C. — and marvellous and most perfect —

S. — Epoptic Mystery, a plucked wheat-ear.*
^ Cf. Matt. ii. 18, which depends on Jer. xxzL 16 (LXX. xxxyiii 16). In T. R., however, the reading is by no means the same as in LXX. C. favours the Qospel text rather than that of LXX.
* This shows a very detached frame of mind on behalf of J. Perhaps it may be an interpolation of C.
^ Jer. xvii. 9.
* This has all the appearance of a quotation from some mjrstic apocryphon of the Gnosis.
ft See Cumont (F.\ Mytt^m de MMra (Brussek, 1898). In the monuments representing the bull-slaying myth of the Mithriaca, the bull's tail is frequently terminated in ** une drufft ^^pu" — the number varies, being either one, three, five, or seven. In the BundahM all things are generated from the body.
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And this Wheat-ear is also with the Athenians the light-giver^ —
0. — ^perfect [and] mighty —
J. — from the Inexpressible — S. — as the hierophant himself — not emasculated like the " Attis," * but made eunuch with hemlock juice —