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| The Passage Explained; The Queens, the Holy Souls Before the Deluge; The Concubines, the Souls of the Prophets; The Divine Seed for Spiritual Offspring in the Books of the Prophets; The Nuptials of the Word in the Prophets as Though Clandestine. PREVIOUS SECTION - NEXT SECTION - HELP
Chapter IV.—The Passage2691
Explained; The Queens, the Holy Souls
Before the Deluge; The Concubines, the Souls of the Prophets; The
Divine Seed for Spiritual Offspring in the Books of the Prophets; The
Nuptials of the Word in the Prophets as Though Clandestine.
Now if any one should have a doubt about these
things, inasmuch as the points are nowhere fully wrought out, and
should still wish more fully to perceive their spiritual significance,
namely, what the queens and the concubines and the virgins are, we will
say that these may have been spoken concerning those who have been
conspicuous for their righteousness from the beginning throughout the
progress of time; as of those before the flood, and those after the
flood, and so on of those after Christ. The Church, then, is the
spouse. The queens are those royal souls before the deluge, who
became well-pleasing to God, that is, those about Abel and Seth and
Enoch. The concubines2692
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[Here allegorizing is refuted and perishes in fanciful and
over-strained analogies.] | those after the flood, namely, those of
the prophets, in whom, before the Church was betrothed to the Lord,
being united to them after the manner of concubines, He sowed true words in an
incorrupt and pure philosophy, so that, conceiving faith, they might
bring forth to Him the Spirit of salvation. For such fruits do
the souls bring forth with whom Christ has had intercourse, fruits
which bear an ever-memorable renown. For if you will look at the
books of Moses, or David, or Solomon, or Isaiah, or of the prophets who
follow, O virgins, you will see what offspring they have left, for the
saving of life, from their intercourse with the Son of God. Hence
the Word has with deep perception called the souls of the prophets
concubines, because He did not espouse them openly, as He did the
Church, having killed for her the fatted calf.2693
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