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Banquet of the Ten Virgins

St Methodius of Olympus, ANF 6

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3. Discourse 1, The Difficulty and Excellence of Virginity; The Study of Doctrine Necessary…
4. Discourse 1, Virginity a Plant from Heaven, Introduced Late; The Advancement of Mankind…
5. Discourse 1, By the Circumcision of Abraham, Marriage with Sisters Forbidden; In the…
6. Discourse 1, Christ Alone Taught Virginity, Openly Preaching the Kingdom of Heaven; The…
7. Discourse 1, Christ, by Preserving His Flesh Incorrupt in Virginity, Draws to the…
8. Discourse 2, 1. Marriage Not Abolished by the Commendation of Virginity
9. Discourse 2, Generation Something Akin to the First Formation of Eve from the Side and…
10. Discourse 2, An Ambiguous Passage of Scripture; Not Only the Faithful But Even Prelates…
11. Discourse 2, 4. Human Generation, and the Work of God Therein Set Forth
12. Discourse 2, 5. The Holy Father Follows Up the Same Argument
13. Discourse 2, God Cares Even for Adulterous Births; Angels Given to Them as Guardians
14. Discourse 2, The Rational Soul from God Himself; Chastity Not the Only Good, Although the…
15. Discourse 3, 1. Passages of Holy Scripture Compared
16. Discourse 3, The Digressions of the Apostle Paul; The Character of His Doctrine: Nothing…
17. Discourse 3, 3. Comparison Instituted Between the First and Second Adam
18. Discourse 3, Some Things Here Hard and Too Slightly Treated, and Apparently Not…
19. Discourse 3, 5. A Passage of Jeremiah Examined
20. Discourse 3, The Whole Number of Spiritual Sheep; Man a Second Choir, After the Angels,…
21. Discourse 3, The Works of Christ, Proper to God and to Man, the Works of Him Who is One
22. Discourse 3, The Bones and Flesh of Wisdom; The Side Out of Which the Spiritual Eve is…
23. Discourse 3, 9. The Dispensation of Grace in Paul the Apostle
24. Discourse 3, 10. The Doctrine of the Same Apostle Concerning Purity
25. Discourse 3, 11. The Same Argument
26. Discourse 3, Paul an Example to Widows, and to Those Who Do Not Live with Their Wives
27. Discourse 3, 13. The Doctrine of Paul Concerning Virginity Explained
28. Discourse 3, Virginity a Gift of God: The Purpose of Virginity Not Rashly to Be Adopted…
29. Discourse 4, The Necessity of Praising Virtue, for Those Who Have the Power
30. Discourse 4, The Protection of Chastity and Virginity Divinely Given to Men, that They…
31. Discourse 4, That Passage of David Explained; What the Harps Hung Upon the Willows…
32. Discourse 4, The Author Goes on with the Interpretation of the Same Passage
33. Discourse 4, The Gifts of Virgins, Adorned with Which They are Presented to One Husband,…
34. Discourse 4, Virginity to Be Cultivated and Commended in Every Place and Time
35. Discourse 5, 1. The Offering of Chastity a Great Gift
36. Discourse 5, Abraham’s Sacrifice of a Heifer Three Years Old, of a Goat, and of a Ram…
37. Discourse 5, 3. Far Best to Cultivate Virtue from Boyhood
38. Discourse 5, 4. Perfect Consecration and Devotion to God: What It is
39. Discourse 5, The Vow of Chastity, and Its Rites in the Law; Vines, Christ, and the Devil
40. Discourse 5, Sikera, a Manufactured and Spurious Wine, Yet Intoxicating; Things Which are…
41. Discourse 5, The Church Intermediate Between the Shadows of the Law and the Realities of…
42. Discourse 5, The Double Altar, Widows and Virgins; Gold the Symbol of Virginity
43. Discourse 6, The Excellence of the Abiding Glory of Virginity; The Soul Made in the Image…
44. Discourse 6, 2. The Parable of the Ten Virgins
