_Constituerunt ut si quis confiteretur eum esse Christum, synagoga moveretur._ Joan. ix. 22. Infelix, Christum reus es quicunque colendi; O reus infelix, quam tua culpa gravis! Tu summis igitur, summis damnabere cœlis: O reus infelix, quam tua poena gravis! _They determined that if any man should confess Him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue._ Alas, unhappy, own the Christ thou wilt; Unhappy culprit, fearful is thy guilt. The gates of heaven for aye should keep thee close: Unhappy culprit, fearful are thy woes. A. CXXX. _De voto filiorum Zebedaei._ Matt. xx. 20. Sit tibi, Joannes, tibi sit, Jacobe, quod optas; Sit tibi dextra manus; sit tibi laeva manus. Spero alia in coelo est, et non incommoda, sedes; Si neque laeva manus, si neque dextra manus. Coeli hanc aut illam nolo mihi quaerere partem; O coelum, coelum da, Pater alme, mihi. _Concerning the prayer of the sons of Zebedee._ O brothers twain, may it be yours to fill At right and left your places as ye will! A seat remains, I trust--a fair one too-- Besides those high ones that were sought for you. I pray not that to me some part be given, But heaven itself, kind Father, grant me heaven. CL. ANOTHER VERSION. John and James, take your place at God's command: One at the right, th' other at the left hand. I ask not to be placèd so, or so: To heaven, to heaven, good Father, let me go. B. CXXXI. _Ad hospites coenae miraculosae quinque panum._ Joan. vi. 9-13. Vescere pane tuo, sed et, hospes, vescere Christo; Et panis pani scilicet ille tuo. Tunc pane hoc Christi recte satur, hospes, abibis, Panem ipsum Christum si magis esurias.[73] _To the guests at the miraculous supper of the five loaves._ Feed on thy bread, on Christ too feed, O guest; With Bread on bread forsooth thou shalt be blest. Then shalt thou go, with Christ's bread satisfied, If hungering for the living Bread beside. R. WI. CXXXII. _De Christi contra mundum pugna._ Joan. xvi. 33. Tune, miser, tu, mundus ait, mea fulmina contra Ferre manus, armis cum tibi nuda manus? I, lictor, manibusque audacibus injice vinc'la: Injecit lictor vincula, et arma dedit. _Christ overcoming the world._ O wretched! the world mutters. I do wonder Thou dar'st lift unarm'd hands against my thunder. Go, tyrant; put thy chains upon these hands: 'Tis done; and now full-arm'd the prisoner stands. G. CXXXIII. _Graeci disputatores divo Paulo mortem machinantur._ Act. ix. 29. Euge, argumentum! sic disputat: euge, sophista! Sic pugnum Logices stringere, sic decuit. Hoc argumentum in causam quid, Graecule, dicit? Dicit, te in causam dicere posse nihil.[74] _The Grecian disputants go about to kill St. Paul._