Chapter 1

Notes

1. 2

   Of the cross over the wounded part. [This translation is frequently weakened by useless interpolations; some of these destroying the author’s style, for nothing, I have put into footnotes or dropped.]

2. 3

   I.e. adjuring the part, in the name of Jesus, and besmearing the poisoned heel with the gore of the beast, when it has been crushed to death. [So the translator; but the terse rhetoric of the original is not so circumstantial, and refers, undoubtedly, to the lingering influence of miracles, according to St. Mark xvi. 18.]

3. 4

   Acts xxviii. 3.

4. 5

   Ex. iii. 2.

5. 6

   The opponents of martyrdoms are meant.—Tr.

6. 7

   Ps. l. 13.

7. 8

   Ezek. xxxiii. 11.

8. 9

   i.e. the devil.—Tr.

9. 10

   An instrument of torture, so called.—Tr.

10. 11

    Ps. xix. 10.

11. 12

    Ex. iii. 17.

12. 13

    Isa. v. 20.