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Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

Methodius of Olympus

Section 10

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Author: Methodius of Olympus

X. But why do I digress, and lengthen out

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my

discourse

,

giving

it

the

rein

with

these

varied

illustrations

,

and

that

when

the

truth

of

thy

matter

stands

like

a

column

before

the

eye

,

in

which

it

were

better

and

more

profitable

to

luxuriate

and

delight

in

?

Wherefore

,

bidding

adieu

to

the

spiritual

narrations

and

wondrous

deeds

of

the

saints

throughout

all

ages

,

I

pass

on

to

thee

who

art

always

to

be

had

in

remembrance

,

and

who

holdest

the

helm

,

as

it

were

,

of

this

festival

.

Notes

84
[The feast of the Purification. Here follows an impassioned apostrophe, which apart from its Oriental extravagance is full of poetical beauty. Its language, however, like that of other parts of this Oration, suggests at least interpolation, subsequent to the Nestorian controversy. Previously, there would have been no call for such vehemence of protestation.]