FOOTNOTES:
[1] Epiph. Hær. xxxii. 6.
[2] Strom. lib. i. c. v.
[3] Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. vi. 6.
[4] Hieron. Lib. de Viris illustribus, c. 38; Ph. Bibl. 111.
[5] Eusebius, Hist. Eccl. vi. 13, Phot. Bibl. 111.
[6] Hist. Eccl. vi. 6.
[7] The Greek is ὑπερτάτην, lit. highest. Potter appeals to the use of ὑπἐρτερος in Sophocles, Electr. 455, in the sense of stronger, as giving a clue to the meaning here. The scholiast in Klotz takes the words to mean that the hand is held over them.
[8] Isa. ii. 3.
[9] Ps. xcvi. 1, xcviii. 1.