(c) P. 11. — ' Corinth. . . . But Augustus Csesar afterwards repaired it.' For a very full and vivid description of ancient and more modern Corinth, I would refer readers to Conybeare and Howson's ' Life and Epistles of St Paul,' in any of its editions. Cf. also Alford, Webster and Wilkinson, Hodge and Stanley, in their respective introductions to the ' Epistles.' Dr Stanley will especially reward. Dr Smith's •Dictionary of the Bible,' andHerzog, contain much excellent elucidation of the topography.
(d) P. 16. — ' Salute him not.' For the significance of the Eastern ' salutation ' cf. Pom. xvi. 5, 7, 10, 11, 13, 16, 21, 22 ; and the present Epistle (2 Corinthians), xiii. 13. Also with another reference, 2 Kings iv. 29. One of the few post-aposto- lical traits preserved of John, represents him in the well-known anecdote as refus- ing to reciprocate the ' salutation' of a heretic who had met him in the public baths.
(e) P. 19. — ' Grace is the begetter of joy ; for they both have one root in the Greek language. There is the same root for favour and for joy.' That is, %«g'» is grace, favour, and ■^dgfj.a is joy, delight.
(/) P. 28.—' By Father, which is a kind of Hebraism,' &c. The original is 6 'Trarri^ ^dn oixTis/xujv, on which consult Dean Stanley, in loc. (2d ed. 1858). Web- ster and Wilkinson prefer ' Orientalism' to ' Hebraism.' Cf. iJi loc. (Greek Testa- ment, vol. ii., 1861.)
(/ •'■) P. 39. — ' We see by many that have recovered again, that have promised great matters in their sickness, that it is hypocritical repentance, for they have been worse after than they were before.' For startling illustrations of this, consult ' The Prison Chajilain : a Memoir of the Eev. John Clay, B.D., late Chapilain of the Preston Gaol, &c. &c. By his son, the Rev. W. L. Clay, M.A. Cambridge (Macmillan). 8vo. 1861 ;' also his ' Annual Reports,' and other occasional publications. Of ' re- prieved' criminals who, in the shadow of the gallows, had manifested every token of apparent penitence and /icar^ehange, the number whose subsequent career gave e^^- dence of reality is as 1 to 500, perhaps as awful a fact as recent criminal statistics reveal.
(ff) P. 40. — ' We must not do works of mercy proudly.' Lowell has finely put this : —
' Not thai which we give, but tchat we share, For the gifts tvithout the giver is bare : Who besioivs himself with his alms feeds three, Himself, his hungering neighbour, and me.'
The Vision of Sir Laitrifal.
(g*) P. 41. — ' What a cruel thing is it . . . without Church,' &c. This touching expression of Sibbes's feeling for the neglected ' masses,' the Aowic-heathen, deserves a place beside the excellent Alleine's and Baxter's like-minded early setting forth of the claims of the foreign heathen. Consult Stanford's ' Joseph AUeine,' pp. 207- 208.
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(A) r. 47 — ' St Chrysostom, an excellent preacher, yields me one observation upon this very place.' This seems t" be a very vagno recollection of tlie father's senti- ment in his ' Homily' on the Epistle, under tlio verse. Nor have I mot with any- thing nearer elsewhere in his writings.
*^* Having omitted a letter of reference to the following in its place, I add it hero : —
P. 66, line 4th from bottom. — ' As St Cyprian saith, ' Wo carry as mncli from God as we bring vessels.' 'Die original is ' Nostrum tantura sitiat pectus et pateat. Quantum illuc fidei capacis afforimus, tantum gratiae inundantis haurimus." — Epist. I. ad Donatum.
[i) P. 71. — ' If any man be overtaken set him in joint, as the word
is,' Gal. vi. 1. The word is xaraer/^w = to refit, mend. Cf. Liddoll and Scotti and Robinson, sub voce.
(j) P. 83. — ' There were three put in, and there was a fourth, which was Christ, the Son of God,' Cf. Daniel iii. 25. Our English version with its capitals has placed tliis among the memorabilia of Scripture, and of Christian experience. Few texts are oftener used to cheer the afQicted, while in the 'furnace of affliction.' It is perhaps allowable as an accommodation to do so, but the original does not seem to warrant our interpreting the 'fourth,' as The Son of God = the Lord. As in the case of the ' den of lions,' Jehovah sent his ' angel,' in Scripture phrase ' a son of God,' Job. xxxviii. 7.
{k) P. 92. — ' So that now the fire is our friend, the stone,' &c. Compare Thomas Adam of Wintringbam's very remarkable ' thanks ' to God for ' the stone,' in his ' Private Thoughts,' than which few modern books contain so much uncommon and suggestive thinking. Bishop Wilson has worthily edited the priceless little volume.
(I) P. 95. — ' So St Justin Martyr saith when he saw Christians suffer,' &c. His words are worth giving (Apolog. ii. 12), ' I myself, when I took pleasure in the doctrines of Plato, and heard the Christians slandered, seeing them to be fearless of death, and of everything else that was thought dreadful, considered that it was im- possible that they should live in wickedness,' &c. &c.