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The Second Homily: 11

11 Ezek. i. 22, 26, 27.

12 Or, by His throne.

13 Or example, kato/rqwma.

14 Or, truth.

15 Amos viii. 10.

16 Cf. Jer. xxxi.

17 Or, justifying observances, dikaiw/mata.

18 Cf. John 1.

19 John xvii. 2.

20 Or, ye will find eternal life. John v. 39.

21 Rom. v. 14.

22 o9moiou/menoj.

23 Or, joy.

24 Luke i. 26, 27 [Marah = bitterness, Exod xv. 23.]

25 Ex. xii. 2. [The name Mary is misinterpreted, infra]

26 Luke i. 41.

27 Luke i. 41.

28 Or, and with the bound feet of her child in the womb.

29 Luke i. 42, 43.

30 Or, resurrection.

31 Luke i. 46, etc.

32 Gen. xvii. 11; Rom. iv. 11.

33 Luke i. 51.

34 Isa. xiv. 14.

35 Isa. xiv. 15.

36 Matt. xv. 27.

37 Luke i. 54.

38 Ps. xviii. 9.

39 me/xrij e0autou=.

40 Luke ii. 7.

41 Ps. lxxx. 1.

42 e0n toi=j a@kroij tw=n nohtw=n basileiw=n. Others read no/tou = in the high places of the kingdoms of the south.

43 The close is otherwise given thus: To whom be the glory and the power unto the ages of the ages. Amen.

1 "The Third Discourse by the same sainted Gregory, Bishop of Neo-Caesareia, surnamed Thaumaturgus, on the Annunciation to the all-holy Virgin Mary, mother of God."

2 Luke i. 26, 27.

3 Luke i. 36.

4 Isa. vii. 14.

5 Isa. xxix. 11.

6 Ps. lxxxvii. 3.

7 Or, angelic.

8 u9perorioij me/lesin.

9 Or, and after her.

10 Gen. xviii.

11 Ps. lxxii. 6. [A sub-allusion, in bad taste, to Semele.]

12 numfoto/ke. The Latin version gives it as = sponsa, simul et mater. [Apostrophe not worship.]

13 i0so/r0r9opon.

14 Eph. ii. 14.

1 "A Discourse by our sainted Father Gregory, Bishop of Neo-Caesareia, surnamed Thaumaturgus, on the Holy Theophany, or, as the title is also given, on the Holy Lights."

2 katadu/sewj.

3 Matt. iii. 13.

4 Or, armies.

5 Or subaltern, e0n th|\ stratiwtikh|= morfh|=.

6 Matt iii. 14.

7 Or, because for my sake Thou hast been born as I have been.

8 Ps. civ. 2.

9 Matt. iii. 3; Mark i. 3; Luke iii. 4; John i. 23.

10 John i. 1.

11 Heb. i. 3.

12 Or, of the perfect Light; to wit, the Father.

13 John i. 9.

14 Luke iii. 16; John i. 27.

15 Ps. civ. 2.

16 Ps. cxxxvi. 6.

17 John i. 29.

18 Or, the Hebrews.

19 Matt. iii. 13.

20 Or, with my name.

21 Or, to the Saviour's object.

22 Matt. iii. 17, xvii. 5; Mark i. 11; Luke ix. 35.

23 John x. 30.

24 John xiv. 9.

25 John xiv. 28.

26 Matt. xvi. 13.

27 Matt. xvi. 16.

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