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Methodius
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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[2527] [Compare Cyprian, vol. v. p. 475, this series.]
Chapter I.—Marriage Not Abolished by the Commendation of Virginity.
[2529] ἕως ἄρτι, even until now. John v. 17.
[2532] Remark the connection, ἔκστασις and εξίσταται.
[2534] Job xxxviii. 14 (LXX.).
[2537] Wisd. iii. 16.
[2538] [Bastardy seems to have been regarded as washed out by baptism, thousands of pagan converts having been born under this stain.]
Chapter VI.—God Cares Even for Adulterous Births; Angels Given to Them as Guardians.
[2539] Wisd. iv. 6.
[2541] [This language shows that it is not cited as Holy Scripture. It confirms St. Jerome’s testimony, Prolog. in Libros Salomonis.]
[2542] Wisd. xv. 10, 11.
[2544] His virgin. [St. Paul was married, and then a widower, in the opinion of many of the ancients. See Euseb., H. E., iii. 30.]
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