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suffering, having risen he joined in marriage at Cana; for Cana is interpreted "she who has acquired." And who is "she who has acquired" but the heiress of whom the psalmist spoke in the fifth psalm, "for her that inherits," and so on? For this was truly a blessed marriage, taking its occasion from that type. For there was a perceptible marriage in Cana of Galilee and water truly became wine; and he was called for two reasons: that he might restrain the watery nature of those who rage in the world, through marriage, unto self-control and solemnity, and that he might correct what was lacking for gladness through toil-releasing wine and grace, that in every way he might stop the mouths of those who rise up against the † Lord, and that he might show that he himself is God with his Father and Holy Spirit, who provides the water to the vine and colors it in it into wine for the gladness of men. But in another place we have related these things at greater length, but here I have run through the argument as in a digression. Nevertheless, the Savior celebrates two Passovers after the beginning of his preaching and suffers at the third, so that what I have already said in detail concerning days and months and consulates is fulfilled. And from all sides their erring argument has failed, since the gospels are in harmony with one another 2.304 and neither of the evangelists has anything contrary to the other. 31. But I will come again to the subject at hand. Luke says again, bearing witness to what I have said in many parts and in many ways, that "it came to pass on the second-first sabbath," in order to show that the first sabbath is the one decreed and spoken of by the Lord from the beginning in the creation of the world, recurring in a cycle of seven days from then until now; this is the first; and the second sabbath is the one decreed by the law. For it says that "you shall take for yourself a male lamb a year old, without blemish, which was the antitype of the Savior, from the tenth of the month, and it shall be kept until the fourteenth, and you shall sacrifice it in the evening on the fourteenth day; and it shall be a sabbath to you, a holy day, and you shall eat unleavened bread seven days and you shall make the seventh day holy." And you see that such a holy day of the lamb is called a second sabbath after the first sabbath, having been sanctified as a sabbath, whether it be a Sunday or a Monday or a Tuesday of the week it might fall upon. But recurring again in seven days, a second is called a first, in order to show from this that not only John signified a period of time of two years and three feasts of the Passover, but also Luke and the others. For thus the law says, "you shall count for yourself seven weeks from the beginning of the sheaf, from putting the sickle to the harvest, and you shall make the seventh week a holy day of the Lord," signifying about Pentecost. For after sacrificing the Passover, within three days, that is, after three days of the lamb, he commanded the sheaf to be brought in, that he might signify the blessed sheaf being raised from the dead after the third day, the earth bringing it forth and he himself being brought back again from 2.305 it in the resurrection from the tomb, and remaining with the disciples for forty days and at the end of Pentecost bringing it into the heavenly places to the Father; the firstborn of the firstborn, the holy firstfruit, the sheaf which he grasped from Mary, the armful embraced in God, the fruit of the womb, the firstfruit of the threshing floor. For no longer after Pentecost does the sickle offer a firstfruit to God; "for the Lord dies no more, death no longer has dominion over him," as it is written. And you see how many mysteries of God the law prefigured and the gospel fulfilled. And from where are we not able to show the clarity of these things? But so as not to extend the discourse to great length, I must return again to what follows. And it is apparent both from the ears of grain and from the harvest and from the disciples

