13586. dont sont tenant, ‘from whom they hold,’ in the feudal sense.
13606. Matt. v. 46.
13669. Sen. de Mor. 16, ‘Quod tacitum esse velis, nemini dixeris. Si tibi ipsi non imperasti, quomodo ab aliis silentium speras?’
13675. Petr. Alph. Disc. Cler. ii., ‘Consilium absconditum quasi in carcere tuo est retrusum; revelatum vero te in carcere suo tenet ligatum.’
13686. Ecclus. xiii. 1.
13695. ‘Pro amico occidi melius quam cum inimico vivere’: quoted as ‘Socrates’ in Caec. Balbus, Nug. Phil. p. 25 (ed. Woelfflin).
13713. Conf. Am. Prol. 109.
13717. Ecclus. vi. 15, ‘Amico fideli nulla est comparatio, et non est digna ponderatio auri et argenti contra bonitatem fidei illius.’
13732. Ambr. de Spir. Sanct. ii. 154, ‘Unde quidam interrogatus quid amicus esset, Alter, inquit, ego.’
13741. The reference no doubt is to 2 Tim. iii. 2, ‘Erunt homines seipsos amantes,’ &c. The explanation suggested by our author of the double word ‘se-ipsos’ is that these men would love themselves with a double love, that due to God and that due to their neighbour.