And again St. _Augustin_ explaining[251] what is meant by the Water, and the Wine that it wou'd be turn'd into, at the Time of the spiritual Celebration of this Marriage of Christ with his Spouse of the Church, says plainly enough, that by _Water_ is meant the Letter of the Scriptures; and by the best _Wine_ is to be understood spiritual Interpretations, which would transport the understandings of Men with divine knowledge; and warm their Hearts and Affections into a spiritual _Inebriation_; after the similitude of Wine natural. St. _Theophilus_ of _Antioch_, a most antient Greek Commentator (who according to _Bishop Smalbroke_ should strictly adhere to the Letter) says[252], that by this Marriage is meant the Conjunction of Christ and his Church, as it is the Tradition of the Old and New Testament. And that _Jesus_ himself is the Bridegroom; and _Moses_ the Governor of the Feast. Other Fathers, such as St. _Cyril_, St. _Theophylact_ and St. _Jerome_ are of the same mind about the mystical Interpretation of this Marriage, as might be prov'd by Passages out of them, if I had room here to cite them. But I must observe here, that according to the Fathers, the Story of this Marriage is but another Emblem of the Marriage of the Lamb with the Bride of the _New Jerusalem_, spoken of in the _Revelations_, to which all the Fowls of the Air will be invited, that is, spiritual and heavenly minded Christians, who[253] soar and fly aloft in their divine and sublime Contemplations on the anagogical Sense of the Scriptures, which will exhibit those intellectual Dainties, they are there to be entertain'd with. What I have here said out of the Fathers to the Story of this Marriage, is enough to quicken our _Divines_ to search for the like mystical Interpretation of the whole. The Part of it that's most difficult to be spiritually expounded, is that saying of _Jesus_ to his Mother, _Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine Hour is not yet come._ For the clear interpretation of which, I own, I meet with little in the Fathers. But St. _Augustin_[254] assures us, there's latent Mystery in the words. How then shall we come at it? Why, if we cast away the _Interrogation_, and look upon the Sentence, as ellyptical, like an infinite number of prophetical ones, the Sense paraphrastically, and agreeably to the rest of the Mystery, arises thus: In answer to the Woman of the Church's Expectation of the Wine of the Spirit; _Jesus_ will tell her or make her to understand of what importance it is to her (and himself) to be supply'd with that mystical Wine to her Edification, which it was not his time to pour forth upon the Church, till the Celebration of his Nuptials with her.