[161] P. 119, l. 26. Wicked demon.—Descartes had suggested the possibility of the existence of an evil genius to justify his method of universal doubt. See his First Meditation. The argument is quite Cartesian.
[162] P. 122, l. 18. Deliciæ meæ, etc.—Proverbs viii, 31.
[163] P. 122, l. 18. Effundam spiritum, etc.—Is. xliv, 3; Joel ii, 28.
[164] P. 122, l. 19. Dii estis.—Ps. lxxxii, 6.
[165] P. 122, l. 20. Omnis caro fænum.—Is. xl, 6.
[166] P. 122, l. 20. Homo assimilatus, etc.—Ps. xlix, 20.
[167] P. 124, l. 24. Sapientius est hominibus.—1 Cor. i, 25.
[168] P. 125, l. 1. Of original sin.—The citations from the Rabbis in this fragment are borrowed from a work of the Middle Ages, entitled Pugio christianorum ad impiorum perfidiam jugulandam et maxime judæorum. It was written in the thirteenth century by Raymond Martin, a Catalonian monk. An edition of it appeared in 1651, edited by Bosquet, Bishop of Lodève.
[169] P. 125, l. 24. Better is a poor and wise child, etc.—Eccles. iv, 13.
[170] P. 126, l. 17. Nemo ante, etc.—See Ovid, Met., iii, 137, and Montaigne, Essais, i, 18.