2790. Ps. xxxviii. 20 (Vulg. xxxvii. 21), ‘Qui retribuunt mala pro bonis, detrahebant mihi, quoniam sequebar bonitatem.’
2799. Jer. xviii. 21 f.
2809. Ps. xxxi. 18 (Vulg. xxx. 19), cp. cxix. (Vulg. lxviii), 23.
2861. Jer. li. 1, but the passage is misunderstood.
2865. Rom. i. 30, ‘Detractores, Deo odibiles.’
2874. Bern. Int. Dom. xxiii. 49, ‘Detrahentes et audientes pari reatu detinentur.’
2893. The disgusting habits of the hoopoe in nesting are often referred to.
2894 ff. There is a close parallel to this in Conf. Am. ii. 413 ff.,
‘Lich to the Scharnebudes kinde,
Of whos nature this I finde,’ &c.