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 than carnal marriages, errs, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God." (In Matt Tractat.)

"Moses and Elias appeared in glory when they talked with Jesus; and in this fact the Law and the Prophets are shown to agree with the Gospels, and to be resplendent with the same glory when spiritually understood."

"Unless thou ascend the mountain of God and there meet with Moses, unless thou ascend the lofty sense of the Law, unless thou reach the height of spiritual intelligence, thy mouth is not opened by God. If thou abide in the low plain of the letter, and do no more than make Jewish narratives of the historical text, thou hast not met Moses on the mount of God." (In Exod., Cap. iv.)

"There is an interior sense to the events which are recorded in the Evangelists." (In Matt., Cap xv.

"The true miracles of Christ and the healing of the sick are of a spiritual kind." (Ibid., xxv.)

The works which Jesus then did were the symbols of those things which by his power He is always doing." (In Matt., Cap. xv.)

And many pages similar in character to the extracts here given might be quoted from the writings of Origen. And in perfect agreement with his idea of Sacred Scripture were Jerome and Augustine, and Cyril and Theophilus, and