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of which pride is by nature the offspring, being a composite state of evil, having a voluntary denial of God, and an ignorance of the equality according to nature.

39. The spiritual kinship according to the soul, loosens the disposition's relation to the flesh; but binds it to God, having been nailed fast according to longing.

40. He calls the symbols of the law "night," under which the law operates; in which it is not possible to find enlightenment of the soul unless they are understood spiritually.

41. That on account of the great and by no word measured mystery of the divine economy, the Church of the gentiles, he says, was called a great city to God.

42. According to its essence, he says, the truth precedes the types; but according to its manifestation, the types chronologically precede the truth. Therefore, since Jonah, having anticipated the truth, prefigured it typically in himself, remaining in the belly of the whale for three days and three nights; "Yet three days," he says, meaning the three days of the Lord's burial and resurrection, after which, the error and ignorance of the gentiles will be destroyed.

43. Clearly of faith. 44. A summary exposition of the interpretation of the name of Jonah, according to the

power attaching to it concerning each of the persons and modes brought forth.

45. Clearly the law. 46. The work of the natural law, he says, is the volitional of all toward

all a like-minded relation. 57. Rules demonstrative of the characteristic of the natural law

property. 48. The written law, he says, by preventing injustice through fear, accustoms one toward the

just; and in time, habit creates a just-loving disposition; by which a stable state toward the good is produced, bringing on a forgetfulness of preceding wickedness.

49. Demonstrative definitions of the operation of each of the aforementioned laws.

50. That to have one's neighbor as oneself is a concern only for life with respect to being, which belongs to the natural law. But to love one's neighbor as oneself is also to take thought for one's neighbor with respect to well-being according to virtue; which the written law enjoins. But to love one's neighbor more than oneself is the special characteristic of the law of grace.

51. (736) Summary demonstrative definitions of the property of the three days that sets good things aright.

52. The way of the three days, he says, is the perfection, through the three laws, of the one who keeps them according to righteousness.

53. Another, more subtle contemplation concerning the booth and the gourd and the worm and the scorching heat and the sun.

54. The one who is hindered from the occasions for bodily pleasure, he says, learns the principles of providence which restrains the flammable material of the passions. But the one who receives the scourgings that lead to bodily pain is taught the principles of judgment, which purges him of preceding defilements by involuntary pains.

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ὧν ὁ τῦφος εἶναι γέννημα πέφυκεν, ἕξις κακίας ὑπάρχων σύνθετος, Θεοῦ μέν ἄρνησιν ἑκούσιον ἔχουσα, καί τῆς κατά τήν φύσιν ἰσοτιμίας ἄγνοιαν.

λθ΄. Ἡ διά πνεύματος κατά ψυχήν ἀγχιστεία, σαρκός μέν λύει τήν σχέσιν τῆς προαιρέσεως· Θεῷ δέ προσδεσμεῖ κατά πόθον προσηλωθεῖσαν.

μ΄. Νύκτα φησί, τά νομικά σύμβολα, ὑφ᾿ ἅ ὁ νόμος τελεῖ· ἐν τοἷς οὐκ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ψυχῆς φωτισμόν μή νοουμένοις πνευματικῶς.

μα΄. Ὅτι διά τό μέγα, καί μηδενί λόγῳ μετρούμενον τῆς θείας οἰκονομίας μυστήριον, ἡ τῶν ἐθνῶν Ἐκκλησία, φησί, πόλις μεγάλη τῷ Θεῷ προσηγορεύθη.

