(_b_) _Line_ 3. S. John (xii. 39-41), referring to our Saviour's rejection, quotes Isaiah vi. and adds _These things said Isaiah when he saw His glory, and spake of Him_. This reference to Isaiah's vision, when he saw the Lord sitting upon a throne and heard the Seraphim sing the Ter-Sanctus, will be a sufficient justification of the use of line 3 in an address to Christ. (_c_) _Line_ 5. As to the inclusion of the three Persons of the blessed Trinity in a doxology at the close of this Stanza, it is quite usual in Christian Hymns of all ages to guard the thought of the equality of the Persons of the Godhead by means of a doxology. As an instance we may quote _Conditor alme siderum_ (_Hymns A. and M._ 45). The position of the doxology in this Canticle should be noticed. We know of no other instance of its being placed at the close of the first, or anywhere but at the close of the last, Stanza. The reason for this variation seems to be that the last Stanza here has to some extent the nature of a prayer. The following Greek hymn, attributed to St Basil, was printed by Archdeacon France in _Preces Veterum {71} cum Hymnis Coaevis_ as of the 2nd, or at latest the 3rd, century: _phos ilaron agias doxes athanatou patros ouraniou agiou makaros iesou Christe elthontes epi tou eliou dusin idontes phos esperinon umnoumen patera kai uion kai agion pneuma theou axios ei en kairois umneiothai phonais osiais uie theou zoen o didous dio o kosmos se doxazei_ AMHN. Keble's well-known translation (_Hail, Gladdening Light_) is to be found in _Hymns Ancient and Modern_, No. 18, as well as in _Lyra Apostolica_. The transition in the address from Christ to the Holy Trinity, and back again, presented no difficulty: rather it is a very suitable recognition of the Divine nature of Jesus. Te Deum is evidently a Latin composition, and the exact meaning of its words and phrases must be sought in the Latin form of it. Some various readings and translations may be worthy of notice. 1. Te Deum, 'Thee as God.' _Aeternum Patrem_ is substituted for the Vulgate reading, _Patrem futuri saeculi_. The English Bible accepts it as the best rendering of the Hebrew in Isaiah ix. 6, but R.V. gives _Father {72} of Eternity_ in the margin. The thought of Christ as Father to us is to be found in Isaiah viii. 18, quoted in Heb. ii. 13, where the writer is showing the complete human nature of Christ. 4. _Prophetarum laudabilis numerus_. Cyprian (_De Mortalitate_) has the words "There the glorious company of the apostles, there the fellowship (_numerus_) of exulting prophets, there the innumerable crowd of martyrs." It will perhaps be questionable whether _laudabilis_ should not be taken as equivalent to _exulting_--full of praise (to God) rather than _worthy of being praised_. _Candidatus_ is 'white-robed'; 'noble' would be _candidus_. _Venerandum_, trans. 'honorable,' is to be understood as 'deserving to be reverenced.'