—Apotheosis, 894.
[509] Nec sumpsit [Christus] carnem peccati quamvis de materna carne peccati.—De Peccatorum Meritis et Remissione, lib. i, c. 24. He further beautifully says: Solus unus est qui sine peccato natus est in similitudine carnis peccati, sine peccato vixit inter aliena peccata sine peccato mortuus est propter nostra peccata.—Ibid., c. 35.
[510] Φιλοτιμία καὶ ἀπόνοια.—Hom. in Matt., xii, 47.
[511] See the words of Our Lord on this very subject, Luke xi, 28: “Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God and keep it.”
[512] “Infanda.”—Theol. Dogmat. de Incarn., lib. xiv, c. i.
[513] These heretics receive their name from the κολλύρα, or cake, which they offered to the deified Virgin. Thus early was a new paganism substituted for that which was passing away. In modern Rome, cook-shops are dedicated to Mary under the title of “Our Lady of Cakes and Sugar-Plums,” thus literally “baking cakes to the Queen of heaven,” like the idolaters of Palestine denounced by the prophet. Madame de Staël has truly said, “The Catholic is the Pagan’s heir.”
[514] Iren. adv. Hæreses, lib. iii, c. 33; lib. v, c. 19.
[515] See the hymn in the office of the Virgin:
Quod Eva tristis abstulit
Tu reddis almo germine.
Compare also the “Ave maris stella.”