Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . ity. We shall see later on, however, that the real influenceof the life-full Word in our country was due far moreto lona than Canterbury. Augustine himself also wasnot a man to be specially proud of, representing as he didsome of the worst faults of Rome. He drew back fromhis enterprise at the beginning; he claimed additionalpower over his companions from Gregory; he had tobe warned that he was not to be puffed up by the wonderswhich had been wrought in Britain; he treated the remnantof British Christians in Wales
Our own English Bible : its translators and their work : the manuscript period . ity. We shall see later on, however, that the real influenceof the life-full Word in our country was due far moreto lona than Canterbury. Augustine himself also wasnot a man to be specially proud of, representing as he didsome of the worst faults of Rome. He drew back fromhis enterprise at the beginning; he claimed additionalpower over his companions from Gregory; he had tobe warned that he was not to be puffed up by the wonderswhich had been wrought in Britain; he treated the remnantof British Christians in Wales with haughty severity, anduttered a malediction against them which sanctioned,if it did not instigate, their massacre later on. DeanStanley, indeed, who, as Canon of Canterbury, wouldnaturally look at him in the most favourable light, acknow-ledges that he was often thinking of himself or his Orderwhen we should have wished him to be thinking of thegreat cause he had in hand, and that he was not a manof any great elevation of character.* * Historical Memorials of waas SAINT LUKE, -FKIM TIIK Gi OF ST. ArfUSTINF,,NOW AT CORPUS ClIRISTI roLLKOE, rAJ[P,lUl) {Rpproduccd hy kind pcnui^^iaa of Mf^iwi^. MacinUhan tt Co, Ltd.) CHAPTEK V CjEDMON The Word which they had longed to hear,Had come at last, the life-ftill Word,Which they had often almost heardIn some deep silence of the breast;For with a sense of dim Word unborn had often struggled in the womb of thought;And lo, it now was born indeed ;Here was the answer to their need. R. v. Tkenoh. We should regard St. Columba and his associates with a rever-ence which we should refuse to personages merely historic ; inasmuchas there can be no just comparison between the regenerator and thedestroyer of a people ; between the enhghtened missionary and theconqueror.—Lardner. We must turn now in quite a new direction to discovertte genesis of the first vernacular paraphrase or poembase
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