understanding is to take ‘his people’ as the subject of the verb, ‘but his people was mindful of the days of old, of Moses’,119 but this seems ‘a little too ingenious’.120 While a third-person singular can be used with indefinite subject,121 suggesting ‘people were mindful’, it is hard to justify appeal to that usage in this context where a w-consecutive follows on the third-person verb in the preceding lines,122 with which it stands in sequence quite satisfactorily.123 Indeed, after a description