Interpretation of the Prophet Jeremiah

Those who carried the cluster of grapes on a pole from the promised land original: "botrum in vecte," a reference to the spies in Numbers 13:23 who returned with evidence of the land's fertility prefigure two orders who will be future witnesses, and undoubtedly the truth of the Gospel. "You shall be witnesses to me," He said, "in Judea, Jerusalem, and Samaria, and even to the ends of the earth." Acts 1:8 Judea signifies the Latins the Western, Latin-speaking Church; Jerusalem, the clergy; Samaria, the Greeks the Eastern, Greek-speaking Church; and the ends of the earth, those peoples yet to be converted to the Lord. Just as Jannes and Jambres rose against Moses and Aaron the Egyptian magicians who opposed Moses in Exodus, and Simon Magus and Elymas against Paul and Peter, so shall the Patarenes a 12th-century heretical movement in Northern Italy, often associated with the Cathars and other heretics rise against the two future witnesses. These heretics are prefigured by the two horns of the beast, as read in the Book of Revelation.

The time of the sons of Jacob, or the patriarchs, signifies the time of the apostles. The time of the judges signifies the time of the martyrs; the time of the prophets, the time of the confessors; the time of the sons of the prophets, the time of the hermits and virgins. The time of Joshua, who rooted out idolatry, signifies the time of the Church in which Pope Leo likely Pope Leo the Great, known for his defense of orthodoxy against early heresies routed his own heresies. The time of exile, in which the Jews sat by the rivers of Babylon, portends this current time, in which both the clergy and the people everywhere commit spiritual fornication against God. However, the seventh time will belong to those converting to Christ. Whence it is said: "A Sabbath rest Sabbatismus remains for the people of God," Hebrews 4:9 which refers to the rest of liberty according to the spirit and conversion according to the sacrament of faith. Whence Luke says: "It happened, when all the people were baptized" Luke 3:21—this has not yet been fully completed in the Church, but it shall be fulfilled under the seventh angel, as the Apostle says: "When the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, then all Israel shall be saved." Romans 11:25-26 Hence in the Song of Songs: "Your hair is like flocks of goats ascending from Mount Gilead," Song of Solomon 4:1 which is the head of Lebanon, that is, of the living original: "viviādi," likely a contraction for the act of living or being made alive.

This catchword "Mulier" refers to the "Woman clothed with the sun" from Revelation 12, likely the subject of the following page.