28 I Sam. xxvi., xxvi.

29 2 Kings ii. 20.

30 Matt. v.13.

1 There is perhaps an allusion here to the pool of Siloam, which comes from the root employed in the original.

2 This name is given by St. E. to the Father, to suggest to the mind that there was a period when the Father had not begun to work by His Word.

3 St. E. seems to mean, that whereas the alterations man undergoes in his body tend ultimately to decay the same when undergone by our Lord tended to life.

4 Ps. xcvii. ii.

5 Zech. iii. 3.

6 Mark ix. 49.

7 Ps. lxix. 4. Comp. Luke xvi. 6.

8 Luke ii. 46.

9 John x.9, xiv.6

10 Alluding to the wave-offering, Levit. xxiii. II, which was ordinarily interpreted of Christ.

11 Ps. lxi. 3.

12 Prov. xviii. 10.

13 Mat. xxv. 40.

14 Allusion is here made perhaps to Eccles. x. 2, "a wise man's heart is at his right hand, but a fool's heart is at his left."

15 Luke viii.33.

1 Isa 5.2.

2 (Conum.)

3 (Nisan.)

4 Lev xxiii. 10.

5 Ezek. xlvii. 10, etc.

6 Luke xxiii.43.

7 St. E. seems to blend here the account of the withering of the fig-tree and that of Zacchaeus climbing into the wild fig tree, as the Peshitto renders it.

8 John iv. 42.

9 Mat. xiii. 47.

10 Mat. xviii. 10.

11 Luke xv. 7.

12 Flowers used at Easter in the Churches are here alluded to.

13 John xx. 17.

14 This was a common name of old for St. John Baptist, with allusion to St. John i. 23

15 Luke xiii. 32.

16 It may be well to observe once for all, that true is often use, as in John xv. 1, for "real," in opposition to "typical," as in Scripture, so in the Fathers.

17 The same Syriac verb means to pass, and to transgress.

18 It might seem from this that there were some days kept in their honour in the East.

19 Gen. xli. 49.

20 John vi. I, etc.

21 p. 227.

22 Mat. xv. 36.

23 Mat. xiv. 17.

24 Ps. xvi. 5

25 Prov. ix. 5.

26 John xii. 24

27 Mat. xiii. 30.

28 I Cor. x. 20.

29 Prov. xx. 1.

30 Gen. ix. 23.

31 Gen. iii. 15.

32 I Sam. v.4.

33 Mat. xxv. 33

34 Judg. xiv. 6.

35 Mat. v.28.

36 Ps. cxxxix. 16.

37 Mat. xxvii 52.

38 p.11. n. d.

39 Jer. xxxi. 22



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