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| The Eighty Concubines, What; The Knowledge of the Incarnation Communicated to the Prophets.
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Chapter
VI.—The Eighty Concubines, What; The Knowledge of the Incarnation
Communicated to the Prophets.
It still remains to speak concerning the
concubines. To those who lived after the deluge the knowledge of
God was henceforth more remote, and they needed other instruction to
ward off the evil, and to be their helper, since idolatry was already
creeping in. Therefore God, that the race of man might not be
wholly destroyed, through forgetfulness of the things which were good,
commanded His own Son to reveal to the prophets His own future
appearance in the world by the flesh, in which the joy and knowledge of
the spiritual eighth day2697
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Here, and in many other places, the prevalent millenarian belief
of the first centuries is expressed by Methodius.—Tr. [See Barnabas, vol. i. p. 147, this series; also
Irenæus (same vol.), p. 562, at note 11.] | shall be proclaimed, which would bring
the remission of sins and the resurrection, and that thereby the
passions and corruptions of men would be circumcised. And,
therefore, He called by the name of the eighty virgins the list of the
prophets from Abraham, on account of the dignity of circumcision, which
embraces the number eight, in accordance with which also the law is
framed; because they first, before the Church was espoused to the Word,
received the divine seed, and foretold the circumcision of the
spiritual eighth day.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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