μβ΄. Κατά μέν τήν οὐσίαν ἡ ἀλήθεια, φησί, προσηγεῖται τῶν τύπων· κατά δέ τήν ἔκφανσιν, οἱ τύποι χρονικῶς προηγοῦνται τῆς ἀληθείας. Οὐκοῦν ἐπειδή προλαβών ἐν ἑαυτῶ τυπικῶς τήν ἀλήθειαν προδιέγραψεν Ἰωνᾶς, μείνας ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ τοῦ κήτουςς τρεῖς ἡμέρας καί τρεῖς νύκτας· Ἔτι τρεῖς ἡμέραι, φησί, τάς τρεῖς ἡμέρας τῆς τοῦ Κυρίου ταφῆς καί ἀναστάσεως λέγων, μεθ᾿ ἅς, ἡ τῶν ἐθνῶν καταστραφήσεται πλάνου καί ἀγνωσία.

μγ΄. ∆ηλονότι τῆς πίστεως. μδ΄. Ἐπίτομος ἔκθεσις τῆς ἑρμηνείας τοῦ ὀνόματος Ἰωνᾶ, κατά τήν

ἐπικειμένην αὐτῷ περί ἑκάστου τῶν ἐκφερομένων προσώπων τε καί τρόπων δύναμιν.

με΄. Νόμος δηλονότι. μστ΄. Ἔργον εἶναι τοῦ φυσικοῦ νόμου φησί, τήν γνωμικήν πάντων πρός

πάντας ὁμόγνωμον σχέσιν. νζ΄. Κανόνες ἀποδεικτικοί τῆς τοῦ φυσικοῦ νόμου χαρακτηριστικῆς

ἰδιότητος. μη΄. Ὁ γραπτός νόμος, φησί, κωλύων φόβῳ τήν ἀδικίαν, ἐθίζει πρός τό

δίκαιον· χρόνῳ δέ, τό ἔθος ποιεῖ διάθεσιν φιλοδίκαιον· ὑφ᾿ ἧς ἡ παγία πρός τό καλόν ἕξις ἐπιγίνεται, λήθην προλαβούσης πονηρίας ἐπάγουσα.

μθ΄. Ὅροι τῆς ἑκάστου τῶν προῤῥηθέντων νόμων ἐνεργείας ἀποδεικτικοί.

ν΄. Ὅτι τό μέν σχεῖν ὡς ἑαυτόν τόν πλησίον, μόνης ἐστί φροντίδος τῆς πρός τό εἶναι ζωῆς, ὅοερ φυσικοῦ νόμου καθέστηκε. Τό δέ τόν πλησίον ἀγαπᾷν ὡς ἑαυτόν, καί τοῦ πρός τό εὖ εἶναι κατ᾿ ἀρετήν ἐστι προνοεῖσθαι τοῦ πέλας· ὅπερ ὁ γραπτός ἐπιτρέπει νόμος. Τό δέ ὑπέρ ἑαυτόν ἀγαπῆσαι τόν πλησίον, τοῦ νόμου τῆς χάριτός ἐστιν ἰδιώτατον.

να΄. (736) Ὅροι κατ᾿ ἐπιτομήν ἀποδεικτικοί τῆς τῶν τριῶν ἡμερῶν κατορθωτικῆς τῶν καλῶν ἰδιότητος.

νβ΄. Ἡ ὁδός τῶν τριῶν ἡμερῶν ἐστί φησιν, ἡ διά τῶν τριῶν νόμων τοῦ φυλάττοντος αὐτούς κατά δικαιοσύνην τελείωσις.

νγ΄. Ἄλλη θεωρία λεπτοτέρα περί τῆς σκηνῆς καί τῆς κολοκύνθης καί τοῦ σκώληκος καί τοῦ καύσωνος καί τοῦ ἡλίου.

νδ΄. Ὁ κωλυόμενος τῶν πρός ἡδονήν σώματος ἀφορμῶν, φησί, μανθάνει προνοίας λόγους ἐπεχούσης τήν ἐξαπτικήν ὕλην τῶν παθῶν. Ὁ δέ τάς πρός ὀδύνην σώματος δεχόμενος μάστιγας, διδάσκεται κρίσεως λόγους, προλαβόντων μολυσμῶν ἀκουσίοις πόνοις αὐτόν καθαιρούσης.