The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.

… a timely ſeparation from the Flock by that interdictive Sentence, leſt his Converſation unprohibited, or unbranded, might breath a peſtilential murrein into the other Sheepe.

[Hermann Volrath] Hilprecht (Recent Researches in Bible Lands, p. 9 [wherein is Egyptological]): “What then are our principal gains from Ægyptological research? In the foremost rank, we have the splendid vindication of the accuracy of the writer of the account of Israel’s sojourn in Lower Egypt. What is said in Genesis and Exodus of the character of the country, its government and its court, and the customs of the people, are shown to be pictures faithfully drawn from the life” (cf. Herzog, i. 709).

The Jesuits were sometimes accused of moral laxism.