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Introductory Notice to Methodius.

[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.

[2807] The text of Jahn is here followed.—Tr. [I have been obliged to arrange this hymn (so as to bring out the refrain as sung by the chorus of virgins) somewhat differently from the form in the Edinburgh edition. I invite a comparison.]

[2808] Ps. xlv. 10.

[2809] Matt. xxv. 11.

[2810] Gen. iv. 10.

[2811] Gen. xxxix. 12.

[2812] Jud. viii.

[2813] Matt. i. 18.

[2814] [The only one. See p. 355, Elucidation II., infra.]

Chapter III.—Which are the Better, the Continent, or Those Who Delight in Tranquillity of Life? Contests the Peril of Chastity: the Felicity of Tranquillity; Purified and Tranquil Minds Gods: They Who Shall See God; Virtue Disciplined by Temptations.

[2815] In Jahn, Telmesiake.—Tr. [Comp. p. 356, n. 2, infra.]

[2816] [Contrast the shameful close of Plato’s Symposium.]

[2817] Matt. v. 8.

[2818] [Recur to what is said of Origen and his epoch on p. 224, vol. iv. of this series.]

[2819] [Recur to what is said of Origen and his epoch on p. 224, vol. iv. of this series.]

[2820] [Here is our author’s conclusive condemnation of Origen, whose great mistake, I have supposed, gave occasion to this extraordinary work. Possibly the epoch of Anthony had revived such discussions when this was written.]

I. (We here behold only shadows, etc., p. 335.)

[2821] Introduction to the Dialogues, etc., Dobson’s translation, Cambridge, 1836.

II. (Christ Himself is the one who is born, p. 337.)

[2822] See his work On the Apocalypse, Lecture IX. p. 198, ed. Philadelphia, 1852.

[2823] Speaker’s Com., ad loc.

 

 

 

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