Chapter 15

Notes

1. 1

   The text is “quid dixerit adversarii;” some propose “quod” or “quia dixerit,” etc.

2. 2

   The manuscript reading is, “tam si quidem ex hoc arbitratus est se affirmaturum.” For this it is proposed to read, as in the translation, “tametsi quidem ex hoc arbitratus es me affirmaturum.”

3. 3

   The text gives ingentem. Routh suggests inscientem, stupid.

4. 4

   [Vol. iii. 301–302. See Coleridge (on Donne), English Divines, vol. i. p. 87.]

5. 5

   Adopting the proposed reading, “et ideo duæ, ingenitæ naturæ esse non possunt.” The text omits the duæ, however; and in that case the sense would be simply, And consequently there cannot be unbegotten natures; or perhaps, And so they (the creatures) cannot be of an unbegotten nature.

6. 6

   [Matt. vii. 15–20.]

7. 7

   Propria.

8. 8

   Didicisti. But perhaps we ought to read dixisti, which you have been uttering.

9. 9

   Aliena, of what is alien.