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12. I linger long in the land of the midday sun for it was there and then that the spouse found her bridegroom at resthyperlink and Joseph drank wine with his brothers once more.hyperlink I will return to Jerusalem and, passing through Tekoa the home of Amos,hyperlink I will look upon the glistening cross of Mount Olivet from which the Saviour made His ascension to the Father.hyperlink Here year by year a red heifer was burned as a holocaust to the Lord and its ashes were used to purify the children of Israel.hyperlink Here also according to Ezekiel the Cherubim after leaving the temple founded the church of the Lord.hyperlink
After this Paula visited the tomb of Lazarus and beheld the hospitable roof of Mary and Martha, as well as Bethphage, `the town of the priestly jaws.'hyperlink Here it was that a restive foal typical of the Gentiles received the bridle of God, and covered with the garments of the apostleshyperlink offered its lowly backhyperlink for Him to sit on. From this she went straight on down the hill to Jericho thinking of the wounded man in the gospel, of the savagery of the priests and Levites who passed him by, and of the kindness of the Samaritan, that is, the guardian, who placed the half-dead man upon his own beast and brought him down to the inn of the church.hyperlink She noticed the place called Adomimhyperlink or the Place of Blood, so-called because much blood was shed there in the frequent incursions of marauders. She beheld also the sycamore treehyperlink of Zacchaeus, by which is signified the good works of repentance whereby he trod under foot his former sins of bloodshed and rapine, and from which he saw the Most High as from a pinnacle of virtue. She was shewn too the spot by the wayside where the blind men sat who, receiving their sight from the Lord,hyperlink became types of the two peopleshyperlink who should believe upon Him. Then entering Jericho she saw the city which Hiel founded in Abiram his firstborn and of which he set up the gates in his youngest son Segub.hyperlink She looked upon the camp of Gilgal and the hill of the foreskinshyperlink suggestive of the mystery of the second circumcision:hyperlink and she gazed at the twelve stones brought thither out of the bed of Jordanhyperlink to be symbols of those twelve foundations on which are written the names of the twelve apostles.hyperlink She saw also that fountain of the Law most bitter and barren which the true Elisha healed by his wisdom changing it into a well sweet and fertilising.hyperlink Scarcely had the night passed away when burning with eagerness she hastened to the Jordan, stood by the brink of the river, and as the sun rose recalled to mind the rising of the sun of righteousness;hyperlink how the priest's feet stood firm in the middle of the river-bed;hyperlink how afterwards at the command of Elijah and Elisha the waters were divided hither and thither and made way for them to pass; and again how the Lord had cleansed by His baptism waters which the deluge had polluted and the destruction of mankind had defiled.
13. It would be tedious were I tell of the valley of Achor, that is, of `trouble and crowds,' where theft and covetousness were condemned;hyperlink and of Bethel, `the house of God,' where Jacob poor and destitute slept upon the bare ground. Here it was that, having set beneath his head a stone which in Zechariah is described as having seven eyeshyperlink and in Isaiah is spoken of as a corner-stone,hyperlink he beheld a ladder reaching up to heaven; yes, and the Lord standing high above ithyperlink holding out His hand to such as were ascending and hurling from on high such as were careless. Also when she was in Mount Ephraim she made pilgrimages to the tombs of Joshua the son of Nun and of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, exactly opposite the one to the other; that of Joshua being built at Timnath-serah "on the north side of the hill of Gaash,"hyperlink and that of Eleazar "in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son."hyperlink She was somewhat surprised to find that he who had had the distribution of the land in his own hands had selected for himself portions uneven and rocky. What shall I say about Shiloh where a ruined altarhyperlink is still shewn to-day, and where the tribe of Benjamin anticipated Romulus in the rape of the Sabine women?hyperlink Passing by Shechem (not Sychar as many wrongly readhyperlink ) or as it is now called Neapoils, she entered the church built upon the side of Mount Gerizim around Jacob's well; that well where the Lord was sitting when hungry and thirsty He was refreshed by the faith of the woman of Samaria. Forsaking her five husbands by whom are intended the