The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

by Blaise Pascal

P. 194, l. 5. Nemo ante obitum beatus est. Ovid, Met. iii. 136. The passage runs:—

Dicique beatus

Ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet.

P. 194, l. 19. The citations from the Rabbis are taken from the Pugio Fidei.

P. 195, l. 36. Chronology of Rabbinism. The chronology here given is in many points at variance with modern scholarship.

P. 197, l. 19. Salutare tuum expectabo. Gen. xlix. 18.

P. 200, l. 12. Miserere. The first word of Ps. li., "Miserere mei Deus." Expectavi. The first word of Ps. xl., "Expectans expectavi Dominum."

P. 200, l. 29. Dixit Dominus. The first words of Ps. cx.

P. 209, l. 11. Excæca. Is. vi. 10.