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297 The great mysteries, i.e., the Sacrificial Death of Christ upon the Cross.
312 Triple, a quotation from Prov. xxii. 20. The meaning of the Hebrew is doubtful. Clémencet, not noticing this, suggests that the allusion is to the law being twice inscribed on tables of stone, once on the heart by the Spirit.
322 Titles. These are more fully dealt with Orat. xxx. 17-21.
333 A man. A Greek scholiast says that this was Origen (ob. A.D. 235), who gives this interpretation in his commentary on the prophecy of Jonah. Elias says that he had read it in the commentary of Methodius (fl. A.D. 300), who usually combats Origen's interpretations. We know that Origen did comment on the book of Job, and that Methodius wrote on one at least of the Minor Prophets: but both these works have been lost, so that we cannot absolutely decide the question, though the assurance with which both the notes are written makes us hesitate to consider either of them merely a happy guess. Combefis thinks that S. Greg. alludes to one of his own instructors: the gen. with a'ko/nw (cf. Plato, Georg., 503. c.) favours this view, but the interpretation may well have been derived from one of the earlier writers.
337 Shall be worked out. This promise, as Elias tells us, was fulfilled by S. Gregory in his History of Ezekiel the Prophet, a work no longer extant.
338 Of the Church. S. Gregory seems to describe a series of three steps. (1) the Church, of which all should be worthy members, (2) the Sanctuary, reserved for the Priests, (3) the Throne of the Bishop. Clémencet refers both 1 and 2 to the ministry. If we suppose S. Gregory's own position to be referred to, the third would be applicable to his office under his father, which is held by Thomassin to have been that of Vicar-General (Disc. Eccles., I., ii., 7 §§ 2, 3). A similar post was offered to him by S. Basil (Orat., xliii., 39).
341 1 Sam. xv. 26; cf. Hos. iv. 6.
355 Of the land. lit., "external," i.e. the Roman laws, which gave absolute power to a father over his children.
361 1 Sam. ii. 8; Ps. cxiii. 7.