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And Ezekiel also prophesied concerning Mary and " I saw a door in the east which was sealed with a great and marvellous seal, and there was none who went into it except the Lord of hosts ; He went in said, Hear ye now through it and came forth therefrom." this explanation When he saith, " I saw a door," it was the door of the gate of heaven, the entrance of the saints into the kingdom of the heavens. And when he " " saith that it was in the east he referreth to her Men call her the " Gate of purity and her beauty. " " the East whereunto the saints Salvation," and also " " look with joy and gladness. And the closedness of which he speaketh referreth to her virginity and her And when he saith that she was sealed with body. " a great, wonderful seal," this showeth plainly that she was sealed by God, the Great and Wonderful, " None through the Holy Ghost. And when he saith, x : goeth through it except the Lord of hosts, He goeth in and cometh out," [he meaneth] the Creator of the heavens and the earth, the Creator of the angels and men and the lords. The Lord of hosts is the fruit of the Godhead, Who put on our body from her, Christ. He went into and came forth from her without polluting her. And Moses also prophesied concerning Mary, saying, saw a bramble bush on Mount Sinai which the 2 And the signification devouring fire consumed not." of this fire is the Godhood of the Son of God and the " I ; bramble bush, which burned without the leaves thereof being shrivelled, is Mary. CONCERNING THE MURMURING OF ISRAEL And once again the children of Israel murmured con97. cerning the ministration of the priests before the Lord, " Are we not Israel, we the seed of Abraham, saying, and why cannot we also offer up sacrifice like them in 1 '74 Ezekiel xliii, i. * Exodus iii, 2.