1: [The idea, and some of the ideas borrowed from the Symposium of Plato, but designed to furnish a [...]
2: In Migne's ed. Euboulion, but apparently with less authority; and probably because the name is co[...]
3: [Gregorion answers to the Diotima of Socrates in Plato's Banquet, and talks like a philosopher on[...]
4: Hom., Il., iv. 3, 4.
5: A personification of virtue, the daughter of philosophy. [i.e., of philosophy not falsely so call[...]
6: 2 Cor. xi. 2.
7: "A tall tree like the willow, the branches of which were strewn by matrons on their beds at the T[...]
8: [Much of this work suggests a comparison with the Hermas of vol. ii., and Minucius Felix seems no[...]
9: [Virtue presides, and "to the pure all things are pure;" but the freedoms of the converse must of[...]
10: [See the oration on Simeon and Anna, cap. 10, infra]
- Discourse I.-Marcella
- Chapter I.-The Difficulty and Excellence of Virginity; The Study of Doctrine Necessary for Virgins.
1: Lit. the udder.
2: Matt. ix. 12.
3: [I think evidence abounds, in the course of this allegory, that it was designed to meet the painf[...]
4: Lit. "leaps out."
5: Ecclus. vi. 36.
6: Ps. xxxvii. 6 (LXX.), xxxviii. 5 (E. V.).
7: Lev. ii. 13; Mark ix. 40.
8: Matt. v. 13.
9: 1 Cor. vii. 34.
- Discourse I.-Marcella
- Chapter II.-Virginity a Plant from Heaven, Introduced Late; The Advancement of Mankind to Perfection, How Arranged.
10: Lev. xviii. 19, xx. 17.
11: [Contending with the worse than bestial sensuality of paganism, and inured to the sorrows of mart[...]
- Discourse I.-Marcella
- Chapter III.-By the Circumcision of Abraham, Marriage with Sisters Forbidden; In the Times of the Prophets Polygamy Put a Stop To; Conjugal Purity Itself by Degrees Enforced.
12: Ecclus. xviii. 30.
13: Ecclus. xix. 2.
14: Prov. v. 18.
15: Jer. v. 8.
16: Wisd. iv. 3.
17: Ecclus. xxiii. 1, 4, 6.
18: Wisd. iv. 1, 2.
- Discourse I.-Marcella
- Chapter IV.-Christ Alone Taught Virginity, Openly Preaching the Kingdom of Heaven; The Likeness of God to Be Attained in the Light of the Divine Virtues.
19: [This seems to me admirable. Our times are too little willing to see all that Scripture teaches i[...]
20: A distinction common among the Fathers.
- Discourse I.-Marcella
- Chapter V.-Christ, by Preserving His Flesh In-Corrupt in Virginity, Draws to the Exercise of Virginity; The Small Number of Virgins in Proportion to the Number of Saints.
21: Rev. xiv. 1-4.
22: Rev. xiv. 4, 5.
23: Rev. vii. 9.
24: [Compare Cyprian, vol. v. p. 475, this series.]
- Discourse II.-Theophila
- Chapter I.-Marriage Not Abolished by the Commendation of Virginity.
1: Gen. i. 28.
2: e@wj a@rti, even until now. John v. 17.
3: Gen. i. 28.
4: Gen. ii. 23.
- Discourse II.-Theophila
- Chapter II.-Generation Something Akin to the First Formation of Eve from the Side and Nature of Adam; God the Creator of Men in Ordinary Generation.
5: Remark the connection, e@kstasij and eci/statai.
6: Jer. i. 5.
7: Job xxxviii. 14 (LXX.).
8: Job x. 8.
9: Matt. xxiv. 22.
- Discourse II.-Theophila
- Chapter III.-An Ambiguous Passage of Scripture; Not Only the Faithful But Even Prelates Sometimes Illegitimate.
10: Wisd. iii. 16.
11: [Bastardy seems to have been regarded as washed out by baptism, thousands of pagan converts havin[...]
- Discourse II.-Theophila
- Chapter VI.-God Cares Even for Adulterous Births; Angels Given to Them as Guardians.
12: Wisd. iv. 6.
