flowing with milk and honey, and have domin- ion over it." ' Behold, therefore, we have been refashioned, as again He says in another prophet, " Behold, saith the Lord, I will take away from these, that is, from those whom the Spirit of the Lord foresaw, their stony hearts, and I will put hearts of flesh within them," ^ because He ^ was to be manifested in flesh, and to sojourn among us. For, my brethren, the habitation of our heart is a holy temple to the Lord.-* For again saith the Lord, " And wherewith shall I appear before the Lord my God, and be glori- fied? "5 He says,^ "I will confess to thee in the Church in the midst ^ of my brethren ; and I will praise thee in the midst of the assembly of the saints." '^ We, then, are they whom He has led into the good land. What, then, mean the milk and honey? This, that as the infant is kept alive first by honey, and then by milk, so also we, being quickened and kept alive by the faith of the promise and by the word, shall live ruling over the earth. But He said above,^ " Let them increase, and rule over the fishes." '° Who then is able to govern the beasts, or the fishes, or the fowls of heaven ? For we ought to perceive that to govern implies authority, so that one should command and rule. If, therefore, this does not exist at present, yet still He has prom- ised it to us. When ? When we ourselves also have been made perfect [so as] to become heirs of the covenant of the Lord."