5. #heffness ærd#, heaven’s region: a phrase suggested by #middellærd#. 9. #shaffte#, creatures: OE. #gesceafta#. 10. #baþe# belongs to #fet ⁊ hande#. 12-14. This section diverges in form from those before and after it, as also from the original. The subject of #filleþþ# is #Þatt illke child#. #heffness rume riche#, the wide kingdom of heaven: perhaps suggested by ‘ut amplitudinem nobis supernarum sedium tribueret’ of Bede’s Sermon, vii. 300. 16. #all alls# = all alse, alswa, quite as. 17. #Swa summ#, so as, just as if: #summ# is OEScand. sum: more usually the phrase means, just as, 112/27, 113/47, 55. Variants are ‘all swa summ,’ O. Introd. 43; ‘all all swa summ,’ 114/76; ‘all all swa se,’ O. Dedication, 281. #fode#: the ass represents the Gentiles, of whom Bede says, ‘plurimi . . . coelestibus eius (= Christi) quaerebant alimoniis ad perpetuam crescere salutem,’ vii. 300. 19. And give himself as everlasting food there to us with angels. 21. #to ȝernenn#, &c., to be content with a humble lot. 27. #stunnt ⁊ dill#: comp. ‘⁊ stunnt ⁊ stidiȝ, dill ⁊ slaw | to sekenn sawless seollþe,’ O. i. 344/9885. 28. #afell#, strength. O. has also a _pp._ afledd, endowed with strength, ‘Forr cnapechild iss afledd wel,’ O. i. 274/7903; opposed to ‘unnstrang.’ 30. #þatt#, when: so þe 15/84, þa 15/93. #comm . . . to manne#, was incarnate: comp. 36/117, 114/97; ‘þe becom to mannum mid iudeiscum folce,’ Ælf. Lives, ii. 60/89; ‘hu hi to mannum comon,’ AS. Hom. ed. Assmann, 26/44; ‘Hwarto was he aure iscapen te manne,’ VV 113/14, regularly with _pl. dat._; contrast ‘ic ðe to men gebær,’ I bore thee as a man, Ælf. Lives, ii. 78/175. 31. #laþe gastess#, hateful spirits, i.e. false gods: ‘in asino autem exprimit populum gentium, qui sordibus idololatriae semper manebat immundus,’ Bede, vii. 300. 33, 34. #þurrh ꝥ . . . þurrh ꝥ#, inasmuch as, whereas . . . thereby, as a consequence; propter quod . . . propter id: so 115/114, 116. O. is fond of these formal correlatives: comp. ‘forr þi . . . Forr ꝥ,’ 113/48. 35. #niþþredd#, lowered, humbled: OE. #geniþerod#, _pp._ of #niþerian#. #wannsedd#, diminished: OE. #wansian#. Comp. ‘⁊ illc an lawe ⁊ illc an hill | Shall niþþredd beon ⁊ laȝhedd,’ O. i. 321/9205; ‘Aȝȝ niþþreþþ Godess genge, | ⁊ cwelleþþ hemm ⁊ wannseþþ hemm,’ id. 279/8032. 36. #o ꝥ hallf ꝥ#, in that part of his nature in which: see 46/292. 39. #ȝet lasse#, still lower: ‘qui modico quam Angeli minoratus est,’ Heb. ii. 9. 43. #lahȝhre inoh#, sufficiently lower, i.e. much lower. 45. #lætenn#, &c., think very meanly: comp. 44/260.