17996. trestout ardant belongs of course to ‘fornaise’ in the next line. These inversions are characteristic of the author’s style: cp. 15941.
18004. Bern. de Ord. Vit. ii. 4, ‘Et ne incentivis naturalibus superentur, necesse est ut lasciviens caro eorum crebris frangatur ieiuniis.’ De Convers. 21, ‘Quidni periclitetur castitas in deliciis.’
18018. chalt pas, ‘at once.’
18025. Ambr. Hex. vi. 4. 28, ‘Ieiuni hominis sputum si serpens gustaverit, moritur. Vides quanta vis ieiunii sit, ut et sputo suo homo terrenum serpentem interficiat, et merito spiritalem.’
18067. q’est d’aspre vie, ‘which belongs to hard life.’
18097. Matt. xiii.
18154. ‘And then performs the circumstance of it,’ that is the deeds suggested by it.
18159 ff. With this passage on the power of the divine word compare that on the power of the human word in Conf. Am. vii. 1545 ff.
18172. John xv. 3.
18292. Ps. cxxvi. (Vulg. cxxv.) 6, ‘Euntes ibant et flebant, mittentes semina sua. Venientes autem venient cum exsultatione, portantes manipulos suos.’