CONFERENCES ON THE SEVEN GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT

1. A strong woman, who will find (one)? ¹ etc.. -- Pray for us, because you are a holy woman ². This word was the word of the priests to Judith; and it can be our word to the Most Glorious Virgin, who is full of sanctity and grace, that She may pray for us to obtain grace and wisdom: wisdom to know the truth, and grace to do truth. Those two we ought to seek from God. For this purpose we come to talk, to have a good understanding and bring back an affection for penitence. But we need prayer for this; and because we are dull and tardy, for that reason we need the moral support [suffragio] of the glorious Virgin, to implore the Divine Assistence through Her moral support, so that we may be able to say something (worthy of Him who lives and reigns ....).

2. A strong woman etc.. In the evening we touched upon that word, which is from Solomon to the glorious Virgin, in which he commends Her for three things: first, for strength of spiritual fortitude; second, for fecundity of supernatural conceiving; and third, for discretion of salutary counsel. -- And rightly are those three conjoined: because the strength of spiritual fortitude was the beginning [initium] of the supernatural conceiving, and the gift of counsel was as its complement, because that Virgin, who ought to have conceived Christ, the Son of God, the Virtue of God and the Wisdom of God ³, ought to be strong and gifted with sense [sensata] through wisdom. And for that reason the Wise man, wanting to give an explanation [explicare] of the Virgin's conceiving, speaks first [praemittit] of the spirit of fortitude and speaks afterwards [subiungit] of the gift of counsel, because She, over whom there ought to rest a spirit of wisdom and understanding, a spirit of counsel and of fortitude, a spirit of knowledge and of piety, and a spirit of the fear of the Lord, ought to (Herself) be filled full with the spirit of the septiform gifts of the Holy Spirit, but especially of the spirit of fortitude and of counsel.⁴

3. In this, moreover, which he says: Far off and from the last ends her price ⁵, the glorious Virgin is understood to be commended for the fecundity of supernatural conceiving. This I do not have on my own authority [ex me], but (St.) Bernard says: "If our salvation and that of all (men), if the restitution of innocence has been placed in the hand of a woman; it is necessary, that a strong woman be sought, who is necessary for so great a work"; and he adds [subdit]: "Not from the earth, not from the sky nearby, but from the highest heaven Her stepping forth" ⁶. -- Far off therefore and from the last ends her price. This is the price, of which the Apostle says: You have been bought at a great price: bear and glorify God in your body ⁷. Because that price is great, the Apostle Peter says: Not with the corruptible things of gold and/or silver have you been redeemed from your vain comportment of (your) fathers' tradition, but with the precious blood as if of an immaculate and unpolluted Lamb ⁸. This was the great price that was owed [debuit esse pretium], by which the whole world and the whole human race ought to be redeemed: because man could not satisfy, because no man could be worth all men, nor could any creature. Nothing was sufficient to redeem the whole human race, unless one had a human nature and a nature above every creature; therefore it was proper, that He have a divine and a human nature.

4. That price where will one find it? Certainly nowhere except in the womb [utero] of the glorious Virgin. Whence Isaiah: Behold, the Virgin will conceive and will give birth to a son, and His name will be called Immanuel ⁹. -- Immanuel is interpreted "God is with us". I was not fitting that the Virgin have a son except God, nor that God have a mother except the Virgin. Far off and from the last ends is He, because in Him there is conjoined the highest with the lowest, and the first with the last. That price is far off, by which the whole human race is redeemed; because the lowest is redeemed, for that reason also the highest; because the last is redeemed, for that reason also the first. Man among the creatures was created last. ¹⁰.

5. Far off and from the last ends her price; and of whom (is) her? Of this blest woman, the Virgin, is the price, through which we prevail to obtain the Kingdom of Heaven; or it is Hers, that is, taken from Her, payed [solutum] through Her and possessed by Her: taken from Her in the Incarnation of the Word; payed through Her in the redemption of the human race; and possessed from Her in the pursuing [assecutione] of the glory of paradise. She brought forth, payed and possessed that price; therefore it is Hers as the one originating, as the one paying and as the one possessing. That woman brought forth that price as one strong and holy; payed it as one strong and pious; possessed it as one strong and strenuous.

