[577] See Borlase, p. 162.
[578] See p. 36. I must not omit to mention that the Tuath-de-danaan cross at Armagh, noticed at p. 359, was pulled down some time back, to prevent the squabbles between the Catholics and the Orangemen, neither of whom had any inheritance therein!
[579] Vita prima S. Patricii, Ap. Colgan.
[580] “Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day, in the city of David, a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke ii. 10,11).
[581] “And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men” (Luke ii. 13, 14).
[582] Matt. ii. 9.
[583] Gen. xiv. 18, 19, 20.
[584] Heb. vii. 4, 1, 2, 3. “Rex idem hominum, Phœbique Sacerdos” (Virgil).
[585] “Holy mysteries must be studied with this caution, that the mind for its module be dilated to the amplitude of the mysteries, and not the mysteries be straitened and girt into the narrow compass of the mind” (Bacon).
[586] Isa. lii. 7.