220. Referring to Ps. cvii. 34.

221. St. Basil the Great, bishop of Caesarea (born in 329, died in 379).

The passage alluded to is from his Homilies on the Psalms; on Ps. xxviii.

7; § 6.

223. The same text as that translated above (177) by 'grisly drede that

ever shal laste.' 'Sempiternus horror inhabitat'; Job x. 22.

225. This probably refers to the words 'In inferno nulla est redemptio,'

founded on Job vii. 9; see P. Plowm. C. xxi. 153.

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