6. I say first, that She brought forth that price, that is God and man. The blest Virgin brought forth as a woman strong and holy, I say, in the sanctity of incorrupt chastity [pudicitiae], in the sanctity of prompt obedience and in the sanctity of full benevolence. -- First I say, the blest Virgin brought forth that price as one strong and holy in the sanctity of incorrupt chastity. Whence in Ecclesiasticus: Grace upon grace (is) a woman holy and chastened [pudorata] ¹¹; and the Angels said: Hail, full of grace ¹², because (She was) holy and chastened; holy in Her flesh and chastened in Her mind. The Apostle: A woman, (who is) unmarried and a virgin, thinks of those things which are the Lords, to be holy in body and in spirit ¹³. On this: The Angel Gabriel was sent ¹⁴, etc., (St.) Bernard says: "Gabriel was send to the Virgin, whom the Apostle describes, as holy in mind and body, not recently [de novo] nor fotuituously found, but elect from the age, foreknown by the Most High and prepared for Him, served by the Angels, signified beforehand by the Patriarchs, promissed by the Prophets". To that Virgin Gabriel ought to have been sent as a best-man. She alone pleased the Most High. Likewise (St.) Bernard: "The royal Virgin, outshining with a twin ornament of mind, provoked the sight of the citizens upon Herself, to incline the heart [animum] of the King into desiring Her [in sui concupiscentiam] and to draw to Herself from the supernal regions [supernis] the heavenly messanger".

7. Second, the blest Virgin brought forth that price as one strong and holy in the sanctity of prompt obedience. Whence in Ecclesiasticus: The eternal foundations (are) upon solid rock, and the mandates of God in the heart of a holy woman ¹⁵. The Church ought to have been founded; for that reason it was proper to lay the foundations, that is, the mandates of God, and it was proper, that in some person they be located. This could not be except in the glorious Virgin; the Psalm: Her foundations (are) on holy mountains; a man is born in her and the Most High Himself has founded her. ¹⁶. He says: The mandates of God (are) in the heart of a holy woman, that is the glorious Virgin's. She was not lazy [otiosa], She was not knowing and not doing, but was obedient. For that reason in Her heart there had been founded those mandates of God. It is said in the Gospel: Everyone, who hears the word of God and does it, is similiar to him who builds his house upon firm rock; however he who hears and does not do, is similar to him who builds upon sand ¹⁷. -- First it was proper to find a person, in whom the mandates of God were located, that is, a strong woman. This was the glorious Virgin, Whence in Luke: Lifting up her voice, a certain woman from the crowd, said to Him: Blessed the womb [venter], which carried Thee, and the breasts, which Thou did suckle [suxisti]. And Jesus said: Rather, blessed those who hear the word of God and guard it ¹⁸. -- Not only was She blessed, who conceived and nursed [lactavit] Him, but also those who follow Her. And who are they? They who hear the word of God and fulfill it. Eve, having transgressed the mandate of God, destroyed the house, which God prepared for us for our salvation; but the wise woman built the house and repaired our salvation.

8. Third, the blest Virgin brought forth that price as one strong and holy in the sanctity of full benevolence. Whence the Angel Gabriel said to Her: Blest (art) Thou among women ¹⁹ etc.. The Holy Spirit shall come upon Thee, and the virtue of the Most Hight will overshadow Thee. And for that reason He also who shall be born from Thee shall be called Son of God ²⁰. (St.) Augustine: "The Holy Spirit is love [amor], and although He is given with His gifts, there is not a gift, from which one cannot be separated, except the gift of love. Since all other virtues are common to the good and to the evil; the love [dilectio] of God and neighbor belongs [propria est] to the good and the pious; it is that alone, which sanctifies. The Holy Spirit comes upon (us), because love [amor] is added to love, to transcend the boundary [metas] of the others." Whence Hugo says: "Becasue the love [amor] of God was burning [ardebat] in the mind of the Virgin in a singular manner [singulariter], for that reason it worked wonders in Her flesh". -- It is said in Exodus: That the bramble-bush was burning and was not being burnt up [comburebatur] ²¹, that is, the glorious Virgin, bringing forth the Son of God even (into) the light of day [(in) lucem], through the fire of divine love gave light to the world and was not corrupted. The love of charity preserved [conservat] Her from corruption. And for that reason He also who shall be born from Thee, through an undiminished and unpolluted love, will be called Son of God. As out of [ex] the love of a man with a woman there is born a son of flesh [filius carnalis]; so out of the love of the Virgin with God is born the Son of God.