- Discourse II.-Theophila
- Chapter VII.-The Rational Soul from God Himself; Chastity Not the Only Good, Although the Best and Most Honoured.
13: Gen. ii. 7.
14: [This language shows that it is not cited as Holy Scripture. It confirms St. Jerome's testimony, [...]
15: Wisd. xv. 10, 11.
16: 1 Tim. ii. 4.
17: His virgin. [St. Paul was married, and then a widower, in the opinion of many of the ancients. Se[...]
18: 1 Cor. vii. 38.
19: Matt. xxii. 30.
20: Matt. xix. 12.
21: The bridegroom's.
22: Ps. xlv. 10 (xliv. 10, LXX.).
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter I.-Passages of Holy Scripture Compared.
1: Gen. ii. 23, 24, and Eph. v. 28-32.
2: Eph. v. 32. [A forcible argument.]
3: Gen. ii. 23, 24.
4: Eph. v. 28-32. [Compare the next chapter, note 4.]
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter II.-The Digressions of the Apostle Paul; The Character of His Doctrine: Nothing in It Contradictory; Condemnation of Origen, Who Wrongly Turns Everything into Allegory.
5: This is the obvious English equivalent of the Greek text.-Tr. [A singularly cautious testimony ag[...]
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter III.-Comparison Instituted Between the First and Second Adam.
6: Gen. iii. 19.
7: Col. i. 15.
8: Rev. ii. 7.
9: Gen. iii. 22.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter IV.-Some Things Here Hard and Too Slightly Treated, and Apparently Not Sufficiently Brought Out According to the Rule of Theology.
10: Namely, the second Adam.
11: Second Adam.
12: The obscurity of this chapter is indicated in the heading placed over it by the old Latin transla[...]
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter V.-A Passage of Jeremiah Examined.
13: Jer. xviii. 3, 4.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter VI.-The Whole Number of Spiritual Sheep; Man a Second Choir, After the Angels, to the Praise of God; The Parable of the Lost Sheep Explained.
14: St. John i. 1.
15: Eph. i. 21, iii. 10.
16: Gen. iii. 19.
17: 1 Cor. xv. 22.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter VII.-The Works of Christ, Proper to God and to Man, the Works of Him Who is One.
18: In Him.
19: Here, as in the previous chapter, and in many other passages, I have preferred the text of Jahn t[...]
20: Gen. ii. 9.
21: 1 Cor. xv. 22. The words are, "Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption."
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter VIII.-The Bones and Flesh of Wisdom; The Side Out of Which the Spiritual Eve is Formed, the Holy Spirit; The Woman' the Help-Meet of Adam; Virgins Betrothed to Christ.
22: Eph. v. 31.
23: Eph. v. 26, 27.
24: Gen. i. 18.
25: Rib.
26: Commonly used by the Greek Fathers for the Baptized. [Following Holy Scripture, Heb. x. 32, and C[...]
27: Jahn's reading, a0naplhsqei/j. Migne has a0naplasqei\j, moulded.
28: Rib.
29: Isa. xi. 2.
30: Gen. ii. 18.
31: 2 Cor. xi. 12.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter IX.-The Dispensation of Grace in Paul the Apostle.
32: Gal. iv. 19.
33: 1 Cor. iv. 15.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter X.-The Doctrine of the Same Apostle Concerning Purity.
34: Gen. ii. 18.
35: Gen. ii. 24.
36: [Laver (Gr loutro\n). Compare Tit. iii. 5 and Calvin's comment, Opp., tom. ii. p. 506, ed. 1667.][...]
37: Eph. v. 25, 26. [Baptismus = lavacrum animae.-Calvin, Ib., p. 350.]
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter XI.-The Same Argument.
38: Paul.
39: 1 Cor. vii. 1. [All vulgar familiarity included.]
40: In the original the two words are different. In the quotation from St. Paul it is a@ptesqai; here [...]
41: 1 Cor vii. 5.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter XII.-Paul an Example to Widows, and to Those Who Do Not Live with Their Wives.
42: 1 Cor. vii. 1. [All vulgar familiarity included.]
