Chapter 14

Notes

1. 1

   Isa. lii. 5; Ezek. xxxvi. 20, 23. Cf. 2 Sam. xii. 14; Rom. ii. 24.

2. 2

   [This play on the words is literally copied from the original—“quæ tunc me testatur Christianum, cum propter ea me detestatur.”]

3. 3

   St. Paul. Gal. i. 10.

4. 4

   1 Cor. x. 32, 33.

5. 5

   1 Cor. ix. 22.

6. 6

   1 Cor. v. 10.

7. 7

   i.e., by sinning (Oehler), for “the wages of sin is death.”

8. 8

   There seems to be a play on the word “convivere” (whence “convivium,” etc.), as in Cic. de Sen. xiii.

9. 9

   Isa. i. 14, etc.

10. 10

    [This is noteworthy. In the earlier days sabbaths (Saturdays) were not unobserved, but, it was a concession pro tempore, to Hebrew Christians.]

11. 11

    i.e., perhaps your own birthdays. [See cap. xvi. infra.]  Oehler seems to think it means, “all other Christian festivals beside Sunday.”

12. 12

    [“An Easter Day in every week.”—Keble.]

13. 13

    i.e., a space of fifty days, see Deut. xvi. 10; and comp. Hooker, Ecc. Pol. iv. 13, 7, ed. Keble.