five books of Moses, and that sixth not a husband of whom she boasted, to wit the false teacher Dositheus,hyperlink she found the true Messiah and the true Saviour. Turning away thence Paula saw the tombs of the twelve patriarchs, and Samaria which in honour of Augustus Herod renamed Augusta or in Greek Sebaste. There lie the prophets Elisha and Obadiah and John the Baptist than whom there is not a greater among those that are born of women.hyperlink And here she was filled with terror by the marvels she beheld; for she saw demons screaming under different tortures before the tombs of the saints, and men howling like wolves, baying like dogs, roaring like lions, hissing like serpents and bellowing like bulls. They twisted their heads and bent them backwards until they touched the ground; women too were suspended head downward and their clothes did not fall off.hyperlink Paula pitied them all, and shedding tears over them prayed Christ to have mercy on them. And weak as she was she climbed the mountain on foot; for in two of its caves Obadiah in a time of persecution and famine had fed a hundred prophets with bread and water.hyperlink Then she passed quickly through Nazareth the nursery of the Lord; Cana and Capernaum familiar with the signs wrought by Him; the lake of Tiberias sanctified by His voyages upon it; the wilderness where countless Gentiles were satisfied with a few loaves while the twelve baskets of the tribes of Israel were filled with the fragments left by them that had eaten.hyperlink She made the ascent of mount Tabor whereon the Lord was transfigured.hyperlink In the distance she beheld the range of Hermon;hyperlink and the wide stretching plains of Galilee where Sisera and all his host had once been overcome by Barak; and the torrenthyperlink Kishon separating the level ground into two parts. Hard by also the town of Nain was pointed out to her, where the widow's son was raised.hyperlink Time would fail me sooner than speech were I to recount all the places to which the revered Paula was carried by her incredible faith.
14. I will now pass on to Egypt, pausing for a while on the way at Socoh, and at Samson's well which he clave in the hollow place that was in the jaw.hyperlink Here I will lave my parched lips and refresh myself before visiting Moresheth; in old days famed for the tomb of the prophet Micah,hyperlink and now for its church. Then skirting the country of the Horites and Gittites, Mareshah, Edom, and Lachish, and traversing the lonely wastes of the desert where the tracks of the traveller are lost in the yielding sand, I will come to the river ofEgypt called Sihor,hyperlink that is "the muddy river," and go through the five cities of Egypt which speak the language of Canaan,hyperlink and through the land of Goshen and the plains of Zoanhyperlink on which God wrought his marvellous works. And I will visit the city of No, which has since become Alexandria;hyperlink and Nitria, the town of the Lord, where day by day the filth of multitudes is washed away with the pure nitre of virtue. No sooner did Paula come in sight of it than there came to meet her the reverend and estimable bishop, the confessor Isidore, accompanied by countless multitudes of monks many of whom were of priestly or of Levitical rank.hyperlink On seeing these Paula rejoiced to behold the Lord's glory manifested in them; but protested that she had no claim to be received with such honour. Need I speak of the Macarii, Arsenius, Serapion,hyperlink or other pillars of Christ! Was there any cell that she did not enter? Or any man at whose feet she did not throw herself? In each of His saints she believed that she saw Christ Himself; and whatever she bestowed upon them she rejoiced to feel that she had bestowed it upon the Lord. Her enthusiasm was wonderful and her endurance scarcely credible in a woman. Forgetful of her sex and of her weakness she even desired to make her abode, together with the girls who accompanied her, among these thousands of monks. And, as they were all willing to welcome her, she might perhaps have sought and obtained permission to do so; had she not been drawn away by a still greater passion for the holy places. Coming by sea from Pelusium to Maioma on account of the great heat, she returned so rapidly that you would have thought her a bird. Not long afterwards, making up her mind to dwell permanently in holy Bethlehem, she took up her abode for three years? a miserable hostelry; till she could build the requisite cells and monastic buildings, to say nothing of a guest house for passing travellers where they might find the welcome which Mary and Joseph had missed. At this point I conclude my narrative of the journeys that she made accompanied by Eustochium and many other virgins.
