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151 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. lung ðæs wages buton scearplicu & smealicu fandung ðæs modes, ðæt mon mid ðære ðurhðyrelige ðone weall, & onluce ða heardan heortan, & gelnescige? He cwæð: Đa ic hæfde ðone weall ðurhðyrelod, ð geseah ic duru. Swelce he cwæde: Đa ic ðære heortan heardnesse mid geornfullicre fandunge & ascunge & ðreatunge [ðreaunge] toslat, ða geseah ic swelce ic gesawe sume duru onlocene, ðurh ða ic geseah on ðæm þe ic læran sceolde ealle ða innemestan geðohtas. Be ðæm wæs swiðe wel gecweden : Gong inn, & geseoh þa heardsælða & ða sconde þe ðas her doð. Đæt is ðonne swelce he inga & geseo ða scande, ðonne he ongit be sumum ðingum of ðe ðeawum utone ætiewdum eall ðæt hie innan ðenceað, & swæ ðurhfærð his andgiet ðæt mod his hieremonna ðætte him bið eall cuð ðæt hie unalifdes ðenceað. Forðæm wæs eac gecweden : Ic ða eode inn, & geseah ða anlicnessa ealra creopendra wuhta & eac onscunigendlicra nietena. Đa creopendan wuhta getacniað ða eorðlican geðohtas. Đa nietenu ðonne beoð hwæthwugununges from eorðan ahafen, & swæðeah onlutað to ðære eorðan, forðon hie sculon be ðære libban. Đa creopendan & ða snicendan licgeað mid ealle lichoman on eorðan. Đa nietenu ðonne, ðeah hie maran sien, hie beoð swiður ahafen from eorðan, & swæðeah for ðære gewilnunge hiera gifernesse hie simle locigeað to ðære eorðan. Đa creopendan wuhta beinnan ðæm wage getacnað ða ingeðoncas þe wealcað in ðæs monnes mode, ðe æfre willað licgean on ðæm eorðlicum gewilnungum. Đa nietenu ðonne þe he geseah binnan ðæm wage getacnað ðonne mon hwæt ryhtlices & gerisenlices geðenceð, ðonne ne lið he eallinga on ðære eordan swæ ða creopen-

that with it he may pierce and open the wall, and soften the hard hearts? He said : “When I had pierced the wall, I saw a door.” As if he had said: “When I had pierced the hardness of the heart with careful probing and questioning and reproof, I seemed to see an open door, through which I saw in him whom I was to teach all the innermost thoughts.” Therefore it was very well said: “Go in, and see the wickedness and abominations which they do here." He goes in, as it were, and sees the abominations, when he infers from certain outward indications of facts or behaviour all that they inter- nally think; and thus his understanding penetrates the heart of his subjects, so that all their unlawful thoughts are known to him.