Book 2 · Introduction

Notes

1. 1

   Isa. xxviii. 16. [See Tertull., “stumbling-stone,” vol. iii. p. 165.]

2. 2

   Ps. cxviii. 21–26.

3. 3

   Zech. iii. 8, 9.

4. 4

   Deut. xxvii. 8.

5. 5

   Josh. xxiv. 26, 27.

6. 6

   Acts iv. 8–12.

7. 7

   [The anointing of this stone gave it the name of Messiah in our author’s account; and this interpretation gives great dignity to Jacob’s dying reference to Him, Gen. xlix. 24.] The Oxford edition omits “and descending.”

8. 8

   The Oxford edition reads, “conquered, that is, in that part of the head.”