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at your right hand, arrayed in golden robes, embroidered. He is now speaking of the Church, of whom we have learned in the Song of Songs, that she is the one perfect dove of Christ, who receives into the right hand place of Christ those who are known for good works, separating them from the wicked, just as the shepherd separates the lambs from the kids. Therefore the queen stands, the soul joined to the bridal Word, the one not ruled by sin, but partaking of the kingdom of Christ, at the right hand of the Savior in golden robes; that is, in spiritual doctrines woven together and embroidered, gravely and sacredly adorning herself. But since the doctrines are not of one kind, but various and manifold, containing moral and natural and what are called contemplative discourses, for this reason the word says the robe of the bride is embroidered. Hear, O daughter, and see, and incline your ear, and forget your people, and your father's house; and the king will desire your beauty; for he is your Lord, and 29.409 they will worship him. He calls the Church to the hearing and the keeping of the commandments, and makes her his own through this address, calling her daughter; as it were, making her his child through love. Hear, O daughter, and see. He teaches her to have her mind trained for contemplation through the word, See. Consider, he says, creation, and having benefited from the order within it, thus ascend to the contemplation of the Creator. Then, bending her high neck of arrogance, Incline, he says, your ear. Do not run away to outside myths, but accept the humble voice in the evangelical word; Incline your ear to the teaching here, so that you may forget those wicked customs and the teachings of your fathers. Therefore, Forget your people, and your father's house. For everyone who practices sin has been born of the devil. Cast out for me, he says, the teachings of demons, forget sacrifices, nocturnal dances, myths that inflame to fornication and all licentiousness. For this reason I have called you my daughter, so that you may hate the father who formerly begot you for destruction. For if through forgetfulness you wipe away the stains of wicked teachings, having received back your own beauty, you will appear desirable to the bridegroom and king. For he is your Lord, and they will worship him. He indicates the necessity of submission through the words, He is your Lord. And all creation will worship him. Because At the name of Jesus Christ every knee will bow, of things in heaven, and things on earth, and things under the earth. And the daughter of Tyre with gifts. The rich among the people will entreat your face. It seems that the excess of idolatry was practiced in the land of Canaan. And the metropolis of Canaan is Tyre. Therefore, exhorting the Church to obedience, the word says, And the daughter of Tyre will come one day with gifts. And the rich of the people will worship your face with gifts. He did not say, They will worship you with gifts, but, Your face. For the Church is not worshipped, but the head of the Church, Christ, whom Scripture has called the face. All the glory of the king's daughter is within, robed in golden tassels, embroidered. Virgins will be brought to the king after her. Since she was cleansed from the 29.412 old teachings of wickedness, having obeyed the teaching, and having forgotten her people, and her father's house, the Holy Spirit relates the things concerning her. And since he saw the purity in secret, All, he says, the glory of the king's daughter, that is, of the bride of Christ, who has now become through adoption the daughter of the king, is from within. The word exhorts us to proceed to the inmost mysteries of the ecclesiastical glory, as within

