37. ore, counting as a monosyllable here, cp. 1775, &c., but as a dissyllable 4737, 11377, Bal. xxviii. 1.
39. fait anientir, ‘annihilates’: see note on 1135.
46. Que, ‘For.’
51. The reference is to John i. 3 f., ‘Omnia per ipsum facta sunt: et sine ipso factum est nihil, quod factum est. In ipso vita erat,’ &c. This was usually taken with a full stop after ‘nihil,’ and then ‘Quod factum est in ipso, vita erat.’ It was read so by Augustine, who seems to suggest the idea which is attributed below to Gregory, viz. that the ‘nothing’ which was made without God was sin. ‘Peccatum quidem non per ipsum factum est; et manifestum est quia peccatum nihil est,’ &c., Joann. Evang. i. 13. Gregory also held that sin was nothing: ‘Res quidem aliquid habet esse, peccatum vero esse nullum habet,’ i. Reg. Exp. v. 14, but I do not know whether he founded his opinion specially on this text. Pierre de Peccham expresses the same idea:
‘Pecché n’est chose ne nature
Ne si n’est la deu creature,
Einz est de nature corrupciun
Et defaute et destructiun,’ &c.
M.S. Bodl. 399, f. 21 vo.
65. de les celestieux, ‘from heaven,’ cp. 27120, and such expressions as ‘les infernalx’ just below.