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| Danger of Having to Take Part in Heathenish Rites, and Revels.
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Chapter VI.—Danger of
Having to Take Part in Heathenish Rites, and Revels.
The handmaid of God477
| 477 Comp. Luke i. 38, and de Cult. Fem., b. ii. c. i.
ad init. |
dwells amid alien labours; and among these (labours), on all the
memorial days478
| 478 Nominibus; al.
honoribus. | of demons, at all
solemnities of kings, at the beginning of the year, at the beginning of
the month, she will be agitated by the odour of incense. And she
will have to go forth (from her house) by a gate wreathed with laurel,
and hung with lanterns, as from some new consistory of public lusts;
she will have to sit with her husband ofttimes in club meetings,
oft-times in taverns; and, wont as she was formerly to minister to the
“saints,” will sometimes have to minister to the
“unjust.”479
| 479
Sanctis—iniquis. Comp. St. Paul’s antithesis of
ἀδίκων and ἁγίων in 1 Cor. vi. 1. | And will she
not hence recognise a prejudgment of her own damnation, in that she
tends them whom (formerly) she was expecting to
judge?480
whose hand will she
yearn after? of whose cup will she partake? What will her husband
sing481
to her, or she to her husband? From the
tavern, I suppose, she who sups upon God482
| 482 So Oehler understands
(apparently) the meaning to be. The translator is inclined to
think that, adopting Oehler’s reading, we may perhaps take the
“Dei” with “aliquid,” and the
“cœnans” absolutely, and render, “From the
tavern, no doubt, while supping, she will hear some (strain) of
God,” in allusion to the former sentence, and to such passages as
Ps. cxxxvii. 4 (in the LXX. it is cxxxvi. 4). | will
hear somewhat! From hell what mention of God (arises)? what
invocation of Christ? Where are the fosterings of faith by the
interspersion of the Scriptures (in conversation)? Where the
Spirit? where refreshment? where the divine benediction? All
things are strange, all inimical, all condemned; aimed by the Evil One
for the attrition of salvation!E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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