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John viii. 44.

1 John iii. 8.

Cf. Gen. ad Lit. xi. 27 et seqq.

Ps. xvii. 6.

1 John iii. 8.

The Manichæans.

Isa. xiv. 12.

Ezek. xxviii. 13.

Job xl. 14 (LXX.).

Ps. civ. 26.

Job. xl. 14 (LXX.).

It must be kept in view that "vice" has, in this passage, the meaning of sinful blemish.

Ps. civ. 26.

Quintilian uses it commonly in the sense of antithesis.

2 Cor. vi. 7-10.

Ecclus. xxxiii. 15.

Gen. i. 14-18.

The reference is to the Timæus, p. 37 C., where he says, "When the parent Creator perceived this created image of the eternal gods in life and motion, He was delighted, and in His joy considered how He might make it still liker its model."

Jas. i. 17.

The passage referred to is in the TIMÆUS, p. 29 D.: "Let us say what was the cause of the Creator's forming this universe. He was good; and in the good no envy is ever generated about anything whatever. Therefore, being free from envy, He desired that all things should, as much as possible, resemble Himself."

The Manichæans, to wit.

Gen. i. 31.

Proprietas.

This is one of the passages cited by Sir William Hamilton, along with the "Cogito, ergo sum" of Descartes, in confirmation of his proof, that in so far as we are conscious of certain modes of existence, in so far we possess an absolute certainty that we exist. See note A in Hamilton's Reid, p. 744.

Compare the Confessions, xiii. 9.

Ch. 7.

Or aliquot parts.

Comp. Aug. Gen. ad Lit. iv. 2, and De Trinitate, iv. 7.

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