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and in his hand was an adamant stone in the midst of the people of Israel' (compare Amos, 7:7). But a creature cannot prevail against its creator, and for this reason Christ is the adamas stone. He stands on a wall of such stone, on the holy and living stones of which heavenly Jerusalem is built. These are the Apostles, the prophets and the martyrs, over whom neither fire, nor the sword nor the teeth of beasts could prevail. All the saints are called adamantine by the prophet, after that one true stone, just as Christians are named after Christ. The prophet says: 'I saw a man standing on a wall of adamant, and behold in his hand was an adamant stone', that is, the son of God and the son of man who deigned to take flesh in Mary's womb. The man held the stone in his hand, signifying the glory of his divinity, as Daniel testifies, saying: 'I looked, and behold, a certain man clothed in baldachin' (see Daniel, 10:5). The man in the text signifies the majesty of the divine nature; the baldachin represents carnal man, whose form Christ saw fit to assume. For 'baldachin' is taken to mean linen, clothing which has its origin in the earth. Of Christ being called a man, blessed Peter, the Apostle, says: 'Jesus of Nazareth, the Lord made manifest to you' (see Acts, 2:22). And the blessed Paul says: 'I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ' (2 Corinthians, 11:2). In order that we should know more clearly that it is Christ of whom he speaks, Paul says: 'Do you seek proof of Christ speaking in me?' (see 2 Corinthians, 13:3). The mountain in the east, therefore, on which, according to Physiologus, the adamant stone is found, signifies the Lord our father unbegotten, from whom all things spring. He says that mountain is high and that his glory is inaccessible, just as the Apostle
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