291 – Why this letter, which plainly declares itself in the
first section to be a sequel of the previous one, is
addressed to a different name, it is difficult to say.
There is a similar difficulty about Letter xxvi, and
possibly the same solution may apply here as is suggested
by the Ben. Edd. there. See Introd. to Lett. xxvi.
292 – The phrase ‘cernere hereditatem’ is a well-known law-term,
meaning literally ‘to decide to accept an inheritance,’
and then ‘to enter upon it.’ But as this sense will
not agree with the context, it seems necessary to take
‘cernere,’ as the Benedictine note does, in its common
sense of ‘to see.’
293 – The words ἁρμονίᾳ τοῦ Λόγου δεδεμένον seem to be a gloss
on S. Paul’s compound συναρμολογούμενον. They are not part
of his text, though S. Ambrose seems here to be quoting
them as if they were.