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Chapter
XXIII.—Simon a Disciple of the Baptist.
“But that he came to deal with the doctrines
of religion happened on this wise. There was one John, a
day-baptist,934
| 934 A day-baptist is
taken to mean “one who baptizes every day.” | who was also,
according to the method of combination, the forerunner of our Lord
Jesus; and as the Lord had twelve apostles, bearing the number of the
twelve months of the sun, so also he, John, had thirty chief
men, fulfilling the monthly reckoning of the moon, in which number was
a certain woman called Helena,935
| 935 [Called
“Luna” in the Recognitions.—R.] | that not even this
might be without a dispensational significance. For a woman,
being half a man, made up the imperfect number of the triacontad; as
also in the case of the moon, whose revolution does not make the
complete course of the month.936
| 936 [Peculiar, in
this detailed form, to the Homilies.—R.] | But of
these thirty, the first and the most esteemed by John was Simon; and
the reason of his not being chief after the death of John was as
follows:—
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