Pet.  i.  16—19.     St.  Matt.  xvii.  1-  9.]

7]  Name  of  JESUS. — This  commemoration  was  removed  at
the  Reformation  from  the  Second  Sunday  after  the  Epiphany,
but  in  Saxon  times  it  was  observed  on  the  Feast  of  the  Circum-
cision. The  special  point  which  it  sets  before  us  is  the  peculiar
sanctity  of  that  Name  at  which  every  knee  should  bow,  and  in  the
power  of  which  countless  miracles  have  been  wrought ;  a  sanctity
in  some  respects  analogous  to  that  of  the  Sacred  name  Jehovah,
but  representing  to  us  the  Love  of  the  Saviour  as  well  as  the
Majesty  of  His  Godhead.  The  acknowledged  symbol  of  this  name
in  our  Clmrch  for  many  centuries  has  been  ifjc  or  jljs  I  Anglicized
forms  of  LH.C,  the  first  three  letters  in  tlie  Greek  form  of  the
name  IHCOTC.  But  I.H.S.  is  a  modem  alteration  originating
with  the  Jesuits,  whose  symbol  it  is,  and  representing  "Jesus
Hominum  Salvator."  [Sar.  Ep.  and  Gosp. ;  Acts  iv.  S — 12.  St.
Matt.  i.  20—23.]

10]  St.  Laurence,  the  Deacon  and  Martyr,  is  said  to  have
been  of  Spanisli  extraction,  but  nothing  is  certainly  known
respecting  his  early  years.  He  was  ordained  Deacon  by  St.
