159 Limbo in traditional Christian belief the place where babies who die before baptism go and live forever in a state of natural happiness.

160 live forever in desire without hope Dante: Inferno iv, 42: "che senza speme vivemo in disio"

161 Mountain people angels

162 Men say that his love and wrath are one thing. The phrase "men say" suggests that Lewis is not consciously quoting (as he often does elsewhere) from a standard author, but is either recurring to a thought so general in Christian literature that he is not aware of a precise source, or else is aware of a source so recent, or one so humble, that he preferred not to suggest that the thought was original with that source, being merely transmitted by it ("men say..."); it is interesting to note the following lines from Lewis's own anthology of George MacDonald (London: Geoffrey Eles, 1946: the numbering of passages is Lewis's):

(7) When we say that God is Love, do we teach men that their fear of Him is groundless? No. As much as they fear will come upon them, possibly far more...The wrath will consume what they call themselves; so that the selves God made shall appear.

(84) ...The terror of God is but the other side of His love; it is love outside, that would be inside--love that knows the house is no house, only a place, until it enter.

(145) If then any child of the Father finds that he is afraid before Him...let him...rush at once in his nakedness, a true child, for shelter from his own evil and God's terror, into the salvation of the Father's arms.

(212) Such is the mercy of God that He will hold His children in the consuming fire of His distance until they pay the uttermost farthing...

(349) Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about it is better to be afraid than secure.

163 the vermiculate will the worm-eaten will, or the will full of worms.

164 fissiparous tending to reproduce by division.

165 helot a member of the lowest social class in ancient Sparta; a serf.

166 monad an elementary spiritual quality.

167 When thou tookest upon me to deliver man: the English translation useed in the Anglican, Protestant Episcopal and Reformed Episcopal Book of Common Prayer (Morning Prayers) of "Tu, ad liberandum suscepturus hominem" from the celebrated hymn "Te Deum, Laudamus" regularly used in matins in the Roman Catholic, Angelican, and Reformed Episcopal churches; scholars ascribe its authorship to St. Niceta of Remesiana, in Yugoslavia, who died about 414.

168 Narcissus in the Greek myth, the son of a river-god whose efforts to approach his own image in a fountain finally drove him mad.

169 _________ : see page 93.

170 a fountain of writhing and reptilian life see Dante Inferno, Canto 25, where Agnello turns into a snake.

171 Lilith a female demon in Jewish legend, the wife of the evil angel Sammael, who had sexual relations with Adam before the creation of Eve; the enemy of children.

172 anodyne something that soothes pain.

173 serpens nisi serpentum comederit see unlocated quotations at the end.

174 druery love-making.

175 Behemoth a large animal, perhaps a hippopotamus, mentioned in Job xl, 10; often used as a general expression for a very large, strong animal.

176 Leviathan a huge aquatic animal of uncertain species, mentioned in Job xli, 1; in Psalms 74:14, and 104:26, and in Isaiah 27:1.

177 resurgam "I shall rise again."

178 Io Paean Paean was the physician to the gods of ancient Greece, the phrase "Io Paean" being the invocation in the hymn to Apollo, because "Io" was an ejaculation frequently expressing suffering and invoking help; it later came to be used in other hymns as a shout of praise or thanksgiving, a cry of triumph or exultation, as Vertue uses it here.

179 Osirian from Osiris, the Egyptian god of the lower world and judge of the dead.

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