[300]. Joshua, vi.
[301]. I Samuel, xv.
[302]. Exodus, xxxii. No high priest by the name of Ur is mentioned in this connection; but Hur, the son of Caleb, is associated with Aaron on two earlier occasions. See ibid., xvii, 10; xxiv, 14. There was a legend that Ur refused to make the golden calf and that the people spitting into his face suffocated him with the spittle. Petrus Comestor, Historia Scholastica, c. 73: Migne, Patrologia Latina, CXCVIII, 1189.
[303]. II Samuel, xii.
[304]. Exodus, xxxii, 7-14.
[305]. Jonah, iii.
[306]. II Kings, xx; Isaiah, xxxviii. The prayer is imaginary.
[307]. Probably from Psalms, xvi, 8 (Vulgate, xv, 8): “I have set the Lord always before me, because He is at my right hand....”
[308]. This prayer is a translation of a Latin original which the author has incorporated and given in full. Both the original and the author’s translation are given in the manuscripts.
[309]. Cf. Proverbs, viii, 22 ff.; see also, among the “Apochrypha,” Ecclesiasticus (The Wisdom of Jesus the son of Sirach), xxiv, 5 ff.