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 God (Hom. X.) The Easter Homilies explain the three kinds of flowers in our Lord, and the three typical Maries (Hom. II.); what it is for a man to be at peace with himself (Hom. V.); the three gifts of Christ His Body, His Blood, His Soul (Hom. VI.); three reasons why the Adorable Son came forth from the Father (Hom. XIII.) In the Trinity Homilies, we read of the Heavenly Feast, its makers, ministers, and guests (Hom. IV.); how the Holy Angels stand before God in contemplation, love, and praise (Hom. VI.); why the Holy Angels desire the creature's future glory (Hom. VII.); the seven loaves with which she feeds the faithful (Hom. XIV.); three witnesses against the sinner in the Judgment God, conscience, creation; it is a momentary thing which delights, an eternal thing which crucifies (Hom. XX.); unity of the intellect, of the affections, of the life (Hom. XXXIII.); the security, the pleasantness, and abundance of the City of God (Hom. XXXVII.); the translation of the Saints (Hom. XL VII.) Such as these are the lines of reflection which S. Thomas offers to the contemplation of the thoughtful and devout reader, presenting the subject in germ, leaving its development to the effort of individual minds. As neither moral nor spiritual truth affects any two persons in precisely the same way, such a method of presenting truth as this is, leaves for the initiated mind nothing to be desired; whilst the uninitiated soul would scarcely be capable of receiving the generalizations of S. Thomas in any form.

Secondly, these Homilies are valuable as giving the scholastic interpretation of many texts of Holy Scripture; valuable as shewing how the Schoolmen saw our Blessed Lord as shadowed forth in type and prophecy in God's