Elucidations.

I

Unless patience sit by his side, cap. i. p. 707.

Let me quote words which, many years ago, struck me forcibly, and which I trust, have been blest to my soul; for which reason, I must be allowed, here, to thank their author, the learned and fearless Dean Burgon, of Chichester. In his invaluable Commentary on the Gospel, which while it abounds in the fruits of a varied erudition, aims only to be practically useful, this pious scholar remarks: "To Faith must be added Patience, the `patient waiting for God, 'if we would escape the snare which Satan spread, no less for the Holy One (i.e. in the Temp. upon the Pinnacle) than for the Israelites at Massah. And this is perhaps the reason of the remarkable prominence given to the grace of Patience, both by our Lord and His Apostles; a circumstance, as it may be thought, which has not altogether attracted the attention which it deserves." He then cites examples;172 but a reference to any good concordance will strikingly exemplify the admirable comment of this "godly and well-learned man." See his comments on Matthew 4:7 and Luke 21:19

II

Under their chin, cap. iv. p. 709.

The reference in the note to Paris, as represented by Virgil and in ancient sculpture, seems somewhat to the point:

"Et nunc ille Paris, cum semiviro comitatu.

Mµonia mentum mitra crinemq, madentem,

Subnixus, etc."

He had just spoken of the pileus as a "Cap of freedom," but there was another form of pileus which was just the reverse and was probably tied by fimbriµ, under the chin, denoting a low order of slaves, effeminate men, perhaps spadones. Now, the Phrygian bonnet to which Virgil refers, is introduced by him to complete the reproach of his contemptuous expression (semiviro comitatu) just before. So, our author-"not only from men, i.e. men so degraded as to wear this badge of extreme servitude, but even from cattle, etc. Shall these mean creatures outdo us in obedience and patience? "

III

The world's misusage, cap. xiii. p. 716.