Some of the greatest of the early Christian writers and saints, Origen, St. Athanasius, Hilary of Poitiers, St. Ambrose, St. Chrysostom, Bede, and St. Augustine all studied the psalms deeply and wrote learned commentaries on them.

Each is representative of the age that produced him, and together they form a suggestive commentary upon the two forces that rule our humanity,the force of impulse and the force of a fixed purpose.

At Pilnitz, in 1791, the German potentates issued a declaration touching France which was too moderate to suit the emigrants, who published upon it a commentary of their own.

I exclaimed, 'hast thou dared to espouse more wives than one? Rememberest thou not what is written in the Book of the prophet Ad?' "'O father,' he said, 'the revelation of Ad being, as thou knowest, so exceedingly ancient, doth of necessity require a commentary.

The horses of the crusaders, who rode up to the porch of the Temple, wereso the story goesup to the knees in the loathsome stream; and the forms of Christian knights hacking and hewing the bodies of the living and the dead furnished a pleasant commentary on the sermon of Urban at Clermont.

My father, whose studies did not lie much in that way, owned to me afterwards, that he was somewhat at a loss how to answer, but that luckily he recollected having read in catalogues the title of Durham on the Galatians; upon which he boldly said, 'Pray, Sir, have you read Mr. Durham's excellent commentary on the Galatians?'

Besides the poems, it contained a brief prose commentary by the editor, the value of which is still very great, since we have the right to suppose that Adami's explanations embodied what he had received by word of mouth from Campanella.

As to the Bible-readings, I do not find commentaries of much use.

" The foregoing passage needs some commentary.

But that look, those eyes, that voice, what a commentary on her language did they not afford!

Mandeville, a London physician of French extraction, and born in Holland, had aroused attention by his poem, The Grumbling Hive; or Knaves Turned Honest, 1706, and in response to vehement attacks upon his work, had added a commentary to the second edition, The Fable of the Bees; or Private Vices Public Benefits, 1714.

A hundred years ago the singular insight of Linnaeus enabled him to say that "fossils are not the children but the parents of rocks," and the whole effect of the discoveries made since his time has been to compile a larger and larger commentary upon this text.

The hundreds of thousands of mulattoes, who constitute the Southern commentary on the charge, that the abolitionists design amalgamation, bear witness that this planter was not singular in his propensities.

It is as though the author stood by and delivered a running commentary on the secret motives and designs of his characters.

He inquires into every man's history, and makes his own commentaries upon it as he pleases to fancy it.

Birt, Jugendverse und Heimatpoesie Vergils, 1910, has provided a useful commentary on the Catalepton.] Begone ye useless paint-pots of the school; Your phrases reek, but not with Attic scent, Tarquitius' and Selius' and Varro's drool: A witless crew, with learning temulent.

They patted the author on the head for many things, but when they reached the observation anent the subjection of women, their wrath exploded: "The subordination of women to men," so ran their commentary, "is an extremely correct custom.

Anything of St. Paul yet? Send me what's-his-name's Commentaries on the Scriptures.

Breviary students studying this commentary need little else to help them to admire, to understand and to use their psalmody in a prayerful manner.

* EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY EDITED BY ERNEST RHYS CLASSICAL CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES TRANSLATED

Then again the demon of work would drive him with thong and spur: he would rush to his craters, to his laboratories, to his ledger for the purpose of entering unintelligible commentaries.

Behind the party followed Longears, whose presence, throughout the day, we have very improperly neglected to mention; but as that inquisitive animal was, during the whole morning, roaming, at his own wild will, the neighboring fieldsprying into the holes of various wild animals, and exchanging silent commentaries with the Apple Orchard dogsthis omission will not appear very heinous.

The learned Calmet (1672-1757) writing of the universal esteem and study of the Psalms, said that then there existed more than a thousand commentaries on them.

If you would be sure of this and understand it, see the parables, etc., explained in Maurice's 'Gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven' (a commentary on S. Luke).

At Mr. McPherson's, he commended Whitby's Commentary, and said, he had heard him called rather lax; but he did not perceive it.