[166] An allusion to the act that what he is writing is a "Prelude." See Introduction, p. 168.
[167] Contra epistolam Manichaei, 5, 6 (Migne, XLII, 176). Cf. below, p. 451.
[168] De trinitate, 9, 6, 10 (Migne, VIII, 966).
[169] See below, pp. 451 ff.
[170] The council that condemned and burned John Hus (1414-1418).
[171] Dionysius Areopagita, the pseudonym (cf. Acts 17:54) of the unknown author (about 500, in Syria?) of the neoplatonic writings, Of the Celestial, and Of the Ecclesiastical Hierarchy, etc.
[172] William Durandus the elder, died 1296.
[173] The Franciscan Bonaventura (†1274) in his De reductione artium ad theologiara.
[174] Donatus (ab. 350 A.D.), a famous Latin grammarian, whose Ars minor was a favorite mediæval text-book. The chancellor of the University of Paris, John Gerson († 1429), published a Donatus moralisatus seu per allegoriam traductus—a mystical grammar, in which the noun was compared to man, the pronoun to man's sinful state, the verb to the divine command to love, the adverb to the fulfilment of the divine law, etc.
[175] See above, p. 190.