[134] James i 27, ii 15 to 17, v 1 to 3.
[135] 2 Cor. ix 8 (the technical term is αὐτάρκεια); ‘if a man does not choose to work, neither shall he eat’ 2 Thess. iii 10.
[136] ‘worldly (i.e. materialistic) stories, fit only for credulous old women, have nothing to do with’ 1 Tim. iv 7.
[137] Titus i 14.
[138] Galatians ii 9.
[139] ‘[Christ] was put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit’ 1 Peter iii 18.
[140] ‘[Jesus Christ] who, as regards His human descent, belonged to the posterity of David, but as regards the holiness of His Spirit was decisively proved by the Resurrection to be the Son of God’ Romans i 4; ‘God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born subject to Law’ Gal. iv 4.
[141] 1 Peter i 3.
[142] In the account of the transfiguration in the Gospel to the Hebrews (p. 15, 36 Hilgenfeld; Preuschen Antileg. 4) Jesus says ‘Lately my mother, the holy spirit, seized me by one of my hairs and carried me away to the great mountain of Thabor.’ Here Origen restores a philosophical interpretation by referring to Matt. xii 50; ‘whoever shall do the will of my Father ... is my mother’ Comm. in Joh. ii 12, p. 64 D. Modern writers find an identification of Mary with the Wisdom (σοφία) of God. See Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte, vol. ii p. 1614.
[143] Matt. i 23.