[12759]. Matth. v, 38.
[12781]. Matth. v, 17.
[12801]. thorugh a tree. Some of the medieval legends go still farther, and pretended that the tree from which the wood of the cross was made was descended directly from a plant from the tree in Paradise of which Adam and Eve were tempted to eat the fruit.
[12805]. Psal. vii, 16.
[12840]. Psal. l, 6.
[12876]. 2 Corinth. xii, 4.
[12886]. Psal. cxlii, 2.
[12896]. Astroth. This name, as given to one of the devils, occurs in a curious list of actors in the Miracle Play of St. Martin, given by M. Jubinal, in the preface to his Mystères inédits, vol. ii, p. ix. It is similarly used in the Miracle Play of the Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul, Jubinal, ib. vol. i, p. 69. In one of the Towneley Mysteries (p. 246), this name is likewise given to one of the devils:—
Calle up Astarot and Anaballe,
To gyf us counselle in this case.