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Methodius
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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[2502] [Virtue presides, and “to the pure all things are pure;” but the freedoms of the converse must offend unless we bear in mind that these are allegorical beings, not women in flesh and blood.]
[2503] [See the oration on Simeon and Anna, cap. 10, infra.]
Chapter I.—The Difficulty and Excellence of Virginity; The Study of Doctrine Necessary for Virgins.
[2504] Lit. the udder.
[2506] [I think evidence abounds, in the course of this allegory, that it was designed to meet the painful discussions excited in the Church by the fanatical conduct of Origen, vol. iv. pp. 225–226.]
[2507] Lit. “leaps out.”
[2508] Ecclesiasticus 6.36.
[2510] Lev. ii. 13; Mark ix. 40.
[2513] Lev. xviii. 19; xx. 17.
[2514] [Contending with the worse than bestial sensuality of paganism, and inured to the sorrows of martyr-ages, when Christian families could not be reared in peace, let us not wonder at the high conceptions of these heroic believers, based on the words of Christ Himself, and on the promise, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.”]
[2515] Ecclesiasticus 18.30.
[2516] Ecclesiasticus xix. 2
[2519] Wisd. iv. 3.
[2520] Ecclesiasticus 23.1,4,6.
[2521] Wisd. iv. 1, 2.
[2522] [This seems to me admirable. Our times are too little willing to see all that Scripture teaches in this matter.]
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