Mary
Magdalene
in the Garden after the Resurrection, John xx.
Robert Herrick
86: "St.
Ephrem upon those words of
Jacob, This is the House of God, and this is the Gate of Heaven. This
saying (saith he) is to be meant of the Virgin Mary . . . truly to be
called the House of God, as wherein the Son of God . . . inhabited, and as
truly the Gate of Heaven, for the Lord of heaven and earth entered
thereat; and it shall not be set open the second time, according to that
of Ezekiel (xliv. 2): I saw (saith he) a gate in the East; the glorious
Lord entered thereat; thenceforth that gate was shut, and is not any
more to be opened (_Catena Arab. _ c. 58). "
192. _Upon Woman and Mary. _ The reference is to Christ's appearance to
St.
Mary Magdalene in the Garden after the Resurrection, John xx. 15,
16.
193. _North and South. _ Comp. _Hesper. _ 429. _Observation_. J. G. , pp.
92, 93: "Whosoever (say the Doctors in Berachoth) shall set his bed N.
and S. , shall beget male children. Therefore the Jews hold this rite of
collocation . .
Jacob, This is the House of God, and this is the Gate of Heaven. This
saying (saith he) is to be meant of the Virgin Mary . . . truly to be
called the House of God, as wherein the Son of God . . . inhabited, and as
truly the Gate of Heaven, for the Lord of heaven and earth entered
thereat; and it shall not be set open the second time, according to that
of Ezekiel (xliv. 2): I saw (saith he) a gate in the East; the glorious
Lord entered thereat; thenceforth that gate was shut, and is not any
more to be opened (_Catena Arab. _ c. 58). "
192. _Upon Woman and Mary. _ The reference is to Christ's appearance to
St.
Mary Magdalene in the Garden after the Resurrection, John xx. 15,
16.
193. _North and South. _ Comp. _Hesper. _ 429. _Observation_. J. G. , pp.
92, 93: "Whosoever (say the Doctors in Berachoth) shall set his bed N.
and S. , shall beget male children. Therefore the Jews hold this rite of
collocation . .
