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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[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.

[2653] Lev. xi. 29; not an exact quotation.

[2654] Exod. xxx. 1-9.

Chapter VII.—The Church Intermediate Between the Shadows of the Law and the Realities of Heaven.

[2655] Heb. x. 1. The apostle says, “a shadow,” and “not the very image.” The difference, however, is verbal only.—Tr.

 

 

 

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