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[8941] Or, “provided.”
[8942] “Agape,” perhaps “the love-feast.”
[8943] Or, “procession.”
[8944] Altare.
Chapter XXIX.—Of the Power of Prayer.
[8945] Routh would read, “What will God deny?”
[8948] 1 Kings xviii.; James v. 17-18.
[8949] i.e. “the angel who preserved in the furnace the three youths besprinkled, as it were, with dewy shower” (Muratori quoted by Oehler). [Apocrypha, The Song, etc., verses 26, 27.]
[8951] i.e. in brief, its miraculous operations, as they are called, are suspended in these ways.
[8952] Or, “inflict.”
[8953] See Apolog. c. 5 (Oehler).
[8955] [A reference to Jacob’s wrestling. Also, probably, to Matt. xi. 12.]
[8956] Or, “her armour defensive and offensive.”
[8957] 1 Cor. xv. 52; 1 Thess. iv. 16.
[8958] Or, “pens and dens.”
[8959] As if in prayer.
[8960] This beautiful passage should be supplemented by a similar one from St. Bernard: “Nonne et aviculas levat, non onerat pennarum numerositas ipsa? Tolle eas, et reliquum corpus pondere suo fertur ad ima. Sic disciplinam Christi, sic suave jugum, sic onus leve, quo deponimus, eo deprimimur ipsi: quia portat potius quam portatur.” Epistola, ccclxxxv. Bernardi Opp. Tom. i. p. 691. Ed. (Mabillon.) Gaume, Paris, 1839. Bearing the cross uplifts the Christian.]
[8961] Written in his early ministry, and strict orthodoxy. [It may be dated circa a.d. 197, as external evidence will shew.]
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