15. I am now free to describe at greater length the virtue which was her peculiar charm; and in setting forth this I call God to witness that I am no flatterer. I add nothing. I exaggerate nothing. On the contrary I tone down much that I may not appear to relate incredibilities. My carping critics must not insinuate that I am drawing on my imagination or decking Paula, like sop's crow, with the fine feathers of other birds. Humility is the first of Christian graces, and hers was so pronounced that one who had never seen her, and who on account of her celebrity had desired to see her, would have believed that he saw not her but the lowest of her maids. When she was surrounded by companies of virgins she was always the least remarkable in dress, in speech, in gesture, and in gait. From the time that her husband died until she fell asleep herself she never sat at meat with a man, even though she might know him to stand upon the pinnacle of the episcopate. She never entered a bath except when dangerously ill. Even in the severest fever she rested not on an ordinary bed but on the hard ground covered only with a mat of goat's hair; if that can be called rest which made day and night alike a time of almost unbroken prayer. Well did she fulfil the words of the psalter: "All the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tear"!hyperlink Her tears welled forth as it were from fountains, and she lamented her slightest faults as if they were sins of the deepest dye. Constantly did I warn her to spare her eyes and to keep them for the reading of the gospel; but she only said: `I must disfigure that face which contrary to God's commandment I have painted with rouge, white lead, and antimony. I must mortify that body which has been given up to many pleasures. I must make up for my long laughter by constant weeping. I must exchange my soft linen and costly silks for rough goat's hair. I who have pleased my husband and the world in the past, desire now to please Christ.' Were I among her great and signal virtues to select her chastity as a subject of praise, my words would seem superfluous; for, even when she was still in the world, she set an example to all the matrons of Rome, and bore herself so admirably that themost slanderous never ventured to couple scandal with her name.hyperlink No mind could be more considerate than hers, or none kinder towards the lowly. She did not court the powerful; at the same time, if the proud and the vainglorious sought her, she did not turn from them with disdain. If she saw a poor man, she supported him: and if she saw a rich one, she urged him to do good. Her liberality alone knew no bounds. Indeed, so anxious was she to turn no needy person away that she borrowed money at interest and often contracted new loans to pay off old ones. I was wrong, I admit; but when I saw her so profuse in giving, I reproved her alleging the apostle's words: "I mean not that other men be eased and ye burthened; but by an equality that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want."hyperlink I quoted from the gospel the Saviour's words: "he that hath two coats, let him impart one of them to him that hath none";hyperlink and I warned her that she might not always have means to do as she would wish. Other arguments I adduced to the same purpose; but with admirable modesty and brevity she overruled them all. "God is my witness," she said, "that what I do I do for His sake. My prayer is that I may die a beggar not leaving a penny to my daughter and indebted to strangers for my winding sheet." She then concluded with these words: "I, if I beg, shall find many to give to me; but if this beggar does not obtain help from me who by borrowing can give it to him, he will die; and if he dies, of whom will his soul be required?" I wished her to be more careful in managing her concerns, but she with a faith more glowing than mine clave to the Saviour with her whole heart and poor in spirit followed the Lord in His poverty, giving back to Him what she had received and becoming poor for His sake. She obtained her wish at last and died leaving her daughter overwhelmed with a mass of debt. This Eustochium still owes and indeed cannot hope to pay off by her own exertions; only the mercy of Christ can free her from it.
16. Many married ladies make it a habit to confer gifts upon their own trumpeters, and while they are extremely profuse to a few, with hold all help from the many. From this fault Paula was altogether free. She gave her money to each according as each had need, not ministering to self-indulgence but relieving want. No poor person went away from her empty handed. And all this she was enabled to do not by the greatness of her wealth but by her careful management of it. She constantly had on her lips such phrases as these: "Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy:"hyperlink and "water will quench a flaming fire; and alms maketh an atonement for sins;"hyperlink and "make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness that ...they may receive you into everlasting habitations;"hyperlink and "give alms ...and behold all things are clean unto you;"hyperlink and Daniel's words to King Nebuchadnezzar in which he admonished him to redeem his sins by almsgiving.hyperlink She wished to spend her money not upon these stones, that shall pass away with the earth and the world, but upon those living stones, which roll over the earth;hyperlink of which in the apocalypse of John the city ofthe great king is built;hyperlink of which also the scripture tells us that they shall be changed into sapphire and emerald and jasper and other gems.hyperlink
17. But these qualities she may well share with a few others and the devil knows that it is not in these that the highest virtue consists. For, when Job has lost his substance and when his house and children have been destroyed, Satan says to the Lord: "Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath, will he give for his life. But put forth thine hand now and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face."hyperlink We know that many persons while they have given alms have yet given nothing which touches their bodily comfort; and while they have held out a helping hand to those in need are themselves overcome with sensual indulgences; they whitewash the outside but within they are "full of dead men's bones."hyperlink Paula was not one of these. Her self-restraint was so great as to be almost immoderate; and her fasts and labours were so severe as almost to weaken her constitution. Except on feast days she would scarcely ever take oil with her food; a fact from which may be judged what she thought of wine, sauce, fish, honey, milk, eggs, and other things agreeable to the palate. Some persons believe that in taking these they are extremely frugal; and, even if they surfeit themselves with them, they still fancy their chastity safe.
