[147] 1 John iii. 21.
[148] St. Ambrose. Apud Whitby.
[149] John xviii. 31.
[150] Rom. iii. 4.
[151] The words ταπεινὸς, and humilis, are observed to be generally, if not always, used in a bad sense by the Greek and Latin writers.
[152] Philipp. ii. 5. 8.
[153] Matthew xvi. 24.
[154] Matth. xxiii. 33.
[155] Mark x. 21.
[156] For it is with propositions, as with characters, in relation to which the language of the true moralist is: “Explica, atque excute intelligentiam tuam, ut videas quæ sit in eâ species, forma, et notio viri boni.” Cic. de Off. l. III. c. 20.