Part 96

P. 235, l. 21. Et tu conversus. Luc. xxii. 32. Conversus Jesus. ib. 61. before should be "after."

P. 238, l. 16. Qui adhæret Deo. 1 ad Cor. v. 17. Qui autem adhæret Domino unus spiritus est.

P. 238, l. 28. because it has perhaps merited ours. See Bossuet's Catechism. Qu'entendez vous par la Communion des Saints? J'entends principalement la participation qu'ont tous les fidèles au fruit des bonnes œuvres les uns des autres.

P. 240, l. 28. Book of Wisdom. Ch. ii. 6. But the sense only, and not the words, is given.

P. 241, l. 16. et non intres in judicium. Ps. cxliii. 2.

P. 241, l. 19. The goodness of God. Rom. ii. 4.

P. 241, l. 20. Let us do penance. Jonah, iii. 9. But the sense only, not the words, is quoted.

P. 243, l. 2. qui gloriatur, in Domino glorietur. 1 ad Cor. i. 31.

P. 243, l. 4. libido sentiendi. From Jansenius, De statu naturæ lapsæ, ii. 8.

P. 243, l. 5. Woe to the accursed land. This and the following paragraphs are taken from Saint Augustine's commentary on Ps. cxxxvii., Super flumina Babylonis.

P. 244, l. 1. Abraham took nothing for himself. Gen. xiv. 24.

P. 244, l. 5. Sub te erit appetitus tuus. Gen. iv. 7.

P. 244, l. 29. Multi crediderunt. Joh. viii. 30-33.

P. 245, l. 17. Comminutum cor. No doubt a misquotation of Ps. li. cor contritum et humiliatum, Deus, non despicies.

P. 245, l. 18. Albe vous a nommé. Corneille, Horace, act ii. sc. 3.

P. 248, l. 1. Omnis creatura subjecta est vanitati. Eccles. iii. 19, but the true reading is "cuncta subjacent vanitati."

P. 249, l. 33. Inclina cor meum. Ps. cxix. 36.

P. 251, l. 13. Ne evacuetur crux Christi. 1 ad Cor. i. 17.

P. 253. The Arrangement. Scattered here and there in Pascal's MS. were a number of notes concerning the plan, form, and matter of his intended treatise, many of them marked with the word "Ordre." These are gathered together by recent editors, and some others which seem to cohere with them added, but Molinier's arrangement, as well as that of Faugère, is necessarily somewhat arbitrary.

P. 254, l. 6. Justus ex fide vivit. Habac. ii. 4. Ad Rom. i. 17.

P. 254, l. 8. fides ex auditu. Ad Rom. x. 17.

P. 254, l. 14. divide my moral qualities into four. The classical division of ancient philosophy was into four: prudence, temperance, justice, magnanimity.

P. 254, l. 16. Abstine et sustine. The Stoic formula.

P. 257. The Miracle of the Holy Thorn. Marguerite Perier, Pascal's niece, aged ten, was cured of lachrymal fistula on March 24, 1656, after touching the diseased part with a reliquary containing a thorn from the Saviour's crown. This was at the time that Port Royal was suffering deeply from persecution, and was considered by many a signal mark of the favour of heaven. The Jesuits did not deny the miracle, but the conclusions drawn from it.

P. 257, l. 20. those who heal by invocation of the devil. Pascal, when a child, was supposed both to have been made ill and restored to health by a witch. He desires to show that this was no miracle.

P. 258, l. 9. Believe the Church. Matt. xviii. 17.

P. 258, l. 13. Montaigne. Cf. Essais, i. 26.

P. 258, l. 23. Judæi signa petunt. 1 ad Cor. i. 22.