Part Fourth

Footnotes

^[1488] I have again ventured a correction, “coarescere” for “coalescere.” It makes at least some sense out of an otherwise (to me) unintelligible passage, the “palm” being taken as the well-known symbol of bloom and triumph. So David in Ps. xcii. 12 (xci. 13 in LXX.), “The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree.” To “dry” here is, of course, neuter, and means to “wither.”

^[1489] I have changed “eadem”—which must agree with “nocte,” and hence give a false sense; for it was not, of course, on “the same night,” but on the next, that this second sign was given—into “eodem,” to agree with “liquore,” which gives a true one, as the “moisture,” of course, was the same,—dew, namely.

^[1490] Equite. It appears to be used loosely for “men of war” generally.

^[1491] Which is taken, from its form, as a sign of the cross; see below.

^[1492] Refers to the “when” in 99, above.

^[1493] Lychno. The “faces” are probably the wicks.

^[1494] “Scilicet hoc testamen erat virtutis imago.”

^[1495] The text as it stands is, in Oehler:—

…“Hic Baal Christi victoria signo

Extemplo refugam devicit femina ligno;” which I would read:—

…“Hunc Jael, Christi victoriæ signo,

Extemplo,” etc.

^[1496] For “hic” I would incline to read “huic.”

^[1497] i.e., child.

^[1498] i.e., instead of.

^[1499] i.e., to his unshorn Nazarite locks.

^[1500] Viros ostendere Christos.

^[1501] See 1 Sam. 28.11-19.

^[1502] i.e., to whom, to David.

^[1503] “Ex utero:” a curious expression for a man; but so it is.

^[1504] i.e., emulous of David’s virtues.

^[1505] Comp. especially 2 Chron. xxix.; xxx.; xxxi.

^[1506] Our author is quite correct in his order. A comparison of dates as given in the Scripture history shows us that his reforms preceded his war with Sennacherib.

^[1507] The “tactus” of the Latin is without sense, unless indeed it refer to his being twice “touched” by an angel. See 1 Kings 19.1-8. I have therefore substituted “raptus,” there being no mention of the angel in the Latin.

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