the first line of verse 8, which actually says in his version they will be intoxicated by/get drunk on
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2.1 think he means the gospel in the text he has just quoted: Christ was talking as a man, not an angel. But this hardly meets the possibility that before becoming man he had been an angel. So his implicit assumption in this reasoning may be that the name "Christ" says divinity. That is indeed his usual assumption; an incorrect one in fact.
3. He is here directly contradicting the Arian slogan about the Word, the Son: 'There was a time when he was not."
4. He is not making himself very clear; but he is working up, it seems, to naming the incarnation as the great work, equal in greatness to the creation, from which the Holy Spirit must not be sepa¬ rated, in which indeed he is supremely involved. The angels are introduced in the middle, to indicate how great a work the incarnation is.
5. Luke's account nowhere mentions Mary being astonished. Augustine reads it into her ques¬ tion.
6. A little burlesque irony at his own expense: not even he, the great, learned, famous bishop, speaking to these raw, newly baptized, largely illiterate Christians—not even he understands.
7. It's really rather odd that in offering this "proof text" of spiritual intoxication, he leaves out the first line of verse 8, which actually says in his version they will be intoxicated by/get drunk on the richness of your house.
8. A rhyming jingle in the Latin: ipse tibi lucet, et ad se te ducet. 9. Alluding to their present title of infantes—but very definitely telling them and us that spiritual or religious babyhood is not a state to remain in.