5. _Immensae_. Here translated _infinite_, in the Creed of S. Athanasius _incomprehensible_. Literally _unmeasured_. 7. _Ad liberandum_, 'to set (him) free.' _Suscepturus hominem_, 'when about to take man,' i.e. human nature. 8. _Sedens_, 'sitting,' is the reading in two MSS., and would agree with the absence of the second _Tu_ in this line. _Sedes_ means 'Thou sittest.' _Crederis esse venturus_, 'art believed to be about to come.' 9. _Numerari_ or _munerari_. In the Old English character it is sometimes difficult to distinguish where the seven strokes of the letters _mun_ are to be divided into letters. A MS. at Exeter looks more like _m u n_, which is the reading of the two Irish MSS. referred to {73} above, and the reading of my own black letter Breviary (1524). Heb. xi. 6 has the thought that God rewards a man who loves Him. Cf. also Jer. xxxi. 16, 'thy work shall be rewarded'[1]. The word _numerari_ means 'to be counted, enrolled in a _numerus_ or fellowship.' Cf. _Prophetarum numerus_, above. 12. _Die isto_, translated _this day_. It may be thought that the reference is to 'that day' as in 2 Tim. i. 12, 18, iv. 8, viz. the Judgment Day. Several of these lines would favour that reference. 13. "Lighten" is used in the Prayer Book in two senses, both derived from Anglo-Saxon words,--to illuminate, as in the 3rd Evening Collect, _Lighten our darkness_, and in the Ordination Hymn, _Lighten with celestial fire_:--but here, to "alight" or come down, cf. Deut. xix. 5; Gen. xxiv. 64 and xxviii. 11; 2 Kings v. 21 and x. 15, &c. _Non confundar in aeternum_. This might more obviously be translated, "I shall not be confounded for ever." It is not inconsistent with the prayerful tone of this Stanza, that most of its lines express more hope than fear. That the closing words should be at once humble and confident would suit well with the character of this Hymn of praise. On the other hand the words themselves are borrowed from two Psalms (xxxi. 1 and lxxi. 1), where they must be rendered as a prayer. It is therefore {74} preferable to take them here in the same sense. Latin scholars know that the use of _non_ with the imperative occurs elsewhere, being apparently regarded as though compounded with it. Note on the Doxology in Te Deum. _Te Deum_ is the only one of the Psalms and Canticles which is not provided with _Gloria Patri_ at the end of it. The obvious reason for this exception is that it is the only one which contains a _Gloria Patri_ in the middle of it. We have already said that an ascription of Praise to the Holy Trinity is in this case more appropriate at the end of the first Stanza than at the end of the third, because the third Stanza has a prayerful character introduced into its words of praise.