XXIV. Clichtoveus, Elucidat. Eccles., p. 168; Daniel, Thes. Hymnol., v. 2, p. 68.-The thought of the coincidence of the natural and spiritual spring, the falling in of the world's Easter and the Church's, and of the awapɣaì of both, which is the underlying thought of this and the last poem, comes beautifully out in a noble Easter Sermon, to which Creuzer refers, by Gregory of Nazianzum, in which he exclaims : Nῦν ἔαρ κοσμικὸν, ἔαρ πνευματικὸν ἔαρ ψυχαῖς, ἔαρ σώμασιν· ἔαρ δρώμενον, ἔαρ ἀόρατον.

XXV. Flacius Illyricus, Poëmata de Corrupto Ecclesiæ Statu, Basle, 1556, p. 71.

17, 18. fecundare...fædere] This at first sight seems a strange mixture of metaphors; but by fœdus doubtless the poet means the marriage-union betwixt the Church or single soul and its Lord,

Et se morti gratis dare

Pro reorum scelere,

Jure decet hunc laudare,

Et ei consurgere,

Pascha novum celebrare

Corde, voce, et opere.

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whereby the former is made fruitful (fecundata,) and enabled to bring forth spiritual children to him. Thus Hugh of St Victor : Quatuor sunt propter quæ anima dicitur sponsa... and then among these four proles virtutum, quibus fecundata est divini Verbi dogmate.

PETER THE VENERABLE.

XXVI. DE RESURRECTIONE DOMINI.

MOR
FORTIS portis fractis, fortis
MFortior vim sustulit;

Et per crucem regem trucem
Infernorum perculit.

Lumen clarum tenebrarum

Sedibus resplenduit ;

Dum salvare, recreare,

Quod creavit, voluit.

Hinc Creator, ne peccator
Moreretur, moritur;
Cujus morte novâ sorte

Vita nobis oritur.

Inde Sathan victus gemit,

Unde Victor nos redemit;

Illud illi fit letale,

Quod est homini vitale,

Qui, dum captat, capitur,
Et, dum mactat, moritur.
Sic decenter, sic potenter
Rex devincens inferos,

XXVI. Bibliotheca Cluniacensis, Paris, 1614, p. 1349.

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