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Methodius
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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[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.]
[2548] The bridegroom’s.
Chapter I.—Passages of Holy Scripture Compared.
[2550] Gen. ii. 23-24, and Eph. v. 28-32.
[2551] Eph. v. 32. [A forcible argument.]
[2553] Eph. v. 28-32. [Compare the next chapter, note 4.]
[2554] This is the obvious English equivalent of the Greek text.—Tr. [A singularly cautious testimony against Origen, whom our author follows too closely in allegorizing interpretations of Scripture. Origen, having literalized so sadly in one case, seems to have erred ever afterward in the other extreme. Here is a prudent caveat.]
Chapter III.—Comparison Instituted Between the First and Second Adam.
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