9. But there preceeded the figure in the bramble-bush and fire, which Moses saw; the figure in the rod and flower of Aaron ²²; the figure in the fleece and dew of Gideon ²³; and there preceeded the figure in the strong woman and her price, which Solomon desired; the figure in the woman [femina] and man, because Jerimiah says: The woman will surround the man ²⁴. All this [illud totum] was consumated in the glorious Virgin. Whence (St.) Bernard: "What has been shown to Moses in the bramble-bush and fire, to Aaron in the rod and flower, to Gideon in the fleece and dew; this openly did Solomon foresee [praevidit] in the strong woman and Her price; more openly did Jeremiah sing [precinuit] of the woman and the man; most openly did Isaiah declare concerning the Virgin and Her son; and at last Gabriel exhibited in greeting the Virgin".

10. Historic events [historiae] are touched upon here: The first historic event is in the bramble-bush and he fire, where the Mystery of the Incarnation is expressed. The second historic event is in the rod of Aaron, which having been cut off and dry in the space of one night sprouted leaves, flowered, and brought forth fruit. The third historic event is, because Gideon asked the Lord, that dew would fall wholly on the fleece, and the area remain dry; and he filled a conch full with dew. -- The other three words are of Solomon, Jerimiah and Isaiah. The word of Solomon concerns the strong woman and her price. The word of Jeremiah concerning the woman and the man: A new thing, he says, will the Lord do upon the earth: a woman will surround a man ²⁵. The word of Isaiah concerning the Virgin and Her Son: Behold, he says, the Virgin will conceive and will bear a son, and his name will be called Immanuel. And this (will be) a sign for you ²⁶ etc.

11. Who caused [fecit quod] the Virgin to conceive? Certainly the Holy Spirit, who is fervent, fecund, unpolluted, manly, incorrupt and deifying love [amor deificus]. That He is fervent love, is signified to us in the bramble-bush and fire. That He is fecund love, is signified in the rod of Aaron, which in the space of a night sprouted leaves, flowered and brought forth fruit. That He is unpolluted love, is signified in fleece filled full [completo], because dew does not dirty fleece, but cleans it. That He is manly love, is signified to us in the woman and the man, because the woman surrounded the man, that is girded him on every side [ex omni parte]. That He is incorrupt love, is signified to us in the Virgin, who conceived a son. That He is deifying love, is signified to us in the Virgin giving birth to God. -- That price is most precious. On account of this Isaiah says: More precious will a man [vir] be than gold, and man [homo] than the finest, pure gold [mundo obryzo] ²⁷. This he said of Christ, who made us precious.

12. Everyone, who wants to be holy, ought to follow the glorious Virgin in the sanctity of incorrupt chastity, of prompt obedience and of full benevolence. And as by following the glorious Virgin we become precious and holy, so by following Eve we become evil and vile. Whence in Proverbs: The price of a harlot barely one loaf of bread; however a woman siezes the precious soul of a man ²⁸. Stupid Eve, for eating one piece of fruit you have sold yourself and your man and all of us! O son of Eve! beware lest you be an imitator of Eve; but for whatever delectation you give your soul; you are an imitator of Eve. What does it proft a man, if he gain the entire world, but suffer the detriment of his soul? Or what a man give in exchange for his soul? ²⁹ For the entire (universe), which God created, I would not give my soul. Christ gave His own blood for redeming my soul, and for sin you sell yourself and your soul!

