me subject--"Multae haereses extiterunt, et
_instinctibus daemonum_ populus Dei _scissus est_."--_Instit. Divin._,
lib. iv. c. 30.

[525:1] 1 Cor. i. 12.

[525:2] "Hic locus vel maxime adversum Haereticos facit qui pacis
vinculo dissipato atque corrupto, putant se tenere Spiritus unitatem;
quum unitas Spiritus in pacis vinculo conservetur. Quando enim non
idipsum omnes loquimur, et alius dicit _Ego sum Pauli, Ego Apollo, Ego
Cephae_, dividimus Spiritus unitatem, et eam in partes ac membra
discerpimus."-_Comment, in Ephes._, lib. ii. cap. 4. Again, we find him
saying-"Neonon et dissensiones opera carnis sunt, quum quis nequaquam
perfectus, eodem sensu, et eadem sententia dicit. _Ego sum Pauli, et ego
Apollo, et ego Cephae, et ego Christi._ ...Nonnumquam evenit, ut et in
expositionibus Scripturarum oriatur dissensio, _e quibus haereses quoque
quae nunc in carnis opere ponuntur_, ebulliunt."--_Comment, in Epist. ad
Galat._, cap. 5.

[525:3] Philip, i. 1, 2.

[526:1] Acts xx. 17, 28.

[526:2] Our translators, as it would appear acting under instructions
from James I., here render the word "overseers."

[526:3] The Church of Rome, of which Jerome was a presbyter, long
hesitated to receive the Epistle to the Hebrews. Its opposition to
ritualism seems, in the third and fourth centuries, to have been
offensive to the ecclesiastical leaders in the Western metropolis. In
the first century no such doubts respecting it existed among the Roman
Christians. See Period I. sec. ii. chap. i. p. 183.

[526:4] Heb. xiii. 17. The reading of Jerome, here, as well as in the
case of other texts quoted, differs somewhat from that of our authorized
version. He seems to have often quoted from memory.

[527:1] 1 Pet. v. l, 2.

[527:2] It may suffice to give in the original only the conclusion of
this long quotation. "Paulatim vero, ut dissensionum plantaria
evellerentur, ad unum omnem solicitudinem esse delatam. Sicut ergo
presbyteri sciunt se ex ecclesiae consuetudine ei qui sibi praepositus
fuerit esse subjectos; ita episcopi noverint se magis consuetudine quam
dispositionis dominicae veritate presbyteris esse majores."--_Comment,
in Titum_.

[527:3] See Period I. sec. i. chap. 10. p. 157.

[527:4] Thus Dr Burton says that "the Epistles of St John were composed
in the _latter part_ of Domitian's reign."--_Lectures_, i. 382. Jerome
was evidently of this opinion, for he says that, in his First Epistle,
he refers to Cerinthus and Ebi