Volume 37 · p. 372
End of Exodus and Book of Leviticus, page 372
20: Pete, mater mea: neque enim fas est ut avertam faciem tuam. Unde in Vigilia assumptionis ejus orat Ecclesia in secreta, dicens: "Munera nostra apud clementiam tuam Dei genitricis commendet oratio, quam idcirco de praesenti saeculo transtulisti, ut pro peccatis nostris apud te fiducialiter intercedat."
13. Ipsa est etiam tabernaculum repletionis. Exod. XL, 31 et 32: Postquam omnia perfecta sunt, ut scilicet Deus fieret homo, et homo Deus, operuit nubes, id est, Spiritus sanctus, tabernaculum testimonii, id est, Mariam. Luc. I, 35: Spiritus sanctus superveniet in te, etc. Et gloria Domini implevit illud, id est, Christus seipso ad generis humani redemptionem, gratia ad justorum confirmationem, venia ad reorum reconciliationem, gaudio ad tristium consolationem, ut non sit qui se abscondat a calore ejus 1.
LIBER LEVITICI.
Vocavit autem Moysen, et locutus est ei Dominus, etc. 2.
1. Regina mundi dicitur ostium praesentationis, ad quod omnis peccator praesentari debet. Levit. I, 2: Homo qui obtulerit. Glossa: voluntarie, hostiam Domino, ad placandum sibi Deum, offeret primo ad ostium tabernaculi, id est, ad Mariam. Unde Bernardus in Sermone de Nativitate B. Virginis: "Quidquid illud est, quod offerre paras, Mariae commendare memento, etc."
2. Item, Ipsa est ostium mundationis. Levit. XIV, 11 et seq., leprosus, id est, peccator, mundatur ad ostium tabernaculi per agnum et oleum, id est, pinguedinem Dei, misericordiam, et gratiam. Et asperget oleo sacerdos leprosum septies coram Domino. Glossa: Ut ejiciantur septem daemonia, et ut recipiat Spiritum sanctum.
3. Item, Ipsa est arbor cibans, et obumbrans. Levit. XXIII, 40 et seq.: Sumetis vobis fructus, id est, Christi, arboris pulcherrimae, id est, Mariae, spatulasque palmarum. Glossa: id est, ramos continentiae, et castitatis conjugii. Et ramos ligni densarum frondium. Glossa: Omnium virtutum, scilicet fructus, sed maxime misericordiam, quam oportet esse continuam, et permanentem. Et habitabitis in umbraculis septem diebus. Glossa: Tota vita pro umbraculo septem dierum habetur.
4. Item, Ipsa est annus, et tempus propitiationis. Levit. XXV, 9 et seq.: Clanges buccina mense septimo, decima die mensis, tempore propitiationis, etc. Glossa: Quia genus humanum bonitate, et clementia a corruptione liberatur, quibus in Adam dictum est: Pulvis es, et in pulverem reverteris 3. Sanctificabisque annum quinquagesimum, id est, Mariam, et vocabis remissionem.
20: Ask, my mother; for it is not right that I should turn away your face. Hence on the Vigil of her assumption the Church prays in the secret, saying: "May the prayer of the Mother of God commend our gifts before your clemency, whom you therefore transferred from the present age, that she might intercede confidently before you for our sins."
13. She is also the tabernacle of filling. Exodus XL, 31 and 32: After all things were perfected, so that, namely, God should become man and man God, the cloud, that is, the Holy Spirit, covered the tabernacle of testimony, that is, Mary. Luke I, 35: The Holy Spirit will come upon you, etc. And the glory of the Lord filled it, that is, Christ filled it with himself for the redemption of the human race, with grace for the strengthening of the just, with pardon for the reconciliation of the guilty, with joy for the consolation of the sad, so that there is none who hides himself from his heat 1.
BOOK OF LEVITICUS.
But he called Moses, and the Lord spoke to him, etc. 2.
1. The queen of the world is called the door of presentation, at which every sinner ought to be presented. Leviticus I, 2: The man who shall offer. The Gloss: voluntarily, a victim to the Lord, for appeasing God to himself, shall first offer it at the door of the tabernacle, that is, at Mary. Hence Bernard in the Sermon on the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin: "Whatever that is which you prepare to offer, remember to commend it to Mary, etc."
2. Likewise, she is the door of cleansing. Leviticus XIV, 11 and following: the leper, that is, the sinner, is cleansed at the door of the tabernacle through the lamb and the oil, that is, the richness of God, mercy and grace. And the priest shall sprinkle the leper with oil seven times before the Lord. The Gloss: So that the seven demons may be cast out, and so that he may receive the Holy Spirit.
3. Likewise, she is the tree that feeds and overshadows. Leviticus XXIII, 40 and following: You shall take for yourselves the fruits, that is, of Christ, of the most beautiful tree, that is, Mary, and the branches of palms. The Gloss: that is, the branches of continence and of the chastity of marriage. And branches of a tree of dense foliage. The Gloss: Of all virtues, namely the fruit, but especially mercy, which must be continuous and abiding. And you shall dwell in little shelters for seven days. The Gloss: The whole life is held as a shelter of seven days.
4. Likewise, she is the year and time of propitiation. Leviticus XXV, 9 and following: You shall sound the trumpet in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, in the time of propitiation, etc. The Gloss: Because the human race is freed from corruption by goodness and clemency, to whom it was said in Adam: You are dust, and into dust you shall return 3. And you shall sanctify the fiftieth year, that is, Mary, and you shall call remission.
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