Methodius of Olympus — Commentary on Scripture

But since there are of arguments myriads of currents and ways, God inspiring us "at sundry times and in divers manners"

Of the most beautiful flower; the mother of the Creator; the nurse of the Nourisher; the circumference of Him who embraces all things; the upholder of Him

Hebrews 2:16

That Lord, I say, who in His simple and immaterial Deity, entered our nature, and of the virgin's womb became ineffably incarnate; that Lord, who was partaker of nothing else save the lump of Adam, who was by the serpent tripped up. For the Lord laid not hold of the seed of angels

Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

Hebrews 4:14

For I also, taking my journey, and going forth from the Egypt of this life, came first to the resurrection, which is the true Feast of the Tabernacles, and there having set up my tabernacle, adorned with the fruits of virtue, on the first day of the resurrection, which is the day of judgment, celebrate with Christ the millennium of rest, which is called the seventh day, even the true Sabbath. Then again from thence I, a follower of Jesus, "who hath entered into the heavens"

Methodius Discourse IX. Tusiane

Hebrews 9:4

The pledge and earnest of a perpetual priesthood, furnished no contemptible symbol of thy supernatural child-bearing.
On thy account, and the undefiled Incarnation of God, the Word, which by thee had place for the sake of that flesh which immutably and indivisibly remains with Him for ever.

Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

Hebrews 10:1

If the law, according to the apostle, is spiritual, containing the images "of future good things"

Methodius Discourse V. Thallousa

Hebrews 10:32

Is the Spirit of truth, the Paraclete, of whom the illuminated

Hebrews 11:10

And the Jews declared that the shadow of the image (of the heavenly things which was afforded to them), was the third from the reality; but we clearly behold the image of the heavenly order; for the truth will be accurately made manifest after the resurrection, when we shall see the heavenly tabernacle (the city in heaven "whose builder and maker is God"

Methodius Discourse V. Thallousa

Hebrews 11:23

For consider what confidence Seth had towards God, and Abel, and Enos, and Enoch, and Methuselah, and Noah, the first lovers of righteousness, and the first of the first-born children who are written in heaven,

Methodius Discourse VII. Procilla

Hebrews 12:15

For the present we restrain its sprouts, such as evil imaginations, "test any root of bitterness springing up trouble"

Methodius From the Discourse on the Resurrection