72.] [Footnote 911: Compare the remarkable transaction in Jeremiah xxxii.

6, to 44, where the prophet purchases his uncle's estate at the approach of the Babylonian captivity, in his undoubting confidence in the future restoration of the people.

In the one case it is the triumph of religious faith, in the other of national pride .-- M.] [Footnote 10: Livy considers these two incidents as the effects only of chance and courage.

I suspect that they were both managed by the admirable policy of the senate.] From the time of the Punic war, the uninterrupted succession of senators had preserved the name and image of the republic; and the degenerate subjects of Honorius ambitiously derived their descent from the heroes who had repulsed the arms of Hannibal, and subdued the nations of the earth.

The temporal honors which the devout Paula [11] inherited and despised, are carefully recapitulated by Jerom, the guide of her conscience, and the historian of her life.