XXVII.

French.

Le Divin Verbe sera du ciel frappé, Qui ne pourra proceder plus avant, Du resserrant le secret estoupé, Quon marchera par dessus & devant.

English.

The Divine Word shall be struck by Heaven, So that he shall proceed no further, The secret of the close Keeper, shall be so closed up, That people shall tread upon, and before it.

ANNOT.

By the _Divine Word_, you must not understand the second person of the Trinity, or else all this Stanza would be absurd; but you must understand a Divine or Theologian, called in Greek θεόλογος, which signifieth a _Divine Word_. The meaning therefore of it, is, that a _Theologian shall be struck by Heaven_; that is, shall die, so that he shall proceed no further in his work, which I suppose by the two last Verses, was the Philosophers stone; for in the two last Verses he saith, that the _secret of the close Keeper_, that is, of him that wrought secretly, shall (by his death) be so closed up, _that people shall tread on, and before it_.