41G Gideon in lutnut mid acls, a type ofOur Lord.
Job 39, enemies. But wc have learned by the evidence of the
7 . . . .
victory itself, not to regard these things which uere done as
of little account. Gedeon, therefore, coming to the battle,
signifies to us the coming of our Redeemer, of* Whom it is
Ps. 24, written ; Lift up, O princes, your gates, and be ye lift up,
'• ^' ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in.
Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and rnighly.
The Lord mighty in battle. He prophesied of ourRedeemer,
not only by his doings, but also by his name. For Gedeon
is interpreted ' going about in the womb.' For our Lord
embraces all things by the power of His majesty, and yet
He came, through the grace of the dispensation assuming
man's nature in the womb of the Virgin. Who then is He
Who goes about in the womb, except Almighty God, redeem-
ing us by His own dispensation, embracing all things by
Plis Godhead, and taking man's nature in the womb? In
which womb He was both Incarnate, and not confined;
because He was both within the womb by the substance of
His infirmity, and beyond the world by the power of His
majesty. But Madian is interpreted ' from judgment' For
that His enemies were to be repulsed and destroyed, was
not from the imperfection of their conqueror, but from the
judgment of Him, Who judgetli rightly. And for this reason
they are called ' from judgment:' because, being aliens from
tlie grace of the Redeemer, they bear, even in their designa-
tion, the desert ofjust condemnation.
74. Against these Gedeon proceeds to battle with three
hundred men. The plenitude of perfection is usually under-
stood by the number ' hundred.' What then is designated
by the number hundred taken thrice, except the perfect
knowledge ofthe Trinity ? For with those our Lord destroys
the adversaries of the faith, with those comes down to the
contests of preaching, who can understand Divine truths,
who know how to think accurately of the Trinity, Which is
God. But we must observe, that this number three hundred
JTorr ^s comprised in the letter Tau^ which bears a resemblance
iiotfl. of the cross. For if there were added over the transverse
line, the projecting part of the cross, it would no longer be a
resemblance of the cross, but the cross itself Because then
that number of three hundred is comprised in the letter Tau,