1.  I have long been wishing, O true-born and dearly beloved children of the Church, to discourse to you concerning these spiritual and heavenly Mysteries; but since I well knew that seeing is far more persuasive than hearing, I waited for the present season; that finding you more open to the influence of my words from your present experience, I might lead you by the hand into the brighter and more fragrant meadow of the Paradise before us; especially as ye have been made fit to receive the more sacred Mysteries, after having been found worthy of divine and life-giving Baptism This Lecture was delivered on the Monday after Easter in the Holy Sepulchre:  see Cat. xviii. 33..  Since therefore it remains to set before you a table of the more perfect instructions, let us now teach you these things exactly, that ye may know the effect τὴν ἔμφασιν τὴν.…γεγενημένην , is found in all the mss.  “Nevertheless it would seem that we ought to read τῶν.…γεγενημένων, which Grodecq either read or substituted” (Ben. Ed.).  With the proposed reading the meaning would be—“the significance of the things done to you,” which agrees better with the meaning of ἔμφασις. wrought upon you on that evening of your baptism.