16717. I do not know the passage.
16721. ruer luy font, ‘cast it down,’ the auxiliary use of ‘faire’: ‘envers’ is an adjective, ‘inversus.’
16725. pervers, used as a substantive, ‘a pervert.’
16729. Not Isaiah, but Jer. ix. 21.
16740. ‘which cannot be extinguished.’
16741. Job xxxi. 1, ‘Pepigi foedus cum oculis meis ut ne cogitarem quidem de virgine.’
16753. Ps. cxix. 37.
16756. Matt. vi. 22.
16768. Perhaps we should read ‘soul ove sole.’
16769. 2 Sam. xiii. This example is quoted also in Conf. Am. viii. 213 ff.