43: 1 Cor. vii. 2.
44: E. V. "Fasting and prayer." As in the best Mss., th=| nhstei/a| kai/ is wanting in the text.
45: 1 Cor. vii. 2-6.
46: 1 Cor. vii. 8, 9.
47: [See p. 316, supra (note), and also Eusebius, there cited. Per contra, see Lewin, vol. i. 382, 38[...]
48: Kalo/n. It is the same word which is translated good in ver. 1. "It is good for a man."
49: i.e., participate in the same ordinances, and in their fruits.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter XIII.-The Doctrine of Paul Concerning Virginity Explained.
50: 1 Cor. vii. 25-28.
51: 1 Cor. vii. 28.
52: 1 Cor. vii. 28.
53: Which I recommend.
54: 1 Cor. vii. 29. [Nobody can feel more deeply than I do the immeasurable evils of an enforced cel[...]
55: 1 Cor. vii. 32-34.
56: A clause is omitted here in the text.
57: 1 Cor. vii. 35.
- Discourse III.-Thaleia
- Chapter XIV.-Virginity a Gift of God: the Purpose of Virginity Not Rashly to Be Adopted by Any One.
58: 1 Cor. vii. 36. [On virginity, see Taylor, i. 426, ed. London, 1844.]
59: 1 Cor. vii. 37.
- Discourse IV.-Theopatra
- Chapter I.-The Necessity of Praising Virtue, for Those Who Have the Power.
60: polumerw=j kai\ polutro/pwj. Heb. i. 1.
- Discourse IV.-Theopatra
- Chapter II.-The Protection of Chastity and Virginity Divinely Given to Men, that They May Emerge from the Mire of Vices.
61: i.e., ai0 yuxai/.
62: The body.
63: Ps. cxxxvii. E. V., and in Heb. [Does not our author follow the Hebrew here? I must think his ref[...]
64: Or, Eucharistic hymn.
65: Exod. i. 16.
66: Rom. v. 14.
- Discourse IV.-Theopatra
- Chapter III.-That Passage of David Explained; What the Harps Hung Upon the Willows Signify; The Willow a Symbol of Chastity; The Willows Watered by Streams.
67: "By the waters of Babylon," etc. [He passes to the next psalm.]
68: Ps. cxxxvii. 1, 2. [Here is a transition to Psalm cxxxvii., which has been the source of a confu[...]
69: Odyss. K'. 510.
70: Isa. xliv. 4.
71: o@rganon. The word used for harp above, and here employed with a double meaning. ["Body" here = m[...]
- Discourse IV.-Theopatra
- Chapter IV.-The Author Goes on with the Interpretation of the Same Passage
72: In Hebrew the word means simply "a memorial."
73: Matt. vii. 6.
74: i.e., To those without.
75: Amos iv. 5 (LXX.). The E. V. is, "Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving in the leaven."
76: 1 Pet. ii. 10.
- Discourse IV.-Theopatra
- Chapter V.-The Gifts of Virgins, Adorned with Which They are Presented to One Husband, Christ.
77: Ps. cxxxvii. 5, 6.
78: 2 Cor. xi. 2.
79: Wisd. iv. 2.
80: Isa. lx. 1.
81: O Jerusalem.
82: Commentators have remarked the allusion to Phil. iii. 11. See Migne's note. The thought of the ma[...]
- Discourse IV.-Theopatra
- Chapter VI.-Virginity to Be Cultivated and Commended in Every Place and Time.
83: Jer. ii. 32. The author, in quoting from the LXX., slightly alters the text, so as to make it al[...]
84: Literally, breastband.
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter I.-The Offering of Chastity a Great Gift.
1: [Compare vol. v. p. 587, this series.]
2: Lit. game or toil, a@qlon.
3: Lit. shall greatly vow a vow to offer, with sacrifices of purification, chastity to the Lord. Num[...]
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter II. Abraham's Sacrifice of a Heifer Three Years Old, of a Goat, and of a Ram Also Three Years Old: Its Meaning; Every Age to Be Consecrated to God; The Threefold Watch and Our Age.
4: There are two readings. The above rendering may fairly embrace them both.
