Pascal's Pensées eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 370 pages of information about Pascal's Pensées.

Pascal's Pensées eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 370 pages of information about Pascal's Pensées.

[227] P. 177, l. 3. Quis mihi, etc.—­Numbers xi, 29. Quis tribuat ut
      omnis populus prophetet
?

[228] P. 177, l. 25. Maccabees.—­2 Macc. xi, 2.

[229] P. 177, l. 7. This book, etc.—­Is. xxx, 8.

[230] P. 178, l. 9. Tertullian.—­A Christian writer in the second
      century after Christ.  The quotation is from his De Cultu Femin.,
      ii, 3.

[231] P. 178, l. 16. (+Theos+), etc.—­Eusebius, Hist., lib. v, c. 8.

[232] P. 178, l. 22. And he took that from Saint Irenaeus.—­Hist.,
      lib. x, c 25.

[233] P. 179, l. 5. The story in Esdras.—­2 Esdras xiv.  God appears to
      Esdras in a bush, and orders him to assemble the people and
      deliver the message.  Esdras replies that the law is burnt.  Then
      God commands him to take five scribes to whom for forty days He
      dictates the ancient law.  This story conflicted with many passages
      in the prophets, and was therefore rejected from the Canon at the
      Council of Trent.

[234] P. 181, l. 14. The Kabbala.—­The fantastic secret doctrine of
      interpretation of Scripture, held by a number of Jewish rabbis.

[235] P. 181, l. 26. Ut sciatis, etc.—­Mark ii, 10, 11.

[236] P. 183, l. 29. This generation, etc.—­Matthew xxiv, 34.

[237] P. 184, l. 11. Difference between dinner and supper.—­Luke xiv,
      12.

[238] P. 184, l. 28. The six ages, etc.—­M.  Havet has traced this to a
      chapter in St. Augustine, De Genesi contra Manichaeos, i, 23.

[239] P. 184, l. 31. Forma futuri.—­Romans v, 14.

[240] P. 186, l. 13. The Messiah, etc.—­John xii, 34.

[241] P. 186, l. 30. If the light, etc.—­Matthew vi, 23.

[242] P. 187, l. 1. Somnum suum.—­Ps. lxxvi, 5.

[243] P. 187, l. 1. Figura hujus mundi.—­1 Cor. vii, 31.

[244] P. 187, l. 2. Comedes panem tuum.—­Deut. viii, 9. Panem
      nostrum,
Luke xi, 3.

[245] P. 187, l. 3. Inimici Dei terram lingent.—­Ps. lxxii, 9.

[246] P. 187, l. 8. Cum amaritudinibus.—­Exodus xii, 8.  The Vulgate
      has cum lacticibus agrestibus.

[247] P. 187, l. 9. Singularis sum ego donec transeam.—­Ps. cxli, 10.

[248] P. 188, l. 19. Saint Paul.—­Galatians iv, 24; I Cor. iii, 16,
      17; Hebrews ix, 24; Romans ii, 28, 29.

[249] P. 188, l. 25. That Moses, etc.—­John vi, 32.

[250] P. 189, l. 3. For one thing alone is needful.—­Luke x, 42.

[251] P. 189, l. 9. The breasts of the Spouse.—­Song of Solomon iv, 5.

[252] P. 189, l. 15. And the Christians, etc.—­Romans vi, 20; viii,
      14, 15.

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