85 Isa. xl. 1.
86 Heb. i. 3.
87 Ezek. xliv. 2.
88 Isa. vi. 6.
89 Judg. vi. 37.
90 2 Sam. xxiii. 17.
91 Exod. xxxv. 17.
92 Ps. civ. 2.
93 Jer. xxiii. 24.
94 Ephes. vi. 16.
95 Exod. xx. 12.
96 [Apostrophes like the above; panegyrical, not odes of worship.]
97 1 Tim. i. 17.
98 Baruch iii. 24, 25.
99 [This must have been interpolated after the Council of Ephesus, A.D. 431. The whole Oration is probably after that date.]
100 Luke ii. 38.
101 Deut. xviii. 15-19.
102 Isa. vi. 4.
103 Isa. vi. 9; Acts xxviii. 26.
104 Ps. xlvi. 8; Isa. vii. 11.
105 Luke ii. 32.
106 Ps. xviii. 8.
107 Ecclus. xxii. 7.
108 Matt. xxiii. 38.
109 Matt. xvii. 7.
110 Isa. vi. 3, 4, i.
111 Ps. xlviii. 2; Matt. v. 35; Isa. i. 26.
112 Isa. lx. 1; Ps. lxxxvii. 3; Ps. cxxxii. 16.
113 Isa. xii. 6.
114 Heb. ii. 16.
115 Luke xii. 49.
116 [Here is an apostrophe to the Church, a hymn to "the Elect Lady." See, illustrating note 17, p. 390, supra]
117 trikumi/aj, stormy waves. Latin, decumani fluctus. Methodius perhaps alludes to Diocletian's persecution, in which he perished as a martyr.-Tr.
118 Luke xii. 32.
119 Isa. liv. 1.
120 1 Pet. ii. 9.
121 [He again apostrophizes the Blessed Theotocos, but in language hardly appropriate to the period preceding Cyril of Alexandria.]
122 [Not so, for he ends with a noble strain of worship to the Son of God. This expression suggests interpolation.]
123 Hab. iii. 3.
1 [Dupin hardly credits this oration to Methodius. See elucidation, p. 398.
2 Ps. lxxxiv. 8.
3 John vi. 27.
4 [Evidently a homily for Palm Sunday, the first day of the Paschal week.]
5 Ps. lxxxv. 9, xcv. 1, xlvii. 1.
6 Luke xix. 27.
7 Ps. lxii. 8.
8 Ps. cxviii. 26; Matt. xxi. 9; Mark xi. 9; Luke xix. 38; John xii. 13.
9 Gen. xxvii. 29.
10 Ps. cxlviii. 11, 12.
11 2 Sam. vi. 14.
12 Ps. viii. 2.
13 Mal. iv. 6; Luke i. 17.
14 Luke x. 24.
15 Gal. ii. 9.
16 Ps. lxviii. 4, 34.
17 Matt. xxi. 5.
18 Gen. xlix. 10.
19 Ps. cxlviii. 9.
20 Isa. vi. 3.
21 Ezek. iii. 22.
22 Luke xix. 37, 38.
23 Matt. xxi. 10.
24 John i. 5.
25 Isa. xlii. 18-20.
26 John ix.
27 John v. 5.
28 John xi. 44.
29 Matt. xiv. 26.
30 John ii. 7.
31 John vi. 11.
32 Luke viii. 29, etc.
33 Dan. iii. 56 (LXX.).
34 Matt. xxi. 15.
35 Luke i. 17.
36 John v. 39.
37 Zech. ix. 9.
38 Ps. viii. 2.
39 Luke i. 17.
40 Isa. vi. 10.
41 Matt. xii. 27.
42 Isa. xxix. 22, 24.
43 Luke ii. 29.
44 1 Pet. v. 4.
45 Matt. xii. 29.