• Gregory’s “great victory” was saving the soul of Trajan by prayer. ↩
• Jeremy Taylor says:⁠— “As the silkworm eateth itself out of a seed to become a little worm; and there feeding on the leaves of mulberries, it grows till its coat be off, and then works itself into a house of silk; then, casting its pearly seeds for the young to breed, it leaveth its silk for man, and dieth all white and winged in the shape of a flying creature: so is the progress of souls.” ↩
• Gower, Confessio Amantis , I :⁠— “The proude vice of veingloire Remembreth nought of purgatoire.” And Shakespeare, King Henry the Eighth , III 2:⁠— “I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory.” ↩
• The angels, the first creation or effects of the divine power. ↩
• Wisdom of Solomon 7:25:⁠— “For she is the breath of the power of God, and a pure influence flowing from the glory of the Almighty.” In the Vulgate: Vapor est enim virtutis Dei . ↩
• See note 160 . ↩