5. Five Books in Reply to Marcion.: 147

¹⁴⁷ Which is taken, from its form, as a sign of the cross; see below.

¹⁴⁸ Refers to the "when" in 99, above.

¹⁴⁹ Lychno. The "faces" are probably the wicks.

¹⁵⁰ "Scilicet hoc testamen erat virtutis image."

¹⁵¹ The text as it stands is, in Oehler: -

... "Hic Baal Christi victoria signo

Extemplo refugam devicit femina ligno;"which I would read: -

... "Hunc Jael, Christi victorioe signo,

Extemplo," etc.

¹⁵² For "hic" I would incline to read "huic."

¹⁵³ i.e., child.

¹⁵⁴ i.e., instead of.

¹⁵⁵ i.e., to his unshorn Nazarite locks.

¹⁵⁶ Viros ostendere Christos.

¹⁵⁷ See 1 Sam. xxviii. (in LXX. 1 Kings) 11-19.

¹⁵⁸ i.e., to whom, to David.

¹⁵⁹ "Ex utero:" a curious expression for a man; but so it is.

¹⁶⁰ i.e., emulous of David's virtues.

¹⁶¹ Comp. especially 2 Chron. xxix. xxx. xxxi.

¹⁶² Our author is quite correct in his order. A comparison of dates as given in the Scripture history shows us that his reforms preceded his war with Sennacherib.

¹⁶³ The "tactus" of the Latin is without sense, unless indeed it refer to his being twice "touched" by an angel. See 1 Kings (in LXX. 3 Kings) xix. 1-8. I have therefore substituted "raptus," there being no mention of the angel in the Latin.