[1185]. Cf. 1 Kings xiv. 12.

[1186]. Cf. 2 Kings i. 3.

[1187]. Πεποίηκεν ἀντὶ σπερματικοῦ λόγου, τοῦ ἐκ μίξεως τῶν ἀῤῥένων ταῖς γυναιξὶ, ἄλλῳ τρόπῳ γενέσθαι τὸν λόγον τοῦ τεχθησομένου.

[1188]. This difficult passage is rendered in the Latin translation: “but that, after they had believed [in Christ], they with no adequate supply of arguments, such as is furnished by the Greek dialectics, gave themselves up,” etc.

[1189]. Cf. Ezek. i. 1.

[1190]. Cf. Ezek. i. 28 and ii. 1.

[1191]. Cf. Isa. vi. 1, 2.

[1192]. χαρίσματι.

[1193]. Cf. Isa. xlviii. 16.

[1194]. Cf. Joseph. Antiq. book xviii. c. x. sec. 2.