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ΠΡΩΤΟΝ.\n\n\"Ὃς κατῴκει ἐν Ἀναθώθ.\" Ἀπὸ πέντε μυρίωνἹερουσαλὴμ Ἀναθώθ. \"Ἐπίσταμαί σε.\" Κατὰ τοὺς τῆς προγνώσεως λόγους. \"Ἐκριζοῦν.\" Ἐκριζοῦν τὴν κακίαν. \"Τί σὺ ὁρᾷς; Καὶ εἶπα· Βακτηρίαν καρυΐνην.\" Ταῦτα ἐκ διαλείμματος, ὅταν εἴπῃ· Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέγων· οὐ γὰρ ἐφεξῆς, ἀλλ' ἐδίδου συνιδεῖν τὰ λεγόμενα. Τὸ γὰρ ξύλον τοῦτο στεῤῥὸν, καὶ βαρὺ, καὶ πληκτικόν. Τίνος ἕνεκεν ταῦτα ἔβλεπον; Ὅτι τὰ πράγματα καὶ αἱ ὄψεις ἐναργέστεραι ἦσαν, καὶ μᾶλλον ἔπληττον τὸν ἀκροατήν. Ἡ γὰρ ῥάβδος πληγῆς ἐστι σύμβολον. Λόγος, τὸ κάρυον ἀγρυπνίας εἶναι ποιητικόν· εἶναι δὲ καὶ εὔθραστον τὸ ξύλον, καὶ σημαίνει τὴν μετριωτέραν ὀργήν· ὡς ἀγρυπνοῦντος μὲν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπὶ τοῖς ἁμαρτάνουσιν, κολάζοντος δὲ μετριώτερον. \"Ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Βοῤῥᾶ.\" Διὰ τὸν Βαβυλώνιόν φησι. Βορειοτέρα γὰρ ἡ Βαβυλὼν ὡς πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιας, εἰς πρόσωπον τοῦ σκληροῦ Βορέου ὁ διάβολος λαμβάνεται. \"Λέβητα ὑποκαιόμενον.\" Κατὰ μὲν τὸ γράμμα τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ τοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ ἄρχοντας· πρὸς δὲ θεωρίαν, τὴν συνείδησιν τὴν ἑαυτὴν δοκιμάζουσαν. \"Καὶ σὺ περίζωσαι.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἄνδρισαι, θαῤῥῶν πορεύου. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, περιζώννυται τὴν ὀσφὺν ὁ σώφρων. Ἐν γὰρ τῇ ὀσφύϊ λέγουσιν εἶναι τὰ σπέρματα. Εἴρηται γὰρ περὶ τοῦ Λευΐ· Ἔτι γὰρ ἐν τῇ ὀσφύϊ τοῦ πατρός σου ἦν. \"Μὴ φοβηθῇς ὅτι μετὰ σοῦ εἰμί.\" Περιφράξας ταῖς ἀγγελικαῖς δυνάμεσιν. ΚΕΦ. Βʹ. \"Ἐμνήσθην ἐλέους νεότητός σου.\" Τῷ Σωτῆρι Χριστῷ ἅγιος Ἰσραὴλ τῷ Κυρίῳ· ὁ ἀληθινὸς Ἰσραὴλ, ὁ νοῦς ὁ ὁρῶν Θεὸν, ὃν καὶ ἡδέως ὁρᾷ ὥσπερ ἀπαρχήν τινα γεννημάτων.","english":"CHAPTER ONE.\n\n\"Who dwelt in Anathoth.\" Anathoth is five miles from Jerusalem. \"I know you.\" According to the words of foreknowledge. \"To root out.\" To root out wickedness. \"What do you see? And I said: A rod of walnut-wood.\" These things come at an interval, when he says: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying; for they are not in sequence, but he was giving understanding of what was said. For this wood is firm, and heavy, and striking. For what reason did I see these things? Because the events and the visions were more vivid, and struck the hearer more. For the rod is a symbol of a blow. The word [says] that the walnut is productive of watchfulness; and that the wood is also easily broken, and it signifies the more moderate anger; as God being watchful over those who sin, but punishing more moderately. \"From the face of the north.\" He speaks because of the Babylonian. For Babylon is more northern with respect to Jerusalem. But in the sense of the deeper meaning, the devil is taken as the face of the harsh north. \"A cauldron being kindled.\" According to the letter, Jerusalem, and the rulers in it; but in the sense of contemplation, the conscience testing itself. \"And you, gird yourself.\" Instead of, be a man, go with courage. But in the sense of the deeper meaning, the temperate man girds his loins. For they say that the seeds are in the loins. For it has been said concerning Levi: For he was still in the loins of your father. \"Do not fear that I am with you.\" Having fenced you about with the angelic powers. CHAPTER 2. \"I remembered the mercy of your youth.\" To the Savior Christ, the Holy One of Israel, to the Lord; the true Israel, the mind that sees God, which he also gladly sees as a kind of first-fruits of offspring.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":2,"ref":"p2","source":"Λέγεται οὖν Ἰσραὴλ ποτὲ μὲν ὁ Ἰουδαίων λαὸς, ποτὲ δὲ οἱ διορατικώτεροι, καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ πατριάρχης καὶ ὁ κατὰ σάρκα ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ Χριστός. Κατὰ ἔλεος, φησὶ, καὶ ἀγάπην ἔχρισά σε εἰς προφήτην· οὐ γὰρ ἐκ κατορθωμάτων τὰ χαρίσματα. \"Καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ὀπίσω τῶν ματαίων.\" Τῶν εἰδώλων καὶ τῶν τρόπων τῆς κακίας. Εἰς τὸν Κάρμηλον.\" Ὄρος τοῦτο τῆς Παλαιστίνης. Ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ ἐπίγνωσις περιτομῆς· δι' ἧς ἀποτέμνομεν τὰ ἀγαθὰ ἀπὸ τῶν φαύλων. \"Διέλθετε εἰς νήσους Χεττιείμ.\" Τινὲς μὲν Κυπρίους φασὶ, τινὲς δὲ Ἰνδῶν ἕθνη. Ὁ Κηδὰρ τοῦ Ἰσμαὴλ ἀπόγονος· σημαίνονται δὲ διὰ τούτου τὰ Σαρακηνῶν ἔθνη. Ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ σκοτασμός· φασὶ δὲ καὶ ὀστρακίνην δηλοῦσθαι διὰ τοῦ Κηδάρ. \"Ἐπ' αὐτὸν ὠρύοντο λέοντες.\" Λέοντες πρὸς μὲν τὸ ῥητὸν οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι, πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν ἀνήμεροι δαίμονες. \"Παρὰ τὸ μὴ κατοικεῖσθαι·\" Διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν οἰκήτορας ἀγαθούς. \"Πιεῖν ὕδωρ Γηών.\" Γηὼν ὁ Νεῖλος, ὕδωρ δὲ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, ἡ πολύθεος αὐτῶν πλάνη. \"Πιεῖν ὕδωρ ποταμῶν.\" Ἀσσυρίων ποταμοὶ οἱ πολυειδεῖς τῆς κακίας τρόποι, καὶ ἐπὶ ἑκατέρων δὲ, ἀμφότερα ἔστι νοεῖν. \"Ὅτι ἀπ' αἰῶνος συνέτριψας τὸν ζυγόν σου.\" Ἐξ ἀρχῆς γὰρ σκληροτράχηλος, ἀεὶ ἀντιπίπτων τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι· ζυγὸν δὲ τὴν νομοθεσίαν λέγει. \"Ἐκεῖ διαχυθήσομαι ἐν τῇ πορνείᾳ μου.\" Ἡ γὰρ κακία ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα εἰς ἄπειρον ἐκχεῖται. \"Πῶς ἐστράφης εἰς πικρίαν;\" Τὰ κακὰ γὰρ οὐ κατὰ φύσιν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ παρατροπήν· ἄμπελος ἡ ἀλλοτρία, ἡ προαιρετικῶς ἑαυτὴν τῷ Θεῷ ἀλλοτριώσασα. \"Πῶς ἐρεῖς, Οὐκ ἐμιάνθην;\" Ἐσχάτης ἀπονοίας τὸν ἁμαρτάνοντα ἀρνεῖσθαι.","english":"Israel is therefore sometimes said to be the people of the Jews, and sometimes those who are more clear-sighted, and also the patriarch himself, and Christ according to the flesh from Israel. \"According to mercy,\" he says, \"and love I anointed you as a prophet; for the gifts are not from good works.\" \"And they went after vain things.\" After idols and the ways of wickedness. \"To Carmel.\" This is a mountain of Palestine. And it is interpreted as knowledge of circumcision, through which we cut off the good things from the base. \"Cross over to the islands of the Hittites.\" Some say these are the Cyprians, and some the nations of the Indians. Kedar is a descendant of Ishmael; and by this are signified the nations of the Saracens. And it is interpreted as darkness; and they say that Kedar also signifies something made of pottery. \"Upon him lions roared.\" The lions, according to the literal sense, are the Babylonians, and according to the deeper meaning, the savage demons. \"Because of not being inhabited.\" Because it does not have good inhabitants. \"To drink the water of Gihon.\" Gihon is the Nile, and the water of the Egyptians is their polytheistic error. \"To drink the water of rivers.\" The rivers of the Assyrians are the manifold ways of wickedness, and in both cases one may understand both. \"For from of old you broke your yoke.\" For from the beginning it was stiff-necked, always resisting the Holy Spirit; and he calls the law a yoke. \"There I will be poured out in my fornication.\" For wickedness, once it has taken a beginning, is poured out to infinity. \"How have you turned to bitterness?\" For evils are not according to nature, but according to perversion; the alien vine is the one that has alienated itself from God by its own choice. \"How will you say, I have not been defiled?\" It is the mark of the utmost desperation for the sinner to deny it.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":3,"ref":"p3","source":"\"Ἴδε τὰς ὁδούς σου ἐν τῷ πολυανδρίῳ.\" Πολυάνδριον ὁ τάφος· ἢ οὖν τινα ἔπραττον ἐν τοῖς τάφοις ἀρεστὰ δαίμοσιν, ἢ ὅτι καὶ αὐτοὶ τάφοι κεκονιαμένοι ἦσαν. Ἐν ὑποκρίσει τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ ψεῦδος καταδιώκοντες. \"Ὀψὲ φωνὴ αὐτῆς ὠλόλυζε, τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἐπλάτυνεν ἐφ' ὕδατα ἐρήμου.\" Ὀλολύζουσιν αἱ θήλειαι κύνες εἰς μίξιν τοὺς ἄῤῥενας προκαλούμεναι τοῦτο οὖν, φησὶ, πέπονθεν ἐν σκοτίᾳ ψυχῆς, τοὺς ἀκαθάρτους προκαλουμένη δαίμονας. Τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτῆς ἐπλάτυνεν ὑφ' ὕδατα ἐρήμου. Ὕδατα ἐρήμου, αἱ πολύτροποι, καὶ ἄκαρποι τῆς\n\nκακίας ὁδοί· ἐνεργειῶν ἐπληροῦντο πνευμάτων ἀκαθάρτων. Προαιρετικῶς αὐτὴν ἐπιδοῦσα. Τὸν γὰρ μὴ βουλόμενον θεραπευθῆναι, οὐδεὶς ἰάσεται. \"Ἐν τῇ ταπεινώσει αὐτῆς εὑρήσουσιν αὐτήν.\" Διὰ τὸ προσκεῖσθαι αὐτοῖς. \"Ἀνδριοῦμαι.\" Ἐμαυτῇ ἀρκῶ εἰς βοήθειαν, οὐ δέομαι τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἢ τοῦτο λέγει, ὅτι πρὸς ὃ ἐνουθετεῖτο, ἠνδρίζετο εἰς τὴν παρακοήν. \"Μὴ ἔρημος ἐγενήθην τῷ Ἰσραήλ;\" Μὴ οὐκ ἐδωρησάμην αὐτοῖς, φησὶ, πάντα τὰ πρὸς ζωὴν καὶ ὠφέλειαν. \"Τί ἔτι καλὸν ἐπιτηδεύσεις ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς σου τοῦ ζητῆσαι ἀγάπησιν;\" Ψυχὴ ἀφισταμένη ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ Θεοῦ, οὐκ ἀνεχομένη εἶναι ἄθεος, θεοὺς ἑαυτῇ τοὺς μὴ ὄντας περιποιεῖται, ἐντεῦθεν ἑαυτῇ παράκλησιν περιποιουμένη. Οὐχ οὕτως οὖν, φησὶ, τουτέστιν οὐ δυνατὸν εἶναι ἐκ τῶν ψευδωνύμων θεῶν τῇ ψυχῇ παράκλησιν. \"Οὐκ ἐν διορύγμασιν εὗρον αὐτοὺς, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ πάσῃ δρυΐ.\" Οὐδὲ λάθρα, φησὶν, ἀλλ' ἐφ' ὑψηλοῦ, τουτέστιν, φανερῶς ἁμαρτάνουσιν. \"Καὶ εἶπας, Ἀθῶός εἰμι.\" Δέον ἐξομολογεῖσθαι τὰς ἁμαρτίας, καὶ ἀναισχυντεῖς ταύτας ἀρνούμενος;","english":"See your ways in the burial ground.\" The burial ground is the tomb; either, then, they were doing certain things in the tombs pleasing to demons, or because they themselves were whitewashed tombs. In hypocrisy of the truth, pursuing falsehood. \"Late her voice wailed; she widened her ways under the waters of the desert.\" Female dogs wail, inviting the males to mating; this, then, he says, she has suffered in the darkness of the soul, inviting the unclean demons. \"She widened her ways under the waters of the desert.\" The waters of the desert are the manifold and fruitless ways of wickedness; they were being filled with the activities of unclean spirits. She gave herself over by choice. For no one will heal the one who does not wish to be healed. \"In her humiliation they will find her.\" Because of their being attached to them. \"I will act like a man.\" I suffice for myself for help, I do not need God; or he says this, that toward what she was being admonished, she acted like a man unto disobedience. \"Was I a desert to Israel?\" Did I not, he says, grant them all things for life and benefit? \"Why will you still practice something good in your ways, to seek love?\" A soul departing from the true God, not enduring to be godless, procures for itself gods that are not, thereby procuring consolation for itself. Not so, then, he says—that is, it is not possible for the soul to have consolation from the falsely named gods. \"I did not find them in the breaches, but upon every oak.\" Not in secret, he says, but on high—that is, they sin openly. \"And you said, I am innocent.\" When you ought to confess your sins, are you shamelessly denying them?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":4,"ref":"p4","source":"\"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ κρίνομαι πρὸς σὲ ἐν τῷ λέγειν σε, Οὐχ ἥμαρτον.\" Εἰ δι' ἄλλου προφήτου προστάττει λέγειν τὰς ἁμαρτίας, ἵνα δικαιωθῇ τις, λέγει [λύει] γάρ τις διὰ τῆς ἐξομολογήσεως τὸ πταῖσμα, ἄτοπος πάλιν ὁ λέγων· Ἀθῶός εἰμι, ἀποστραφήτω αὐτοῦ ὁ θυμὸς ἀπ' ἐμοῦ· ἐπάγει γὰρ τὸ, Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ κρίνομαι πρὸς σὲ, ἐν τῷ λέγειν σε, Οὐχ ἥμαρτον· πανταχοῦ δεῖ τὸν πταίσαντα θεραπεύειν τῇ ἐξομολογήσει τὸ ἁμάρτημα. \"Ὅτι κατεφρόνησας τοῦ δευτερῶσαι τὰς ὁδούς σου.\" Οὕτως ἐν καταφρονήσει ἔσχες, καὶ ἀφόβως πράττεις τὰ κακὰ, ὡς καὶ τοῖς φθάσασι ἕτερα προστιθέναι. \"Αἱ χεῖρές σου ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς σου.\" Σχῆμα τοῦτο πενθικόν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Γʹ. \"Καὶ σὺ ἐξεπόρνευσας ἐν ποιμέσι πολλοῖς.\" Ἢ ψευδοδιδασκάλοις, ἢ καὶ τοῖς ἀκαθάρτοις δαίμοσιν, [λέγει]. \"Οὐχ ὡς οἶκόν με ἐκάλεσας, καὶ πατέρα, καὶ ἀρχηγόν.\" Εἰ καὶ σὺ, φησὶ, μὴ ἐπεκαλέσω με, σκέπην, καὶ πατέρα, καὶ ἀρχηγὸν τῆς παρθενίας σου, ἀλλ' ἐγὼ οὐκ ἐάσω διαμεῖναι τὰ κακὰ, ἢ χάριτί σε σώζων, ἢ σωφρονισμοῖς. \"Καὶ εἶπα μετὰ τὸ πορνεῦσαι αὐτὴν ταῦτα πάντα, Πρός με ἀνάστρεψον· καὶ οὐκ ἀνέστρεψε.\" Ἀσύνθετόν φησι τὴν πρὸς ἑαυτὴν ἀνώμαλον, καὶ ἀσύμφωνον, ὅτι τοῖς χείλεσι τιμῶσα τὸν Θεὸν, τῇ καρδίᾳ ἐψεύδετο, ἢ καὶ τὴν λύσασαν τὰς πρὸς Θεὸν συνθήκας, ἢ καὶ τὴν ἄστατον, καὶ τοῖς αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐμμένουσαν. Ἔλυσα τὰ πρὸς αὐτὴν δίκαια, παραδοὺς τοῖς Βαβυλωνίοις. \"Πορεύου, καὶ ἀνάγνωθι τοὺς λόγους τούτους πρὸς Βοῤῥᾶν.\" Διὰ τὸ κατεψύχθαι αὐτῶν τὰς καρδίας, καὶ μὴ ἔχειν θέρμην πνευματικήν· ὁ γὰρ Βοῤῥᾶς ψυχρὸς ἄνεμος.","english":"Behold, I am entering into judgment with you in that you say, 'I have not sinned.'\" If through another prophet he commands sins to be confessed, so that one may be justified—for one who confesses looses his offense—then the one who says, \"I am innocent; let his wrath be turned away from me,\" is again out of place; for he adds, \"Behold, I am entering into judgment with you in that you say, 'I have not sinned.'\" Everywhere the one who has stumbled must heal his sin by confession. \"Because you have despised repeating your ways.\" Thus you have held it in contempt, and you do evil without fear, so as even to add other things to those already done. \"Your hands are upon your head.\" This is a gesture of mourning. CHAPTER 3. \"And you have played the harlot with many shepherds.\" Either with false teachers, or also with unclean demons. \"You did not call me as a house, and father, and leader.\" Even if you, he says, did not call upon me as a shelter, and father, and leader of your virginity, yet I will not allow evils to remain, either saving you by grace, or by disciplines. \"And I said after she played the harlot, after all these things, Return to me; and she did not return.\" He calls her inconsistent with herself, irregular and discordant, because honoring God with her lips she lied in her heart, or also because she dissolved the covenants with God, or also because she is unstable and does not abide in the same things. I dissolved the rights toward her, handing her over to the Babylonians. \"Go, and read these words toward the north.\" Because their hearts have grown cold, and they do not have spiritual warmth; for the north is a cold wind.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":5,"ref":"p5","source":"\"Καὶ οὐ μὴ στηρίξω πρόσωπόν μου ἐφ' ἡμᾶς.\" Οὐκ ἐπιμόνως χρήσομαι τῇ καθ' ἡμῶν ὀργῇ. \"Καὶ λήψομαι ὑμᾶς ἕνα ἐκ πόλεως, καὶ δύο ἐκ πατριᾶς.\" Ἐκ δύο σύγκειται ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ἐκ ψυχῆς, καὶ σώματος· ὅταν οὖν σώζῃ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς ἰδίωμα, καὶ μὴ ὁλοτρόπως γέγονε σὰρξ, ὁ εἷς δύο νοεῖται· ὅταν δὲ ὁλοσχερῶς ἀποκλίνας εἰς τὰ πονηρὰ, ὅλος γένηται σάρκινος, δικαίως εἷς λέγεται. Φησὶ γοῦν ὅτι Καὶ τοὺς ὁλοτρόπως ἁμαρτήσαντας, καὶ τοὺς μήπω τοῦτο πεπονθότας διὰ τῆς χάριτος εἰς σωτηρίαν καλῶ· ἢ οὕτως· Εἷς ἐκ πόλεως ἐκλήθη, ὁ Παῦλος ἐκ τῆς Βενιαμεὶν φυλῆς, δύο δὲ ἐκ πατριᾶς, οἱ κατὰ συζυγίαν κληθέντες ἀπόστολοι. \"Καὶ εἰσάξω ὑμᾶς εἰς Σιών.\" Εἰς Σιὼν, τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν. \"Δώσω ὑμῖν ποιμένας.\" Τοὺς τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν ἡγουμένους. \"Καλέσουσι τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, θρόνον Κυρίου.\" Διὰ τὸ ἐπαναπαύεσθαι ἐν τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· αἰνίττεται δὲ ἐν τούτοις τοῖς ῥητοῖς, καὶ τὴν ἄνω Ἱερουσαλήμ. \"Τάξω σε εἰς τέκνα.\" Ἢ τῷ προφήτῃ τὴν υἱοθεσίαν ἐπήγγελται [ἄλ. ἀπαγγέλλεται], ἢ καὶ παντὶ τῷ σωζομένῳ λαῷ. \"Υἱοὶ ἐπιστράφητε ἐπιστρέφοντες.\" Οἲ μέλλετε πρὸς ἐπιστροφήν. \"Ὄντως εἰς ψεῦδος ἦσαν οἱ βουνοί.\" Αἱ ἐν τοῖς ὅρεσι μαντεῖαι, ἢ καὶ ὁ ὄγκος τῆς ἁμαρτίας. \"Τὰ πρόβατα αὐτῶν.\" Πρόβατα, ἐκεῖνα περὶ ἂ ἐνδιαθέτως εἶχον. \"Ἐκοιμήθημεν ἐν τῇ αἰσχύνῃ ἡμῶν.\" Κοίμησιν τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν λέγει· Δοκοῦντες οὖν, φησὶν, ἀναπαύεσθαι ἐπὶ τοῖς τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἔργοις, αἰσχύνης ἐπληρούμεθα. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Δʹ. \"Ἐὰν μὴ ἐπιστραφῇ Ἰσραήλ.\" Ἐὰν ἐπὶ ὅληςκαρδίας μὴ μετανοήσῃ. \"Καὶ ὀμόσῃ.\"","english":"And I will not set my face against you.\" I will not persist in my anger against you. \"And I will take you, one from a city, and two from a family.\" Man is composed of two things, soul and body; when, therefore, he preserves the property of the soul and has not wholly become flesh, the one is understood as two; but when he has wholly inclined to evil and has become entirely carnal, he is rightly called one. He says, then, that both those who have sinned wholly and those who have not yet suffered this, I call to salvation through grace; or thus: one from a city was called, Paul from the tribe of Benjamin, and two from a family, the apostles called in pairs. \"And I will bring you into Zion.\" Into Zion, the Church. \"I will give you shepherds.\" Those who lead the Churches. \"They shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord.\" Because the Holy Spirit rests in the Church; and in these words he hints also at the Jerusalem above. \"I will set you as children.\" Either the adoption as sons is promised to the prophet, or also to all the people being saved. \"Sons, turn back, turning.\" You who are about to turn back. \"Truly the hills were for a lie.\" The oracles on the mountains, or also the bulk of sin. \"Their sheep.\" Sheep, those things about which they were inwardly disposed. \"We have slept in our shame.\" He calls rest a sleep; therefore, he says, thinking that we rested in the works of sin, we were filled with shame. CHAPTER 4. \"If Israel does not turn back.\" If he does not repent with his whole heart. \"And if he swears.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":6,"ref":"p6","source":"Οὐκ ὀμνύναι προστάττει, ἀλλ' εἰ ἄρα τις ὀμνύει, βούλεται ἑαυτῶν μὴ τὰ εἴδωλα ὅρκια ποιεῖσθαι. Πλέκει δὲ τὸ, Ζῇ Κύριος, τῷ ὅρκῳ, ἵνα ὀμνύοντες ὁμοῦ, καὶ δοξολογῶσι, καὶ εὐχαριστῶσιν. –Οὐ γὰρ ἀδίκως, ἢ ἀκρίτως, δεῖ προφέρειν τοῦ Θεοῦ τὸ ὄνομα. Ἡ γὰρ καλὴ ἀναστροφὴ, καὶ ἑτέροις γίνεται αἰτία σωτηρίας. \"Περιτμήθητε τῷ Θεῷ ὑμῶν.\" Τὴν γὰρ κακίαν, οὐ τὴν σάρκα βούλεται περιτέμνεσθαι. \"Ἀναγγείλατε ἐν τῷ Ἰούδᾳ. Τὸ εὐαγγελικὸν κήρυγμα προθεσπίζει. \"Εἰσέλθωμεν εἰς τὰς πόλεις τὰς τειχήρεις.\" Εἰς τὰς Ἐκκλησίας, ὧν αἱ πύλαι τοῦ ᾅδου οὐ κατισχύσουσιν. \"Φεύγετε εἰς Σιών.\" Φεύγετε εἰς Σιὼν, εἰς τὴν καθολικὴν Ἐκκλησίαν· καὶ γὰρ πᾶσαι αἱ Ἐκκλησίαι μία τυγχάνουσιν· ἢ καὶ εἰς τὸ εὐσεβὲς πολίτευμα. \"Ἀνέβη λέων ἐκ τῆς μάνδρας αὐτοῦ.\" Τροπικῶς τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ διαβόλου σημαίνει· καθ' ἱστορίαν δὲ, τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου. \"Οἱ ἱερεῖς ἐκστήσονται.\" Ἐπὶ ταῖς ἀδοκήτοις συμφοραῖς. \"Καὶ οἱ προφῆται θαυμάσονται.\" Οἱ ψευδοπροφῆται. \"Πνεῦμα πλανήσεως ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.\" Τῷ τῆς ἐφόδου τῶν Βαβυλωνίων, ἢ Ῥωμαίων, ἢ τῷ τῆς συντελείας, οἱ πρότερον πεπλανημένοι, εἴτε Ἰουδαῖοι, εἴτε οἱ λοιποὶ ἄνθρωποι, διὰ τῆς οἰκείας ἐρημώσεως γνώσονται τὴν προτέραν πλάνην. \"Πνεῦμα πληρώσεως ἥξει μοι.\" Ἐπειδὴ τὰς ἐρήμους ψυχὰς πνεῦμα πλανήσεως ἐπλάνησεν, ὑπισχνεῖται δώσειν Πνεῦμα ἅγιον ἐπιστρέφον τὰς ψυχὰς πληρούσας αὐτοῦ τὰς Ἐκκλησίας. \"Ἕως πότε ὑπάρχουσιν;\" Καὶ γὰρ οἱ τὰ μάταια διαλογιζόμενοι πονοῦσιν ἐπὶ τὸ εὑρεῖν τὸ ζητούμενον.","english":"He does not command swearing, but if anyone does swear, he wishes them not to make idols their oaths. And he weaves \"The Lord lives\" into the oath, so that those who swear may at the same time glorify and give thanks. For one ought not to bring forward the name of God unjustly or without judgment. For good conduct becomes a cause of salvation for others too. \"Be circumcised to your God.\" For he wishes the circumcision of wickedness, not of the flesh. \"Announce in Judah.\" He foretells the gospel proclamation. \"Let us enter the walled cities.\" Into the Churches, whose gates Hades will not prevail against. \"Flee to Zion.\" Flee to Zion, to the catholic Church; for all the Churches are one; or also to the pious commonwealth. \"A lion has gone up from his lair.\" Figuratively he signifies the coming of the devil; but historically, of the Babylonian. \"The priests will be astonished.\" At unforeseen calamities. \"And the prophets will marvel.\" The false prophets. \"A spirit of error in the wilderness.\" By the onset of the Babylonians, or the Romans, or by that of the consummation, those previously led astray, whether Jews or the rest of men, through their own desolation will recognize their former error. \"A spirit of fullness will come to me.\" Since a spirit of error led astray the desolate souls, he promises to give the Holy Spirit, turning back the souls that fill his Churches. \"How long will they exist?\" For those who ponder vain things labor to find what is sought.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":7,"ref":"p7","source":"\"Διότι φωνὴ ἀναβαίνοντος ἐκ Δὰν ἥξει μοι.\" Τοῦ τὴν ἅλωσιν ἐπαγγέλλοντος γενήσεσθαι ἐκ Δὰν, καὶ ἕως Βηρσαβεὲ, ὑπὸ Βαβυλωνίων, ἢ Ῥωμαίων. Ἔστι δὲ ἡ μὲν Δὰν πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, ὄρος δὲ Ἐφραὶμ ἡ Σαμάρεια. Φασὶ δέ τινες, καὶ ἐκ τῆς φυλῆς Δὰν ἥξειν τὸν ἀντικείμενον. \"Διεσπάσθησαν αἱ δέῤῥεις μου, ἐταλαιπώρησαν αἱ σκηναί μου.\" Τροπικῶς μὲν τὴν ψυχὴν [λέγει], καὶ τὰς ἀναδοτικὰς τῆς ψυχῆς δυνάμεις· ταράσσεται δὲ καὶ τὰ σπλάγχνα ὑπὸ συμπαθείας ὁ προφήτης. \"Τεταλαιπώρηκεν ἡ σκηνὴ,\" ἢ ὁ ναὸς, ἢ καὶ πρὸς τῷ τέλει πᾶσα ἡ γῆ, ἣν ὥσπερ σκηνὴν οἰκοῦμεν πάροικοι τυγχάνοντες. Πάλιν ἢ τὸν ναόν φησιν, ἢ τὰ τῆς κακίας ἐπικαλύμματα, πάντων πρὸς τῷ τέλει φανερουμένων. \"Ἕως πότε ὅψομαι φεύγοντας, ἀκούων φωνὴν σαλπίγγων;\" Τῆς Βαβυλωνίων, ἢ Ῥωμαίων, ἢ καὶ πρὸς τῷ τέλει τοῦ διαβολικοῦ κηρύγματος. Ἢ τοὺς αἰσθητοὺς πολεμίους, ἢ καὶ τοὺς μὴ δυναμένους ἀντιστῆναι τῷ διαβόλῳ φησίν. Ἢ τῶν πολεμίων, ἢ καὶ τῶν ἀλλοκότων κηρυγμάτων. \"Καὶ εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, καὶ οὐκ ἦν τὰ φῶτα αὐτοῦ.\" Τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ γεγονὸς προκαταγγέλλει, ἢ καὶ τὴν τῶν φωστήρων πρὸς τῷ τέλει ἀναίρεσιν. Ἢ τὸ μηδένα δικαιοπραγοῦντα σημαίνει, ἢ καὶ τὸ εἰς οὐδὲν ἀποκαταστῆναι τὴν γῆν διὰ τὴν ἀποστασίαν. \"Εἶδον τὰ ὄρη, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἦν τρέμοντα.\" Ἢ τὰ ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ φησιν, ὅτε αἱ πέτραι ἐσχίσθησαν, ἢ τὰ περὶ τῆς καθόλου συντελείας, ἢ τὰς ἀντικειμένας δυνάμεις κλονουμένας, ὅτε ὁ Χριστὸς ἔλυε τοῦ ᾅδου τὸ δεσμωτήριον.","english":"For a voice of one going up from Dan will come to me.\" He is foretelling that the capture will come about from Dan, and as far as Beersheba, by the Babylonians, or the Romans. Now Dan is beyond the Jordan, and Samaria is the mountain of Ephraim. But some say that the adversary will also come from the tribe of Dan. \"My curtains were torn apart, my tents were distressed.\" He speaks figuratively of the soul, and of the soul's receptive powers; and the prophet's inward parts are also troubled by sympathy. \"The tent has been distressed,\" either the temple, or also at the end the whole earth, which we dwell in as a tent, being sojourners. Again he means either the temple, or the coverings of wickedness, when all things are revealed at the end. \"How long shall I see men fleeing, hearing the sound of trumpets?\" Of the Babylonians, or the Romans, or also at the end of the diabolical proclamation. Either he means the perceptible enemies, or those unable to withstand the devil. Either of the enemies, or of the strange proclamations. \"And to the heaven, and its lights were not.\" He foretells the darkness that occurred at the cross, or also the removal of the luminaries at the end. Or it signifies that no one acts righteously, or also that the earth is reduced to nothing because of the apostasy. \"I saw the mountains, and behold, they were trembling.\" Either he means the events at the cross, when the rocks were split, or the events concerning the universal consummation, or the opposing powers being shaken, when Christ was loosing the prison of Hades.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":8,"ref":"p8","source":"\"Ἐπέβλεψα, καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐκ ἦν ἄνθρωπος, καὶ πάντα τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἐπτόηντο.\" Τὴν καθόλου συντέλειάν φησιν, ὅπερ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ γέγονε, διὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν. Ἢ τὰ αἰσθητὰ τοῦ σκότους γινομένου, ἢ καὶ αἱ ἅγιαι δυνάμεις, φρίττουσαι ἐπὶ τῇ παντελεῖ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀποστασίᾳ. \"Εἶδον, καὶ ἰδοὺ ὁ Κάρμηλος ἔρημος.\" Κάρμηλος ἐπίγνωσις, περιτομῆς ἑρμηνεύεται. Τῆς οὖν, φησὶν, ἀποστασίας γινομένης, οὐκ ἐπιγινώσκουσιν ἀποτέμνεσθαι τὰ φαῦλα. Δύνασαι δὲ ταῦτα νοεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐφόδου τῶν Βαβυλωνίων, ἢ καὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων. \"Ἀπὸ φωνῆς ἱππέως, καὶ ἐντεταμένου τόξου.\" Ἢ τοῦ αἰσθητοῦ, ἢ καὶ τὴν διηνεκῆ τῶν ἀοράτων πολεμίων μάχην σημαίνει. \"Εἰσέδυσαν εἰς τὰ σπήλαια.\" Εἰς τοὺς λῃστρικοὺς αὐτῶν τρόπους ἀποστατοῦντες Θεοῦ. Τὸ δὲ σπήλαιον αὐτόγλυφον ὂν, σημαίνει καὶ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτεξούσιον. \"Καὶ εἰς τὰ ἄλση ἐκρύβησαν.\" Εἰς τὰς σκοτεινὰς πράξεις. \"Καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς πέτρας ἀνέβησαν.\" Εἰς τὰ ἄκαρπα, καὶ ἀνώμαλα ἐπιτηδεύματα· ταῦτα δὲ καὶ αἰσθητῶς κατὰ ἱστορίαν λάμβανε. \"Συντέλειαν δὲ οὐ μὴ ποιήσω.\" Τὰ προοίμια τῆς","english":"I looked, and behold, there was no man, and all the birds of heaven were terrified.\" He means the complete consummation, which also happened at the flood, because of sin. Or the perceptible things, when darkness comes, or even the holy powers, shuddering at the total apostasy of men. \"I saw, and behold, Carmel is desolate.\" Carmel is interpreted as knowledge of circumcision. When apostasy, then, he says, comes about, they do not know how to cut off the evil things. But you can understand these things also of the invasion of the Babylonians, or even of the Romans. \"From the voice of the horseman, and of the bent bow.\" Either of the perceptible one, or it signifies the ceaseless battle of the invisible enemies. \"They crept into the caves.\" Into their robber-like ways, apostatizing from God. And the cave, being self-hewn, signifies also the soul's free will. \"And they hid themselves in the groves.\" Into dark deeds. \"And they went up on the rocks.\" Into unfruitful and uneven pursuits; but take these things also perceptibly, according to the history. \"But I will not make a consummation.\" The preludes of the","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":9,"ref":"p9","source":"συντελείας ὑπογράψας τοῦτο ἐπήγαγε. \"Ἐὰν περιβάλῃ κόκκινον.\" Τὰς κατὰ νόμον ζωοσφαγείας. Τῇ κιβωτῷ, καὶ τῇ λυχνίᾳ, καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς τὴν μεθ' ὑποκρίσεως θεοσέβειαν σημαίνει. \"Τὴν ψυχήν σου ζητοῦσι.\" Οἱ ἀόρατοι δαίμονες, οὐ δυνάμενοι ἐπαμύνειν. Οὗτοι δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἐρᾷν προσποιούμενοι εἰς αὐτὴν τὴν ψυχὴν τῶν ἐρωμένων ἐπιβουλεύουσιν. \"Ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀνῃρημένοις.\" Αἰσθητοῖς, ἢ καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν ψυχὴν διὰ τῆς ἀποστασίας ἀπολέσασιν. ΚΕΦ. Εʹ. \"Εἰ ἔστι ποιῶν κρῖμα, καὶ ζητῶν πίστιν.\" Πρὸς τοὺς ἐγκαταλειφθέντας φησὶν ἁγίους, ὅτι διὰ τὸ μὴ φυλάξαι τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν πίστιν, ἐπιστήσεται τὸ τέλος· σημαίνει δὲ καὶ τῶν ἁγίων τὸ σπάνιον τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας. \"Ζῇ Κύριος, λέγουσι, διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐν ψεύδεσιν ὀμνύουσι.\" Κατ' ἐμοῦ μὲν, φησὶν, καὶ οὐκέτι κατὰ τῶν εἰδώλων τῶν ψευδωνύμων θεῶν ὀμνύειν. Ἀλλὰ τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν ἠρνήσαντο πίστιν. Διὰ τοῦτο Ἰουδαῖοι ἑάλωσαν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων, οὐκέτι μὲν εἰδωλολατροῦντες, τὸν δὲ αὐτῶν Σωτῆρα ἀρνησάμενοι. \"Κύριε, οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου εἰς πίστιν.\" Ἢ ὅτι πίστιν ἐπιζητεῖ Θεὸς, ἢ ὅτι πιστῶς καὶ ἀληθῶς κρίνει, ἢ ὅτι ἂ λέγει εἰς ἔργον ἐκφέρει. \"Πτωχοί εἰσι.\" Τελείαν γνῶσιν οὐκ ἔχοντες. \"Διὰ τοῦτο ἔπαισεν αὐτοὺς λέων ἐκ τοῦ δρυμοῦ.\" Ὁ αἰσθητὸς, ἢ καὶ ὁ νοητὸς πολέμιος διὰ τὸ ἰσχυρὸν, καὶ ὠμόν. \"Καὶ λύκος ἕως τῶν οἰκιῶν ὠλόθρευσεν αὐτούς.\" Τὰς αἰσθητάς· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, τὰς ψυχικάς. Οἱ γὰρ τῶν ἠθῶν τῆς θεοσεβείας ἐκβαίνοντες ὑπ' τῶν εἰρημένων θηρίων ἀγρεύονται. Τοὺς τὸν ἀγαθὸν ἀπωσαμένους ποιμένα, λύκος ἁρπάζει, ἢ ποικίλη τῶν πολεμίων ἔφοδος, ἢ καὶ ἡ πολύτροπος κακία.","english":"Having sketched the consummation, he added this: \"If she is clothed in scarlet.\" He means the slaughterings of living creatures according to the law. By the ark, and the lampstand, and the rest, he signifies the worship of God with hypocrisy. \"They seek your soul.\" The invisible demons, unable to defend. And these very ones, pretending to love, plot against the very soul of those they love. \"For those who have been slain.\" Sensible things, or those who have destroyed the soul itself through apostasy. CHAPTER 5. \"If there is one who does judgment, and seeks faith.\" He speaks to the saints who were left behind, that because those on the earth did not keep faith in Christ, the end will come upon them; and he signifies also the scarcity of the saints during the captivity. \"The Lord lives, they say, therefore they do not swear by false things.\" Against me, he says, and no longer against the idols, the falsely named gods, do they swear. But they denied the faith in Christ. Therefore the Jews were captured by the Romans, no longer indeed worshipping idols, but having denied their own Savior. \"Lord, your eyes are for faith.\" Either that God seeks faith, or that he judges faithfully and truly, or that what he says he brings to fulfillment. \"They are poor.\" Not having perfect knowledge. \"Therefore a lion from the thicket struck them.\" The sensible enemy, or also the intelligible one, because of his strength and cruelty. \"And a wolf destroyed them as far as the houses.\" The sensible houses; but with respect to understanding, the souls. For those who depart from the customs of the worship of God are hunted by the beasts that have been mentioned. Those who have driven away the good shepherd, a wolf snatches, or the varied assault of enemies, or also manifold wickedness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":10,"ref":"p10","source":"\"Ποίᾳ τούτων ἵλεως ἔσομαί σοι;\" Ποίαν ἁμαρτίαν συγχωρήσω, ποίαν δὲ μή; \"Ἐχόρτασα αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἐμοιχῶντο.\" Αὐτὸς γὰρ ἦν ὁ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ χορτάσας αὐτοὺς πρὸ σαρκὸς, πρὶν ἐνανθρωπῆσαι, καὶ μετὰ σαρκὸς, διὰ λόγων, διὰ θαυμάτων, καὶ τῶν πέντε, καὶ τῶν ἑπτὰ ἄρτων. \"Ὑπολίπεσθε τὰ ὑποστηρίγματα αὐτῆς.\" Ἄφετε μετανοίας ἐλπίδα· ἄφετε τοὺς προφήτας ἐπὶ τῆς ἐφόδου Βαβυλωνίων· ἄφετε τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἐπὶ τῆς Ῥωμαίων. \"Τοὺς λόγους μου εἰς τὸ στόμα σου πῦρ.\" Ἀναλωτικὰς τῶν παρακουόντων. Ἔθνος οὗ οὐκ ἀκούσει τῆς φωνῆς τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ.