P. 287, l. 4. Vide si via iniquitatis in me est. Ps. cxxxix. 24.
P. 287, l. 15. they are so no longer, i.e. since the miracle.
P. 288, l. 18. Vos autem non sic. Luc. xxii. 26.
P. 289, l. 28. Annat, 1590-1670, a Jesuit priest, Provincial of the Order, and Confessor to Louis XIV., 1654-1670. He wrote the well-known book, Le Rabat-joie des Jansénistes, 1666, and to him were addressed Pascal's Seventeenth and Eighteenth Provincials.
P. 290, l. 9. Montalte. Louis de Montalte was the pseudonym adopted by Pascal as the writer of the Provincial Letters.
P. 290, l. 26. A fructibus eorum. Matt. vii. 16.
P. 291, l. 6. Lessius, Leonard, a Jesuit born at Brecht, near Antwerp, 1554, died 1623, a pupil of Suarez. He was censured by the Faculty of Louvain in 1584. He wrote, among others, a treatise, De licito usu æquivocationum et mentalium restrictionum.
P. 291, l. 9. Bauny. Pascal in his Eighth Provincial quotes an opinion of Father Bauny on the question of restitution to be made by one who has caused the burning of his neighbour's barn.
P. 291, l. 10. quam primum. A reference to the rule that if a priest personally disqualified from saying Mass on account of any mortal sin is yet obliged to do so for the sake of his parishioners, it is sufficient that he make an act of contrition, and as soon as possible "quam primum" seek the Sacrament of Penance.
P. 292, l. 18. State super vias. A partial quotation from Jer. vi. 16.