186 – The Vulgate has, ‘Trahitur autem sapientia de occultis.’
The E.V. is, ‘The price of wisdom is above rubies.’
187 – This is referred by the Benedictine Editors to Prov. xxii.
7. but it does not agree with either the Sept. or Vulgate.
188 – τοῦ πνεύματος is inserted in a few MSS, and Spiritus is in
the Vulgate.
189 – The story of Calanus and Alexander is related in Arian
vii. 2. It is also more briefly alluded to by Plutarch.
Alex. 65. Neither writer mentions this letter.