Annotatio IV §.II (1): Ambition / pride of life — hostile to truth and peace; Arius couplet
(1.) Pride of life — or ambition — which usually clings even to the sacred order (as in the Pharisees, Matt. 23:5–7).
It is most hostile to truth and peace (John 5:44; 7:18) and most fertile of quarrels (2 Tim. 3:1–3).
That common couplet on quarrelsome Arius makes the same point: ask why the heretic (schismatic) Arius became what he was — the ready answer is, he was ambitious.
Latin
Scilicet (1.) Fastu vitae, seu ambitione, sacro etiam ordini ut plurimùm adhaerente (uti constat in Pharisaeis Matth. 23, 5, 6, 7.) Veritati ac Paci perquam infesto Joh. 5, 44. & 7, 18. rixarum verò feracissimo 2. Tim. 3, 1, 2, 3. Ut vel ex vulgato isto, in Arrium rixatorem dicto, patet:
Quaeritur Haereticus (Schismaticus,) quare sit factus Arius,
In promptu Causa est, ambitiosus erat.