[55] A learned and pious historian, M'Crie, who devoted much attention to the history of the Reformation in Spain, states that Vargas first explained the Epistle to the Romans. But Montanus de Montes, a contemporary and friend of Egidius, says—'Prælegebat evangelium Matthæi, quo absoluto accepit Psalmos.' P. 281.
[56] 'Capitulum cum honorifica legatione accercebat.'—Montanus, p. 279.
[57] 'Vilesceret vero indies assidua congressione lucis hypocritarum turba.'—Montanus, p. 266.
[58] 'Ad Epicteti Stoici placita ... eo Epicteto inferior.'—Montanus, p. 238.
[59] 'De crebris jejuniis, de mortificatione, vestitu, sermone, vultu .. . ad missas complures, ad sacrorum locorum frequentationes, et ad multa alia nugamenta.'—Montanus, p. 238.
[60] 'Accessorat ea Hispaniæ linguæ peritia et facundia quæ quibuscumque illius studiosissimis miraculo esset.'—Montanus, p. 278.
[61] 'Videbatur enim veluti a specula quadam humana omnia negotia contemplari.'—Montanus, p. 278.
[62] 'Tantus erat populi concursus ut quarta, sæpe etiam tertia, noctis hora vix in templo inveniretur commodus ad audiendum locus.'—Ibid., p. 279.
[63] 'Clarissimos antecelluit.'—Ibid., p. 278.
[64] 'Ea urbs omnium totius Hispaniæ felicissima.'—Montanus, p. 240.