Footnote 1474: Otto, resting on MS. authority, omits the negative, but the sense seems to require its insertion. Footnote 1475: Literally, “lessening.” Footnote 1476: Comp. Gal. iv. 10. Footnote 1477: This seems to refer to the practice of the Jews in fixing the beginning of the day, and consequently of the Sabbath, from the rising of the stars. They used to say, that when three stars of moderate magnitude appeared, it was night; when two, it was twilight; and when only one, that day had not yet departed. It thus came to pass (according to their _night-day_ (νυχθήμερον) reckoning), that whosoever engaged in work on the evening of Friday, the beginning of the Sabbath, after three stars of moderate size were visible, was held to have sinned, and had to present a trespass-offering; and so on, according to the fanciful rule described. Footnote 1478: Otto thus supplies the _lacuna_ which here occurs in the MSS., καταδ[ιαιρεῖν]. Footnote 1479: The great festivals of the Jews are here referred to on the one hand, and the day of atonement on the other. Footnote 1480: Literally, “paradoxical.” Footnote 1481: Literally, “cast away fœtuses.” Footnote 1482: Otto omits “bed,” which is an emendation, and gives the second _common_ the sense of _unclean_. Footnote 1483: Comp. 2 Cor. x. 3. Footnote 1484: Comp. Phil. iii. 20. Footnote 1485: Comp. 2 Cor. vi. 9. Footnote 1486: Comp. 2 Cor. vi. 10. Footnote 1487: Comp. 2 Cor. iv. 12. Footnote 1488: John xvii. 11, 14, 16. Footnote 1489: Comp. 1 Pet. ii. 11. Footnote 1490: Literally, “keeps together.” Footnote 1491: Literally, “incorruption.” Footnote 1492: Or, “though punished, increase in number daily.” Footnote 1493: Literally, “mysteries.” Footnote 1494: Literally, “elements.” Footnote 1495: The word “sun,” though omitted in the MSS., should manifestly be inserted. Footnote 1496: Literally, “has received to observe.” Footnote 1497: Literally, “one of men.” Footnote 1498: _God_ here refers to the person sent. Footnote 1499: A considerable gap here occurs in the MSS. Footnote 1500: Literally, “these things are the marvels and error.” Footnote 1501: Or, “known Him.” Footnote 1502: Comp. Matt. xix. 17. Footnote 1503: Literally, “in a mystery.” Footnote 1504: Literally, “all things.” Footnote 1505: The sense is here very obscure. We have followed the text of Otto, who fills up the _lacuna_ in the MS. as above. Others have, “to see, and to handle Him.” Footnote 1506: Literally, “economically.” Footnote 1507: Otto refers for a like contrast between these two times to Rom. iii. 21-26, v. 20, and Gal. iv. 4. Footnote 1508: The reading and sense are doubtful. Footnote 1509: Both the text and rendering are here somewhat doubtful, but the sense will in any case be much the same. Footnote 1510: