8. Now the seventh day denotes the mystery of the Law, the eighth that of the Resurrection, as you have in Ecclesiastes, _Give a portion to seven and also to eight_. In the prophet Hosea also you have read that it was said to him, _Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms for fifteen pieces of silver_, seeing that by the double price of the Old and New Testament, that is, by the full price of faith, that woman is hired who was attended by a vagrant and licentious train of ♦sojourners. Sidenote: Ib. iii. 2. Sidenote: S. Matt. v. 17. 9. _And I bought her to me_, saith the prophet, _for fifteen pieces of silver, and for an homer of barley, and an half homer of barley and a measure[154] of wine[155]_. By barley is signified that the imperfect are called to the Faith that they may be made perfect, by the homer is understood a full measure, by the half homer a half measure. The full measure is the Gospel, the half measure is the Law, the fulfilment of which is the New Testament. Thus the Lord Himself saith, _I am not come to destroy the Law, but to fulfil_. Sidenote: Isa. xxxviii. 8. Sidenote: Mal. iv. 2. Sidenote: Gal. i. 18. 10. Nor is it without meaning that we read in the Psalms of David of fifteen degrees, and that the sun had risen fifteen degrees, when Hezekiah the righteous king received a new supply of life. Hereby was signified the coming of the Sun of Righteousness, Who was about to enlighten by His presence these fifteen steps of the Old and New Testament whereby our faith mounts up to life eternal. And this leads me to believe that what was read this day from the Apostle of his remaining fifteen days with Peter has a mystical meaning; for it appears that while the holy Apostles held various discourses among themselves upon the interpretation of the Divine Scriptures a full and bright light fell upon them, and the shades of ignorance were dispersed. But now let us come to the absolution of the woman taken in adultery. Sidenote: S. John viii. 15. Sidenote: Ib. 4, 5. Lev. xx. 8. 11. A woman accused of adultery was brought by the Scribes and Pharisees to the Lord Jesus with the malicious intent, that, if He was to acquit her, He might seem to annul the Law, if He condemned her, that He might seem to have changed the purpose of His coming, since He came to remit the sins of all men. To the same purport He said above[156], _I judge no man_. So when they brought her they said, _This woman was taken in adultery, in the very act; now Moses in the Law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what sayest Thou?_ Sidenote: v. 7.