Reading

⁵⁶ Matt. v. 42.

⁵⁷ Luke xvi. 9.

⁵⁸ Matt. xix. 12.

⁵⁹ 1 John iv. 18.

⁶⁰ Matt. xxii. 14.

⁶¹ See what Gibbon can say to minimize the matter (in cap. xvi. 4, vol. ii. p. 45, New York).

⁶² Cap. xiii.

⁶³ I. cap. iii.

⁶⁴ pp. 46, 138.

⁶⁵ In his disgraceful chap. xvi.

¹ [Elucidation.]

¹ These two lines, if this be their true sense, seem to refer to Lot's wife. But the grammar and meaning of this introduction are alike obscure.

² "Metus;" used, as in other places, of godly fear.