1. Day ofwrathl that day dismaying; As the seers of old were saying, AH the world in ashes laying.
9. What the fear! and what the quaking I
"When the Judge his way is taking,
Strictest search in all things making. 8. When the trump, with blast astounding,
Through the tombs of earth resounding,
Bids all stand, the throne surrounding.
4. Death and Nature all aghast are, While the dead rise fast and faster, Answering to their Judge and Master.
5. Forth is brought the record solemn ; See, o*erwrlt in each dread column. With man's deeds, the Doomsday roiunMi
6. Now the Sovereign Judge is seated ; All, long hid, is loud repeated ; Naught escapes the judgment meted.
7. Ah! what plea shall I be pleading? Who for me be interceding. When the Just man help is needing?
8. Oh, thou King of awful splendor, Of salvation tree the Sender, Grace to me, all gracious, raider.
9. Jesus, Lord, my plea let this be,
Mine the woe that brought Ax}m blise Thee ; On that day, Lord, wilt Thou miss me?
10. Wearily for me Thou soughtest:
On the cross my soul Thou boughtest ; Lose not all for which Thou wroughtest!
11. Vengeance, Lord, then be Thy mission : Nov, of sin grant ftiee remission
Ere that day of inquisition.
18. Low in shame before Thee groaning ;
Blushes deep my sin are owning:
Hear, O Lord, my suppliant moaning! 18. Her of old that sinned forgiving,
And the dying thief receiving,
Thou, to me too, hope art giving.
14. In my prayer though sin discerning, Yet, good Lord, in goodness turning. Save me ftom the endless burning!
15. *Mid Thy sheep be my place given ; Far the goats from me be driven : Lift, at Thy right hand, to heaven.
16. When the cursed are confounded, With devouring flame surrounded, With the blest be my name eounded.
17. Low, I beg, as suppliant bending;
With crushed heart, my life forth spending ; L(u4, be nigh me in my ending !
la Ah that day! that day of weeping! When in dust no longer sleeping, Man to God in guilt fa going- Lord, be then Thy mercy showing!
V. JJteraturt.'-G. C. F. Mohnike, Kirchen-und filer' arhistorische Studien und Jfittheilungen, Bd. i, Heft i {Beitrdge zur alien kirchlichen Hynmologie, Stralsund, 1824, p. 1-100); G. W. Fink, Thomas von Celano in Ersch und Gruber^s Encydop. sec. i, Bd. xvi, p. 7-10 ; F. 6. Lisco, Dies Ira, Hymnus auf das Weltgericht, Berlin,
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DIET
1840 (to this mast be added an appendix to the same author's monograph on the Stabai Mater, Berlin, 1848, where he notices 17 additional translations of the Die4 Ira) ; W. R. WUliams, Mi$celiames (N. Y. 1850, p. 78 -90) ; H. A. Daniel, Thesaurus Uymnologiciu (Lips. 1856, ii, 108-181; y, 1866, 110-116); C. E. Koch, art. Dies Ira in Herzog's Theol. Enctfklop. (1855), iii, 887, 888 (brief); Abraham Coles, Dies Ira in thirteen orig- inal Versions, with PhotoffrapMc Illustrations (N. T. 4th ed. 1866). Compare also the anonymons publication, The seven great Hymns of the Mediaval Church (N. T. 3d ed. 1867, p. 44-97), where seven English translations of the Dies Ira are given, viz. those of Oen. Dix, two of Coles, Roscommon, Crashaw, Irons, and Slosson.
Dies Lnmlnnm {rj^Upa ^urrmf, day of lights), an ancient name for the Epiphany ; baptism being gen- erally called ^fa^ and <lt!oruTfia, light and illumiitation, this day, being the supposed day of our Saviour's bap- tbm, was stykd **the day of lights or illumination, or baptism.'* Asterius Amasenus {Horn, iv, m Fest^ Kal. dted by Bingham) says, *' We celebrate the nativity because at this time God manifested his divinity to us in the flesh. We celebrate the feast of light, because, by the remission of our sins in baptism, we are brought, as it were, out of the dark prison of our former life to a life of light and virtue." — Bingham, Orig. Eccks. bk. XX, ch. iy, § 7.
Diet (riH'^K, aruchah', rendered "allowance," 2 Kings XXV, 80; "victuals," Jer. xl, 5; "dinner,** Pro v. XV, 17), a fixed portion or ration of daily food (Jer. lil, 84). The food of Eastern nations has been in all ages light and simple. As compared with our own habits, ti^e chief points of contrast are the small amount of animal food consumed, the variety of arti- cles used as accompaniments to bread, the substitu- tion of milk in various forms for our liquors, and the combination of what we should deem heterogeneous elements in the same dish or the same meal. The chief point of agreement is the large consumption of bread, the importance of which in the eyeB of the He- brew is testified by the use of the term kchem (origin- ally food of any kind) specifically for bread, as well as by the expression " staff of bread'* (Lev. xxvi, 26 ; Psa. cv, 16 ; Ezek. iv, 16 ; xiv, 13). Simpler prepa- rations of com were, however, common ; sometimes the fresh green ears were eaten in a natural state (a custom practised in Palestine (Robinson's Researches, i, 493), the husks being rubbed off by the band (Lev. xxili, 14; Deut xxiii, 25; 2 Kings iv, 42; Matt. xU, 1 ; Luke vi, 1) ; more fluently, however, the grains, after being carefully picked, were roasted in a pan over a fire (Lev. ii, 14), and eaten as "parched com," in which form it was an ordinary article of diet, par> Ocularly among laborers, or others who had not the means of dressing food (Lev. xxiii, 14 ; Ruth ii, 14 ; 1 Sam. xvii, 17 ; xxv, 18 ; 2 Sam. xvii, 28) ; this prac- tice is still very usual in the East (comp. Lane, i, 261 ; Robinson, Res, Ii, 860). Sometimes the grain was braised (like the Greek polenta, Pliny, xviii, 14), in which state it was termed either t^'l.ia (Sept. ipucrd ; A. V. " beaten," Lev. ii, 14, 16), or nilj'^'n (Aquil. Symm. imadvai', Auth.Vers. "com," 2 Sam. xvii, 19; comp. Prov. xxvii, 22), and then dried in the sun ; it was eaten either mixed with oil (Lev. ii, 16), or made into a soft cake named riD'^'n^ (A. V. " dough,** Num. xv, 20 ; Neh. X, 87 ; Ezek. xllv, 30). The Hebrews used a great variety of articles (John xxi, 6) to give a rel- ish to bread. Sometunes salt was so used (Job vi, 6), as we learn from the passage just quoted ; sometimes the bread was dipped into the sour wine (A. V. " vin- egar") which the laborers drank (Ruth ii, 14); or, when meat was eaten, into the gravy, which was ei- ther served up separately for the purpose, as by Gideon (Judg. vi, 19), or placed in the middle of the meat-dish, as done by the Arabs (Burckhardt, Notes, i, 68), whose