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Methodius
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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[2623] i.e., To those without.
[2624] Amos iv. 5 (LXX.). The E.V. is, “Offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving in the leaven.”
Chapter V.—The Gifts of Virgins, Adorned with Which They are Presented to One Husband, Christ.
[2628] Wisd. iv. 2.
[2630] O Jerusalem.
[2631] Commentators have remarked the allusion to Phil. iii. 11. See Migne’s note. The thought of the marriage of the heavenly bridegroom, Christ, to His virgin bride, the Church, at the second Advent, when “the dead shall be raised,” was obviously present to the mind of the writer.
Chapter VI.—Virginity to Be Cultivated and Commended in Every Place and Time.
[2632] Jer. ii. 32. The author, in quoting from the LXX., slightly alters the text, so as to make it almost a command, instead of a question. The original has ἐπιλήσεται; in the text it is ἐπιλαθέσθαι.
[2633] Literally, breastband.
Chapter I.—The Offering of Chastity a Great Gift.
[2634] [Compare vol. v. p. 587, this series.]
[2635] Lit. game or toil, ἆθλον.
[2636] Lit. shall greatly vow a vow to offer, with sacrifices of purification, chastity to the Lord. Num. vi. 1, 2.
[2637] There are two readings. The above rendering may fairly embrace them both.
[2638] Gen. xv. 9. [Our author has in mind (the triad) 1 Thess. v. 23.]
[2639] Luke xii. 35-38. The author apparently quotes from memory.
Chapter III.—Far Best to Cultivate Virtue from Boyhood.
Chapter IV.—Perfect Consecration and Devotion to God: What It is.
[2641] Num. vi. 2 (LXX.).
[2642] 1 Cor. vii. 34; quoted from memory.
[2643] Cf. Ps. cxxxix. 4, and cxli. 3.
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