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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[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] παρθενίαπαρθεΐα.

[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.

[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.]

[2711] Exod. iii. 14.

[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.

Chapter IV.—Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity; A Passage from the Apocalypse is Proposed to Be Examined.

[2713] Rev. xii. 1-6.

[2714] The same word in the text which is translated wind: πνεῦμα. The play upon the word cannot be preserved in the translation.—Tr.

[2715] Rev. xii. 1-6.

[2716] St.John v. 39.

Chapter V.—The Woman Who Brings Forth, to Whom the Dragon is Opposed, the Church; Her Adornment and Grace.

[2717] [i.e., the Church. See p 337, note 4, infra.]

 

 

 

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