\" Διὰ τὸ ἑτερόγλωσσον εἶναι. \"Καὶ κατέδονται τὸν θερισμὸν, καὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς ὑμῶν.\" Ἀπλήστως τῇ κατ' αὐτῶν χρήσονται σφαγῇ [ἄλλ. πληγῇ]. \"Τὸν διδόντα ἡμῖν ὑετὸν πρώϊμον.\" Τὸν μὲν αἰσθητὸν διὰ τοὺς καρποὺς, τὸν δὲ νοητὸν ἐν τῇ Παλαιᾷ καὶ Καινῇ Διαθήκῃ. \"Αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ὑμῶν ἀπέστησαν τὰ ἀγαθά.\" Ἀπέστησαν τὰ ἀγαθὰ, ἵνα ἐπενεχθῶσι τὰ φαῦλα. \"Ὅτι εὑρέθησαν ἐν τῷ λαῷ μου ἀσεβεῖς.\" Οἱ ψευδοπροφῆται, οἱ ψευδοαπόστολοι, οἱ αἱρεσιάρχαι, οἱ ἀκάθαρτοι δαίμονες ἐπεκύρωσαν τὰ τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν. ΚΕΦ. ʹ. \"Ἐνισχύσατε, υἱοὶ Βενιαμείν.\" Οἱ Βενιαμεῖται ἀμφοτεροδέξιοι ἱστοροῦνται εἶναι. Προκαλεῖται τοίνυν εἰς τὸν πνευματικὸν πόλεμον τοὺς δυναμένους διὰ τῶν ὅπλων τῆς δικαιοσύνης πολεμεῖν, τῶν δεξιῶν, καὶ ἀριστερῶν. Τοιοῦτος ἦν Παῦλος ἐκ φυλῆς Βενιαμείν. \"Καὶ ἐν Θεκουέ.\" Μὴ φθονήσητε, φησὶν, ἀλλὰ διορθώσασθε τοὺς γείτονας ὑμῶν οἱ δυνάμενοι πολεμεῖν. \"Καὶ ἀφαιρεθήσεται τὸ ὕψος σου.\" Ὁ ναὸς, ἡ νομικὴ λατρεία. Ἢ καὶ ὁ τῆς ψυχῆς πνευματικὸς κόσμος.","english":"With which of these shall I be propitious to you?\" Which sin shall I forgive, and which not? \"I satisfied them, and they committed adultery.\" For he himself was the one who satisfied them in the wilderness before the flesh, before he became man, and after the flesh, through words, through wonders, and through the five and the seven loaves. \"Leave behind her supports.\" Leave behind the hope of repentance; leave behind the prophets at the onset of the Babylonians; leave behind the apostles at the onset of the Romans. \"My words into your mouth as fire.\" Consuming those who disobey. \"A nation whose voice of tongue you shall not hear.\" Because it is of another tongue. \"And they shall devour the harvest, and your sons.\" They shall use slaughter [variant: plague] against them insatiably. \"The one who gives us the early rain.\" The perceptible rain for the sake of the fruits, and the intelligible rain in the Old and New Testament. \"Your sins have removed the good things.\" They have removed the good things, so that the evil things may be brought in. \"For impious men were found among my people.\" The false prophets, the false apostles, the heresiarchs, the unclean demons ratified the things of the false prophets. CHAP. 10. \"Be strong, sons of Benjamin.\" The Benjamites are recorded to be ambidextrous. He summons, therefore, to the spiritual war those who are able to fight through the weapons of righteousness, both right and left. Such was Paul, from the tribe of Benjamin. \"And in Tekoa.\" Do not envy, he says, but correct your neighbors, you who are able to fight. \"And your height shall be taken away.\" The temple, the legal worship. Or also the spiritual adornment of the soul.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":11,"ref":"p11","source":"\"Εἰς αὐτὴν ἥξουσι ποιμένες.\" Οἱ πολέμιοι, ἄρχοντες αἰσθητοὶ, ἢ καὶ νοητοί. \"Καὶ ποιμανοῦσιν ἕκαστος τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ.\" Οὐ τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ χειρὶ, ἀλλ' ἕκαστος κατὰ τὰς ἰδίας ἐνεργείας. \"Οὐαὶ ἡμῖν.\" Οἱ ἐν τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ καταλειφθέντες, καὶ ἐν τῇ συντελείᾳ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ταύτην ἀφήσουσι τὴν φωνήν. \"Ὅτι κέκλικεν ἡ ἡμέρα.\" Ἡμέραν καλεῖ τὸν παρόντα βίον, σκιὰν δὲ τὴν ἐν αὐτῷ πολιτείαν. \"Ἀνάστητε, καὶ ἀναβῶμεν ἐπ' αὐτὴν νυκτί.\" Τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου. [ἄλλ. Ὀλυμπιοδώρου.] Νύκτα καὶ μεσημβρίαν φησὶ τὸν ἀδιάφορον τῆς ἐφόδου τῶν πολεμίων καιρόν. \"Ὡς ψύχει λάκκος ὕδωρ αὐτοῦ, οὕτω ψύχει κακία αὐτῆς.\" Διὰ γὰρ τὴν ἀνομίαν ψυγήσεται ἡ ἀγάπη τῶν πολλῶν. Οὐ γὰρ ἦσαν τῷ πνεύματι ζέοντες, οὐδὲ τῷ Κυρίῳ δουλεύοντες. \"Πόνῳ καὶ μάστιγι παιδευθήσῃ.\" Ἐπειδὴ λόγῳ οὐκ ἐπείσθης, πείσθητι διὰ τῆς μάστιγος, ἵνα μὴ ἀποστῇ ἡ ψυχή μου ἀπὸ σοῦ. \"Τὰ\n\nκατάλοιπα τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.\" Τοὺς μὴ δυνηθέντας, μηδὲ διὰ μάστιγος ἰαθῆναι. \"Ἰδοὺ ἀπερίτμητα τὰ ὦτα αὐτῶν.\" Οὐκ ἀποστρεφόμενα τὰς ἀνωφελεῖς ἀκροάσεις. Σημείωσαι ποίαν περιτομὴν ζητεῖ ὁ Θεός. \"Λέγοντες, Εἰρήνη, εἰρήνη.\" Οὐκ εἴων τῶν μαστίγων ἐπαισθάνεσθαι εἰρήνην αὐτοῖς ἐπαγγελλόμενοι. \"Καὶ οὐδ' ὡς... Καὶ τὴν ἀτιμίαν αὐτῶν οὐκ ἔγνωσαν.\" Οἱ γὰρ μήτε λόγῳ, μήτε μάστιγι παιδευόμενοι, ἐναπομένουσι τῷ πτώματι. \"Διὰ τοῦτο πεσοῦνται... καὶ ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς αὑτῶν ἀπολοῦνται.\" Κἂν ἀνακαλέσωμαι, φησὶν, αὐτοὺς, ἐκ τῶν αἰσθητῶν πολεμίων, καὶ ἐπισκέψωμαι αὐτοὺς, ἐπιμένοντας [ἄλλ. ἐπιμένοντες] ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις αἰωνίᾳ κολάσει παραδοθήσονται.","english":"To her shall shepherds come.\" The enemies, perceptible rulers, or also intelligible ones. \"And they shall shepherd, each with his own hand.\" Not with the hand of God, but each according to his own workings. \"Woe to us.\" Those left behind in the captivity, and sinners at the consummation, will utter this cry. \"For the day has inclined.\" He calls the present life a day, and the conduct within it a shadow. \"Arise, and let us go up against her by night.\" From Chrysostom. [Otherwise, of Olympiodorus.] He calls night and midday the indifferent time of the enemies' approach. \"As a pit cools its water, so her wickedness cools.\" For because of lawlessness the love of many will grow cold. For they were not boiling in spirit, nor serving the Lord. \"With toil and scourge shall you be disciplined.\" Since you were not persuaded by word, be persuaded through the scourge, so that my soul may not depart from you. \"The\n\nremnants of Israel.\" Those who could not, nor be healed even through the scourge. \"Behold, their ears are uncircumcised.\" Not turning away from unprofitable hearings. Note what circumcision God seeks. \"Saying, Peace, peace.\" They did not allow them to perceive the scourges, promising peace to them. \"And not even as... And their dishonor they did not know.\" For those disciplined neither by word nor by scourge remain in their fall. \"Therefore they shall fall... and in the time of their visitation they shall perish.\" Even if I call them back, he says, from the perceptible enemies, and visit them, those who persist in their sins will be handed over to eternal punishment.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":12,"ref":"p12","source":"\"Στῆτε ἐπὶ ταῖς ὁδοῖς.\" Στῆτε ἐπὶ ταῖς ὁδοῖς, καὶ ἴδετε τῆς τε ζωῆς, καὶ τοῦ θανάτου· ὁδὸς δὲ καὶ ἑκάστου βίος καλεῖται. Τρίβοι Κυρίου τὰ αὐτοῦ παραγγέλματα. \"Ἀκούσατε τῆς φωνῆς τῆς σάλπιγγος.\" Τοὺς τὸν προφητικὸν, ἢ καὶ τὸν εὐαγγελικὸν κηρύξαντας λόγον. Σάλπιγγος, τῆς διδασκαλίας. \"Ἰδοὺ λαὸς ἔρχεται ἀπὸ βοῤῥᾶ.\" Τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου, ἢ καὶ τοῦ ἀντικειμένου. \"Τόξον καὶ ζιβύνην κρατήσουσι.\" Τόξον τοῖς μακρὰν, ζιβύνην τοῖς ἐγγύς. Τοὺς μὲν γὰρ πλησιάζον τας, ἔργοις, τοὺς δὲ μακρόθεν λόγοις βάλλουσιν. \"Μὴ ἐκπορεύεσθε εἰς ἀγρόν.\" Πρὸς τῇ ἱστορίᾳ, ἀγρὸν νόει τὰ κοσμικὰ πράγματα. \"Καὶ ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς μὴ βαδίζετε.\" Ταῖς τῆς κακίας πολυοδίαις· μία γάρ ἐστιν ὁδὸς, αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος. \"Ὅτι ῥομφαία τῶν ἐχθρῶν παροικεῖ κυκλόθεν.\" Ἡ θανατηφόρος ἁμαρτία, κύκλῳ γὰρ οἱ ἀσεβεῖς περιπατοῦσιν. \"Χαλκὸς καὶ σίδηρος.\" Χαλκὸς καὶ σίδηρος ἀλλήλοις ἀμιγεῖς, ἀγάπην μὴ ἔχοντες. \"Ἐξέλιπε φυσητὴρ ἀπὸ πυρός.\" Λόγος διδασκαλικὸς ἢ καὶ μάστιξ παιδευτική. \"Ἐξέλιπε μόλιβδος.\" Τῷ ἀργυρίῳ μιγνύμενος ὁ μόλιβδος καθαίρει αὑτοῦ τὴν κακίαν· τοῦτο οὖν φησιν, ὅτι πᾶς τρόπος καθαρτικὸς ἐπηνέχθη αὐτοῖς, καὶ οὐκ ἐκαθάρθησαν. ΚΕΦ. Ζʹ. \"Ἀκούσατε λόγον Κυρίου, πᾶσα Ἰουδαία.\" Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν προσήκει νοεῖν, ὡς Ἰουδαία ἐστὶ πᾶσα ψυχὴ ἐγγίζουσα τῇ θεοσεβείᾳ. Ἰούδας γὰρ ἐξομολογούμενος ἑρμηνεύεται. \"Καὶ θυμιᾶτε τῇ Βάαλ.\" Βάαλ ἐκάλουν πᾶν εἴδωλον. Βάαλ δὲ ἑρμηνεύετε τὰ ἀνώτερα κακά. Κεφαλὴ δὲ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἡ εἰδωλολατρεία. \"Μὴ σπήλαιον λῃστῶν, ὁ οἶκός μου;\" Τὸ σπήλαιον ἀθύρωτον, καὶ παντὶ προκείμενον εἰς τὴν εἴσοδον.","english":"Stand in the ways.\" Stand in the ways, and see those of life and of death; for the way is also called each one's manner of life. The paths of the Lord are his commandments. \"Hear the voice of the trumpet.\" Those who proclaimed the prophetic, or also the evangelical, word. The trumpet is teaching. \"Behold, a people comes from the north.\" Of the Babylonian, or also of the adversary. \"They shall hold bow and javelin.\" The bow for those far off, the javelin for those near. For they strike those who approach by deeds, and those far off by words. \"Do not go out into the field.\" In addition to the history, understand the field as worldly affairs. \"And do not walk in the roads.\" In the many paths of wickedness; for there is one way, the Lord himself. \"For the sword of the enemies dwells round about.\" Death-bringing sin; for the impious walk in a circle. \"Bronze and iron.\" Bronze and iron, unmixed with each other, not having love. \"The bellows have failed from the fire.\" A teaching word, or also a chastening scourge. \"The lead has failed.\" Lead mixed with silver purifies its own dross; this, then, he says, that every manner of purification was brought upon them, and they were not purified. CHAPTER 7. \"Hear the word of the Lord, all Judea.\" After the history it is fitting to understand that Judea is every soul that draws near to piety. For Judah is interpreted as confession. \"And you burn incense to Baal.\" They called every idol Baal. And Baal you may interpret as the higher evils. And the head of sin is idolatry. \"Is my house a cave of robbers?\" The cave is without a door, and open to all for entrance.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":13,"ref":"p13","source":"Μέμφεται οὖν αὐτοῖς, ὡς ἀδιαφόρως εἰσιοῦσιν εἰς τὰ ἅγια. \"Πᾶν τὸ σπέρμα Ἐφραΐμ.\" Ἡ βασιλικὴ φυλὴ ἄρχουσα τῶν δώδεκα φυλῶν. \"Οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτῶν συλλέγουσι ξύλα.\" Κατὰ δύναμιν ἁμαρτάνουσιν. \"Καίουσι πῦρ.\" Πῦρ ἡ ἁμαρτία πολλαχοῦ τῆς Γραφῆς ὠνόμασται. Διὰ τοῦτο πυρὸς αἰωνίου αἰτία τοῖς ἁμαρτάνουσι γίνεται. \"Τοῦ ποιῆσαι χαβῶνας.\" Ξένας τελετὰς ἐπιτελοῦσι. Χαβῶνας δέ φησι πέμματά τινα. \"Καὶ φάγετε κρέα.\" Ὑμεῖς αὐτὰ, φησὶ, φάγετε· ἐγὼ γὰρ θυσιῶν οὐ χρῄζω. \"Ἡμέρας καὶ ὄρθρου.\" Τὸ ἀδιάλειπτον τῆς προφητικὴς παραινέσεως σημαίνει. \"Ἐξέλιπεν ἡ πίστις ἐκ στόματος αὐτῶν.\" Ἀπιστίαν αὐτῶν κατηγορεῖ, ἢ καὶ ψευδολογίαν. ΚΕΦ. Ηʹ. \"Ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ ἀνοίξουσι.\" Ἐποίησε τοῦτο Ἰωσίας ὁ εὐσεβὴς βασιλεὺς, κατακαύσας τῶν εἰδωλολατρησάντων τὰ λείψανα. \"Καὶ κατεκρατήθησαν ἐν τῇ προαιρέσει αὐτῶν.\" Αὐτεξούσιος γὰρ ὁ ἄνθρωπος. \"Οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνθρωπος ὁ μετανοῶν.\" Μὴ λέγετε, φησὶν, Οὐκ ἔστιν μετάνοια, ἔστι γάρ. \"Ὡς ἵππος κάθιδρος ἐν χρεμετισμῷ αὐτοῦ.\" Ἵππος ἐν μακρόδῳ [ἄλλ. μακροδίᾳ] τρέχει, καὶ χρεμετίζει, σημαίνων τὸν κόπον· καὶ ἵππος μὲν διαλιμπάνει τρέχων, οὗτοι δὲ ἀμετάστρεπτον [ἄλλ. ἀμεταστρεπτὶ] τὴν κακίαν ἐργάζονται \"Καὶ ἡ ἀσίδα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἔγνω τὸν καιρὸν αὐτῆς.\" Ἀκύλας μὲν τὸν ἐρωδιὸν ἐκδέδωκεν· ἰνδικὸν δέ ἐστιν γένος ὀρνέου ἡ ἀσίδα. Τρυγὼν καὶ χελιδὼν, ἀγροῦ στρουθία, ἐφύλαξαν καιρούς. \"Εἰς μάτην ἐγενήθη σχοῖνος ψευδὴς γραμματεῦσιν.\" Ἡ σχοῖνος, φησὶ, τοῦτ' ἔστιν ὁ κλῆρος τῶν γραμματέων, ὃν ἔλαχον ἐπὶ τὸ διδάσκειν, μάταιος γέγονε, διὰ τὸ ἰδικήν τινα σοφίαν ἐπιτηδεύειν, καὶ παρεξηγεῖσθαι τὰ θεῖα νόμιμα.","english":"He therefore reproaches them, as entering the holy things without distinction. \"Every seed of Ephraim.\" The royal tribe, ruling over the twelve tribes. \"Their sons gather wood.\" They sin according to their ability. \"They kindle a fire.\" Sin has been called fire in many places of Scripture. For this reason it becomes the cause of eternal fire for those who sin. \"To make chabonas.\" They perform foreign rites. And chabonas, he says, are certain cakes. \"And eat flesh.\" You yourselves, he says, eat them; for I have no need of sacrifices. \"By day and at dawn.\" He signifies the ceaselessness of the prophetic exhortation. \"Faith has failed from their mouth.\" He accuses them of unbelief, or also of falsehood. CHAP. 8. \"In that time they shall open.\" The pious king Josiah did this, having burned up the remains of those who worshipped idols. \"And they were held fast in their purpose.\" For man is self-determining. \"There is no man who repents.\" Do not say, he says, There is no repentance, for there is. \"As a horse covered with sweat in his neighing.\" A horse runs at a gallop and neighs, signifying its toil; and a horse indeed pauses from running, but these work evil without turning back. \"And the asida in the heaven knew her season.\" Aquila rendered it \"the heron\"; and the asida is an Indian kind of bird. The turtle-dove and the swallow, sparrows of the field, kept their seasons. \"In vain has the false cord been made for the scribes.\" The cord, he says—that is, the lot of the scribes, which they obtained for teaching—has become vain, because they pursue some private wisdom and misinterpret the divine laws.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":14,"ref":"p14","source":"Τοῦτο γὰρ δειλοῖ τό· Σοφία τίς ἐν αὐτοῖς; \"Σοφία τίς ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτοῖς;\" Οὐδεμία γὰρ ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις σοφία. Κακίας δὲ μόνον περιουσία τελευτῶσα [ἄλλ. πρὸς] εἰς ἄνοιαν. \"Οὐκ ἔστι\n\nσταφυλὴ ἐν τοῖς ἀμπέλοις.\" Τὸν γὰρ ἀμπελῶνα γεωργοῖς ἑτέροις ἐξέδωκεν. \"Καὶ ἐπὶ τί ἡμεῖς καθήμεθα;\" Οὐ γὰρ ἐγεώργουν τὰ κατὰ Θεόν. Καὶ τί πλέον ἀσφαλείας γένοιτο ἂν, ὅταν ὁ Θεὸς ὁ πάντα πᾶσι παρέχων τὴν ἀσφάλειαν προδίδωσι; Δέον εἰπεῖν Καταφύγωμεν ἐπὶ τὸν Θεὸν, ἕτι κάτω κεῖνται. Ὁ τῆς φύσεως κρατῶν, καὶ ἄχρηστα δένδρα ποιῶν, οὐ πολλῷ μᾶλλον τὰ τείχη; \"Εἰσέλθωμεν εἰς τὰς πόλεις τὰς ὀχυράς.\" Πρὸς μὲν ἱστορίαν εἰς Αἴγυπτον ἔφυγον ὕστερον· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν εἰς τὰς Ἐκκλησίας παραινεῖ φυγεῖν. \"Καὶ ἀποῤῥιφῶμεν ἐκεῖ.\" Κατὰ τό· Ἐξελεξάμην παραῤῥιπτεῖσθαι ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ. \"Συνήχθημεν εἰς εἰρήνην, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ἀγαθά.\" Ἐδόξαμεν, φησὶ, διὰ τοῦ νόμου καταλλάττεσθαι τῷ Θεῷ, καὶ μὴ νοήσαντες αὐτοῦ τὴν δύναμιν, οὐχ εὕροιμεν ἀγαθά. \"Διότι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξαποστέλλω εἰς ὑμᾶς ὄφεις.\" Τοὺς πολεμίους αἰσθητοὺς, ἢ καὶ νοητούς. \"Οἷς οὐκ ἔστιν ἐπᾷσαι, καὶ δήξονται.\" Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ σχηματίζονται τὴν εὐσέβειαν οἱ δηχθέντες, καὶ παραινέσει οὐ πείθονται, νομίζοντες εὐσεβεῖν· οὕτως εἰσὶ πικρὰ τῆς πανουργίας τὰ δίκτυα. \"Μετ' ὀδύνης καρδίας ὑμῶν ἀπορουμένης.\" Οὐ γὰρ ἐνδέχεται μὴ νύττεσθαι ὑπὸ τῆς συνειδήσεως. \"Διῆλθε θέρος, παρῆλθεν ἀμητός.\" Ἐν εὐδίας, φησὶ, καιρῷ, ὅτε καιρὸς ἦν τῆς μετανοίας, οὐ μετενοήσαμεν. \"Μὴ ῥητίνη οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν Γαλαάδ;\" Τὸ Γαλαὰδ ὅρος πολλὰς ἔχει κέδρους, ἐξ ὧν ἡ ῥητίνη εἰς πολλὰ πεποιημένη πάθη.","english":"For this is what makes them cowardly: \"Is there any wisdom in them?\" For there is no wisdom at all in such people. But the abundance of wickedness alone ends in folly. \"There is no grape on the vines.\" For he handed the vineyard over to other farmers. \"And why are we sitting still?\" Because they were not cultivating the things of God. And what greater security could there be than when God, who provides all things to all, gives up their security? They ought to have said, \"Let us flee to God,\" but they still lie low. He who controls nature and makes trees useless—how much more the walls? \"Let us enter the fortified cities.\" In the historical sense, they later fled to Egypt; in the spiritual sense, he urges them to flee to the Churches. \"And let us cast ourselves away there.\" According to the saying: I chose to be cast away in the house of God. \"We were gathered for peace, and there were no good things.\" We thought, he says, that through the law we were reconciled to God, and not understanding its power, we found no good things. \"For behold, I am sending serpents against you.\" The enemies, perceptible or also intelligible. \"Which cannot be charmed, and they shall bite.\" For since those who have been bitten pretend piety, and are not persuaded by exhortation, thinking they are being pious—so bitter are the nets of cunning. \"With pain of heart, being perplexed.\" For it is impossible not to be pricked by conscience. \"Summer has passed, the harvest has gone by.\" In the time of fair weather, he says, when there was a time for repentance, we did not repent. \"Is there no resin in Gilead?\" Gilead is a mountain that has many cedars, from which resin is made for many sufferings.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":15,"ref":"p15","source":"Ἡ δὲ πόλις ἡ Γαλαὰδ, πόλις τυγχάνουσα τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, εἴδωλα ἔπλαττεν· οὐκ εἶχον οὖν τοὺς θεραπεύοντας προφήτας, ὅτι οὕτως ἡμάρτανον. \"Διατί οὐκ ἀνέβη ἴασις θυγατρὸς λαοῦ μου;\" Τὰ τραύματα κοῖλα τυγχάνουσι. Διατί οὖν, φησὶν, ἔχοντες τοὺς θεραπεύοντας, οὐκ ἀνήνεγκαν ἴασιν; τουτέστιν οὐκ ἴσωσαν ἑαυτῶν τὰ τραύματα, οὐ συνούλωσαν; ΚΕΦΑΛ. Θʹ. \"Τίς δώσει τῇ κεφαλῇ μου ὕδωρ;\" Ὕδωρ αἰτεῖ λαβεῖν ὁ προφήτης ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς, ἵνα γένωνται αὐτῷ πηγαὶ δακρύων, καὶ ἐπαξίως κλαύσῃ τοὺς ἀπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας τετραυματισμένους· ἀριθμεῖται δὲ αὐτῶν τὰ πλημμελήματα, γεγενημένα μὲν καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν τοῦ προφήτου καιρῶν, τολμηθέντα δὲ παρ' αὐτῶν καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Δεσπότου Χριστοῦ. Λέγει δὲ καὶ κατὰ μισαδελφίας, καὶ κατὰ τοκιζόντων· προλέγει δὲ καὶ τὴν παντελῆ τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐρήμωσιν. \"Θυγατρὸς λαοῦ μου.\" Τῆς συναγωγῆς τῶν Ἰουδαίων. \"Καὶ ἐνέτειναν τὴν γλῶσσαν αὐτῶν ὡς τόξον.\" Μηδὲ μικρὸν χαλῶντες, ἀλλ' ἀνενδότως διὰ τῆς γλώττης ἁμαρτάνοντες, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ τὸν Σωτῆρα λοιδορίαις πλύνοντες. \"Καταπαίξεται.\" Δόλῳ ὑποσκελίζει. \"Οὐκ ἤκουσαν φωνὴν ὑπάρξεως.\" Οὐκ ἠθέλησαν ἀκοῦσαι τῆς φωνῆς Κυρίου τῆς χαριζομένης αὐτοῖς τὴν εἰσάει ὕπαρξιν, ὅ ἐστι τὴν ἀθανασίαν. \"Ἀπὸ πετεινῶν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ ἕως κτηνῶν.\" Καὶ οἱ ὑψηλοὶ, φησὶ, κατ' ἀρετὴν, καὶ οἱ κτηνώδεις ἐξέκλιναν εἰς τὸ κακόν· σημαίνει δὲ καὶ τὴν παντελῆ τοῦ τόπου ἐρήμωσιν. \"Ἀνήφθη ὡς ἔρημος παρὰ τὸ μὴ διοδεύεσθαι αὐτήν.\" Διὰ τὸ μηδένα, φησὶν, ἔχειν ὁδεύοντα ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς Κυρίου γέγονεν ἔρημος. \"Καὶ ἀποστελῶ εἰς αὐτοὺς τὴν μάχαιραν.\" Τὴν ἀπότομον ἐκδίκησιν.","english":"And the city of Gilead, being a city of the Jordan, fashioned idols; they did not, then, have prophets to serve them, because they sinned in this way. \"Why has healing not come up for the daughter of my people?\" The wounds are hollow. Why then, he says, having those who serve them, did they not bring up healing? That is, they did not heal their own wounds, they did not close them up. CHAPTER 9. \"Who will give water to my head?\" The prophet asks to receive water upon his head, so that fountains of tears may be produced for him, and he may worthily weep for those wounded by sin; and their transgressions are counted, which occurred also in the prophet's own times, but were dared by them even against the Lord Christ. He speaks also against hatred of brothers, and against those who exact interest; and he foretells also the complete desolation of Jerusalem. \"For the daughter of my people.\" For the synagogue of the Jews. \"And they bent their tongue like a bow.\" Not slackening even a little, but sinning unremittingly through the tongue, just as indeed they also washed the Savior with insults. \"He will mock.\" He trips up by deceit. \"They did not hear the voice of existence.\" They did not wish to hear the voice of the Lord, which grants them true existence, that is, immortality. \"From the birds of the sky, and even to the beasts.\" Both those lofty in virtue, he says, and the beast-like turned aside to evil; and he signifies also the complete desolation of the place. \"It was kindled as a desert because no one passes through it.\" Because no one, he says, has a wayfarer in the paths of the Lord, it has become a desert. \"And I will send against them the sword.\" The severing vengeance.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":16,"ref":"p16","source":"\"Καὶ πρὸς τὰς σοφὰς ἀποστείλατε.\" Τὰς Ἐκκλησίας, ἢ τὰς τῶν ἁγίων ψυχὰς, ἃς σοφὰς καλεῖ· αὗται γὰρ θρηνοῦσι τοὺς ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀνῃρημένους, ὡς ὁ Παῦλός φησι· Καὶ πενθήσω πολλοὺς τῶν προημαρτηκότων, καὶ μὴ μετανοησάντων. \"Καταγαγέτωσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ ὑμῶν δάκρυα.\" Τὸ τῆς μετανοίας δάκρυον. \"Ἐγκατελίπομεν τὴν γῆν.\" Τῆς εὐσεβείας τὴν γνῶσιν. \"Καὶ ἀπεῤῥίψαμεν τὰ σκηνώματα ἡμῶν.\" Αὐτοὶ ἑαυτοῖς τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας αἴτιοι γεγόναμεν. \"Ὅτι ἀνέβη θάνατος διὰ τῶν θυρίδων ὑμῶν.\" Καθόλου μὲν διὰ τῶν διδασκάλων τῶν δοκούντων τὰ κεκρυμμένα ἑρμηνεύειν. Αἱ γὰρ θυρίδες φανεροποιοῦσι τὰ ἐντὸς ἑνὸς ἑκάστου διὰ τῶν αἰσθητηρίων· συνέβη δὲ ἴσως τοῦτο καθ' ἱστορίαν, διὰ τῶν πολεμίων· θυρίδες εἰσὶν αἱ τῆς πλάνης ἐπίνοιαι. \"Ἀλλ' ἐν τούτῳ... καυχάσθω συνιεῖν καὶ γινώσκειν.\" Παραινεῖ ὁ λόγος ἐν μηδενὶ καυχᾶσθαι εἰ μὴ ἐν τῷ συνιέναι, καὶ γινώσκειν τὸν Κύριον, καὶ ὅτι τὸ θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐστι, τὸ ἔλεος, καὶ τὸ κρῖμα, καὶ ἡ δικαιοσύνη. \"Ἐπ' Αἴγυπτον, καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰδουμαίαν.\"","english":"Send for the wise women.\" He calls the Churches wise, or the souls of the saints; for these lament those destroyed by sin, as Paul says: And I will mourn for many of those who have sinned beforehand and have not repented. \"Let your eyes bring down tears.\" The tear of repentance. \"We have forsaken the land.\" The knowledge of piety. \"And we have cast away our tents.\" We ourselves have become the cause of our own captivity. \"For death has come up through your windows.\" In general, through the teachers who seem to interpret hidden things. For the windows make visible what is within each person through the senses; and this happened, perhaps, in the historical sense, through the enemies; the windows are the devices of error. \"But in this... let him glory, to understand and to know.\" The word exhorts us to glory in nothing except in understanding and knowing the Lord, and that the will of God is mercy, and judgment, and righteousness. \"Against Egypt, and against Idumea.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":17,"ref":"p17","source":"Αἰγύπτιοι οἱ Βάρβαροι καλοῦνται παρὰ τῇ θείᾳ Γραφῇ. Ἰδουμαῖοί τε, οἱ καὶ Ἐδωμῖται, πόρνοι, καὶ βέβηλοι, ὡς ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἡσαῦ· οἱ δὲ Μωαβῖται, καὶ Ἀμμανῖται διὰ τὸν τρόπον κελεύονται μὴ εἰσιέναι εἰς Ἐκκλησίαν Θεοῦ. Τῶν Ἰουδαίων οὖν τὸν τρόπον, διὰ τῶν ἐθνῶν τούτων ἐχαρακτήρισε, τούτοις αὐτοὺς καλέσας τοῖς ὀνόμασι. \"Καὶ ἐπὶ πάντα περικειρόμενον.\" Τοὺς τὸ φαινόμενον καλλωπίζοντας. Λέγει δὲ τοὺς μόρφωσιν ἔχοντας εὐσεβείας, τὴν δὲ δύναμιν αὐτῆς ἠρνημένους. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Ιʹ. \"Καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν σημείων τοῦ οὐρανοῦ μὴ φοβεῖσθε, ὅτι.\" Τὰς ἡλιακὰς, φησὶν, ἀνακυκλώσεις ὁρῶντες, καὶ σελήνην φθίνουσαν καὶ αὐξανομένην, καὶ ἀστέρων σχέσιν καὶ ἀπόστασιν, καὶ τὰς κατὰ καιρὸν αὐτῶν ἐκφάνσεις καὶ ἀποκρύψεις, καὶ τὴν εὐάρμοστον αὐτῶν κίνησιν, μὴ φοβηθῆτε αὐτὰ ὡς θεοὺς, ἀλλὰ τὸν ταῦτα ποιήσαντα. \"Ὁ ἀνορθώσας τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ αὐτοῦ.\" Ἐν τῷ Υἱῷ· ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ἐκτίσθη τὰ πάντα. \"Ἐμωράνθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ γνώσεως, κατησχύνθη... ὅτι ψευδῆ ἐχώνευσεν.\" Ὁ μὴ τὴν γνῶσιν ἔχων ταύτης τῆς θεολογίας, μωρός ἐστιν. \"Μάταιά ἐστιν ἔργα... ἐν καιρῷ ἐπισκοπῆς αὐτῶν ἀπολοῦνται.\" Ὅταν ὁ Θεὸς ἐπισκέψηται τὴν γῆν, ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ δηλονότι τοῦ Χριστοῦ. \"Συνήγαγεν ἔξωθεν τὴν ὑπόστασιν αὐτοῦ κατοικοῦσαν.\" Ὦ γνῶσις Θεοῦ, ἡ ἐν τοῖς ἐκλεκτοῖς κατοικοῦσα, ἀπὸ τῶν θαυμάτων αὐτοῦ, καὶ τῶν ποιημάτων καταλαμβάνεταί σου ἡ ὑπόστασις. Καὶ ἡ Ἐκκλησία δὲ ἔξωθεν, τουτέστιν ἐκ τῶν ἐθνῶν συνήχθη. \"Καὶ τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἠρήμωσαν.\" Οὐκ ἐῶντες ἐντρέφεσθαι τῇ πίστει καὶ ταῖς καλαῖς διδασκαλίαις· ἢ ἄρδην ἀνελόντες, ἢ εἰδωλολατρεῖν ἀναγκάσαντες. ΚΕΦΑΛ.","english":"The Egyptians, the barbarians, are called so in divine Scripture. And the Idumeans, also called Edomites, are fornicators and profane, as from Esau; and the Moabites and Ammonites are commanded not to enter the Church of God because of their manner. Therefore he characterized the manner of the Jews through these nations, calling them by these names. \"And upon all that is clipped round about.\" Those who adorn the outward appearance. He means those who have a form of piety but have denied its power. CHAPTER 10. \"And do not be afraid of the signs of heaven, because.\" Seeing, he says, the revolutions of the sun, and the moon waning and waxing, and the position and distance of the stars, and their appearances and concealments at their proper times, and their harmonious motion, do not fear them as gods, but fear the one who made them. \"He who established the world in his wisdom.\" In the Son; for in him all things were created. \"Every man has become foolish from knowledge, he has been put to shame... because he cast false things.\" The one who does not have this knowledge of theology is foolish. \"Vain are their works... in the time of their visitation they will perish.\" When God visits the earth, clearly in the presence of Christ. \"He gathered from outside his substance that dwells.\" O knowledge of God, which dwells in the elect, from his wonders and his works your substance is comprehended. And the Church was gathered from outside, that is, from the nations. \"And they have made his place desolate.\" Not allowing them to be nourished in the faith and in good teachings; or having destroyed them utterly, or having compelled them to worship idols. CHAPTER.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":18,"ref":"p18","source":"ΙΑʹ. \"Τάδε λέγει Κύριος· Ἐπικατάρατος ὁ ἄνθρωπος, ὂς οὐκ ἀκούσεται τῶν λόγων.\" Ὁ Θεὸς καταρᾶται, ἀλλ' οἱ τοὺς θείους παραβαίνοντες νόμους ἑαυτοῖς ἐπισπῶνται τὰ δεινά. \"Τοῦ δοῦναι αὐτοῖς γῆν ῥέουσαν γάλα, καὶ μέλι.\" Πρὸς μὲν ἱστορίαν, τὴν Παλαιστίνην· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν· γάλα μὲν ποτίζουσαν τοὺς ἀρτιφύτους, μέλι δὲ τοὺς δυναμένους ἀπογεύσασθαι τῶν τελειοτέρων μαθημάτων. \"Καθὼς ἡ ἡμέρα αὕτη. Καὶ ἀπεκρίθην, καὶ εἶπα, Γένοιτο, Κύριε.\" Τὴν θεοφάνιον ἡμέραν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ὁ προφήτης προβλέπει, καθ' ἣν ταῦτα τοῖς πιστοῖς δέδοται, ἣν καὶ εὐχόμενος παραγενέσθαι, φησὶ, Γένοιτο, Κύριε. \"Εὑρέθη σύνδεσμος ἐν ἀνδράσιν Ἰούδα.\" Συμφωνία πάντων ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖρον. \"Τί ἡ ἠγαπημένη;\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Πῶς ἡ ἠγαπημένη; \"Ἐλαίαν ὡραίαν, εὔσκιον τῷ εἴδει.\" Ὅτε τοὺς πατριάρχας ἐκλεξάμενος ἐφύτευσεν. \"Εἰς φωνὴν περιτομῆς αὐτῆς, ἀνήφθη πῦρ ἐπ' αὐτὴν, μεγάλη ἡ θλίψις ἐπὶ σέ.\" Ὅτε, φησὶν, ἔδει καλλιεργηθῆναι τὴν Συναγωγὴν, τότε πυρὸς ἑαυτὴν ἀξίαν κατέστησεν· ἔδει δὲ αὐτὴν καλλιεργηθῆναι ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ. \"Κύριε, γνώρισόν μοι, καὶ γνώσομαι.\" Θείαν ἀποκάλυψιν αἰτεῖ λαβεῖν περί τε τῶν καθ' ἑαυτὸν, καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ Δεσπότου Χριστοῦ. \"Ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς ἀρνίον ἄκακον.\" Ὡς γὰρ πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη ὁ Κύριος, κατὰ τὸν Ἡσαΐαν. Οὐκ ἀντέστη. \"Οὐ γὰρ ἐρίσει, φησὶν, οὐδὲ κραυγάσει, οὐδὲ ἀκουσθήσεται ἔξω ἡ φωνὴ αὐτοῦ.\" \"Ἐμβάλωμεν ξύλον.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὸν προφήτην, βοτάνην τινὰ θανάσιμον, ἵνα ἐσθίων ὀδυνᾶται. Τῷ δὲ τιμίῳ σταυρῷ τὸν ἄρτον τῆς ζωῆς ἐνέπηξαν.","english":"11. \"Thus says the Lord: Cursed is the man who will not hear the words.\" God curses, but those who transgress the divine laws bring evils upon themselves. \"To give them a land flowing with milk and honey.\" According to the history, this means Palestine; according to the spiritual meaning, the Church—giving milk to drink to the newly planted, and honey to those able to taste of the more perfect teachings. \"As this day. And I answered and said, So be it, Lord.\" The prophet foresees the day of the Savior's divine manifestation, on which these things are given to the faithful, and praying for it to come, he says, \"So be it, Lord.\" \"A conspiracy was found among the men of Judah.\" A concord of all for the worse. \"What is the beloved?\" Instead of, How is she the beloved? \"A beautiful olive tree, fair of shade in appearance.\" When, having chosen the patriarchs, he planted it. \"At the voice of her circumcision, fire was kindled against her, great is the affliction upon you.\" When, he says, the Synagogue ought to have been cultivated, then she made herself worthy of fire; and she ought to have been cultivated at the coming of Christ. \"Lord, make known to me, and I shall know.\" He asks to receive a divine revelation concerning both his own affairs and those concerning the Lord Christ. \"But I, as an innocent lamb.\" For as a sheep led to the slaughter the Lord was led, according to Isaiah. He did not resist. \"For he will not strive, he says, nor cry out, nor will his voice be heard outside.\" \"Let us cast wood.\" Against the prophet, a certain deadly herb, so that eating it he may be in pain. But on the precious cross they fixed the bread of life.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":19,"ref":"p19","source":"\"Καὶ ἐκτρίψωμεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ γῆς ζώντων, καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ μνησθῇ οὐκέτι.\" Ὅρα πῶς καὶ ἀνώνυμον αὐτὸν ποιῆσαι θέλουσιν, οὐδὲ μνήμην τινὰ αὐτοῦ εἶναι βουλόμενοι. Οὐ γὰρ δὴ μόνον ζῶντας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τελευτήσαντας βαρύνονται τοὺς δικαίους οἱ ἁμαρτωλοί. Ὁρᾷς Ἡρώδην, πῶς τὸν Ἰωάννην ἀνελὼν, ὡς ζῶντος εἶχεν ἐν ἑαυτῷ φόβον; τοσοῦτόν ἐστιν ἀρετὴ, τοσοῦτον κακία, οὕτως ἐκείνη δειλὴ καὶ ἄνανδρος, [ἄλ. δειλὸν καὶ ἄνανδρον,] οὕτως αὕτη ἀνδρεία καὶ πεπαῤῥησιασμένη. \"Πρὸς σὲ ἀπεκάλυψα τὸ δικαίωμά μου.\" Λοιδορούμενος γὰρ οὐκ ἀντελοιδόρει, πάσχων οὐκ ἠπείλει· παρεδίδου δὲ τῷ κρίνοντι δικαίως, κατὰ τὸν ἱερὸν ἀπόστολον. \"Ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας ἐν Ἀναθώθ.\" Τοὺς πολίτας τοῦ προφήτου, οἳ καὶ ἐπεβούλευον αὐτῷ. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΙΒʹ. \"Δίκαιος εἶ, Κύριε, ὅτι ἀπολογήσομαι πρὸς σέ. Πλήν.\" Οἶδα, φησὶν, ὅτι δίκαιος εἶ· λόγον δὲ\n\nἀπολογίας ἐπὶ τῶν σῶν κριμάτων ἐπιζητῶ. Ἢ καὶ οὕτως· Χρή με πρότερον ἀπολογήσασθαί σοι, Κύριε, ὅτι δίκαιος εἶ, εἶτα ζητῆσαι τῶν ἀπορουμένων τὴν αἰτίαν. \"Τί ὅτι ὁδὸς ἀσεβῶν εὐοδοῦται;\" Οἶδας ὅτι οὐ φθονῶν λαλῶ, ἀλλ' ἐρωτῶν. \"Ἐφύτευσας αὐτούς.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἐδημιούργησας αὐτοὺς, ὡς πάντων ποιητὴς, καὶ οὐκ ἐξεκόπησαν ἁμαρτάνοντες. \"Ἐγγὺς εἶ σὺ τοῦ στόματος αὐτῶν, καὶ πόῤῥω ἀπὸ τῶν νεφρῶν αὐτῶν.\" Οἶδας, φησὶν, ὅτι μέχρι χειλέων τιμῶσί σε, καὶ οὐκ ἐπάγεις αὐτοῖς πειρασμοὺς, ἵνα δοκιμάσῃς αὐτῶν τὰ βάθη τῆς διανοίας. \"Ἅγνισον αὐτοὺς εἰς ἡμέραν σφαγῆς.