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δεξιῶν σου, ἐν ἱματισμῷ διαχρύσῳ περιβεβλημένη, πεποικιλμέ νη. Περὶ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας ἤδη διαλέγεται, περὶ ἧς ἐν τῷ Ἄσματι μεμαθήκαμεν, ὅτι μία ἐστὶ τελεία τοῦ Χριστοῦ περιστερὰ, ἥτις εἰς τὴν δεξιὰν χώραν τοῦ Χριστοῦ λαμβάνει τοὺς ἐπ' ἔργοις ἀγαθοῖς γνω ριζομένους, διακρίνουσα ἀπὸ τῶν φαύλων, ὥσπερ ὁ ποιμὴν διακρίνει τοὺς ἄρνας ἀπὸ τῶν ἐρίφων. Παρ ίσταται οὖν ἡ βασίλισσα, ἡ τῷ νυμφικῷ Λόγῳ καθηρμοσμένη ψυχὴ, ἡ μὴ βασιλευομένη ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἀλλὰ τῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ βασιλείας μετέχου σα, ἐκ δεξιῶν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἐν ἱματισμῷ διαχρύσῳ· τουτέστιν, ἐν δόγμασι νοεροῖς καθυφασμένοις καὶ πε ποικιλμένοις, σοβαρῶς ἑαυτὴν καὶ ἱεροπρεπῶς κατακοσμοῦσα. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ οὐ μονοειδῆ τὰ δόγματα, ἀλλὰ ποικίλα καὶ πολύτροπα, ἠθικούς τε καὶ φυσικοὺς καὶ τοὺς ἐποπτικοὺς λεγομένους περιέχοντα λόγους, διὰ τοῦτο πεποικιλμένον εἶναι τὸν ἱματισμὸν τῆς νύμφης ὁ λόγος φησίν. Ἄκουσον, θύγατερ, καὶ ἴδε, καὶ κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου, καὶ ἐπιλάθου τοῦ λαοῦ σου, καὶ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου· καὶ ἐπιθυμήσει ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ κάλλους σου· ὅτι αὐτός ἐστι Κύριός σου, καὶ 29.409 προσκυνήσουσιν αὐτῷ. Προσκαλεῖται τὴν Ἐκ κλησίαν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκρόασιν καὶ τὴν τήρησιν τῶν προσ τασσομένων, καὶ προσοικειοῦται αὐτὴν διὰ τῆς προσ ηγορίας, θυγατέρα αὐτὴν προσαγορεύων· οἱονεὶ τεκνοποιούμενος αὐτὴν διὰ τῆς ἀγάπης. Ἄκουσον, θύγατερ, καὶ ἴδε. ∆ιδάσκει αὐτὴν γεγυμνασμένον ἔχειν τὸν νοῦν πρὸς θεωρίαν διὰ τοῦ, Ἴδε. Κατανόη σον, φησὶ, τὴν κτίσιν, καὶ ὠφεληθεῖσα ἀπὸ τῆς κατ' αὐτὴν τάξεως, οὕτως ἀνάβαινε πρὸς τὴν τοῦ κτί σαντος θεωρίαν. Εἶτα κάμπτων αὐτῆς τὸν ὑψηλὸν τῆς ἀλαζονείας τράχηλον, Κλῖνον, φησὶ, τὸ οὖς σου. Μὴ ἀποδράμῃς πρὸς τοὺς ἔξω μύθους, ἀλλὰ κατάδεξαι τὸ ταπεινὸν τῆς ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελικῷ λόγῳ φωνῆς· Κλῖνον τὸ οὖς σου πρὸς τὴν ὧδε διδασκα λίαν, ἵνα ἐπιλάθῃ τῶν μοχθηρῶν ἐθῶν ἐκείνων καὶ τῶν πατρικῶν διδαγμάτων. ∆ιὸ Ἐπιλάθου τοῦ λαοῦ σου, καὶ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ πατρός σου. Πᾶς γὰρ ὁ ποιῶν τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἐκ τοῦ διαβόλου γεγέν νηται. Ἔκβαλέ μοι, φησὶ, τὰς τῶν δαιμόνων διδα σκαλίας, ἐπιλάθου θυσιῶν, χορείας νυκτερινῆς, μύ θων εἰς πορνείαν καὶ πᾶσαν ἀσέλγειαν ἐκκαιόντων. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο θυγατέρα σε ἐμαυτοῦ προσηγόρευσα, ἵνα μισήσῃς τὸν πατέρα τὸν πρότερόν σε γεννήσαντα εἰς ἀπώλειαν. Ἐὰν γὰρ διὰ τῆς λήθης ἀπαλείψῃς τοὺς σπίλους τῶν πονηρῶν μαθημάτων, ἀπολαβοῦσα τὸ ἴδιον ἑαυτῆς κάλλος, ἐπιθυμητὴ φανήσῃ τῷ νυμφίῳ καὶ βασιλεῖ. Ὅτι αὐτός ἐστι Κύριός σου, καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν αὐτῷ. Τὸ ἀναγκαῖον τῆς ὑπο ταγῆς παραδηλοῖ διὰ τοῦ, Αὐτός ἐστι Κύριός σου. Προσκυνήσουσι δὲ αὐτῷ, πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις. ∆ιότι Ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ πᾶν γόνυ κάμψει ἐπουρανίων, καὶ ἐπιγείων, καὶ καταχθονίων. Καὶ θυγάτηρ Τύρου ἐν δώροις. Τὸ πρόσωπόν σου λιταν εύσουσιν οἱ πλούσιοι τοῦ λαοῦ. ∆οκεῖ ἡ ὑπερβο λὴ τῆς εἰδωλολατρείας ἐν τῇ Χανανίτιδι χώρᾳ ἐπιτε τηδεῦσθαι. Μητρόπολις δὲ τῆς Χαναὰν ἡ Τύρος. Προ τρεπόμενος οὖν εἰς ὑπακοὴν τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν ὁ λόγος, Καὶ θυγάτηρ, φησὶ, Τύρου ἥξει ποτὲ μετὰ δώρων. Καὶ τὸ σὸν δὲ πρόσωπον οἱ πλούσιοι τοῦ λαοῦ προσ κυνήσουσιν ἐν δώροις. Οὐκ εἶπε, Σὲ προσκυνή σουσιν ἐν δώροις, ἀλλὰ, Τὸ πρόσωπον τὸ σόν. Οὐ γὰρ Ἐκκλησία προσκυνεῖται, ἀλλὰ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας ἡ κεφαλὴ ὁ Χριστὸς, ὃν πρόσωπον ὠνόμασεν ἡ Γραφή. Πᾶσα ἡ δόξα τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως ἔσωθεν, ἐν κροσσωτοῖς χρυσοῖς περιβεβλημένη, πεποικιλμένη. Ἀπενεχθήσονται τῷ βασιλεῖ παρ θένοι ὀπίσω αὐτῆς. Ἐπειδὴ ἐκαθάρθη ἀπὸ τῶν 29.412 παλαιῶν διδαγμάτων τῆς πονηρίας, ὑπακούσασα τῷ διδάγματι, καὶ ἐπιλαθομένη τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτῆς, καὶ τοῦ οἵκου τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῆς, διηγεῖται τὰ περὶ αὐτῆς τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον. Καὶ ἐπειδὴ εἶδε τὴν ἐν τῷ κρυπτῷ καθαρότητα, Πᾶσα, φησὶν, ἡ δόξα τῆς θυγατρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως, τουτέστι, τῆς Χριστοῦ νύμφης, τῆς γενομένης λοιπὸν διὰ τῆς υἱοθεσίας θυγατρὸς τοῦ βασιλέως, ἕσωθέν ἐστι. Προτρέπει ὁ λόγος ἐπὶ τὰ ἐν δοτάτω χωρεῖν τῆς ἐκκλησιαστικῆς δόξης μυστήρια, ὡς ἔνδον