Methodius

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^[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.

^[2748] [“As they think.” Had Methodius any leaning to Pythagoras and his school? To “science” the world owes its rejection of the true theory of the universe for two thousand years, till Copernicus, a Christian priest, broke that spell. Could the Christian Fathers know more than science taught them? Methodius hints it.]

^[2749] Castor and Pollux.

Chapter XV.—Arguments from the Novelty of Fate and Generation; That Golden Age, Early Men; Solid Arguments Against the Mathematicians.

^[2750] We cannot preserve the play upon words of the original. There it is—μαθηματικὴν and καταθεματικήν.—Tr.

^[2751] Gen. i. 14, etc.

Chapter XVI.—Several Other Things Turned Against the Same Mathematicians.

^[2752] γένεσις = birth, i.e., our life is not controlled by the star of our nativity.—Tr. [See Hippolytus, vol. v. p. 27, this series.]

^[2753] Hom., Od., i. 7.

^[2754] γένεσις = birth, h. the star of man’s nativity, h. destiny.

Chapter XVII.—The Lust of the Flesh and Spirit: Vice and Virtue.

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