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By Diogenes Laertius, vi. 69, and Cicero,
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Gen. i. 28.
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Ps. cxxxviii. 3.
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Gen. i. 27, 28.
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Matt. xix. 4, 5.
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Eph. v. 25.
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Luke xx. 34.
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See Virgil,
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Rom. i. 26.
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The position of Calama is described by Augustine as between Constantine and Hippo, but nearer Hippo. —
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1 Tim. i. 5.
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Compare Basil's
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Ps. cxi. 2.
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Ps. iii. 3.
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Ps. xviii. 1.
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Rom. i. 21-25.
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1 Cor. xv. 28.
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1 Cor. xv. 46.
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Rom. ix. 21.
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Gen. iv. 17.
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Comp.
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Gal. iv. 21-31.
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Rom. ix. 22, 23.
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Wisdom viii. 1.
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Lucan,
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Gal. v. 17.
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Gal. vi. 2.
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1 Thess. v. 14, 15.
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Gal. vi. 1.
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Eph. iv. 26.
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Matt. xviii. 15.
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1 Tim. v. 20.
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Heb. xii. 14.
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Matt. xviii. 35.
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Rom. vi. 12, 13.
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Gen. iv. 6, 7.
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Literally, "division."
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1 John iii. 12.
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We alter the pronoun to suit Augustine's interpretation.
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Gal. v. 17.
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Rom. vii. 17.
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Rom. vi. 13.
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Gen. iii. 16.
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Eph. v. 28, 29.
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Gen. iv. 17.
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Gen. iv. 25.
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Lamech, according to the LXX.
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Ex. xii. 37.
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Virgil,
"Terra malos homines nunc educat atque pusillos."
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Plin.
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See the account given by Herodotus (i. 67) of the discovery of the bones of Orestes, which, as the story goes, gave a stature of seven cubits.
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Pliny,
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"Our own mss.," of which Augustine here speaks, were the Latin versions of the Septuagint used by the Church before Jerome's was received; the "Hebrew mss." were the versions made from the Hebrew text. Compare
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Jerome (
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"Quos in auctoritatem celebriorum Ecclesia suscepit."
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See below, book xviii. c. 42-44.
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C. 8.
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On this subject see Wilkinson's note to the second book (appendix) of Rawlinson's
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One hundred and eighty-seven is the number given in the Hebrew, and one hundred and sixty-seven in the Septuagint; but notwithstanding the confusion, the argument of Augustine is easily followed.
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Gen. vii. 10, 11 (in our version the seventeenth day).
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Gen. viii. 4, 5.
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Ps. xc. 10.
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Gen. iv. 1.
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Gen. iv. 25.
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Gen. v. 6.
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Gen. v. 8.
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Matt. i.
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His own children being the children of his sister, and therefore his nephews.
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This was allowed by the Egyptians and Athenians, never by the Romans.
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Both in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, though not uniformly, nor in Latin commonly.
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Gen. v. 2.
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Luke xx. 35, 36.
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Gen. iv. 18-22.
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Gen. iv. 26.
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Rom. viii. 24, 25.
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Rom. x. 13.
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Jer. xvii. 5.
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Luke xx. 34.
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Rom. ix. 5.
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Eusebius, Jerome, Bede, and others, who follow the Septuagint, reckon only 2242 years, which Vives explains by supposing Augustine to have made a copyist's error.
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Ps. li. 3.
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Gen. v. 1.
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Ps. xlix. 11.
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Ps. lxxiii. 20.