A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop.: 1

¹ Phil. iii. 2.

² Rev. iii. 17.

³ John x. 1.

⁴ John x. 8.

⁵ Isa. xxx. 1.

⁶ Infelicissimi. This is supposed to be a play upon the name of Felicissimus, referred to in Cyprian's letter, [xlvui. p, 325, supra].

⁷ [Ep. xl. p. 319, supra: et alibi.]

⁸ Ezek. xliv. 10-13.

⁹ [See p. 602 note 12, supra.]

¹⁰ Isa. xiii. 19.

¹¹ Varium.

¹² Num. v. 2.

¹³ This passage is altogether corrupt and unintelligible: some force is necessary even to give it an appearance of meaning.

¹⁴ Matt. xxviii. 19. [For the next sentence see Acts ii. 33.]

¹⁵ Gen. vi. 5-7.

¹⁶ Rev. xvii. 15.

¹⁷ Matt. vii. 26, 27.

¹⁸ Zeph. iii. 1, 2, 3, LXX.

¹⁹ Luke x. 19.

²⁰ Scil. Gallus and Volusianus (Pamel.).

²¹ 1 Cor. iii. 12.

²² Matt. x. 33.

²³ Heb. x. 30.

²⁴ Matt. vii. 22, 23.

²⁵ Matt. vii. 22, 23.

²⁶ John vi. 67.

²⁷ Ezek. xviii. 30.

²⁸ Joel ii. 12, 13.

²⁹ Ps. lxxxix. 30 et seq.

³⁰ Ezek. xxxvi. 17-23.

³¹ Ezek. xxxiii. 10, 11.

³² Isa. lvii. 16.

³³ Jer. x. 24.

³⁴ Isa. lvii. 17.

³⁵ Isa. lvii. 19.

³⁶ Luke vii. 39 et seq.

³⁷ "Habebat," but probably "debebat"-owed.

³⁸ Ex. ix. 28.

³⁹ Rom. xiv. 4.

⁴⁰ Mic. vii. 8-10.

⁴¹ 1 Sam. ii. 3-8.

⁴² Jas. iv. 6.

⁴³ Matt. xxiii. 12.

⁴⁴ Matt. vii. 2.

⁴⁵ 1 John ii. 11.

⁴⁶ This refers to Novatian's letter in the name of the Roman people. (See p. 308. Compare p. 320, note 6.]

⁴⁷ Ezek. xxxiii. 12.

⁴⁸ Rev. ii. 5.

⁴⁹ Ezek. xviii. 21.

⁵⁰ Rev. xii. 15.

⁵¹ 1 Cor. xi. 17.

⁵² 1 Cor. iii. 3.

⁵³ 1 Sam. ix. 2.

⁵⁴ [A misconception of Judas, who seems to have been hypocritical from the first. John vi. 64.]

⁵⁵ Zech. xi. 16.

⁵⁶ This parenthesis is unintelligible. [i.e., not shepherds, but:"butcher," in the prophet's thought, who speaks as follows, etc.]

⁵⁷ Ezek. xxxiv.

⁵⁸ Ps. cxix. 176.

⁵⁹ Luke xv. 6-10.

⁶⁰ Luke xv. 6-10.

⁶¹ Luke xiii. 1-5.

⁶² Luke xi. 10.

⁶³ Ps. li. 4.

⁶⁴ Rom. ii. 11.

⁶⁵ Deut. i. 17.

⁶⁶ Ezek. xviii. 4.

⁶⁷ Matt. x. 28.

⁶⁸ Jude 14, 15.

⁶⁹ Dan. vii. 9, 10.

⁷⁰ Rev. vi. 12-17.

⁷¹ Rev. xx. 11-13.

⁷² Eph. v. 6, 7.

⁷³ Ezek. xviii. 30-32.

⁷⁴ Isa. xliii. 25, 26.

⁷⁵ [A virtual refutation of the dogma of purgatory, and all the trading in Masses which it involves. The pious Hirscher, in his Kirchlichen Zustande der Gegenwart (Tubingen, 1849; a translation of which, by the American editor of this series, was published, Oxford,1852), bewails the corrupting influences of this system, though he died in the Papal communion.]