:
Hieronymus
et Hilarius moram sponsi poenitentiae tempus
esse dicunt.
Robert Herrick
Ambrose--a
goodly list of Fathers, if we had any reason to suppose that the
quotations were made at first hand.
148. _Mercy ... a Deity._ Pausanias, _Attic._ I. xvii. 1.
153. _Mora Sponsi, the stay of the bridegroom._ Maldonatus, _Comm. in
Matth._ xxv.
:
Hieronymus
et Hilarius moram sponsi poenitentiae tempus
esse dicunt.
157. _Montes Scripturarum._ See August. _Enarr. in Ps._ xxxix., and
passim.
167. _A dereliction._ The word is from Ps. xxii. 1: Quare me
dereliquisti? "Why hast Thou forsaken me?" Herrick took it from
Gregory's _Notes and Observations_ (see infra), p. 5: 'Our Saviour .
