e.
The third book ought to be styled, with Coutant, Against
Constantius: for in it St. Hilary directs it to the Catholics, (n. 2
and 12) though he often uses an apostrophe to Constantius. The saint
wrote it five years after the council of Milan, in 355, as he
testifies; consequently in 360, after that prince had rejected his
second request; but it was only published after the death of that
emperor, in the following year, as is clear from St. Jerom: He says
Constantius, by artifices and flattery, was a more dangerous
persecutor than Nero and Decius: he tells him, "Thou receivest the
priests with a kiss, as Christ was betrayed by one: thou bowest thy
head to receive their blessing, that thou mayest trample on their
faith: thou entertainest them at thy table, as Judas went from table
to betray his master." Fleury (l. 14, n. 26) bids us observe, in
these words, with what respect emperors then treated bishops. St.
Hilary in his elegant book against Auxentius, gives the catholics an
account of his conferences with that heretic at Milan in 364.
14. In Ps. 64.
15. In Ps. 1, p. 19, 20.
16. Lib. 7, de Trinit. n. 4, p. 917.
17. Lib. 6, n. 37, 38, p. 904.
18. In Ps. 131, n. 4, p. 447, in cap. 16, Matt. n. 7, p. 690.
19. Lib. 11, de Trinit. n. 3.
20. Lib. 3, adv. Constant. n. 8, p. 1243, Ed. Ben.
21. This letter is commended by the most judicious critics, Baronius,
Tillemont, Fleury, and Coutant, a monk of the congregation of St.
Maur, in his edition of the works of St. Hilary, and others. The
style is not pompous, but adapted to the capacity of a girl of
thirteen years of age.
22. Facta est fides temporum, potius quam evangellorum, l. 2, ad Const.
p. 1227. Tot nunc fides existere, quot voluntates, ib. Annuas atque
menstruas de Deo fides decernimus, decretis poenitimusm poenitentes
defendimus, defensos anathematizamus. ib. p. 1228.
23. Cointe Annal. Fr. ad ann. 538, n. 41, 42, 43.
24. L. de Gl. Conf. c. 2.
25. Alcuin, Hom. de S. Willibrodo.
26. Baillet, Vie de S. Hilaire.
27. Ap. Mab. anal. t. 4, p. 644.
28. Aimion. l. 4, c. 17 & 33. Coutant, Vit. S. Hilar. p. cxxiv, cxxv,
cxxix.
29. S. Hilar. in Matt. c. 18, v. i. p. 698.
30. 1 Cor. i. 17, & iii. 18. S. Hilar. l. 3, de Trin. n. 24, 25, pp.
822, 823.
31. 1 Par. xxix. 17.
32. Prov. iii. 32.
33. Prov. xi. 20.
34. 2 Cor. i. 12.
35. Eccles. i. 39.
36. Rom. viii. 7.

ST. FEL