13. Do you know, what comes about [accedit] through sin? The most precious becomes the most vile. Whence in Ecclesiasticus: The fornicating woman as a harlot is trampled upon in the street ³⁰. Therefore a fornicating cleric or priest what is he? Certainly an abomination to the Lord. Therefore fly concupiscences and let us follow the Virgin, who believed the Archangel Gabriel, not the woman, who believed the serpent. Solomon followed foolish women, for that reason he grieved and says in Ecclesiastes: I have found a woman more bitter than death, who is a hunters' snare, and a net her heart, chains are her hands. He who pleases God will flee from her, however he who is a sinner will be siezed by her ³¹. A snare is for those looking at it, a net for those desiring [concupiscentibus] and consenting to it, and chains for those grasping them.

14. I say first, that she is a snare for those looking at her; whence it is written: Many having admired the appearance of another's woman, have become reprobate ³². One reads of blessed Bernard, that his sister came to see him, adorned with the most beautiful dress; he himself spit in her face and fled from her. Not enduring that she asked, why he did this; he responded: "because you come in the dress of a prostitute to sieze souls and you carry the devil with you". For that reason he says: is a hunters' snare, that is the devil's, who through her siezes souls; because he who sees a woman to desire her, has already committed adultery with her in his heart ³³. -- Likewise, she is a net to those desiring and consenting to her. Whence in Ecclesiasticus: On account of the appearance of a woman many have perished ³⁴. It is difficult to carry fire in a fold, so as not to burn up one's garments ³⁵. -- Likewise, the hands of a woman are chains to those grasping them, because she holds (so) tightly, that the man cannot be separated from her. Whence the Apostle: It is good for a man not to touch a woman ³⁶. -- From a (woolen) vestiment proceeds (moth) larva, and from a woman the iniquity of a man ³⁷. -- If we want to be most precious, we ought to adhere to the price of the strongest woman, the incorrupt Virgin, most obedient and most loving. That woman, that is, Eve, expelled us from paradise and sold us, this one leads us back and purchases us. -- Therefore She brought forth that price as a strong and holy woman.

15. Second, She payed off that price as a strong and pious woman, that is, when Christ suffered on the Cross to pay off that price, to purge, wash and redeem us; then the blest Virgin was present, accepting and agreeing to the Divine Will. And it pleased Him, that the price of Her womb be offered on the Cross on our behalf. Whence in John: She stood near the Cross, the Mother of Jesus, and the sister of His Mother, Mary of Clophas, and Mary Magdalene. When, therefore, Jesus saw the Mother and disciple standing, whom He loved, He said to His Mother: Woman behold Thy son ³⁸, that is, Him who is handed over as the price of the redemption of the human race; and as if He said: it is proper, that Thou lack Me, and that I lack Thee -- and Thou Thyself as one holy did conceive Him and as one pious Thou doest offer Him -- may it please thee, Virgin, that I redeem the human race and that I please God. And lest She be destitute, He said to the disciple: Behold, your Mother ³⁹; He gave the virginal man the Virgin.

16. Let us hear something of Her piety. She is our hope, who payed off that price, as one pious in the piety of divine veneration; second, in the piety of compassion for Christ; and third, in the piety of pity for the world, and chiefly for the Christian people.

17. First, I say, She payed off that price as one strong and pious with the piety [pietatis] of divine veneration. Whence in Proverbs: A false and vain grace is beauty [pulchritudo], a woman fearing the Lord will be herself praised ⁴⁰. Moreover there is no one, who could return the honor taken from [subtractum] God except Christ. And the blest Virgin is venerative and restorative of the honor taken from God, and the Mother consenting, that Christ be offered as the price. Therefore shall She be praised. Anna was praised, because she offered Samuel ⁴¹; whence it is said of her: The woman went on her way and ate, and her expressions were no more changed into diverse ones ⁴². She offered a son to serve; but the Blessed Virgin offered Her Son to be sacrificed. -- Abraham, you wanted to offer your son, but offered a ram! ⁴³ but the glorious Virgin offered Her Son. -- The poor little widown is praised, becasue she offered everything [totum], which she had ⁴⁴; but this woman, that is the glorious Virgin, most merciful, pious and devoted to God offered Her whole substance. -- In this is reprehended the impiety of men, who do not render thanks to God from that which they have accepted. So many good things you have received from God, that is, prebends and other things; if one does something on God's behalf, it seems to him something great. But if you give yourself and everything [omne], which you have, on God's behalf, it is nothing. The Blessed Virgin payed that price strong and pious in the piety of the divine veneration. Piety principally consists in the worship of God.

