270. 1 Cor. iii. 2.
271. S. John iv. 14.
272. Hag.i. 4. Ib. 2.
273. Ecclus. xxiii. 18.
274. 1 Kings xvii. 19,
275. 2 Kings iv. 8, 10.
276. Ib. 16 et seq.
277. Acts x. 9.
278. 2 Sam. xviii. 17, 18.
279. 1 Kings xx. 23.
280. Hag. i. 4.
281. Jer. xxii. 13.
282. Ib. 14.
283. Cant. iv. 3.
284. Jer. xxii. 19. He shall be buried with the burial of an ass. Engl. Vers.
285. 1 Tim. v. 6.
286. Ps. xlii.5.
287. S. Matt. vii. 7.
288. Hag. i. 8.
289. Ib. 10.
290. Hag. i. 14.
291. Ps. cx x vii. 1.
292. Col.i. 16, 17.
293. S. John vii. 37.
294. This refers to Ps. xix. 5. where the sun, that rejoiceth as a giant to run his course, is usually interpreted by the Fathers of the Messiah. It was a very favourite thought with S. Ambrose. In his Hymn 'De Adventu Domini' he adapts the language of the Psalm to it in words of beautiful simplicity,