5: Gen. xv. 9. [Our author has in mind (the triad) 1 Thess. v. 23.]
6: Luke xii. 35-38. The author apparently quotes from memory.
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter III.-Far Best to Cultivate Virtue from Boyhood.
7: Lam. iii. 27.
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter IV.-Perfect Consecration and Devotion to God: What It is.
8: Num. vi. 2 (LXX.).
9: 1 Cor. vii. 34; quoted from memory.
10: Cf. Ps. cxxxix. 4, and cxli. 3.
11: Ps. xlv. 2.
12: Isa. viii. 1. The LXX is quoted from memory. The meaning, however, is nearer the original than t[...]
13: Cf. Ecclus. vi. 36.
14: to\ poreutiko/n, the power of going.
15: Divine.
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter V.-The Vow of Chastity, and Its Rites in the Law; Vines, Christ, and the Devil.
16: Num. vi. 1-4.
17: St. John xv. 1, 5.
18: Deut. xxxii. 32, 33.
19: Luke xxi. 34.
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter VI.-Sikera, a Manufactured and Spurious Wine, Yet Intoxicating; Things Which are Akin to Sins are to Be Avoided by a Virgin; The Altar of Incense (a Symbol Of) Virgins.
20: Lev. xi. 29; not an exact quotation.
21: Exod. xxx. 1-9.
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter VII.-The Church Intermediate Between the Shadows of the Law and the Realities of Heaven.
22: Heb. x. 1. The apostle says, "a shadow," and "not the very image." The difference, however, is v[...]
23: Exod. xxv. 40.
24: Heb. xi. 10.
25: 1 Cor. xiii. 12.
- Discourse V.-Thallousa
- Chapter VIII.-The Double Altar, Widows and Virgins; Gold the Symbol of Virginity.
26: An apparent confusion between the altar of incense, to which the author refers, and which stood i[...]
- Discourse VI.-Agathe
- Chapter I.-The Excellence of the Abiding Glory of Virginity; The Soul Made in the Image of the Image of God, that is of His Son; The Devil a Suitor for the Soul.
1: Cf. 1 Tim. vi. 16.
2: pneumatika\ th=j ponhri/aj (Eph. vi. 12). In E. V. "spiritual wickedness."
3: Jer. iii. 3.
- Discourse VI.-Agathe
- Chapter II.-The Parable of the Ten Virgins.
4: [Which has suggested the form of this allegorical work.]
- Discourse VI.-Agathe
- Chapter III.-The Same Endeavour and Effort After Virginity, with a Different Result.
5: Matt. xxv.
6: In Greek i/ = ten. The word employed signifies the index of a sun-dial.-Tr. [The lamps found in t[...]
7: Luke xii. 49. The Latin version is certainly more accurate, "Quid volo nisi ut accendatur?"-Tr. [...]
8: Matt. v. 16.
- Discourse VI.-Agathe
- Chapter IV.-What the Oil in the Lamps Means.
9: Lev. xxiv. 2, 3.
10: Ps. cv. 11.
11: Lev. xxiv. 3.
12: Exod. xi., xii.
13: Matt. xxv. 6. [This parable greatly stimulated primitive celibacy.]
14: 1 Thess. iv. 16, 17.
15: 1 Thess. iv. 16.
16: Bodies.
17: 1 Thess. iv. 17. Commentators have remarked on the peculiarity of the interpretation. We give sim[...]
- Discourse VI.-Agathe
- Chapter V.-The Reward of Virginity.
18: Wisd. iv. 2.
19: Although the Greek word is not the same as in 1 Tim. vi. 16, the meaning is probably this rather [...]
20: Rev. vii. 4, xiv. 4.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter I.-What the True and Seemly Manner of Praising; The Father Greater Than the Son, Not in Substance, But in Order; Virginity the Lily; Faithful Souls and Virgins, the One Bride of the One Christ.
1: pneu=ma here and for wind above.
2: Literally, only begotten. Wisd. vii. 22.
3: St. John xiv. 28.
4: [That the Canticles demand allegorical interpretation, we may admit; nor can I object to our auth[...]
