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^[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.

Chapter II.—Abraham’s Sacrifice of a Heifer Three Years Old, of a Goat, and of a Ram Also Three Years Old: Its Meaning; Every Age to Be Consecrated to God; The Threefold Watch and Our Age.

^[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.

^[2640] Lam. iii. 27.

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.

^[2644] Ps. xlv. 2.

^[2645] Isa. viii. 1. The LXX is quoted from memory. The meaning, however, is nearer the original than the E.V. Cf. Keil and Delitzsch, Bib. Com., in loc.

^[2646] Cf. Ecclesiasticus 6.36.

^[2647] τὸ πορευτικόν, the power of going.

^[2648] Divine.

Chapter V.—The Vow of Chastity, and Its Rites in the Law; Vines, Christ, and the Devil.

^[2649] Num. vi. 1-4.

^[2650] St.John xv. 1, 5.

^[2651] Deut. xxxii. 32, 33.

^[2652] Luke xxi. 34.

Chapter VI.—Sikera, a Manufactured and Spurious Wine, Yet Intoxicating; Things Which are Akin to Sins are to Be Avoided by a Virgin; The Altar of Incense (a Symbol Of) Virgins.

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