{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-4495","native_reference":{"book_number":20,"chapter_from":15,"chapter_to":15,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":20,"verse_to":20},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Ambrose of Milan</b>: And Miriam taking the timbrel led the dances with maidenly modesty. But consider whom she was then prefiguring. Was she not a type of the church, who as a virgin with unstained spirit joins together the religious gatherings of the people to sing divine songs?<br/><i>— Concerning Virginity 1.3.12</i></p><p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: This is what Moses sang and the sons of Israel with him, what Miriam the prophetess sang and the daughters of Israel with her. It is what we too now should sing, whether it means men and women or means our spirit and our flesh. \"Those who belong to Christ Jesus,\" you see, as the apostle says, \"have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires.\" This can be suitably understood in the drum which Miriam took to accompany this song: flesh, you see, is stretched over wood to make a drum. So they learn from the cross how to accompany in confession the sweet strains of grace.<br/><i>— SERMON 363.4</i></p><p><b>Ephrem the Syrian</b>: \"The prophetess Miriam took.…\" How did she become a prophetess? Either, like Isaiah's wife, she had the honorary title of prophecy, although she was not a prophetess, or because she was just a woman.<br/><i>— COMMENTARY ON Exodus 15.4.2</i></p><p><b>Gregory of Nyssa</b>: But besides other things the action of Miriam the prophetess also gives rise to these surmisings of ours. Directly the sea was crossed she took in her hand a dry and sounding timbrel and conducted the women's dance. By this timbrel the story may mean to imply virginity, as first perfected by Miriam; whom indeed I would believe to be a type of Mary the mother of God. Just as the timbrel emits a loud sound because it is devoid of all moisture and reduced to the highest degree of dryness, so has virginity a clear and ringing report amongst men because it repels from itself the vital sap of merely physical life. Thus, Miriam's timbrel being a dead thing, and virginity being a deadening of the bodily passions, it is perhaps not very far removed from the bounds of probability that Miriam was a virgin.<br/><i>— On Virginity 19</i></p><p><b>Peter Chrysologus</b>: This name is related to prophecy and salutary to those reborn. It is the badge of virginity, the glory of purity, the indication of chastity, the sacrificial gift of God, the height of hospitality, the sum total of sanctity. Rightly therefore is this motherly name that of the mother of Christ.<br/><i>— SERMON 146</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"85d0f83827ad5072a6f2ce8abacdba5fc160835d5a5d09ed7a7d822ac2a3e80e","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":4495,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"a729984bf51d555c8a931c66a2873ad8cced025e7798bfbe6d109630f8e479e7","translator":null,"work":null}