other riding in a chariot, arrayed in raiment of silk, and elated with pride, be not again dis- mayed and troubled. Praise not a rich man, but only him who lives in righteousness. Revile not a poor man, but learn to have an upright and accurate judgment in all things. Do not hold aloof from the Church; for nothing is stronger than the Church. The Church is thy hope, thy salvation, thy refuge. It is higher than the heaven, it is wider than the earth. It never waxes old, but is always in full vigour. Wherefore as significant of its solidity and stability Holy Scripture calls it a mountain: or of its purity a virgin, or of its magnificence a queen; or of its relationship to God a daughter; and to express its productiveness it calls her barren who has borne seven: in fact it employs countless names to represent its nobleness. For as the master of the Church has many names: being called the Father, and the way,828 and the life,829 and the light,830 and the arm,831 and the propitiation,832 and the founda- tion,833 and the door,834 and the sinless one,835 and the treasure,836 and Lord, and God, and Son, and the only begotten, and the form of God,837 and the image838 of God so is it with the Church itself: does one name suffice to present the whole truth? by no means. But for this reason there are countless names, that we may learn something concerning God, though it be but a small part. Even so the Church also is called by many names. She is called a virgin, albeit formerly she was an harlot: for this is the miracle wrought by the Bridegroom, that He took her who was an harlot and hath made her a virgin. Oh! what a new and strange event! With us marriage destroys virginity, but with God marriage hath restored it. With us she who is a virgin, when married, is a virgin no longer: with Christ she who is an harlot, when married, becomes a virgin. 7. Let the heretic who inquires curiously into the nature of heavenly generation saying “how did the Father beget the Son?” interpret this single fact, ask him how did the Church, being an harlot, become a virgin? and how did she having brought forth children remain a virgin? “For I am jealous over you,” saith Paul, “with a godly jealousy, for I espoused you to one husband that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.”839 What wisdom and 828 John xiv. 6. 829 Ibid. 830 John i. 8, 9; viii. 12. 831 Perhaps Ps. xcviii. 1; Is. xxxiii. 2; li. 9, and other passages of the same kind. 832 1 John ii. 2. 833 1 Cor. iii. 11. 834 John x. 7. 835 1 John iii. 5; 1 Peter ii. 22. 836 Perhaps Matt. vi. 21; viii. 44. 837 Phil. ii. 6. 838 Col. i. 15. 839 2 Cor. xi. 2. 352 Homily II. After Eutropius having been found outside the Church had been…