-- 99. Taking all these things, therefore, into
consideration, I think that I am not rash in saying that there are some in the house of God after such a fashion as not to be themselves the very house of God, which is said to be built upon a rock, [1900

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Footnotes:

[1900] Matthew 16:18.

[1901] Cant. vi. 9.

[1902] Ephesians 5:27; cp. Retract. ii. 18.

[1903] Cant. iv. 12, 13.

[1904] Matthew 16:19.

[1905] Matthew 18:17.

[1906] Psalm 26:8.

[1907] Psalm 68:6; cp. LXX. and Hieron.

[1908] Psalm 122:1.

[1909] Psalm 84:4.

[1910] Matthew 13:23; Luke 8:15.

[1911] 2 Timothy 2:20.

[1912] Ephesians 4:2, 3.

[1913] 1 Corinthians 3:17.

[1914] 2 Timothy 2:20. In Retract. ii. 18, Augustin says that he thinks the meaning of this last passage to be, not as Cyprian took it, Ep. 54. 3, that the vessels of gold and silver are the good, which are to honor; the vessels of wood and earth the wicked, which are to dishonor: but that the material of the vessels refers to the outward appearance of the several members of the Church, and that in each class some will be found to honor, and some to dishonor. This interpretation he derives from Tychonius.

[1915] 1 John 2:19.