Book 1 · Chapter 2

Notes

1. 1

   Orbi.  Gen. i. 28.

2. 2

   Sæculo.

3. 3

   Gen. ii. 21, 22.

4. 4

   Sane.

5. 5

   “Fas,” strictly divine law, opp. to “jus,” human law; thus “lawful,” as opp. to “legal.”

6. 6

   Plurifariam matrimoniis uti.  The neut. pl. “matrimonia” is sometimes used for “wives.”  Comp. c. v. ad fin. and de Pæn., c. xii. ad fin.

7. 7

   Sermo, i.e., probably the personal Word.  Comp. de Or., c. i. ad init.

8. 8

   Rom. ii. 28, 29; Phil. iii. 3; Col. ii. 11.

9. 9

   Sæculi.  The meaning here seems clearly to be, as in the text, “the Jewish age” or dispensation; as in the passages referred to—1 Cor. x. 11, where it is τὰ τέλη τῶν αἰώνων; and Heb. ix. 26, where again it is τῶν αἰώνων, the Jewish and all preceding ages being intended.