[29]This was the catasta, or platform, which corresponded to our prisoner’s dock.

[30]Dionysius’s language recalls 2 Cor. ii. 14; Col. ii. 15 is different.

[31]Cf. Heb. xi. 38.

[32]i. e. they showed themselves worthy of being among the elect.

[33]A range of hills to the east of the Nile seems to have been so called.

[34]On the marriage of the clergy at this time, see Bingham, Antiq., IV, v. § 5.

[35]This is probably the earliest extant mention of the Saracens—at least by that name.

[36]The opinion that the martyrs passed at once to heaven and shared His throne was general among the early Fathers (see Matt. xix. 28 and 1 Cor. vi. 2, 3).

[37]Cp. Ezek. xviii. 23, xxxiii. 11, 2 Pet. iii. 9.

[38]These expressions are not to be pressed as if they assumed episcopal authority.