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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint and Dods, Marcus
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[840] John vii. 39.
[841] Ps. xviii. 43.
[842] Matt. iv. 19.
[843] Luke v. 10.
[844] Matt. xii. 29.
[845] Zech. xii. 9, 10.
[846] So the Vulgate.
[847] John v. 22.
[848] Isa. xlii. 1-4.
[849] John i. 32.
[850] Matt. xvii. 1, 2.
[851] Ps. xli. 5.
[852] John v. 29.
[853] Matt. xiii. 41-43.
[854] Matt. xxv. 46.
[855] Luke xvi. 24.
[856]Æneid, vi. 733.
[857] Ch. 3, 5, 6.
[858] Aristotle does not affirm it as a fact observed by himself, but as a popular tradition (Hist. anim. v. 19). Pliny is equally cautious (Hist. nat. xxix. 23). Dioscorides declared the thing impossible (ii. 68).—Saisset.
[859] So Lucretius, ii. 1025:
"Sed neque tam facilis res ulla 'st, quin ea primum Difficilis magis ad credendum constet: itemque Nil adeo magnum, nec tam mirabile quicquam Principis, quod non minuant mirarier omnes Paulatim."
[860] Alluded to by Moore in his Melodies:
"The fount that played In times of old through Ammon's shade, Though icy cold by day it ran, Yet still, like souls of mirth, began To burn when night was near."
[861]Æneid, iv. 487-491.
[862] See the same collocation of words in Cic. Nat. deor. ii. 3.
[863] The etymologies given here by Augustine are, "monstra," a monstrando; "ostenta," ab ostendendo; "portenta," a portendendo, i.e. præostendendo; "prodigia," quod porro dicant, i.e. futura prædicant.
[864] Isa. lxvi. 24.
[865] Mark ix. 43-48.
[866] 2 Cor. xi. 29.
[867] Isa. li. 8.
[868] Ecclus. vii. 17.
[869] Rom. viii. 13.
[870] 1 Cor. xiii. 9, 10.
[871] Matt. xxv. 41.
[872] Luke xvi. 24.
[873] Rev. xx. 10.
[874] "Talio," i.e. the rendering of like for like, the punishment being exactly similar to the injury sustained.
[875] Ex. xxi. 24.
[876] Luke vi. 38.
[877] Remanerent. But Augustine constantly uses the imp. for the plup. subjunctive.