150. +Philomathes, “fond of knowledge, loving knowledge.” (Liddell and Scott.) GIF image: 

154. +Zechariah 8:23.  “Thus saith the Lord of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, that ten men shall take hold out of all languages of the nations, even shall take hold of the skirt of him that is a Jew, saying, We will go with you:  for we have heard that God is with you.”  King James Bible.

155. +Ephesians 5:6.  “Let no man deceive you with vain words:  for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.”  King James Bible.

155. +Romans 6:3.  “Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?” King James Bible.

155. The two first books. +Arnold refers to the Imitatio Christi, attributed to fourteenth-century priest Thomas a Kempis.  The Benham translation and a modern English translation are currently available from the College of St. Benedict at Saint John’s University Internet Theology Resources site.  See also the Benham text link.

156. +Romans 3:1-2.  “What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of circumcision? / Much every way:  chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.”  King James Bible.

158. +See 1 Corinthians 15.  Saint Paul wrestles in this chapter to explain the Resurrection’s promise.  For example, refer to 15:50-53:  “Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. / Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, / In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump:  for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. / For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.”

159. I have ventured to give to the foreign word Renaissance, destined to become of more common use amongst us as the movement which it denotes comes, as it will come, increasingly to interest us, an English form.

CHAPTER V

[166] The matter here opened is so large, and the trains of thought to which it gives rise are so manifold, that we must be careful to limit ourselves scrupulously to what has a direct bearing upon our actual discussion.  We have found that at the [167] bottom of our present unsettled state, so full of the seeds of trouble, lies the notion of its being the prime right and happiness, for each of us, to affirm himself, and his ordinary self; to be doing, and to be doing freely and as he likes.  We have found at the bottom of it the disbelief in right reason as a lawful authority.  It was easy to show from our practice and current history that this is so; but it was impossible to show why it is so without taking a somewhat wider sweep and going into things a little more deeply.  Why,