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J 34 ST. JOHN OF DAMASCUS. illustrated this subject by a comparison of the texts cited in two parallel discourses on the same topic, one by a mediaeval preacher, the other by a modern divine. But this method of comparison alone would not give anything like an adequate idea of the dif ference. The Bible phraseology seems to come so naturally and spontaneously to the lips of the preacher in the former case, that his language is coloured by it in a manner no marginal references will indicate. It would indeed be a burden too great for any editor to have to analyse the expressions in such homilies as those now before us, and assign every word or sentence there quoted to its original author. To take but a single example from the first of the sermons on the Nativity of the Virgin (c. vi.). Among various metaphors by which the mother of the Lord is there described, one is taken from the words of the Psalm : This is the hill which God desireth to dwell in. As there is not a single marginal reference provided by the editor throughout this chapter, it might easily escape a reader even well acquainted with his English Bible, that the rest of the passage is a quotation from the same Psalm : The mountain of God is a rich mountain, a mountain curdled as cheese, a rich mountain. Nor is it without some considera tion that we identify this with our own version : The hill of God is as the hill of Bashan, an high hill, as the hill of Bashan^ And just as the reader s Ps. Ixviii. (in the Vulgate, Ixvii.) 15. The Latin Vulgate 1 agrees verbally with the Septuagint, of which the above is a literal translation. It is another instance of the confusion arising from words being treated in one version as proper names, and in another not.
" SERMONS. 135 eye might fail to detect this passing allusion, so might it be with him in innumerable instances. It is in truth no unprofitable exercise to study slowly and patiently the expositions of such a preacher as John of Damascus, if only to widen and deepen our acquaintance with the language of the Bible. But after making this full allowance, and admitting with equal readiness the beauty occasionally the very great beauty of some of the figures employed, the fact remains that the subject itself is stifled beneath the load of embellishments with which it is overlaid. The twelfth in order of the homilies, and the last which we shall notice here, is a panegyric on St. Chrysostom. There is a certain fitness in John surnamed Chrysorroas, from the golden flow of his eloquence, being the one to deliver an eulogy on of the "John golden And mouth." in the opening sentence the orator seems conscious of this, though he modestly disavows any equality with his task. With the name of his native river, it may be, the fair-flowing Chrysorroas, suggested to his mind by Chrysostom s name, he begins : They that would essay the task of pronouncing thy encomium, Golden Joannes, should have had the rare gift of a golden tongue to utter a stream of golden eloquence." But for some reason, the style of this discourse, especially towards the beginning, is laboured and obscure. There is not, so far as I am aware, any reason to doubt its genuineness and the ; preacher has no temptation, as was the case with the sermons on the Virgin Mary, to
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