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^[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.

^[2698] This word, as being that employed in the E. T. of the Canticles, is adopted throughout. It must be remembered, that, in this connection, it stands for νεάνιδες, and not for παρθένοι.—Tr.

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