59. #la lief#, O beloved: comp. ‘Eala men þa leofoston,’ BH 165/32; ‘La leof ic bidde eow,’ Ælf. Lives, i. 522/580; ‘Eala, leof hlaford’ = O mi domine, Thorpe, Analecta, 19. #his#: OE. #wīmman# is masculine. 61. #be -- is#, as regards his being father. 62. In the Vulgate, ‘Si ergo Pater ego sum ubi . . . et si Dominus ego sum’ &c., Malachi i. 6. 63. #manscipe#, the first occurrence of the word in the sense of homage. In OE. it means humanity, courtesy. 64. #G. m.#, Gode men. 70. #fif lagan#: the five laws correspond to five ages of the world. The division here is unusual. The English writers mostly follow S. Augustine, who gives six, so Bede, Alcuin, Ælfric, de vetere Testamento; but Wulfstan has seven, Anselm and Herbert de Losinga eight. In another place Ælfric has five, but different from those of our writer; see Hom. Cath. ii. 74. 71. #ȝecnowe#, revealed. 74. #ȝescod#, discretion, reason: see 122/176. 77. #nas tid# &c. Comp. ‘he fram frymðe middaneardes oð his geendunge ne ablinð to asendenne bydelas and láreowas to lǽrenne his folc,’ Ælf. Hom. Cath. ii. 74/10, which is probably from ‘a mundi huius initio usque in finem ad erudiendam plebem fidelium praedicatores congregare non destitit,’ S. Greg. Hom. i. xix. 79. #adiligde#, was destroyed: passive use, OE. #ādīlegian#, to destroy. #unwreaste leahtrum#: see 118/30 note. 81. #wrate# &c. Comp. ‘God awrát ða ealdan ǽ mid his fingre on ðam stǽnenum weax-bredum,’ Ælf. Hom. Cath. ii. 204/1. #his#, the law. 82. #ȝelaðieres#: comp. ‘sende hire his sondesmen biforen, þet weren þe patriarkes ⁊ þe prophetes of the Olde Testament,’ AR 388/14. 83. #fele#; see 132/9. 84. #wat#, until: comp. 217/102: often with _al_, 215/26; ‘al hwat hie hine fordemden,’ VV 51/12 and frequently: #wat# is relative conj. substituted for þat, with same meaning; see 72/179, 108/245: so þen exchanges with hwanne, þer with hwær. #þe#, when, so þa 93. 85. #arerdon#, set up, established: comp. ‘þæt is þonne ǽrest þæt ic wylle þæt man rihte laga upp arǽre,’ Schmid, Gesetze, 270. 87. #hlafordes . . . helendes . . . cristes#: this appositional construction is OE.; comp. ‘on drihtnes naman ures hælendes cristes,’ Ælf. Lives, i. 366/46: it is fairly common in early ME.; comp. 8/106, 9/121, 9/137, 12/6, 7. 89. #stef creft#: OE. #stæf cræft#, the art of letters, and hence, book learning. 90. #Eft bine fece ⁊#: with this superfluous and connecting a phrase to the main sentence, comp. ‘Him þa gyt sprecendum ⁊ soþlice þa beorhtwolcn hig oferscean,’ S. Matt. xvii. 5. (= ‘Adhuc eo loquente, ecce nubes lucida obumbravit eos.’) #acolede#, cooled, lost its vigour: comp. ‘⁊ forþam þe unryhtwisnys rixað manegra lufu acolaþ,’ S. Matt. xxiv. 12 (= ‘refrigescet charitas multorum’). See 159/161. 91. #hur ⁊ hur#, especially: a doubling for emphasis of OE. #hūru#, at least: comp. 149/11. 92. #awente# &c.: ‘Qui commutaverunt veritatem Dei in mendacium: et coluerunt et servierunt creaturae potius quam Creatori,’ Romans i. 25.