CLXII.

_Hic lapis fiat panis._ Matt. iv. 3.

Et fuit ille lapis, quidni sit dicere? panis,

Christe, fuit: panis sed tuus ille fuit.

Quippe Patris cum sic tulerit suprema voluntas,

Est panis, panem non habuisse, tuus.

{Artos een toi det', eipein themis estin, ekeinos,

Christe, toi artos een kai lithos, alla teos.

En hou tos tou patros ee megalou to thelema,

Artos hot' ouk en toi, Christe, toi artos een.}

_Command that this stone become a loaf._

And so it was; bread was that stone;

Such bread, Christ, as was all Thine own.

Since God so will'd that it should be,

To have no bread was bread to Thee. G.

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