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πάθος, ἀναστὰς γάμον συνῆπτε τῇ Κανᾷ· Κανᾶ γὰρ ἑρμηνεύεται ἡ κτησαμένη. τίς δέ ἐστιν ἡ κτησαμένη ἀλλ' ἢ ἡ κληρονόμος περὶ ἧς ὁ ψαλμῳδὸς ἐν τῷ πέμπτῳ ψαλμῷ ἔλεγεν «ὑπὲρ τῆς κληρονομούσης» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς; γάμος γὰρ ὡς ἀληθῶς οὗτος εὐλογημένος, ἀπὸ τοῦ τύπου ἐκείνου λαβὼν τὴν πρόφασιν. ἐκεῖ μὲν γὰρ γάμος ἦν αἰσθητὸς ἐν Κανᾷ τῆς Γαλιλαίας καὶ ὕδωρ ἀληθῶς οἶνος γεγονός· καὶ ἐκλήθη κατὰ δύο τρόπους, ἵνα τὸ ὑδαρὲς τῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἐκβακχευομένων ἐπιστύψῃ διὰ τοῦ γάμου εἰς σωφροσύνην καὶ εἰς σεμνότητα, καὶ ἵνα τὸ λεῖπον ἐπιδιορθώσηται εἰς εὐφρασίαν διὰ τοῦ λυσιπόνου οἴνου καὶ τῆς χάριτος, ἵνα κατὰ πάντα τρόπον ἀποφράξῃ τὰ στόματα τῶν κατὰ τοῦ † κυρίου ἐπεγειρομένων καὶ ἵνα δείξῃ ὅτι αὐτὸς θεός ἐστι σὺν πατρὶ καὶ ἁγίῳ πνεύματι αὐτοῦ, τὸ ὕδωρ τῇ ἀμπέλῳ παρέχων χροΐζων τε αὐτὸ ἐν αὐτῇ εἰς οἶνον εἰς εὐφρασίαν ἀνθρώπων. ἐν ἄλλῳ δὲ τόπῳ μακρότερον περὶ τούτων διηγησάμεθα, ἐνταῦθα δὲ ὡς ἐν παρεκβάσει διέδραμον τὸν λόγον. ὅμως δύο Πάσχα μὲν μετὰ τὴν ἀρχὴν τοῦ κηρύγματος ὁ σωτὴρ ποιεῖται καὶ τῷ τρίτῳ πάσχει, ὡς πληροῦσθαι τὰ ἤδη μοι κατὰ λεπτὸν εἰρημένα περὶ ἡμερῶν καὶ μηνῶν καὶ ὑπατειῶν. καὶ πανταχόθεν διέπεσεν τούτων πεπλανημένος ὁ λόγος, τῶν εὐαγγελίων συνῳδὰ πρὸς ἄλληλα 2.304 ἐχόντων καὶ μηδ' ὁποτέρου τῶν εὐαγγελιστῶν ἀντίθετα πρὸς τὸν ἕτερον ἔχοντος. 31. Ἐλεύσομαι δὲ πάλιν εἰς τὸ προκείμενον. φάσκει πάλιν ὁ Λουκᾶς, μαρτυρῶν μου τοῖς πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως εἰρημένοις, ὅτι «ἐγένετο ἐν σαββάτῳ δευτεροπρώτῳ», ἵνα δείξῃ σάββατον πρῶτον εἶναι τὸ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς ὁρισθὲν καὶ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου ἐν τῇ κοσμοποιίᾳ, κατὰ περίοδον ἀπὸ τότε ἄχρι τοῦ δεῦρο κατὰ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας ἀνακυκλούμενον, τοῦτο εἶναι πρῶτον· δεύτερον δὲ σάββατον τὸ ἀπὸ νόμου ὡρισμένον. φάσκει γὰρ ὅτι «λήψῃ σαυτῷ πρόβατον ἐνιαύσιον ἄμωμον ἄρσεν ὅπερ ἦν ἀντίτυπον τοῦ σωτῆρος ἀπὸ δεκάτης τοῦ μηνὸς καὶ ἔσται διατετηρημένον ἄχρι τῆς τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτης καὶ θύσετε αὐτὸ ἑσπέρας τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ ἡμέρᾳ· καὶ ἔσται σοι σάββατον, ἡμέρα ἁγία, καὶ ἔδεσθε ἄζυμα ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας καὶ ἑβδόμην ἡμέραν ποιήσεις ἁγίαν». καὶ ὁρᾶτε ὅτι δεύτερον καλεῖται σάββατον μετὰ τὸ πρῶτον σάββατον ἡ τοιαύτη ἁγία τοῦ προβάτου ἡμέρα, εἰς σάββατον ἁγιασθεῖσα, κἄν τε κυριακὴ εἴη κἄν τε δευτέρα κἄν τε τρίτη σαββάτων καταντήσῃ. εἰς δὲ ἑπτὰ ἡμέρας πάλιν ἀνακυκλούμενον δεύτερον καλεῖται πρῶτον, ἵνα δείξῃ ἐντεῦθεν ὅτι οὐ μόνον ὁ Ἰωάννης περὶ περιόδου χρόνου ἐνιαυτῶν δύο καὶ τριῶν ἑορτῶν τοῦ Πάσχα ἐσήμανεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ Λουκᾶς καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι. οὕτως γὰρ φάσκει ὁ νόμος «ἀριθμήσεις σεαυτῷ ἑπτὰ ἑβδομάδας ἀπ' ἀρχῆς δράγματος τοῦ βαλεῖν δρέπανον ἐπ' ἀμητῷ καὶ ποιήσεις ἑβδόμην ἑβδομάδα ἡμέραν ἁγίαν κυρίου», σημαίνων περὶ Πεντηκοστῆς. μετὰ γὰρ τὸ θῦσαι τὸ Πάσχα εἴσω τριῶν ἡμερῶν τουτέστιν μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμέρας τοῦ προβάτου προσέταττε τὸ δράγμα εἰσφέρεσθαι, ἵνα σημάνῃ τὸ εὐλογημένον δράγμα ἐγειρόμενον ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν μετὰ τρίτην ἡμέραν, τῆς γῆς αὐτὸ προφερούσης καὶ αὐτοῦ αὐτὸ πάλιν κομιζομένου ἀπ' 2.305 αὐτῆς ἐν τῇ ἀναστάσει ἐκ τοῦ μνήματος καὶ μένοντος σὺν τοῖς μαθηταῖς τὰς τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ τέλει τῆς Πεντηκοστῆς εἰσφέροντος αὐτὸ εἰς τὰ ἐπουράνια τῷ πατρί· τὸ πρωτότοκον τῶν πρωτοτόκων, ἡ ἀπαρχὴ ἡ ἁγία, τὸ δράγμα ὃ ἐδράξατο ἀπὸ Μαρίας, ἡ ἀγκάλη ἡ ἐναγκαλισθεῖσα ἐν θεῷ, ὁ καρπὸς τῆς κοιλίας, ἡ ἀπαρχὴ τῆς ἅλω. οὐκέτι γὰρ μετὰ Πεντηκοστὴν τὸ δρέπανον ἀπαρχὴν θεῷ προσφέρει· «οὐκέτι γὰρ κύριος ἀποθνῄσκει, θάνατος αὐτοῦ οὐκέτι κυριεύει» κατὰ τὸ γεγραμμένον. καὶ ὁρᾷς πόσα θεοῦ μυστήρια προετύπου ὁ νόμος καὶ ἐπλήρου τὸ εὐαγγέλιον. πόθεν δὲ οὐκ ἔχομεν τούτων δεῖξαι τὴν σαφήνειαν; διὰ δὲ τὸ μὴ εἰς πλάτος φέρειν τὸν λόγον ἐπὶ τὴν ἀκολουθίαν πάλιν ἐπιστρεπτέον. φαίνεται δὲ ἀπό τε τῶν σταχύων καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀμητοῦ καὶ τῶν μαθητῶν