8.  Therefore Solomon also, hinting at this grace, says in Ecclesiastes, Come hither, eat thy bread with joy (that is, the spiritual bread; Come hither, he calls with the call to salvation and blessing), and drink thy wine with a merry heart (that is, the spiritual wine); and let oil be poured out upon thy head (thou seest he alludes even to the mystic Chrism); and let thy garments be always white, for the Lord is well pleased with thy works Eccles. ix. 7, 8.; for before thou camest to Baptism, thy works were vanity of vanities For προσέλθῃς (Bened.) we must read προσῆλθες, or, with Monac. 1, προσελθεῖν..  But now, having put off thy old garments, and put on those which are spiritually white, thou must be continually robed in white:  of course we mean not this, that thou art always to wear white raiment; but thou must be clad in the garments that are truly white and shining and spiritual, that thou mayest say with the blessed Esaias, My soul shall be joyful in my God; for He hath clothed me with a garment of salvation, and put a robe of gladness around me Is. lxi. 10..