[206] P. 151, l. 2. Noli me tangere.—­John xx, 17.

[207] P. 156, l. 14. Vere discipuli, etc.—­Allusions to John viii, 31,
      i, 47; viii, 36; vi, 32.

[208] P. 158, l. 41. Signa legem in electis meis.—­Is. viii, 16.  The
      text of the Vulgate is in discipulis meis.

[209] P. 159, l. 2. Hosea.—­xiv, 9.

[210] P. 159, l. 13. Saint John.—­xii, 39.

[211] P. 160, l. 17. Tamar.—­Genesis xxxviii, 24-30.

[212] P. 160, l. 17. Ruth.—­Ruth iv, 17-22.

[213] P. 163, l. 13. History of China.—­A History of China in Latin
      had been published in 1658.

[214] P. 164, l.  I. The five suns, etc.—­Montaigne, Essais, iii, 6.

[215] P. 164, l. 9. Jesus Christ.—­John v, 31.

[216] P. 164, l. 17. The Koran says, etc.—­There is no mention of
      Saint Matthew in the Koran; but it speaks of the Apostles
      generally.

[217] P. 165, l. 35. Moses.—­Deut. xxxi, 11.

[218] P. 166, l. 23. Carnal Christians.—­Jesuits and Molinists.

[219] P. 170, l. 14. Whom he welcomed from afar.—­John viii, 56.

[220] P. 170, l. 19. Salutare, etc.—­Genesis xdix, 18.

[221] P. 173, l. 33. The Twelve Tables at Athens.—­There were no such
      tables.  About 450 B.C. a commission is said to have been appointed
      in Rome to visit Greece and collect information to frame a code of
      law.  This is now doubted, if not entirely discredited.

[222] P. 173, l. 35. Josephus.—­Reply to Apion, ii, 16.  Josephus, the
      Jewish historian, gained the favour of Titus, and accompanied him
      to the siege of Jerusalem.  He defended the Jews against a
      contemporary grammarian, named Apion, who had written a violent
      satire on the Jews.

[223] P. 174, l. 27. Against Apion.—­ii, 39.  See preceding note.

[224] P. 174, l. 28. Philo.—­A Jewish philosopher, who lived in the
      first century of the Christian era.  He was one of the founders of
      the Alexandrian school of thought.  He sought to reconcile Jewish
      tradition with Greek thought.

[225] P. 175, l. 20. Prefers the younger.—­See No. 710.

[226] P. 176, l. 32. The books of the Sibyls and Trismegistus.—­The
      Sibyls were the old Roman prophetesses.  Their predictions were
      preserved in three books at Rome, which Tarquinius Superbus had
      bought from the Sibyl of Erythrae.  Trismegistus was the Greek name
      of the Egyptian god Thoth, who was regarded as the originator of
      Egyptian culture, the god of religion, of writing, and of the arts
      and sciences.  Under his name there existed forty-two sacred books,
      kept by the Egyptian priests.