[599] _Ap._ Augustin. viii. 463. [600] In his translation of Eusebius. Nicholson, p. 53. [601] Chrysologus, A.D. 433, Abp. of Ravenna. Venet. 1742. He mystically explains the entire incident. Serm. cxv. Sec. 5. [602] Sedulius (A.D. 435) makes it the subject of a poem, and devotes a whole chapter to it. _Ap._ Galland. ix. 553 and 590. [603] 'Promiss.' De Promissionibus dimid. temp. (saec. iv). Quotes viii. 4, 5, 9. P. 2, c. 22, col. 147 b. Ignot. Auct., De Vocatione omnium Gentium (circa, A.D. 440), _ap._ Opp. Prosper. Aquit. (1782), i. p. 460-1:--'Adulteram ex legis constitutione lapidandam ... liberavit ... cum executores praecepti de conscientiis territi, trementem ream sub illius iudicio reliquissent.... Et inclinatus, id est ad humana dimissus ... "digito scribebat in terram," ut legem mandatorum per gratiae decreta vacuaret,' &c. [604] Wrongly ascribed to Idacius. [605] Gelasius P. A.D. 492. Conc. iv. 1235. Quotes viii. 3, 7, 10, 11. [606] Cassiodorus, A.D. 514. Venet. 1729. Quotes viii. 11. See ii. p. 96, 3, 5-180. [607] Dialogues, xiv. 15. [608] ii. 748:--In evangelio secundum Ioannem in multis et Graecis et Latinis codicibus invenitur de adultera muliere, quae accusata est apud Dominum. [609] [Greek: henos hekastou auton tas hamartias]. Ev. 95, 40, 48, 64, 73, 100, 122, 127, 142, 234, 264, 267, 274, 433, 115, 121, 604, 736. [610] Appendix, p. 88. [611] vi. 407:--Sed hoc videlicet infidelium sensus exhorret, ita ut nonnulli modicae fidei vel potius inimici verae fidei, (credo metuentes peccandi impunitatem dari mulieribus suis), illud quod de adulterae indulgentia Dominus fecit, auferrent de codicibus suis: quasi permissionem peccandi tribuerit qui dixit, 'Iam deinceps noli peccare;' aut ideo non debuerit mulier a medico Deo illius peccati remissione sanari, ne offenderentur insani. De coniug. adult. ii. cap. 7. i. 707:--Fortasse non mediocrem scrupulum movere potuit imperitis Evangelii lectio, quae decursa est, in quo advertistis adulteram Christo oblatam, eamque sine damnatione dimissam. Nam profecto si quis en auribus accipiat otiosis, incentivum erroris incurrit, cum leget quod Deus censuerit adulterium non esse damnandum. [612] Epist. 58. Quid scribebat? nisi illud Propheticum (Jer. xxii. 29-30), _Terra, terra, scribe hos vivos abdicatos_. [613] Constt. App. (Gen. in. 49). Nicon (Gen. iii. 250). I am not certain about these two references. [614] Two precious verses (viz. the forty-third and forty-fourth) used to be omitted from the lection for Tuesday before Quinquagesima,--viz. St. Luke xxii. 39-xxiii. 1. The lection for the preceding Sabbath (viz. St. Luke xxi. 8-36) consisted of only the following verses,--ver. 8, 9, 25-27, 33-36. All the rest (viz. verses 10-24 and 28-32) was omitted. On the ensuing Thursday, St. Luke xxiii was handled in a similar style: viz. ver. 1-31, 33, 44-56 alone were read,--all the other verses being left out.