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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[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.

[2797] John xv. 1.

[2798] 2 Kings xx. 7; Isa. xxxviii. 21.

[2799] Gal. v. 22, 23.

[2800] Micah iv. 4.

Chapter VI.—The Mystery of the Vision of Zechariah.

[2801] Zech. iv. 1-3.

[2802] E.V. “Anointed ones,” Zech. 4.14.

[2803] σχοίνισμα: same word as that translated “wick.”—Tr.

[2804] Gen. iii. 19.

Chapter I.—The True and Chaste Virgins Few; Chastity a Contest; Thekla Chief of Virgins.

[2805] Wisd. vii. 9.

[2806] [Compare our Lord’s wisdom and mercy, Matt. xix. 11.]

Chapter II.—Thekla Singing Decorously a Hymn, the Rest of the Virgins Sing with Her; John the Baptist a Martyr to Chastity; The Church the Spouse of God, Pure and Virgin.

 

 

 

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