BOOK I
63
Ἐξ ἐθνῶν καὶ Ἄγαρ. τί δὲ ἄγγελος; ἢ τί τὸ ὕδωρ; ἐξ ἐθνῶν καὶ ἐγώ· τοὔνεκεν οἶδα τάδε.
2 οἶδα c οἶδε P64 Εἰς τοὺς οʹ φοίνικας καὶ τὰς ιβʹ πηγάς
Ἑπτάκι τοὺς δέκα φοίνικας, δυοκαίδεκα πηγὰς Χριστοῦ τοσσατίων ἴσθι τύπους ἑτάρων.
1 ἑπτάκι ex ἑπτάκις P65 Εἰς τὸν Ἀβραάμ
Ἀβραὰμ υἱὸν ἄγει θυσίην Θεῷ· ἵλαθι· ποίην νοῦς ὁράᾳ θυσίην, ἧς τόδε γράμμα τύπος.
66 Εἰς τὸν Μελχισεδὲκ διδοῦντα τῷ Ἀβραὰμ οἶνον καὶ ἄρτους
—Μελχισεδὲκ βασιλεῦ, ἱερεῦ, ἄρτους τε καὶ οἶνον ὡς τίς ἐὼν παρέχεις; —ὡς τύπος ἀτρεκίης.
2 ἐὼν Jacobs ἔχων P67 Εἰς τὸν Ἀβραάμ, ὅτε ὑπεδέξατο τὸν Θεόν
Μορφὴν ἐνθάδε μοῦνον ἔχει Θεός· ὕστερον αὖτε ἐς φύσιν ἀτρεκέως ἤλυθεν ἀνδρομέην.
1 μοῦνον Jacobs μούνην PCHRISTIAN EPIGRAMS
63
Hagar too is of the gentiles. But what is the angel? What is the water? I too am of the gentiles; therefore I know these things.1
64 On the seventy palms and twelve wells
Know that the seventy palms and twelve wells of water are figures of the number of Christ’s disciples.1
65 On Abraham
Abraham takes his son to be sacrificed to God. Have mercy! This picture is a figure of the sacrifice the mind sees.1
66 On Melchisedek giving wine and bread to Abraham
“Melchisedek, king and priest, who are you to give bread and wine?”
“A figure of Truth.”1
67 On Abraham receiving God
Here God has only the form of a man, but later he truly attained a human nature.1
- 1 See Genesis 16:7. In Genesis 16:13 Hagar answers this epigram’s first question, saying that the angel is God. See AP 1.75 and note for an explanation of the second question.
- 1 See Exodus 15:27, Mark 3:14, Luke 10:1.
- 1 See Genesis 22:1–18, John 3:16.
- 1 See Genesis 14:18, Mark 14:22–24.
- 1 See Genesis 18.