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 1 II   |     unfitly understand what we read in the Apocalypse. "I heard,"
 2 III  |    submerged in it, of whom we read in Exodus: "The Lord drew
 3 III  |    does to mariners at sea. We read, and it is true, that sailors,
 4 III  |      is found more pure." Some read here, "before" instead of "
 5 III  |        Lady Esther, of whom we read that she leaned delicately
 6 IV   |        burned in her heart? We read that the shepherds came
 7 V    | typified in Esther, of whom we read: "The king loved her more
 8 V    |        head" (Est. II, 17.) We read, therefore, that there was
 9 VI   |       own soul? For we neither read nor believe that the least
10 VI   |       Queen Esther, of whom we read that, being led to the nuptial
11 VII  |     signified Mary, of whom we read in Isaias: "Let the earth
12 VII  |   Gospel of St. John, where we read: "Woman, behold thy Son."
13 VII  |      cloud, I say, of which we read in Ecclesiasticus: "The
14 VII  |      we may understand what we read in Genesis: "Behold the
15 VIII |    Lord of eternity. Whence we read in Exodus: "The Lord will
16 X    |     bondwoman and her son." We read in Genesis of the handmaid
17 XI   |       clouds, and in Exodus we read that the bush was on fire
18 XI   |        of the Saints. Hence we read: "The priests brought in
19 XI   | signified in Genesis, where we read that the angel who wrestled
20 XII  | contemplative a golden rod. We read that Esther; with two maidens
21 XIII |      the angels." Therefore we read that the angel blessed Jacob
22 XIII |   powers. St. Jerome says: "We read how the angels have come
23 XIII |   sapphire throne which, as we read in Ezechiel, is raised above
24 XIV  |       the mountain of which we read in Daniel: "A stone was
25 XIV  |        Book of Kings, where we read: "The Lord blessed Obededom
26 XIV  | example of Abigail, of whom we read, that when David, being
27 XV   |      that blessing of which we read in the Book of Judges, when
28 XV   |       Book of Judith, where we read: "They all blessed her with
29 XVII |       those labors of which we read in the Book of Wisdom: "
30 XVIII|      Of which twelve fruits we read in the Apocalypse, that