Note 142 — Chapter XVII · THE STOIC STRAIN IN CHRISTIANITY.
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In the account of the transfiguration in the Gospel to the Hebrews (p. 15, 36 Hilgenfeld; Preuschen Antileg. 4) Jesus says ‘Lately my mother, the holy spirit, seized me by one of my hairs and carried me away to the great mountain of Thabor.’ Here Origen restores a philosophical interpretation by referring to Matt. xii 50; ‘whoever shall do the will of my Father ... is my mother’ Comm. in Joh. ii 12, p. 64 D. Modern writers find an identification of Mary with the Wisdom (σοφία) of God. See Gruppe, Griechische Mythologie und Religionsgeschichte, vol. ii p. 1614.