\" Οὐ κατευχόμενος αὐτῶν τοῦτό φησιν, ἀλλὰ πληροφορούμενος, ὅτι εἰ καὶ βραδὺ, πλὴν ἥξει ἡ τιμωρία αὐτοῖς.","english":"And we will destroy him from the land of the living, and his name shall no longer be remembered.\" See how they wish to make him nameless, wanting no memory of him to remain. For sinners are burdened not only by the living but also by the dead righteous. Do you see Herod, how after he killed John, he had fear of him as though he were alive? So great is virtue, so great is vice—the one so cowardly and unmanly, the other so courageous and bold. \"To you I have revealed my cause.\" For being reviled, he did not revile in return; suffering, he did not threaten, but handed himself over to the one who judges justly, according to the holy apostle. \"Against the inhabitants of Anathoth.\" The fellow citizens of the prophet, who also plotted against him. CHAPTER 12. \"You are righteous, Lord, that I may plead my case before you. Nevertheless.\" I know, he says, that you are righteous; but I seek a word of defense concerning your judgments. Or also thus: I must first make my defense to you, Lord, that you are righteous, and then seek the cause of what is perplexing. \"Why does the way of the wicked prosper?\" You know that I speak not out of envy but out of questioning. \"You planted them.\" In place of: you created them, as the maker of all things, and they were not cut off while sinning. \"You are near to their mouth, and far from their kidneys.\" You know, he says, that they honor you only as far as their lips, and you do not bring trials upon them, so as to test the depths of their mind. \"Sanctify them for the day of slaughter.\" He says this not as cursing them but as being assured that even if it is slow, nevertheless the punishment will come upon them.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":20,"ref":"p20","source":"Τὸ δὲ, ἅγνισον, ἀντὶ τοῦ, Ἑτοίμασον, εὐτρέπισον, ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν μελλόντων θύεσθαι. \"Ἠφανίσθησαν κτήνη καὶ πετεινά.\" Διὰ τὴν ἀφορίαν τῆς γῆς. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, κτήνη ἂν καὶ πετεινὰ νοήσῃς ἀφανιζομένους ἀνθρώπους, τῶν μὲν οὐρανίων ἐπιθυμοῦντας, τῶν δὲ ἐπιγείων μὴ ἀφισταμένους. \"Σοῦ οἱ πόδες τρέχουσι, καὶ ἐκλύουσί σε.\" Πρὸς τοὺς ἁμαρτάνοντας ὁ λόγος· Τρέχοντες γὰρ, φησὶν, ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ, ἐκλύετε τοὺς τόνους τῆς ἀρετῆς. \"Πῶς παρασκευάσῃ ἐφ' ἵππους.\" Πῶς προσκρούων Θεῷ, δι' ἱππικῆς βοηθείας πιστεύεις σώζεσθαι; Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ἵπποι τὸν θεῖον ἔχοντες ἐποχούμενον λόγον, ἀπόστολοι καὶ προφῆται. Πῶς οὖν δύνασαι, φησὶ, παρασκευάζεσθαι εἰς τὴν τούτων ὠφέλειαν, τὰ τῆς κακίας ἔργα μεταδιώκων; \"Καὶ ἐν γῇ εἰρήνης σου πέποιθας;\" Μὴ θάῤῥει, φησὶν, ἐπὶ τῇ νῦν εἰρήνῃ τῆς γῆς· ἥξει γὰρ πάντως ὁ πόλεμος, σοῦ πλημμελοῦντος. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν· Πῶς δύνῃ, φησὶν, ἐπὶ τῇ γνώσει τῆς εὐσεβείας θαῤῥεῖν ἁμαρτάνων; Γῆ γὰρ εἰρήνης ἐστὶν ἡ εὐσέβεια, δι' ἧς πρὸς Θεὸν εἰρηνεύομεν. \"Πῶς ποιήσεις ἐν φρυάγματι τοῦ Ἰορδάνου;\" Καύχημα τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, τὸ θεῖον βάπτισμα. Πῶς οὖν δύνῃ καυχᾶσθαι ἐπὶ τῷ βαπτίσματι ἁμαρτάνων; \"Ἐκ τῶν ὀπίσω σου ἐπισυνήχθησαν, μὴ πιστεύσῃς ἐν αὐτοῖς.\" Εἰ μὲν πρὸς τὸν προφήτην ὁ λόγος, περὶ τῶν ἐν Ἀναθὼθ πολιτῶν αὐτοῦ φησιν, οἵ τινες ἐβούλοντο αὐτὸν ἀνελεῖν. Εἰ δὲ πρὸς τὸν ἁμαρτωλόν· Οἱ πάλαι, φησὶ, διὰ τὴν εὐσέβειαν προσῳκειωμένοι σοι, νῦν βδελύσσονταί σε, καὶ πολέμιοί σοι γεγόνασι, καὶ ἐκδιώκουσί σε.","english":"But \"sanctify\" is used in place of \"prepare,\" \"make ready,\" as in the case of things about to be sacrificed. \"The cattle and the birds have vanished.\" Because of the barrenness of the land. But as for the deeper meaning, you may understand cattle and birds as men who are being destroyed—those who desire heavenly things, and those who do not withdraw from earthly things. \"Your feet run, and they weary you.\" The word is addressed to those who sin; for, he says, running toward evil things, you slackened the sinews of virtue. \"How will you prepare for horses?\" How, offending God, do you trust to be saved by the help of horsemen? But as for the deeper meaning, the horses are the apostles and prophets, who have the divine Word riding upon them. How then, he says, can you prepare yourself for their benefit, while you pursue the works of wickedness? \"And in the land of your peace have you trusted?\" Do not be confident, he says, in the present peace of the land; for war will certainly come, since you are transgressing. But as for the deeper meaning: How can you, he says, be confident in the knowledge of piety while you sin? For piety is a land of peace, through which we are at peace with God. \"How will you do in the swelling of the Jordan?\" The boast of the Jordan is the divine baptism. How then can you boast in baptism while you sin? \"They were gathered together from behind you, do not trust in them.\" If the word is addressed to the prophet, he speaks concerning the citizens of Anathoth, who wished to destroy him. But if it is addressed to the sinner: Those who of old were made near to you through piety now loathe you, and have become your enemies, and drive you out.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":21,"ref":"p21","source":"\"Μὴ σπήλαιον ὑαίνης.\" Τὸ τῆς ὑαίνης σπήλαιον μεστόν ἐστιν ἀκαθαρσίας, καὶ ὀστέων νεκρῶν ἐκ διαφόρων σωμάτων. Τοιοῦτοι δὲ ἦσαν οἱ τῶν Ἰουδαίων καθηγηταὶ, τάφοι κεκονιαμένοι, ἔσωθεν δὲ γέμοντες ὀστέων νεκρῶν, τουτέστι πάσης ἀκαθαρσίας πεπληρωμένοι. \"Ἐλθέτωσαν τοῦ φαγεῖν αὐτήν.\" Πάντα δι' ἁμαρτίαν πολεμοῦντα τὸν ἄνθρωπον· πρὸς δὲ ἱστορίαν τοὺς Ῥωμαίους φησίν. \"Ποιμένες πολλοὶ διέφθειραν τὸν ἀμπελῶνά μου\" Ἡ κατὰ Θεὸν ποιμαντικὴ μία ἐστίν. Οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ ποιμένες, εἴτε Ἰουδαῖοι, εἴτε Ἕλληνες, εἴτε αἱρετικοὶ, διαφόρους εἰσηγοῦνται διδασκαλίας, καὶ ἔκαστος τὴν ἑαυτοῦ κρατῦναι βούλεται· ὅθεν καὶ διάφοροι τῶν διδασκομένων οἱ τρόποι. \"Δι' ἐμὲ ἀφανισμῷ ἠφανίσθη πᾶσα ἡ γῆ.\" Ἐκ μὲν τοῦ προσώπου τοῦ Κυρίου λεγόμενον δηλοῖ, ὅτι διὰ τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν σφαγὴν ἠφανίσθη τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἡ χώρα· ἐκ δὲ τοῦ κοινοῦ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος λεγόμενον σημαίνει, ὅτι διὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἐνδεδωκότα ἑαυτὸν πάσῃ διδασκαλίᾳ ἠφανίσθη ἡ γῆ. Οὐκ ἔστι, φησὶν, ἄνθρωπος ἐννοῶν, ὅτι ὁ Θεός ἐστιν ὁ τῶν ἀνθρώπων κύριος, καὶ οὐκ ὀφείλουσιν αὐτοὶ διὰ τῆς οἰκείας διδασκαλίας κλῆρον ἑαυτῶν ποιεῖσθαι τοὺς διδασκομένους, ἵνα κυριεύσωσιν αὐτῶν. \"Ἐπὶ πᾶσαν διεκβολὴν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ.\" Οἱ τῶν Ἰουδαίων αἰχμάλωτοι. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, οἱ τὴν ἄκαρπον τῶν πολλῶν ποιμένων παραδεχόμενοι διδασκαλίαν. \"Ὅτι μάχαιρα τοῦ Κυρίου καταφάγεται ἀπ' ἄκρου τῆς γῆς.\" Πρὸς μὲν ἱστορίαν, ἡ τῶν Ῥωμαίων χεὶρ πορθοῦσα τὴν Ἰουδαίων γῆν·","english":"Not a hyena's cave.\" The hyena's cave is full of uncleanness and of dead bones from various bodies. Such were the teachers of the Jews, whitewashed tombs, but within full of dead bones, that is, filled with every uncleanness. \"Let them come to eat it.\" All things that war against man because of sin; but according to the historical sense he means the Romans. \"Many shepherds have destroyed my vineyard.\" The pastoral care according to God is one. But the many shepherds, whether Jews, or Greeks, or heretics, introduce various teachings, and each wishes to establish his own; whence also the ways of those who are taught are various. \"For my sake the whole earth has vanished in destruction.\" Spoken from the person of the Lord, it shows that because of the slaughter against him the land of the Jews has vanished; but spoken from the commonality of humanity it signifies that because of man who has given himself over to every teaching the earth has vanished. There is not, he says, a man who understands that God is the lord of men, and that they ought not through their own teaching to make the taught their own portion, so as to lord it over them. \"Upon every pass in the desert.\" The captives of the Jews. But according to the deeper meaning, those who accept the fruitless teaching of the many shepherds. \"For the sword of the Lord will devour from the end of the earth.\" According to the historical sense, the hand of the Romans ravaging the land of the Jews.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":22,"ref":"p22","source":"πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, τὴν συγχώρησιν τοῦ Κυρίου, διὰ τὸ αὐτεξούσιον τῶν τε ποιμένων, καὶ ποιμαινομένων, μάχαιραν Κυρίου νοήσεις διαφθείρουσαν τοὺς ἐν πάσῃ γῇ ταῖς ποικίλαις διδασκαλίαις πειθομένους, οἵτινες οὐδὲ εἰρηνεύουσι πρὸς ἀλλήλους. \"Ἐσπείρετε πυροὺς, καὶ ἀκάνθας ἐθερίσατε.\" Πρὸς τοὺς πολλοὺς ποιμένας\n\nὁ λόγος, οἵτινες διὰ τῆς πιθανολογίας, τρόφιμον δοκοῦντες εἰσηγεῖσθαι διδασκαλίαν, ὄλεθρον ἑαυτοῖς ἀποθερίζουσιν. \"Οἱ κλῆροι αὐτῶν οὐκ ὠφελήσουσιν αὐτούς.\" Τοὺς ποιμένας οὐδὲν οἱ ποιμαντικοὶ ὠφελήσουσι κλῆροι. \"Αἰσχύνθητε ἀπὸ καυχήσεως ὑμῶν.\" Αἰσχύνης, φησὶ, καὶ ὀνειδισμοῦ ἀξία ἐστὶν ἡ καύχησις παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ. \"Ὅτι τάδε λέγει Κύριος περὶ πάντων τῶν γειτόνων τῶν πονηρῶν.\" Γείτονες πονηροὶ οἱ τὸν θεῖον λόγον παραχαράττοντες, οἵτινες καὶ διεκβολὰς ἐργάζονται, παροχετεύοντες τὴν θείαν διδασκαλίαν. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀποσπῶ αὐτούς.\" Ἀνασπῶ, φησὶ, τοὺς σωζομένους τοῦ λαοῦ μου ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς τῶν πονηρῶν γειτόνων· τουτέστι, τῆς εἰδωλολατρείας καὶ ψευδοῦς διδασκαλίας. Ἰούδαν δέ φησι τὸν ἐξομολογούμενον καὶ σωζόμενον λαὸν, ὃν καὶ ἐκβαλεῖν ὑπισχνεῖται ἀπὸ τῆς πονηρᾶς γῆς. \"Καὶ ἔσται, μετὰ τὸ ἐκβαλεῖν με αὐτοὺς, ἀναστρέψω, καὶ ἐλεήσω αὐτούς.\" Καὶ αὐτοὺς δὲ, φησὶν, ἐλεήσω τοὺς ἐθνικοὺς, τὴν τοῦ ἁγίου λουτροῦ ἄφεσιν χαριζόμενος αὐτοῖς. \"Καὶ ἔσται..., τοῦ ὀμνύειν τῷ ὀνόματί μου.\" Ἵνα μηκέτι τὰ εἴδωλα, ἀλλὰ τὸν Δεσπότην Χριστὸν ὅρκιον ἔχωσιν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΙΓʹ. \"Βάδισον καὶ κτῆσαι σεαυτῷ περίζωμα λινοῦν.\" Περίζωμα λινοῦν τὸ πολλάκις πλύνεσθαι δυνάμενον·","english":"In terms of the spiritual meaning, you will understand the Lord's forgiveness, on account of the free will of both the shepherds and the sheep, as the sword of the Lord destroying those in all the earth who obey various teachings, who do not even live at peace with one another. \"You sowed wheat, and you reaped thorns.\" The word is directed to the many shepherds, who through plausible speech, seeming to introduce nourishing teaching, reap destruction for themselves. \"Their lots will not profit them.\" The pastoral lots will profit the shepherds nothing. \"Be ashamed of your boasting.\" Boasting, he says, is worthy of shame and reproach before God. \"For thus says the Lord concerning all the evil neighbors.\" The evil neighbors are those who adulterate the divine word, who also make slanderous attacks, diverting the divine teaching. \"Behold, I will pluck them out.\" I will pluck out, he says, those being saved of my people from the land of the evil neighbors; that is, from idolatry and false teaching. And he calls Judah the people who confess and are saved, whom he also promises to cast out from the evil land. \"And it shall be, after I have cast them out, I will turn and have mercy on them.\" And them too, he says, I will have mercy on—the Gentiles—granting them the forgiveness of holy baptism. \"And it shall be... to swear by my name.\" So that they may no longer have idols, but the Master Christ, as their oath. CHAPTER 13. \"Go and acquire for yourself a linen waistcloth.\" A linen waistcloth is that which can be washed many times.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":23,"ref":"p23","source":"σημαίνει δὲ τοὺς πολλάκις συγχωρηθέντας, καὶ μὴ μετανοήσαντας. \"Καὶ ἐπορεύθην. Καὶ ἰδοὺ διεφθαρμένον ἦν, ὃ οὐ.\" Τὸ ὕδωρ διέφθειρε τὸ περίζωμα· ὕδωρ δὲ ἡ ἁμαρτία, κάθυγρος οὖσα, καὶ διαῤῥέουσα, καὶ τοὺς αὐτῇ χρωμένους ἀχρείους ἀπεργαζομένη. \"Τοὺς μὴ βουλομένους ὑπακούειν τῶν λόγων μου, καὶ πορευθέντας ὀπίσω θεῶν ἀλλοτρίων.\" Ὕβρις εἰς Θεὸν, τὸ τὴν αὐτοῦ προσκύνησιν εἰδώλοις προσφέρειν. \"Καὶ ἐρεῖς πρὸς τὸν λαὸν τοῦτον· Πᾶς ἀσκὸς πληρωθήσεται οἴνου.\" Ἀσκοῖς αὐτοὺς παρεικάζει, ἢ διὰ τὸ διάκενον καὶ σχῆμα μόνον ἔχειν ἀνθρώπων, ἢ ὅτι εἰ βουληθεῖεν, δύνανται καὶ αὖθις δέξασθαι θεῖα μαθήματα τὰ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πληρῶ τοὺς ἱερεῖς μεθύσματι.\" Τῇ τιμωρίᾳ τῆς ἀδικήσεως. \"Δότε τῷ Κυρίῳ ὑμῶν δόξαν πρὸ τοῦ συσκοτάσαι.\" Ὁ Κύριος ὑμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς φῶς ἐστιν· Ἕως οὖν ἔχετε, φησὶ, τὸ φῶς, πιστεύσατε εἰς αὐτό. \"Καὶ πρὸ τοῦ προσκόψαι τοὺς πόδας ὑμῶν.\" Ὅρη σκοτεινὰ αἱ πονηραὶ δυνάμεις, καὶ αἱ διαβολικαὶ ἐνέργειαι. Πρὸ τῆς οὖν παῤῥησίας τοῦ διαβόλου, φησὶ, πιστεύσατε εἰς τὸ φῶς. \"Καὶ ἀναμενεῖτε εἰς φῶς, καὶ ἐκεῖ σκιὰ θανάτου, καὶ τεθήσονται εἰς σκότος.\" Αἱ γὰρ ψευδεῖς διδασκαλίαι φῶς ὑπισχνούμεναι, θανάτου τυγχάνουσι πρόξενοι. \"Κεκρυμμένως κλαύσεται ἡ ψυχή.\" Ἢ πρὸς τοὺς διδασκάλους ὁ λόγος, ὅτι Αἰσχυνόμενοι οὓς ἠπατήσατε, κεκρυμμένως κλαύσατε· ἢ καὶ πρὸς τοὺς αἰχμαλώτους, ὅτι Τοιαύτη ὑμῶν ἔσται ἡ αἰχμαλωσία, εἴτε νοητὴ, εἴτε αἰσθητὴ, ὡς μηδὲ τολμᾷν φανερῶς δεικνύειν. \"Πόλεις αἳ πρὸς νότον συνεκλείσθησαν.\" Αἱ κατ' εὐσέβειαν πολιτεῖαι, αἱ ἀντικείμεναι τῷ νοουμένῳ βοῤῥᾷ.","english":"It means those who have often been forgiven and have not repented. \"And I went. And behold, it was ruined, which it was not.\" The water ruined the loincloth; and the water is sin, being moist and flowing, and rendering those who use it useless. \"Those who do not wish to obey my words, and who went after foreign gods.\" It is hubris against God to offer his worship to idols. \"And you shall say to this people: Every wineskin will be filled with wine.\" He likens them to wineskins, either because they are empty and have only the shape of human beings, or because, if they wished, they could again receive divine teachings, those of faith in Christ. \"Behold, I fill the priests with drunkenness.\" With the punishment of iniquity. \"Give glory to your Lord before it grows dark.\" Your Lord Jesus Christ is light; while you have the light, then, he says, believe in it. \"And before your feet stumble.\" The dark mountains are the evil powers and the diabolical activities. Before the boldness of the devil, then, he says, believe in the light. \"And you will wait for light, and there is the shadow of death, and they will be put into darkness.\" For false teachings, while promising light, prove to be the cause of death. \"The soul will weep secretly.\" Either the word is addressed to the teachers, that—ashamed of those whom you deceived—you wept secretly; or also to the captives, that such will be your captivity, whether intelligible or sensible, that you do not even dare to show it openly. \"Cities which were shut up toward the south.\" The ways of life according to piety, which are opposed to the intelligible north.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":24,"ref":"p24","source":"\"Ἀπῳκίσθη Ἰούδας, συνετέλεσαν ἀποικίαν τελείαν.\" Μετὰ τῶν αἰσθητῶν νοεῖ, ὅτι τῶν κατ' εὐσέβειαν ἠθῶν μετέστη. \"Ἀνάλαβε τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου, Ἱερουσαλήμ.\" Τοῦτ' ἔστι, κατανόησον. \"Τί ἐρεῖς ὅταν ἐπισκέπτωνταί σε;\" Ὅταν ἐφιστῶσί σοι οἱ αἰσθητοὶ, ἢ καὶ νοητοὶ πολέμιοι. \"Καὶ σὺ ἐδίδαξας αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ σὲ μαθήματα εἰς ἀρχήν.\" Ἐὰν μὴ γὰρ ἐκδῶμεν ἑαυτοὺς τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, οὐκ ἄρχει ἡμῶν. \"Τὰς πτέρνας σου.\" Αἱ ὁδοί σου, καὶ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα γήϊνα. \"Εἰ ἀλλάξεται Αἰθίοψ.\" Φυσικῷ πράγματι παρεικάζει, τὴν ἐκ πολλῆς συνηθείας ἁμαρτίαν, ἵνα δείξῃ ἀναγκαίαν εἶναι τὴν χάριν τοῦ λουτροῦ τῆς παλιγγενεσίας. \"Καὶ ὁ χρεμετισμός σου.\" Διὰ τοῦ χρεμετισμοῦ, σημαίνει, τὴν πρὸς τὴν θήλειαν μίξεως τὴν ἔφεσιν. Τοῦτο οὖν φησιν, ὅτι Καὶ ἐν συγκαταθέσει, καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ πράξει τὴν ἁμαρτίαν εἰργάσασθε. \"Ἐπὶ βουνῶν, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς ἑώρακα τὰ βδελύγματά σου.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, κατὰ πολλοὺς τρόπους. Πλὴν ἐπὶ τούτων ἔθυον. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΙΔʹ. \"Ἐπένθησεν ἡ Ἰουδαία.\" Μετὰ τὸ αἰσθητὸν ἡ γνῶσις τῆς εὐσεβείας. \"Καὶ αἱ πύλαι αὐτῆς ἐκενώθησαν.\" Αἱ εἰσαγωγαὶ καὶ διδασκαλίαι οὐκ ἔχουσαι τοὺς διδασκομένους. \"Καὶ ἐσκοτώθησαν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.\" Τῆς γὰρ κακίας ἐπικρατούσης ἡ ἀρετὴ καλύπτεται. \"Καὶ ἡ κραυγὴ τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ","english":"Judah has been deported; they have completed a complete deportation.\" He understands this in terms of the perceptible things, that he has departed from the customs of piety. \"Lift up your eyes, Jerusalem.\" That is, understand. \"What will you say when they visit you?\" When the perceptible, or even the intelligible, enemies set upon you. \"And you yourself taught them lessons against yourself as a ruler.\" For unless we give ourselves over to sin, it does not rule over us. \"Your heels.\" Your ways, and your earthly pursuits. \"If an Ethiopian changes.\" He compares sin from long habit to a natural thing, in order to show that the grace of the bath of regeneration is necessary. \"And your neighing.\" Through the neighing, he signifies the desire for intercourse with the female. This, then, he says: that both in consent and in the very act you worked sin. \"On the mountains, and in the fields I have seen your abominations.\" In place of: in many ways. Except that on these they used to sacrifice. CHAPTER 14. \"Judea has mourned.\" After the perceptible sense, the knowledge of piety. \"And her gates have been emptied.\" The entrances and teachings, having no one being taught. \"And they were darkened upon the earth.\" For when wickedness prevails, virtue is covered over. \"And the cry of Jerusalem","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":25,"ref":"p25","source":"ἀνέβη.\" Οὐχ ὡς ἡ Σοδόμων· οὐ γὰρ τελείως ἠφανίσθη· ἀλλὰ τοῦ ὀδυρμοῦ αὐτῆς ἡ κραυγή. \"Καὶ οἱ μεγιστᾶνες αὐτῆς ἀπέστειλαν τοὺς νεωτέρους αὐτῶν ἐφ' ὕδωρ.\" Οἱ θρόνοι οἱ ἱερατικοὶ ἔπεμψαν ἐπερωτῆσαι ἀπὸ Θεοῦ τὰ συμφέροντα. Νεωτέρους δὲ αὐτοὺς ἐκάλεσε, διὰ τὸ κοσμικαῖς καὶ νεωτερικαῖς αὐτοὺς ἐπιθυμίαις ἐνέχεσθαι. \"Ἤλθοσαν ἐπὶ τὰ φρέατα, καὶ οὐχ εὕρησαν ὕδωρ.\" Τοῦτο εἰ μὴ ἐκ θείας ὀργῆς, οὐκ ἄν ποτε συνέβη. Ἄλλως· Οὐ γὰρ εὗρον τὸ ὕδωρ τὸ ζῶν τὸ ἐκ Θεοῦ διδόμενον. \"Οἱ γεωργοί.\" Οἱ ὀφείλοντες ἐργάζεσθαι. \"Καὶ ἐγκατέλιπον, ὅτι οὐκ ἦν βοτάνη.\" Οὐ γὰρ ἦσαν οἱ ἀκούοντες. Τροφὴ γὰρ τῶν ἁγίων οἱ αὐτῶν μαθηταί. \"Ὄναγροι ἔστησαν ἐπὶ νάπας.\" Ἐστέναξαν ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀπολλυμένοις. Ὄναγροι. Οἱ τῶν κοσμικῶν πραγμάτων ἐλεύθεροι. \"Ἵνα τί ἐγενήθης ὡσεὶ πάροικος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.\" Ἵνα τί, φησὶν, οὐ κήδῃ ἡμῶν ὡς Δεσπότης, ἀλλὰ παρορᾷς ὡσεὶ πάροικος; \"Ἐκκλίνων εἰς κατάλυμα.\" Ὁ ἐπειγόμενος εἰς κατάλυμα φθάσαι, κἂν ἴδῃ τινὰς ὁπωσοῦν χρῄζοντας βοηθείας, παρορᾷ, καὶ παρατρέχει. \"Ἠγάπησαν κινεῖν πόδας αὐτῶν.\" Ἀτάκτως κινεῖσθαι, τρέχειν εἰς τὰ κακά. \"Ἰδοὺ οἱ προφῆται αὐτῶν προφητεύουσι.\" Ὡς ὑπεραπολογούμενος τοῦ λαοῦ ὁ προφήτης φησὶν, ὅτι Οἱ ψευδοπροφῆται αὐτοὺς ἀπατῶσι· καὶ δύο ἐντεῦθεν πραγματεύεται· μετάγει τὴν ὀργὴν ἐπὶ τοὺς προφήτας, καὶ προτρέπει λέγειν Θεὸν, ὅτι Οὐκ ἐγὼ αὐτοὺς ἀπέστειλα. \"Ἐν θανάτῳ νοσερῷ ἀποθανοῦνται.\" Ἐν παρατεταμένῃ νόσῳ, ὡς τοῦ συντόμου θανάτου αἱρετωτέρου τυγχάνοντος. \"Καὶ ἔσονται ἐῤῥιμμένοι ἐν ταῖς διόδοις Ἱερουσαλήμ.\" Δίοδοί εἰσιν αἱ αἴσχιστοι ὁδοί.","english":"They have gone up.\" Not as Sodom's, for it was not completely destroyed, but the cry of her lamentation. \"And her nobles sent their younger men for water.\" The priestly thrones sent to inquire of God for what was expedient. He called them younger men because they were entangled in worldly and youthful desires. \"They came to the wells and found no water.\" This could never have happened except by divine wrath. Alternatively: for they did not find the living water that is given from God. \"The farmers.\" Those who ought to work. \"And they abandoned it, because there was no herbage.\" For there were none who would hear. For the food of the saints is their disciples. \"The wild asses stood at the glades.\" They groaned over those who were perishing. Wild asses: those free from worldly affairs. \"Why have you become like a sojourner in the land?\" Why, he says, do you not care for us as Master, but overlook us like a sojourner? \"Turning aside to an inn.\" One who is in haste to reach an inn, even if he sees some who need help in any way, overlooks them and runs past. \"They loved to move their feet.\" To move disorderly, to run to evils. \"Behold, their prophets prophesy.\" As if defending the people, the prophet says that the false prophets deceive them; and he accomplishes two things from this: he diverts the wrath onto the prophets, and he urges God to say, \"I did not send them.\" \"They shall die by a sickly death.\" By a prolonged illness, since a swift death is preferable. \"And they shall be cast out in the thoroughfares of Jerusalem.\" Thoroughfares are the most shameful roads.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"scripture","severity":"info","ref":"John 4:10","text":"The English carries the scriptural phrase “living water”, which matches John 4:10. The match is on the English draft; check the Coptic before quoting the verse."}]},{"i":26,"ref":"p26","source":"\"Μὴ ἀποδοκιμάζων.\" Δέησις τοῦ προφήτου πρὸς Θεὸν, καὶ ἐξομολόγησις ὑπὲρ τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ Θεοῦ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀπόκρισις. \"Καὶ ἀπὸ Σιὼν ἀπέστη ἡ ψυχή σου;\" Ὥσπερ ἀνθρωπίνως διαμορφοῖ τὸν Θεὸν ἡ Γραφὴ τὸν ἀσχημάτιστον, οὕτως καὶ ὡς ἐπὶ ἀνθρώπου, Ἡ ψυχή σου τέθνηκεν. Ἢ προφητικῶς, ὅτι ἔμελλεν ὁ Θεὸς Λόγος δι' ἡμᾶς ἄνθρωπος γίγνεσθαι. \"Καὶ εἰ ὁ οὐρανὸς δώσει πλησμονὴν αὐτοῦ, οὐχὶ σὺ αὐτός;\" Οὐδὲ αἱ οὐράνιαι, φησὶ, δυνάμεις δίχα τῆς σῆς ἐπιτροπῆς δύνανται χορηγεῖν ἀγαθά. \"Καὶ ὑπομενοῦμέν σε, Κύριε, ὅτι σὺ ἐποίησας πάντα ταῦτα.\" Σὺ εἶ, φησὶ, καὶ οὐχ ἕτερός τις ὁ καὶ τὸν αἰσθητὸν ἡμῖν καὶ τὸν πνευματικὸν χορηγῶν ὑετόν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΙΕʹ. \"Καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρός με, Ἐὰν στῇ Μωυσῆς, καὶ Σαμουήλ.\" Μωυσῆς ὁ λέγων, Εἰ μὲν ἀφῇς αὐτοῖς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, ἄφες· ἐπεὶ κἀμὲ ἐξάλειψον ἐκ τῆς βίβλου σου ταύτης, ἧς ἔγραψας· καὶ Σαμουὴλ ὁ καὶ τὴν τοῦ Σαοὺλ ἁμαρτίαν πενθῶν. \"Ἐξαπόστειλον αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἐξελθέτωσαν.\" Οὐχ ὁ Θεὸς ἐκβάλλει, ἀλλ' αἱ ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίαι διιστῶσιν, ἀναμέσον ἡμῶν καὶ αὐτοῦ. \"Μάχαιραν εἰς σφαγὴν, καὶ τοὺς κύνας.\" Μετὰ [ἀλ. μετὰ τὸ αἰσθητόν] τὴν αἰσθητὴν, μάχαιραν νοητὴν, ψευδώνυμον γνῶσιν. Κύνας δὲ περὶ ὧν εἶπεν ὁ Ἀπόστολος· Βλέπετε τοὺς κύνας, βλέπετε τοὺς κακοὺς ἐργάτας. Θηρία δὲ γῆς, τοὺς τὰ γήϊνα φρονήματα ἡμῖν ἐνσπείροντας· πετεινὰ δὲ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τοὺς τὰ ὑψώματα ἡμῖν ἐπισπείροντας μετὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ. \"Διὰ Μανασσήν.\" Οὖτος ἔπεισεν ἐκτόπως εἰδωλολατρεῖν τοὺς Ἰουδαίους. Λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὸν προφήτην Ἡσαΐαν αὐτὸς πρῖσαι. \"Ἢ τίς ἀνακάμψει εἰς εἰρήνην σοι;\" Τίς ἔχει φοβηθῆναι εἰς τὸ κακῶσαί σε;","english":"Not rejecting.\" The prophet's petition to God, and a confession on behalf of the people, and God's answer to him. \"And from Zion your soul has departed?\" Just as the Scripture depicts God, who is without form, in a human way, so also as in the case of a man, \"your soul has died.\" Or prophetically, that God the Word was going to become man for our sake. \"And if heaven will give its fullness, are you not yourself?\" Not even the heavenly powers, he says, can bestow good things apart from your governance. \"And we will wait for you, O Lord, for you have made all these things.\" You are, he says, and no other, the one who supplies both the perceptible and the spiritual rain for us. CHAPTER 15. \"And the Lord said to me, If Moses and Samuel stand.\" Moses, who said, If you forgive them their sin, forgive; otherwise blot me out of your book which you have written; and Samuel, who also mourned the sin of Saul. \"Send them out, and let them depart.\" God does not cast out, but our sins separate between us and him. \"A sword for slaughter, and the dogs.\" After the perceptible [sword], a noetic sword, falsely named knowledge. And dogs, about which the Apostle said: Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers. And beasts of the earth, those who sow earthly-minded thoughts in us; and birds of heaven, those who sow lofty things in us together with the knowledge of God. \"Because of Manasseh.\" He persuaded the Jews to worship idols in an extraordinary way. It is said that he also sawed the prophet Isaiah in two. \"Or who will turn back to peace for you?\" Who has reason to fear so as to harm you?","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":27,"ref":"p27","source":"ἀντὶ τοῦ, Οὐδείς. Ἢ τίς, φησὶ, μέλλει σοι εἰρηνεύειν, ἐμοῦ σοι πολεμοῦντος; \"Καὶ διαφθερῶ σε, καὶ οὐκέτι ἀνήσω αὐτούς.\" Τὸ, σέ, καὶ, αὐτούς, κατὰ τοῦ αὐτοῦ κεῖται· φησὶ δὲ τὴν Ἰερουσαλὴμ, καὶ τοὺς ἀπειλουμένους. \"Ἐν πύλαις λαοῦ μου ἠτεκνώθησαν.\" Αἱ πολυοχλοῦσαι πόλεις ἔρημοι γεγόνασιν. \"Ὑπὲρ τὴν ἄμμον τῆς θαλάσσης.\" Ὑπερβολικὸς ὁ λόγος. \"Ταλαιπωρίαν ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ.\" Τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου [ἄλ. Ὀλυμπιοδώρου]. Ὅρα πῶς τὴν τιμωρίαν ἐπήγαγεν, ὥστε μὴ νομισθῆναι ταύτας εἶναι τὰς συνήθεις, ἀλλ' ὄντως θεηλάτους τινάς. \"Ἀπέῤῥιψα ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἐξαίφνης τρόμον.\" Ἀπροσδοκήτως. \"Ἐκενώθη. Ἐπέδυ ὁ ἤλιος ἐπ' αὐτῇ, ἔτι μεσούσης τῆς ἡμέρας.\" Ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν πολεμίων· ᾒ ὅτι αἰφνιδίως συμφοραῖς καταλαμβανόμενοι, οὐδὲ τὸν ἥλιον ὑπὸ τῆς ταραχῆς βλέπουσιν. \"Οἵμοι ἐγὼ, ὡς τίνα, μῆτερ, μὲ ἔτεκες ἄνδρα\n\nδικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινόμενον πάσῃ τῇ γῇ;\" Πρὸς μὲν ῥητὸν, ὅτι τοῖς ψευδοπροφήταις ἀντέλεγε, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς παρανομοῦντας ἐδικάζετο· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, διὰ τὸ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν πολυμερῶς περισύρειν τὴν ἀγαθότητα. \"Οὔτε ὠφέλησέν με οὐδείς.\" Ὅτι οὐδὲν ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀπήλλαξεν, ὡς ἐξ ἀνάγκης δεῖσθαι τῆς διὰ Χριστοῦ ἀπολυτρώσεως. \"Ἡ ἰσχύς μου ἐξέλιπεν ἐν τοῖς καταρωμένοις με.\" Τοῖς ἐπιβουλεύουσί μοι. \"Γένοιτο, Δέσποτα, κατευθυνόντων αὐτῶν.\" Εἴθε, φησὶ, κατηύθυναν, καὶ ἐπέστρεψαν πρὸς σὲ, ὡς πάλιν ἐδεόμην ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν, καὶ ᾔτουν αὑτοῖς ἀγαθὰ, καὶ ταῦτα ἐχθρῶν μοι ὄντων αὐτῶν, καὶ πολεμίων. \"Εἰ γνωσθήσεται σίδηρος, καὶ περιβόλαιον χαλκοῦ ἡ ἰσχύς σου;\" Ἐκ Θεοῦ πρὸς τὸν λαὸν ὁ λόγος.","english":"Instead of, \"No one.\" Or who, he says, is going to make peace with you when I am at war with you? \"And I will destroy you, and I will no longer spare them.\" The \"you\" and \"them\" refer to the same person; he means Jerusalem and those who are being threatened. \"In the gates of my people they have been bereaved.\" The populous cities have become desolate. \"Beyond the sand of the sea.\" The expression is hyperbolic. \"Distress at midday.\" From Chrysostom [or Olympiodorus]. Observe how he brought the punishment upon them, so that these might not be thought to be ordinary calamities, but truly some sent from God. \"I suddenly cast trembling upon her.\" Unexpectedly. \"She was emptied. The sun went down upon her while it was still midday.\" Because of the multitude of the enemies; or because, overtaken by sudden disasters, they do not even see the sun for their confusion. \"Woe is me, as what kind of man, mother, did you bear me, a man\n\nwho is judged and disputes with all the earth?\" According to the literal sense, because he contradicted the false prophets and disputed with those who broke the law; according to the deeper meaning, because sin in many ways drags goodness about. \"Nor did anyone profit me.\" Because the prophetic word freed no one from sin, so that there is a necessary need for the redemption through Christ. \"My strength failed among those who curse me.\" Among those who plot against me. \"May it happen, Master, that they were directing themselves.\" Would that, he says, they had directed themselves and turned back to you, as I again entreated on their behalf and asked good things for them, even though they were my enemies and adversaries. \"Will iron be known, and is your strength a covering of bronze?\" The word is from God to the people.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":28,"ref":"p28","source":"Κἂν ἰσχυρὸς ᾖς, φησὶν, ὡς σίδηρος ἢ χαλκὸς, περιέσομαί σου. \"Καὶ τοὺς θησαυρούς σου εἰς προνομὴν δώσω ἀντάλλαγμα διὰ πάσας τὰς ἁμαρτίας σου.\" Τί ἐστιν ἀντάλλαγμα; Ἀντὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν σου δώσω τὰ χρήματά σου καὶ τὴν ἰσχύν σου, ἐπειδὴ αὐτοῖς ἐθάῤῥουν. \"Γνῶθι ὡς ἔλαβον περὶ σοῦ ὀνειδισμόν.\" Ταχὺ, μὴ βραδύνῃς. \"Καὶ ἔσται ὁ λόγος σου ἐμοὶ εἰς εὐφροσύνην καὶ χαρὰν καρδίας μου.\" Ἵνα μετὰ χαρᾶς προφέρω τὰ σὰ λόγια, μηκέτι ὑπ' αὐτῶν ἀντιλεγόμενος. \"Παιζόντων, κ.τ.λ.\" Καταγέλωτος ἄξια ἐργαζομένων. \"Ἡ πληγή μου στερεά.\" Θεοδωρίτου [ἄλ. Ὀλυμπιοδώρου]. Μὴ γὰρ εἰς ὠφέλειαν αὐτῶν ἡ ἐμὴ πληγή; Τίνος οὖν ἕνεκεν συγχωρεῖς αὐτούς; \"Πόθεν ἰαθήσομαι;\" Ὀλυμπιοδώρου. [ἄλ. Θεοδωρήτου.] Ἀπὸ κοινοῦ τῆς ἀνθρωπότητος φέρει τὸν λόγον, οὐδαμόθεν δυναμένης ἰαθῆναι, εἰ μὴ ὑπὸ μόνου τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν. \"Γινομένη ἐγενήθη μοι ὡς ὕδωρ ψευδὲς, οὐκ ἔχον πίστιν.\" Ἡ τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν ἀπάτη ἡ καὶ πλήξασα τὸν λαόν· ἢ αὐτὴ ἡ ἁμαρτία ἄπιστος οὖσα, καὶ ἐοικυῖα ὕδατι ἀποπνίγοντι τοὺς ἀπολαμβανομένους. Ἔστι δὲ ψευδὲς ὕδωρ οὐκ ἔχον πίστιν τὰ τῶν αἱρετικῶν βαπτίσματα. \"Ἐὰν ἐπιστρέψῃς, καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω σε· καὶ πρὸ προσώπου μου στήσῃ.\" Ἐὰν γὰρ, φησὶν, ἀποστῇς τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ἔσῃ ὡς ἀπ' ἀρχῆς ὁ Ἀδὰμ, τῆς ἐμῆς θεωρίας ἀξιούμενος. \"Καὶ ἐὰν ἐξαγάγῃς τίμιον ἀπὸ ἀναξίου, ὡς τὸ στόμα μου ἔσῃ.\" Ἐὰν ἐξαγάγῃς ῥῆμα τίμιον, τουτέστι τὸ τῆς πίστεως ὁμολόγημα, ἀπὸ τοῦ ποτε ἀναξίου καὶ ἀπίστου, καὶ παρασκευάσῃς αὐτὸν πιστεῦσαι, ὡς στόμα ἔσῃ τοῦ εἰπόντος Σωτῆρος· Ὦ γύναι, μεγάλη σου ἡ πίστις.","english":"Even if you are strong, he says, as iron or bronze, I will prevail over you. \"And I will give your treasures as plunder, as a recompense for all your sins.\" What is a recompense? In return for your sins I will give your money and your strength, since they trusted in them. \"Know that I have received reproach concerning you.\" Quickly, do not delay. \"And your word shall be to me for gladness and joy of my heart.\" So that I may utter your words with joy, no longer being contradicted by them. \"Of those who play, etc.\" Of those who do things worthy of laughter. \"My wound is firm.\" Of Theodoret [or Olympiodorus]. For is not my wound for their benefit? For what reason, then, do you forgive them? \"From where shall I be healed?