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"Vindice nullo Sponte sua sine lege fidem rectumque colebat; Poena metusque aberant, nec verba minacia fixo Ære legebantur, nec supplex turba timebat Judicis ora sui, sed erant sine judice tuti." "Der Wideräufferen vosprung, fürgang, Secten v.s.w. ... beschreiben durch Heinerrychen Bullingern...." Zurich, 1561. Fol. 32.

On the ancient offerings see Cancellieri, de Secretaries, t. Eccl. Hist. l. Paul's basilica there was a cantharus, restored by Pope Leo I, of which the saint writes thus to Ennodius; Quisque suis meritis veneranda sacraria Pauli Ingrederis, supplex ablue fonte manus. The cantharus is mentioned by Virgil Eclog. Et gravis adtritâ pendebat cantharus ansa.

The ninth hour found him in the oratory, and later he attended vespers, at which office the monks sang an evening hymn of the holy Ambrosius: 'O lux, beata Trinitas, et principalis Uuitas, Jam sol recedit igneus; infunde lumen cordibus. Te mane laudum carmine, te deprecemur vesperi, Te nostra supplex gloria per cuncta laudet saecula.

"Oro supplex et acclinis Cor contritum quasi cinis: Gere curam mei finis. . . . . Lacrymosa dies illa, " Driven to utter desperation, Varillo stood for a moment inert, then, suddenly catching sight of a rope hanging from one of the windows close at hand, he rushed to it and pulled it furiously.

Egoism is at the bottom of this high precept; and this at once removes it from the Christian category. And the same is true of his account of the wise man's relations to God. They are based on pride, not humility; they make him an equal, not a servant, of the Deity: Sapiem cum dis ex pari trivit; and again, Deo socius non supplex. Nothing could be further from the New Testament than this.

"Socrates, quum omnium sapientissime sanctissimeque vixisset, ita in judicio capitis pro se dixit, ut non supplex aut reus, sed magister aut dominus videretur judicum." Pilate had tried Jesus and found Him innocent; and so he frankly told the members of the Sanhedrim, thereby reversing their sentence. What ought to have followed?