18. Envy always follows in the track of virtue: as Horace says, it is ever the mountain top that is smitten by the lightning.hyperlink It is not surprising that I declare this of men and women, when the jealousy of the Pharisees succeeded in crucifying our Lord Himself. All the saints have had illwishers, and even Paradise was not free from the serpent through whose malice death came into the world.hyperlink So the Lord stirred up against Paula Hadad the Edomitehyperlink to buffet her that she might not be exalted, and warned her frequently by the thorn in her fleshhyperlink not to be elated by the greatness of her own virtues or to fancy that, compared with other women, she had attained the summit of perfection. For my part I used to say that it was best to give in to rancour and to retire before passion. So Jacob dealt with his brother Esau; so David met the unrelenting persecution of Saul. I reminded her how the first of these fled into Mesopotamia;hyperlink and how the second surrendered himself to the Philistines,hyperlink and chose to submit to foreign foes rather than to enemies at home. She however replied as follows:- 'Your suggestion would be a wise one if the devil did not everywhere fight against God's servants and handmaidens, and did he not always precede the fugitives to their chosen refuges. Moreover, I am deterred from accepting it by my love for the holy places; and I cannot find another Bethlehem elsewhere. Why may I not by my patience conquer this ill will? Why may I not by my humility break down this pride, and when I am smitten on the one cheek offer to the smiter the other?hyperlink Surely the apostle Paul says "Overcome evil with good."hyperlink Did not the apostles glory when they suffered reproach for the Lord's sake? Did not even the Saviour humble Himself, taking the form of a servant and being made obedient to the Father unto death, even the death of the cross,hyperlink that He might save us by His passion? If Job had not fought the battle and won the victory, he would never have received the crown of righteousness, or have heard the Lord say: "Thinkest thou that I have spoken unto thee for aught else than this, that thou mightest appear righteous."hyperlink In the gospel those only are said to be blessed who suffer persecution for righteousness' sake.hyperlink My conscience is at rest, and I know that it is not from any fault of mine that I am suffering; moreover affliction in this world is a ground for expecting a reward hereafter.' When the enemy was more than usually forward and ventured to reproach her to her face, she used to chant the words of the psalter: "While the wicked was before me, I was dumb with silence; I held my peace even from good:"hyperlink and again, "I as a deaf man heard not; and I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth:"hyperlink and "I was as a man that heareth not, and in whose mouth are no reproofs."hyperlink When she felt herself tempted, she dwelt upon the words in Deuteronomy: "The Lord your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul."hyperlink In tribulations and afflictions she turned to the splendid language of Isaiah: "Ye that are weaned from the milk and drawn from the breasts, look for tribulation upon tribulation, for hope also upon hope: yet a little while must these things be by reason of the malice of the lips and by reason of a spiteful tongue." This passage of scripture she explained for her own consolation as meaning that the weaned, that is, those who have come to full age, must endure tribulation upon tribulation that they may be accounted worthy to receive hope upon hope. She recalled to mind also the words of the apostle, "we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope: and hope maketh not ashamed"hyperlink and "though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day":hyperlink and "our light affliction which is but for a moment worketh in ushyperlink an eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal but the things which are not seen are eternal.hyperlink She used to say that, although to human impatience the time might seem slow in coming, yet that it would not be long but that presently help would come from God who says: "In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee."hyperlink We ought not, she declared, to dread the deceitful lips and tongues of the wicked, for we rejoice in the aid of the Lord who warns us by His prophet: "fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings; for the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool":hyperlink and she quoted His own words, "In your patience ye shall win your souls":hyperlink as well as those of the apostle, "the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed? us":hyperlink and in another place, "we are to suffer affliction"hyperlink that we may be patient in all things that befall us, for "he that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly."hyperlink