5: Cant ii. 2.
6: Cant iv. 9-12.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter II.-The Interpretation of that Passage of the Canticles.
7: Chap. iv. ver. 9-12.
8: Ps. xlv. 14.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter III.-Virgins Being Martyrs First Among the Companions of Christ.
9: 1 Cor. xv. 41, 42.
10: Matt. v. 3-16.
11: Cant. vi. 8, 9.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter IV.-The Passage Explained; The Queens, the Holy Souls Before the Deluge; The Concubines, the Souls of the Prophets; The Divine Seed for Spiritual Offspring in the Books of the Prophets; The Nuptials of the Word in the Prophets as Though Clandestine.
12: Cant. vi. 8, 9.
13: [Here allegorizing is refuted and perishes in fanciful and over-strained analogies.]
14: Luke xv. 23.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter V.-The Sixty Queens: Why Sixty, and Why Queens; The Excellence of the Saints of the First Age.
15: This was Eve's testimony to the serpent, not the original command.-Tr. [But I do not see the forc[...]
16: Gen. iii. 3.
17: Heb. xi. 23.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter VI.-The Eighty Concubines, What; The Knowledge of the Incarnation Communicated to the Prophets.
18: Here, and in many other places, the prevalent millenarian belief of the first centuries is expres[...]
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter VII.-The Virgins, the Righteous Ancients; The Church, the One Only Spouse, More Excellent Than the Others.
19: This word, as being that employed in the E. T. of the Canticles, is adopted throughout. It must b[...]
20: Matt. xiii. 16, 17.
21: Cant. vi. 8, 9.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter VIII.-The Human Nature of Christ His One Dove.
22: The forty-fifth in our arrangement.
23: Ps. xlv. 2.
- Discourse VII.-Procilla
- Chapter IX.-The Virgins Immediately After the Queen and Spouse.
24: Ps. xlv. 15, 16.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter I.-Methodius' Derivation of the Word Virginity: Wholly Divine; Virtue, in Greek 0Areth/, Whence So Called.
1: parqeni/a.
2: parqeni/a.
3: parqeni/a...parqei\a.
4: ai0reth/.
5: ai@rein.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter II.-The Lofty Mind and Constancy of the Sacred Virgins; The Introduction of Virgins into the Blessed Abodes Before Others.
6: Than of the most ordinary things of life.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter III.-The Lot and Inheritance of Virginity.
7: The influence of Plato is traceable, here and elsewhere, throughout the works of Methodius. It ha[...]
8: Exod. iii. 14.
9: Baruch iii. 14, 15. The apocryphal book of Baruch, as bearing the name of the companion of Jeremia[...]
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter IV.-Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity; A Passage from the Apocalypse is Proposed to Be Examined.
10: Rev. xii. 1-6.
11: The same word in the text which is translated wind: pneu=ma. The play upon the word cannot be pre[...]
12: Rev. xii. 1-6.
13: St. John v. 39.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter V.-The Woman Who Brings Forth, to Whom the Dragon is Opposed, the Church; Her Adornment and Grace.
14: [i.e., the Church. See p 337, note 4, infra]
15: Isa. lx. 1-4.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter VI.-The Works of the Church, the Bringing Forth of Children in Baptism; The Moon in Baptism, the Full Moon of Christ's Passion.
16: selh/nh.
17: se/laj.
18: neofw/tistoi.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter VII.-The Child of the Woman in the Apocalypse Not Christ, But the Faithful Who are Born in the Laver.
19: It is hardly necessary to observe, that amid many interpretations of the passage, this which Meth[...]
20: Isa. lxvi. 7, 8.
21: In the LXX. "a male."
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter VIII.-The Faithful in Baptism Males, Configured to Christ; The Saints Themselves Christs.
22: The baptized.
23: Gal. iv. 19.
24: Ps. cv. 15.
25: xristw=n.
26: Anointed.
27: Eph. iii. 14-17.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter IX.-The Son of God, Who Ever Is, is To-Day Begotten in the Minds and Sense of the Faithful.
28: Ps. ii. 7.
29: Certain phrases like this have led to the opinion that Methodius was inclined to Arianism. There [...]
