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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[2769] Prov. iii. 18.

[2770] Ps. i. 3.

Chapter IV.—The Mind Clearer When Cleansed from Sin; The Ornaments of the Mind and the Order of Virtue; Charity Deep and Full; Chastity the Last Ornament of All; The Very Use of Matrimony to Be Restrained.

[2771] Lev. xxiii. 40.

[2772] Luke xv. 8.

[2773] 1 Cor. xiii. 2, 3. Quoted from memory and in meaning, not verbally.—Tr.

[2774] Isa. xliv. 4. The reading of the LXX.

[2775] [See Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, cap. ii. sec. 3, Works, vol. i. p. 427, ed. Bohn, 1844. This is a token of antiquity.]

[2776] 1 Cor. vii. 29.

Chapter V.—The Mystery of the Tabernacles.

[2777] In Hebrew, Succoth. Num. xxxiii. 5.

[2778] Heb. iv. 14.

[2779] Ps. xlii. 4.

Chapter II.—The Allegory of the Trees Demanding a King, in the Book of Judges, Explained.

[2780] Judg. ix. 8-15.

[2781] For this use of heart, cf. 2 Cor. iv. 6.—Tr. [See Coleridge on Leighton, Old English Divines, vol. ii. p. 137.]

[2782] Gen. iii. 7.

[2783] Gen. ix. 22.

[2784] Good news.

[2785] Jer. viii. 13.

[2786] Joel ii. 22.

Chapter III.—The Bramble and the Agnos the Symbol of Chastity; The Four Gospels, that Is, Teachings or Laws, Instructing to Salvation.

[2787] Jahn’s reading is here followed. [This is a puzzle as well as a parable; the Seventy give ῥάμνος, which is not = ἄγνος. It spoils the force of Jotham’s caustic satire to adopt this conception of our author.]

[2788] 1 Kings xix. 4.

[2789] Gen. v. 29.

Chapter V.—The Malignity of the Devil as an Imitator in All Things; Two Kinds of Fig-Trees and Vines.

 

 

 

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