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⁴³ Or, "there." The question is, whether a different tree is meant, or the rose just spoken of.

⁴⁴ This seems to be marshmallows.

⁴⁵ Here again it is plain that the writer is drawing his description from what we read of the garden of Eden.

⁴⁶ "Salus," health (probably) in its widest sense, both bodily and mental; or perhaps "safety," "salvation."

⁴⁷ Reliquam vitam, i.e., apparently his life in all other relations; unless it mean his life after his parents' death, which seems less likely.

⁴⁸ i.e., "appeals to." So Burke: "I attest the former, I attest the coming generations." This "attesting of its acts" seems to refer to Matt. xxv. 44. It appeals to them in hope of mitigating its doom.

⁴⁹ This seems to be the sense. The Latin stands thus: "Flammas pro meritis, stagnantia tela tremiscunt."

⁵⁰ Or, "banished."

⁵¹ I adopt the correction (suggested in Migne) of justis for justas.

⁵² This is an extraordinary use for the Latin dative; and even if the meaning be "for (i.e., to suffer) penalty eternal," it is scarcely less so.