt. 7:7.<br><br> 247: Another wordplay on cupiditas and caritas.<br><br> 248: An interesting resemblance here to Freud's description of the Id, the primal core of our unconsciou[...] 249: Rom. 3:20.<br><br> 250: 2 Peter 2:19.<br><br> 251: Rom. 5:20.<br><br> 252: Compare the psychological notion of the effect of external moral pressures and their power to arous[...] 253: Gal. 5:17.<br><br> 254: Wis. 11:21 (Vulgate).<br><br> 255: Cf. John 1:17.<br><br> 256: John 3:8.<br><br> 257: Rom. 14:9.<br><br> 258: Cf. Ps. 88:5.<br><br>
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