31 [This may be credited. See Cyprian's Passion. But the technical names which follow seem an anachronism if technically understood. I say this with no spirit of objection to these vestments, however.]
32 [See Kingsley's Hypatia. In Cyril's time this might have happened: one trusts that for Peter's day this, too, is an anachronism.]
33 [Another anachronism, and Occidental also.]
34 [See vol. v. p. 256, note 6, and p. 259, Elucidation II. Missa, a Latin word, has clearly no place here save by the Roman rule of reading modern rites into antiquity. Thus, in Raphael's picture illustrating the story of 2 Macc. iii. 15, the Jewish high-priest is made a Roman pontiff. (Compare note 6, p. 261, supra]
35 [See note 2, p. 265, supra]
36 Achillas, the successor of Peter, admitted Arius to the priesthood.
38 Perhaps Absalom, or it may be Ziba, is referred to. (2 Sam. xiv. 33, xvi. 3.)
1 [The Canonical Epistles of Basil have been heretofore mentioned. Vol. v. p. 572, elucidation.]
2 These Canons of Peter of Alexandria are interesting as bearing upon the controversy between Cyprian and the clergy of Carthage, with regard to the treatment of the lapsed. They also bear upon the subject-matter of the Novatian schism.
3 Another reading is a0nhke9stouj, "which cannot be cured."
4 The marks of Jesus, sti9gmata. Cf. Gal. vi. 17.