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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

^[2727] Ps. cv. 15.

^[2728] χριστῶν.

^[2729] Anointed.

^[2730] Eph. iii. 14-17.

Chapter IX.—The Son of God, Who Ever Is, is To-Day Begotten in the Minds and Sense of the Faithful.

^[2731] Ps. ii. 7.

^[2732] Certain phrases like this have led to the opinion that Methodius was inclined to Arianism. There is no ground for the supposition. In the writer’s mind, as is clear from the previous statements, the previous generation was eternal.—Tr.

^[2733] In the baptismal font.

Chapter X.—The Dragon, the Devil; The Stars Struck from Heaven by the Tail of the Dragon, Heretics; The Numbers of the Trinity, that Is, the Persons Numbered; Errors Concerning Them.

^[2734] Patripassianism: nearly the same as Sabellianism.—Tr.

^[2735] Δοκήσει, hence Docetæ.—Tr.

Chapter XI.—The Woman with the Male Child in the Wilderness the Church; The Wilderness Belongs to Virgins and Saints; The Perfection of Numbers and Mysteries; The Equality and Perfection of the Number Six; The Number Six Related to Christ; From This Number, Too, the Creation and Harmony of the World Completed.

^[2736] Virtue.

^[2737] Song of Sol. 4.16.

^[2738] Methodius is not the first or the last who has sought to explore the mystery of numbers. An interesting and profound examination of the subject will be found in Bähr’s Symbolik; also in Delitzsch’s Bib. Psychology.—Tr. [On the Six Days’ Work, p. 71, translation, Edinburgh, 1875.]

^[2739] i.e., in a regular arithmetical progression.

^[2740] i.e., its divisors or dividends.

^[2741] “Make Himself of no reputation.”—E. T., Phil. ii. 7.

Chapter XII.—Virgins are Called to the Imitation of the Church in the Wilderness Overcoming the Dragon.

^[2742] Ezek. xvii. 3.

^[2743] Eph. vi. 17.

^[2744] Hom., Il., vi. 181.

Chapter XIII.—The Seven Crowns of the Beast to Be Taken Away by Victorious Chastity; The Ten Crowns of the Dragon, the Vices Opposed to the Decalogue; The Opinion of Fate the Greatest Evil.

^[2745] Deut. vi. 5.

^[2746] Hom., Od., i. 7.

Chapter XIV.—The Doctrine of Mathematicians Not Wholly to Be Despised, When They are Concerned About the Knowledge of the Stars; The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac Mythical Names.

^[2747] Rom. i. 21.

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