Discourse

 1 Theoph    |      own seed. For imagine our birth into the world to be like
 2  Thal     |      by a woman. so as to give birth and nourishment to virtue.
 3  Thal     |   believers, and give them new birth by the laver of regeneration,
 4  Thal     |    assist in labouring for the birth and nurture of other children,
 5  Thal     |   mother, himself labouring in birth of those who, through him,
 6  Thal     | children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed
 7 Thekla    |      as wealth, and glory, and birth, and marriage; and they
 8 Thekla    |    like your Mother, who gives birth to the male Virgin in heaven,
 9 Thekla    |    child, cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.
10 Thekla    |       child, and travailing in birth, is certainly, according
11 Thekla    |       Church labours and gives birth to those who are baptized.
12 Thekla    |    Church is here said to give birth to a male; since the enlightened22
13 Thekla    |  Church swells and travails in birth until Christ is formed in
14 Thekla    |     subject to the star of his birth, than that he should not,
15 Thekla    |     was not his generation and birth from the very time when
16 Thekla    |        in evils. Therefore our birth is not the cause of these
17 Thekla(49)|                     ge/nesij = birth i.e., our life is not controlled
18 Thekla    |       made so at once from his birth? But if afterwards he is
19 Thekla(51)|                     ge/nesij = birth, h. the star of man's nativity,