95. #begripe#, seized, in the grip of: comp. ‘seo sawul bið micele atelicor, gif heo mid mislicum leahtrum begripen bið,’ Ælf. Hom. Cath. i. 122/23. #diefles muðe#: comp. 17/150. Mediaeval art gave a very literal rendering of ‘infernus . . . aperuit os suum absque ullo termino: et descendent fortes eius, et populus eius, et sublimes, gloriosique eius ad eum,’ Isaiah v. 14; see Wright, History of Caricature, 69-71. 97. #sette#, ordained, established: comp. ‘þis synd þa . . . laga þe drihten gesette betwyx him and Israhela folc,’ Levit. xxvi. 46. 99-104. Comp. ‘Triplici morbo laborat genus humanum: principio, medio et fine, id est nativitate, vita et morte. Nativitas immunda, vita perversa, mors periculosa. Venit Christus, et contra triplicem hunc morbum attulit triplex remedium. Natus est enim, vixit, mortuus est: atque eius nativitas purgavit nostram, mors illius destruxit nostram, et vita eius instruxit nostram,’ S. Bernardi Op. ii. 776. The Liber Sententiarum, from which this passage comes, is placed by Mabillon among the doubtful works. There can be little doubt that it is the source of the English passage. 100. #ful#: comp. 29/33. #grislic#: inspiring terror and shrinking: see 120/94. 101. #þer aȝen#, to remedy these blemishes of our nature: L. _remedium_. 102. #efer þurh#, ever through, throughout, perpetually. #milce#, not the active mercy, compassion, but meekness, patience. 103. #acennende#, the being born, birth: present participle with the same meaning as the new verbal noun acenneng, 100. The OE. noun is #ācennednes# or #ācennes#. 104. #admoded#, submissive: ‘Humiliavit semetipsum factus obediens usque ad mortem,’ Philippians ii. 8. The contrast is between man’s shrinking from death and His voluntary acceptance of it. 105. #ȝelice#: read grislice as suggested by W. H. Brown, Mod. Lang. Notes, vii. 226. 106. Omit _þer_, put full stop after _iunglenges_, and understand from the previous sentence _were ærndraces_. 110. #þa# may be dat. sing of the article as at 14/57, but more probably it = þan, then. #folce to freme#, for benefit to the folk; see 176/24 note. #bedeles#, heralds: comp. ‘Þa halgan apostolas, þe ðam hælende folgodon, wæron þa getreowan þeowan ⁊ ða fyrmestan bydelas, þe godes lare geond þas land toseowon,’ AS. Hom. ed. Assmann, 56/141; ‘wearð se halga iohannes ætforan him asend swa swa heofonlic bydel,’ Ælf. Lives, i. 342/94; Orm 19/633. 112. They are all one in God’s purpose. For #on# comp. ‘Alle hie bieð forsakene o{n} godes awene muðe,’ VV 3/2. 114. #fastlice#, in steady flow, or, corresponding to ‘þicce þringeð,’ 116, crowding. It sometimes means vigorously, as in ‘hi fengon togadre fæstlice mid wæpnum,’ Ælf. Lives, ii. 98/489; sometimes firmly, ‘þing ðe godd fastliche ðe forbett,’ VV 37/23. See 12/9. 117. #his#, them. #scyft#, separates, is a mere synonym of ‘to ȝesceodeð.’ Perhaps scryft = #scrifeþ#, fixes their destiny. 119. #morȝe mete#, the ‘forme mete’ of 12/11.