83 Aquila lived in the time of Hadrian, to whom he is said to have been related. He was excommunicated from the Church for the practice of astrology; and is best known by his translation of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek, which he executed with great care and accuracy, though he has been charged with falsifying passages to support the Jews in their opposition to Christianity.

84 Ps. lxxxii. 6.

85 Baruch iii. 26-28.

86 Lit.: The Lord thought and reconsidered.

87 Gen. vi. 5-7.

88 1 Tim. ii. 5.

89 In his second homily on Genesis.

90 Acts vii. 22.

91 Gen. vi. 19, 20.

1 Has pointed.

2 Gen. ix. 26, 27.

3 See Contra Faust. xii. c. 22 sqq.

4 Song of Solomon i. 3.

5 1 Cor. xi. 19.

6 Prov. x. 5. (LXX.)

7 Matt. vii. 20.

8 Phil. i. 18.

9 Isa. v. 7.

10 Matt. xx 22.

11 Matt. xxvi. 39.

12 2 Cor xiii. 4.

13 1 Cor. i. 25.

14 Augustin here follows the Greek version, which introduces the name Elisa among the sons of Japheth, though not found in the Hebrew. It is not found in the Complutensian Greek bans ration, nor in the Mss. used by Jerome.

15 Gen. x. 21.

16 Gen. xi. 1-9.

17 Ex. x.

18 Ps. xcv. 6.

19 Job xv. 13.

20 1 Cor. iii. 9.

21 Gen. i. 26.

22 Gen. xi. 6.

23 Virgil, Aen., iv. 592.

24 Here Augustin remarks on the addition of the particle ne to the word non, which he has made to bring out the sense.

25 Gen. i. 24.

26 Pliny, Hist. Nat. vii. 2; Aulus Gellius, Noct. Att. ix. 4.

27 From pugh/, a cubit.

28 Gen. x. 25.


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