Translated.—Whom the Lord wishes to ruin, he first deprives of reason; or, “When God will punish, he will first take away the understanding.” Geo. Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum.
[After a long search (for this passage) for the purpose of deciding a bet, some gentlemen of Cambridge found it among the fragments of Euripides, where it is given as a translation of a Greek iambic.—Malone’s Note to Boswell’s Johnson.]
[The passage has reference to the condition of one who is advancing imperceptibly, though surely, to final ruin.—Kennedy, cited by Mr. Buckley, supra.]
