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Methodius' Derivation of the Word Virginity: Wholly Divine; Virtue, in Greek--ἀρετή, Whence So Called.

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The Lofty Mind and Constancy of the Sacred Virgins; The Introduction of Virgins into the Blessed Abodes Before Others.

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The Lot and Inheritance of Virginity.

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Exhortation to the Cultivation of Virginity; A Passage from the Apocalypse is Proposed to Be Examined.

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The Woman Who Brings Forth, to Whom the Dragon is Opposed, the Church; Her Adornment and Grace.

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The Works of the Church, the Bringing Forth of Children in Baptism; The Moon in Baptism, the Full Moon of Christ's Passion.

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The Child of the Woman in the Apocalypse Not Christ, But the Faithful Who are Born in the Laver.

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The Faithful in Baptism Males, Configured to Christ; The Saints Themselves Christs.

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The Son of God, Who Ever Is, is To-Day Begotten in the Minds and Sense of the Faithful.

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The Dragon, the Devil; The Stars Struck from Heaven by the Tail of the Dragon, Heretics; The Numbers of the Trinity, that Is, the Persons Numbered; Errors Concerning Them.

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The Woman with the Male Child in the Wilderness the Church; The Wilderness Belongs to Virgins and Saints; The Perfection of Numbers and Mysteries; The Equality and Perfection of the Number Six; The Number Six Related to Christ; From This Number, Too, the Creation and Harmony of the World Completed.

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Virgins are Called to the Imitation of the Church in the Wilderness Overcoming the Dragon.

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The Seven Crowns of the Beast to Be Taken Away by Victorious Chastity; The Ten Crowns of the Dragon, the Vices Opposed to the Decalogue; The Opinion of Fate the Greatest Evil.

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The Doctrine of Mathematicians Not Wholly to Be Despised, When They are Concerned About the Knowledge of the Stars; The Twelve Signs of the Zodiac Mythical Names.

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Arguments from the Novelty of Fate and Generation; That Golden Age, Early Men; Solid Arguments Against the Mathematicians.

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Several Other Things Turned Against the Same Mathematicians.

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The Lust of the Flesh and Spirit: Vice and Virtue.

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