The scars of the wounds which the Lord showed to the strengthening of His disciples' faith.
Thy love these eyes did open;
They're watching for us still:
These eyes, of love the token,
Our faith with love do fill. G.
CXIV.
Mittit Joannes qui quaerant a Christo, an is sit. Luc. vii. 19.
Tu qui adeo impatiens properasti agnoscere Christum,
Tunc cum claustra uteri te tenuere tui,
Tu, quis sit Christus, rogitas? et quaeris ab ipso?
Hoc tibi vel mutus dicere quisque potest.[68]
John sends to Jesus ... saying, Art Thou He that should come? or look we for another?
And dost thou ask, who in thy mother's womb
So eager wast to hail Messiah come?
Thou ask, and of Himself, if Christ He be?
Why, even the very dumb can answer thee. Cl.
CXV.
In Petrum auricidam. Joan. xviii. 10.