21. The Synagogue has not this oil, inasmuch
as she has not the olive, and understood not that dove which brought
back the olive branch after the deluge. Gen. viii. 11. For that Dove descended afterwards
when Christ was baptized, and abode upon Him, as John testified in the
Gospel, saying: “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven
like a dove, and He abode upon Him.” S. John i. 32. But how could he see the Dove, who
saw not Him, upon Whom the Spirit descended like a dove?