To the same purpose _Origen_[245] says, "That since the Law is a shadow of good Things to come, and writes sometimes of Marriages and of Husbands and Wives; we are not to understand it of Marriages according to the Flesh, but of the spiritual Marriage between Christ and his Church. As for Instance, _Abraham_ had two Sons, _&c._ here we ought not to confine our Thoughts to carnal Marriages, and their Offsprings; but to extend them to the Mysteries here signified. And there are almost a thousand other places in Scripture about Marriages; but in every place (_unusquisque Locus castum & divinum de Nuptiis continet Intellectum secundum Expositionem moralem_) is to have a divine, moral, and mystical Construction put on't. Whoever therefore reads the Scriptures about Marriages, and understands no more by them, than carnal Marriages; he errs, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the Power of God." From hence may be easily concluded, what was _Origen_'s opinion about this Marriage in _Cana_ of _Galilee_, if there were no other Passages in him for a Confirmation of it. But to come closer to the Purpose. St. _Augustin_[246] says, there is Mystery signified in the Story of this Marriage, as in all _Jesus_'s Miracles, which it becomes us to open and search for; till, if possible, we are _inebriated_ with the spiritual and invisible Wine, that _Jesus_ made at this Feast. And again[247] says, Let us then consider the several Particulars of the Story, and what is meant by the six Waterpots; and the Water that is turn'd into Wine; and the Governor of the Feast; and who are the Bridegroom and the Bride; and who is the Mother of _Jesus_ in a Mystery; and what is to be understood by the Marriage. And again, says St. _Augustin_[248], there is Mystery in this Marriage, or _Jesus_ upon no invitation had gone to it. The Bridegroom is our Lord himself, to whom it is said thou hast reserv'd the good Wine of the Gospel _until now_, that is, until the typified Time of the Celebration of this mystical Marriage, which according to St. _Augustin_[249] is to be on the sixth Age of the World, signified by the six Water-Pots, holding two or three Firkins apiece, that is, all Mankind, as they are divided into the _two_ sorts of _Jews_ and _Gentiles_, or into _three_, as they are descended of the _three_ Sons of _Noah_. And in another Place, the same St. _Augustin_ interpreting this Story, says[250] thus; "Our Saviour is invited to a Marriage; what can that mean but that the Holy Spirit is courted and invocated by the Church, wishing to be espoused to him? _Jesus_ comes with his Disciples, that is, into a holy Place of a Company of Saints. _Mary_ the Mother of our Lord signifies to him, _that they have no Wine_; so the Church makes known to him, the Deficiency of the Spirit, which she waits for the Power of. And if _Jesus_ calls _Mary_, a Woman; he means the Church, who by Transfiguration may be a Virgin, the Mother, the Spouse of Christ, and a Whore too."