45. Discourse 6, The Same Endeavour and Effort After Virginity, with a Different Result
46. Discourse 6, 4. What the Oil in the Lamps Means
47. Discourse 6, 5. The Reward of Virginity
48. Discourse 7, What the True and Seemly Manner of Praising; The Father Greater Than the…
49. Discourse 7, 2. The Interpretation of that Passage of the Canticles
50. Discourse 7, 3. Virgins Being Martyrs First Among the Companions of Christ
51. Discourse 7, The Passage Explained; The Queens, the Holy Souls Before the Deluge; The…
52. Discourse 7, The Sixty Queens: Why Sixty, and Why Queens; The Excellence of the Saints of…
53. Discourse 7, The Eighty Concubines, What; The Knowledge of the Incarnation Communicated…
54. Discourse 7, The Virgins, the Righteous Ancients; The Church, the One Only Spouse, More…
55. Discourse 7, 8. The Human Nature of Christ His One Dove
56. Discourse 7, 9. The Virgins Immediately After the Queen and Spouse
57. Discourse 8, Methodius’ Derivation of the Word Virginity: Wholly Divine; Virtue, in…
58. Discourse 8, The Lofty Mind and Constancy of the Sacred Virgins; The Introduction of…
59. Discourse 8, 3. The Lot and Inheritance of Virginity
60. Discourse 8, Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity; A Passage from the Apocalypse…
61. Discourse 8, The Woman Who Brings Forth, to Whom the Dragon is Opposed, the Church; Her…
62. Discourse 8, The Works of the Church, the Bringing Forth of Children in Baptism; The Moon…
63. Discourse 8, The Child of the Woman in the Apocalypse Not Christ, But the Faithful Who…
64. Discourse 8, The Faithful in Baptism Males, Configured to Christ; The Saints Themselves…
65. Discourse 8, The Son of God, Who Ever Is, is To-Day Begotten in the Minds and Sense of…
66. Discourse 8, The Dragon, the Devil; The Stars Struck from Heaven by the Tail of the…
67. Discourse 8, The Woman with the Male Child in the Wilderness the Church; The Wilderness…
68. Discourse 8, Virgins are Called to the Imitation of the Church in the Wilderness…
69. Discourse 8, The Seven Crowns of the Beast to Be Taken Away by Victorious Chastity; The…
70. Discourse 8, The Doctrine of Mathematicians Not Wholly to Be Despised, When They are…
71. Discourse 8, Arguments from the Novelty of Fate and Generation; That Golden Age, Early…
72. Discourse 8, 16. Several Other Things Turned Against the Same Mathematicians
73. Discourse 8, 17. The Lust of the Flesh and Spirit: Vice and Virtue
74. Discourse 9, Chastity the Chief Ornament of the True Tabernacle; Seven Days Appointed to…
75. Discourse 9, Figure, Image, Truth: Law, Grace, Glory; Man Created Immortal: Death Brought…
76. Discourse 9, How Each One Ought to Prepare Himself for the Future Resurrection
77. Discourse 9, The Mind Clearer When Cleansed from Sin; The Ornaments of the Mind and the…
78. Discourse 9, 5. The Mystery of the Tabernacles
79. Discourse 10, Chastity Alone Aids and Effects the Most Praiseworthy Government of the Soul
80. Discourse 10, The Allegory of the Trees Demanding a King, in the Book of Judges, Explained
81. Discourse 10, The Bramble and the Agnos the Symbol of Chastity; The Four Gospels, that…
82. Discourse 10, The Law Useless for Salvation; The Last Law of Chastity Under the Figure of…
83. Discourse 10, The Malignity of the Devil as an Imitator in All Things; Two Kinds of…
84. Discourse 10, 6. The Mystery of the Vision of Zechariah
85. Discourse 11, The True and Chaste Virgins Few; Chastity a Contest; Thekla Chief of Virgins
86. Discourse 11, Thekla Singing Decorously a Hymn, the Rest of the Virgins Sing with Her;…
87. Discourse 11, Which are the Better, the Continent, or Those Who Delight in Tranquillity…