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.