¹ Hos. iv. 3 ; Zeph. 1.3.

² Eccles. viii. 11.

³ James iii. 10.

⁴ Pearls, he means, have their beauty by nature and so are like Christ ; other stones must be graven and so are like created natures.

⁵ Job. xli. 4 ; Ps. lxxi. 14.

⁶ See Note on Hymn V.4 (below)

⁷ Cephas; i.e., Rock.

⁸ I.e. with the mysteries typified in the pearl, women are clothed with light at Baptism.

⁹ Job. xxviii. 19 (Pesh.).

¹⁰ Acts viii. 27.

¹¹ Jer. xiii. 23 ; Is. 1. 18.

¹² Ps. lxviii. 31.

¹³ 1 Kings x. 1.