19. In her frequent sicknesses and infirmities she used to say, "when I am weak, then am I strong:"hyperlink "we have our treasure in earthen vessels"hyperlink until "this corruptible shall have put on incorruption and this mortal shall have put on immortality"hyperlink and again "as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ:"hyperlink and then as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation.hyperlink In sorrow she used to sing: "Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God for I shall yet praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God."hyperlink In the hour of danger she used to say: "If any man will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me:"hyperlink and again "whosoever will save his life shall lose it," and "whosoever will lose his life for my sake the same shall save it."hyperlink When the exhaustion of her substance and the ruin of her property were announced to her she only said: "What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul:"hyperlink and "naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away: blessed be the name of the Lord:"hyperlink and Saint John's words, "Love not the world neither the things that are in the world. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world passeth away and the lust thereof."hyperlink I know that when word was sent to her of the serious illnesses of her children and particularly of Toxotius whom she dearly loved, she first by her self-control fulfilled the saying: "I was troubled and I did not speak,"hyperlink and then cried out in the words of scripture, "He that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me."hyperlink And she prayed to the Lord and said: Lord "preserve thou the children of those that are appointed to die,"hyperlink that is, of those who for thy sake every day die bodily. I am aware that a talebearer-a class of persons who do a great deal of harm-once told her as a kindness that owing to her great fervour in virtue some people thought her mad and declared that something should be done for her head. She replied in the words of the apostle, "we are made a spectacle unto the world and to angels and to men,"hyperlink and "we are fools for Christ's sake"hyperlink but "the foolishness of God is wiser than men."hyperlink It is for this reason she said that even the Saviour says to the Father, "Thou knowest my foolishness,"hyperlink and again "I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art my strong refuge."hyperlink "I was as a beast before thee; nevertheless I am continually with thee."hyperlink In the gospel we read that even His kinsfolk desired to bind Him as one of weak mind.hyperlink His opponents also reviled him saying "thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil,"hyperlink and another time "he casteth out devils through Beelzebub the chief of the devils."hyperlink But let us, she continued, listen to the exhortation of the apostle, "Our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience that in simplicity and sincerity ...by the grace of God we have had our conversation in the world."hyperlink And let us hear the Lord when He says to His apostles, "If ye were of the world the world would love his own; but because ye are not of the world ...therefore the world hateth you."hyperlink And then she turned to the Lord Himself, saying, "Thou knowest the secrets of the heart,"hyperlink and "all this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant; our heart is not turned back."hyperlink "Yea for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter."hyperlink But "the Lord is on my side: I will not fear what man doeth unto me."hyperlink She had read the words of Solomon, "My son, honour the Lord and thou shalt be made strong; and beside the Lord fear thou no man."hyperlink These passages and others like them she used as God's armour against the assaults of wickedness, and particularly to defend herself against the furious onslaughts of envy; and thus by patiently enduring wrongs she soothed the violence of the most savage breasts. Down to the very day of her death two things were conspicuous in her life, one her great patience and the other the jealousy which was manifested towards her. Now jealousy gnaws the heart of him who harbours it: and while it strives to injure its rival raves with all the force of its fury against itself.
Footnotes
2829 Amos i. 1.
2830 Luke xxiv. 50, Luke xxiv. 51: Acts i. 9-12.
2831 Nu. xix. 1-10.
2832 Ezek. x. 18, Ezek. x. 19.
2833 The jaw was the priest's portion and hence the epithet `priestly
0': or else Bethphage belonged to the priests.
2834 Matt. xxi. 1-7.
2835 Humilia.
2836 Luke x. 30-35.
2837 Strictly Damim.
2838 Luke xix. 4.
2839 Matt. xx. 30-34.
2840 i.e. the Jews and the Gentiles.
2841 1 Kings xvi. 34.
2842 Josh. v. 3.
2843 Rom. ii. 28, Rom. ii. 29.
2844 Josh. iv. 3, Josh. iv. 20.
2845 Rev. xxi. 14.
2846 2 K. ii. 19-22, type and antitype are, as often, here confounded.
2847 Mal. iv. 2.
2848 Josh. iii. 17.
2849 Josh. vii. 24-26.
2850 Zech. iii. 9.
2851 Isa. xxviii. 16.
2852 Gen. xxviii. 12, Gen. xxviii. 13.
2853 Josh. xxiv. 30.
2854 Josh. xxiv. 33.
2855 Cf. 1 Sam. i. 3.
2856 Judg. xxi. 19-23: cf. Liv. i. 9.
2857 From Joh. iv. 5.
2858 The founder of a Samaritan sect akin to the Essenes.
2859 Luke vii. 28.
2860 Other authorities for these strange phenomena are Hilary, Sulpicius, and Paulinus.
2861 1 Kings xviii. 4.
