Exegetical Fragments.

 A Commentary on the Beginning of Ecclesiastes.

 Chapter I.

 Chapter II.

 Chapter III.

 II.—The Gospel According to Luke.

 III.—OnLuke XXII. 42 , Etc.

 IV.—An Exposition of Luke XXII. 46 , Etc.

 V.—On John VIII. 12 .

 The plant that springs from the root is something distinct from that whence it grows up and yet it is of one nature with it. And the river which flow

 But now we are doing the opposite. For whereas Christ, who is the good Shepherd , goes in quest of one who wanders, lost among the mountains, and call

VI.—Of the One Substance.95 That the Son is not different from the Father in nature, but connatural and consubstantial with Him. From the Panoplia of Euthymius Zigabenus in the Cod. xix. Nanianæ Biblioth.

The plant that springs from the root is something distinct from that whence it grows up; and yet it is of one nature with it. And the river which flows from the fountain is something distinct from the fountain. For we cannot call either the river a fountain, or the fountain a river. Nevertheless we allow that they are both one according to nature, and also one in substance; and we admit that the fountain may be conceived of as father, and that the river is what is begotten of the fountain.96 [See his explanations in the epistle to Dionysius p. 92, supra.]