3 AUGUST 1944, Page 14

OVID AND ST. PAUL

SIR,—In The Spectator of July 28th the Dean of Wells writes, " Christian religion professes to be able to supply this moral power, w Ovid seems to have been conscious of lacking whet! he wrote " V. meliora proboque, Deteriora sequor." But did Ovid differ fundamen from St. Paul when the latter wrote (Rom. vii, 19) "For the good I would I do not ; but the evil which I would not I do." ? Did Christian religion leave St. Paul in the same case as Ovid ? I am no means trying to make a debating-point ; but I should like to hear

Dean further on this.—I am, Sir, yours, &c., FOXTON BROADHOLT.