Chapter 25

Notes

1. 1

   Matt. xix. 11.

2. 2

   The text gives et jam quidem for the etiam quidem of the Cod. Casin.

3. 3

   John x. 27.

4. 4

   Apprehensus est hoc ingenio. For hoc here, Routh suggests hic in reference to the leo so that the sense might be = But by this plan the lion was caught, and hereafter He will save the soul.

5. 5

   The text is, “Quando enim pastor, nonne David de ore leonis,” etc. We adopt the amended reading, “Quando enim pastor hoc fecit? Nonne David,” etc.

6. 6

   Routh would put this interrogatively = Can he bring out of the mouth or the belly of the lion what it has once devoured?

7. 7

   This seems to be the sense intended. The text in the Codex Casinensis runs thus: “Cur igitur quod possit non illud potius asseris quod poterit propria virtute vincere leonem, si et pura Dei potentia,” etc. For si et pura we may read sive pura, or si est pura, etc.

8. 8

   Routh takes it as a direct assertion = It follows, then, that these two objects are of one substance, etc.

9. 9

   The text runs, “sed aliud alio longe differre ignorantiam pastori ascribimus;” for which we adopt the emendation, “sed alium ab alio longe differre si dicamus, ignorantiam pastori ascribimus.”