? “Et quia alii tertium diem et trigesimum, alii septimum et qua-
dragesimum observare consueverunt, quid doceat lectio, consideremus,”
&c.— Hee ergo sequenda solemnitas, quam prescribit lectio,” c. 1198,


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particularly your forte, to extract from it either your
Popish figment of Prayers for the dead, or Purgatory.
Again, in section 32, is the following passage, omitted
by you:

“ Freed therefore from the doubtful contest, Theodosius
now enjoys perpetual light and tranquillity ; and accord-


ing to those things which he hath done in this body,
rejoices in the fruits of Divine remuneration.” *


Passing over some of your free-and-easy translations,
we come to section 39, where Ambrose says that “he
(Theodosius) remains in light, and rejoices in the
companies of the saints”? That he ‘¢ knows he
reigns, since he is in the kingdom of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and carefully beholds His Temple.”* Again,
in section 52, that “he had not put on the purple
habit, but the robe of glory.” And concludes the
oration thus: “Thou art altogether blessed which sup-
portest a tenant of Paradise, and in the august recep-
tacle of the interred body shalt hold an inhabitant of
that city which is above.”* We perceive, therefore,
that Ambrose, while supplicating perfect rest for the
departed Emperor, yet viewed him as in the actual
enjoyment of felicity.
1 “ Absolutus igitur dubio certamine, fruitur nunc auguste memorize
Theodosius luce perpetua, tranquillitate diuturna ; et pro iis que in hoc
gessit corpore, remunerationis divine fructibus gratulatur. Ergo quia
dilexit auguste memorize Theodosius dominum Deum suum, meruit
sanctorum consortia.”

2 “ Manet ergo in lumine Theodosius, et sanctorum cetibus gloriatur.”
—Sect. xxxix. c. 1208.