18. Second, the glorious Virgin payed off that price, strong and pious in the piety of compassion for Christ. It is said in John: A woman when she gives brith, has pain [dolorem] because her hour has come ⁴⁵. On account of childbirth a woman has pain, that is, before giving birth. But the Blessed Virgin did not have pain before giving birth; because She did not conceive out of sin, as (did) Eve, to whom the malediction was given; but She had pain after birth. Whence She gave birth, before She was in labour. On the Cross She was in labour; whence in Luke: And your very soul shall a sword pierce ⁴⁶. In other women there is pain of body, in this one there is sorrow [dolus] of heart; in others there is the pain of corruption, in this one there is the sorrow of compassion and of charity. Whence He invites us to consider Her sorrow in Jeremiah: All, He says, who pass by in the street, attend and see if there is a sorrow as my sorrow ⁴⁷.

19. That sorrow ought to transverberate the minds of all. Christ on your account has died, ought you not suffer together with Him? The Blessed Virgin suffered together with Him in the greatest manner [maxime]; but on the other hand it pleased Her, that He was betrayed on our behalf. No one knows, how great suffering with Christ [compassio Christi] is worth. There is nothing, that extinguishes temptations and elation so much, than that the mind be guarded in suffering the sorrow of Christ with Him [in compassione doloris Christi]. The time of the Passion of Christ comes; and some again are crucifying the Son of God for themselves ⁴⁸, that is, as much as they can [quantum in ipsis est]. It is a most high cruelty of Christian iniquity, that you who have been washed by the Blood of Christ, by sinning, do again crucify Him, as much as you can.

20. Third, the Blessed Virgin payed off that price as a woman strong and pious in the piety of mercy for the world, and especially for the Christian people. Isaiah: Can a mother forget her infant, to not have pity on the son of her womb? Even if she has forgotten, nevertheless I will not forget you ⁴⁹. This is said of Christ. -- And here it can be understood, that the whole Cristian people have been produced from the womb of the glorious Virgin; that is signified to us through the woman formed from the side of the man, which (woman) signifies the Church. Whence in Genesis: The Lord sent upon Adam a deep sleep; and when he was asleep He took one of his ribs[de costis] and made a woman and He brought her to Adam. And Adam said, that she would be "woman" [virago: lit. "a heroine"] ,because she had been taken from a man. This (is), he said, the bone of my bones, and the flesh of my flesh ⁵⁰. And the Lord said: On this account a man relinquishes father and mother and (their) sons and daughters, and clings to his wife ⁵¹. And the Apostle said: This is a great sacrament; moreover I say, in Christ and in the Church ⁵². -- And why, with him sleeping, did He take one of his ribs? Could he not do this, with him making vigil? This is mysterious [mysteriale]. Was not the Church formed from the side of Christ, while Christ was asleep on the Cross? And from his side there overflowed [refluxit] blood and water ⁵³, that is the Sacraments, through which the Church is reborn. From the rib of Adam was formed Eve, who was joined with him in marriage. As man was formed from the virgin earth [terra virginea], so Christ from the glorious Virgin. And as from the side of Adam sleeping there was formed a woman, so the Church from Christ hanging upon the Cross. And as from Adam and Eve there was formed Abel and his successors, so from Christ and the Church the whole Christian people. And as Eve is the mother of Abel and of us all, so the Christian people have, as mother, the Virgin.

