from the priest who was called Zacharias;
because people offered, in the old fashion,
a calf for the priest, and slew it at the altar.
The Eagle's likeness belongeth to John,
because the eagle flieth the highest of all birds,
and can most steadily stare at the sun's light.
So did John, the divine writer;
he flew far up, as if with eagle's wings,
and beheld sagaciously how he might write most nobly of God.
The aforesaid prophet said in his vision,
that the four beasts' feet were straight;
and they went ever after the spirit,
and had eyes upon each side of them.
Thu§ is it written about the Evangelists in the Old Law,
and again in the New Testament after Christ's incarnation.
The Book of the Apocalypse saith about this same,
that John saw the aforesaid beasts
in the same appearance, which we before said,
and they sung this song with continual harmony,
Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, dominus deus omni]potens, qui erat, et qui est, et qui venturus est :
Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and which
now is, and which is to come.'
This holy song signifieth the Holy Trinity
in One Godhead, ever abiding,
who ever was, and also now continueth,
and ever is to come, without ceasing.
Now we have said, in this epitome,
how God revealed the true Evangelists
in the Old Law, and also in the New;