30: In the baptismal font.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter X.-The Dragon, the Devil; The Stars Struck from Heaven by the Tail of the Dragon, Heretics; The Numbers of the Trinity, that Is, the Persons Numbered; Errors Concerning Them.
31: Patripassianism: nearly the same as Sabellianism.-Tr.
32: Dokh/sei, hence Docetae.-Tr.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter XI.-The Woman with the Male Child in the Wilderness the Church; The Wilderness Belongs to Virgins and Saints; The Perfection of Numbers and Mysteries; The Equality and Perfection of the Number Six; The Number Six Related to Christ; From This Number, Too, the Creation and Harmony of the World Completed.
33: Virtue.
34: Cant. iv. 16.
35: Methodius is not the first or the last who has sought to explore the mystery of numbers. An inter[...]
36: i.e. in a regular arithmetical progression.
37: i.e. its divisors or dividends.
38: "Make Himself of no reputation."-E. T., Phil. ii. 7.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter XII.-Virgins are Called to the Imitation of the Church in the Wilderness Overcoming the Dragon.
39: Ezek. xvii. 3.
40: Eph. vi. 17.
41: Hom., Il., vi. 181.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter XIII.-The Seven Crowns of the Beast to Be Taken Away by Victorious Chastity; The Ten Crowns of the Dragon, the Vices Opposed to the Decalogue; The Opinion of Fate the Greatest Evil.
42: Deut. vi. 5.
43: Hom., Od., i. 7.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter XIV.-The Doctrine of Mathematicians Not Wholly to Be Despised, When They are Concerned About the Knowledge of the Stars; The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac Mythical Names.
44: Rom. i. 21.
45: ["As they think." Had Methodius any leaning to Pythagoras and his school? To "science" the world [...]
46: Castor and Pollux.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter XV.-Arguments from the Novelty of Fate and Generation; That Golden Age, Early Men; Solid Arguments Against the Mathematicians.
47: We cannot preserve the play upon words of the original. There it is-maqhmatikh\n and kataqematikh/[...]
48: Gen. i. 14, etc.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter XVI.-Several Other Things Turned Against the Same Mathematicians.
49: ge/nesij = birth i.e., our life is not controlled by the star of our nativity.-Tr. [See Hippolyt[...]
50: Hom., Od., i. 7.
51: ge/nesij = birth, h. the star of man's nativity, h. destiny.
- Discourse VIII.-Thekla
- Chapter XVII.-The Lust of the Flesh and Spirit: Vice and Virtue.
52: Gal. v. 17.
- Discourse IX.-Tusiane
- Chapter I.-Chastity the Chief Ornament of the True Tabernacle; Seven Days Appointed to the Jews for Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles: What They Signify; The Sum of This Septenary Uncertain; Not Clear to Any One When the Consummation of the World Will Be; Even Now the Fabric of the World Completed.
1: The LXX. adds "And of the Agnos." See note on this tree at the beginning of the treatise, p. 310,[...]
2: Lev. xxiii. 39-42.
3: [Methodius did not adopt the errors of the Chiliasts, but he kept up the succession of witnesses [...]
4: Gen. ii. 1.
5: Ps. civ. 31.
6: Prov. i. 5, 6.
- Discourse IX.-Tusiane
- Chapter II.-Figure, Image, Truth: Law Grace, Glory; Man Created Immortal: Death Brought in by Destructive Sin.
7: St. John xiv. 16.
8: 1 Cor. xiii. 12.
9: 1 Cor. xiii. 10.
- Discourse IX.-Tusiane
- Chapter III.-How Each One Ought to Prepare Himself for the Future Resurrection.
10: Lev, xxiii. 40.
11: Cant. iv. 13.
12: Gen. ii. 9.
13: Rev. xx. 6.
14: Prov. iii. 18.
15: Ps. i. 3.
- Discourse IX.-Tusiane
- Chapter IV.-The Mind Clearer When Cleansed from Sin; The Ornaments of the Mind and the Order of Virtue; Charity Deep and Full; Chastity the Last Ornament of All; The Very Use of Matrimony to Be Restrained.
