When the virgins ... - Rather, “when virgins” and so on. The words begin a new paragraph. There was a second collection of virgins (after t…

And when the virgins ... —Here begins a fresh incident in the history, whose date we cannot fix precisely, except…

And when the virgins were gathered together the second time ,
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We see to what absurd practices those resorted who were lacking Divine revelation, and what need there was for the gospel of Christ to purify peopl…