[199] Ps. ii. 1-3.—(W.)
[200] "Fluitantem."
[201] "Dei naturantis."
[202] Witte refers to Parad. xiii. 67, xxix. 32, i. 127-130. Cf. Thom. Aquin. Summ. I., q. 66, art. 1-3; q. 110, art. 2; q. 115, art. 3-6. This view satisfied thinkers to the time of Hooker (E.P. I. iii.), but was criticised by Bacon, Nov. Org. i. 66.
[203] "Jus."
[204] St. John i. 3.—(W.)
[205] Eth. i. 7, from Thom. Aq. Lect. XI.—(W.)
[206] The image of the wax and seal was a favourite one. V. Parad. vii. 68, viii. 127, xiii. 67-75, quoted by Witte, who also refers to the Epist. ad Reges, § 8, p. 444, ed. Fraticelli.
[207] Arist. Pol. iii. 12; Juv. viii. 20.—(W.)
[208] Witte refers to Dante's commentary on his own Canzone in the Convito iv. 3, and the Parad. xvi. 1.