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COMMENTARIES ON HOLY SCRIPTURE. 165<br />

no violence <strong>of</strong> winds, no mon<strong>st</strong>ers <strong>of</strong> the deep. For<br />

the harbour is one safe sheltered from all these. The<br />

Church is the haven <strong>of</strong> souls.&quot;<br />

It would take a far abler translation than mine to<br />

do ju<strong>st</strong>ice to the thoughts <strong>of</strong> a Nazianzen or a Chryso<strong>st</strong>om<br />

;<br />

but even from such specimens as these the<br />

reader may perhaps conclude, that the Bible com<br />

mentary prepared by John <strong>of</strong> Damascus was <strong>of</strong> a kind<br />

he would at times be glad to get in exchange for<br />

more modern annotations.

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