• Matthew 11:12:⁠— “And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.” ↩
• Trajan and Ripheus. ↩
• Ripheus lived before Christ, and Trajan after. Shakespeare, King Henry IV , I 1:⁠— “In those holy fields Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, Which fourteen hundred years ago were nailed, For our advantage, on the bitter cross.” ↩
• Trajan. ↩
• Being in hell, he could not repent; being resuscitated, his inclinations could turn towards good. ↩
• The legend of Trajan is, that by the prayers of St. Gregory the Great he was restored to life, after he had been dead four hundred years; that he lived long enough to be baptized, and was then received into Paradise. See note 710 . ↩
• Ripheus. “This is a fiction of our author,” says Buti, “as the intelligent reader may imagine; for there is no proof that Ripheus the Trojan is saved.” ↩