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..