III.

_Dominus apud suos vilis._ Luc. iv. 28-29.

En consanguinei! patriis en exul in oris

Christus! et haud alibi tam peregrinus erat.

Qui socio demum pendebat sanguine latro,

O consanguineus quam fuit ille magis!

_The Lord 'despised and rejected' by His own people._

See, O my kinsmen, what strange thing is this!

Christ in's own country a great stranger is.

The thief which bled upon the Cross with Thee

Was more ally'd in consanguinity.[44] B.

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