414. ‘That which the new star brings argues that he is God.’
423. That is, ‘Lux venit, vt obscurari possit tenebris,’ &c.
485. ‘Every one who thinks upon Jesus ought to resolve to lay aside,’ &c.
487. The MSS. give ‘benedicti,’ but it seems probable that ‘benedici’ was meant. The verb is commonly transitive in later Latin.
495 ff. Cp. Isaiah, xliv. 9-20.
531 f. Psalms, cxiii. 8.
619 ff. Cp. Ovid, Metam. i. 74 ff.
LIB. III. Prologus.
11 ff. The author characteristically takes care to point out that in his criticism of the Church he is expressing not his own private opinion, but the ‘commune dictum,’ the report which went abroad among the people, and the ‘vox populi’ has for him always a high authority. Cp. Mirour de l’Omme, 18445 ff., 19057 ff., and see below, l. 1267 ff, iv. 19 f., 709 f.
With what is said in this Book of the condition of the Church and the clergy we may compare the author’s Mirour de l’Omme, 18421-20832.