[67] Confluebant ad audiendum verbum Dei populi gaudentes. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. iii.) The people eagerly flocked together to hear the word of God.
[68] Mox congregati in unum vicani, verbum vitæ ab illo expetere curabant. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. xxvi.) Presently the villagers flocked together earnestly desiring to hear from him the word of life.
[69] Aydanus duodecimo post occisionem regis quem amabat die, de seculo ablatus. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. xiv.) Aidan on his twelfth day after the death of the king whom he loved, was taken out of the world.
[70] Cum rex pascha dominicum solutis jejuniis faceret, tunc regina cum suis persistens adhuc in jejunio diem l'almarum celebraret. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. xxv.) When the king having ended the time of fasting, was keeping Easter, the queen with her attendants still fasting, was celebrating Palm Sunday.
[71] Acris erat ingenii . . . . . gratia venusti vultus, alacritate actionis. Beda, lib. v, p. 135.
[72] Apertum veritatis adversarium reddidit, says the Romanist Bede, lib. v. p. 135. Had rendered him an open enemy of the truth.
[73] This conference is generally known as the Synodus Pharensis (from Strenæshalh, sinus Phari). "Hodie Whitbie dicitur (White bay), et est villa in Eboracensi littore satis nota" Wilkius, Concii. p. 37, note.
[74] Presbyteri Cedda et Adda et Berti Duina, quorum ultimus natione Scotus, cæteri fuere Angli. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. xxi) These presbyters were Cedda and Adda and Berti and Dinna, of whom the last was by nation a Scot, the rest were English.
[75] Qui accepto gradu episcopatus et majore auctoritate cœptum opus explens, fecit per loca ecclesias, presbyteros et diaconos ordinavit. (Beda, lib. iii, cap. xxii.) Who having received the episcopal dignity and pursuing the work he had begun with more ample authority, built churches in various places, and ordained presbyters and deacons.
[76] Ipsum est quod beatus evangelista Johannes, discipulus specialiter Domino dilectus. Beda, lib. iii. cap. xxv.