\" Of Olympiodorus [or Theodoret]. He makes the statement on behalf of humanity in common, which cannot be healed from anywhere except by our Savior alone. \"Having become, it has become to me like false water, having no faith.\" The deceit of the false prophets, which also struck the people; or sin itself, being faithless and resembling water that drowns those who receive it. And the false water having no faith is the baptisms of the heretics. \"If you return, I will restore you; and you shall stand before my face.\" For if, he says, you depart from sin, you shall be like Adam from the beginning, being deemed worthy of my vision. \"And if you bring out the precious from the worthless, you shall be as my mouth.\" If you bring out a precious word, that is, the confession of faith, from one who was once worthless and faithless, and prepare him to believe, you shall be as the mouth of the Savior who said: O woman, great is your faith.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":29,"ref":"p29","source":"\"Καὶ ἀναστρέψουσιν αὐτοὶ πρὸς σὲ, καὶ σὺ οὐκ ἀποστρέψεις πρὸς αὐτούς.\" Σπούδασον, φησὶν, ὧ προφῆτα, τοιοῦτος εἶναι, ὡς ἕλκειν αὐτοὺς πρὸς ἀρετὴν, καὶ μὴ ὑπὸ τῆς αὐτῶν κακίας καθέλκεσθαι. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Ι ʹ. \"Καὶ σὺ μὴ λάβῃς.\" Ἱστορεῖται ὁ προφήτης παρθένος εἶναι, ὡς ὑπὸ Θεοῦ κελευσθεὶς μὴ γῆμαι. \"Μὴ εἰσέλθῃς εἰς θίασον.\" Εἰς ἑστίασιν εὐφροσύνης ἢ καὶ πένθους. \"Οὐ μὴ κόψονται.\" Ἀμυχὰς, κατατρύσματα. \"Καὶ φωνήν.\" Τὴν τελείαν ἀφαίρεσιν τῆς χαρᾶς φησι. Βορειοτέρα ἐστὶν ἡ Βαβυλὼν ὡς πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ· τῆς οὖν αἰσθητῆς Βαβυλῶνός φησι καθ' ἱστορίαν, ἢ καὶ τῆς νοητῆς τῶν ψυχῶν αἰχμαλωσίας. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω.\" Τοὺς ἀποστόλους λέγει. \"Ἀποστέλλω τοὺς πολλούς.\" Τοὺς προέδρους τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν. Ἐκ τῶν διαβολικῶν ἐνεργειῶν. \"Καὶ θηρεύσωσιν.\" Τῶν δαιμόνων, ἢ καὶ τῶν τῆς κακίας τρόπων. \"Καὶ ἐπάνω παντός.\" Τῶν ἀφανῶν καὶ δυσκατανοήτων τῆς κακίας ἐνεργειῶν. \"Καὶ ἀνταποδώσω.\" Εἰ μὲν κατὰ τῶν δαιμόνων, καὶ αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ ἐπιφερομένη διπλῆ τιμωρία, ὅτι καὶ ἀπέστησαν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς Θεοῦ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, καὶ ἑαυτοὺς ἐθεοποίησαν· εἰ δὲ κατὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων μετὰ τὴν γνῶσιν ἁμαρτανόντων, διὸ διπλοῦν τιμωροῦνται. \"Ἐν τοῖς θνησιμαίοις.\" Ἐν τοῖς νεκροῖς τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἔργοις· βδελύττεται δὲ καὶ τὰ θνησιμαῖα ὁ νόμος. \"Πρὸς σὲ ἔθνη.\" Πρὸς τὸν Κύριον Ἰησοῦν, περὶ οὗ γέγραπται· Καὶ ἐπ' αὐτῷ ἔθνη ἐλπιοῦσιν. \"Εἰ ποιήσει.\" Τὸ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως. \"Καὶ γνωριῶ.\" Ὁ Πατήρ ἐστιν ὁ λέγων περὶ τοῦ Μονογενοῦς. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΙΖʹ. \"Ἐπικατάρατος.\" Ἐφ' ἑαυτὸν, ἢ καὶ ἕτερόν τινα·","english":"And they will turn themselves to you, and you shall not turn away to them.\" Be zealous, he says, O prophet, to be such a one as to draw them toward virtue, and not to be dragged down by their wickedness. CHAPTER 17. \"And do not take.\" The prophet is recorded to have been a virgin, since he was commanded by God not to marry. \"Do not enter into a company.\" Into a feast of gladness or also of mourning. \"They shall not lament.\" Lamentations, wailings. \"And a voice.\" He means the complete removal of joy. Babylon is more northern with respect to Jerusalem; therefore he speaks of the perceptible Babylon according to history, or also of the intelligible captivity of souls. \"Behold, I send.\" He means the apostles. \"I send the many.\" The presidents of the Churches. From the diabolical workings. \"And they shall hunt.\" Of the demons, or also of the ways of wickedness. \"And upon every.\" Of the unseen and hard-to-understand workings of wickedness. \"And I will repay.\" If it is against the demons, the double punishment is brought upon them as well, because they both turned men away from the true God and deified themselves; but if it is against men who sin after knowledge, therefore they are punished doubly. \"Among the dead bodies.\" Among the dead works of sin; for the law also abhors dead bodies. \"To you nations.\" To the Lord Jesus, concerning whom it is written: And in him shall nations hope. \"If he will do.\" That of the incarnation. \"And I will make known.\" It is the Father who speaks concerning the Only-begotten. CHAPTER 17. \"Cursed.\" Upon himself, or also upon some other;","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":30,"ref":"p30","source":"ἢ καὶ ὁ νομίζων ψιλὸν ἄνθρωπον εἶναι τὸν Σωτῆρα Χριστὸν, καὶ μὴ Θεὸν ἐνανθρωπήσαντα. \"Καὶ στηρίσει.\" Καὶ πεποιθὼς ᾖ ἐπὶ τῇ δυνάμει αὐτοῦ. \"Καὶ\n\nἔσται ὡς ἡ ἀγριομυρίκη.\" Τοῦτο τὸ φυτὸν καὶ ἐν τῷ ζῇν ἡμιθανές ἐστι καὶ κεκαυμένον· λέγεται δὲ ἀποθνήσκειν, ὅταν ὑετὸς ἔλθῃ ἐπ' αὐτῷ. Ὁ μὴ πιστεύων ὅτι Θεός ἐστιν ἐνανθρωπήσας ὁ Χριστὸς, τῶν τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ ἀγαθῶν οὐκ ἀπολαύσει. \"Καὶ κατασκηνώσει.\" Ἅλιμα βοτάνη ἐστὶν, εἶτα πολλῶν. \"Καὶ οὐ φοβηθήσεται.\" Ἐν καιρῷ πειρασμοῦ, φησίν. \"Καὶ ἔσται.\" Εὐθαλεῖς καρποὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς, περισκέποντες αὐτὸν ἐν τοῖς πειρασμοῖς. \"Ἐν ἐνιαυτῷ.\" Ὁ ἐνιαυτὸς κύκλος ἐστίν· ἐν καιρῷ οὖν, φησὶ, καθολικοῦ πειρασμοῦ οὐ φοβηθήσεται. \"Βαθεῖα ἡ καρδία.\" Τὸ τῆς ἐνανθρωπήσεως τοῦ Μονογενοῦς μυστήριον βαθύ ἐστι, καὶ ἀκατάληπτον. Καὶ γὰρ μετὰ τοῦ εἶναι Θεὸς, ἄνθρωπος γέγονε. Τίς οὖν γνώσεται, φησὶν, ἢ τὴν ἐκ Πατρὸς αὐτοῦ γέννησιν, ἢ τὴν μετὰ σαρκὸς ἄφραστον οἰκονομίαν; \"Ἐφώνησε πέρδιξ.\" Ὁ πέρδιξ, ὥς φασιν, ὑπερήφανος ὢν, διὰ τῆς φωνῆς τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους προσκαλεῖται νεοττούς. Οἵτινες γνόντες ὕστερον ὅτι οὐκ εἰσὶν αὐτοῦ, καταλιμπάνουσιν αὐτόν· οὕτω καὶ οἱ ἄνθρωποι οἱ ἀπατηθέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου, ὅταν γνῶσι τὸν ἑαυτῶν Δημιουργὸν καὶ Δεσπότην Θεὸν, ἀφίστανται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. \"Καὶ οὐκ ἐπ' ἐσχάτου.\" Ἐπειδὴ ἀκρίτως τῶν ἀλλοτρίων ἐπεθύμησεν, ὕστερον ἐλεγχόμενος δειχθήσεται ἄφρων. \"Θρόνος.\" Σὺ εἶ, φησὶ, Κύριος, ὁ τὸν θρόνον τῆς δόξης ἔχων τὸν ὑψηλὸν, καὶ τὸ εἶναι ἡμῖν, καὶ τὸ διαμένειν παρέχων.","english":"Or even the one who thinks that the Savior Christ is a mere man, and not God who became man. \"And he will strengthen.\" And he has trusted in his own power. \"And he will be like the wild myrtle.\" This plant is half-dead even while it lives and is scorched; and it is said to die when rain comes upon it. The one who does not believe that Christ is God become man will not enjoy the good things of his coming. \"And he will dwell.\" Salt is a herb, and then of many. \"And he will not fear.\" In the time of trial, he says. \"And he will be.\" Flourishing fruits of virtue, sheltering him in trials. \"In the year.\" The year is a cycle; in the time, then, he says, of a universal trial he will not fear. \"Deep is the heart.\" The mystery of the incarnation of the Only-Begotten is deep and incomprehensible. For while being God, he became man. Who then, he says, will know either his generation from the Father, or his ineffable dispensation with the flesh? \"The partridge cried out.\" The partridge, as they say, being proud, calls to itself the young of others by its voice. These, later recognizing that they are not its own, abandon it; so too men who have been deceived by the devil, when they come to know their own Creator and Master God, depart from him. \"And not at the last.\" Since he desired the things of others without judgment, later, being convicted, he will be shown to be foolish. \"Throne.\" You are, he says, O Lord, the one who holds the high throne of glory, and who provides both that we exist and that we remain.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":31,"ref":"p31","source":"\"Καταισχυνθήτωσαν.\" Οἱ Θεοῦ ἀφεστηκότες, φησὶ, μὴ ἐν οὐρανῷ, ἀλλ' ἐν γῇ γραφήτωσαν, κατὰ τὸ, Γῆ εἶ, καὶ εἰς γῆν ἀπελεύσῃ. \"Καὶ ἡμέραν.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, οὐδενὸς τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων. \"Μὴ γενηθῇς μοι.\" Ἐν τῇ ἐπιπόνῳ καὶ ἐταστικῇ τῆς κρίσεως ἡμέρᾳ μὴ ὡς ἀλλότριος καὶ ἀντίδικος ἀντικαταστῇς μοι, ὦ Κύριε, ἀλλὰ φειδόμενός μου συγχώρησόν μοι τὰ ἁμαρτήματα. \"Καὶ καταισχυνθήτωσαν.\" Τοὺς δαίμονας καταρᾶται· οὐ γὰρ βούλεται ὁ ἅγιος ἀνθρώπους τῇ διηνεκεῖ παραδοῦναι κολάσει· ὅτι καὶ τῆς κακίας εἰσὶν ἐφευρεταὶ καὶ ἐπαναγκασταὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις καὶ διδάσκαλοι. \"Τοῦ μὴ εἰσφέρειν.\" Μέτρον φανερὸν ἐβάδιζον· τὸ γὰρ εἰς μῆκος ὁδεύειν, ἔργον εἶναι ἐδόκει, καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσι, Σαββάτου ἔχων ὁδόν. \"Καὶ ἀνάψω.\" Ἀσβέστου πυρὸς μνημονεύσας ὁ λόγος, εἰς θεωρίας ἡμᾶς παραπέμπει, ὅτι τὴν μὴ ἀποτιθεμένην τὰ φορτία τῆς ἁμαρτίας ψυχὴν, πῦρ αἰώνιον δέχεται. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΙΗʹ. \"Καὶ πάλιν.\" Τὴν διὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος ἀνάπλασιν αἰνίττεται. \"Καθὼς ἤρεσεν.\" Οὐ καλὸν τὴν γνώμην, ἣ κακόν. Τοῦτο γὰρ τῆς προαιρέσεως, καὶ τοῦ αὐτεξουσίου· ἀμέλει καὶ ἁμαρτάνοντες μετανοεῖν κελεύονται· ἀλλὰ τοιόνδε τὴν πλάσιν. Διδασκόμεθα οὖν μὴ πολυπραγμονεῖν τοὺς ἀνεφίκτους τῆς δημιουργίας τρόπους. \"Καὶ πέρας λαλήσω.\" Ἐὰν ἀποφαίνωμαι. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πλάσσω.\" Κατὰ τὰς κακώσεις τὰς τιμωρητικὰς, φησὶν, καὶ ἐπειδήπερ οἱ ἄνθρωποι οὐ πάντων τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων αὐτῶν μέμνηνται. Πλάττω, φησίν· αὐτὰ ἐπ' ὄψεσιν ὑμῶν ἄγω, ἵνα διὰ τῶν τιμωριῶν ἀναμνησθῆτε, ὧν ἡμαρτήκατε. \"Καὶ εἶπαν.\" Ἀναιδῶς ἐφθέγξαντο λέγοντες, Ἰσχυρῶς ἐπιμενοῦμεν, οἷς πράττομεν.","english":"Let them be put to shame.\" Those who have revolted from God, he says, let them be written not in heaven but on earth, according to the saying, \"Earth you are, and to earth you shall depart.\" \"And a day.\" In place of, of none of human things. \"Do not become to me.\" On the painful and searching day of judgment, do not stand against me as a stranger and an adversary, O Lord, but sparing me, forgive me my sins. \"And let them be put to shame.\" He curses the demons; for the saint does not wish to hand men over to unceasing punishment; because they are both inventors of evil and compellers and teachers of men. \"So as not to bring in.\" I was walking a manifest measure; for to travel in length seemed to be a task, and this is what is in the Acts, \"having a Sabbath day's journey.\" \"And I will kindle.\" Having mentioned unquenchable fire, the word sends us on to contemplations, that the soul which does not lay aside the burdens of sin receives eternal fire. CHAPTER 18. \"And again.\" He hints at the remolding through baptism. \"As it pleased.\" The purpose is not good, which is evil. For this belongs to choice and free will; assuredly even those who sin are commanded to repent; but such is the formation. We are taught, then, not to busy ourselves with the unattainable modes of creation. \"And I will speak an end.\" If I declare. \"Behold, I am forming.\" According to the punitive chastisements, he says, and since men do not remember all their sins. I form, he says; I bring them before your eyes, so that through the punishments you may remember what you have sinned. \"And they said.\" They spoke shamelessly, saying, We will persist strongly in what we do.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":32,"ref":"p32","source":"Σὺ λέγεις, φησὶν, ὅτι Ἀποστραφέντες ἀπὸ τῶν καλῶν ἔργων, ἠκολουθήσαμεν τοῖς φαύλοις· ὀπίσω αὐτῶν τῶν φαύλων ἀκολουθήσομεν. \"Μὴ ἐκλείψωσιν.\" Πέτρα ὁ Χριστὸς, μαστοὶ δὲ ὁ τρόφιμος λόγος· χιὼν δὲ, ἡ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων κάθαρσις. Νοοῦνται δὲ μαστοὶ καὶ ἡ νέα, καὶ ἡ παλαιὰ διαθήκη. Μή τι οὖν ἐνέλειψα εὖ ποιῶν αὐτοῖς, καὶ διατρέφων αὐτῶν τὰς ψυχάς; \"Μὴ ἐκκλίνει.\" Τί δέ φησιν; Οὐκ εἰσὶν ἐν τῷδε τῷ βίῳ κλυδωνιζόμενοι, ὥσπερ ὕδωρ ὑπὸ βιαίου ἀνέμου φερόμενον; καὶ ὅμως οὔτε τὰς ἐμὰς εὐεργεσίας ἐλογίσαντο, οὔτε τοῦ παρόντος βίου τὸ ἄστατον· ἀλλ' οὕτως εἰσὶ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ βίῳ πορευόμενοι, καὶ τὴν ἀνώμαλον τοῦ βίου βαδίζοντες πορείαν ὡς νομίζοντες, ὅτι τὸν αἰῶνα ἐνταῦθα μενοῦσι. Διὸ καὶ ἀσθενήσουσιν, ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτῶν, εἰς μάτην θυμιῶντες Θεῷ μετὰ φαύλης γνώμης. Τρίβους δὲ καὶ σχοίνους, τὸ αὐτό φησιν, ἀντὶ τοῦ, τὰς ὁδούς. \"Καὶ σύριγμα.\" Ὅτι θαυμάζοντες ἢ χλευάζοντες οἱ ἄνθρωποι, συρίζειν πεφύκασιν. \"Ὡς ἄνεμον.\" Πάντας ὁμοίως θλίψω. Ὁ γὰρ καύσων","english":"You say, he says, that having turned away from good works we have followed after evil things; we will follow after those evil things. \"Let them not fail.\" The rock is Christ, and the breasts are the nourishing word; and the snow is the cleansing of sins. And the breasts are understood as both the new and the old covenant. Was I then at all lacking in doing good to them, and nourishing their souls? \"Let it not turn aside.\" But what does he say? Are they not in this life tossed about like water driven by a violent wind? And yet they neither reckoned my benefits, nor the instability of the present life; but they go on in this life in this way, and walk the uneven course of life as though thinking that they will remain here forever. Therefore they shall also become weak in their ways, burning incense to God in vain with an evil mind. And \"paths\" and \"cords,\" he says the same thing, in place of \"the ways.\" \"And a hissing.\" Because men, when they marvel or mock, are accustomed to hiss. \"As a wind.\" I will afflict all alike. For the scorching heat","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":33,"ref":"p33","source":"ἄνεμος ἐπίσης ἅπαντας καταφλέγει. Ἴδιον τῶν δορυαλώτων τὸ κύπτειν εἰς γῆν, ὡς αὐχένα δεικνύναι μᾶλλον ἢ πρόσωπον. Ἢ ὅτι τῶν ἀπεστραμμένων οὐ τὸ πρόσωπον, ἀλλὰ τὸν αὐχένα ὁρῶμεν, ὅπερ τοῦ Θεοῦ δηλοῖ τὴν ἀποστροφήν. \"Ὅτι οὐκ ἀπολεῖται.\" Ἐβουλεύσαντο λέγοντες· Ὁ Ἱερεμίας ἱερεύς ἐστι, καὶ ἀναγκαίως οἶδε τὸν νόμον, καὶ προφήτης ὢν, οἶδε τὸ ἐσόμενον· καὶ συνετὸς ὢν οἶδε τὸ δέον. Δεῦτε οὖν, φησὶν, ἐρεθίσωμεν αὐτὸν λόγοις, καὶ πάντως ἐρεῖ ἡμῖν τὰ ἐκβησόμενα. \"Καὶ τὴν κόλασιν.\" Ἄλλα διὰ γλώττης προφέροντες, τὴν κατ' ἐμοῦ ἀπώλειαν κρυπτῶς ἐμηχανῶντο. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΙΘʹ. \"Ἠχήσει τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ.\" Τουτέστι θορυβηθήσεται. Ἦχος γὰρ ἐμπίπτων ἀκοαῖς θόρυβον ἐμποιεῖ. \"Πολυάνδριον.\" Πολυάνδριον τάφος, καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἴσως κατεῤῥυηκὼς ἦν, οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ διάπτωσις, ὁ τάφος υἱοῦ Ἐννόμ. \"Καὶ σφάξω.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, τοὺς βουλευσαμένους τὴν κακὴν βουλήν. \"Ἐν τῇ περιοχῇ.\" Ἐν τῷ περισχεῖν τοὺς πολεμίους τὴν πόλιν· τουτέστι, πολιορκῆσαι. \"Καθὼς ὁ τόπος.\" Ἐν τοῖς διαπίπτουσι τόποις τὰς ἀκαθαρσίας ῥίπτειν πεφύκασιν. Οὕτως οὖν, φησὶ, παρασκευάσω γενέσθαι τὴν πόλιν, καὶ τὰς οἰκίας, ἐν αἷς εἰδωλολάτρουν. \"Ταφέθ.\" Τὸ Ταφὲθ, διάπτωσις ἑρμηνεύεται, ὅθεν ἐλθὼν ὁ προφήτης τὰ αὐτὰ προλέγει κακά· ἐσκλήρυναν δὲ τὸν τράχηλον, καθάπερ τὰ ὑποζύγια ἀνανεύοντα πρὸς ζυγόν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Κʹ. \"Καὶ ἤκουσε Πασχώρ.\" Πασχὼρ, ἱερεὺς ἦν οὗτος, καὶ πρῶτος τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν. \"Εἰς τὸν κατάῤῥακ.\" Ἐν ἰδιάζοντι τόπῳ τοῦ ναοῦ. \"Σὺν πᾶσι τοῖς φίλοις.\" Τοῖς συμπράττουσί σοι ἐν τῷ ψευδοπροφητεύειν.","english":"The wind burns all alike. It is characteristic of captives to bow down to the ground, so as to show the neck rather than the face. Or because we see the neck, not the face, of those who have turned away, which indicates God's turning away. \"Because it shall not perish.\" They took counsel, saying: Jeremiah is a priest, and necessarily knows the law, and being a prophet, he knows what is to come; and being prudent, he knows what is fitting. Come then, he says, let us provoke him with words, and he will certainly tell us the things that will come to pass. \"And the punishment.\" Uttering other things with the tongue, they were secretly contriving my destruction. CHAPTER 19. \"His ears shall ring.\" That is, he shall be thrown into confusion. For a sound falling upon the ears produces confusion. \"Polyandrion.\" Polyandrion is a tomb, and since perhaps it had collapsed, the ruin was thus called, the tomb of the son of Ennom. \"And I will slaughter.\" Instead of, those who devised the evil counsel. \"In the siege.\" In the enemies' surrounding the city; that is, besieging it. \"As the place.\" In places that have collapsed, they are accustomed to throw their impurities. Thus then, he says, I will prepare the city, and the houses in which they worshipped idols, to become. \"Topheth.\" Topheth is interpreted as a collapse, whence the prophet, coming, foretells the same evils; but they hardened their neck, like beasts of burden shying away from the yoke. CHAPTER 20. \"And Pashchur heard.\" This Pashchur was a priest, and the first of the false prophets. \"Into the cataract.\" In a particular place of the temple. \"With all your friends.\" With those who cooperate with you in false prophecy.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":34,"ref":"p34","source":"\"Ἠπάτησάς με.\" Ἔτι μὲν ἀπάτην καλεῖ [ἀπάτη καλὴ] ἡ ἀπὸ τοῦ χείρονος ἐπὶ τὸ κρεῖττον μεταβολή. Ὁ δὲ Ἀκύλας· Ἔθελξάς με, καὶ ἐθέλχθην, ἐξέδωκεν. Ὃ δὲ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν· Ὑπέσχου μοι, Κύριε, ὑπερασπίζειν μου, καὶ ἐᾷς με ἐν ταῖς τοιαύταις περιστάσεσιν. Φησὶ δὲ τοῦτο, οὐ Θεὸν αἰτιούμενος, ἀλλ' ὅπερ καὶ Παῦλός φησιν, Ὑπὲρ τούτου τρὶς τὸν Κύριον παρεκάλεσα. Ἢ καὶ οὕτως· Ἠπατήθην, νομίζων αὐτοὺς βελτίους γενέσθαι διὰ τῶν προῤῥήσεων τῶν σῶν, καὶ οὐ γεγόνασι. \"Ὅτι πικρῷ λόγῳ μου γελάσομαι ἀθεσίαν.\" Ἔστι γὰρ γέλως πικρὸς, ὑπὸ συνοχῆς ψυχῆς ἐκφερόμενος. Καὶ διὰ τοῦ γέλωτος τούτου, φησὶν, ὑποδείκνυμι, ὅτι ταλαιπωρῶ ὑπ' αὐτῶν. \"Οὐ μὴ λαλήσω ἔτι.\" Διὰ τὸ μηδένα εἶναι τὸν πειθόμενον. \"Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡς πῦρ.\" Ὁ ὑπὲρ τοῦ Θεοῦ ζῆλος. \"Ἐπισυστῆτε.\" Ταῦτα ἔλεγον οἱ ἐπιβουλεύοντες τῷ προφήτῃ, ὅτι Τηρήσατε αὐτοῦ πάντας τοὺς λό γους, εἰ σύμφωνοί εἰσιν· ἵνα ἐὰν εὑρεθῇ κατά τι αὐτῷ ἐναντιούμενος, ἀνέλωσι αὐτὸν ὡς ψεύστην. \"Διὰ τοῦτο ἐδίωξαν.\" Ὅτι Θεὸς μετ' ἐμοῦ ἐστι, καὶ ὅτι ἀτιμίας ἄξια πράττουσιν. \"Ἡ ἡμέρα, ἐν ᾗ ἔτεκέ με ἡ μήτηρ μου.\" Ὡς ὀλιγωρῶν ἐπὶ τὰ ἀνυπόστατα καὶ ἤδη παρῳχηκότα, τὰ μὴ δυνάμενα κατάραν δέξασθαι ἐκφέρει τοὺς λόγους· ἵνα δείξῃ μόνον τὴν συμβᾶσαν αὐτῷ περίστασιν. \"Ἐπικατάρατος.\" Φασὶν τὸν Ἰοῦλον ἐν οἰκείοις συγγράμμασιν εἰρηκέναι, ὡς Ἀνανίας ὁ ψευδοπροφήτης αὐτὸς πρῶτος εἶπε τῷ Χελκίᾳ τῷ πατρὶ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου, ὅτι ἐτέχθη αὐτῷ παιδίον ἄῤῥεν. Ἐνδίκως οὖν αὐτῷ καταρᾶται ὡς αἴτιον τῷ λαῷ γενόμενον ἀπωλείας. Πρὸς διάνοιαν δὲ οὕτω νοήσῃς· Ἄνθρωπον ἡ Γραφὴ πολλαχοῦ τὸν διάβολον καλεῖ.","english":"You deceived me.\" Here again he calls the change from the worse to the better a \"deception\" [a good deception]. Aquila renders it: \"You drew me, and I was drawn.\" What he means is this: You promised me, Lord, to shield me, and you leave me in such circumstances. He says this, not blaming God, but as Paul also says, \"Concerning this I pleaded with the Lord three times.\" Or also in this way: I was deceived, thinking that they would become better through your prophecies, and they have not become so. \"For I will laugh with my bitter word at their faithlessness.\" For there is a bitter laughter, brought forth from the constriction of the soul. And through this laughter, he says, I show that I am in misery because of them. \"I will not speak any more.\" Because there is no one who will be persuaded. \"And it became like fire.\" The zeal for God. \"Conspire.\" The ones plotting against the prophet were saying this: \"Guard all his words, whether they are consistent; so that if anything is found in him opposing them, they may destroy him as a liar.\" \"Therefore they persecuted.\" Because God is with me, and because they do things worthy of dishonor. \"The day on which my mother bore me.\" As one who despises things that are unstable and already past, he brings forth words about things that cannot receive a curse, so as to show only the circumstance that befell him. \"Accursed.\" They say that Iulus stated in his own writings that Ananias the false prophet himself first said to Hilkiah, the father of Jeremiah, that a male child had been born to him. Justly, therefore, he curses him as having become the cause of destruction for the people. And as for the meaning, understand it thus: Scripture in many places calls the devil a \"man.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":35,"ref":"p35","source":"Ἐπικατάρατος οὖν, φησὶν, ἔστω ὁ διάβολος, ὃς εἴρηκεν τῷ Πατρὶ ἡμῶν τῷ Θεῷ, Ἰδοὺ ἄρσεν ἐστὶν ὁ ἄνθρωπος, τουτέστιν ἀνδρεῖος· δὸς ἵνα πειράσω αὐτόν. \"Ἀκουσάτω κραῦγος.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὸ ῥητὸν, ταχύ· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, Πτοηθείη, φησὶν, ὁ διάβολος ἐν τῇ ἐπιφανείᾳ, καὶ ἐν τῇ ἀνατολῇ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ ἡλίου Ἰησοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν. \"Καὶ ἀλαλαγμοῦ.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὸ ῥητὸν, Ἔτι, φησὶν, εὐθυνούμενος ὁ Ἀνανίας ἀκούσει τῆς φωνῆς τῶν πολεμίων· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, Ἐν μεσημβρίᾳ σταυροῦται ὁ Κύριος· ὅτε καὶ τελείως ἡττήθη ὁ διάβολος· ἀλαλαγμὸς γὰρ, βοὴ κατὰ πεπτωκότων πολεμίων. \"Ὅτι οὐκ ἀπέκτεινέ με.\" Τοῦτο ποιεῖν Ἀνανίας οὐκ ἠδύνατο· ὡς δικαιότερον εἰς θεωρίαν ἰδεῖν. Φησὶν οὖν, ὅτι Οὐκ ἀνέκοψε τὴν ὁρμὴν τῆς προαιρέσεως, πρὶν τὴν ἐπὶ τὸ φαῦλον δέξασθαι τροπὴν, φανερώσας μοι τὴν κακίαν τῆς ἁμαρτίας, καὶ μὴ μετὰ δικαιωμάτων καὶ ἐπικρύψεως\n\nταύτην μοι ἐγκατασπείρας. \"Καὶ ἐγένετό μοι ἡ μήτηρ μου.\" Ἵνα τί, φησὶν, ἐν αὐτῇ προθέσει ἐναπέμεινε, καὶ διελύθη ὁ λογισμὸς, καὶ μὴ εἰς ἔργον ἤνεγκα τὸ βούλημα; \"Ἵνα τί τοῦτο; Ἐξῆλθον.\" Ἡ ἁμαρτία τῶν πόνων καὶ τῶν μόχθων αἰτία γέγονε· ποιεῖ δὲ καὶ μετάμελον τῷ ἁμαρτάνοντι. Ὀδύρεται οὖν τὴν τροπὴν ὁ λόγος. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΑʹ. \"Ὅτε ἀπέστειλε πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ βασιλεὺς Σεδεκίας.\" Ὁ Σεδεκίας αἰχμάλωτος γεγονὼς ὑπὸ τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου, πάλιν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κατεστάθη βασιλεύειν τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ὅρκους αὐτῷ δεδωκὼς, μὴ ἀθετήσειν αὐτόν· παραβάντος δὲ αὐτοῦ τὰς συνθήκας, πάλιν ἐπιστρατεύει ὁ Βαβυλώνιος.","english":"Therefore, he says, let the devil be accursed, who said to our Father, God, \"Behold, the man is male,\" that is, manly; grant that I may tempt him. \"Let the cry be heard.\" As to the literal sense, quickly; but as to the spiritual sense, he says, let the devil be terrified at the manifestation, and at the rising of the true sun, Jesus our Lord. \"And of the alarm.\" As to the literal sense, he says, Ananias, still being corrected, will hear the voice of the enemies; but as to the spiritual sense, the Lord is crucified at midday, when the devil was also completely defeated; for an alarm is a shout against fallen enemies. \"Because he did not kill me.\" Ananias was not able to do this; so it is more fitting to see it in the spiritual sense. He says, then, that He did not check the impulse of the will before it received the turning toward evil, having made clear to me the wickedness of sin, and not having sown it in me with justifications and concealment. \"And my mother became to me.\" Why, he says, did the purpose remain in it, and the reasoning was dissolved, and I did not bring the will to action? \"Why this? I went forth.\" Sin has become the cause of toils and labors; and it also brings regret to the one who sins. The word therefore laments the turning. CHAPTER 21. \"When King Zedekiah sent to him.\" Zedekiah, having become a captive under the Babylonian, was again appointed by him to reign over Jerusalem, having given him oaths that he would not break faith with him; but when he transgressed the agreements, the Babylonian again made war.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":36,"ref":"p36","source":"\"Καὶ ὁ ἐμπορευόμενος.\" Ὡς μὴ ἀντιταττόμενος τῷ θείῳ κρίματι, τῷ δικαιώσαντι παραδοθῆναι αὐτοὺς τοῖς Βαβυλωνίοις. \"Καὶ ἔσται ἡ ψυχή.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Κερδανεῖ τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ.\" \"Κρίνατε πρωΐ.\" Τὸ πρωῒ, ἀντὶ τοῦ, ταχέως μετανοήσατε. \"Καὶ καυθήσεται.\" Τὴν τροφήν φησιν, εἶλε γὰρ καὶ αὐτὴν ὁ Βαβυλώνιος. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΒʹ. \"Καὶ ἐπάξω ἐπὶ σέ.\" Ἐπειδὴ κέδρων ἑξῆς μνημονεύει, σημαίνων τοὺς ἐν ὑπεροχῇ, ἀναγκαίως καὶ πέλεκυν εἶπεν. \"Ὠκοδόμησας.\" Ὑπερῷα νόει, τὰ ὑψώματα, τὰ ἐπαιρόμενα κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ. Ὁ ὑφαίνων οὖν, φησὶν, ἑαυτῷ ψευδοδοξίας δόγματα. \"Μὴ βασιλεύσεις.\" Ἐζήλωσας, φησὶ, τὸν πατέρα σου Ἄχαζ, καὶ ἐσπούδασας νικῆσαι αὐτὸν ἐν ἀσεβείᾳ. \"Ταφὴν ὅνου ταφήσεται.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Τάφος αὐτῷ γενήσονται αἱ τῶν σαρκοφάγων ὀρνίθων καὶ κυνῶν γαστέρες· ἵνα εἴποι, ὅτι ὁ τάφος παραῤῥιφήσεται. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ταφὴν ὄνου θάπτεται ὁ ἀλογίᾳ συζῶν καὶ ταύτῃ συναποθνήσκων. \"Ὅτι συνετρίβησαν.\" Ἐραστὰς τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμνοήσεις μὲν καὶ τοὺς δαίμονας, νοήσεις δὲ καὶ τοὺς ψευδοπροφήτας, οἵτινες δοκοῦντες αὐτῆς ἐρᾷν, ἠπάτων αὐτήν. \"Ἐλάλησα πρὸς σέ.\" Οἱ ἀληθεῖς προφῆται, ὧν οὐκ ἤκουσας λεγόντων σοι τὰ σὰ παραπτώματα. \"Πάντας τοὺς ποιμένας σου ποιμανεῖ ἄνεμος.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, εἰς διασκορπισμὸν ἔσονται. \"Κατοικοῦσα ἐν τῷ Λιβάνῳ.\" Ἐν τῇ γῇ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας. \"Ἐννοσσεύουσα ἐν ταῖς κέδροις.\" Πιστεύουσα, καὶ καταφεύγουσα τοῖς παρὰ σοὶ δυνατοῖς.","english":"And the one trading.\" As not opposing the divine judgment, which justified their being handed over to the Babylonians. \"And his soul shall be.\" Instead of, He shall gain his soul. \"Judge in the morning.\" The morning, instead of, repent quickly. \"And it shall be burned.\" He means the food, for the Babylonian took that too. CHAPTER 22. \"And I will bring upon you.\" Since he mentions cedars next, signifying those in high position, he necessarily also mentioned the axe. \"You have built.\" Understand upper chambers, the heights, the things lifted up against the knowledge of God. The one weaving, then, he says, for himself the doctrines of false opinion. \"Shall you reign.\" You emulated, he says, your father Ahaz, and you strove to surpass him in impiety. \"With the burial of a donkey shall he be buried.\" Instead of, The bellies of flesh-eating birds and dogs shall become his tomb; that he might say that the tomb will be cast aside. But as to the meaning, with the burial of a donkey is buried the one who lives in irrationality and dies together with it. \"Because they were crushed.\" You will understand the lovers of Jerusalem to be both the demons, and you will understand also the false prophets, who, seeming to love her, deceived her. \"I spoke to you.\" The true prophets, whose words you did not hear telling you your own transgressions. \"All your shepherds the wind shall shepherd.\" Instead of, they shall be scattered. \"Dwelling in Lebanon.\" In the land of promise. \"Nesting in the cedars.\" Trusting, and taking refuge in the powerful among you.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":37,"ref":"p37","source":"\"Ζῶ ἐγὼ, λέγει Κύριος.\" Ἐὰν οὕτως ὑποκρινόμενος ἀπαρτήσῃ ἑαυτὸν εἰς θεοσέβειαν, καὶ ἀγαθὰς ἐργάσηται πράξεις, τοῦτο γάρ ἐστι τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς χειρὸς τῆς δεξιᾶς μου, ἐγὼ ὁ Θεὸς εἰδὼς, ὅτι τὸν καιρὸν ὑποκρίνεται, οὐ φείσομαι αὐτοῦ. Ἀποσφράγισμα δὲ, δακτύλιον φησί. Δακτύλιον δὲ ἐν χειρὶ Θεοῦ, πρᾶξις ἀγαθὴ κακῶν ἀμέτοχος. Ἢ καὶ οὕτως· Ἐὰν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀναβῇ φεύγων, ὅπερ ἀμήχανον, ἐκεῖθεν αὐτὸν ἐκσπάσας παραδώσω τοῖς πολεμίοις. \"Γῆ, γῆ, ἄκουσον\" Τὴν γῆν μαρτύρεται, ἐφ' ἢν τὰς ἀδικίας ἐποιεῖτο. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΓʹ. \"Καὶ ἐξώσατε.\" Ἐκ τῆς θεοσεβοῦς πολιτείας. \"Καὶ καταστήσω.\" Εἰς τὸ πάλιν τὰ θεῖα δρέπεσθαι δόγματα. \"Καὶ ἀναστήσω.\" Τοὺς τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προέδρους. \"Οὐδὲ πτοηθήσονται.\" Ἰουδαῖοι οὐδὲν ἔχουσι πρὸς τοῦτο λέγειν. Μετὰ γὰρ τὴν ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος ἐπάνοδον τελείως τῆς γῆς μετανάσται γεγόνασιν. Ἀμφίβολος [ἀναμφίβολος] οὖν αὕτη ἡ προφητεία περὶ Χριστοῦ. \"Ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται.\" Τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν, τὸν πρὸ αἰώνων ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς, καὶ ἐκ Δαβὶδ κατὰ σάρκα. \"Ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις... σωθήσεται.\" Ἰούδας, ὁ κατὰ τὸ κρυπτὸν Ἰουδαῖος· ὁ τὴν ἐν πνεύματι λαμβάνων περιτομὴν, Ἰσραὴλ ὁ πνευματικὸς, ὁ διὰ Χριστὸν νοῦν κτησάμενος ὁρῶντα Θεόν. \"Ἰωσεδέκ.\" Ἰωσεδὲκ ἑρμηνεύεται, Ἰωὰ δίκαιος,τουτέστι δικαιοσύνη ἡμῶν· ἢ Ἰωὰ, ὢν καὶ ἐσόμενος, Ἰωσεδέκ· καὶ διὰ τὴν ὁμωνυμίαν υἱοῦ τοῦ Ἰωσεδὲκ, τοῦ ἡγησαμένου τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας. Πολλάκις γὰρ ἡ Γραφὴ καὶ ἀπὸ ὀνομάτων τὰ πράγματα κρίνει· ὡς ἐπὶ τοῦ Μελχισεδὲκ, ὃς ἑρμηνεύεται βασιλεὺς εἰρήνης.","english":"As I live, says the Lord.\" If a man, while playing the hypocrite, separates himself to godliness and performs good deeds—for this is what is meant by \"upon my right hand\"—I, God, who know that he is only feigning for a time, will not spare him. And \"the seal\" means the ring. And the ring in God's hand is a good deed, having no share in evils. Or also thus: If he ascends into heaven in flight—which is impossible—I will drag him out from there and hand him over to his enemies. \"Earth, earth, hear.\" He calls the earth to witness, upon which they were committing their injustices. CHAPTER 23. \"And you shall thrust out.\" From the godly way of life. \"And I will establish.\" So as to pluck the divine doctrines again. \"And I will raise up.\" The presidents of the churches. \"And they shall not be terrified.\" The Jews have nothing to say to this. For after the return from Babylon they became completely strangers to the land. This prophecy, then, is unambiguous concerning Christ. \"Behold, the days are coming.\" Our Lord Jesus Christ, who is from the Father before the ages, and from David according to the flesh. \"In those days... shall be saved.\" Judah, the Jew in secret; the one who receives circumcision in the spirit; Israel, the spiritual one, who through Christ has acquired a mind that sees God. \"Josedek.\" Josedek is interpreted, Joa the righteous, that is, our righteousness; or Joa, who is and who shall be, Josedek; and because of the identity of name, of the son of Josedek, who led the sons of Israel from the captivity. For Scripture often judges matters even from names; as in the case of Melchizedek, which is interpreted king of peace.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":38,"ref":"p38","source":"Ἐν τοῖς προφήταις ἐπειδὴ καὶ προφήτης ἠξίωσε κληθῆναι, καθὸ γέγονεν ἅνθρωπος, ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Υἱὸς, ὁ τῶν προφητῶν Δεσπότης, κατὰ τὸν διὰ Μωσέως χρησμὸν λέγοντα, Προφήτην ὑμῖν ἀναστήσει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν ὡς ἐμέ· κατὰ πάντα αὐτοῦ ἀκούσεσθε. \"Συνετρίβη ἡ καρδία μου.