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Methodius
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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[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.]
[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.]
[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.
Chapter VIII.—The Human Nature of Christ His One Dove.
[2701] The forty-fifth in our arrangement.
Chapter IX.—The Virgins Immediately After the Queen and Spouse.
[2704] παρθενία.
[2705] παρθενία.
[2706] παρθενία…παρθεΐα.
[2707] αἱρετή.
[2708] αἴρειν.
[2709] Than of the most ordinary things of life.
Chapter III.—The Lot and Inheritance of Virginity.
[2710] The influence of Plato is traceable, here and elsewhere, throughout the works of Methodius. It has been fully examined in the able work of Jahn, Methodius Platonizans.—Tr. [Elucidation I.]
[2712] Baruch iii. 14, 15. The apocryphal book of Baruch, as bearing the name of the companion of Jeremiah, was usually quoted, in the second and third centuries, as the work of that great prophet.—Tr.
[2714] The same word in the text which is translated wind: πνεῦμα. The play upon the word cannot be preserved in the translation.—Tr.
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