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[324] P. 242, l. 9. Vatable.—Professor of Hebrew at the Collège Royal, founded by Francis I. An edition of the Bible with notes under his name, which were not his, was published in 1539.
[326] P. 242, l. 23. Si in digito ... vos.—Luke xi, 20.
[327] P. 243, l. 12. Q. 113, A. 10, Ad. 2.—Thomas Aquinas's Summa, Pt. I, Question 113, Article 10, Reply to the Second Objection.
[328] P. 243, l. 18. Judæi signa petunt, etc.—I Cor. i, 22.
[329] P. 243, l. 23. Sed vos, etc.—John x, 26.
[330] P. 246, l. 15. Tu quid dicis? etc.—John ix, 17, 33.
[331] P. 247, l. 14. Though ye believe not, etc.—John x, 38.
[332] P. 247, l. 25. Nemo facit, etc.—Mark ix, 39.
[333] P. 247, l. 27. A sacred relic.—This is a reference to the miracle of the Holy Thorn. Marguerite Périer, Pascal's niece, was cured of a fistula lachrymalis on 24 March, 1656, after her eye was touched with this sacred relic, supposed to be a thorn from the crown of Christ. This miracle made a great impression upon Pascal.
[334] P. 248, l. 23. These nuns.—Of Port-Royal, as to which, see note on page 110, line 16, above. They were accused of Calvinism.
[335] P. 248, l. 28. Vide si, etc.—Ps. cxxxix, 24.
[336] P. 249, l. 1. Si tu, etc.—Luke xxii, 67.
[337] P. 249, l. 2. Opera quæ, etc.—John v, 36; x, 26-27.
[338] P. 249, l. 7. Nemo potest, etc.—John iii, 2.
[339] P. 249, l. 11. Generatio prava, etc.—Matthew xii, 39.
[340] P. 249, l. 14. Et non poterat facere.—Mark vi, 5.
[341] P. 249, l. 16. Nisi videritis, non creditis.—John iv, 8, 48.
[342] P. 249, l. 23. Tentat enim, etc.—Deut. xiii, 3.
[343] P. 249, l. 25. Ecce prædixi vobis: vos ergo videte.—Matthew xxiv, 25, 26.
[344] P. 250, l. 7. We have Moses, etc.—John ix, 29.
[345] P. 250, l. 30. Quid debui.—Is. v, 3, 4. The Vulgate is Quis est quod debui ultra facere vineæ meæ, et non feci ei.
[346] P. 251, l. 12. Bar-jesus blinded.—Acts xiii, 6-11.
[347] P. 251, l. 14. The Jewish exorcists.—Ibid., xix, 13-16.
[348] P. 251, l. 18. Si angelus.—Galatians i, 8.
[349] P. 252, l. 10. An angel from heaven.—See previous note.
[350] P. 252, l. 14. Father Lingende.—Claude de Lingendes, an eloquent Jesuit preacher, who died in 1660.
[351] P. 252, l. 33. Ubi est Deus tuus?—Ps. xiii, 3.
[352] P. 252, l. 34. Exortum est, etc.—Ps. cxii, 4.
[353] P. 253, l. 6. Saint Xavier.—Saint François Xavier, the friend of Ignatius Loyola, became a Jesuit.
[354] P. 253, l. 9. Væ qui, etc.—Is. x, I.
[355] P. 253, l. 24. The five propositions.—See Preface.
[356] P. 253, l. 36. To seduce, etc.—Mark xiii, 22.
[357] P. 254, l. 6. Si non fecissem.—John xv, 24.
[358] P. 255, l. 11. Believe in the Church.—Matthew xviii, 17-20.
[359] P. 257, l. 14. They.—The Jansenists, who believed in the system[Pg 287] of evangelical doctrine deduced from Augustine by Cornelius Jansen (1585-1638), the Bishop of Ypres. They held that interior grace is irresistible, and that Christ died for all, in reaction against the ordinary Catholic dogma of the freedom of the will, and merely sufficient grace.
