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Ps. lii. 8.
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Ps. xl. 4.
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Or, according to another reading, "Which I briefly said in these verses in praise of a taper."
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Cant. ii. 4.
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Ps. civ. 4.
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On these kinds of devils, see the note of Vives
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2 Pet. ii. 4.
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Mark i. 2.
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Mal. ii. 7.
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Gen. vi. 1-4. Lactantius (
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Aquila lived in the time of Hadrian, to whom he is said to have been related. He was excommunicated from the Church for the practice of astrology; and is best known by his translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, which he executed with great care and accuracy, though he has been charged with falsifying passages to support the Jews in their opposition to Christianity.
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Ps. lxxxii. 6.
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Baruch iii. 26-28.
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Lit.: "The Lord thought and reconsidered."
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Gen. vi. 5-7.
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1 Tim. ii. 5.
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In his second homily on Genesis.
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Acts vii. 22.
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This book is referred to in another work of Augustine's (
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Gen. vi. 19, 20.
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Gen. ix. 25.
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Gen. ix. 26, 27.
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Song of Solomon i. 3.
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1 Cor. xi. 19.
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Prov. x. 5 (LXX.).
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Matt. vii. 20.
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Phil. i. 18.
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Isa. v. 7.
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Matt. xx. 22.
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Matt. xxvi. 39.
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2 Cor. xiii. 4.
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1 Cor. i. 25.
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Augustine here follows the Greek version, which introduces the name Elisa among the sons of Japheth, though not found in the Hebrew. It is not found in the Complutensian Greek translation, nor in the mss. used by Jerome.
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Gen. x. 21.
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Gen. xi. 1-9.
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Ex. x.
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Ps. xcv. 6.
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Job xv. 13.
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1 Cor. iii. 9.
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Gen. i. 26.
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Gen. xi. 6.
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Virgil,
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Here Augustine remarks on the addition of the particle
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Gen. i. 24.
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Pliny,
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From πυγμή, a cubit.
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Gen. x. 25.
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Ps. xiv. 3, 4, liii. 3, 4.
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Gen. x. 25.
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Josh. xxiv. 2.
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Gen. xi. 27-29.
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Gen. xi. 31.
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Gen. xxiv. 10.
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Judith v. 5-9.
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Gen. xi. 32.
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Gen. xii. 1.
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Gen. xii. 4.
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Gen. xi. 1.
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Gen. xii. 1.
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Acts vii. 2, 3.
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Acts vii. 4.
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Gen. xii. 1.
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Various reading, "of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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Gen. xii. 1-3.
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Acts vii. 2.
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Gen. xii. 7.
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Gen. xiii. 8, 9.
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Gen. xiii. 14-17.
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Various reading, "the express promise."
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Ps. cx. 4.
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Rom. iv. 3; Gen. xv. 6.
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Gen. xv. 7.
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Gen. xv. 9-21.