Ib.
p. 81. E.
Blessed St. Augustine reports, (if that epistle be St. Augustine's) that when himself was writing to St. Hierome, to know his opinion of the measure and quality of the joy and glory of heaven, suddenly in his chamber there appeared ineffabile lumen, says he, an unspeakable, an unexpressible light, ... and out of that light issued this voice, Hieronymi anima sum, &c.
The grave recital of this ridiculous legend is one instance of what I have called the Patristic leaven in Donne, who assuredly had no belief himself in the authenticity of this letter. But yet it served a purpose. As to Master Conradus, just above, who could read at night by the light at his fingers' ends, he must of course have very recently been shaking hands with Lucifer.
Ib.
p. 83. D.
Eve's recognition upon the birth of her first son, Cain I have gotten, I possess a man from the Lord.
I have gotten the Jehovah-man
, is, I believe, the true rendering and sense of the Hebrew words. Eve, full of the promise, supposed her first-born, the first-born on earth, to be the promised deliverer.
| Ib. p. 84. D. E. | |
| Serm. IX. Rom. xiii. 7. p. 86, | |
| Admirable passages. (side-note) | Ib. p. 90. A. That soul that is accustomed, &c. |
| Ib. p. 94. A. B. |