is the Holy Church, which is also His bride; to whom the Apostle says, 'Ye are the Body of Christ, and members in particular.' Whole Christ, therefore, is Head and Body, like an entire man for the woman was both made from man and belongs to man; and it was said of the first marriage, 'They twain shall be one flesh.' But this the Apostle explains as a mystery, that it was not said without meaning of those two persons, but because in them was already prefigured Christ and His Church. For thus the Apostle expounds it: They twain,' he says, 'shall be one flesh this is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.' He calls, moreover, Adam himself the figure of Him that was to come: who is,' he says, 'the figure of Him that was to come.' If then Adam be the figure of Him that was to come, just as Eve was made from the side of Adam while he slept, so from the side of the Lord as He slept, that is, as He was

dying in Hi the cross b Sacraments be formed

be spoken nor even conceived. For it
a great thing, and inerressible; and ev
they sawin part darkly, as says the Apostle

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face to face. Behold, they who s
darkly burst forth like this! What shall
we be when we shall see face to face th
with which they travailed in birth in the
heart, and could not with their tong
bring forth, that men might understand
it? For what necessity was there that e
should say, "They shall be drunken with
the fullness of Thy house?" He sought
word whereby to express from human
things what he would say; and because
he saw that men drowning themselves
drunkenness receive indeed wine without
measure, but lose their senses, he s
what to say: for when that ineffable jor
seen received, the human soul in

perishes, and becomes divine, and
is denken with the fullness of God's

Wherefore, also, in another si

sal Dy cup inebriating how

weigh down those whom ot break down, how great hey endure ! what marches, at burning suns; what priwounds, what dangers! ering all these things, they ghts on nothing but those epose in old age, at which hot whether they will ever it is, the steps of a good ured by the Lord, and he His way. This is the point began. If thou dost delight of Christ, and art truly a he is a Christian indeed despise the way of Christ, in following Christ's way sufferings), do not desire y other way than that by Himself went. It appears it is the very way of safety: naps, is delightful; but it is S.-Hom. on Ps. 37.

they are one life, one mind, one essence. -On the Trinity, x. § 18.

BY

XXVIII.

what understanding shall man comprehend God, when he comprehends not his own intellect, whereby he would fain comprehend Him?—Ib. v. § 2.

xxix.

MOST lightly is the Holy Spirit, be

ing Himself God, called also the Gift of God. By which gift, what else is properly to be understood but Charity (or Divine Love), which leads up to God, and without which any other gift of God leads not up to God?-Ib. xv. c. 18.

XXX.

OUR Lord Jesus Christ is the Ruler

and Spouse and Redeemer of the Church, He our Head. And truly if He be a Head, He has a Body. Now His Body

is the Holy Church, which is also His bride; to whom the Apostle says, 'Ye are the Body of Christ, and members in particular.' Whole Christ, therefore, is Head and Body, like an entire man for the woman was both made from man and belongs to man; and it was said of the first marriage, 'They twain shall be one flesh.' But this the Apostle explains as a mystery, that it was not said without meaning of those two persons, but because in them was already prefigured Christ and His Church. For thus the Apostle expounds it: They twain,' he says, 'shall be one flesh this is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the Church.' He calls, moreover, Adam himself the figure of Him that was to come: 'who is,' he says, 'the figure of Him that was to come.' If then Adam be the figure of Him that was to come, just as Eve was made from the side of Adam while he slept, so from the side of the Lord as He slept, that is, as He was