[412] Adrumetum was an ancient Phoenician settlement, made a Roman colony by Trajan, on the coast of the Sinus Neapolitanus, some ninety miles south-east of Carthage. [413] Thamugadis, a town in Numidia, on the east side of Mount Aurasius. The whole opinion of Novatus (Conc. Carth. sec. iv.) is omitted in the MSS. [414] The words in Cyprian are, "sanctissimæ memoriæ virorum." The decree referred to is one of the Council held by Agrippinus. [415] Tubunæ, a town in Mauritania Cæsariensis. [416] Prov. ix. 12, according to the LXX. version, the passage being altogether absent in the Hebrew, and consequently in the English version. The whole opinion of Nemesianus is wanting in the MSS. and in the edition of Amerbach; and in that of Erasmus it is somewhat different, having been subsequently revised by the Louvain editors to bring it into harmony with the answer of Augustine and the text of Cyprian (Conc. Carth. sec. 5). [417] Prov. ix. 18, according to the LXX. version only. [418] John iii. 5. [419] Gen. i. 2. [420] Viz. baptism and the laying on of hands; the latter sacramental ordinance being similarly spoken of by Aug. _Ep._ lxxii. sec. 1, as efficacious only when preceded by Catholic baptism. [421] Eph. iv. 3-6. [422] Quoniam Spiritus Deus est, et de Deo natus est. These words are found at the end of John iii. 6 in the oldest Latin MS. (in the Bodleian Library), and their meaning appears to be, as given in the text, that whatsoever is born of the Spirit is spirit, since the Holy Ghost, being God, and born of, or proceeding from God, in virtue of His supreme power makes those to be spirits whom He regenerates. If the meaning had been (as Bishop Fell takes it), that "he who is born of the Spirit is born of God," the neuter "de Deo natum est" would have been required. To refer "Spiritus Deus est," with Migne, to John iv. 24, "God is a Spirit," reverses the grammar and destroys the sense of the passage. The above explanation is taken from the preface to Cyprian by the monk of St. Maur (Maranus), p. xxxvi., quoted by Routh, _Rel. Sac._ iii. 193. [423] Gal. v. 19-21. [424] Cypr. _Ep._ xi. sec. 1. [425] Prov. ix. 12, according to the LXX. version. [426] John iii. 5. [427] Acts viii. 13. [428] Wisd. i. 5. [429] John iii. 6. [430] Gal. v. 19-21. [431] Lambæse was one of the chief cities in the interior of Numidia, on the confines of Mauritania. [432] Conc. Carth. sec. vi. [433] Castrum Galbæ was also in Numidia. [434] Matt. v. 13. "Id quod salietur ex eo, ad nihilum valebit." [435] Matt. xxviii. 18, 19. [436] Recedendo infatuati contrarii facti sunt. Dr. Routh, from a Ms. in his own possession, inserts "et" after "infatuati,"--"have lost their savour and become contrary to the Church." [437] Prov. xiv. 9, from the LXX. [438] John xx. 23. [439] 1 John ii. 9. [440] Ex. xx. 13, 15. [441] Cirta, an inland city of the Massyli in Numidia, was rebuilt by Constantine, and called Constantina. [442] See below, on sec. 25.