16: Lev. xxiii. 40.
17: Luke xv. 8.
18: 1 Cor. xiii. 2, 3. Quoted from memory and in meaning, not verbally.-Tr.
19: Isa. xliv. 4. The reading of the LXX.
20: [See Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, cap. ii. sec. 3, Works, vol. i. p. 427, ed. Bohn, 1844. This is a [...]
21: 1 Cor. vii. 29.
- Discourse IX.-Tusiane
- Chapter V.-The Mystery of the Tabernacles.
22: In Hebrew, Succoth. Num. xxxiii. 5.
23: Heb. iv. 14.
24: Ps. xlii. 4
- Discourse X.-Domnina
- Chapter II.-The Allegory of the Trees Demanding a King, in the Book of Judges, Explained.
1: Judg. ix. 8-15.
2: For this use of heart, cf. 2 Cor. iv. 6.-Tr. [See Coleridge on Leighton, Old English Divines, vol[...]
3: Gen. iii. 7.
4: Gen. ix. 22.
5: Good news.
6: Jer. viii. 13.
7: Joel ii. 22.
- Discourse X.-Domnina
- Chapter III.-The Bramble and the Agnos the Symbol of Chastity; The Four Gospels, that Is, Teachings or Laws, Instructing to Salvation.
8: Jahn's reading is here followed. [This is a puzzle as well as a parable; the Seventy give r0a/mno[...]
9: 1 Kings xix. 4.
10: Gen. v. 29.
- Discourse X.-Domnina
- Chapter V.-The Malignity of the Devil as an Imitator in All Things; Two Kinds of Fig-Trees and Vines.
11: [Diabolus simia Dei, an idea very common to the Fathers. He is the malignant caricature of the Mo[...]
12: 2 Cor. xi. 14.
13: Jer. xxiv. 3.
14: Ps. civ. 15.
15: Deut. xxxii. 33.
16: Joel ii. 21-23. The last words of the quotation are from the LXX. version.-Tr.
17: Matt. xxi. 19.
18: John xv. 1.
19: 2 Kings xx. 7; Isa. xxxviii. 21.
20: Gal. v. 22, 23.
21: Micah iv. 4.
- Discourse X.-Domnina
- Chapter VI.-The Mystery of the Vision of Zechariah.
22: Zech. iv. 1-3.
23: E. V. "Anointed ones," ver. 14.
24: sxoi/nisma: same word as that translated "wick."-Tr.
25: Gen. iii. 19.
- Discourse XI.-Arete
- Chapter I.-The True and Chaste Virgins Few; Chastity a Contest; Thekla Chief of Virgins
1: Wisd. vii. 9.
2: [Compare our Lord's wisdom and mercy, Matt. xix. 11.]
- Discourse XI.-Arete
- Chapter II.-Thekla Singing Decorously a Hymn, the Rest of the Virgins Sing with Her; John the Baptist a Martyr to Chastity; The Church the Spouse of God, Pure and Virgin.
3: The text of Jahn is here followed.-Tr. [I have been obliged to arrange this hymn (so as to bring [...]
4: Ps. xlv. 10.
5: Matt. xxv. 11.
6: Gen. iv. 10.
7: Gen. xxxix. 12.
8: Jud. viii.
9: Matt. i. 18.
10: [The only one. See p. 355, Elucidation II., infra]
- Discourse XI.-Arete
- Chapter III.-Which are the Better, the Continent, or Those Who Delight in Tranquillity of Life? Contests the Peril of Chastity: the Felicity of Tranquillity; Purified and Tranquil Minds Gods: They Who Shall See God; Virtue Disciplined by Temptations.
11: In Jahn, Telmesiake.-Tr. [Comp. p. 356, n. 2, infra]
12: [Contrast the shameful close of Plato's Symposium.]
13: Matt. v. 8.
14: [Recur to what is said of Origen and his epoch on p. 224, vol. iv. of this series.]
15: [Recur to what is said of Origen and his epoch on p. 224, vol. iv. of this series.]
16: [Here is our author's conclusive condemnation of Origen, whose great mistake, I have supposed, ga[...]
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