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Sidenote: Prov. vi. 2.

Sidenote: Ib. xxii. 14 Sept.

Sidenote: Ib. xiv. 15.

Sidenote: Prov. xi. 1.

Sidenote: S. Matt. xvi. 26.

Sidenote: 1 Tim. v. 24.

Sidenote: Ib. vi. 10.

Sidenote: Zech. v. 7.

Sidenote: Ecclus. xix. 23, 24. Vulg.

Sidenote: Rom. v. 19.

Sidenote: Ps. cv. 18.

Sidenote: Eph. v. 14.

Sidenote: Ps. cxix. 71.

Sidenote: Phil. ii. 6, 7.

Sidenote: 1 Cor. xv. 28.

Sidenote: Ib. xi. 1.

Sidenote: Phil. iii. 8.

Sidenote: S. Luke ix. 23.

Sidenote: Deut. xix. 14.

Farewell; continue to love me, as I do you.

THIS graceful little letter, written in a tone of playful affectionateness, is addressed to Felix, who was, as the next letter shews, Bishop of Comum. It tells its own story.

When in spirit you burn incense on the golden censer, forget us not; for it is the one which is in the second Tabernacle, and from which your prayer, full of wisdom, is directed to heaven as incense.

Sidenote: Heb. ix. 4.

Sidenote: Col. i. 15.

Sidenote: Exod. xxv. 22.

Sidenote: Ps. lxxviii. 2.

Sidenote: Numb. xvi. 48.

Sidenote: Deut. xv. 8.

Sidenote: S. Luke x. 2.

Farewell: continue to love us, as you do.

AMBROSE TO SYAGRIUS.

AMBROSE TO SYAGRIUS.

THE Justus to whom this letter and the following are addressed is in all probability S. Justus Bishop of Lyons, who is mentioned below as one of the Bishops who took part in the Council of Aquileia: that he was a Bishop is implied by S. Ambrose addressing him as 'brother.' The letter contains a mystical interpretation of the half-shekel of redemption, and of the didrachma and stater of our Lord's miracle of the piece of money in the fish's mouth, and of the penny of the tribute money. The date given in the margin depends on the truth of the hypothesis that Justus is the Bishop of Lyons. Of him it is recorded that he did not return to his See after the Council of Aquileia, but became a monk in the deserts of Egypt. See Newman's Fleury vol. 1, p. 25.

AMBROSE TO JUSTUS, HEALTH.

?1. YOUR question, my brother, as to the meaning of that shekel, half of which the Hebrew is commanded to offer for the redemption of the soul, is an excellent admonition to us to direct our intercourse by letter and our converse while at a distance to the interpretation of the heavenly oracles. For what can more unite us than to converse concerning the things of God?

Sidenote: S. Luke xv. 8, 9.

Sidenote: S. Matt. vi. 22.

Sidenote: Prov. xiii. 8.

Sidenote: Exod. xxx. 12-15.

Sidenote: Ib. xvi. 17, 18.

Sidenote: Eccles. vii. 16.

Sidenote: 1 Cor. xii. 7-9.

Sidenote: Ps. civ. 15.

Sidenote: Prov. ix. 2.

Sidenote: Exod. xii. 4.

Sidenote: S. Matt. x. 30.

Sidenote: 2 Cor. vi. 16.

Sidenote: S. Matt. xx. 10.

Sidenote: 2 Tim. iv. 8.

Sidenote: S. Matt. xvii. 27.

Sidenote: S. John i. 29.

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