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Discourse VIII.--Thekla.: 52

52 Gal. v. 17.

1 The LXX. adds "And of the Agnos." See note on this tree at the beginning of the treatise, p. 310, note 2.]

2 Lev. xxiii. 39-42.

3 [Methodius did not adopt the errors of the Chiliasts, but he kept up the succession of witnesses to this primitive idea. Coleridge's remarks on Jeremy Taylor, touching this point, may be worth consulting. Notes on Old English Divines, vol. i. p. 218.]

4 Gen. ii. 1.

5 Ps. civ. 31.

6 Prov. i. 5, 6.

7 St. John xiv. 16.

8 1 Cor. xiii. 12.

9 1 Cor. xiii. 10.

10 Lev, xxiii. 40.

11 Cant. iv. 13.

12 Gen. ii. 9.

13 Rev. xx. 6.

14 Prov. iii. 18.

15 Ps. i. 3.

16 Lev. xxiii. 40.

17 Luke xv. 8.

18 1 Cor. xiii. 2, 3. Quoted from memory and in meaning, not verbally.-Tr.

19 Isa. xliv. 4. The reading of the LXX.

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

21 1 Cor. vii. 29.

22 In Hebrew, Succoth. Num. xxxiii. 5.

23 Heb. iv. 14.

24 Ps. xlii. 4.

1 Judg. ix. 8-15.

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

3 Gen. iii. 7.

4 Gen. ix. 22.

5 Good news.

6 Jer. viii. 13.

7 Joel ii. 22.

8 Jahn's reading is here followed. [This is a puzzle as well as a parable; the Seventy give r0a/mnoj, which is not = a@gnoj. It spoils the force of Jotham's caustic satire to adopt this conception of our author.]

9 1 Kings xix. 4.

10 Gen. v. 29.

11 [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.]

12 2 Cor. xi. 14.

13 Jer. xxiv. 3.

14 Ps. civ. 15.

15 Deut. xxxii. 33.

16 Joel ii. 21-23. The last words of the quotation are from the LXX. version.-Tr.

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