25

Linquens ima die prima,
Rediit ad superos.
Resurrexit, et revexit
Secum Deus hominem,
Reparando quam creando
Dederat originem.
Per Auctoris passionem
Ad amissam regionem
Primus redit nunc colonus :
Unde lætus fit hic sonus.

30

XXVII. [Walraff,] Corolla Hymnorum, p. 36; Daniel, Thes. Hymnol., v. 2, p. 365.

Tolle vultum, Magdalena,
Redivivum obstupe;
Vide frons quàm sit amena,
Quinque plagas aspice,
Fulgent sicut margaritæ,
Ornamenta novæ vitæ :

Alleluia resonet.

25

30

Vive, vive, Magdalena,
Tua lux reversa est,
Gaudiis turgescat vena,
Mortis vis abstersa est;
Mæsti procul sunt dolores,
Læti redeant amores :

Alleluia resonet.

35

XXVIII. Clichtoveus, Elucidat. Eccles., p. 173.

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. lxxx. 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