those whom He shut out, and to whom He answered: ‘I know you not,’ said that both sets were virgins because of their continence, and they were five because they had subdued the concupiscence of the flesh, endowed with its fivefold appeal to the senses; that both sets were furnished with lamps because of the very high praise gained by their good works and their good conversation in the sight of men; and that both groups were going out to meet the bridegroom because of the expectation with which the