Methodius

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^[2677] Wisd. iv. 2.

^[2678] Although the Greek word is not the same as in 1 Tim. vi. 16, the meaning is probably this rather than unquenchable, as it is rendered in the Latin.—Tr. [See Discourse XI. cap. 2, infra.]

^[2679] Rev. vii. 4; xiv. 4.

Chapter I.—What the True and Seemly Manner of Praising; The Father Greater Than the Son, Not in Substance, But in Order; Virginity the Lily; Faithful Souls and Virgins, the One Bride of the One Christ.

^[2680] πνεῦμα here and for wind above.

^[2681] Literally, only begotten. Wisd. vii. 22.

^[2682] St. John xiv. 28.

^[2683] [That the Canticles demand allegorical interpretation, we may admit; nor can I object to our author’s ideas here.]

^[2684] Song of Sol. 2.2.

^[2685] Song of Sol. 4.9-12.

Chapter II.—The Interpretation of that Passage of the Canticles.

^[2686] Song of Sol. 4.9-12.

^[2687] Ps. xlv. 14.

Chapter III.—Virgins Being Martyrs First Among the Companions of Christ.

^[2688] 1 Cor. xv. 41, 42.

^[2689] Matt. v. 3-16.

^[2690] Song of Sol. 6.8,9.

Chapter IV.—The Passage Explained; The Queens, the Holy Souls Before the Deluge; The Concubines, the Souls of the Prophets; The Divine Seed for Spiritual Offspring in the Books of the Prophets; The Nuptials of the Word in the Prophets as Though Clandestine.

^[2691] Song of Sol. 6.8,9.

^[2692] [Here allegorizing is refuted and perishes in fanciful and over-strained analogies.]

^[2693] Luke xv. 23.

Chapter V.—The Sixty Queens: Why Sixty, and Why Queens; The Excellence of the Saints of the First Age.

^[2694] This was Eve’s testimony to the serpent, not the original command.—Tr. [But I do not see the force of this note. Eve in her innocency is surely a competent witness.]

^[2695] Gen. iii. 3.

^[2696] Heb. xi. 23.

Chapter VI.—The Eighty Concubines, What; The Knowledge of the Incarnation Communicated to the Prophets.

^[2697] Here, and in many other places, the prevalent millenarian belief of the first centuries is expressed by Methodius.—Tr. [See Barnabas, vol. i. p. 147, this series; also Irenæus (same vol.), p. 562, at note 11.]

Chapter VII.—The Virgins, the Righteous Ancients; The Church, the One Only Spouse, More Excellent Than the Others.

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