1 Hos. iv. 3 ; Zeph. 1.3.
2 Eccles. viii. 11.
3 James iii. 10.
4 Pearls, he means, have their beauty by nature and so are like Christ ; other stones must be graven and so are like created natures.
5 Job. xli. 4 ; Ps. lxxi. 14.
6 See Note on Hymn V.4 (below)
7 Cephas; i.e., Rock.
8 I.e. with the mysteries typified in the pearl, women are clothed with light at Baptism.
9 Job. xxviii. 19 (Pesh.).
10 Acts viii. 27.
11 Jer. xiii. 23 ; Is. 1. 18.
12 Ps. lxviii. 31.
13 1 Kings x. 1.
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