Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna On the Day that They Met in the Temple and Other Fragments

Perhaps these three persons of our ancestors, being in an image the consubstantial representatives of humanity, are, as also Methodius thinks, types of the Holy and Consubstantial Trinity,³¹⁸⁶ the innocent and unbegotten Adam being the type and resemblance of God the Father Almighty, who is uncaused, and the cause of all; his begotten son³¹⁸⁷ shadowing forth the image of the begotten Son and Word of God; whilst Eve, that proceedeth forth from Adam,³¹⁸⁸ signifies the person and procession of the Holy Spirit.³¹⁸⁹