"_Sic transit gloria mundi_" (Vol. vi., pp. 100. 183.).--I have lately
found two additional passages, which speak of this line being used at the
Pope's inauguration. The first is amongst the writings of Cornelius à
Lapide:
"_Datus est mihi stimulus carnis meæ Angelus Satanæ, qui me
colaphizet._" ... "Datus est non a Diabolo sed a Deo; non quod Deus
tentationis sit auctor, sed quia diabolo tentare Paulum parato, id
permisit, idque tantum in specie et materia libidinis ad eum
humiliandum. Ita August. _de Natura et Grat._, c. 27. _Hic monitor_,
ait Hieron., Epist. 25., ad Paulum de obitu Blæsillæ, _Paulo datus est,
ad premendam superbiam, uti in curru triumphali triumphanti datur
Monitor suggerens: hominem te esse memento_. Uti et Pontifici cum
inauguratur, stupa accensa et mox extincta accinitur:
"Pater sancte sic transit gloria mundi."
_Commentaria_ in 2nd. Epist. ad Cor. cap. xii. 7.
vol. ix. p. 404.: Antwerpiæ, 1705, fol.
The second passage is merely a repetition of the above-quoted words of A
Lapide, but I may as well subjoin a reference to it: Ursini _Paralipomena_,
lib. ii., Meletematum, p. 315.: Norimbergæ, 1667, 12mo.