0'whereof that house of Israel had wrought a crown for Christ." Constitt. Apost. VI. § 5: "He has taken away from them the Holy Spirit and the prophetic rain, and has replenished His Church with spiritual grace."
123 1 Cor. xiv. 29.
124 Eph. iv. 11.
125 Isa. liii. 12.
126 Ps. cix. 25.
127 Luke xxiii. 40. ff.
128 qa/rsei. An addition to the text of Luke xxiii. 43 in Codex Bezae.
129 Ps. xcv. 7, 8.
130 Gen. ii. 17.
131 Luke x. 18.
132 Gen. iii. 24. S. Ambrose (Ps. cxix. Serm. xx. § 12): "All who desire to return to Paradise must be tried by fire: for not in vain the Scripture saith that when Adam and Eve were driven out of their abode in Paradise, God placed at the gate of Eden a flaming sword which turned every way."
133 Cf. Iren. V. c. 5, § 1; Athan. (Expos. Fid. c. i.): "He shewed us. . . . an entrance into Paradise from which Adam was cast out, and into which he entered again by means of the thief." S. Leo (de Pass. Dom. Serm. II. c. 1): "Excedit humanam conditionem ista promissio: nec tam de ligno Crucis, quam de throno editur protestatis."
134 Rom. v. 20.
135 Matt. xx. 12 ff.
136 Cant. vi. 3.
137 Luke xv. 5, 6.
138 Ps. cxix. 176.
139 Cant. vi 1.
140 John xix. 41.
141 Ib. 30.
142 Heb. ix. 11.
143 Ib. x. 19.
144 Matt. xxvii. 51.
145 Ib. xxiii. 38.
146 Col. i. 20.
147 1 Pet. ii. 24.
148 Luke xxiii. 46.
149 Matt. xxvii. 50.
150 Mal. iv. 2.
151 Ps. lxxxviii. 5.
152 Zech. ix. 11.
153 Isa. liii. 4, 5.
154 Ib. vv. 8, 9.
155 1 Cor. xv. 3, 4.
156 Isa. li. 1.
157 Matt. xxvii. 60; Mark xv. 46; Luke xxiii. 50.
158 Lam. iii. 53: e'n la/kkw, "in a pit," or "well." Cf. Jer. xxxvii. 16.
159 1 Pet. ii. 6.
160 Gen ii. 9; iii. 22. Methodius (Sympos. ix. c. 3): "He that hath not believed in Christ, nor hath understood that He is the first principle and the Tree of Life, &c."
161 Cf. Cite. iv. 14, note 3; Euseb. (Dem. Ev. ix. 14).
162 Col. ii. 15.
163 Ps. lxxiv. 13.
164 See Cat. vi. 11, note 2.
165 kata\ fantasi/an. Cf. Ignat. Trall. 9, 10; Cat. iv. 9; xiii. 4.
166 1 Cor. xv. 17.
167 The house of Caiaphas and Pilate's Praetorium (§ 41), and Mount Zion itself (Cat. xvi. 18), on which they both stood are described by Cyril as being in his time ruined and desolate. Eusebius (Dem. Ev. VIII. 406), referring to the prophecy of Micah (iii. 12), repeated by Jermiah (xxvi. 18), that Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, testifies that he had seen with his own eyes the place being ploughed and sown by strangers, and adds that in his own time the stones for both public and private buildings were taken from the ruins. The Bordeaux Pilgrim (333 A.D.) says, "It is evident where the house of Caiaphas the Priest was; and there is still the pillar at which Christ was scourged:" this pillar is described by Jerome (Ep. 86) as supporting the portico of the Church which by his time had been built on the spot. Prudentius circ. 400 A.D.): -