Tolle vultum, Magdalena, Vide frons quàm sit amœna, Vive, vive, Magdalena, Mosti procul sunt dolores, Alleluia resonet. 25 30 35 24-26. mors victoria] Our Lord's ministry during his life bore scanty fruits compared to the large incomings through the after-preaching of his cross. Gregory the Great (Moral., 1. 29, c. 14): Pauci enim ex plebe Israeliticâ ipso prædicante crediderunt: innumeri verò gentium populi viam vitæ moriente illo secuti sunt. Quòd bene Samson in semetipso dudum figuraliter expressit, qui paucos quidem, dum viveret, interemit; destructo autem templo, hostes innumeros, cùm moreretur, occidit. 27. Sol eorum] This quite unwarrantable etymology of Samson's name the poet has derived from Jerome, who (De Nom. Heb.) explains Samson: Sol eorum, vel solis fortitudo—their light, or, the light of them that are his. Thus Augustine (Enarr. in Ps. 1xxx. 10): Unde Samson noster, qui etiam interpretatur Sol ipsorum, eorum scilicet quibus lucet; non omnium, sicuti est oriens super bonos et malos, sed sol quorundam, sol justitiæ, figuram enim habebat Christi. 31. Botrus] Among the Old Testament types of Christ and his cross, that of Num. xiii. 23, 24, was ever counted as one: thus [T. L. P.] 10 |