\" Ἐπτοήθη ὁ προφήτης, ἐν αἰνίγματι τὸ κατὰ Χριστὸν θεωρήσας μυστήριον. \"Ὅτι ἀπὸ προσώπου.\" Τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν καὶ ψευδοδιδασκάλων. \"Ἐξηράνθησαν.\" Αἱ διδασκαλίαι, δι'\n\nὧν τὰ λογικὰ τρέφονται ποίμνια. \"Καὶ ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτῶν.\" Οὐ τοσοῦτον, φησὶν, ἴσχυσαν, ὅσον καὶ ἐβουλεύσαντο. Ἐβούλοντο γὰρ εἰ ἠδύναντο καὶ χείρονα ποιεῖν. \"Καὶ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ μου.\" Ἐν γὰρ τῷ θείῳ ναῷ εἴδωλα ἀπέθεντο, ὡς καὶ Ἰεζεκιὴλ ἐθεώρησεν. \"Διὰ τοῦτο γενέσθω ἡ ὁδὸς αὐτῶν.\" Ἐπειδὴ τοῦ φωτὸς ἔξω ἑαυτοὺς κατέστησαν, ἐν σκοτίᾳ καὶ γνόφῳ πορεύονται. \"Ὅτι ματαιοῦσιν ἑαυτοῦ ὅρασιν;\" Τὰς ματαίας καὶ δαιμονικὰς ὁράσεις ὡς ἀληθεῖς προσφέρουσι. \"Ὅτι τίς ἔσται ἐν ὑποστήματι;\" Οὐ μόνον, φησὶ, ψευδῆ προεφήτευον, ἀλλὰ καὶ διαβάλλοντες τοὺς ἀληθεῖς προφήτας, ἔλεγον· Ψεύδονται. Τίς γὰρ ἐπλησίασε τῷ Θεῷ, ἵνα καὶ ἀκούσῃ τῶν λόγων αὐτοῦ; \"Καὶ ἕως ἂν στήσῃ αὐτὸ ἀπὸ ἐγχειρήματος.\" Ἕως ἂν, φησὶν, ὃ προεχειρίσατο βούλευμα ὁ Θεὸς, τουτέστιν, ὃ ἠθέλησεν, εἰς ἔργον ἀγάγῃ. \"Καὶ εἰ ἔστησαν ἐν τῇ ὑποστάσει μου.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Εἰ ἐπλησίασάν μοι· ἢ οὕτως· Εἰ τὴν ὑπόστασιν τῆς προφητείας παρ' ἐμοῦ ἔσχον, τουτέστι, εἰ παρ' ἐμοῦ ἦσαν σοφισθέντες, τὸν λαόν μου ἀπέστρεφον ἂν ἀπὸ τῶν πονηρῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων αὐτῶν.","english":"Among the prophets, since he was also deemed worthy to be called a prophet, insofar as the Son of God, the Lord of the prophets, became man, according to the oracle given through Moses, which says, \"The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me; you shall listen to him in all things.\" \"My heart is crushed.\" The prophet was terrified, having contemplated in a riddle the mystery concerning Christ. \"Because from the face.\" Of the false prophets and false teachers. \"They were dried up.\" The teachings, by which the rational flocks are nourished. \"And their strength.\" They were not, he says, as strong as they also intended. For they wished, if they could, to do even worse things. \"And in my house.\" For in the divine temple they set up idols, as Ezekiel also beheld. \"Therefore let their way be.\" Since they set themselves outside the light, they walk in darkness and gloom. \"Because they make their vision vain?\" They present vain and demonic visions as true. \"Because who will be in substance?\" Not only, he says, were they prophesying falsely, but also, slandering the true prophets, they said: They lie. For who has drawn near to God, so as also to hear his words? \"And until he establishes it from the undertaking.\" Until, he says, God brings to fulfillment the counsel he undertook, that is, what he willed. \"And if they had stood in my substance.\" In place of: If they had drawn near to me; or thus: If they had received the substance of prophecy from me, that is, if they had been made wise by me, they would have turned my people away from their evil practices.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":39,"ref":"p39","source":"\"Ὁ προφήτης ἐν ᾧ τὸ ἐνύπνιόν ἐστι.\" Ἐπειδή εἰσι καὶ ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐνύπνια, δεῖγμα πάλιν ποιεῖται τῶν ψευδῶν καὶ ἀληθινῶν ἐνυπνίων τὰ ἀποτελέσματα, ὅτι τὰ μὲν ἐκ Θεοῦ ἐνύπνια, πάντως ἀληθεύει, τὰ δὲ ἐκ δαιμόνων, οὐ πάντως. Πρὸς ἑκατέρους οὖν τοὺς προφήτας ἁρμόζει ὁ λόγος, τούς τε ἀληθεῖς, καὶ ψευδεῖς. \"Τί τὸ ἄχυρον πρὸς τὸν σῖτον;\" Ἄχυρον τροφὴ πυρὸς, τῶν ψευδοπροφητῶν ὁ λόγος· σῖτος δὲ ἀνθρώπῳ ζωτικὴν χαρίζεται δύναμιν, ὁ λόγος τοῦ ἀληθοῦς προφήτου. Ποία γὰρ κοινωνία τῷ ψεύδει πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν; \"Οὐκ ἰδοὺ οἱ λόγοι.\" Τουτέστιν, ἐνεργεῖς καὶ δυνατοί. \"Καὶ νυστάζοντας νυσταγμὸν αὐτῶν.\" Τουτέστι, νήψεως μὴ μετέχοντες. \"Τί τὸ λῆμμα Κυρίου.\" Λῆμμα ὀργὴ μετὰ θυμοῦ, ἐκ τοῦ τὸν ἰσχυρότερον λαβόντα τὸν ἀσθενέστερον καταῤῥηγνύναι. Καλεῖται δὲ λῆμμα, καὶ ὁ χρηματισμός. \"Καὶ ἐκδικήσω τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐκεῖνον.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, τιμωρήσομαι, κεῖται. \"Καὶ λῆμμα Κυρίου.\" Ἡ ὀργὴ, φησὶ, τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐκ τοῦ αὐτῶν στόματος κατασκευάζεται· ὁ γὰρ Θεὸς ἀόργητός ἐστιν, ἐπεὶ καὶ ἀπαθής· διὰ τοῦτο κελεύει, μὴ λέγεσθαι λῆμμα Κυρίου. Οὐ γὰρ Θεὸς ὀργίζεται, ἀλλ' ἑαυτοῖς τὴν ὀργὴν κατασκευάζομεν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΔʹ. \"Ἔδειξέ μοι Κύριος δύο καλάθους.\" Οἰκειότερον ἐπὶ τῆς τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐλευθερίας [ἴσ. ἐλεύσεως] νοήσεις τοῦτο. \"Καὶ στηριῶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς.\" Σημείωσαι, ὅτι τὸ στηρίζειν τὸν Θεὸν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς, ἐπὶ ἀμφοτέρων κεῖται, ἀγαθοῦ καὶ κακοῦ· καὶ γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ἀνωτέρω εἶπε· Στηριῶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου εἰς κακά. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΕʹ.","english":"The prophet in whom is the dream.\" Since there are also dreams from God, he again makes a demonstration of false and true dreams by their outcomes, because dreams from God are altogether true, but those from demons are not altogether so. The statement therefore fits both kinds of prophets, the true and the false. \"What is the chaff to the wheat?\" Chaff is food for fire—the word of the false prophets; but wheat grants vital strength to man—the word of the true prophet. For what fellowship has falsehood with truth? \"Behold, are not my words.\" That is, effective and powerful. \"And slumbering with their own slumber.\" That is, not partaking of watchfulness. \"What is the burden of the Lord.\" A burden is wrath with anger, from the stronger seizing and crushing the weaker. But the oracle is also called a burden. \"And I will avenge that man.\" It stands for, I will punish. \"And the burden of the Lord.\" The wrath, he says, is fashioned for the man from their own mouth; for God is without wrath, since he is also impassible; therefore he commands that \"the burden of the Lord\" not be spoken. For God does not become angry, but we fashion wrath for ourselves. CHAPTER 24. \"The Lord showed me two baskets.\" You would understand this more fittingly of the freedom [or: coming] of Christ. \"And I will set my eyes.\" Note that God's setting his eyes is said of both good and evil; for in the passages above he said: I will set my eyes upon them for evil. CHAPTER 25.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":40,"ref":"p40","source":"\"Ἐν τρισκαιδεκάτῳ ἔτει Ἰωσία.\" Εἴκοσι καὶ τρία ἔτη, φησὶ, σπουδαίως διαμαρτύρομαι ὑμᾶς ἀπέχεσθαι τῆς εἰδωλολατρείας, καὶ οὐκ ἠκούσατε· διὸ παραδώσω ὑμᾶς τοῖς Χαλδαίοις ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη. \"Καὶ ἐλάλησα πρὸς ὑμᾶς ὀρθρίζων.\" Τὸ ὀρθρίζων, ἀντὶ τοῦ, μετὰ σπουδῆς· ὡς ἤδη λοιπὸν τοῦ χρόνου, τῆς ὀργῆς πλησιάζοντος. \"Πατριὰν ἀπὸ Βοῤῥᾶ.\" Τοὺς Βαβυλωνίους. \"Ὀσμὴν μύρου.\" Τὸν τέλειον τῆς λαμπρότητος αὐτῶν, καὶ πάσης χαρᾶς καὶ εὐημερίας ἀφανισμὸν ἐδήλωσεν. \"Οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος... λάβε τὸ ποτήριον.\" Τὸ ποτήριον ἐπὶ ἐκδικήσεως κεῖται. \"Καὶ ἐπότισα.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ πληροφορίαν ἐδεξάμην, ὅτι πάντως ἔσται αὐτοῖς ἡ τιμωρία. \"Καὶ πάντα περικεκαρμένον κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ.\" Τουτέστι, τοὺς μόρφωσιν εὐσεβείας ἔχοντας τοῖς δὲ οἰκείοις θελήμασι πορευομένους. \"Καὶ πάντας τοὺς συμμίκτους.\" Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν, τοὺς μὴ οἰκείους τῆς πίστεως νόει. \"Καὶ ἔσται, ὅταν μὴ βούλωνται δέξασθαι τὸ ποτήριον.\" Ἐπειδή εἰσί τινες μὴ εὐχαρίστως δεχόμενοι τὴν θείαν παιδείαν. \"Ὅτι ἐν πόλει.\" Τὴν πόλιν, φησὶν, ἐφ' ἣν ὠνομάσθη τὸ ὅνομά μου, ἁμαρτάνουσαν τιμωροῦμαι· πόσῳ μᾶλλον τοὺς μὴ εἰδότας με; \"Ὑπὸ τοῦ οἰκητηρίου.\" Δῆλον δὲ, ὅτι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ. \"Ἐπὶ τοῦ τόπου.\" Ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ἑαυτοῦ, ᾧ χρηματίζει. Οἱ ἄξιοι, φησὶ, τοῦ σώζεσθαι, οἷς ἂν χρηματίσῃ Θεὸς, ἀποκριθήσονται, παρακαλοῦντες ἐνδο θῆναι αὐτοῖς, ἕως ὅτε τελείως καρποφορήσωσι· τρυγῶντας γάρ φησι τοὺς καρποφοροῦντας. \"Ἥκει ὄλεθρος.\" Οὐ γὰρ","english":"In the thirteenth year of Josiah.\" Twenty-three years, he says, I earnestly testified that you should abstain from idolatry, and you did not listen; therefore I will hand you over to the Chaldeans for seventy years. \"And I spoke to you, rising early.\" \"Rising early\" is used in place of \"with earnestness,\" since the time was already at hand, with wrath drawing near. \"A family from the north.\" The Babylonians. \"The scent of ointment.\" He indicated the complete destruction of their splendor and of all joy and prosperity. \"Thus says the Lord... take the cup.\" The cup is used in reference to vengeance. \"And I made them drink.\" In place of \"I received full assurance that the punishment will certainly come upon them.\" \"And every one shorn round about before his face.\" That is, those who have the outward form of piety but walk according to their own wills. \"And all the mixed peoples.\" After the historical sense, understand those who are not of the faith. \"And it shall be, when they refuse to receive the cup.\" Since there are some who do not receive divine discipline with gratitude. \"For in the city.\" The city, he says, upon which my name was called, I punish when it sins; how much more those who do not know me? \"From the dwelling place.\" It is clear that this means heaven. \"In the place.\" In his own place, where he gives oracles. Those worthy to be saved, he says, to whomever God gives oracles, will answer, entreating that it be granted to them until they bear fruit perfectly; for he calls those who bear fruit \"grape-gatherers.\" \"Destruction has come.\" For not","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":41,"ref":"p41","source":"συμπαραλαμβάνονται οἱ ἅγιοι τῇ πανωλεθρίᾳ. Ταῦτα δὲ ἀρμόζει νοεῖν καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς καθολικῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ κρίσεως. \"Ἰδοὺ κακά.\" Μετὰ τὰ ἐπὶ τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου γεγονότα, καὶ τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς συντελείας φησίν· Ἐγερθήσεται γὰρ ἔθνος ἐπὶ ἔθνος. \"Καὶ λαίλαψ.\" Σύγχυσις μεγάλη καὶ ταραχὴ ἐπ' ἐσχάτοις τοῖς τοῦ αἰῶνος καιροῖς. \"Καὶ ἔσονται.\" Μετὰ τὸ αἰσθητὸν, καὶ τοὺς ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας τετραυματισμένους νόει. Ἀλαλάξατε.\" Ἀλαλαγμὸν ἐνταῦθα οὐκ ἐπὶ νίκῃ τῶν πολεμίων, ἀλλ' ἐπὶ ταῖς οἰμωγαῖς φησιν. Ποιμένες δὲ οἱ ἡγούμενοι τοῦ λαοῦ. \"Οἱ κριοὶ τῶν.\" Οἱ κατ' ἐξοχὴν ἐν τῷ λαῷ. \"Καὶ πεσεῖσθε.\" Ἐπειδὴ ὁ σφάζων τὸ εὐτραφὲς σφάξει. \"Ὅτι ὠλόθρει.\" Ἐπὶ μὲν Ἰουδαίων τὰς θυσίας,καὶ πάντα τὰ ἄλλα νόμιμα· ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ καθόλου τὰς διαγωγὰς αὐτῶν. \"Ἐγκατέλιπεν.\" Ἐπὶ μὲν Ἰουδαίων ὁ Κύριοςτὸν ἑαυτοῦ ναὸν καταλέλοιπεν· ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς συντελείας, ὡς λέων καταλελοιπὼς κατάλυμα, οὕτως συγχωρεῖται ὁ Σατανᾶς ἐξελθεῖν κατὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. \"Ὅτι ἐγενήθη.\" Ἐπειδὴ οἱ ἄνθρωποι κτηνώδεις γεγόνασιν, ὁ δὲ Σατανᾶς ἐστι θηρίον, ὡς ἐν ἐρήμῳ συγχωροῦνται ἅμα νέμεσθαι, διὰ τὸ ψυγῆναι τὴν ἀγάπην. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Κ ʹ. \"Οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος· Στῆθι ἐν αὐλῇ οἵκου Κυρίου.\" Διαμαρτύρασθαι κελεύει Θεὸς τῷ προφήτῃ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους, ἐπὶ τῷ φυλάττειν τὰ θεῖα νόμιμα, ἵνα μὴ ἐπέλθῃ αὐτοῖς ἡ ὀργή. \"Καὶ τὴν πόλιν δώσω εἰς κατάραν.\" Ἵνα ᾖ ἐπικατάρατος, καὶ τοὺς αὐτῶν δὲ ἐχθροὺς οἱ ἄνθρωποι ἵνα ἔχωνται [εὔχωνται] τὰ ὅμοια παθεῖν. \"Καὶ ἤκουσαν.\" Ὁρᾷς, πῶς ἀγριαίνουσι καὶ ἀγανακτοῦσι; καὶ μὴν δι' αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἀναιρεθῆναι οὐκ ἐχρῆν. Εἰ γὰρ Θεὸς ἐπέταξε, πεισθῆναι δεῖ.","english":"The saints are taken away together in the utter destruction. These things it is fitting to understand also of God's universal judgment. \"Behold, evils.\" After the events that took place under the Babylonian, he speaks also of the events at the consummation; for nation shall rise against nation. \"And a whirlwind.\" A great confusion and disturbance in the last times of the age. \"And they shall be.\" After the sensible meaning, understand also those wounded by sin. \"Shout.\" Here he speaks of a shout not over the victory of the enemies, but over their wailings. And the shepherds are the leaders of the people. \"The rams of.\" Those who are preeminent among the people. \"And you shall fall.\" Since the slaughterer will slaughter the well-fed. \"For it has destroyed.\" In the case of the Jews, the sacrifices and all the other legal ordinances; in the case of the whole, their ways of life. \"He has forsaken.\" In the case of the Jews, the Lord has forsaken his own temple; in the case of the consummation, as a lion has forsaken its den, so Satan is permitted to go out against men. \"For it has become.\" Since men have become beast-like, and Satan is a beast, they are permitted to graze together as in a desert, because love has grown cold. CHAPTER 20. \"Thus says the Lord: Stand in the court of the house of the Lord.\" God commands the prophet to testify to the Jews concerning the keeping of the divine ordinances, so that the wrath may not come upon them. \"And I will give the city for a curse.\" That it may be accursed, and that men may pray to suffer the same things as their enemies. \"And they heard.\" Do you see how they grow savage and are indignant? And yet for this very reason they ought not to have been destroyed. For if God commanded, one must be persuaded.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":42,"ref":"p42","source":"Τοῦτο ὑμᾶς λυπεῖ τὸ ῥῆμα, τὸ δὲ τὸν τοῦ ναοῦ τιμιώτερον ἐνυβρίζειν, οὐ πονηρὸν, οὐκ ἀσεβές; Πάνυ αὐτοὺς ἔδακνε τὸ ῥηθέν. \"Καὶ ἐξεκκλησιάσθη.\" Συνήχθη πᾶς ὁ λαὸς τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τῆς γῆς τῆς περιχώρου. \"Καὶ τὸ ὄρος.\" Τὸ ὄρος, ἐφ' ᾧ κεῖται ὁ ναὸς, εἰς ἐρήμωσιν. \"Πλὴν χεὶρ Ἀχεικάμ.\" Ἀχεικὰμ εἷς ἦν οὗτος τῶν δυνατῶν, προϊστάμενος Ἱερεμίου. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΖʹ. \"Οὕτως εἷπε Κύριος· Ποίησον σεαυτῷ δεσμούς.\" Κελεύει ὁ Θεὸς τῷ προφήτῃ κλοιοὺς ἐμβαλεῖν εἰς τὸν τράχηλον ἑαυτοῦ, καὶ πέμψαι τούτους πρὸς τοὺς βασιλεῖς, ὧν μέμνηται. \"Καὶ τὰ θηρία.\" Θηρία ἐνταῦθα ἀγροῦ, τὰ πρὸς γεωργίαν ἐπιτήδεια κτήνη φησίν. \"Εἰ προφῆταί εἰσι.\" Εἰ μὲν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ λόγος, οὕτω νόησον· Εἰ ἐγὼ αὐτοὺς ἀπέστειλα, δυνηθῶσι διαφυγεῖν με, φύγωσι τὴν ὀργήν· εἰ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ προφήτου ὁ λόγος, Ἔλθωσι, φησὶ, καὶ διακριθῶσι μετ' ἐμοῦ. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΗʹ. \"Ἀληθῶς οὕτω ποιήσαι Κύριος.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Γένοιτο οὕτως, ὡς σὺ φὴς, γενέσθω. \"Ἐπιγνώσονται.\" Τουτέστι, τὸ πέρας τῶν πραγμάτων δείξει τῶν λόγων τὴν ἀλήθειαν. \"Βάδιζε καὶ εἰπὸν πρὸς Ἀνανίαν.\" Ἐπ' ἐλέγχῳ τῆς ἀσεβείας ὑπηρετεῖ τῷ προστάττοντι, μηδένα κίνδυνον ὑφορώμενος. Οὐδεὶς γὰρ λόγος τῆς προσκαίρου τοῖς ἁγίοις ζωῆς, ὅταν κελεύσῃ Θεός· τὸν δὲ Θεὸν εἰς δίκην ἐκίνησεν Ἀνανίας ἐναντιούμενος. Ἕτερα δὲ λέγειν ὁ προφήτης παρὰ τὰ προσταχθέντα δοκεῖ. Ἰσοδυναμοῦντα λέγων ἐσύστερον ὁ Πέτρος, Ἀνανία, φησὶ, διατί ἐπλήρωσεν ὁ Σατανᾶς τὴν καρδίαν σου ψεύσασθαι τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἄγιον; Ὅθεν σὺν τῷ ἐλέγχῳ, ἡ τῆς κολάσεως ἀπειλὴ, τὸ δίκαιον τῆς τιμωρίας ἐμφαίνουσα. Ἐκ Θεοῦ τοίνυν οἱ παρὰ τοῦ προφήτου λόγοι·","english":"Does this word grieve you, but to insult what is more honorable than the temple—is that not evil, is it not impious? What was said stung them deeply. \"And they were assembled.\" All the people of the elders of the land round about were gathered together. \"And the mountain.\" The mountain on which the temple lies, for desolation. \"Except the hand of Ahikam.\" This Ahikam was one of the mighty men, a protector of Jeremiah. CHAPTER 27. \"Thus said the Lord: Make for yourself bonds.\" God commands the prophet to put collars on his own neck and to send them to the kings whom he mentions. \"And the beasts.\" By \"beasts\" here he means the beasts of the field, the cattle fit for farming. \"If they are prophets.\" If the word is from God, understand it thus: If I sent them, let them be able to escape me, let them flee from the wrath; but if the word is from the prophet, \"Let them come,\" he says, \"and let them be judged with me.\" CHAPTER 28. \"Truly may the Lord do so.\" Instead of: May it happen thus as you say, let it happen. \"They shall know.\" That is, the outcome of events will show the truth of the words. \"Go and speak to Ananias.\" For the refutation of his impiety he serves the one who commands, suspecting no danger. For there is no account of the temporary life for the saints when God commands; but Ananias stirred God to judgment by opposing. But the prophet seems to say other things besides what was commanded. Saying things of equal force later, Peter says, \"Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit?\" Hence with the refutation comes the threat of punishment, showing the justice of the chastisement. From God, then, are the words spoken by the prophet.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":43,"ref":"p43","source":"καὶ μαρτυρεῖ τῆς προφητείας ἡ ἔκβασις. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΚΘʹ. \"Ὕστερον ἐξελθόντος Ἰεχονίου.\" Μετὰ τὸ ἀποικισθῆναι τὸν Ἰεχονίαν. \"Ἐν χειρὶ Ἐλεάσαμ.\" Διὰ τούτων ἐπέμφθη ἡ ἐπιστολή. \"Οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος.\" Τοιαύτη τῆς ἐπιστολῆς ἡ ἀρχή. Ἀναιρῶν τοίνυν τὴν τούτων ἀπάτην, μακρότατον αὐτοῖς γενήσεσθαι λέγει τῆς ἀποικίας τὸν χρόνον. Κελεύει δὲ καὶ ὑπὲρ τῶν πολεμίων προσεύχεσθαι. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἔσται, φησὶ, καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆς ὑμετέρας εἰρήνης. Οὕτω καὶ Παῦλος ὑπὲρ πάντων τῶν ἐν ὑπεροχῇ κελεύει προσεύχεσθαι, ἵνα ἤρεμον, φησὶν, καὶ ἡσύχιον βίον διάγωμεν ἐν πάσῃ εὐσεβείᾳ καὶ σεμνότητι. Ὁ αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστι Θεὸς, ὃς ἐπ' ἐσχάτων τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐλάλησεν ἡμῖν ἐν Υἱῷ. Πῶς οὖν πονηρὸς ὁ Δημιουργός; ἢ τί παραλλάττει τοῦτο τοῦ ἐν Εὐαγγελίῳ ῥηθέντος· Ἀγαπᾶτε τοὺς ἐχθροὺς ὑμῶν, καὶ προσεύχεσθε ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐπηρεαζόντων ὑμᾶς; Ἆρ' οὖν οὐκ ἐπηρεάσθησαν ἀπὸ [ἴσ. οἱ\n\nἀπὸ] Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὑπὸ Βαβυλωνίων; ἁλλ' ὅμως προσεύχονται ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν. \"Καὶ ζητήσατε εἰς εἰρήνην.\" Προσεύξασθε, φησὶν, εἰρήνην τοῖς Βαβυλωνίοις, ἵνα καὶ ὑμεῖς εἰρηνεύητε. Σημείωσαι, ὅτι δεῖ προσεύχεσθαι ὑπὲρ τῶν κρατούντων, κἂν Ἕλληνες ὦσιν. \"Καὶ ἐπιστήσω.\" Τουτέστιν, Ὄψεσθε τῶν ἐμῶν λόγων τὴν ἀλήθειαν. \"Ὅτι εἴπατε· Κατέστησεν ἡμῖν Κύριος προφήτας.\" Ψευδοπροφῆται ἦσαν καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἀπατῶντες τὸν λαόν. Ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ ἀπατῶντες τοὺς ἐν τῇ ἀποικίᾳ. \"Ἐπὶ Ἀχιὰβ καὶ ἐπὶ Σεδεκίαν.\" Οὗτοι λέγονται οἱ κατὰ Σωσάνναν πρεσβύτεροι.","english":"The outcome bears witness to the prophecy. CHAPTER 29. \"After Jeconiah had gone out.\" After Jeconiah had been deported. \"By the hand of Eleasam.\" Through these men the letter was sent. \"Thus says the Lord.\" Such is the beginning of the letter. Therefore, refuting their deception, he says that the time of their deportation will be very long for them. And he commands them also to pray for their enemies. For this, he says, will be also for your peace. So too Paul commands us to pray for all who are in authority, so that, he says, we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all piety and dignity. For the same God it is who in the last days spoke to us in his Son. How then is the Creator evil? Or how does this differ from what was said in the Gospel: Love your enemies, and pray for those who mistreat you? Were they not, then, mistreated by Jerusalem at the hands of the Babylonians? But nevertheless they pray for them. \"And seek for peace.\" Pray, he says, for peace for the Babylonians, so that you too may be at peace. Note that one must pray for those in power, even if they are Greeks. \"And I will set.\" That is, You will see the truth of my words. \"Because you said: The Lord has appointed prophets for us.\" There were false prophets also in Jerusalem deceiving the people. And there were also in the captivity deceiving those in the deportation. \"Against Achiab and against Sedekias.\" These are said to be the elders in the matter of Susanna.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":44,"ref":"p44","source":"\"Κύριος ἔδωκέ σε ἱερέα.\" Πρὸς τὸν Σαμέα φησὶ ὁ Θεὸς, ὅτι Οὐκ ἐγώ σε κατέστησα εἰς προφήτην, οὐδὲ ἐγώ σοι ἐνετειλάμην γράψαι τῷ Σοφονίᾳ κατὰ Ἱερεμίου. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπισκέψομαι.\" Ἡ προθεσμία τῆς ἀνακλήσεως. Τὸ γραφὲν παρ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ Σαμέα. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Λʹ. \"Φωνὴν φόβου ἀκούσεσθε.\" Τὴν τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν προσταγμάτων. \"Καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν εἰρήνη.\" Οὐ γὰρ ἦλθον, φησὶν ὁ Κύριος, βαλεῖν εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, ἀλλὰ μάχαιραν. \"Ἐρωτήσατε.\" Ἐρωτήσατε, φησὶ, τὰς Γραφὰς, καὶ μάθετε ἐξ αὐτῶν, εἰ γεννηθήσεται ὑμῖν ἄρσεν, τουτέστιν ὁ Κύριος. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ δι' ἑνὸς τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ὁ κόσμος ἐφ' ἁμαρτίαν ἦλθεν, εἰκότως περὶ τοῦ δευτέρου Ἀδὰμ προφητεύει, δι' οὗ ἡ ἀπολύτρωσις. \"Καὶ περὶ φόβου.\" Φυσικῶς οἱ φοβούμενοι τὴν ὀσφὺν κρατεῖν πεφύκασιν. Φόβος οὖν, φησὶ, ἔσται τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν προσταγμάτων, δι' οὗ φόβου ἕξει τὴν ἰσχὺν, καὶ σωθήσεται. \"Διότι ἑώρακα.\" Πάντες γὰρ ἔφριξαν τὴν ἀκρίβειαν τῶν εὐαγγελικῶν προσταγμάτων, καὶ ὑπὸ τῆς φρίκης τὰ ἐντὸς ταραττόμενοι τὰς ὀσφῦς ἐκράτησαν. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, κρατεῖ ὀσφύος ὁ περισφίγγων τὰ σπερματικὰ, καὶ ἀπεχόμενος συνουσιασμοῦ. \"Ὅτι μεγάλη ἡ ἡμέρα.\" Ἡ τοῦ χρόνου τῆς τοῦ Κυρίου ἐνανθρωπήσεως, καὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ, καὶ τῆς ἀναστάσεως· ὅλην γὰρ αὐτοῦ τὴν οἰκονομίαν ἡμέραν καλεῖ. \"Ἀνέστησα σύντριμμα.\" Ἐπειδὴ, φησὶν, μεγάλη σου ἡ πληγὴ, καὶ οὐδείς σοι ἠδυνήθη ἐπαμῦναι, ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ φίλοι σου ἐπελάθοντό σου διὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν σου· φίλους δὲ τῆς ψυχῆς νοήσεις τὸν νόμον, καὶ τοὺς προφήτας, καὶ ἁγίους ἀγγέλους.","english":"The Lord has made you a priest.\" God says to Shemaiah, \"I did not appoint you a prophet, nor did I command you to write to Zephaniah against Jeremiah.\" \"Behold, I will visit.\" The appointed time of the recall. What was written by Shemaiah himself. CHAPTER 30. \"You shall hear a voice of fear.\" That of the gospel commandments. \"And there is no peace.\" For I did not come, says the Lord, to cast peace upon the earth, but a sword. \"Ask.\" Ask, he says, the Scriptures, and learn from them whether a male will be born to you, that is, the Lord. For since through one Adam the world came into sin, fittingly he prophesies concerning the second Adam, through whom is the redemption. \"And concerning fear.\" By nature those who fear are disposed to hold fast their loins. Fear, then, he says, there shall be of the gospel commandments, through which fear he shall have strength and be saved. \"For I have seen.\" For all shuddered at the strictness of the gospel commandments, and being troubled within by the shuddering they held fast their loins. And with respect to the meaning, he holds fast the loin who girds up the seminal parts and abstains from intercourse. \"For great is the day.\" That of the time of the Lord's becoming man, and of the cross, and of the resurrection; for he calls his whole dispensation a day. \"I have raised up a crushing.\" Since, he says, your wound is great, and no one was able to help you, but even your friends forgot you because of your sin; and by friends of the soul you will understand the law, and the prophets, and the holy angels.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":45,"ref":"p45","source":"Ἐπειδὴ οὖν, φησὶν, οὐδείς σοι ἠδυνήθη ἐπαμῦναι, ἐγὼ διὰ τοῦ ἐμαυτοῦ Υἱοῦ, τοῦ κατὰ σάρκα Δαβὶδ, ἀναστήσω σου τὸ σύντριμμα. \"Ὅτι πληγὴν ἐχθροῦ.\" Ἐπειδὴ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας σου, φησὶν, ἐγκατέλιπόν σε, διὰ τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ φιλανθρωπίαν ἰῶμαί σε. \"Διὰ τοῦτο πάντες οἱ ἐσθίοντές σε.\" Οἱ ἐχθροί σου, φησὶ, δαίμονες τὰς ἑαυτῶν κατέδονται σάρκας· ἐμφαίνει δὲ διὰ τούτων τὸ πικρὸν τῆς κατ' αὐτῶν τιμωρίας. \"Ἐπὶ πλῆθος.\" Συνεπέθεντο, φησὶ, τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν σου. \"Καὶ ἔσονται.\" Οἱ περιφέροντές σε σκορπισθήσονται. \"Ὅτι ἀνάξω.\" Γεγονὼς γὰρ ἄνθρωπος ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγος ἰάσατο τὴν ἀνθρωπότητα. \"Θήρευμα ὑμῶν ἐστιν.\" Ὅτι διεσκόρπισάν σε ἀπὸ Θεοῦ. Ὁ βουλόμενος, φησὶν, ἐθήρευσεν αὐτὴν, ὡς μὴ ἔχουσαν ποιμένα. \"Οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος.\" Ἔχει μὲν ὁ λόγος ἀγγελίαν τῆς ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος ἐπανόδου· προθεσπίζει δὲ τὴν διὰ Χριστοῦ ἀπολύτρωσιν τῶν ἐθνῶν. \"Καὶ οἰκοδομηθήσεται.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὸ ῥητὸν, ἡ κατεστραμμένη Ἱερουσαλήμ· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ἡ Ἐκκλησία. \"Καὶ ὁ λαός.\" Κατὰ τὰ νόμιμα πολιτεύσεται· ὁ μὲν ἐκ τῆς αἰσθητῆς αἰχμαλωσίας, κατὰ τὰ Μωσαϊκά· ὁ δὲ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας λαὸς, κατὰ τὰ εὐαγγελικά. \"Καὶ ἐξελεύσονται ἀπ' αὐτῶν ᾄδοντες.\" Τοῖς μὲν αἰχμαλώτοις ἐπαγγελίαν χαρᾶς ἔχει ὁ λόγος. Ἄδοντας δὲ, τοὺς Θεὸν ἐν τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ὑμνολογοῦντάς φησι· παίζοντας δὲ, τοὺς τῶν δαιμόνων καταπαίζοντας. \"Καὶ ὁ ἄρχων.\" Οὐκ ἔτι, φησὶν, ἀλλότριοι ἄρξουσι τοῦ λαοῦ. Ἢ καὶ οὕτως, Ἐξέλιπον γὰρ οἱ Ἰουδαίων ἄρχοντες· φησὶ ὅτι ὁ πάλαι ἄρχων διάβολος τῶν ψυχῶν ἐξελεύσεται, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀποστήσεται τοῦ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας λαοῦ. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΑʹ.","english":"Since, then, he says, no one was able to help you, I, through my own Son, the David according to the flesh, will raise up your ruin. \"Because of the wound of an enemy.\" Since, he says, because of your sins I abandoned you, through my own love for humanity I heal you. \"Therefore all who devour you.\" Your enemies, he says, the demons, will devour their own flesh; and through these words he indicates the bitterness of the punishment against them. \"Upon the multitude.\" They joined together, he says, against the multitude of your sins. \"And they shall be.\" Those who carry you about shall be scattered. \"Because I will bring up.\" For having become man, the Word of God healed humanity. \"He is a prey for you.\" Because they scattered you from God. Whoever wishes, he says, hunted her, as one having no shepherd. \"Thus says the Lord.\" The passage indeed contains the message of the return from Babylon; but it foretells the redemption of the nations through Christ. \"And it shall be built.\" With respect to the literal sense, the ruined Jerusalem; with respect to the meaning, the Church. \"And the people.\" They shall conduct their life according to the laws; the one people according to the Mosaic laws, from the sensible captivity; but the people of the Church according to the Gospel. \"And there shall come forth from them singing.\" For the captives the passage holds a promise of joy. And by \"singing\" he means those who hymn God in the Church; and by \"playing,\" those who make sport of the demons. \"And the ruler.\" No longer, he says, shall strangers rule over the people. Or also in this way: for the rulers of the Jews have ceased; he says that the ruler of old, the devil, shall come forth from the souls, that is, shall depart from the people of the Church. CHAPTER 31.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":46,"ref":"p46","source":"\"Εὗρον θερμόν.\" Ἐπειδὴ οἱ πλείονες ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας τεθνήκασι, καὶ ὡς ἐν ἐρήμῳ κεῖνται ἐῤῥιμμένοι· εὗρον, φησὶν, ἐν τοῖς κειμένοις θερμὸν, τουτέστιν ἡμιθανῆ, ἐλπίδα ἔχοντα μετανοίας καὶ ζωῆς· φησὶ δὲ ἢ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ, ἢ καὶ πάντα δυνάμενον σώζεσθαι. \"Κύριος πόῤῥωθεν.\" Ὁ νῦν πόῤῥωθεν, ὕστερον ὀφθήσεται αὐτῷ. \"Ἔτι λήψῃ τύμπανον.\" Μετὰ τὴν\n\nαἰσθητὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν νόει. \"Ὅτι ἔστιν ἡμέρα.\" Τοῦτο σημεῖον οἰκήσεως. Ὅτι δέδωκε, φησὶν, ὁ Θεὸς καιρὸν μετανοίας, ἐν ᾧ ἀπολογούμενοι κληθήσεσθε εἰς σωτηρίαν. \"Ἐν ὄρεσιν Ἐφραίμ.\" Τὸν κατὰ χάριν φησί. Διαφόρως δὲ ἡ Γραφὴ καλεῖ τοῦτον τὸν λαόν. Διὸ καὶ Ἐφραὶμ, ἐκ τῶν πολλῶν φυλῶν· ἐκ πάντων γάρ εἰσιν οἱ σωζόμενοι. \"Ἀνάστητε καὶ ἀνάβητε.\" Διεγέρθητε, φησὶν, ἐκ τῶν γηΐνων φρονημάτων, καὶ ἀνέλθετε εἰς τὰ οὐράνια, τοῖς πτεροῖς τοῦ πνεύματος κουφιζόμενοι. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἄγω.\" Γαυριάσατε, φησὶ, πατοῦντες ἐπὶ τὰς κεφαλὰς τῶν ἐθνῶν. Ἰδοὺ γὰρ δέδωκα ὑμῖν ἐξουσίαν τοῦ πατεῖν ἐπάνω ὄφεων καὶ σκορπίων, εἶπεν ὁ Κύριος. Τοὺς ἐξ ἐθνῶν φησι, καὶ τοὺς ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ τοὺς εἰς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη διεσπαρμένους, ὕστερον δὲ καὶ αὐτοὺς τευξομένους σωτηρίας. \"Ἐν ἑορτῇ Φασέκ.\" Φασὲκ, ἀφέσεως ἑρμηνεύεται. Φησὶν οὖν ὅτι ἐν τῇ Χριστοῦ ἀφέσει τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων σωθήσονται. \"Ἐν κλαυθμῷ.\" Ὅτι ἁμαρτία, κλαυθμοῦ αἰτία, ἡ δὲ ἐπιστροφὴ σωτηρίας καὶ παρακλήσεως. \"Αὐλίζων ἐπὶ διώρυγας.\" Ἐπὶ τὰ τοῦ βαπτίσματος νάματα κατασκηνῶν αὐτούς. \"Ἀκούσατε λόγον.\" Καὶ γὰρ διὰ Χριστοῦ ἐδιδάχθημεν λέγειν· Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς. \"Ὡς ὁ βόσκων.\" Ὁ λέγων Κύριος· Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁποιμὴν ὁ καλός.","english":"I found him warm.\" Since the majority have died by sin, and lie cast down as in a desert; I found, he says, among those lying down one warm, that is, half-dead, having hope of repentance and life; and he means either Israel, or also every one who is able to be saved. \"The Lord from afar.\" He who is now far off will later be seen by him. \"You will yet take a timbrel.\" After the sensible Jerusalem, understand the Church. \"For there is a day.\" This is a sign of dwelling. For God, he says, has given a time of repentance, in which, making your defense, you will be called to salvation. \"In the mountains of Ephraim.\" He means the one according to grace. And Scripture calls this people in various ways. Therefore also Ephraim, from the many tribes; for those who are saved are from all. \"Arise and go up.\" Be awakened, he says, from earthly thoughts, and ascend to heavenly things, being lightened by the wings of the Spirit. \"Behold, I lead.\" Exult, he says, treading on the heads of the nations. For behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, said the Lord. He means those from the nations, and those from Israel who are scattered into all the nations, who later also will obtain salvation. \"In the feast of Phasek.