ANOTHER RENDERING.
O happy Lazarus! richer in thy tears
Than he who midst his riches purple wears.
Hell's purple flames red-glowing shall be his:
Ah, then how shall he count thy tears a bliss!
XXX.
Indignatur Caiphas Christo se confitenti. Matt. xxvi. 65.
Tu Christum, Christum quod non negat esse lacessis:
Ipsius hoc crimen, quod fuit ipse, fuit.
Tene Sacerdotem credam? Novus ille Sacerdos
Per quem impune Deo non licet esse Deum.
Caiphas angry that Christ confesses He is the Christ.
Wroth that The Christ confesseth Christ He is!
His fault that He is but Himself, I wis.
Thee shall I reckon priest? Strange priest is he
Who leaves not God His own Divinity! G.
XXXI.
Cum tot signa edidisset, non credebant in eum. Joan. xii. 37.
Non tibi, Christe, fidem tua tot miracula praestant;
O verbi, ô dextrae dulcia regna tuae!
Non praestant? neque te post tot miracula credunt?
Mirac'lum qui non credidit, ipse fuit.[49]