7. Nor is the riddle without mystery, which
he set forth to his companions: “Out of the eater came
forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness.” Judg. xiv. 14. And there was a mystery up to the
point of the three days in which its answer was sought in vain, which
could not be made known except by the faith of the Church, on the
seventh day, the time of the Law being completed, after the Passion of
the Lord. For thus you find that the apostles did not understand,
“because Jesus was not yet glorified.” S. John vii. 39.