[[251]] Ecclesiastes ix, 10.
[[252]] Psalms civ, 4.
[[253]] Revelation i, 7.
[[254]] Daniel vii, 10.
[[255]] Dies Iræ, the name generally given (from the opening words) to the most famous of the mediæval hymns, usually ascribed to the Franciscan Thomas of Celano (died c. 1255). It is composed in triplets of rhyming trochaic tetrameters, and describes the Last Judgment in language of magnificent grandeur, passing into a plaintive plea for the souls of the dead.
[[256]] Acts v, 1, 2.
[[257]] Galatians v. 24.
[[258]] Isaiah lviii, 7.
[[259]] 2 Thessalonians iii, 10.
[[260]] Luke xviii, 11.