\" Phasek is interpreted as forgiveness. He says, then, that in Christ's forgiveness of sins they will be saved. \"In weeping.\" Because sin is the cause of weeping, but conversion is of salvation and consolation. \"Lodging by the channels.\" Settling them upon the streams of baptism. \"Hear the word.\" For through Christ we were taught to say: Our Father who is in the heavens. \"As he who feeds.\" The Lord who says: I am the good shepherd.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":47,"ref":"p47","source":"\"Καὶ ἥξουσι.\" Ἐπὶ τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν, ἔνθα τὸ τίμιον σῶμα καὶ αἷμα Χριστοῦ προσφέρεται. \"Καὶ κτηνῶν.\" Ταῦτα σημεῖα εἰρήνης. \"Καὶ πρεσβύται.\" Αἱ Ἐκκλησίαι ἐν τῇ συναγωγῇ τῶν κατὰ Χριστὸν ἀκμαζουσῶν ψυχῶν, καὶ τῶν ἐν φρονήσει πολιῶν. \"Μεθύσω.\" Θείων λόγων πληρώσω τοὺς ἱερεῖς, ὡς δύνασθαι εὐφραίνειν τὸν λόγον [φορτ. λαὸν] ἐν διδασκαλίᾳ. \"Ὅτι ἔστι μισθός.\" Ἢ ὅτι ἔμμισθον τὸ ἀποθανεῖν ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ, ἢ ὅτι ἕξεις τὸν Παῦλον πολὺν φέροντα καρπόν. \"Καὶ ἐπιστρέψουσι.\" Ἢ οἱ τελευτήσαντες παῖδες ἀνιστάμενοι, καὶ ἐν Χριστῷ ὅντες, ἢ ὅτι ὁ Παῦλος πολλοὺς ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐπέστρεψεν. \"Μόνιμον τοῖς σοῖς τέκνοις.\" Καὶ ἔσται, φησὶ, διαρκὴς ὁ μισθὸς τοῖς σοῖς τέκνοις ἀνῃρημένοις, ἢ καὶ τῷ Παύλῳ. Ἀεὶ δὲ ἡ Ῥαχὴλ εἰς πρόσωπον τῆς Ἐκκλησίας ἐκλαμβάνεται, ἢν καὶ ὀδυρομένην ὁ λόγος παραμυθεῖται ἐπὶ τοῖς διωγμοῖς καὶ ταῖς ἀναιρέσεσι ταῖς διὰ Χριστόν. \"Ἀκούων ἤκουσα, Ἐφραὶμ.\" Ἐφραὶμ, τὸν ἐξἐθνῶν λαόν φησι. \"Ἐγὼ ὥσπερ μόσχος οὐκ ἐδιδάχθην.\" Ὡς μόσχος, φησὶ, ταῖς ἐμαῖς ἁμαρτίαις ἐντρεφόμενος οὐκ ἐδιδάχθην τὰ θεῖα λόγια. \"Ἐπίστρεψόν με.\" Τίνα, γὰρ, φησὶ, καρπὸν ἔχετε, ἐφ' οἷς νῦν ἐπαισχύνεσθε; ἡμέρας οὖν αἰσχύνης τὰς τῆς ἁμαρτίας φησί. \"Καὶ ὑπέδειξά σοι.\" Τοῦτο διὰ μέσου κεῖται· Ὥσπερ τὸν σωζόμενον λαὸν ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ· ἀντὶ τοῦ, Ἀγαθόν σε ὑπόδειγμα ποιήσω, ἵνα διὰ τοῦ σοῦ ὑποδείγματος καὶ ἄλλοι σωθῶσιν. \"Στῆσον σεαυτὴν, Σιών.\" Διανάστηθι ἐκ τοῦ τῆς ἁμαρτίας πτώματος. Ἀνάστηθι διὰ τοῦ τροπαίου σταυροῦ. Ἢ οὕτως· Στῆσον σεαυτήν· ἀκριβολογήθητι τὰ κατὰ σεαυτήν· πρὸς ἑαυτὴν κρίθητι, καὶ δοκίμασον σεαυτήν.","english":"And they shall come.\" To the Church, where the precious body and blood of Christ are offered. \"And of the cattle.\" These are signs of peace. \"And the elders.\" The Churches in the assembly of souls flourishing in Christ, and of those gray-haired in understanding. \"I will make drunk.\" I will fill the priests with divine words, so that the word [people] may be able to rejoice in teaching. \"For there is a reward.\" Either that dying for Christ is rewarded, or that you will have Paul bearing much fruit. \"And they shall return.\" Either the children who have died, rising up and being in Christ, or that Paul turned many from the Gentiles. \"A lasting reward for your children.\" And it shall be, he says, a lasting reward for your children who have been slain, or also for Paul. But Rachel is always taken as a figure of the Church, whom the word also comforts as she laments over the persecutions and the slayings that are for Christ's sake. \"Hearing I heard, Ephraim.\" Ephraim, he says, means the people from the Gentiles. \"I like a calf was not taught.\" Like a calf, he says, fed on my own sins, I was not taught the divine oracles. \"Turn me back.\" For what fruit, he says, do you have in the things of which you are now ashamed? He calls the days of sin days of shame. \"And I showed you.\" This is placed in the middle: As the people who are saved by God; instead of, I will make you a good example, so that through your example others also may be saved. \"Set yourself, Zion.\" Rise up from the fall of sin. Rise up through the trophy of the cross. Or thus: Set yourself; examine accurately the things concerning yourself; judge yourself, and test yourself.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":48,"ref":"p48","source":"\"Ποίησον τιμωρίαν.\" Διὰ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ πίστεως καὶ τῆς μετανοίας τιμώρησαι τὰ φαῦλα, καὶ αὐτοὺς τοὺς αὐτὰ ἐνεργοῦντας δαίμονας. \"Δὸς καρδίαν.\" Ἀνάλαβε, φησὶ, τοῦ Κυρίου τὸν σταυρὸν ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων. Ἄλλως· Μὴ κρύπτε τὰ φαῦλα, ἀλλὰ φανέρωσον αὐτὰ δι' ἐξομολογήσεως. Ἄλλως· Ἐπίδος αὐτὴν εἰς τὸν κάματον τῆς μετανοίας. \"Ὁδὸν ᾗ ἐπορεύθης.\" Ἐπειδὴ πεπόρευσαι ἐπὶ τὰ φαῦλα, ὑπόστρεψον ἐπὶ τὰ ἀγαθά. \"Ἀποστράφηθι.\" Ὑπόστρεψον εἰς τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς ἐπαινουμένην πολιτείαν, καὶ πένθησον ἐπὶ ταῖς προτέραις ἁμαρτίαις τὸ πένθος τὸ μακαριζόμενον. \"Ἕως πότε ἀποστρέψεις;\" Μέμφεται αὐτῇ ὡς βραδυνούσῃ εἰς τὴν ὑπακοήν. \"Ὅτι ἔκτισέ με Κύριος σωτηρίαν.\" Ἀκύλας καὶ Σύμμαχος, ὅτι ἔκτισε Κύριος καινὸν ἐν τῇ θηλείᾳ, ἐκδεδώκασιν· σαφῶς δὲ διὰ τούτων ὁ καινὸς ἄνθρωπος, ὁ σαρκωθεὶς Λόγος, ὁ ἐκ Παρθένου τεχθεὶς προκατηγγέλθη. \"Ἐν σωτηρίᾳ.\" Διὰ Χριστοῦ, φησὶν, ἐπανήξουσιν ἄνθρωποι εἰς παράδεισον, ὅθεν ἐξέπεσον. Τοιαύτην τινὰ δοξολογίαν καὶ οἱ παῖδες ἀνέπεμψαν ἐπὶ τῷ Σωτῆρι. \"Εὐλογημένος Κύριος ἐπὶ δίκαιον.\" Ταύτην φησὶ τὴν ὑμνῳδίαν ἀναπέμψουσιν οἱ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας λαοὶ ἅμα τοῖς διδασκάλοις· καὶ εἰς ὕψος","english":"Execute punishment.\" Through faith in Christ and through repentance, punish the evil things, and the demons themselves who work them. \"Give a heart.\" Take up, he says, the cross of the Lord upon your shoulders. Otherwise: Do not hide the evil things, but make them manifest through confession. Otherwise: Give it over to the labor of repentance. \"The way which you went.\" Since you have walked in evil things, turn back to good things. \"Turn away.\" Return to the manner of life praised from the beginning, and mourn over your former sins with the mourning that is called blessed. \"How long will you turn away?\" He reproaches her as being slow to obedience. \"For the Lord created me for salvation.\" Aquila and Symmachus have rendered it, \"For the Lord created a new thing in the female,\" and clearly through these words the new man was foretold beforehand—the Word made flesh, who was born of the Virgin. \"In salvation.\" Through Christ, he says, people will return to paradise, from which they fell. Some such doxology the children also sent up concerning the Savior. \"Blessed is the Lord upon a righteous one.\" The peoples of the Church, he says, together with their teachers, will send up this hymnody; and to the height","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":49,"ref":"p49","source":"ἀρθήσεται ἡ τοιαύτη φωνὴ ἐν τοῖς τῆς Ἐκκλησίας ποιμνίοις. \"Διὰ τοῦτο ἐξηγέρθην.\" Ὅτι πιστῶς, φησὶν, ὁ προφήτης ἐδεξάμην τὸ ὅραμα, διὰ τοῦτο ὡς παρόντα τὰ πράγματα ἐθεασάμην. \"Καὶ ὁ ὕπνος μου.\" Ὁ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τρόπος. Δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐκ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἐλευθερίαν. Ἀναφέρεται δὲ καὶ εἰς τὸν Κύριον ἡ προφητεία· τῷ τὸν θάνατον ὕπνον ἐργασαμένῳ, καὶ θεωροῦντι τῶν πιστῶν τὸ πλῆθος, καὶ χαίροντι ἐπὶ τῷ ἑκουσίως αὐτῷ γεγονότι θανάτῳ. \"Ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται.\" Ἴσως τὴν τῶν αἱρέσεων φύρσιν φησὶ, καὶ τῶν κτηνώδεις τρόπους αἱρουμένων. Ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ σπερῶ, τοῦ σίτου ἀντιποιούμενος. τούτους δὲ ὁ ἐχθρὸς ἐπισπείρει. Κατὰ δὲ τὸ τῆς Γραφῆς ἰδίωμα, ἐπειδὴ ἃ συγχωρεῖ Θεὸς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους προαιρετικῶς ποιεῖν, αὐτὸς ποιεῖν λέγεται, ὡς τὸ, Παρέδωκεν αὐτοὺς εἰς πάθη ἀτιμίας, οὐ Θεοῦ τοῦτο ποιήσαντος, ἀλλ' αὐτῶν τοῦτο ἑλομένων· οὕτω καὶ ἐνταῦθα κεῖται τὸ, Σπερῶ σπέρμα κτήνους. Ἔτι [φορτ. Ἔστι] δὲ καὶ οὕτω νοῆσαι· Ἄνθρωποίεἰσιν οἱ σοφώτεροι καὶ τελειότεροι, οἱ μετὰ λόγου καὶ γνώσεως τὴν πίστιν κατέχοντες, κτήνη δὲ οἱ μετὰ ἁπλότητος καὶ ἀπεριέργως τῇ πίστει προσδεδραμηκότες. Ἐγὼ οὖν, φησὶ, καὶ τούτους κἀκείνους ἐν τῇ Ἐκκλησίᾳ καταφυτεύσω. \"Ἀλλ' ἢ ἕκαστος ἐν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίᾳ ἀποθανεῖται.\" Ἡ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἁμαρτία διελθοῦσα εἰς τὸ ἔθνος, καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς μὴ ἁμαρτήσαντας, ἦλθεν, ὡς εἶπεν ὁ Ἀπόστολος. Χριστοῦ οὖν συγχωρήσαντος ταύτην διὰ τοῦ λουτροῦ τῆς ἀφέσεως, ἐκαθαρίσθη μὲν ἡ προπατορικὴ ἁμαρτία, ἕκαστος δὲ τῶν οἰκείων ἁμαρτημάτων ὑπέχει λόγον. \"Καὶ διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραήλ.\" Διαθήκην, τὴν εὐαγγελικήν.","english":"Such a voice will be lifted up among the flocks of the Church. \"Therefore I awoke.\" Because, he says, the prophet received the vision faithfully, therefore I beheld the matters as though present. \"And my sleep.\" The manner of the resurrection. And it makes clear also the freedom from sin. The prophecy is referred also to the Lord: to him who made death a sleep, and who beholds the multitude of the faithful, and rejoices over the death that came to him willingly. \"Behold, days are coming.\" Perhaps he means the confusion of the heresies, and of those who choose the ways of beasts. For I, he says, will sow, laying claim to the wheat; but the enemy sows over them. And according to the idiom of Scripture, since the things God permits men to do by their own choice, he is said to do, as in the passage, \"He gave them over to dishonorable passions,\" not God having done this, but they having chosen it; so also here stands the phrase, \"I will sow the seed of a beast.\" And it is also possible to understand it thus: there are men who are wiser and more perfect, who hold the faith with reason and knowledge, and beasts are those who have run to the faith in simplicity and without busy curiosity. I, then, he says, will plant both these and those in the Church. \"But rather each one shall die in his own sin.\" The sin of Adam, having passed through to the nation, came even upon those who did not sin, as the Apostle said. When Christ forgave this through the bath of remission, the ancestral sin was cleansed, but each one is held accountable for his own sins. \"And I will make a covenant with the house of Israel.\" A covenant, namely the evangelical one.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":50,"ref":"p50","source":"Τούτοις δὲ ἐχρήσατο καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος εἰς ἀπόδειξιν τοῦ [μὴ] ἐκβεβλῆσθαι τὴν νομικὴν λατρείαν. \"Διδοὺς δώσω.\" Τὰς διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος ὑπομνήσεις. \"Ἐὰν ὑψωθῇ.\" Ὡς ἀμήχανον, φησὶν, ἀνωτέρω τὸν οὐρανὸν ἀνελθεῖν, ἢ τὴν γῆν κατωτέρω κατελθεῖν· οὕτως ἀμήχανόν με ἀποδοκιμάσαι τὸν Ἰσραήλ· Ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὥς φησιν ὁ Ἀπόστολος. \"Ἐὰν παύσωνται.\" Οὐ δύνανται, φησὶν, [ἴσ. Οὐ δύνανται, φησὶ, μὴ εἶναι], οἱ ὅροι ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης, οὐδὲ τὸ γένος Ἰσραὴλ τὸ νῦν κατὰ χάριν [τοῦ] εἶναι ἔμπροσθέν μου. \"Ἀπὸ πύργων.\" Ἀπὸ χάριτος Θεοῦ· οὕτως γὰρ ἑρμηνεύεται τὸ Ἀναμεήλ. \"Ἕως τῆς πύλης.\" Ἕως τῆς συντελείας. Φθάσας γὰρ ἕως γωνίας, τελειοῦται ὁ τοῖχος. \"Ἐξ ἐκλεκτῶν λίθων.\" Τὴν ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν συνισταμένην Ἐκκλησίαν ἐδήλωσεν, ἐκ λίθων ἐκλεκτῶν οἰκοδομουμένην, προφητῶν, καὶ ἀποστόλων, καὶ τῶν καθεξῆς ἁγίων. \"Ἕως χειμάῤῥου.\" Ἕως, φησὶ, κλίματος ἀνατολικοῦ ὁ διαγραφεὶς οἶκος, ἔσται ἁγίασμα τῷ Κυρίῳ. Ἵπποι δὲ Ἀνατολῆς οἱ ἀπόστολοι. Ἐδήλωσεν οὖν, ὡςἀπὸ χάριτος Θεοῦ καὶ τῶν ἁγίων ἀποστόλων οἰκοδομεῖται ἡ Ἐκκλησία. Τῶν γὰρ θείων Γραφῶν ἀναγινωσκομένων οἰκοδομούμεθα. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΒʹ. \"Καὶ λαλήσει.\" Ὁ Σεδεκίας πρὸς τὸν Βαβυλώνιον. \"Οὕτως εἶπε.\" Τὰ ὠνιακὰ, φησὶ, γραφῆναι παρεσκεύασα· ἴσως δὲ τότε καὶ ὠνούμενοι ὑπεσημειοῦντο ἐν τοῖς ὠνιακοῖς. Ἵνα καὶ οἱ μετὰ ταῦτα μάθωσιν ὥστε μὴ διαφθαρῆναι. Διὰ τοῦτο ἐν ἀγγείῳ ὀστρακίνῳ, ἵνα ἐπανελθόντες ἴδωσιν, ὅτι ἄνωθεν ταῦτα προελέγετο, ἵνα μὴ τὰ ῥήματα μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πράγματα μαρτυρήσῃ. \"Ποιῶν ἔλεος.\" Ὅτι πολλαπλάσιόν ἐστι τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ.","english":"The Apostle also used these words as proof that the legal worship had not been cast out. \"I will surely give.\" The reminders that come through the Spirit. \"If it be lifted up.\" It is impossible, he says, for heaven to go higher, or the earth to go lower; so it is impossible for me to reject Israel; for the gifts of God are without repentance, as the Apostle says. \"If they cease.\" The boundaries of the sun and moon, he says, cannot fail to exist, nor can the race of Israel, which now exists by grace, fail to be before me. \"From the towers.\" From the grace of God; for thus Anameel is interpreted. \"As far as the gate.\" As far as the consummation. For having reached the corner, the wall is completed. \"Of choice stones.\" He indicated the Church composed of all the nations, built of choice stones—prophets, and apostles, and the saints in succession. \"As far as the brook.\" As far, he says, as the eastern region, the house that has been marked out will be a sanctuary to the Lord. And the horses of the East are the apostles. He indicated, then, that the Church is built from the grace of God and the holy apostles. For when the divine Scriptures are read, we are built up. CHAPTER 32. \"And he shall speak.\" Zedekiah to the Babylonian. \"Thus he said.\" I have prepared, he says, the deeds of purchase to be written; and perhaps at that time those who were buying also used to sign in the deeds of purchase, so that those after these things might learn not to be corrupted. For this reason it was in a vessel of clay, so that when they returned they might see that these things were foretold from above, so that not only the words but also the deeds might bear witness. \"Doing mercy.\" Because his mercy is manifold.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":51,"ref":"p51","source":"\"Καὶ ἀποδιδούς.\" Ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ ἕως τῆς παρουσίας Χριστοῦ οἱ μιμούμενοι τὰς ἁμαρτίας τῶν πατέρων, ταῖς τιμωρίαις ὑπέπιπτον, διὰ τὸ μήπω τὴν ἀπολύτρωσιν τῆς ἁμαρτίας γεγενῆσθαι. Μετὰ δὲ τὴν παρουσίαν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἕκαστος λοιπὸν ὃ σπείρῃ, καὶ θερίσει, διὰ τὸ μὴ ὁμοίως ἐκτείνεσθαι ἐκ πατροπαραδότου ἀναστροφῆς ἐπὶ [ἐπὶ υιδετυρ αβυνδαρε] τὴν παράβασιν. \"Καὶ ἐν τοῖς γηγενέσι.\" Τοῖς ἀσεβέσι, τοῖς τὰ γήϊνα φρονοῦσιν· ἢ καὶ αὐτοῖς τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις τοῖς ἐξ αὐτῆς τῆς γῆς. \"Καὶ ἐποίησας.\" Ἕως σήμερον, φησὶν, ὀνομαστὸς, ἢ ἐπὶ τοῖς πάλαι τεραστίοις. \"Ἐγὼ Κύριος.\" Ὁ μέλλων πάντας κρίνειν, καὶ ἑκάστῳ ἀποδιδόναι κατὰ τὰς πράξεις. \"Ὅτι ἦσαν.\" Ὡς μὲν ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ πᾶσα μὲν ἡ γῆ τότε ἀθέων ἦν· μόνοι δὲ οὖτοι λέγονται ἁμαρτάνειν, ἐπειδὴ τοῖς θείοις νόμοις πεπαιδευμένοι ἐν γνώσει ἡμάρτανον. \"Ὅτι ἐπὶ τὴν ὀργήν\n\nμου.\" Ὡς ἐπὶ τούτῳ, φησὶν, ἐστὶ κτισθεῖσα ἡ πόλις αὕτη, ἐπὶ τῶ παροργίζειν με, ἵνα διὰ τοῦτο ἀφανίσω αὐτὴν, μὴ θέλων αὐτὴν ὁρᾶν. \"Καὶ ἔστρεψαν πρός με νῶτον.\" Τοῦτο δεῖγμα τελείας ὕβρεως καὶ καταφρονήσεως. \"Καὶ ἐδίδαξα αὐτούς.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, κατὰ πᾶσαν σπουδήν. \"Ἃ οὐ συνέταξα αὐτοῖς.\" Ἔστω, φησίν. Ἐμοὶτὰς θυσίας προσφέρειν ὀφείλοντες, δαίμοσι προσφέρουσι· διατί καὶ ἀνθρωποκτονίας ἐργάζονται; ἀνθρώπους δὲ οὐδὲ ἐμαυτῷ θύεσθαι ὅσιον ἔκρινα. Ὡς οὐκ ἀρκούμενοι τοίνυν, φησὶ, τοῖς πρότερον ἁμαρτήμασι, καὶ τοῦτο ἐπεξεῦρον τὸ ἀτόπημα. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ συνάγω αὐτούς,\" Ἐπαγγέλλεται Θεὸς ἐπανάγειν ἐκ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραήλ· ὁμοῦ δὲ καὶ προλέγει τὴν Χριστοῦ παρουσίαν, καὶ τὴν τοῦ Πνεύματος χάριν.","english":"And repaying.\" From Adam until the coming of Christ, those who imitated the sins of their fathers fell under punishments, because the redemption of sin had not yet taken place. But after the coming of Christ, each one shall henceforth reap whatever he sows, because transgression no longer extends in the same way from an inherited manner of life. \"And among those born of the earth.\" Among the impious, those who set their minds on earthly things; or even among the Egyptians themselves, who are from the earth itself. \"And you have made.\" Until today, he says, you are renowned, or on account of the wonders of old. \"I am the Lord.\" The one who will judge all and repay each according to his deeds. \"Because they were.\" For the most part, all the earth at that time was godless; but these alone are said to sin, since, having been instructed in the divine laws, they sinned knowingly. \"Because upon my wrath.\" As if, he says, this city was built for this purpose, to provoke me to anger, so that for this reason I might destroy it, not wishing to look upon it. \"And they turned their back to me.\" This is a sign of complete insolence and contempt. \"And I taught them.\" Meaning, with all diligence. \"Things which I did not command them.\" Let it be, he says. Owing to offer sacrifices to me, they offer them to demons; why do they also commit murders? But I judged it impious that humans be sacrificed even to myself. As if, then, he says, not content with their former sins, they devised this further outrage. \"Behold, I gather them.\" God promises to bring back the sons of Israel from captivity; and at the same time he foretells the coming of Christ and the grace of the Spirit.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":52,"ref":"p52","source":"\"Καὶ ἔσονταί μοι εἰς λαόν.\" Τοῦτο κοινὸν περὶ πάντων πιστῶν. \"Καὶ δώσω αὐτοῖς ὁδὸν ἑτέραν.\" Τὴν Κυρίου παρουσίαν. Αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ὁδός. \"Καὶ καρδίαν ἑτέραν.\" Τὴν τοῦ Πνεύματος χάριν. Πάλιν φησὶν πρὸς αὐτόν· ἐπειδὴ δύσπιστος ὁ λόγος ἦν. \"Καὶ διαθήσομαι.\" Τὴν περὶ τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως. Ἥτις οὐκ ἀλλαγήσεται. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΓʹ. \"Οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος ποιῶν γῆν.\" Κατὰ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆς δημιουργίαν, ἀπὸ γῆς ποιῶν τὸν ἄνθρωπον. \"Καὶ πλάσσων αὐτήν. Ἀναπλάσσων διὰ τοῦ λουτροῦ τῆς παλιγγενεσίας. \"Τοῦ ἀνορθῶσαι αὐτήν.\" Διὰ τοῦ τιμίου σταυροῦ, ἐπειδὴ ἔκειτο βεβλημένη ὑπὸ τῆς ἁμαρτίας. \"Κύριος ὄνομα.\" Περὶ οὗ εἶπεν ὁ Ἀπόστολος· Εἶς Κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς, δι' οὗ τὰ πάντα. \"Καὶ κράξον πρός με.\" Ἐκτενῶς δεήθητί μου. \"Καὶ ἀπαγγελῶ σοι.\" Τὰ διὰ τῆς Χριστοῦ παρουσίας γεγενημένα. \"Τῶν καθῃρημένων.\" Δέον ἀκολουθῆσαι τοὺς Ἰουδαίους τῷ Βαβυλωνίῳ, ἐπειδὴ τοῦτο κρῖμα ἦν τοῦ Θεοῦ, καθελόντες τὰς οἰκίας αὐτῶν, χάρακας ἐποίησαν καὶ προμαχῶνας ἐπὶ τῷ μάχεσθαι τοῖς Χαλδαίοις. Διὰ τοῦτο θανάτῳ καταδικάζονται. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀνάγω.\" Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν, διὰ τῆς Χριστοῦ παρουσίας. \"Καὶ ποιήσω εἰρήνην.\" Διὰ τὴν εἰς ἐμὲ πίστιν δωροῦμαι αὐτοῖς τὴν εἰρήνην. \"Καὶ εἰς μεγαλειότητα.\" Οὐδέποτε γὰρ τοιαύτη μεγαλειότης γέγονεν, ὡς ἡ διὰ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ Λόγου ἐνσάρκου παρουσίας. \"Καὶ φοβηθήσονται.\" Ἢ οἱ δαίμονες ἐπὶ τοῖς γενομένοις ἀγαθοῖς τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, ἢ καὶ αὐτοὶ οἱ εὖ πάσχοντες, ἐφ' οἷς τοιοῦτον πρότερον ἠγνόησαν Δεσπότην. \"Φωνὴ νυμφίου.\" Τοῦ τῆς ψυχῆς νυμφίου Λόγου λέγοντος·","english":"And they shall be to me for a people.\" This is common concerning all the faithful. \"And I will give them another way.\" The coming of the Lord. For he himself is the way. \"And another heart.\" The grace of the Spirit. Again he says to him: since the word was hard to believe. \"And I will make a covenant.\" Concerning the resurrection from the dead. Which shall not be changed. CHAPTER 33. \"Thus says the Lord, who makes the earth.\" According to the creation from the beginning, making man from the earth. \"And forms it. Reforming it through the washing of regeneration. \"To set it upright.\" Through the precious cross, since it lay cast down by sin. \"Lord is his name.\" Concerning whom the Apostle said: One Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things. \"And cry to me.\" Entreat me earnestly. \"And I will declare to you.\" The things that have come to be through the coming of Christ. \"Of the things that are pulled down.\" It was fitting that the Jews follow the Babylonian, since this was the judgment of God—they pulled down their houses, made palisades and bulwarks to fight the Chaldeans. Therefore they are condemned to death. \"Behold, I bring again.\" After the history, through the coming of Christ. \"And I will make peace.\" Through faith in me I grant them peace. \"And unto greatness.\" For never has such greatness occurred as that which came through the incarnate coming of the Word of God. \"And they shall fear.\" Either the demons at the good things that have come to men, or even those who are well treated, because they previously did not know such a Master. \"The voice of the bridegroom.\" Of the Word, the bridegroom of the soul, saying:","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":53,"ref":"p53","source":"Δεῦτε πρός με, πάντες οἱ κοπιῶντες καὶ πεφορτισμένοι, κἀγὼ ἀναπαύσω ὑμᾶς. \"Φωνὴ λεγόντων.\" Τῆς εὐφραινομένης καὶ λεγούσης· Ὁ Κύριός μου καὶ ὁ Θεός μου. \"Ὅτι ἐπιστρέψω.\" Καθὼς ἦν Ἄβελ, καὶ Σὴθ, καὶ Ἐνὼχ, καὶ Νῶε, καὶ Ἀβραὰμ, ἐκ πίστεως, καὶ οὐκ ἐκ νόμου δικαιούμενοι. \"Καταλύματα.\" Ἐν αἷς Ἐκκλησίαι· ἐν αἷς οἱ τούτων ποιμένες διαναπαύουσι τὰ λογικὰ ποίμνια. \"Ἐν πόλεσι.\" Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν, τὰς Ἐκκλησίας νόει· ὀρεινὴν, διὰ τὴν ἐξ ἐθνῶν καλεῖ, διὰ τὸ πάλαι αὐτῆς ἄκαρπον. \"Ἔτι παρελεύσεται πρόβατα.\" Τοῦ ἐπισκεπτομένου, καὶ μὴ ἀμελοῦντος, ἀλλὰ ἀριθμοῦντος καὶ ἐπιζητοῦντος, μή τι τῶν λογικῶν προβάτων ἀπώλετο. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΔʹ. \"Βάδισον πρὸς Σεδεκίαν.\" Ἐμοῦ παραδιδόντος, φησὶν ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ οὐ τῇ δυνάμει τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου παραδοθήσεται ἡ πόλις. \"Καὶ ἕως ᾅδου κόψονταί σε.\" Καταπαίζει τοῦ Σεδεκίου, ἵνα ἐκεῖνος ὑπονοήσῃ τὴν ἐκ τῶν πολεμίων ἄφεσιν. Ἔλεγε δὲ ὁ χρησμὸς, ὅτι οὐχ ὡς ἀνὴρ ἐν παρατάξει, ἀλλ' αἰχμάλωτος ληφθεὶς ἐν εἰρηνευούσῃ πόλει τῇ Βαβυλῶνι τὸν κοινὸν ὑποίσει θάνατον. Τὸ δὲ, ἕως ᾅδου κόψονταί σε, ἀντὶ τοῦ, πικρὸν οἷα βασιλέα ἐν αἰχμαλωσίᾳ ἀποθανόντα. \"Ὁ λόγος ὁ γενόμενος.\" Μετὰ τὸ συγγράψασθαι τὴν περὶ τῆς ἀφέσεως διαθήκην. \"Καὶ ὑπεστρέψατε.\" Οἱ ἀπολύσαντες αὐτοὺς ἐλευθέρους, πάλιν εἵλκυσαν αὐτοὺς εἰς δουλείαν. \"Οὓς ἐξαπεστείλατε.\" Τῇ προαιρέσει, τῷ θελήματι. Τοῦτο γὰρ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἴδιον. \"Τὸν μόσχον ὃν ἐποίησαν ἐργάζεσθαι αὐτῷ.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, διὰ τὸν μόσχον· τουτέστι διὰ τὴν εἰδωλολατρείαν παραδώσω αὐτούς. Μόσχον καλεῖ τὸν Αἰγύπτιον, διὰ τὸν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων θεὸν τὸν Ἄπιν.","english":"Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest.\" \"A voice of those saying.\" Of her who rejoices and says: My Lord and my God. \"For I will turn back.\" Just as Abel, and Seth, and Enoch, and Noah, and Abraham were, being justified by faith and not by law. \"Dwellings.\" In which are Churches; in which their shepherds give rest to the rational flocks. \"In cities.\" After the history, understand the Churches; he calls the mountain region because of the calling from the Gentiles, because of its former barrenness. \"Yet shall pass by sheep.\" Of him who visits and does not neglect, but numbers and seeks out, lest any of the rational sheep be lost. CHAPTER 34. \"Go to Zedekiah.\" I am delivering him, says God, and the city shall not be delivered by the power of the Babylonian. \"And they shall cut you even to Hades.\" He mocks Zedekiah, so that he might suppose it was a release from the enemies. But the oracle was saying that not as a man in battle array, but taken captive in the peaceful city of Babylon, he would undergo the common death. And the phrase, \"they shall cut you even to Hades,\" is instead of: bitterly, as a king dying in captivity. \"The word that came.\" After the covenant concerning release was written. \"And you turned back.\" Those who had sent them away free again dragged them into slavery. \"Whom you sent out.\" By choice, by will. For this is proper to freedom. \"The calf which they made to work for it.\" Instead of: because of the calf; that is, because of idolatry I will deliver them up. He calls the Egyptian calf, because of the god of the Egyptians, Apis.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":54,"ref":"p54","source":"Καὶ αὐτοὺς οὖν, φησὶ, καὶ Αἰγύπτιον ὃν εἰς συμμαχίαν ἐκάλεσαν, παραδώσω τοῖς Βαβυλωνίοις. \"Καὶ δύναμις\n\nβασιλέως.\" Ἴσως ἀναζεύξαντας αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀρξαμένους ἀποτρέχειν, ἀπειλεῖ Θεὸς ἐπιστρέφειν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΕʹ. \"Παστοφόριον.\" Παστοφόριον, ἤγουν γαζοφυλάκιον. \"Ἡμεῖς καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες ἡμῶν.\" Σημείωσαι ὑπακοὴν τέκνων καὶ γυναικῶν ἐπὶ παραφυλακῇ τοσαύτης ἀκριβείας. \"Οὐ μὴ λάβητε παιδείαν.\" Οὐκ ἐντρέπεσθε λοιπὸν, καὶ μεταπορεύεσθε εἰς τὸ ἀκούειν τῶν λόγων μου; ΚΕΦΑΛ. Λ ʹ. \"Λάβε σεαυτῷ χαρτίον βιβλίου.\" Χάρτην βιβλίου, ἢ βιβλίον χάρτινον, ἢ καὶ ἐν τόμοις ἔγραφον τὸ παλαιὸν, καὶ τοῖς τόμοις ἀντὶ τῶν βιβλίων ἐχρῶντο. \"Πάντα τὰ κακά.\" Τὰ ἐπίπονα, τὰ κακωτικά· τὰ διὰ τῆς παιδείας προσκαλούμενα αὐτοὺς εἰς διόρθωσιν. \"Οὐκ ἔσται αὐτῷ καθήμενος ἐπὶ θρόνου.\" Καὶ ἀνωτέρω μὲν ἠπείλησε τῷ Ἰωακείμ· Ταφὴν ὄνου ταφήσεται· καὶ νῦν δὲ αὐτῷ ἀπειλεῖ, ὅτι τὸν χάρτην κατέκαυσεν. \"Καὶ προσετέθησαν αὐτῷ λόγοι πλείονες.\" Ἐπειδὴ ἐνόμισεν ὁ Ἰωακεὶμ ἐξαφανίζειν τὴν προφητείαν διὰ τοῦ ἐμπρησμοῦ τοῦ βιβλίου, κελεύει Θεὸς καὶ τὰ πρῶτα γραφῆναι, καὶ ἕτερα προστίθησι. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΖʹ. \"Καὶ ἐὰν πατάξητε.\" Οὐχ ὅτι τοῦτο γέγονεν, ἀλλ' ἐκ δειγμάτων αὐτοῖς τὴν παντελῆ ἀνελπιστίαν τοῦ δυνηθῆναι διαφυγεῖν προλέγει. \"Τοῦ ἀγοράσαι ἐκεῖ.\" Ἢ ἀγοράσαι τόπον εἰς οἴκησιν, ἢ ἀγοράσαι ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἀγοράσαι, καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ἀγορᾶς προφητεῦσαι· ἢ κἀκεῖ παρακινδυνεῦσαι, καὶ τοῖς οἰκείοις κινδύνοις ὠνήσασθαι τὴν σωτηρίαν τῶν σωζομένων. \"Πεσέτω τὸ ἔλεος.\" Ὅτι Γενοῦ ἐλεήμων εἰς ἐμέ.","english":"And them too, he says, and the Egyptian whom they called to their aid, I will hand over to the Babylonians. \"And the strength of the king.\" Perhaps, when they have broken camp and begun to run away, God threatens that he will turn them back. CHAPTER 35. \"Pastophorion.\" A pastophorion, that is, a treasury. \"We and our wives.\" Note the obedience of children and wives in the guarding of such great exactness. \"You shall not receive instruction.\" Are you not ashamed any longer, and do you not pursue listening to my words? CHAPTER 30. \"Take for yourself a sheet of a book.\" A sheet of a book, or a paper book, or they also wrote in scrolls of old, and they used the scrolls instead of books. \"All the evils.\" The toilsome things, the afflictive things; those things which through instruction call them to correction. \"He shall not have one sitting on the throne.\" And above indeed he threatened Jehoiakim: He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey; and now he threatens him, because he burned the sheet. \"And there were added to him more words.\" Since Jehoiakim thought to destroy the prophecy by the burning of the book, God commands both that the first things be written and adds others. CHAPTER 37. \"And if you strike.\" Not that this has happened, but from examples he foretells to them the complete hopelessness of being able to escape. \"To buy there.\" Either to buy a place for dwelling, or to buy instead of, to buy, and to prophesy in the marketplace; or even there to risk danger, and by their own dangers to purchase the salvation of those being saved. \"Let mercy fall.\" Because Be merciful to me.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":55,"ref":"p55","source":"\"Καὶ συνέταξεν.\" Τοῦτο λέγει, ὅτι ῥυπαρὸν ἄρτον ἔξωθεν τοῦ πεττομένου τοῖς ἐλευθέροις, ἵνα εἴπῃ τὸν τοῖς οἰκέταις παρεχόμενον, ἢ καὶ τοῖς κυσίν· ἢ ἐπειδὴ σιτοδεία ἦν ὡς ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ, καὶ ἕκαστος φανερόν τι ἐλάμβανεν, λάθρα ἔπεμπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τῷ προφήτῃ, ἵνα μή τις αὐτῷ συντύχῃ· ἐφοβοῦντο γὰρ τὴν αὐτοῦ διδασκαλίαν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΗʹ. \"Ὅτι οὐκ ἠδύνατο ὁ βασιλεὺς πρὸς αὐτού.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, κερδᾶναι τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ. Δῆλος οὖν ἐστι θέλων μὴ ἀναιρεθῆναι τὸν προφήτην, ὡς οὐδὲ Πιλάτος τὸν προφητῶν Κύριον Ἰησοῦν. \"Καὶ ἐχάλασαν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν λάκκον.\" Γίνεται τύπος ὁ προφήτης τοῦ κατὰ Χριστὸν μυστηρίου, τοῦ δεδομένου μὲν εἰς χεῖρας Ἰουδαίων ὑπὸ Πιλάτου, κατελθόντος δὲ πρὸς τὸν δυσώνυμον καὶ ἀηδέστατον ᾄδην, καὶ ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀναστάντος· ὥσπερ ἀμέλει καὶ ὁ προφήτης ἐκ τοῦ λάκκου πάλιν ἀνέβη· λάκκον δὲ ἡ Γραφὴ πολλαχοῦ τὸν ᾅδην καλεῖ. \"Ἐπονηρεύσω ἃ ἐποίησας.\" Ἀβδεμελὲχ ὁ Αἰθίοψ βουλόμενος σῶσαι τὸν Ἱερεμίαν μέμφεται τῷ βασιλεῖ λέγων· Οὐ καλῶς ἐβουλεύσω ἀποκτεῖναι τὸν ἄνδρα ἐν τῷ λάκκῳ. Ἔδει γὰρ αὐτὸν, τὸν οἴκτιστον σὺν ἡμῖν ὑπομεῖναι θάνατον τὸν διὰ τοῦ λιμοῦ. \"Ζῇ Κύριος.\" Σημεῖον καὶ ἐντεῦθεν, ὅτι κτιστὴ ἡ ψυχή. \"Ἐγὼ λόγον ἔχω.\" Τῶν Ἰουδαίων τινὲς πρὸς τοὺς Χαλδαίους αὐτομολήσαντες, ὑπισχνοῦντο τῷ Σεδεκίᾳ, μὴ συγχωρήσειν τοὺς πολεμίους συλλαβεῖν αὐτόν· καὶ ἐπείθετο μᾶλλον τούτοις, ἢ Θεῷ λέγοντι, δεῖν ἀκολουθῆσαι τῷ Βαβυλωνίῳ. Ἔλεγε δὲ τοῦτο Θεὸς, βουλόμενος αὐτοὺς σωθῆναι· εἰ γὰρ ἔζησαν ἀκολουθήσαντες τῷ πολεμίῳ, γνόντες τὸν παραδόντα Θεὸν, μετενόουν, καὶ τὰς αὑτῶν ἐκέρδαινον ψυχάς.","english":"And he commanded.\" He says this: that it was a filthy bread, outside what is baked for free men, so as to refer to what is given to slaves, or even to dogs; or because there was a famine as in war, and each person took something openly, the king sent secretly to the prophet, so that no one might meet him; for they feared his teaching. CHAPTER 38. \"Because the king was not able to [do anything] against him.\" In place of: to gain his soul. He is therefore shown to be willing that the prophet not be killed, just as Pilate also did not wish [to kill] the Lord of the prophets, Jesus. \"And they let him down into the pit.\" The prophet becomes a type of the mystery according to Christ, who was given into the hands of the Jews by Pilate, who descended to the ill-named and most unpleasant Hades, and who rose from the dead; just as indeed the prophet also came up again from the pit; and Scripture often calls Hades a pit. \"You have done evil in what you have done.\" Abde-melech the Ethiopian, wishing to save Jeremiah, reproaches the king, saying: You did not plan well to kill the man in the pit. For he ought, the most pitiable one, to endure with us the death through famine. \"The Lord lives.\" A sign also from this, that the soul is created. \"I have a word.\" Some of the Jews who had defected to the Chaldeans promised Zedekiah that they would not allow the enemies to seize him; and he was persuaded by these rather than by God, who said that he must follow the Babylonian. And God said this, wishing them to be saved; for if they had lived having followed the enemy, recognizing the God who handed them over, they would have repented and gained their own souls.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":56,"ref":"p56","source":"\"Ἄνδρες εἰρηνικοί σου.