[Footnote 155: In answer to the proposal of discussing the subject during a mountain walk.--F. A. M.] [Footnote 156: Art, xi.] [Footnote 157: Homily xi. of the Second Table.] [Footnote 158: "_Arrows of the Chace._"] [Footnote 159: See postscript to this letter.--ED.] [Footnote 160: Referring to the closing sentence of the third paragraph of the fifth 'ter, which _seemed_ to express what I felt could not be Mr. Ruskin's full meaning, I pointed out to him the following sentence in "Modern Painters:"-- "When, in the desert, Jesus was girding Himself for the work of life, angels of life came and ministered unto Him; now, in the fair world, when He is girding Himself for the work of death, the ministrants come to Him from the grave; but from the grave conquered. One from the tomb under Abarim, which _His_ own hand had sealed long ago; the other from the rest which He had entered without seeing corruption." On this I made a remark somewhat to the following effect: that I felt sure Mr. Ruskin regarded the loving work of the Father and of the Son to be _equal_ in the forgiveness of sins and redemption of mankind; that what is done by the Father is in reality done also by the Son; and that it is by a mere accommodation to human infirmity of understanding that the doctrine of the Trinity is revealed to us in language, inadequate indeed to convey divine truths, but still the only language possible; and I asked whether some such feeling was not present in his mind when he used the pronoun "His," in the above passage from "Modern Painters," of the Son, where it would be usually understood of the Father; and as a corollary, whether, in the letter, he does not himself fully recognize the fact of the redemption of the world by the loving self-sacrifice of the Son in entire concurrence with the equally loving will of the Father. This, as well as I can recollect, is the origin of the passage in the second paragraph in the seventh letter.--F. A. M.] [Footnote 161: The "Letters to the Clergy" adds note: "Yet hast thou not known Me, Philip? he that hath seen Me hath seen the Father" (John xiv. 9).--ED.] [Footnote 162: _Fors Clavigera_, Letter lxxxii. (See _ante_, Sec. 148.--ED.)] [Footnote 163: "Bibliotheca Pastorum," Vol. i. "The Economist of Xenophon," Pref., p. xii--ED.] [Footnote 164: See _ante_, p. 319, Sec. 154; p. 330, Sec. 166.--ED.] [Footnote 165: "_Arrows of the Chace._"] [Footnote 166: "_Arrows of the Chace._"] [Footnote 167: Referring to the first edition, printed for private circulation.--F. A. M.] [Footnote 168: "Sic tauriformis volvitur Aufidus, Qua regna Dauni praefluit Appuli Quum saevit, horrendamque cultis Diluviem meditatur agris." --HOR., _Carm._, iv. 14.] EPILOGUE. BRANTWOOD, CONISTON, _June 1880._