2862 Matt. xiv. 13-21.
2863 According to the common tradition, but Hermon is more likely to have been the place.
2864 In the original `Hermon and the Hermons
0'; an allusion to the Hebrew text of Ps. xlii. 6.
2865 Jud. v. 21, Vulg.
2866 Luke vii. 11-15.
2867 Jud. xv. 17-19, R.V.
2868 Micah i. 1, Micah i. 14.
2869 Jer. ii. 18.
2870 Isa. xix. 18.
2871 Ps. lxxviii. 12.
2872 A mistake: No is Thebes.
2873 i.e. presbyters and deacons. Cf. §29, infra.
2874 At that time the most famous of the Egyptian hermits.
2875 Ps. vi. 6.
2876 Jerome's own name had been coupled with Paula's when they both lived at Rome, but he was able to shew that his relations with her were wholly innocent.
2877 2 Cor. viii. 13, 2 Cor. viii. 14.
2878 Luke iii. 11. The word alteram, one of two (therefore, Jerome means, retaining the second) is found in the Syriac Version of Cureton. It is not found in the Vulgate.
2879 Matt. v. 7.
2880 Ecclus. iii. 30.
2881 Luke xvi. 9.
2882 Luke xi. 41.
2883 Dan. iv. 27, LXX.
2884 Zech. ix. 16, LXX.
2885 Rev. xxi. 14.
2886 Rev. xxi. 19-21.
2887 Job ii. 4, Job ii. 5.
2888 Matt. xxiii. 27.
2889 Hor. C. ii. x. ii.
2890 Wisd. ii. 24.
2891 The enemy of Solomon-1 K. xi. 14. Who Paula's enemy may have been we do not know.
2892 2 Cor. xii. 7.
2893 Gen. xxvii. 41-46: Gen. xxviii. 1-5.
2894 1 Sam. xxi. 10.
2895 Matt. v. 39.
2896 Rom. xii. 21.
2897 Phil. ii. 7, Phil. ii. 8.
2898 Job xl. 8, LXX.
2899 Matt. v. 10.
2900 Ps. xxxix. 1, Ps. xxxix. 2, acc. to the Gallican psalter.
2901 Ps. xxxviii. 13.
2902 Ps. xxxviii. 14.
2903 Deut. xiii. 3.
2904 Isa. xxviii. 9-11, LXX.
2905 Rom. v. 3-5.
2906 2 Cor. iv. 16.
2907 Vulg.
2908 2 Cor. iv. 17, 2 Cor. iv. 18.
2909 Isa. xlix. 8.
2910 Isa. li. 7, Isa. li. 8.
2911 Luke xxi. 19, R.V.
2912 Rom. viii. 18.
2913 1 Th. iii. 4, R.V.
2914 Prov. xiv. 29.
2915 2 Cor. xii. 10.
2916 2 Cor. iv. 7.
2917 1 Cor. xv. 54.
2918 2 Cor. i. 5.
2919 2 Cor. i. 7.
2920 Ps. xlii. 11.
2921 Luke ix. 23.
2922 Luke ix. 24.
2923 Matt. xvi. 26.
2924 Job i. 21.
2925 1 Joh. ii. 15-17.
2926 Ps. lxxvii. 4, Vulg.
2927 Matt. x. 37.
2928 Ps. lxxix. 11, LXX.
2929 1 Cor. iv. 9.
2930 1 Cor. iv. 10.
2931 1 Cor. i. 25.
2932 Ps. lxix. 5.
2933 Ps. lxxi. 7.
2934 Ps. lxxiii. 22, Ps. lxxiii. 23.
2935 Mark iii. 21.
2936 Joh. viii. 48.
2937 Luke xi. 15.
2938 2 Cor. i. 12.
2939 Joh. xv. 19.
2940 Cf. Ps. xliv. 21.
2941 Ps. xliv. 17, Ps. xliv. 18.
2942 Ps. xliv. 22.
2943 Ps. cxviii. 6, P.B.V.
2944 Prov. vii. 2, LXX.