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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[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.

[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.]

[2791] 2 Cor. xi. 14.

[2792] Jer. xxiv. 3.

[2793] Ps. civ. 15.

[2794] Deut. xxxii. 33.

[2795] Joel ii. 21-23. The last words of the quotation are from the LXX. version.—Tr.

[2796] Matt. xxi. 19.

 

 

 

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