⁶⁸ Ps. cx. [cix.] 4.

⁶⁹ Wisd viii. 2.

⁷⁰ S. Luke xvii. 14.

⁷¹ Eph. v. 14.

⁷² 1 Cor. vi. 12.

⁷³ Rom. vii. 2.

⁷⁴ 1 Cor. vii. 4.

⁷⁵ 1 Cor. vii. 23.

⁷⁶ 1 Cor. vii. 14.

⁷⁷ 1 Cor. vii. 15.

⁷⁸ 1 Cor. vii. 28.

⁷⁹ 1 Cor. vii. 25.

⁸⁰ S. Matt. xix. 18-21.

⁸¹ S. Luke xvii. 10.

⁸² S. Matt. xix. 27.

⁸³ S. Matt. xix. 28.

⁸⁴ S. Matt. xxv. 21.

⁸⁵ S. Matt. xxv. 11, Matt. xxv. 12.

⁸⁶ There would seem to be a passage lost here.

⁸⁷ S. Matt. v. 28.

⁸⁸ Gal. v. 12 [very loose].

⁸⁹ S. Matt. xix. 12.

⁹⁰ Prov. xi. 1.

⁹¹ Prov. xx 10.

⁹² S. Matt. xix. 12.

⁹³ S. John vi. 9.

⁹⁴ S. Matt. xxvi. 26.

⁹⁵ 1 Cor. vii. 25.

⁹⁶ 1 Cor. vii. 26.

⁹⁷ 1 Cor. vii. 1.

⁹⁸ 1 Cor. vii. 7.

⁹⁹ 1 Cor. vii. 8.

¹⁰⁰ 1 Cor. vii. 26.

¹⁰¹ The reference would seem to be to the "Lex Julia et Papia Poppoea," but the object of this law was not, as St. Ambrose seems to imply, to check celibacy, but to meet the growing licentiousness of the age, which avoided the obligations of married life while indulging in every kind of impure abominations.

¹⁰² Gen. ii. 24.

¹⁰³ Eph. v. 32.

¹⁰⁴ Gen. xxiv. 67.

¹⁰⁵ Gen. xxv. 10.

¹⁰⁶ Gen. xxix. 28 ff.

¹⁰⁷ This is really in excess of the number which are now to be considered as fixed in date.

This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999. Contacting the CCEL.