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 interpreters, both in this and the succeeding ages, followed the method of Origen."

In confirmation of what Dr. Mosheim says, and to show how strong was Origen's conviction of the spiritual sense of Scripture, and how clear was his perception of this sense in many cases, we will give a few brief extracts from his writings. In his fifth homily on Leviticus (p. 205) he says:—

"As, therefore, a mutual affinity exists between things visible and things invisible, earth and heaven, soul and flesh, body and spirit, . . . so also Holy Scripture, we may believe, is made up of visible and invisible parts; first, as it were, of a kind of body, that is, of the letter which we see with our eyes; next of a soul, that is, of the sense which is discovered within that letter."

"They are to be accounted kings and princes (unto God) who can remove the earth of the letter which covers the well of life, and draw forth the spiritual sense, like living waters, from that interior rock where Christ is." (In Levit., Cap. vii..)

"Since the law is a shadow of the good things which are to come, and contains an account of marriages and of husbands and wives, we are not to understand it as of marriages according to the flesh, but as relating to the spiritual marriage between Christ and his Church . . . Whosoever, therefore, when he reads in the Scriptures about marriages understands no more by them