[443] Ex Scripturis deificis. [444] There are two letters extant from Cyprian to Stephen, No. 68, respecting Marcianus of Arles, who had joined Novatian, and No. 72, on a Council concerning heretical baptism. It is clear, however, from _Ep._ lxxiii. sec. 1, that this Council, and consequently the letter to Stephen, was subsequent to the Council under consideration; and consequently Augustine is right in ignoring it, and referring solely to the former. Dr. Routh thinks the words an interpolation, of course before Augustine's time; and they may perhaps have been inserted by some one who had Cyprian's later letter to Stephen before his mind. [445] Segermæ in Numidia. [446] Girba, formerly Meninx, an island to the south-east of the Lesser Syrtis. [447] In baptismi trinitate. "Quia trina immersione expediebatur, in nomine Patris, Filii, et S. Spiritus."--_Bishop Fell._ [448] Matt. xxviii. 19. [449] Erroris offectura. Other readings are "offensa" and "effectura." [450] Cediæ has been identified, but perhaps without sufficient reason, with Quidias, or Quiza, in Mauritania Cæsariensis. [451] Matt. xii. 30. [452] 1 John ii. 18. [453] Matt. vii. 22, 23. [454] Bagai, or Vacca, in the interior of Numidia. See on I. v. 7. [455] Matt. xv. 14. [456] 1 Cor. xv. 32. [457] Rom. viii. 6. [458] Mileum, or Mireum, a Roman colony in Numidia, noted as the seat of two Councils. [459] Hippo Regius, the see of Augustine himself, was on the coast of Numidia. [460] Badis in Numidia. [461] Matt. vi. 15. [462] Eph. iv. 3. [463] Phil. iii. 15. [464] Abbir Germaniciana was in Zeugitana. [465] 1 John iii. 15. [466] Thuccabori was perhaps the same as Tucca in Byzacene. [467] Matt. vii. 24. [468] Cypr. _Serm. de Laps._ [469] Matt. vii. 24, 26. [470] It is pointed out by the Louvain editors that this passage shows that Augustine considered our Lord's precept to comprehend everything contained in the Sermon on the Mount. [471] Luke vi. 37. [472] Matt. vi. 14, 15. [473] 1 Pet. iv. 8. [474] Cypr. _Ep._ lxxiii. sec. 12. [475] Tuburbo was in Zeugitana. [476] Phil. iii. 15. [477] See above, III. cc. xiv. xv. [478] Matt. xiii. 29. [479] 1 Kings iii. 26. [480] Sufetula was a town of Byzacene, twenty-five miles from Sufes, of which the name is a diminutive. [481] Lares was a town of importance in Byzacene. [482] Matt. vii. 23. [483] John i. 33. [484] Macomades was in Numidia. [485] Flebiles et tabidos. This is otherwise taken of the repentant heretics, "Melting with the grief and wretchedness of penitence;" but Bishop Fell points out that the interpretation in the text is supported by an expression in c. xxxiii. 63: Mens hæretica, quæ diuturna tabe polluta est. [486] Adulteros. So all the MSS. of Augustine, though in Cyprian is sometimes found "adulterinos." In classical Latin, however, "adulter" is sometimes used in the sense of "adulterinus." Cassius seems to have had in mind Heb. xii. 8, "Then are ye bastards, and not sons."