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164 GREGORY'S PASTORAL. [Cotton MSS. isern ðæt mægen ðara ðreatunga. Hwat is ðinga þe biterre sie on ðæs lareowes mode, oððe hit swiður gehierste & gegremige ðonne se anda ðe for ryhtwisnesse bið upahafen? Mid ðisse pannan hierstinge wæs Paulus onbærned, þa he cwæð: Hwa bið medtrum, ðæt ic ne sie eac for his ðingum sioc? Oððe hwa bið gescended, ðæt me forðæm ne scamige? Ond swæ hwelc swæ mid ðæm Godes andan bið onæled, ne bið he for giemeliste gehiened, ac he bið stranglice wið ða getrymed on ecnesse. Be ðæm wæs swiðe ryhte gecweden to ðæm witgan : Sete iserne weall betweox ðe & Ea burh. Đa isernan hierstepannan he tæhte for iserne weall to settonne betweoh ðæm witgan & ðære byrh, forðon nu ða recceras ætiewað swæ strangne andan ðy hie willað ðæt hie hiene eft hæbben on ðæm ecean life betweox him & hiera hieremonnum to isernum wealle, ðæt is to gewitnesse ðæt hit him ne licode, þeah he hit gebetan ne meahte. Forðæm ðonne ðæs recceres mod wirð to reðe on ðære ðreaunga, ðonne abirst ðær hwilum hwæthwugu ut ðæs þe he swugian sceolde. Ond oft eac gelimpeð, ðonne he to swiðe & to ðearl(l)ice ðreawian [ðreatian] wile his hieremenn, ðæt his word bioð gehwirfdo to unnyttre oferspræce. Đonne sio ðreaung bið ungemetgad, ðonne bið ðæt mod ðæs agyltendan mid ormodnesse geðrysced. Forðæm is micel ðearf, ðonne se reða reccere ongit ðæt he his hieremonna mod swiður gedrefed hæfð ðonne he sceolde, ðæt he sona forðæm hreowsige, ðæt he ðurh þa hreowsunga gemete forgifnesse beforan ðære Sotfæstnesse ðæs þe he ðurh da geornfulnesse his andan gesyngade. Đæt ilce Dryhten God us bisnade ðurh Moysen, þa he cwæð: Gif hwa gonge bilwitlice mid his friend to wuda treow

efficiency of reproof. What thing is there that is bitterer in the teacher's mind, or more fries and excites it, than the zeal which is roused in the cause of righteousness? With the frying of this pan Paul was inflamed, when he said: “Who is infirm, and I am not sick on his account? or who is shamed, and I am not ashamed ?” And whoever is inflamed with divine zeal is not condemned through neg- ligence, but is strongly fortified against it for ever. About which was very rightly said to the prophet: “Place an iron wall between thee and the city.” He directed the prophet to place the iron frying- pan for an iron wall between himself and the city, because the rulers show such severe zeal now, since they wish to have it afterwards in eternal life as an iron wall between themselves and their subjects, to