[516] Augustine himself published this idea in his Conf. xiii. 32, but afterwards retracted it, as "said without sufficient consideration" (Retract. II. vi. 2). Epiphanius and Jerome ascribe it to Origen.
[517] Gen. i. 6.
[518] Namely, the Audians and Sampsæans, insignificant heretical sects mentioned by Theodoret and Epiphanius.
[519] Ps. xcv. 5.
[520] Vitium: perhaps "fault" most nearly embraces all the uses of this word.
[521] Essentia.
[522] Ex. iii. 14.
[523] Quintilian calls it dura.
[524] With this may be compared the argument of Socrates in the Gorgias, in which it is shown that to escape punishment is worse than to suffer it, and that the greatest of evils is to do wrong and not be chastised.
[525] Eccles. x. 13.