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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[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.

[2699] Matt. xiii. 16, 17.

[2700] Song of Sol. 6.8,9.

Chapter VIII.—The Human Nature of Christ His One Dove.

[2701] The forty-fifth in our arrangement.

[2702] Ps. xlv. 2.

Chapter IX.—The Virgins Immediately After the Queen and Spouse.

[2703] Ps. xlv. 15, 16.

Chapter I.—Methodius’ Derivation of the Word Virginity: Wholly Divine; Virtue, in Greek—ἀρετή, Whence So Called.

[2704] παρθενία.

[2705] παρθενία.

[2706] παρθενία…παρθεΐα.

[2707] αἱρετή.

[2708] αἴρειν.

Chapter II.—The Lofty Mind and Constancy of the Sacred Virgins; The Introduction of Virgins into the Blessed Abodes Before Others.

 

 

 

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