City of God (Penguin Classics) (197 page)

82
. cf. Gen. 25, 7.

83
. cf. Gen. 35, 28.

84
. cf. Gen. 47, 28.

85
. cf. Deut 34, 7.

86
. Ps. 90, 10.

87
. cf. ch. 11.

88
. cf. Bk XVIII, 42–4.

89
. Gen. 4, 1.

90
. cf. Gen. 4, 25.

91
. cf. Gen. 5, 3 (Vulg., 130; LXX, 230).

92
. Gen. 5, 6.

93
. Gen. 5, 7f.

94
. They were forbidden by Theodosius ([Aurel. Vict]
Epit
., 48; Ambr.
Ep
., 6o, 5).

95
. cf. Gen. 17, 10ff.

96
. cf. Gen. 4, 3f.

97
. cf. Gen. 8, 20.

98
. cf. Bk X, 4–6; 26.

99
. cf. ch. 7.

100
. An assonance (
Kayin
–
k
n
h
, ‘to get).

101
. Gen. 4, 1.

102
. A possible meaning.

103
. Impossible.

104
. In Hebrew poetry.

105
. Gen. 5, 2. It is true that
d
m
in Hebrew usually means ‘human being’ but
n
sh
has the same generic sense.

106
. Luke 20, 35.

107
. Gen. 4, 18–22.

108
. Gen. 4, 26 (LXX).

109
.
Hebel
in Hebrew=‘breath’.

110
. Rom. 8, 24f.

111
. Gen.4, 25.

112
. cf. Rom. 11, 5.

113
. Joe l2, 32; cf. Rom. 10, 13.

114
. Jer. 17, 5.

115
. cf. Gen. 5, 24; Heb. 11, 5f.

116
. cf. Eph. 2, 20.

117
. cf.
Aen
., 1, 284; 3, 97.

118
. cf. Luke 20, 34.

119
. cf. Bk VIII, 9n.; X, 32; XIV, 17.

120
. cf. ch. 2.

121
. Rom. 4, 5.

122
. Gen. 4, 19ff.; 5, 28ff.

123
. cf. Exod. 26, 7. On significant numbers cf. Bk XI, 30f; XVII, 4; XX, 5, 7.

124
. cf. Matt. 25, 33.

125
. Ps. 51, 3. The hair shirt was from early times the garb of penitence.

126
. cf. Gai. 5, 17.

127
.
Na’
m
h
in Hebrew means ‘pleasant’, ‘gracious’.

128
. Gen. 5, 1f.

129
. cf. Gen. 4, 26; ch. 18.

130
. cf. Gen. 4, 23.

131
. Ps. 49,11.

132
. Ps. 73, 20.

133
. Ps. 52, 8.

134
. Ps. 40, 4.

135
. Rom. 9, 22f.

136
. cf. Gen. 4, 26.

137
. cf. Gen. 6, 2.

138
.
Paschal candle
. St Augustine says Verses in praises of a (the) candle’ and the reference may be to a votive candle offered as a prayer or a thanksgiving; and that might suit the words better, which have no particular reference to the candle blessed by the deacon in the solemnities of Holy Saturday. The chant for that ceremony in the Missal, the
Exsultet
, has been ascribed to St Augustine without good reason. It is just possible that the ascription may be due to this passage.

139
. The three lines quoted appear (with certain variations) as the opening of a poem
De Anima
, of fifty-three hexameters, attributed to St Augustine (text in
Anthologia latina
, ed. Buecheler, Lommatzsch, Reise, 1, 2, 43).

140
. 2, 4 (LXX).

141
. cf. Gen. 6, 2 (‘angels’ is given in one MS. of LXX). ‘Sons of God’ elsewhere denotes ‘angels’ cf. Job 1, 6; 28, 7; Ps. 29, 1.

142
. cf. Bk III, 5.

143
. Ps. 104, 4.

144
. cf. e.g. Gen. 19, 1–22; Judg. 6, 12–22.

145
.
Silvanus
: cf. Bk VI, 9n.
Pan: pastoral
god of Arcadia, identified with the Italian god Faunus.

146
. 2 Pet 2, 4; cf. Jude 6. This, the oldest interpretation, appears in theapocryphal books of Enoch (4, 2ff.) and Jubilees (5, 1).

147
. Mark 1, 2.

148
. cf. Mal. 2, 7.

149
. cf. ch. 9.

150
. Gen. 6, 1–4.

151
. He produced, c. AD. 140, an extravagantly literal Greek version of the Old Testament.