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, οἱ φίλοι σου. \"Καὶ δυνήσονταί σοι.\" Τουτέστιν, Ἴσχυσαν παρατρέψαι σε τῆς εὐθείας ὁδοῦ· κατισχύσουσιν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΛΘʹ. \"Καὶ ἐν τῷ δεκάτῳ ἔτει τοῦ Σεδεκία.\" Πολιορκήσαντες ἐπὶ χρόνον οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ εἷλον, καὶ ἐξαγαγόντες ἐκ τῆς φυλακῆς τὸν Ἱερεμίαν παραδεδώκασι τῷ Γοδολίᾳ, καὶ ἐκάθισαν αὐτὸν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ. \"Καὶ ἐξήγαγον.\" Ἴσως ἀκούσαντες παρὰ τῶν αὐτομολησάντων οἱ Χαλδαῖοι, ὅτι προὔλεγε τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις μὴ ἀντιστῆναι αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἱερεμίας, ἐτίμησαν αὐτόν. \"Καὶ πρὸς Ἱερεμίαν.\" Εἰπὼν τῆς πόλεως τὴν ἅλωσιν, ἐπειδὴ ἀναγκαῖον ἦν μνημονεῦσαι, ὡς ἐτίμησεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Ἀβδεμέλεχ, καὶ ὑπέσχετο αὐτῷ διὰ τοῦ προφήτου μὴ παραδώσειν αὐτὸν εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτὸς τὸν προφήτην περιεποιήσατο, ἀνέδραμεν εἰς τὰ πρὸ τῆς ἁλώσεως. \"Πορεύου.\" Οὐκ ἀπὸ τόπου εἰς τόπον κελεύει ὁ Θεὸς μεταβῆναι τῷ προφήτῃ· ἐν φυλακῇ γὰρ ἦν· ἀλλὰ τὸ, Πορεύου, ἐνταῦθα ἀντὶ τοῦ, Διακόνησον τοῖς ἐμοῖς λόγοις, καὶ μήνυσον ταῦτα τῷ","english":"Your peaceful men.\" In place of: your friends. \"And they will be able to [prevail] against you.\" That is: They had strength to turn you aside from the straight way; they will prevail. CHAPTER 39. \"And in the tenth year of Zedekiah.\" The Babylonians, having besieged Jerusalem for a time, captured it, and bringing Jeremiah out of the prison, they handed him over to Gedaliah, and they seated him in the midst of the people. \"And they brought out.\" Perhaps the Chaldeans, having heard from the deserters that Jeremiah was foretelling to the Jews not to resist them, honored him. \"And to Jeremiah.\" Having stated the capture of the city, since it was necessary to mention how God honored Abedmelech, and promised him through the prophet that he would not deliver him into the hands of enemies, since he too had preserved the prophet, he ran back to the events before the capture. \"Go.\" God does not command the prophet to move from place to place—for he was in prison—but \"Go\" here is in place of: Minister to my words, and report these things to the","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":57,"ref":"p57","source":"Ἀβδεμέλεχ. Τὴν ἀποστολικὴν οὖν διακονίαν νόει. \"Ὅτι ἐπεποίθεις.\" Ἡ γὰρ εἰς τὸν προφήτην τιμὴ, εἰς τὸν Θεὸν ἔχει τὴν ἀναφορὰν, καὶ Θεῷ πιστεύων, τὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἄνθρωπον ἐτίμα. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Μʹ. \"Ναβουζαρδάν.\" Ἀρχιστράτηγος ἦν, οὗ ἐκτὸς οὐδεὶς ἀνῃρεῖτο· διὸ καὶ ἀρχιμάγειρος καλεῖται, ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν φόνων. \"Ἅπαντα τὰ ἀγαθά.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ὃ ἡδύ σοί ἐστι, τοῦτο πρᾶξον. \"Καὶ ἤκουσαν.\" Ἐγὼ, φησὶν, ἀποκωλύω αὐτοὺς, τοῦ ἐπηρεάσαι τινὰ ὑμῶν. \"Καὶ ὑμεῖς συνάγετε οἶνον.\" Ἀπολαύσατε τῶν τῆς εἰρήνης ἀγαθῶν, καὶ Θεῷ τῷ δοτῆρι τούτων προσκομίσατε τὰς ἀπαρχάς. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΑʹ. \"Ὀγδοήκοντα ἄνδρες, ἐξυρημένοι πώγωνας.\" Πενθοῦντες ἐπὶ τῇ καθαιρέσει τοῦ ναοῦ. \"Ὅτι εἰσὶν ἡμῖν θησαυροὶ ἐν ἀγρῷ.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Λάβε ὅσα ἔχομεν, καὶ μὴ ἀνέλῃς ἡμᾶς. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΒʹ. \"Ὅτι ἀναπέπαυμαι ἐπὶ τοῖς κακοῖς.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Ἐπληρώθη μου ἡ καθ' ὑμῶν ὀργή. \"Ὅτι εἰς γῆν Αἰγύπτου εἰσελευσόμεθα.\" Οἱ τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ προστρέχοντες, νομίζουσιν ἐκφεύγειν τοῦ βίου τὰ ἐπίπονα, οὐ θέλοντες ἀκούειν πολέμους. Ἀγνοοῦσι δὲ τὴν ὕστερον αὐτοὺς καταληψομένην ὀργήν. \"Καὶ ὁ λιμός.\" Οὗ πολὺν ποιεῖσθε λόγον δεδοικότες αὐτόν. \"Καθὼς ἔσταξεν.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἀφείθη. \"Μὴ εἰσέλθητε.\" Προβλέπων τὰ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων τῷ προφητικῷ πνεύματι ὁ Ἱερεμίας, πρὶν ἐκείνους ἀποκρίνασθαι, φησὶ πρὸς αὐτοὺς, ὅτι Οὐκ ἀκούσεσθε τοῦ Θεοῦ. \"Ὅτι ἐπονηρεύσασθε ἐν ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν.\" Ἕτερα ἐν ταῖς διανοίαις ὑμῶν κεκρικότες, ἀπεστείλατέ με ἐρωτῆσαι Θεὸν πειράζοντες αὐτόν. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΓʹ.","english":"Abimelech. Understand this as the apostolic ministry. \"Because you trusted.\" For the honor shown to the prophet has its reference to God, and one who trusts in God was honoring the man of God. CHAPTER 40. \"Nebuzaradan.\" He was a commander-in-chief, apart from whom no one was put to death; therefore he is also called chief cook, as in the case of murders. \"All the good things.\" In place of: do what is pleasant to you. \"And they heard.\" I, he says, prevent them from doing harm to any of you. \"And you, gather wine.\" Enjoy the good things of peace, and bring the firstfruits to God who gives them. CHAPTER 41. \"Eighty men, with shaved beards.\" Mourning over the destruction of the temple. \"That we have treasures in the field.\" In place of: Take whatever we have, and do not destroy us. CHAPTER 42. \"For I have rested from evils.\" In place of: My anger against you has been fulfilled. \"For we will enter into the land of Egypt.\" Those who run to sin think they are escaping the hardships of life, not wishing to hear of wars. But they are ignorant of the anger that will afterward overtake them. \"And the famine.\" Of which you make much account, fearing it. \"As it has dripped.\" In place of: it has been let go. \"Do not enter.\" Jeremiah, foreseeing by the prophetic spirit the things in the heart of the Jews, says to them before they answer, that You will not hear God. \"For you have done evil in your souls.\" Having decided other things in your minds, you sent me to inquire of God, testing him. CHAPTER 43.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":58,"ref":"p58","source":"\"Ἵνα δῷς ἡμᾶς εἰς χεῖρας τῶν Χαλδαίων.\" Ἴσως ὑπώπτευσαν τὸν Βαροὺχ, ὡς πρότερον πεμφθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως τῶν Ἰουδαίων δῶρα κομίσαι τῷ Βαβυλωνίῳ, καὶ φίλον αὐτῷ γεγενημένον. Προφασίζονται γὰρ τοῦτο εἰς τὸ παρακοῦσαι Θεοῦ. Τῇ γὰρ κακίᾳ οὐ λείπει πρόφασις. \"Ἐν Τάφναις λέγων.\" Καὶ αὕτη βασιλικὴ πόλις τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἐτύγχανεν. \"Οὓς εἰς θάνατον.\" Κατ' ἐξουσίαν, φησὶν, ὃ θέλει διαπράξεται. \"Ὥσπερ φθειρίζει.\" Ἐν τοῖς τῶν δαιμόνων ἱεροῖς. Ἀκριβῶς ἐξερευνήσει. \"Καὶ συντρίψει τοὺς στύλους Ἡλιουπόλεως.\" Ἔστιν Ἡλιούπολις, ἐν ᾗ περιφανὲς ἦν τὸ ἱερὸν, πάντων δαιμόνων καταγώγιον. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΔʹ. \"Ἐφίστημι τὸ πρόσωπόν μου ἐφ' ὑμᾶς εἰς κακά.\" Κατελθόντες οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, πάλιν εἰδώλοις ἔθυον. Προλέγει οὖν αὐτοῖς πάλιν Θεὸς διὰ τοῦ προφήτου, ὅτι Ἀναμνήσατε ἑαυτοὺς τῶν ἐπενεχθέντων κακῶν τῇ Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ. \"Καὶ ἵνα γένησθε εἰς κατάραν.\" Οἱ γὰρ ἐθνικοὶ ὀνειδίζοντές τισι, καταρώμενοι, ἔλεγον, Οὕτως γενέσθω σοι ὡς Ἰσραηλίταις. \"Οὐ μὴ ἐπιστρέψωσι.\" Οἱ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι, καὶ οἱ σποράδην καθ' οἱουσδήποτε τόπους σωθέντες. \"Θυμιᾷν τῇ βασιλίσσῃ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ.\" Ταύτην δὲ ἴσως τὴν καλουμένην Ἀφροδίτην ὑπενόουν εἶναι, ἣν καὶ Σελήνην, καὶ Ἑκάτην ἐκάλουν οἱ βδελυροί. \"Καὶ ἐπλήσθημεν ἄρτων.\" Ἀπὸ γυναικῶν οἱ λόγοι· οὐδὲ ἐν αὐτοῖς οὖσαι τοῖς κακοῖς, τῶν κακῶν ἐπαισθάνονται. \"Καὶ ἐγενόμεθα χρηστοί.\" Χρηστοὺς λέγει καὶ εὐτραφεῖς τινας, καὶ εὐθηνουμένους, καὶ ἱλαρούς. \"Καὶ εἶπεν Ἱερεμίας.\" Συμφώνως φασὶν ἅπαντες· Εἱλόμεθα τὸ θύειν εἰδώλοις.","english":"that you might give us into the hands of the Chaldeans.\" Perhaps they suspected Baruch, as having been previously sent by the king of the Jews to bring gifts to the Babylonian, and having become his friend. For they make this a pretext for disobeying God. For evil is never lacking a pretext. \"In Tahpanhes, saying.\" And this happened to be a royal city of the Egyptians. \"Whom to death.\" By authority, he says, he will accomplish what he wishes. \"As one delouses.\" In the temples of the demons. He will search out exactly. \"And he will shatter the pillars of Heliopolis.\" There is a Heliopolis, in which the temple was conspicuous, a haunt of all the demons. CHAPTER 44. \"I set my face against you for evil.\" The Jews who had gone down into Egypt were again sacrificing to idols. Therefore God foretells to them again through the prophet, that: Remember for yourselves the evils brought upon Jerusalem and Judea. \"And that you might become a curse.\" For the Gentiles, when reproaching certain people, would say in cursing, So may it happen to you as to the Israelites. \"They shall not return.\" Those in Babylon, and those scattered and saved in whatever places. \"To burn incense to the queen of heaven.\" This they perhaps supposed to be the one called Aphrodite, whom the abominable also called Selene and Hecate. \"And we were filled with bread.\" The words are from women; not even being in the midst of the evils, they do not perceive the evils. \"And we became prosperous.\" He calls prosperous certain well-nourished people, and thriving, and cheerful. \"And Jeremiah said.\" All say in agreement: We have chosen to sacrifice to idols.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":59,"ref":"p59","source":"\"Ἐὰν γένηται ἔτι ὄνομά μου ἐν τῷ στόματι.\" Ἐνταῦθα φανερῶς πάντας εἰσάπαξ μετὰ τῶν ἐθνικῶν ἀπέῤῥιψεν. \"Καὶ γνώσονται.\" Πένητες καὶ γέροντες, οὓς οὐκ ἀξιοῦσιν ἀνελεῖν οἱ πολέμιοι, ὑπολιμπάνονται δὲ ἵνα μηνυταὶ γένωνται τῶν συμφορῶν. \"Οἱ καταστάντες.\" Οἱ ἑλόμενοι οἰκῆσαι ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΕʹ. \"Οὕτως εἶπε Κύριος.\" Ὀλιγωροῦντι [πολυωροῦντι] καὶ στένοντι τῷ Βαροὺχ, φησὶ διὰ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου ὁ Θεὸς, ὅτι Περισώσω σου τὴν ψυχὴν ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ. Μὴ ζήτει δὲ, ἄνθρωπος ὢν, ἀπαλλαγῆναι πόνων. Τοὺς νομομαθεῖς, φησὶν, εἰς πάντα σεμνὰ ἐχαρίσατο. Ἐπὶ τὴν Ἀραβίαν φεύγοντες οἱ ἀμφὶ τὸν Σεδεκίαν, εἰς τὴν νῦν καλουμένην Δάφνην. \"Καὶ σὺ ζητήσεις.\" Μὴ ζητήσῃς· τὰ γὰρ μεγάλα καὶ ἀξιάγαστα οὐκ ἐνταῦθα, ἀλλ' ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι αἰῶνι. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Μ ʹ. \"Ἐν Χαρμεῖς.\" Πόλις ἐστὶν ἡ Χαρμὶς ἐν τῇ Μεσοποταμίᾳ. \"Διὰ τοῦτο αὐτοὶ πτοοῦνται.\" Ὁ προφήτης φησὶν, ὅτι οἱ παρασκευαζόμενοι εἰς πόλεμον Αἰγύπτου [ἴσ. Αἰγύπτιοι], αὐτοὶ πτοοῦνται. \"Τίς","english":"If my name still be in the mouth.\" Here he has plainly cast them all off once for all together with the Gentiles. \"And they shall know.\" The poor and the old, whom the enemies do not deem worthy to destroy, are left behind that they may become informers of the calamities. \"Those who stood.\" Those who chose to dwell in Egypt. CHAPTER 45. \"Thus says the Lord.\" To Baruch, who is faint-hearted and groaning, God says through Jeremiah: I will save your soul in every place. But do not seek, being a man, to be released from labors. Those learned in the law, he says, he has graciously given you for all honorable things. Those around Zedekiah, fleeing to Arabia, to what is now called Daphne. \"And you shall seek.\" Do not seek; for the great and admirable things are not here, but in the age to come. CHAPTER 46. \"In Charmeis.\" Charmis is a city in Mesopotamia. \"Therefore they themselves are terrified.\" The prophet says that those preparing for war in Egypt are themselves terrified. \"Who","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":60,"ref":"p60","source":"οὗτος ὡς ποταμός;\" Ὁ Βαβυλώνιος. \"Καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα.\" Μετὰ τὴν ἰστορίαν τὴν Χριστοῦ παρουσίαν νόει, ὅτε τελείως οἱ ἐχθροὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ κατηγορήθησαν δαίμονες. \"Ἀνάβηθι Γαλαάδ.\" Ἡ Γαλαὰδ ἔχει μὲν τὴν ῥητίνην, ἰατρικὴν οὖσαν τραυμάτων. Ὃ δὲ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν· Ἡ Γαλαὰδ ἐπηγγέλλετο ἐπαμύνειν τῷ Αἰγυπτίῳ· καὶ αὕτη πρώτη ἑάλω. Ἡ οὖν, φησὶν, ὑπισχνουμένη ἄλλοις βοηθεῖν, σαυτῇ βοήθησον. Παρθένον δὲ τὴν Αἴγυπτόν φησιν, ὡς τότε πρῶτον αἰσχρῶς ὑπὸ πολεμίων ἡττηθεῖσαν, καὶ ὡς ἂν εἴποι τις διαπαρθενευθεῖσαν· θυγατέρα δὲ Αἰγύπτου, τὴν περίχωρον ὀνομάζει. \"Ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἔπεσαν.\" Ὁ Νεχαὼ Φαραὼ σὺν τοῖς ὑπηκόοις· ἢ καὶ Γαλαὰδ σὺν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ. \"Ἃ ἐλάλησε Κύριος.\" Λέγεται Θεὸς ἐν χειρὶ λαλεῖν τῶν προφητῶν, ἐπειδὴ πάντα ὅσα ἤκουσαν οἱ προφῆται ποιεῖν, ἐποίουν. Χειρὶ γὰρ ἡ πρᾶξις. Ἢ καὶ ἐπειδὴ πάντα τὰ μηνυόμενα ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὑπὸ τῶν προφητῶν εἰς ἔργον ἐχώρει. \"Ἀναγγείλατε εἰς Μαγδωλόν.\" Μέμφις, καὶ Τάφνας, καὶ Μαγδωλὸς, πόλεις ὑπῆρχον Αἰγυπτίων περιφανεῖς καὶ βασιλικαί. \"Καὶ παραγγείλατε εἰς Μέμφιν.\" Ἑτοίμασον σεαυτὴν εἰς σφαγὴν, ἐπίστηθι, ἀντὶ τοῦ, γνώσῃ ὅτι ὡς σμίλακα, οὕτως ἐκκόψει σου τὸν βασιλέα ἡ μάχαιρα τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου. \"Καὶ ἕκαστος.\" Οἱ ἐν τῇ Αἰγύπτῳ Ἰουδαῖοι λέγοντες, Ἀναστρέψωμεν πρὸς τὸν λαὸν ἡμῶν. \"Ἀπὸ προσώπου μαχαίρας Ἑλληνικῆς.\" Οἱ ἀπὸ Ἴωνος Ἕλληνες ὄντες, ὑπόφοροι ἦσαν κατὰ τὸ παλαιὸν τῶν Βαβυλωνίων, καὶ συνεμάχουν αὐτῷ ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις. Ἀπὸ μαχαίρας οὖν Ἑλληνικῆς, ἀντὶ τοῦ, τῶν συμμάχων τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου.","english":"This one like a river?\" The Babylonian. \"And the day.\" After the history, understand the presence of Christ, when the enemies of God, the demons, were fully accused. \"Go up to Gilead.\" Gilead has resin, which is a healing for wounds. What he means is this: Gilead promised to defend the Egyptian; and she was the first to be captured. So, he says, you who promise to help others, help yourself. He calls Egypt a virgin, as then for the first time shamefully defeated by enemies, and, as one might say, deflowered; and he names the surrounding region the daughter of Egypt. \"They fell together.\" Pharaoh Necho with his subjects; or also Gilead with Egypt. \"What the Lord spoke.\" God is said to speak by the hand of the prophets, since all things whatsoever the prophets heard, they did. For the hand is action. Or also because all things announced by God were brought to deed by the prophets. \"Announce in Magdolon.\" Memphis, and Daphnae, and Magdolon were cities of the Egyptians, illustrious and royal. \"And command in Memphis.\" Prepare yourself for slaughter, stand ready—that is, you shall know that like a vine-shoot, so the sword of the Babylonian shall cut off your king. \"And each one.\" The Jews in Egypt saying, Let us return to our people. \"From the face of a Greek sword.\" The Greeks from Ionia were in ancient times tributaries of the Babylonians, and fought alongside him in wars. From a Greek sword, then—that is, from the allies of the Babylonian.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":61,"ref":"p61","source":"\"Ὅτι ὡς τὸ Ἰταβύριον.\" Τοῦτο τὸ ὄρος τῇς Γαλιλαίας ὂν, ἔρημον ἦν πρὸ τῆς Χριστοῦ παρουσίας. Ὁ δὲ Κάρμηλος καὶ αὐτὸς ἔρημος ἦν, ἔγκειται δὲ τῇ θαλάσσῃ, καὶ τοὺς θαλαττίους δέχεται κλύδωνας. Ἔσται οὖν, φησὶν, ἡ Μέμφις θορύβου μεστὴ, καὶ ἔρημος ἐκ τῆς ἐφόδου τῶν Βαβυλωνίων. \"Δάμαλις κεκαλλωπισμένη Αἴγυπτος.\" Ὅτι μέρος τι τῆς δυνάμεως πέμψας ὁ Βαβυλώνιος, εἷλεν αὐτήν. –Στρατιῶται, τουτέστι τὸ σιτηρέσιον· ἢ καὶ οἱ ξένοι οὓς ἐμισθώσαντο εἰς συμμαχίαν. \"Φωνὴ αὐτῶν, ὡς ὅφεως.\" Ἢ στεναζόντων φησὶ καὶ φευγόντων· ἐπειδὴ, φεύγων ὁ ὄφις συρίζει. Ὅτι ἐν ἄμμῳ.\" Ἕρπονται χαμαὶ κείμενοι, συρόμενοι αἰχμάλωτοι. \"Ἐκκόψουσι τὸν δρυμὸν αὐτῆς.\" Τὸ ἀνείκαστον, καὶ ὑπὲρ ἀκρίδα πλῆθος αὐτῆς. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐκδικῶ. Ἀμμωνᾶν Δία ἐτίμων Αἰγύπτιοι, καὶ αὐτὸ οὖν, φησὶν, αὐτῶν τὸ εἴδωλον τιμωρήσομαι· τοῦτο δὲ πέπονθεν ὁ Σατανᾶς ἐπὶ τῆς Χριστοῦ παρουσίας. Καὶ παιδεύσω σε.\" Ἐπὶ μὲν τῆς ἱστορίας, ὅτι καὶ ἀνελθόντες ἐξ Αἰγύπτου εἰς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, πάλιν ἐπαιδεύοντο· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, τῷ κατὰ Χριστὸν Ἰακὼβ σωζομένῳ, φησὶν, ὅτι Λυτρώσομαί σε τῆς δαιμονικῆς δουλείας, καὶ παιδεύσω σε κρίματα, τουτέστι δόγματα εὐαγγελικὰ, ἐὰν δὲ ἁμάρτῃς τιμωρήσομαί σε. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΖʹ. \"Τάδε λέγει Κύριος· Ἰδοὺ ὕδατα.\" Πρὸς μὲν ἱστορίαν, τὰ πλήθη τῶν Βαβυλωνίων· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ἡ τοῦ Ἀντιχρίστου παρουσία κατασημαίνεται. \"Ἕως τίνος, ἡ μάχαιρα τοῦ Κυρίου;\" Προορᾷ ὁ προφήτης τὴν πρὸς τῷ τέλει τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐκδίκησιν κατὰ τῶν δαιμόνων καὶ πάντων τῶν ἀπίστων. \"Ἀποκατάστηθι εἰς τὸν κολεόν σου.\" Εὔχεται λοιπὸν ἡσυχάσαι τῆν ὀργὴν, ἵνα εἰρηνεύσῃ ἡ κτίσις.","english":"Because it is like Itabyrium.\" This mountain, being in Galilee, was deserted before the coming of Christ. And Carmel itself was also deserted, but it lies by the sea and receives the sea's waves. Therefore, he says, Memphis will be full of tumult and deserted because of the invasion of the Babylonians. \"Egypt is a beautified heifer.\" Because the Babylonian, having sent a part of his force, captured her. —\"Soldiers,\" that is, the ration; or also the foreigners whom they hired for alliance. \"Their voice, like a serpent's.\" Either, he says, of those groaning and fleeing, since a fleeing serpent hisses. \"Because in the sand.\" They crawl lying on the ground, dragged as captives. \"They will cut down her forest.\" Her multitude that is beyond compare and beyond locusts. \"Behold, I will avenge.\" The Egyptians honored Ammon as Zeus, and so, he says, I will punish their very idol; and Satan has suffered this at the coming of Christ. \"And I will discipline you.\" In the history, that having gone up from Egypt to Jerusalem, they were disciplined again; but in the spiritual sense, to Jacob who is saved according to Christ, he says, I will redeem you from demonic slavery, and I will discipline you with judgments, that is, with evangelical doctrines, but if you sin I will punish you. CHAPTER 47. \"Thus says the Lord: Behold, waters.\" In the history, the multitudes of the Babylonians; but in the spiritual sense, the coming of the Antichrist is signified. \"How long, the sword of the Lord?\" The prophet foresees the vengeance of God at the end against the demons and all the unbelievers. \"Return to your scabbard.\" He prays that the wrath may now be at rest, so that creation may be at peace.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":62,"ref":"p62","source":"– Πληροφορίαν δέχεται, ὅτι οὐχ ἡσυχάσει ἡ τοῦ Κυρίου μάχαιρα, ἕως οὗ τελείως ἀνέλῃ τὴν πλάνην, καὶ ἔσχατος ἐχθρὸς καταργηθῇ ὁ θάνατος· πρὸς οὖν τῇ ἱστορίᾳ, νόει καὶ τὰ τῆς θεωρίας. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΗʹ. \"Οὐαὶ ἐπὶ Ναβαῦ.\" Ναβαῦ, πόλις Μωαβιτῶν, ἐν ᾗ τὸ Δευτερονόμιον ἐγράφη. \"Ἀλαώθ.\" Ἀλαὼθ, πόλις Μωαβιτῶν, ὡς αἱ λοιπαί. \"Καὶ ἐξελεύσεται Χαμώς.\" Χαμὼς, εἴδωλον Μωαβιτῶν. \"Καὶ ἀπολεῖται ὁ αὐλών.\" Ὁ αὐλὼν τὰ παρακείμενα τῷ ποταμῷ. \"Δότε σημεῖα τῇ Μωάβ.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Προσημάνατε αὐτῇ. \"Ἐξαίρων μάχαιραν αὐτοῦ ἀφ' αἵματος.\" Μωαβῖται καὶ Ἀμμανῖται κωλύωνται ἐκ τοῦ νόμου εἰσιέναι εἰς οἶκον Θεοῦ. Πρὸς μὲν οὖν τὴν ἱστορίαν, καταρᾶται τοὺς μὴ ἀναιροῦντας αὐτούς· ἐκ δὲ τῆς ἀφορμῆς ταύτης γενικὸν ἐξέθετο λόγον καί φησιν· Ἐπικατάρατός ἐστιν ὁ ἀφαιρούμενος τὴν μάχαιραν αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναιρεῖν τὰ φαῦλα· ἡ γὰρ μάχαιρα τοῦ πνεύματος ὀφείλει φονεύειν τᾶ κακὰ πάντοτε. \"Καὶ\n\nπεποιθώς.\" Ὁ μὴ ἔχων πρόσωπον εἰς οἶκον Θεοῦ εἰσιέναι Μωαβίτης, πέποιθε τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου. –Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν νόησον, ὅτι ἠμέλησεν τὰς νεωτερικὰς ὁρμὰς ἀνακόψαι. \"Οὐκ ἐνέχεεν ἐξ ἀγγείου εἰς ἀγγεῖον.\" Πρὸς μὲν ἰστορίαν, Οὐδέποτε, φησὶν, ἀπῳκίσθη, οὐδὲ ἀπώλεσέ τι τῶν ἑαυτοῦ. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ἀγγεῖόν φησιν ἐνταῦθα τὸ ποτήριον. Ἔστι δὲ ποτήριον ὀργῆς, καὶ ποτήριον σωτηρίου· οὐκ ἔκλινεν οὖν, φησὶ, τὸ τῆς ὀργῆς ποτήριον εἰς τὸ τοῦ σωτηρίου, ἀντὶ τοῦ, οὐκ ἐξιλεώσατο τὴν θείαν ὀργήν. \"Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἔστη γεῦμα αὐτοῦ.\" Τὸ πικρὸν τῆς ἁμαρτίας γεῦμα· ὀσμὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ φησι τὴν θανατηφόρον.","english":"He receives full assurance that the sword of the Lord will not rest until it has completely destroyed error, and death, the last enemy, is abolished. Alongside the historical sense, then, understand also the things of spiritual contemplation. CHAPTER 48. \"Woe upon Nebo.\" Nebo is a city of the Moabites, in which Deuteronomy was written. \"Alaoth.\" Alaoth is a city of the Moabites, like the rest. \"And Chemosh shall go forth.\" Chemosh was an idol of the Moabites. \"And the valley shall perish.\" The valley means the regions lying along the river. \"Give signs to Moab.\" That is, Mark her out beforehand. \"Drawing his sword from blood.\" The Moabites and Ammonites are forbidden by the law to enter the house of God. With respect to the history, then, he curses those who do not destroy them; but from this occasion he sets forth a general principle and says: Cursed is the one who withdraws his sword from destroying evil things; for the sword of the spirit ought always to slay evils. \"And\n\ntrusting.\" The Moabite who has no face to enter the house of God has trusted in the glory of this present age. After the history, understand that he neglected to check the impulses of youth. \"He did not pour from vessel to vessel.\" With respect to the history, he says, She was never deported, nor did she lose any of her own. With respect to the deeper meaning, he here calls the cup a vessel. There is a cup of wrath and a cup of salvation; he did not, then, he says, pour the cup of wrath into the cup of salvation—that is, he did not propitiate the divine wrath. \"And therefore his taste stood.\" The bitter taste of sin; and he calls its odor death-dealing.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":63,"ref":"p63","source":"\"Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι.\" Ἐνέμεινε τῇ τροπῇ, φησὶ δὲ αἰχμαλωτίζοντας. \"Τὰ κέρατα αὐτοῦ.\" Τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ. \"Ἀπὸ Βαιθήλ.\" Ἐν ᾗ ἔστησε τὰς δαμάλεις ὁ Ἱεροβοάμ. Ἔχει ἀναφορὰν ὁ λόγος κατὰ τῆς διαβολικῆς κακίας. \"Πῶς ἐρεῖτε· Ἰσχυροί ἐσμεν;\" Ὅτι ἐμεγαλαύχησε κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτὸν ἀδικήσαντας τοὺς Ἰσραηλίτας, τουτέστιν ἡμᾶς, καταπολεμεῖ. \"Βακτηρία.\" Ἡ ἔνδοξος βασιλεία. \"Ῥάβδος μεγαλώματος.\" Ἡ τῆς μεγαλωσύνης ἰσχύς. \"Καθημένη ἐν Ἀράρ.\" Ἐν σήψει, ἐν σαπρίᾳ. \"Καὶ ἐπ' οἶκον.\" Τὴν βασιλικὴν αὐτῶν πόλιν φησίν. –Αὕτη λέγεται ἡ νῦν καλουμένη Δάφνη. \"Κατεάχθη κέρας Μωάβ.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, καὶ ἡ δόξα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ· χεὶρ γὰρ ἡ πρᾶξις. \"Μεθύσατε αὐτόν.\" Ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ αὐτοῦ συντριβήσεται. \"Καὶ μὴν εἰς γελοιασμὸν ἦν.\" Ὅτι καὶ σὺ ἐχλεύαζες τὸν Ἰσραὴλ, ὡς οὐ δι' ἁμαρτίας, ἀλλὰ δι' ἀδυναμίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτῶν τιμωρούμενον. \"Καὶ ἐν κλοπαῖς σου.\" Κλέπτοντας, φησὶν, εὗρες τὰ σὰ, ὅτι ἐπολέμεις τὸν Ἰσραήλ. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἁρμόσει καὶ κατὰ δαιμόνων, τῶν μηδὲν μὲν προαδικηθέντων, δωρεὰν δὲ ἡμῖν πολεμούντων. \"Στόματι βοθύνου.\" Ἐν σχήματι φάραγγος. – Ἔτι ἀπειλεῖ κατὰ τῆς Μωαβίτιδος, ὡς εἰς αὐτὸν ἐξυβρισάσης τὸν Θεὸν διὰ τοῦ λέγειν· Οὐκ ἰσχύει σώζειν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Ἰσραήλ. \"Οὐχὶ τὸ ἱκανόν;\" Οὐχ ὡς προσδοκῶν, ὅτι ἀνταπόδοσίς ἐστιν, οὕτως ἔπραξεν, ἢ οὕτως; οὐ πᾶσαν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν εἰσήνεγκεν εἰς τὴν κατ' ἐμοῦ ὕβριν; \"Βοήσατε ἐπ' ἄνδρας κειράδας αὐχμοῦ.\" Ἐπὶ τοὺς κεκαλλωπισμένους ἄνδρας τῆς Μωαβίτιδος· αὐχμώδης γὰρ ἡ χώρα. Ἢ οὕτως, ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφείλοντας αὐχμώδεις εἶναι, καὶ πενθεῖν διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας·","english":"And therefore, behold, the days. He lingered on the change, and he says, taking captive. His horns. His glory. From Bethel. In which Jeroboam set up the calves. The word has reference against the devil's malice. How will you say, We are strong? Because he boasted greatly against God, and though the Israelites, that is, we, had done him no wrong, he wages war against them. Staff. The glorious kingdom. Rod of greatness. The strength of majesty. Dwelling in Arar. In decay, in rottenness. And against the house. He means their royal city. —This is what is now called Daphne. The horn of Moab was brought down. Instead of, both his glory and his strength; for the hand is the deed. You made him drunk. In his strength he shall be crushed. And indeed he was a laughingstock. Because you too mocked Israel, as though it were being punished not because of sin, but because of the weakness of their God. And in your thefts. You found, he says, your own things being stolen, because you made war on Israel. For this will fit also against demons, who, though in no way wronged first, make war on us for nothing. With the mouth of a pit. In the form of a ravine. —He still threatens against the land of Moab, as having insulted God himself by saying, God is not able to save Israel. Was it not enough? Did he not act as one expecting that there is a recompense, or thus? Did he not bring all his own power into the insult against me? Cry out against the shorn men of drought. Against the adorned men of Moab; for the country is parched. Or thus, against those who ought to be parched and to mourn because of their sins.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":64,"ref":"p64","source":"κειρομένους δὲ καὶ τρυφῶντας διὰ καταφρόνησιν. \"Ὡς κλαυθμὸν Ἰαζὴρ ἀποκλαύσομαι.\" Ὡς τὴνἸαζὴρ, φησὶν, οὕτως καὶ τὴν Σεβαμὴν ποιήσω. Ἀμπέλων δὲ ἐμνήσθη, διὰ τὸ τοὺς πολεμίους δῃοῦν τοὺς καρπούς. \"Κλήματά σου διῆλθε θάλασσαν.\" Ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν πολεμίων κατεκλείσθησαν. \"Πόλις Ἰαζήρ.\" Ὁ αὐτὸς τρόπος ὁ ἁψάμενος Ἰαζὴρ,καὶ σοῦ ἥψατο. \"Συνεψήσθη.\" Συνεκόπη, φησὶ, χαρὰ τῆς Μωαβίτιδος. Ἅμα γὰρ τυχὸν ἤρχοντο εὐφραίνεσθαι, ἐπετίθετο ἡ ὀργή. \"Καὶ οἶνος ἦν.\" Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ οἶνος, φησὶν, ἀποστάζων ἐκ τῆς σταφυλῆς τῆς ἀποτεθείσης ἐν τῷ ληνῷ, ἔφθασε πατηθῆναι· ἅμα γὰρ ἤρχοντο πατῆσαι, καὶ ἡ ἀκοὴ τῶν πολεμίων ἀνέκοπτεν αὐτούς. \"Πρωῒ οὐκ ἐπάτησαν.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ ξηρανθήσονται· θεήλατον δέ φησιν ὀργήν. \"Διὰ τοῦτο καρδία τοῦ Μωὰβ, ὥσπερ αὐλοί.\" Ὁ αὐλὸς ὑπὸ τῆς βίας τοῦ πνεύματος ἑτέρου φυσῶντος βοᾷ. Βιαζόμενοι τοιγαροῦν ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων βοήσουσι, κἀγὼ δὲ ὑπὸ τῆς ἑαυτῶν ὕβρεως συνωθούμενος κεκράξομαι ἐπ' αὐτούς. \"Πῶς κατήλλαξε;\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, πως ἀντεστράφη; \"Ἰδοὺ ὡς ἀετός.\" Ἀετῷ παρείκασε τὸν Ναβουχοδονόσορ καὶ Ἰεζεκιὴλ διὰ τὸ σφοδρὸν τῆς ὁρμῆς, καὶ τοῦ κινδύνου τὸ ἄφυκτον, μηδὲν εἰς τοῦτο τῶν ὀχυρωμάτων συναιρομένων, πάσης δὲ γιγνομένης μετὰ πλείστου δέους ἐκλύσεως, γυναικὸς δίκην μελλούσης τίκτειν ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΘʹ. \"Τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἀμμών.\" Ἀμμανίταις, ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀμμὰν ὄντες. \"Ἢ παραληψόμενος.\" Παραληψόμενος, ἀντὶ τοῦ, κληρονόμος, φησίν. Οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ ὁ ὀφείλων κληρονομῆσαι τὰς πόλεις τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Γαλαὰδ ὅτι ταύτας εἰλήφασιν οἱ Ἀμμανῖται.","english":"And being shorn and living in luxury through contempt. \"As the weeping of Jazer I will weep.\" As Jazer, he says, so also will I make Sebam. And he mentioned vineyards because the enemies were ravaging the fruits. \"Your branches passed through the sea.\" They were shut in by the multitude of the enemies. \"City of Jazer.\" The same manner that touched Jazer touched you also. \"It was boiled together.\" It was cut down, he says, the joy of Moabitis. For as soon as they happened to begin to rejoice, the wrath came upon them. \"And there was wine.\" But not even wine, he says, dripping from the grape stored in the winepress, had time to be trodden; for as soon as they began to tread, the report of the enemies checked them. \"In the morning they did not tread.\" Instead of \"they shall be dried up\"; and he calls it a God-sent wrath. \"Therefore the heart of Moab is like pipes.\" The pipe cries out under the force of another spirit blowing. Being constrained, therefore, by the enemies they will cry out, and I too, driven by their own insolence, will cry out against them. \"How did it reconcile?\" Instead of \"how was it turned about?\" \"Behold, as an eagle.\" He compared Nebuchadnezzar and Jezekiel to an eagle because of the vehemence of the assault and the inescapability of the danger, no strongholds contributing anything to this, but every kind of dissolution occurring with the greatest fear, like a woman about to give birth. CHAPTER 49. \"To the sons of Ammon.\" To the Ammonites, being from Amman. \"Or will he take possession?\" He who will take possession, instead of \"heir,\" he says. There is not among the sons of Israel one who ought to inherit the cities of the tribe of Gilead, because the Ammonites have taken them.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":65,"ref":"p65","source":"\"Διατί παρέλαβε Μελχόλ;\" Μελχὸλ καὶ εἴδωλον, καὶ βασιλεὺς Ἀμμανιτῶν οὕτω καλούμενος. Ῥαββὰθ, πόλις Ἀμμανιτῶν. \"Περιζώσασθε σάκκους.\" Ταῖς πόλεσι τῶν Ἀμμανιτῶν παρεγγυᾷ τὰς ἀλλήλων ὀλοφύρεσθαι συμφοράς. \"Τί ἀγαλλιᾶσθε;\"\n\nΜανικῶς καὶ ἐλεεινῶς κόψασθε. \"Θύγατερ ἰταμίας.\" Ὁ Ἐνακεὶμ κατ' ἀρχὰς ἐκείνην ᾤκει τὴν γῆν. Ὀλίγον οὖν, φησὶ, μέλλετε χαίρειν ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ γῇ, μετ' οὐ πολὺ δὲ αἰχμαλωτίζεσθε. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Ἀπηνὴς καὶ ἀπάνθρωπε· πρὸς δὲ τὴν γῆν τῶν Ἀμμανιτῶν ὁ λόγος. \"Καὶ διασπαρήσεσθε.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ὅπου ἂν ἕκαστος δυνηθῇ. \"Τάδε λέγει Κύριος.\" Δι' ἧς δύναται σωθῆναι· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ὅτι Ἀπολῶ, φησὶν, τὴν σοφίαν τῶν σοφῶν. \"Ἠπατήθη.\" Ἐν ᾧ ἐπεποίθεισαν ὡς ἀσφαλεῖ, εὑρεθήσεται ἀνωφελής. \"Βαθύνατε εἰς κάθισιν.\" Εἰς βάθος καθίσατε, ἀντὶ τοῦ. Ἐκδέξασθε, καὶ μανθάνετε τὰ συμβησόμενα. Δαιδὰν δὲ πόλις τῆς Ἰδουμαίας. \"Ὅτι δύσκολα ἐποίησεν.\" Τὸν μέλλοντα αὐτῇ πολεμεῖν. \"Ὅτι ἐγὼ κατέσυρα τὸν Ἡσαῦ.\" Οἱ πολέμιοι. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, οἱ ἀπόστολοι, καὶ οἱ κατὰ καιροὺς τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν προεστῶτες κατὰ τῆς εἰδωλολατρίας. \"Ἀνεκάλυψα τὰ κρυπτὰ αὐτῶν.\" Τὸν Σατανᾶν. Τὰ δι' ὧν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἠπάτων οἱ δαίμονες. \"Καὶ αἱ χῆραι.\" Αἱ ἀποστᾶσαι τῶν ἐθνικῶν ψυχαί. \"Καὶ ἀγγέλους εἰς ἔθνη ἀπέστειλε.\" Τοὺς διεγείροντας κατὰ τῆς Ἰδουμαίας τὸν πόλεμον. Κατὰ δὲ τὴν θεωρίαν, τοὺς ἁγίους ἀποστόλους. \"Ἡ παιγνία σου.\" Τὸ στρῆνός σου, ἡ ἀναξία σου. \"Συνέλαβεν ἰσχύν.\" Καὶ οἱ βουνοὶ ἐν ἀνάγκαις ὀχυρώματά εἰσιν· ἐπ' αὐτῶν γὰρ ἱστάμενοι, λίθους κατὰ τῶν πολεμίων πέμπουσιν.","english":"Why did he mention Melchol?\" Melchol is both an idol and the king of the Ammonites, so called. Rabbah is a city of the Ammonites. \"Gird yourselves with sackcloth.\" He enjoins the cities of the Ammonites to lament one another's calamities. \"Why do you exult?