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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[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.

[2755] Gal. v. 17.

Chapter I.—Chastity the Chief Ornament of the True Tabernacle; Seven Days Appointed to the Jews for Celebrating the Feast of Tabernacles: What They Signify; The Sum of This Septenary Uncertain; Not Clear to Any One When the Consummation of the World Will Be; Even Now the Fabric of the World Completed.

[2756] The LXX. adds “And of the Agnos.” See note on this tree at the beginning of the treatise, p. 310, note 2.]

[2757] Lev. xxiii. 39-42.

[2758] [Methodius did not adopt the errors of the Chiliasts, but he kept up the succession of witnesses to this primitive idea. Coleridge’s remarks on Jeremy Taylor, touching this point, may be worth consulting. Notes on Old English Divines, vol. i. p. 218.]

[2759] Gen. ii. 1.

[2760] Ps. civ. 31.

[2761] Prov. i. 5, 6.

Chapter II.—Figure, Image, Truth: Law, Grace, Glory; Man Created Immortal: Death Brought in by Destructive Sin.

 

 

 

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