21. O what a pious Mother we have! Let us be configured to Our Mother and let us follow Her piety. She has suffered so much for souls, because She reputed as nothing temporal danger and corporal suffering. So on account of the salvation of our soul may it please us to crucify our body. It is said in Matthew: When Jesus was in the house of Simon the leper, there came a woman having an alabaster jar of oinment, and she brok the alabaster jar and poured the ointment upon Jesus' head. And the house was filled from the odor of oinment. The disciples seeing this, a certain ones of them murmured saying: For what this loss? For she could have offered it for sale and given it to the poor. And Jesus said: For what have you bothered this woman? A good work has she worked on Me; for you will always have the poor with you, however Me you will not always have ⁵⁴. Magdalene bears the type of the penitents; she broke the alabaster jar of ointment out of the piety, which she had for Christ. And we for the universal Church and for our soul ought to have a penitent piety. And as Magdalene by offending lost God; so, when she annointed the feet and head of Christ, did she find Him. -- See, that whoever of you have that ointment, that it is employed on [afficiatur ad] God and that he repents and be wary of his own sin. Some have compassion [compatiuntur] on their flesh, not their soul. Whence in Lamentations: The hands of merciful women have cooked their sons ⁵⁵. Such a one is not similiar to the Virgin nor to Christ. One cooks one's sons who has not compassion on his soul, but exposes it to the burning of concupiscences and infernal torments. Of such a woman it is said: Better is the iniquity of a man than a benificent woman ⁵⁶; you cannot afflict your body too much. Let us not give our body to sin. We have been bought at a great price ⁵⁷. Do not become the slaves of men ⁵⁸ nor of demons nor or sinners. If you had redeemed some slave, you would not give him (away) for nothing. -- Now it is clear, in what manner the glorious Virgin brought forth that price as one strong and holy and payed it off as one strong and pious.

22. Third, She possesses that price glorified in heaven. because (She is) strong and strenuous, fighting in a manly manner [viriliter], triumphing in a noble manner [nobiliter] and reigning in a sublime manner [sublimiter]. -- First, I say, the Blessed Virgin possessess that price, because (She is) strong and strenuous as one fighting in a manly manner. In Genesis: The Lord said to the serpent: I will place emnity between you and the woman and your seed and her seed; She shall crush your head, and you will lie in wait for her heel ⁵⁹. (St.) Bernard says of the glorious Virgin: "The head of the ancient serpent She crushed, while every manner of malign suggestion as much from the allurements of the flesh as from pride of mind She brought [deduxit] to nothing". -- Do not permitt, that the serpent enter into your heart through suggestion; because (St.) Gregory says, that when the head of a serpent enters into some opening, then the whole body easily enters. On this account the Psalm says: Blessed (is) he who will hold and smash your little ones upon the rock ⁶⁰, that (deed) is the first movement towards Christ; and then one has peace. He who want to defend his land [terram] fears for himself, lest the enemy enter the land; because he who holds the borders of a land with [in] fortitude, possesses the interior [read as medullium] more securely.

23. Second, the Blessed Virgin possesses that price, because as one strong and strenous (She is) triumphing in a noble manner, which is signified in Judith, where it says: One Hebrew woman wrought confusion in the house of Nebchadnezzar ⁶¹. Judith amputated the head of Holofernes, and all his (servants) fled. In the Gospel it is said: Your very soul shall a sword pierce ⁶², that is a living sorrow. From what? Certainly from the Passion of Christ. Who brought on the Passion of Christ? Judas; the pagan; (and) Pilate. Those were the instruments; but who moved them to this? Certainly the devil wrought a sword, from which the soul of the Virgin was transfixed; and She was cured, and the devil was conquered. The devil wanted to have the bait [escam] of the Flesh of Christ; but the Deity clung to his throat as a hook; a nail was thrust into the forehead of Sisara. He who destroyed the army of the Madianites triumphed in a noble manner. -- Therefore in accord with this example let us not permitt ourselves to be conquered.

