Vol. I. p. 171, line 26 from top, insert 'here,' and read, ' This is that which hero put,' &c.
Vol. I., Note /, p. 290. I gladly withdraw the long current charge against Sterne, in the light of Fitzgerald's new ' Life' (2 vols. 1864). One is always glad to have any stain removed from a great name : and though much in Sterne remains to be deplored, it must now be admitted that the creator of ' Uncle Toby' was not the poor wretch which tradition has made him, and Thackeray sanctioned.
Vol. II., p. 3, ' family papers at Kimbolton.' The following is the work referred to, no'w published : ' Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne. By the Duke of Man- chester,' 2 vols. 8vo, 1864. Scarcely a name of note contemporary with Sibbes but has light cast xipon it in this work. It may be worth while mentioning, that in the only reference to Sibbes, his name is mis-read ' Gybbes.' The connection and mention of his successor Potter, at Gray's Inn, shews that he was intended. Of. ' Letter of Leicester to Mandeville,' Vol. i. cxxi, p. 364.
Vol. II., Note 5, p. 195, ' lilies.' As ' white' was the royal colour among the Hebrews, perhaps our Lord's comparison of Solomon's robes is, after all, to the ' royal lily,' or crown imperial, common in Judea still, and which is ' white.' Herod arrayed our Lord in IsSr^ra Xa/j,'u^a,ii, as King of the Jews ; and Xa,'j,Tpa\i seems to express the idea of ' white,' and shining like the light (Luke xxiii. 11), On the other hand, the imperial colour among the Eomans was ' purple,' aud thus Pilate's soldiers put upon our Saviour '/ft^driov vo^pv^ouv, a ' purple robe' (John xix.)
Vol. II., Note u, p. 195, ' If God is mine.' I have since learned that the author of this hymn, as of others, is Beddome, an eminent ' Baptist ' minister, whose ' Sermons ' received the praise of Robert Hall.
Vol. II., Note 0, p. 434, Beelzebub. More properly read ' Beelzebul.'
Vol. II., Note c, p. 517, 'Manna.' There are two etymologies of the word: J^in IQ, = ' What's this?' and ]Q, == a portion, i. e., man-ha; or manna from a
supposed old form, TMJ2- The former, as in our Note, seems preferable.
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Vol. III., Note h, p. 47. Sibbes's reference will be found in St Chrysostom, a little onward. I had stopped short too soon.
Vol. III., p. 529. What Irenseus relates is that St John refused to go into the public baths when he heard the heretic Cerinthus was there. This he had from the martyr Polycarp, St John's own scholar and disciple.
Vol. IV., Note e, p, 78, ' Death, .... Aristotle.' The fuller expression of ' the philosopher's' blank despair concerning death, is found in his £(h. Nic, iii., 6, 6, as follows : — (po(3s^(J)TaTov d' 6 ddvarog' iti^ag ya^, %ai ohh\'i sri rfi n&viuTi doxil out dyadov oiin xaxhv ihai..
Vol. IV., Notes d, p. 58, and Note k, p. 805, 'Sic transit Gloria Mundi.' I add the following earlier notice : ' In Rona. Pontificum inauguratione interea dum do
604 CONCLUDING NOTE.
more sacellum D. Gregorii declaratus prsetergreditur, ipsum prjeit ceremoniarum magister gestans arundines seu carinas duas, quarum alteri sursum apposita est candela ardens, quam alteri cannse, cui superpositse stuppse sunt, adLibet, incen- ditque dicens : Pater Sancte, sic transit gloria mundi. Quod et ipsum tertio iterat. Unde Paradinus sumpsit symbolum quod inter heroica sua possuit : Nil SoLiDUM. Hoc olim non ignorarunt Romani. Nam si alicui ex ipsorum ducibus vel Imperatoribus ob res feliciter gestas, et hostibus devictis, triumphus a Senatu decretus esset, et is in curru triumphali maxima pompa urbem ingrederetur, eodem curru carnifex minister publicus vehebatur, [Zonaras lib. ii.] qui pone coronam auream gemmis distinctam sustinens, eum admonebat, ut respiceret, id est, ut re- liquum vitse spacium provideret, nee eo honore elatus superbiret. Appensa quoque erat currui nola et fiagellum : quae innuebant eum in tantas calamitates incidere posse ut et iiagris csederetur, et capite damnaretur. Nam qui ob facinus supremo supplicio afSciebantur nolas gestare solebant, ne quis inter euudum contactu illorum piaculo se obstringeret.' — Philippi Camerarii Meditationes Historicce, 1644, p. 76.
Vol. IV., Note b, p. 200, ' Take all from me,' Augustine. Cf. Cowper, close of ' The Task.'
Vol. IV., Note k, p. 486, Augustine. Cf. also De Civitate Dei, xxii. 5.
Vol. IV., Note kk, p. 488, ' Vespertiliones.' There is a curious parallelism to this quoted from St Bernard, Serm. II. in Corn. A Lapide, On the Minor Prophets, p. 3, ' in terrenis lynces, in caelestibus talpa\'
Vol. v.. Note ee, p. 34, ' Harmless.' For ' without harm,' read, as with Sibbes, p. 23, ' without horn ;' and the Greek word is not 0.^,2 'jj^rrog, but axioaiog.
Vol. v., foot-note, p. 163, for Cowper read Watts.
Vol. v., foot-note, p. 183, I add, that a la mort means ' going to die,' i.e., so they fancy, or 'like dead men.'
Vol. v.. Note b, p. 247, ' Law.' Perhaps Sibbes's reference may be to Cassar's classic saying on proceeding to cross the Rubicon. According to Suetonius Csesar 30) he quoted the lines of Eurijjides (Phojnisse, 534-5) : " If I must be unjust, 'tis best to be so Playing for empire ; just in all things else."