Transcribed from the page images of pages 313–317. The number before each note is the page of the printed book the note refers to.
In many cases the scriptural references cited below are not exact quotations, but suggest the cited passage. Sml. Pap. refers to Kierkegaard’s collected papers, most of which are not in translation.
6 figs from thistles] Matthew 7:16.
8 “issues of life”] Proverbs 4:23.
8 God dwells in a light] I Timothy 6:16.
9 “benumb the spirit”] Ephesians 4:30.
10 The apostle John says] I John 3:18.
10 out of the heart’s abundance] Matthew 12:34.
10 Sirach says] Wisdom of Sirach 6:4.
11 not in the scriptural sense] Matthew 6:3.
12 the prophet Nathan] II Samuel 12:1-7.
13 “who built his house”] Matthew 7:24 ff.
13 who can kill the body] Matthew 10:28.
15 ambitious thinkers] the Hegelian school of philosophy.
16 As Jacob limped] Genesis 32:24-32.
16 “in a moment”] I Corinthians 15:52.
17 “temptingly”] Matthew 22:35.
17 of the “royal law”] James 2:8.
18 “Do not even the heathen”] as Christ said of the publicans, Matthew 5:45-46.
19 “was neighbor to him”] Luke 10:36.
21 “all things are become new”] II Corinthians 5:17.
22 Is not every generation] See “The Disciple at Second Hand,” Philosophical Fragments, pp. 74-93. Trans. by David F. Swenson, Princeton University Press, 1936.
22 according to the Scriptures] I Corinthians 7:31.
23 in any human heart] I Corinthians 2:9.
23 When Christ said] Matthew 10:17.
23 “as wise as serpents”] Matthew 10:16.
24 “the savor in himself”] Mark 9:50.
24 the issue of blood] Matthew 9:20.
26 “Call no man happy”] ascribed to Solon, Herodotus i, 32.
28 “more than conquers”] Romans 7:37.
29 it is said about the tongue] James 3:10.
30 with a hundred eyes] referring to Argus. Mythology.
31 where he can go to buy new oil] Matthew 25:1 ff.
31 that mighty Eastern emperor] Darius, who ordered a slave to say to him daily, “Sire, remember Athens.” Herodotus v, 105.
31 thraldom of habit] See “The Rotation Method,” Either/Or, I, 234-47. Trans. by David F. Swenson, Princeton University Press, 1944.
32 “the one who wanders hither and thither”] Wisdom of Sirach 36:18.
38 put down “all high things”] II Corinthians 10:5.
38 steals a precious word] Kierkegaard discusses this in the discourse, “The Thorn in the Flesh,” Edifying Discourses, Vol. IV, 49-50. Trans. by David F. and Lillian M. Swenson, Augsburg Publishing House, 1946.
41 only the first time of falling in love] S.K. gives an amusing discussion of first love in the chapter, “The First Love,” Either/Or, I, 208-9.
44 does not Paul say] I Corinthians 7:9.
44 “Do not even the heathen”] Matthew 5:4-6.
44 “the virtues of heathendom”] Augustine, The City of God, 19:25.
49 that austere judge] John the Baptist, with his raiment of camel’s hair. Matthew 3:4.
52 God is love] I John 4:8.
52 “God’s fellow-laborers”] I Corinthians 3.9.
52 God took from your side] referring to Eve’s creation, Genesis 2 22.
57 he is “not born”] the classes below the Sudras in the Indian caste system, who are regarded as “not born.”
58 take the disciples out of the world] John 17:15.
61 like lost sheep] Luke 10:3.
63 “counsel of scorners”] Psalms 1:1.
65 like Luther, who understood] at the Diet of Worms.
68 laughed, too, at Tobias] Tobit 2:8.
69 you shall not covet] Exodus 20:17.
72 like the cape the king casts off] In contrast to this use of the “differences of life” constituting a disguise, S.K. emphasizes God’s assumption of the servant form as not being a disguise. Philosophical Fragments, pp. 24-25.
74 a parable] Matthew 21:28-31.
77 “way to perdition”] Boswell, Life of Johnson, iv, Ch. 9.