“Quoniam hi qui videntur apud nos hominum filii, vel ceterorum animalium, semini eorum a quibus seminati sunt respondent, vel carum quarum in utero formantur ac nutriuntur, habent ex his quidquid illud est quod in lucem hanc assumunt, ac deferunt processuri.” Probably the last two words should be “deferunt processuris”—“and hand it over to those who are destined to come forth from them,” _i.e._ to their descendants. Footnote 51: Subsistentia. Some would read here, “substantia.” Footnote 52: Per adoptionem Spiritus. The original words here were probably εἰσποίησις τοῦ πνεύματος, and Rufinus seems to have mistaken the allusion to Gen. ii. 7. To “adoption,” in the technical theological sense, the words in the text cannot have any reference.—SCHNITZER. Footnote 53: Col. i. 15. Footnote 54: Heb. i. 3. Footnote 55: ἀπόῤῥοια. Footnote 56: Wisd. vii. 25. Footnote 57: Gen. v. 3. Footnote 58: Subsistentia. Footnote 59: John xiv. 9. Footnote 60: Heb. i. 3. Footnote 61: Luke vi. 42. Footnote 62: Heb. i. 3. Substantiæ vel subsistentiæ. Footnote 63: Wisd. vii. 25, 26. Footnote 64: “Hujus ergo totius virtutis tantæ et tam immensæ vapor, et, ut ita dicam, vigor ipse in propriâ subsistentiâ effectus, quamvis ex ipsa virtute velut voluntas ex mente procedat, tamen et ipsa voluntas Dei nihilominus Dei virtus efficitur.” Footnote 65: 1 Cor. i. 24. Footnote 66: Ps. civ. 24. Footnote 67: John i. 3. Footnote 68: Rev. i. 8. Footnote 69: John xvii. 10. Footnote 70: Phil. ii. 10, 11. Footnote 71: John v. 19. Footnote 72: Abusive. CHAPTER III. ON THE HOLY SPIRIT.