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^[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.

^[2555] Gen. iii. 19.

^[2556] Col. i. 15.

^[2557] Rev. ii. 7.

^[2558] Gen. iii. 22.

Chapter IV.—Some Things Here Hard and Too Slightly Treated, and Apparently Not Sufficiently Brought Out According to the Rule of Theology.

^[2559] Namely, the second Adam.

^[2560] Second Adam.

^[2561] The obscurity of this chapter is indicated in the heading placed over it by the old Latin translator. The general meaning, however, will be clear enough to the theological reader.—Tr.

Chapter V.—A Passage of Jeremiah Examined.

^[2562] Jer. xviii. 3, 4.

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.

^[2563] St.John i. 1.

^[2564] Eph. i. 21; iii. 10.

^[2565] Gen. iii. 19.

^[2566] 1 Cor. xv. 22.

Chapter VII.—The Works of Christ, Proper to God and to Man, the Works of Him Who is One.

^[2567] In Him.

^[2568] Here, as in the previous chapter, and in many other passages, I have preferred the text of Jahn to that of Migne, as being generally the more accurate.—Tr.

^[2569] Gen. ii. 9.

^[2570] 1 Cor. xv. 22. The words are, “Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”

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.

^[2571] Eph. v. 31.

^[2572] Eph. v. 26, 27.

^[2573] Gen. i. 18.

^[2574] Rib.

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