24. Third, the Blessed Virgin possesses that price, because as one strong and strenuous (She is) reigning in a sublime manner. Whence in Ester it is said, that Ester found grace in the sight of [coram] Asuerus before [prae] all other women, and he placed the diadem on her head and made her queen ⁶³. The Blessed Virgin on account of Her sanctity, piety and sublimity had a crown of precious stone ⁶⁴. Who is that stone? Certainly Christ. Whence blessed Peter: Behold, I will place [mittam] a precious stone upon the foundation ⁶⁵. The Blessed Virgin has been crowned with that stone in the flesh; seeing in the flesh the glorified body of Christ, seeing in spirit His glorified soul and in mind His Divinity. First Christ was crowned, and She after (Him). Whence in the Canticle: Step forth, daughters of Sion, and see king Solomon with his diadem [in diademata], with which his mother crowned him on the day of his betrothment and on the day of the gladness of his heart ⁶⁶, that is in flesh and mind, because He first put on flesh, suffered and afterwards was glorified; and the whole Church was crowned through Him. Whence in the Apocalypse: A great sign appeard in Heaven; a woman girt with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars ⁶⁷. -- We will have that crown, if we want to imitate the glorious Virgin. Whence it is written: Blessed the man, who suffers tempation, since, when he has been proven, he will accept the crown of life ⁶⁸; and in the Apocalypse: Be faithful unto death, and I will give you the crown of life ⁶⁹; which (crown) may He present to us, who with the Father (and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns ...).

¹. Prov 31:10.

². Judith 8:29.

³. 1 Cor 1:24.

⁴. Is 11:2-3; cf. Lc 1:35.

⁵. Prov 31:10.

⁶. Ps 18:7.

⁷. 1 Cor 6:20.

⁸. 1 Pt 1:18-19.

⁹. Is 7:14.

¹⁰. Cf. Gen 1:26-27.

¹¹. Eccli 26:19.

¹². Lk 1:28.

¹³. 1 Cor 7:34.

¹⁴. Lk 1:26.

¹⁵. Eccli 26:24.

¹⁶. Ps 86:1.5.

¹⁷. Mt 7:25-26.

¹⁸. Lk 11:27-28.

¹⁹. Lk 1:28.

²⁰. Lk 1:35.

²¹. Ex 3:2.

²². Cf. Num 17:16-25; Heb 9:4.

²³. Jg 6:37-40; Ps 71:6.

²⁴. Jer 31:22.

²⁵. Jer 32:22.

²⁶. Is 7:14.

²⁷. Is 13:12.

²⁸. Prov 6:26.

²⁹. Mt 16:26.

³⁰. Eccli 9:10.

³¹. Eccle 7:27.

³². Eccli 9:11.

³³. Mt 5:28.

³⁴. Eccli 9:9.

³⁵. Prov 6:27.

³⁶. 1 Cor 7:1.

³⁷. Eccli 42:13.

³⁸. Jn 19:25-26.

³⁹. Jn 19:27.

⁴⁰. Prov 31:30.

⁴¹. 1 Kg 1:11.

⁴². 1 Kg 1:18.

⁴³. Cf. Gen 22:9-13.

⁴⁴. Cf. Mk 13:41-44; Lc 21:1-4.

⁴⁵. Jn 16:21.

⁴⁶. Lk 2:35.

⁴⁷. Lam 1:12.

⁴⁸. Heb 6:6.

⁴⁹. Is 49:15.

⁵⁰. Gen 2:21-23.

⁵¹. Mt 19:5; cf. Mc 10:7-8; Gen 2:24.

⁵². Eph 5:52.

⁵³. Jn 19:34.

⁵⁴. Mt 26:6-11.

⁵⁵. Lam 4:10.

⁵⁶. Eccli 42:14.

⁵⁷. 1 Cor 6:20.

⁵⁸. 1 Cor 7:23.

⁵⁹. Gen 3:14-15.

⁶⁰. Ps 136:9.

⁶¹. Judith 14:16.

⁶². Lk 2:35.

⁶³. Cf. Est 2:17.

⁶⁴. Ps 20:4.

⁶⁵. 1 Pt 2:6.

⁶⁶. Ct 3:11.

⁶⁷. Ap 12:1.

⁶⁸. Jm 1:12.

⁶⁹. Ap 2:10.