26. Gr. e0n toi=j laloume/noij .
27. Isai. xl, 22.
28. Psalm xix, 5.
29. Ibid. 6.
30. Matt, xxiv, 30, 1.
31. Gr. Suntre/xei de/ mou th~| fra&sei kai\ o( to&poj . The expression to which he refers is skhnh& , a tent, and the place must be the church in which the address was delivered.
32. Eccl. i, 5.
33. Psalm xxxiii, 6.
34. Gr. dui\ th_n e0pikaloume/nhn docan . Montfaucon renders: gloriam te advocantem.
35. Job xxxviii, 7.
36. Matt, xxv, 34.
37. That is, by her being fully illuminated in advance by eleven days.
38. The Bishop of Constantia (the ancient Salamis) in Cyprus, and the Metropolitan of that island. He was the first of three of the same name who held the same office.
39. John, surnamed Chrysostomos (the golden-mouthed), from the force of his eloquence, was born in Antioch 347 A.D.; succeeded Nectarius as Archbishop of Constantinople in 397; died in exile at Comana in Pontus in 407.
40. Luke vi, 36.
41. Ephes. i, 9.
42. Gr. eu0mhxani/aj .
43. Heb. viii, 1.
44. Ibid. , 6.
45. Gr. 'Ara to_n ou)rano_n. a)lla_ tou_j a)gge/louj ; a)lla_ is evidently a press error for a}pa .
46. Gr. e0pi\ a)nakefalaiw&sei tou~ panto&j . See Ephesians, i, 10. Montfaucon renders ad universi restaurationem.
47. Philon was ordained Bishop of Carpathus, an island between Crete and Rhodes, by Epiphanius of Cyprus, about the beginning of the fifth century. His surname was probably Carpasius rather than Carpathius, as there is a town called Carpasia in the north of Cyprus. He is principally known from his Commentary on the Canticles, which he treats allegorically.
48. Song of Sol., ii, 4.
49. Song of Sol., i, 2.
50. Not in our Bible.