vER. 15— 2k ST. LTJKE. 513 huraanmind when it is degeneratingto worldly pleasures, isfeeblein attending to the things of God. GREG. But Greg. althoughmarriage is good, and appointed by Divine Provi-Hom-S6" denceforthe propagationof children,some seek thereinnot fruitfulnessof offspring,but the lustof pleasure. And so bymeans of a righteousthing may not unfitlyan unrigh teousthing be represented. AMBROSE. Or marriage is not blamed; but purityis held up to greaterhonour, sincethe unmarriedwoman carethforthe thingsof the Lord,that she i Cor.7, may be holy in body and spirit,but she that is married a*' carethforthe thingsof the world. AUG. Now John w-hen he said,allthat is in the world isAug. thelustof theflesh,and the lustof theeyes,and thepride o/Jbj°Si"Ji' life,began from the point where the Gospel ended. The 2,16. lustofthe flesh,/ have married a wife; the lustof the eyes, / have boughtfiveyoke of oxen; the pride of life,I have boughta farm. But proceedingfrom a partto the whole,the fivesenseshave been spoken of under the eyes alone,which holdthe chiefplaceamong the fivesenses. Because though properlythe sightbelongsto the eyes,we are in the habitof ascribingthe act of seeingto allthe fivesenses. CYRIL.But whom can we suppose theseto be who refused tocome forthe reasonjust mentioned,but the rulersof the Jews,whom throughout the sacred historywe find to have beenoftenreproved forthesethings? ORIGEN. Or else,they who havebought a pieceof ground and rejector refusethe supper,are they who have taken other doctrinesof divinity, buthave despisedthe word which they possessed. But he who has bought fiveyoke of oxen is he who neglectshis intellectualnature,and followsthe thingsof sense,therefore hecannotcomprehend a spiritualnature. But he who has marrieda wife is he who is joined to the flesh,a loverof 1Tim. pleasureratherthan ofGod. AMBROSE. Or letus supposethat ' threeclassesof men areexcludedfrom partakingof thatsup per,Gentiles,Jews,Heretics.The Jews by theirfleshlyservice imposeupon themselvesthe yoke of the law,forthe fiveyoke aretheyoke of the Ten Commandments, of which it is said, And He declaredunto you His covenant,which Iiecommanded i)tut.*, youtoperform,even ten commandments ; and He wrote them two tablesof stone. That is,the commands of the De calogue.Or the fiveyoke are the fivebooks of the old law. vOL.in. 2 L