Tempus mutans, non mutaris,

Vaga firmans, non vagaris.

Vis externa, vel necesse

Non alternat tuum esse:

Heri nostrum, cras, et pridem

Semper tibi nunc et idem:
Tuum, Deus, hodiernum
Indivisum, sempiternum :
In hoc totum prævidisti,
Totum simul perfecisti,

Ad exemplar summæ mentis
Formam præstans elementis.

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how often it is found on lamps, gravestones, gems, and other relics which they have bequeathed to us (see Muratori, Anecdota, i. 45).

§ ORATIO AD FILIUM.

Nate, Patri coæqualis,
Patri consubstantialis,
Patris splendor et figura,
Factor factus creatura,
Carnem nostram induisti,
Causam nostram suscepisti :
Sempiternus, temporalis;
Moriturus, immortalis;
Verus homo, verus Deus;
Impermixtus Homo-Deus.

Non conversus hic in carnem ;
Nec minutus propter carnem :
Hic assumptus est in Deum,
Nec consumptus propter Deum;
Patri compar Deitate,

Minor carnis veritate:

Deus pater tantum Dei,

Virgo mater, sed est Dei:

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37. splendor et figura] These are the Latin equivalents for àлaúуaσμа and xаρактý¡, Heb. i. 3 (Vulg.); making plain that to that setting forth of the dignity of the Son Hildebert refers. 'Аñaúуaσμa might either mean effulgence or refulgence; and splendor does not necessarily determine for either meaning. The Church, however, has ever made ἀπαύγασμα = φῶς ἐκ φωτός =effulgence. Thus we have in another hymn: Splendor paternæ gloriæ (a fuller translation of the άñavyaσμa тîs dógns), Qui lumen es e lumine.

48. Non consumptus] Augustine (Ep. 170, 9): Homo assumtus est a Deo; non in homine consumptus est Deus.

In tam novâ ligaturâ

Sic utraque stat natura,

Ut conservet quicquid erat,
Facta quiddam quod non erat.

Noster iste Mediator,

Iste noster legislator,
Circumcisus, baptizatus,
Crucifixus, tumulatus,
Obdormivit et descendit,

Resurrexit et ascendit:

Sic ad cœlos elevatus
Judicabit judicatus.

SORATIO AD SPIRITUM SANCTUM.

Paraclitus increatus,

Neque factus, neque natus,

Patri consors, Genitoque,

Sic procedit ab utroque
Ne sit minor potestate,
Vel discretus qualitate.
Quanti illi, tantus iste,
Quales illi, talis iste.

Ex quo illi, ex tunc iste;
Quantum illi, tantum iste.
Pater alter, sed gignendo;
Natus alter, sed nascendo;
Flamen ab his procedendo;
Tres sunt unum subsistendo.
Quisque trium plenus Deus,
Non tres tamen Dî, sed Deus.

In hoc Deo, Deo vero,

Tres et unum assevero,
Dans Usiæ unitatem,
Et personis Trinitatem.
In personis nulla prior,
Nulla minor, nulla major:
Unaquæque semper ipsa,
Sic est constans atque fixa,
Ut nec in se varietur,
Nec in ullâ transmutetur.

Hæc est fides orthodoxa,
Non hic error sine noxâ;
Sicut dico, sic et credo,
Nec in pravam partem cedo.
Inde venit, bone Deus,
Ne desperem quamvis reus:
Reus mortis non despero,
Sed in morte vitam quæro.
Quo te placem nil prætendo,
Nisi fidem quam defendo:
Fidem vides, hanc imploro;
Leva fascem quo laboro;

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101-137. The four images of deliverance which run through these lines, will be best understood in their details, by keeping closely in view the incidents of the evangelical history on which they rest, and which lend them severally their language and imagery. In ver. 101-112 the allusion is to Christ's raisings of the dead, and mainly to that of Lazarus. The Extra portam jam delatus belongs indeed to the history of the widow's son (Luke vii. 12); but all else is to be explained from John xi. 39-44. The second image seems, in a measure, to depart from

the miracles of the stilling of the storm (Matt. viii. 26; cf. xiv. 32), and to introduce a new feature in the pirate; but on closer inspection it will be seen that in these we have only a bold personification of the winds and waves, as hi piratæ of ver. 119 plainly proves. In the third (ver. 121-128) he contemplates himself as the barren fig-tree of Luke xiii. 6—9, and, as such, in danger of being hewn down. The fourth image (ver. 129-138) rests plainly on the healing of the lunatic child (Matt. xiv. 21; Mark ix. 22).

103. cataplasma] Bernard: Ex Deo et homine factum est cataplasma, quod sanaret omnes infirmitates nostras, Spiritu Sancto tanquam pistillo hasce species suaviter in utero Mariæ commiscente.