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Methodius
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Introductory Notice to Methodius.
[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.]
Chapter V.—The Mystery of the Tabernacles.
[2777] In Hebrew, Succoth. Num. xxxiii. 5.
Chapter II.—The Allegory of the Trees Demanding a King, in the Book of Judges, Explained.
[2781] For this use of heart, cf. 2 Cor. iv. 6.—Tr. [See Coleridge on Leighton, Old English Divines, vol. ii. p. 137.]
[2784] Good news.
[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.]
[2790] [Diabolus simia Dei, an idea very common to the Fathers. He is the malignant caricature of the Most High, exulting in the deformity which he gives to his copies. Exod. vii. 11.]
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