⁸⁵ Isa. xl. 1.

⁸⁶ Heb. i. 3.

⁸⁷ Ezek. xliv. 2.

⁸⁸ Isa. vi. 6.

⁸⁹ Judg. vi. 37.

⁹⁰ 2 Sam. xxiii. 17.

⁹¹ Exod. xxxv. 17.

⁹² Ps. civ. 2.

⁹³ Jer. xxiii. 24.

⁹⁴ Ephes. vi. 16.

⁹⁵ Exod. xx. 12.

⁹⁶ [Apostrophes like the above; panegyrical, not odes of worship.]

⁹⁷ 1 Tim. i. 17.

⁹⁸ Baruch iii. 24, 25.

⁹⁹ [This must have been interpolated after the Council of Ephesus, A.D. 431. The whole Oration is probably after that date.]

¹⁰⁰ Luke ii. 38.

¹⁰¹ Deut. xviii. 15-19.

¹⁰² Isa. vi. 4.

¹⁰³ Isa. vi. 9; Acts xxviii. 26.

¹⁰⁴ Ps. xlvi. 8; Isa. vii. 11.

¹⁰⁵ Luke ii. 32.

¹⁰⁶ Ps. xviii. 8.

¹⁰⁷ Ecclus. xxii. 7.

¹⁰⁸ Matt. xxiii. 38.

¹⁰⁹ Matt. xvii. 7.

¹¹⁰ Isa. vi. 3, 4, i.

¹¹¹ Ps. xlviii. 2; Matt. v. 35; Isa. i. 26.

¹¹² Isa. lx. 1; Ps. lxxxvii. 3; Ps. cxxxii. 16.

¹¹³ Isa. xii. 6.

¹¹⁴ Heb. ii. 16.

¹¹⁵ Luke xii. 49.

¹¹⁶ [Here is an apostrophe to the Church, a hymn to "the Elect Lady." See, illustrating note 17, p. 390, supra]

¹¹⁷ trikumi/aj, stormy waves. Latin, decumani fluctus. Methodius perhaps alludes to Diocletian's persecution, in which he perished as a martyr.-Tr.

¹¹⁸ Luke xii. 32.

¹¹⁹ Isa. liv. 1.

¹²⁰ 1 Pet. ii. 9.

¹²¹ [He again apostrophizes the Blessed Theotocos, but in language hardly appropriate to the period preceding Cyril of Alexandria.]

¹²² [Not so, for he ends with a noble strain of worship to the Son of God. This expression suggests interpolation.]

¹²³ Hab. iii. 3.

¹ [Dupin hardly credits this oration to Methodius. See elucidation, p. 398.

² Ps. lxxxiv. 8.

³ John vi. 27.

⁴ [Evidently a homily for Palm Sunday, the first day of the Paschal week.]

⁵ Ps. lxxxv. 9, xcv. 1, xlvii. 1.

⁶ Luke xix. 27.

⁷ Ps. lxii. 8.

⁸ Ps. cxviii. 26; Matt. xxi. 9; Mark xi. 9; Luke xix. 38; John xii. 13.

⁹ Gen. xxvii. 29.

¹⁰ Ps. cxlviii. 11, 12.

¹¹ 2 Sam. vi. 14.

¹² Ps. viii. 2.

¹³ Mal. iv. 6; Luke i. 17.

¹⁴ Luke x. 24.

¹⁵ Gal. ii. 9.

¹⁶ Ps. lxviii. 4, 34.

¹⁷ Matt. xxi. 5.

¹⁸ Gen. xlix. 10.

¹⁹ Ps. cxlviii. 9.

²⁰ Isa. vi. 3.

²¹ Ezek. iii. 22.

²² Luke xix. 37, 38.

²³ Matt. xxi. 10.

²⁴ John i. 5.

²⁵ Isa. xlii. 18-20.

²⁶ John ix.

²⁷ John v. 5.

²⁸ John xi. 44.

²⁹ Matt. xiv. 26.

³⁰ John ii. 7.

³¹ John vi. 11.

³² Luke viii. 29, etc.

³³ Dan. iii. 56 (LXX.).

³⁴ Matt. xxi. 15.

³⁵ Luke i. 17.

³⁶ John v. 39.

³⁷ Zech. ix. 9.

³⁸ Ps. viii. 2.

³⁹ Luke i. 17.

⁴⁰ Isa. vi. 10.

⁴¹ Matt. xii. 27.

⁴² Isa. xxix. 22, 24.

⁴³ Luke ii. 29.

⁴⁴ 1 Pet. v. 4.

⁴⁵ Matt. xii. 29.

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