And when he should be summoned hence, he trusted to meet blessed spirits in another world, whose bliss would have been earned by his patient toil in translating the word of God.

This hope and trust were far dearer to him than anything that earth could offer.
Sometimes, while thus at work, he was visited by learned men, who desired to know what literary undertaking Mr.Eliot had in hand.

They, like himself, had been bred in the studious cloisters of a university, and were supposed to possess all the erudition which mankind has hoarded up from age to age.

Greek and Latin were as familiar to them as the bab-ble of their childhood.

Hebrew was like their mother tongue.