³ Heb. vi. 7.

⁴ The Virgin Mother here speaks.

⁵ Ps. lxxii. 15.

⁶ Job. vi. 6.

¹ The Roman Editor points out that this alludes to a rite in the Syrian Liturgy, in which the officiating Priest is instructed to dip one portion of the consecrated bread into the cup and sprinkle the rest with it.

² Mat. xii. 50.

³ Cant. iv. 14.

⁴ Cant. ii. 1.

¹ Ex. i. 16.

² Mat. xii. 15.

³ This passage is to be observed as one of the many in which the Fathers encourage masters to set slaves free, although they pretty uniformly held (as St. E. here seems to do also) that slaves, if they had the choice, should use slavery rather.

⁴ Cant. ii. 3.

⁵ Deut. xxxii. 3

¹ I.e., August.

² I.e., Dayspring.

³ Ps. xcix. 1.

⁴ Is. vi. 2; Mat. xxvi. 53; I Tim. iii. 16.

⁵ Cephas-Petros-stone.

⁶ Is. xl. 12.

⁷ Mark v.9; Luke viii. 30.

⁸ John xii. 24.