Chapter 13

Notes

1. 1

   Phil. iii. 8.

2. 2

   “Invecta,” generally = "movables", household furniture.

3. 3

   Or, mortification, “adflictatio.”

4. 4

   i.e. fleshly mortification is a “victim,” etc.

5. 5

   Or, “mourning.” Comp. de Pæn. c. 9.

6. 6

   [The “water vs. wine” movement is not a discovery of our own times. “Drink a little wine,” said St. Paul medicinally; but (as a great and good divine once remarked) “we must not lay stress on the noun, but the adjective; let it be very little.”]

7. 7

   Christi dei.

8. 8

   Dan. iv. 33–37. Comp. de Pæn. c. 12. [I have removed an ambiguity by slightly touching the text here.]

9. 9

   1 Tim. v. 3, 9, 10; 1 Cor. vii. 39, 40.

10. 10

    1 Cor. vii. 34, 35.

11. 11

    Matt. xix. 12.

12. 12

    Ad. It seems to mean flesh has strength given it, by patience, to meet the hardships of the flight. Compare the πρὸς πλησμονὴν τῆς σαρκὸς, of St. Paul in Col. ii. 23. [Kaye compares this with the De Fuga, as proof of the author’s freedom from Montanism, when this was written.]

13. 13

    Præveniat: “prevent” us, before we have time to flee.

14. 14

    Solo.

15. 15

    [Elucidation III.]

16. 16

    i.e. martyrdom.

17. 17

    Comp. Luke xii. 50.

18. 18

    Matt. xxvi. 41.

19. 19

    “Adversus,” like the “ad” above, note 21, p. 713.