V.--From the Same.
Matt. xiii. 46. A pearl, and that pellucid and of purest ray, is Jesus, whom of the lightning flash of Divinity the Virgin bore. For as the pearl, produced in flesh and the oyster-shell and moisture, appears to be a body moist and transparent, full of light and spirit; so also God the Word, incarnate, is intellectual light, 1 sending His rays, through a body luminous and moist.
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Photos here has probably taken the place of photeinou. [This passage is in the Stromata; and also a similar figure, p. 347, this series.] ↩
