Namely, the Audians and Sampsaeans, insignificant heretical sects mentioned by Theodoret and Epiphanius. ↩
Psalm 95:5. ↩
Vitium: perhaps “fault” most nearly embraces all the uses of this word. ↩
Essentia. ↩
Exodus 3:14. ↩
Quintilian calls it dura. ↩
With this may be compared the argument of Socrates in the Gorgias, in which it is shown that to escape punishment is worse than to suffer it, and that the greatest of evils is to do wrong and not be chastised. ↩
Ecclesiasticus 10:13. ↩
Specie. ↩
Psalm 19:12. ↩
Romans 5:5. ↩
Psalm 73:28. ↩
De Deo Socratis. ↩
Augustine no doubt refers to the interesting account given by Critias, near the beginning of the Timaeus, of the conversation of Solon with the Egyptian priests. ↩
Augustine here follows the chronology of Eusebius, who reckons 5,611 years from the Creation to the taking of Rome by the Goths; adopting the Septuagint version of the patriarchal ages. ↩
See above, VIII. 5. ↩
It is not apparent to what Augustine refers. The Arcadians, according to Macrobius (Saturnalia I. 7), divided their year into three months, and the Egyptians divided theirs into three seasons: each of these seasons having four months, it is possible that Augustine may have referred to this. See Wilkinson’s excursus on the Egyptian year, in Rawlinson’s Herodotus Book II. ↩
The former opinion was held by Democritus and his disciple Epicurus; the latter by Heraclitus, who supposed that “God amused Himself” by thus renewing worlds. ↩
The Alexandrian Neo-Platonists endeavoured in this way to escape from the obvious meaning of the Timaeus. ↩
Antoninus says (II. 14), “All things from eternity are of like forms, and come round in a circle.” Cf. also IX. 28, and the references to more ancient philosophical writers in Gataker’s notes on these passages. ↩
Ecclesiastes 1:9, 10. So Origen, de Principiis III. 5, and II. 3. ↩
Romans 6:9. ↩
1 Thessalonians 4:16. ↩
Psalm 12:7. ↩
Cf. de Trinitate V. 17. ↩
Wisdom 9:13–15. ↩
Genesis 1:1. ↩
Genesis 1:14. ↩
Romans 12:3. ↩
Titus 1:2, 3. Augustine here follows the version of Jerome, and not the Vulgate. Compare Contra Priscillianistas 6, and de Genesi contra Manichaeos IV. 4. ↩
2 Corinthians 10:12. Here, and in Enarrationes in Psalmos Psalm 34, and also in Contra Faustum XXII. 47, Augustine follows the Greek, and not the Vulgate. ↩
I.e. indefinite, or an indefinite succession of things. ↩
Again in the Timaeus. ↩
Wisdom 11:20. ↩
Isaiah 40:26. ↩
Matthew 10:30. ↩
Psalm 147:5. ↩
De saeculis saeculorum. ↩
Psalm 148:4. ↩
Cicero has the same (de Amicitia, 16): “Quonam modo quisquam amicus esse poterit, cui se putabit inimicum esse posse?” He also quotes Scipio to the effect that no sentiment is more unfriendly to friendship than this, that we should love as if some day we were to hate. ↩
Coquaeus remarks that this is levelled against the Pelagians. ↩
“Quando leoni
Fortior eripuit vitam leo? quo nemore unquam
Exspiravit aper majoris dentibus apri?
Indica tigris agit rabida cum tigride pacem
Perpetuam; saevis inter se convenit ursis.
Ast homini,” etc.
Juvenal, Saturae XV. 160–5
—See also the very striking lines which precede these. ↩
See this further discussed in De Genesi ad litteram VII. 35, and in Delitzsch’s Biblical Psychology. ↩
Jeremiah 23:24. ↩
Wisdom 8:1. ↩
1 Corinthians 3:7. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:38. ↩
Jeremiah 1:5. ↩
Compare de Trinitate III. 13–16. ↩
“The Deity, desirous of making the universe in all respects resemble the most beautiful and entirely perfect of intelligible objects, formed it into one visible animal, containing within itself all the other animals with which it is naturally allied.” —Timaeus, c. XI ↩
Psalm 46:8. ↩
Psalm 25:10. ↩
Matthew 10:28. ↩
On this question compare the 24th and 25th epistles of Jerome, de obitu Leae, and de obitu Blesillae filiae. —Coquaeus ↩
Psalm 49:12. ↩
On which see further in de Peccatorum Meritis I. 67 et seq. ↩
De Baptismo Parvulorum is the second half of the title of the book, de Peccatorum Meritis et Remissione. ↩
1 Corinthians 15:56. ↩
Romans 7:12, 13. ↩
Literally, unregenerate. ↩
John 3:5. ↩
Matthew 10:32. ↩
Matthew 16:25. ↩
Psalm 116:15.
