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Homily XI.

[1] [With chaps. 2, 3, the corresponding chapters in Recognitions, vi., agree. The parallel is resumed in chap. 19.—R.]

[2] [Most of the matter in chaps. 4–18 is found in Recognitions, v. 23–36.—R.]

[3] [Comp. Recognitions, iii. 21, etc. In that work the freedom of the will, as necessary to goodness, is more frequently affirmed.—R.]

[4] We have adopted the reading of Codex O. The reading in the others is corrupt.

[5] Matt. xvii. 20.

[6] [At this point the first discourse in the Recognitions (v. 36) ends; the following chapters (19–33) agrees with the discourse in Recognitions, vi. 4–14.—R.]

[7] Matt. x. 34.

[8] Luke xxiii. 34.

[9] Altered from John iii. 5.

[10] [Comp. Recognitions, ix. 7.—R.]

[11] Matt. xii. 42; [Luke xi. 31.—R.]

[12] [Matt. xii. 41]; Luke xi. 32. [The order of the two citations suggests that they were taken from Luke.—R.]

[13] [Comp. Homily IV. 12 and the full discussion in XIV. 3–11. In the Recognitions there is no reference to “genesis” before book viii. 2, etc., which is parallel with the passage just referred to.—R.]

[14] A conjectural reading, which seems probable, is, Unless he come to you with credentials, viz., from James. [The whole charge is peculiar to the Homilies.—R.].

[15] Literally, “having broken.”

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