\"\n\nWail madly and piteously. \"Daughter of insolence.\" Enakim originally dwelt in that land. For a little while, then, he says, you are about to rejoice in that land, but not long after you will be taken captive. Instead of: harsh and inhuman; and the word is directed to the land of the Ammonites. \"And you shall be scattered.\" Instead of: wherever each one may be able. \"Thus says the Lord.\" Through which she can be saved; but as for the meaning: I will destroy, he says, the wisdom of the wise. \"She was deceived.\" In that which they trusted as secure, it will be found useless. \"Go deep to sit down.\" Sit down deep, instead of: wait, and learn what will happen. And Daidan is a city of Idumea. \"That he did hard things.\" The one who is about to wage war against her. \"That I have dragged down Esau.\" The enemies. But as for the meaning: the apostles, and those who from time to time preside over the Churches, against idolatry. \"I have uncovered their hidden things.\" Satan. The things through which the demons deceived men. \"And the widows.\" The souls that have departed from the Gentiles. \"And he sent angels to the nations.\" Those who stir up the war against Idumea. But according to the spiritual sense, the holy apostles. \"Your sport.\" Your insolence, your unworthiness. \"She conceived strength.\" And the hills in distresses are strongholds; for standing on them, they hurl stones at the enemies.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":66,"ref":"p66","source":"\"Καὶ οὐ μὴ κατοικήσει.\" Ταῦτα πάντα οὕτως τῇ ἱστορίᾳ ἁρμόζει. Ἤρξατο δὲ κατὰ τῆς δαιμονικῆς πλάνης γίνεσθαι ἀπὸ τῆς παρουσίας Χριστοῦ, καὶ πέρας ἕξουσιν ἐν τῇ συντελείᾳ. \"Ἰδοὺ ὥσπερ λέων ἀναβήσεται.\" Ὁ Κύριος ἀνελθὼν ἐκ τοῦ βαπτίσματος. \"Καὶ τοὺς νεανίσκους ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἐπιστήσατε.\" Κερὶ ὧν εἴρηται· Ἔγραψα ὑμῖν, νεανίσκοι, ὅτι νενικήκατε τὸν πονηρόν· τὰ νήπια αὐτῶν. \"Ἐὰν μὴ ἀβατωθῇ.\" Ἵνα μηκέτι ἔχωσι ποῦ καταλῦσαι οἱ δαίμονες, τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐλευθερουμένων, καὶ τῶν εἰδωλίων καταστρεφομένων. \"Ἰδοὺ ὥσπερ ἀετός.\" Ὁ μέλλων αὐτὴν καταλύειν. \"Τῇ Δαμασκῷ.\" Τῆς Δαμασκοῦ προλέγει τὴν ἅλωσιν. \"Κατῃσχύνθη. Ἡμὰθ καὶ Ἀρφὰθ, ἡ νῦν Ἀντιόχεια, τότε ἐκαλεῖτο. Ἐβασιλεύον[το] δὲ ἐκεῖνα τὰ χωρία τότε ὑπὸ τῆς Δαμασκοῦ· αὕτη γὰρ ἦν τότε ἡ τῶν Σύρων βασιλικὴ χώρα. \"Πῶς οὐχὶ ἐγκατέλιπε πόλιν;\" Ἐν ταῖς τῶν πολεμίων ἀκοαῖς καταλιμπάνοντες τὰς πόλεις, εἰς τὰς κώμας ἔφευγον. Πῶς οὖν, φησὶν, ἐπὶ τοιαύταις ἀκοαῖς οὐκ ἔμελλον καταλιμπάνειν τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ἀπιέναι εἰς τὰς κώμας; Πόλιν δὲ ἐμὴν, φησὶν, ἐπειδὴ αἱ πᾶσαι πόλεις τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰσιν. \"Ἄμφοδα.\" Ὡς βασιλεῖς Σύρων, Ἄδερ ἐκαλοῦντο,ὡς καὶ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι Φαραώ. \"Λίαν ἐμβαθύνατε εἰς κάθισιν.\" Ἐνομίσατε ἀσφαλῶς καθῆσθαι, τουτέστιν οἰκεῖν. \"Ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ.\" Ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ. Αὐλὴ δὲ διὰ τὸ αἴθριον. \"Ἀνάστηθι καὶ ἀνάβηθι.\" Καθήμενον εἰς ἀναψυχὴν, ἡσυχάζον, εὐσταθοῦν. \"Οἷς οὐκ εἰσὶ θύραι.\" Βάλανοι, αἱ κλεῖδες, διὰ τὸ αἰθρίους οἰκεῖν. \"Μόνοι καταλύουσι.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, διεσπαρμένοι. \"Κεκαρμένους.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, τὴν εὐπρέπειαν ἀφηρημένους·","english":"And he shall in no way dwell there.\" All these things thus fit the history. But it began to come to pass against the demonic deception from the coming of Christ, and they will have their end in the consummation. \"Behold, like a lion he shall come up.\" The Lord, having come up from the baptism. \"And set the young men against her.\" Concerning whom it has been said: I have written to you, young men, that you have overcome the evil one; their little children. \"Unless it be made impassable.\" So that the demons may no longer have where to settle, when men are set free and the idols are overthrown. \"Behold, like an eagle.\" He who is about to destroy her. \"To Damascus.\" He foretells the capture of Damascus. \"She is put to shame. Hamath and Arphath, which is now Antioch, was then called so. For those districts were then ruled by Damascus; for this was then the royal territory of the Syrians. \"How has he not left the city?\" In the hearing of the enemies, leaving the cities, they fled to the villages. How then, he says, in the face of such reports were they not about to leave the city and depart to the villages? But my city, he says, since all cities are God's. \"Amphoda.\" As kings of the Syrians were called Adad, as also the Egyptians Pharaoh. \"You have gone very deep for a dwelling.\" You thought you sat securely, that is, dwelt. \"In the court.\" In the desert. And a court because of the open air. \"Arise and go up.\" One sitting for refreshment, resting, standing firm. \"Those which have no doors.\" Bolts, the keys, because they dwell in the open air. \"They lodge alone.\" Instead of, scattered. \"Shorn.\" Instead of, deprived of their comeliness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":67,"ref":"p67","source":"ἄλλα δὲ βιβλία ἔχουσι, κεκραμένους, ἀντὶ τοῦ, συγκεχυμένους. \"Ἐκ παντός.\" Ἐκ παντὸς τρόπου τροπὴν αὐτοῦ ποιήσω. \"Ἃ ἐπροφήτευσεν Ἱερεμίας.\" Ὃ καὶ γέγονε Κύρου τοῦ Πέρσου καθελόντος τὴν βασιλείαν Χαλδαίων, καὶ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν ἀποστείλαντος. Αἰλὰμ ἢ τῆς Βαβυλῶνος, ἢ καὶ πάσης χώρας ἧς ἦρξε Κῦρος. Χρὴ εἰδέναι ὅτι ὁ ἅγιος Ἰωάννης ὑπομνηματίζων τὸν Ἱερεμίαν, μέχρι τῶν ὦδε ἀκολούθως ὑπεμνημάτισεν. Ἐάσας δὲ τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα, ἄρχεται ὑπομνηματίζειν ἀπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς τῆς βασιλείας Ἰωακείμ· ἔνθα καὶ τὸ ὑποκείμενον σημεῖον κεῖται, καὶ οὕτω τὰ λοιπὰ ὑπεμνημάτισεν. \"Καὶ ἐπάξω ἐπὶ Αἰλὰμ τέσσαρας ἀνέμους.\" Ἐπαγωγὴν κυκλόθεν, ἢ καὶ τὰ πανταχόθεν ἔθνη σημαίνει, τὰ συνελθόντα Ἀλεξάνδρῳ εἰς τὸν κατὰ Δαρείου πόλεμον. \"Καὶ ἀποστελῶ ὀπίσω αὐτῶν μάχαιράν μου.\" Τὴν ἀποτομίαν. \"Καὶ θήσω τὸν θρόνον μου.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, μετὰ ἐξουσίας ἐπελεύσομαι αὐτοῖς, ἢ περὶ Ἐκκλησίας προθεσπίζει μελλούσης ἔσεσθαι παρ' αὐτοῖς. ΚΕΦ. Νʹ. \"Ἀναγγείλατε ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσι.\" Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν πρὸς τοὺς ἀποστόλους ὁ λόγος. \"Παρεδόθη Μαιρωδάχ.\" Ἡ μὲν ὅλη χώρα ὡς πρὸς τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, Βοῤῥᾶς καλεῖται. Ἡ δὲ","english":"But other books have \"mixed,\" instead of \"confused.\" \"From every.\" From every means I will make his turning. \"Which Jeremiah prophesied.\" Which also came to pass when Cyrus the Persian destroyed the kingdom of the Chaldeans and sent the Jews to their own land. Elam is either of Babylon, or even of every land over which Cyrus ruled. It is necessary to know that Saint John, in commenting on Jeremiah, commented in order up to this point. But leaving the things after these, he begins to comment from the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim; where also the underlying passage lies, and thus he commented the rest. \"And I will bring upon Elam four winds.\" A bringing from every side, or it signifies the nations from all directions, those who came together with Alexander for the war against Darius. \"And I will send my sword after them.\" The severity. \"And I will set my throne.\" Instead of, I will come upon them with authority, or he foretells concerning the Church that is going to be among them. CHAPTER 50. \"Announce among the nations.\" After the history, the word is directed to the apostles. \"Mero'dach was delivered up.\" The whole country, as compared with Jerusalem, is called the North. But the","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":68,"ref":"p68","source":"Βαβυλὼν ὡς πρὸς τὴν θέσιν τῶν τόπων, νοτιωτέρα ἐστὶ τῶν Μήδων. Φησὶν οὖν, ὅτι ὁ Μαιρωδὰχ μετὰ τῶν Μήδων ἀνιὼν λήψεται τὴν Βαβυλῶνα. \"Ὧδε γὰρ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν δώσουσι.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, Ἐνταῦθα ἐν τῇ Σιὼν, ὅπου ὁ προφήτης προεφήτευσεν. \"Διαθήκη γὰρ αἰώνιος.\" Ἡ πρὸς τὸν Ἀβραὰμ ἐπαγγελία, ἥτις ἐπληρώθη διὰ Χριστοῦ. \"Οἱ ποιμένες αὐτῶν ἔξωσαν αὐτούς.\" Οἱ ἱερεῖς καὶ βασιλεῖς, νομοδιδάσκαλοι, ψευδοπροφῆται. Ἀπὸ κακίας εἰς κακίαν· ἔθυον δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοιούτων τοῖς δαίμοσι. \"Πάντες οἱ εὑρίσκοντες αὐτοὺς ἀνήλισκον αὐτούς.\" Τοῦ νοῦ, καὶ τῶν θείων μαθημάτων, οἷς ἐπανεπαύοντο. –Οἱ ἀλιτήριοι δαίμονες. Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν, πρὸς τοὺς πιστοὺς ὁ λόγος. Αὐτοὶ δὲ, φησὶν, εἰσὶ νομὴ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπὶ δικαιοσύνῃ ὑπὸ Θεοῦ ἐκλεχθεῖσα. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ Θεὸς τοὺς πατέρας αὐτῶν ἐκλεξάμενος ἐξήγαγεν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, εἰκότως καὶ πρόβατα καλοῦνται, καὶ νομὴ Θεοῦ ὡσανεὶ κτήτορος. \"Καὶ ἐξέλθετε.\" Ἀσύμφωνοι γένεσθε τοῖς Βαβυλωνίοις, καὶ φοβεροὶ τοῖς δαίμοσιν. \"Ὅτι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐγείρω.\" Τὰ κατεψυγμένα τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ἔθνη, αὐτὰ διὰ τῆς εἰς Χριστὸν πίστεως στρατεύουσι κατὰ τῆς εἰδωλολατρείας. \"Καὶ ἔσται ἡ Χαλδαία εἰς προνομήν.\" Ἡ τῶν Χαλδαίων χώρα, ἡ Βαβυλών. \"Ἀνετράπη.\" Ἡ Βαβυλὼν, ἥτις ἐπὶ δόξῃ καὶ πλούτω ἐγέννησεν ὑμᾶς. \"Πάντες τείνοντες τόξον.\" Πρὸς τοὺς ἀποστόλους ὁ λόγος, ἐπὶ τὴν νοητὴν Βαβυλῶνα. \"Ἔπεσαν αἱ ἐπάλξεις αὐτῆς.\" Οἱ ἀλιτήριοι δαίμονες. \"Καὶ κατεσκάφη τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς.\" Αὐτὸς ὁ ἀρχέκακος Σατανᾶς. \"Ἀπὸ προσώπου μαχαίρας Ἑλληνικῆς.\" Τῷ Κύρῳ Ἕλληνες συνεμάχησαν·","english":"Babylon, in relation to the position of the places, is more southerly than the Medes. He says, then, that Mairodach, coming up with the Medes, will take Babylon. \"For here they shall give their face.\" Instead of: Here in Zion, where the prophet prophesied. \"For an everlasting covenant.\" The promise to Abraham, which was fulfilled through Christ. \"Their shepherds drove them out.\" The priests and kings, teachers of the law, false prophets. From wickedness to wickedness; and they sacrificed to demons even upon such things. \"All who found them consumed them.\" Of the mind, and of the divine teachings, in which they rested. –The accursed demons. After the history, the word is directed to the faithful. But these, he says, are the pasture of God, chosen by God for righteousness. For since God, having chosen their fathers, led them out of Egypt, reasonably they are also called sheep, and the pasture of God as of a possessor. \"And go forth.\" Be discordant with the Babylonians, and fearsome to the demons. \"For behold, I will raise up.\" The nations frozen by sin, these through faith in Christ wage war against idolatry. \"And Chaldea shall be for a prey.\" The country of the Chaldeans, namely Babylon. \"She has been overturned.\" Babylon, which in glory and wealth gave birth to you. \"All bending the bow.\" The word is directed to the apostles, against the noetic Babylon. \"Her battlements have fallen.\" The accursed demons. \"And her wall has been razed.\" Satan himself, the author of evil. \"From the face of a Greek sword.\" The Greeks fought alongside Cyrus.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":69,"ref":"p69","source":"νικησάσης οὖν τῆς Ἑλληνικῆς μαχαίρας, ἀφεθέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ Κύρου οἱ αἰχμάλωτοι εἰς τὴν ἰδίαν ἐπαναστρέψουσιν. \"Ὁ πρῶτος ἔφαγεν αὐτὸν βασιλεὺς Ἀσσούρ.\" Ἀσσύριος ὢν ὁ Σεναχηρεὶμ πρῶτος τὰς δέκα φυλὰς, σάρκας οὔσας ἔφαγε, τουτέστιν ᾐχμαλώτισεν. \"Καὶ οὗτος ὕστερον τὰ ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ.\" Ὁ Ναβουχοδονόσορ. Ὀστᾶ δὲ καλεῖ τὸν Ἰούδα, ὡς σύστασιν ὄντα τοῦ παντὸς σώματος. \"Ζητήσουσι.\" Ὅτι πᾶσι τοῖς πιστεύσασιν τὴν ἀμνηστίαν τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ὁ Χριστὸς ἐδωρήσατο. \"Πικρῶς ἐπίβηθι ἐπ' αὐτήν.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὴν ἱστορίαν ἐπὶ τὴν Βαβυλῶνα, πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν ἐπὶ τὴν εἰδωλολατρείαν. \"Πῶς συνεκλάσθη.\" Ἡ σφύρα πάσης τῆς γῆς, ἡ τὴν οἰκουμένην συντρίψασα, Βαβυλὼν ἢ καὶ εἰδωλολατρεία. \"Ἐπιθήσονταί σοι.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὴν ἱστορίαν, διὰ τὸ τῶν πολέμων αἰφνίδιον· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, διὰ τὸ κρυπτὸν τοῦ βάθους τοῦ κατὰ Χριστὸν μυστηρίου. \"Ἤνοιξε Κύριος.\" Διὰ τὸ κεκρυμμένον ἀπὸ τῶν αἰώνων μυστήριον. \"Ἐρευνήσατε αὐτήν.\" Ἐξ αὐτῶν τῶν λογισμῶν ἀναμοχλεύσατε τὴν εἰδωλολατρείαν. \"Ἀναξηράνατε αὐτῆς πάντας τοὺς καρπούς.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὴν ἱστορίαν, τοὺς τυράννους τῆς Βαβυλῶνος· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, τοὺς τῆς ἁμαρτίας καρποὺς, πορνείαν, καὶ ἀκαθαρσίαν, καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. \"Φωνὴ φευγόντων.\" Τῶν εἰς τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν καταφευγόντων. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σὲ τὴν ὑβρίστριαν.\" Δύναται ταῦτα καὶ κατὰ τῆς τῶν Ἰουδαίων συναγωγῆς λαμβάνεσθαι. \"Καὶ ἀνάψω πῦρ ἐν τῷ δρυμῷ αὐτῆς.\" Δρυμῷ μὲν, τῷ πλήθει. Ἰστέον δὲ ὅτι καὶ τὸ θεῖον πῦρ ἐμπίπτον εἰς ψυχὰς, ὥσπερ φλὸξ ἐν δρυμῷ ξύλων, πάντα καταναλίσκει τῆς κακίας τὰ εἴδη.","english":"When the Greek sword had conquered, the captives, released by Cyrus, will return to their own land. \"The first king, Assur, devoured him.\" Sennacherib, being an Assyrian, was the first to devour the ten tribes, who were flesh—that is, he took them captive. \"And this one afterward his bones.\" Nebuchadnezzar. He calls Judah \"bones,\" as being the framework of the whole body. \"They shall seek.\" Because Christ has bestowed on all who believe the amnesty of sins. \"Bitterly set foot upon her.\" As regards the history, upon Babylon; as regards the deeper meaning, upon idolatry. \"How was it shattered.\" The hammer of all the earth, the one that crushed the inhabited world—Babylon, or also idolatry. \"They shall set upon you.\" As regards the history, because of the suddenness of wars; as regards the deeper meaning, because of the hidden depth of the mystery that is according to Christ. \"The Lord opened.\" Because of the mystery hidden from the ages. \"Search her out.\" From their very thoughts, stir up idolatry. \"Dry up all her fruits.\" As regards the history, the tyrants of Babylon; as regards the deeper meaning, the fruits of sin—fornication, and uncleanness, and the rest. \"A voice of those fleeing.\" Of those taking refuge in our Lord. \"Behold, I am against you, the one who acts insolently.\" These things can also be taken against the synagogue of the Jews. \"And I will kindle fire in her thicket.\" \"Thicket\" means the multitude. But one must know that the divine fire, falling upon souls as a flame upon a thicket of wood, consumes all the forms of wickedness.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":70,"ref":"p70","source":"\"Τάδε λέγει Κύριος.\" Περὶ τῆς αἰσθητῆς αἰχμαλωσίας τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ τῆς τῶν ψυχῶν νοητῆς αἰχμαλωσίας, καὶ τῆς αὐτῶν διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου ἀπολυτρώσεώς φησιν. \"Κρίσιν κρίνει.\" Διὰ τοῦτο ἔλεγεν ὁ Σωτήρ· Νῦν κρίσις τοῦ κόσμου τούτου· νῦν ὁ ἄρχων τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἐκβέβληται. \"Ἐπὶ τῷ ὕδατι αὐτῆς.\" Καθ' ἱστορίαν μὲν, ἐπὶ τῷ πλήθει· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ἐπὶ τῷ ὑγρῷ, καὶ ἀνειμένῳ, καὶ ἁμαρτωλῷ βίῳ. \"Καὶ ἐν ταῖς νήσοις.\" Ὡς καὶ τούτων κρατοῦντες οἱ Βαβυλώνιοι· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ἐν τοῖς εἰδώλοις. \"Διὰ τοῦτο κατοικήσουσιν.\" Ὁμοιώματα ἀνθρώπων, οὐκ ἄνθρωποι, ἵνα εἴπῃ τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῶν συμμαχούντων τοῖς βασιλείοις. Καὶ γὰρ καὶ τοὺς ἀντιπράξαντας τῶν νησιωτῶν εἷλεν ὁ Κύρος. Τὴν δὲ τούτων ἐρημίαν σημαίνει διὰ τῶν Σειρήνων, ὡς ἀνθρωπομόρφων λοιπὸν δαιμονίων, ἢ καὶ ᾠδικῶν ὀρνέων, διὰ τὴν ἐρημίαν οἰκούντων τοὺς τόπους. \"Ἰδοὺ λαὸς ἔρχεται.\" Οἱ ἐξ ἐθνῶν\n\nπιστεύσαντες. \"Καὶ βασιλεῖς πολλοί.\" Ἔθνος γάρ εἰσιν ἄγιον, βασίλειον ἱεράτευμα· ταῦτα δὲ ἑνοῖ μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν. Ὁ ἐν τῷ Ἰορδάνῃ βαπτιζόμενος λαός. Ὁ τὴν νοητὴν Βαβυλῶνα καταπολεμῶν. \"Εἰς Γαιθάμ.\" Γαιθὰμ τόπος τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, ἐν ᾧ πολλοὶ λέοντες. \"Ὅτι ταχέως ἐκδιώξω αὐτούς.\" Τοὺς Χαλδαίους ἐκ τῆς Βαβυλῶνος. \"Καὶ τίς οὗτος ποιμήν.\" Τοῦ γὰρ ἀγαθοῦ ποιμένος ἐξαιρουμένου ἡμᾶς, οὐδὲν ἡμῖν ποιεῖν δύναται ὁ πολέμιος. \"Ἐὰν μὴ διαφανισθῇ νομὴ ἀπ' αὐτῶν.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, φίλτατα τέκνα· δεῖγμα δὲ τοῦτο πικρᾶς αἰχμαλωσίας. ΚΕΦ. ΝΑʹ.","english":"Thus says the Lord.\" He speaks concerning the perceptible captivity of the sons of Israel, and the intelligible captivity of souls, and their redemption through the Lord. \"He judges a judgment.\" For this reason the Savior said: Now is the judgment of this world; now the ruler of this world has been cast out. \"Upon its water.\" According to the history, upon its multitude; but according to the meaning, upon the moist and relaxed and sinful life. \"And in the islands.\" As the Babylonians also ruling over these; but according to the meaning, in the idols. \"Therefore they shall dwell.\" Likenesses of men, not men, so as to express the weakness of those who ally with the kingdoms. For Cyrus also captured those of the islanders who opposed him. And he signifies their desolation through the Sirens, as being henceforth demons in human form, or even singing birds, inhabiting the places because of the desolation. \"Behold, a people comes.\" Those from the nations\n\nwho believed. \"And many kings.\" For they are a holy nation, a royal priesthood; and these things he unites after the history. The people baptized in the Jordan. The one warring against the intelligible Babylon. \"To Gaitham.\" Gaitham is a place of the Jordan, in which are many lions. \"For I will quickly drive them out.\" The Chaldeans from Babylon. \"And who is this shepherd.\" For when the good shepherd who rescues us is removed, the enemy can do nothing to us. \"Unless their pasture be made clear.\" In place of, dearest children; and this is a token of bitter captivity. CHAPTER 51.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":71,"ref":"p71","source":"\"Ἄνεμον καύσωνα διαφθείροντα.\" Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν νόει τοὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος βοηθουμένους, τοὺς ξηραίνοντας καὶ διαφθείροντας τῆς κακίας τὰ ῥεύματα. \"Καὶ μὴ φείσεσθε.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, μὴ πτοηθῆτε τὴν ἀπειλὴν τῶν δαιμόνων. Ἐγὼ γάρ εἰμι μεθ' ὑμῶν. \"Ὅτι ἡ γῆ αὐτῶν.\" Πλήρωμα γὰρ, φησὶ, τῆς ἀδικίας τῶν Χαλδαίων, τὸ καὶ τὰ σκεύη τὰ ἅγια καὶ ἁγίους ἄνδρας μετάγειν εἰς Βαβυλῶνα. \"Φεύγετε ἐκ μέσου Βαβυλῶνος.\" Φεύγειν ὁ προφήτης κελεύει ἐκ μέσου τῆς Βαβυλῶνος τοὺς σωζομένους, εἴτε τῆς αἰσθητῆς, εἴτε καὶ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου συγχύσεως. \"Ποτήριον χρυσοῦν Βαβυλών.\" Ποτήριον πολλαχοῦ παρὰ τῇ θείᾳ Γραφῇ ὠνόμασται ἡ λεγομένη ὀργὴ τοῦ Θεοῦ. Ἐπειδὴ οὖν τοὺς προσκυνοῦντας αὐτῷ Θεὸς διὰ Βαβυλωνίων ἐτιμωρεῖτο, ποτήριον μεθύσκον αὐτὴν κέκληκεν· χρυσοῦν δὲ, διὰ τὸν ἐν αὐτῇ πλοῦτον. \"Ἤγειρε Κύριος τὸ πνεῦμα βασιλέως Μήδων.\" Προφητῶν ἡ φωνὴ εὐχαριστούντων, ὅτι ἐλυτρώθη ὁ λαὸς τῆς τε καθ' ἱστορίαν αἰχμαλωσίας, καὶ τῆς ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου συγχύσεως διὰ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. \"Κατασκηνοῦντας ἐφ' ὕδασι πολλοῖς.\" Τοῦ Κύρου· φασὶ δὲ ἕτεροι Δαρείου. Καθ' ἱστορίαν, τῇ πολυπληθείᾳ τῶν ἀνδρῶν, πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, τοῖς τῆς καρδίας ῥεύμασιν. \"Ὅτι ὤμοσε Κύριος κατὰ τοῦ βραχίονος.\" Κατὰ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ δυνάμεως. \"Καὶ φθέγξονται ἐπὶ σέ.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ὀνειδίζοντές σε. \"Κύριος ποιῶν γῆν.\" Ἀπὸ τῆς δημιουργίας ἀναλόγως θεωρεῖσθαι διδάσκει τὸν Θεόν. Ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, εἰς τὸ ἀποτελεῖν βροντάς. \"Ἐμωράνθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἀπὸ γνώσεως.\" Μὴ νοήσας ἀπὸ τῆς καλλονῆς τῶν κτισμάτων τὸν αὐτῶν δημιουργὸν, ἢ καὶ καθόλου. ὅτι νῦν ἐκ μέρους γινώσκομεν.","english":"A destroying scorching wind.\" After the historical sense, understand those helped by the Holy Spirit, who dry up and destroy the streams of wickedness. \"And you shall not spare.\" In place of: do not be terrified by the threat of the demons. For I am with you. \"For their land.\" For the fullness, he says, of the injustice of the Chaldeans is that they also carried off the holy vessels and holy men to Babylon. \"Flee from the midst of Babylon.\" The prophet commands those being saved to flee from the midst of Babylon, whether the perceptible one or the confusion of the world. \"A golden cup is Babylon.\" A cup is often named in the divine Scripture as the so-called wrath of God. Since, then, God was punishing those who worshipped it through the Babylonians, he has called her a cup that makes drunk; and golden, because of the wealth in her. \"The Lord roused the spirit of the king of the Medes.\" The voice of prophets giving thanks, that the people was redeemed both from the captivity according to history and from the confusion of the world through our Savior Jesus Christ. \"Dwelling upon many waters.\" Of Cyrus; but others say of Darius. According to history, by the multitude of men; but according to the deeper sense, by the streams of the heart. \"For the Lord swore by his arm.\" By his own power. \"And they shall speak against you.\" In place of: reproaching you. \"The Lord who makes the earth.\" From the creation he teaches that God is contemplated by analogy. In the heaven, to produce thunders. \"Every man was made foolish from knowledge.\" Not having understood from the beauty of the creatures their Creator, or even generally, that now we know in part.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":72,"ref":"p72","source":"\"Διασκορπίζεις σύ μοι σκεύη πολέμου.\" Αἰσθητῶς μὲν, ὡς πρὸς τὴν Βαβυλῶνα ὁ λόγος· ἀληθέστερον δὲ πάντα ἐφεξῆς πρὸς τὸν Σατανᾶν εἴρηται· ὡς ἐκ τοῦ Θεοῦ. Σὺ, φησὶν, ἐπιχειρεῖς διασκορπίζειν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τοὺς θεοσεβεῖς τοὺς δυναμένους σοι πολεμεῖν· ἐγὼ δὲ διασκορπίζω σου πᾶσαν δαιμονιώδη πληθὺν, καὶ τοὺς αὐτῶν ἐν κακίᾳ ἐπικρατεστέρους. Ἡδονὴν τὴν θηλυμανῆ, καὶ τὸν ταύτην ἐνεργοῦντα δαίμονα. \"Καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἵππον.\" Τὰς φιλοδοξίας, τὰς φιλοχρηματίας καὶ τοὺς αὐτὰς ἐνεργοῦντας δαίμονας. \"Καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ νεανίσκον.\" Τοὺς ἀγόνους εἰς ἀρετήν. \"Καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ἄνδρα καὶ γυναῖκα.\" Τὴν φιληδονίαν. \"Καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ ποιμένα.\" Τοὺς τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως διδασκάλους σὺν τοῖς πειθομένοις. \"Καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἐν σοὶ γεωργόν.\" Τοὺς τῶν εἰδώλων ἱερουργοὺς, καὶ τὰς τελετὰς αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ εἴδωλα. \"Καὶ διασκορπιῶ ἡγεμόνας.\" Τοὺς ἄρχοντας ἐν κακίᾳ δαίμονας. \"Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πρὸς σὲ τὸ ὄρος τὸ διεφθαρμένον.\" Αἰσθητῶς μὲν τὸν Ναβουχοδονόσορ, πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν τὸν Σατανᾶν διεφθαρμένον, ὅτι εἷς καὶ αὐτὸς γεγονὼς τῶν ἀρχαγγέλων, αὐτοπροαιρέτως τῆς οἰκείας ἐξέπεσεν ἀρετῆς. \"Καὶ ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ σέ.\" Ἐξώσω ἀπὸ τῶν πεπιστευκότων, τῶν ἁγίων λίθων, τῶν κυλιομένων ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, ἢ καὶ ὁμωνύμως τῇ πέτρᾳ, τουτέστι Χριστῷ, καὶ οἱ πιστοὶ πέτραι ἐκλήθησαν διὰ τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν πίστιν, καὶ τὸ ἀκλόνητον τῆς πίστεως. \"Καὶ δώσω σε ὡς ὅρος ἐμπεπυρισμένον.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἄκαρπον, ἀχρεῖον. \"Καὶ οὐ μὴ λάβωσι ἀπὸ σοῦ λίθον.\" Οἱ στερεοὶ καὶ ἐῤῥωμένοι λίθοι εἰς τοὺς θεμελίους καταβάλλονται, καὶ εἰς γωνίας.","english":"You scatter my weapons of war.\" In the literal sense, the word is directed against Babylon; but more truly, everything that follows is spoken against Satan, as from God. You, he says, attempt to scatter the God-fearing men who are able to wage war against you; but I scatter all your demonic multitude, and those among them who are more powerful in wickedness: the pleasure that rages for women, and the demon that works it. \"And I will scatter in you horse.\" The love of glory, the love of money, and the demons that work them. \"And I will scatter in you young man.\" Those barren in virtue. \"And I will scatter in you man and woman.\" The love of pleasure. \"And I will scatter in you shepherd.\" The teachers of falsely named knowledge, together with those who obey them. \"And I will scatter in you farmer.\" The priests of idols, and their rites, and the idols. \"And I will scatter rulers.\" The rulers who are demons in wickedness. \"Behold, I am against you, the mountain that is corrupted.\" In the literal sense, Nebuchadnezzar; but in meaning, Satan, who is corrupted, because he too, having been one of the archangels, of his own free will fell from his own virtue. \"And I will stretch out my hand against you.\" I will drive you out from among the believers, the holy stones, those that roll upon the earth, or also those named after the rock, that is, Christ; for the faithful too were called rocks because of faith in him, and the unshakability of faith. \"And I will make you like a mountain set on fire.\" In place of: unfruitful, useless. \"And they shall not take from you a stone.\" The solid and strong stones are laid into foundations, and into corners.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":73,"ref":"p73","source":"Ἔσῃ οὖν ἀσθενὴς, φησὶ, καὶ ἀχρεῖος, καὶ ἀνωφελής. \"Ἅρατε σημεῖον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς.\" Τὴν σάλπιγγα σημεῖόν φησι. Κελεύει δὲ τοῦτο Θεὸς ἴσως ἀγγελικαῖς τισι δυνάμεσιν, ἐπὶ τῷ διεγεῖραι τὰς ψυχὰς τῶν μελλόντων\n\nπολεμεῖν τῇ Βαβυλῶνι Κελεύει δὲ καὶ τοῖς ἀποστόλοις συνάγειν τοὺς πιστοὺς, τοὺς μέλλοντας πολεμεῖν τῇ εἰδωλολατρείᾳ. \"Ἁγιάσατε ἐπ' αὐτὴν ἔθνη.\" Ἀφορίσατε τοὺς μέλλοντας ἐπ' αὐτῇ πολεμεῖν. \"Ἄρατε παρ' ἐμοῦ.\" Τῆς Ἀρμενίας ὄρη τὰ Ἀραράτ. \"Καθήσονται ἐκεῖ.\" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, πολιορκήσουσιν αὐτήν. \"Διώκων εἰς ἀπάντησιν διώκοντος.\" Ἕκαστος τῷ πλησίον εὐαγγελιζόμενος· ἐποίουν δὲ τοῦτο οἱ ἅγιοι ἀπόστολοι, ἐκδιώκοντες μὲν τὴν δαιμονικὴν πλάνην, ἑαυτοῖς δὲ τὴν σωτηρίαν τῶν πιστῶν εὐαγγελιζόμενοι. \"Καὶ ἀναγγέλλων εἰς ἀπάντησιν ἀναγγέλλοντος.\" Ἀπαντῶν ὁ πρῶτος, καὶ ἀπαγγέλλων τῷ ἀποστελλομένῳ δευτέρῳ. \"Διότι τάδε λέγει Κύριος.\" Τὴν εἰς λεπτὸν συντριβὴν τῶν οἰκημάτων ἐδήλωσεν· ὡς ἀπὸ Ἱερουσαλὴμ δὲ οἱ λόγοι, τὸ Κατέφαγέ με, καὶ τὰ ἐπ' αὐτῷ. Διὰ μὲν οὖν τὸ θηριῶδες κατέφαγε, διὰ δὲ τὰ λάφυρα καὶ τὰ σκύλα ἐμέρισε. Σκότος δὲ λεπτὸν τὴν ὑπερβάλλουσαν ἀθυμίαν δηλοῖ· ὁ λεπτὸς γὰρ ἀὴρ μᾶλλον τῶν ἡμετέρων καθικνεῖται σωμάτων. \"Κατέφαγέ με.\" Ἱερουσαλὴμ προσερχομένη τῷ Θεῷ κατὰ τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου ταῦτά φησιν, ἀληθέστερον δὲ ἡ Ἐκκλησία τῷ ἑαυτῆς νυμφίῳ κατὰ τοῦ Σατανᾶ. Τὸ δὲ ἐμερίσατο, ὁ μέν τις δαίμων εἰς πορνείαν, ὁ δὲ εἰς φιλαργυρίαν, καὶ ἄλλος εἰς ἄλλην ἀπειρημένην ἐνάγοντες πρᾶξιν. Τὸ δὲ κατέφαγεν, ἐπειδὴ καὶ Θεοῦ ἀποστήσαντας ἑαυτοῖς προσκυνεῖν ἀνέπεισαν. \"Κατέλαβέ με σκότος.\" Ἡ ἐξ ἁμαρτιῶν προδοσία.","english":"You will therefore be weak, he says, and useless, and unprofitable. \"Lift up a sign upon the earth.\" He calls the trumpet a sign. God commands this, perhaps to certain angelic powers, in order to awaken the souls of those who are about to make war on Babylon. He also commands the apostles to gather the faithful, those who are about to make war on idolatry. \"Sanctify nations against her.\" Set apart those who are about to make war against her. \"Lift up from me.\" The mountains of Ararat are of Armenia. \"They shall dwell there.\" Instead of, they shall besiege her. \"Pursuer unto the meeting of pursuer.\" Each one proclaiming good news to his neighbor; and the holy apostles did this, driving out demonic error, and proclaiming to themselves the salvation of the faithful. \"And announcing unto the meeting of one announcing.\" The first meeting and reporting to the second who is sent. \"For thus says the Lord.\" He has indicated the reduction of the dwellings to fine dust; and the words are as from Jerusalem: \"It has devoured me,\" and what follows. For because of its beast-like nature it devoured, and because of the spoils and plunder it divided. And fine darkness indicates the excessive despondency; for the fine air reaches our bodies more readily. \"It has devoured me.\" Jerusalem, approaching God, says these things against the Babylonian, but more truly the Church to her own bridegroom against Satan. And the \"it divided,\" one demon leading into fornication, another into love of money, and another into another forbidden practice. And the \"it devoured,\" since they persuaded those who had apostatized from God to worship themselves. \"Darkness has seized me.\" The betrayal that comes from sins.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":74,"ref":"p74","source":"Τὸ γὰρ πολὺ [ἴσ. πρωῒ] ἀφεγγὲς λεπτόν ἐστιν. \"Ἔπλησε τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ.\" Ἐξείλκυσάς με τῆς ἐμῆς τρυφῆς, τουτέστι τῶν θείων μαθημάτων. Ἢ καὶ οὕτως, Ἐντρυφῶν ἐν ἐμοὶ ἐπλήρωσε τὴν κοιλίαν αὐτοῦ. \"Ἔξωσάν με οἱ μόχθοι μου.\" Τὰ μοχθηρὰ καὶ ταλαίπωρα ἐπιτηδεύματα. \"Καὶ τὸ αἷμά μου ἐπὶ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας Χαλδαίους. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, αἴτιοί μοι τῆς σφαγῆς οἱ Χαλδαῖοι γεγόνασιν. Ἢ καὶ οὕτως· Ἐκδικήσω μου τὸ αἷμα ἀπὸ τῶν Χαλδαίων. \"Καὶ ἔσται.\" Τὴν χορηγίαν τῶν κακῶν. \"Ὅτι ὡς λέοντες.\" Οἱ βασιλεῖς αὐτῆς. \"Ἐν τῇ θερμασίᾳ.\" Ἐν τῇ αὐτῶν θρασύτητι. \"Δώσω πότημα αὐτοῖς.\" Τουτέστι τὴν ἀνταπόδοσιν τῶν κακῶν. Καὶ καταβίβασον αὐτούς.\" Ἢ ὁ προφήτης τοῦτο ἐπεύχεται κατὰ τῶν δαιμόνων, ἢ καὶ Θεὸς τῇ ἐκδικήσει τοῦτο ποιεῖν προστάσσει κατὰ τῆς αἰσθητῆς τῆς νοητῆς Βαβυλῶνος. \"Πῶς ἑάλω.\" Ἐκπλήττονται οἱ ἅγιοι ἐπὶ τῇ πτώσει τῆς Βαβυλῶνος καὶ ἐρημώσει. \"Ἀνέβη ἐπὶ Βαβυλῶνα ἡ θάλασσα.\" Ἐπὶ μὲν τὴν αἰσθητὴν Βαβυλῶνα, τὸ πλῆθος τῶν πολεμίων· ἐπὶ δὲ τὴν νοητὴν, τὸ λουτρὸν τῆς παλιγγενεσίας, τὸ ἐξαφανίζον τὴν ἁμαρτίαν. \"Ἐγενήθησαν.\" Τὰ τῆς βασιλείας πολιτεύματα. \"Καὶ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι.\" Αἰσθητῶς μὲν τὰ λάφυρα, ἂ πρώην νικῶσα τοὺς πολεμίους ἐλάμβανε. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ὅτι κατέπιεν ὁ θάνατος ἰσχύσας. Καὶ πάλιν ἀφεῖλεν ὁ Θεὸς πᾶν δάκρυον ἀπὸ προσώπου τῆς γῆς. \"Ἀνασωζόμενοι ἐκ γῆς.\" Οἱ τῶν γηΐνων, φησὶν, ἀποστάντες, ἀεὶ προκόπτετε εἰς ἀρετὴν, καὶ μὴ ἵστασθε, ἀλλὰ τρέχετε, ἵνα καταλάβητε. \"Οἱ μακρόθεν.\" Οἱ πάλαι τοῦ Θεοῦ μακρόθεν εἰδωλολάτραι. \"Καὶ Ἱερουσαλήμ.\" Ἐν μὲν τῇ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἔθυον Ἰουδαῖοι·","english":"For the great [morning] darkness is fine and subtle. \"He filled his belly.\" You drew me out of my own luxury, that is, from the divine teachings. Or also in this way: reveling in me, he filled his belly. \"My labors thrust me out.\" The wretched and miserable pursuits. \"And my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea.\" Instead of: the Chaldeans have become the cause of my slaughter. Or also in this way: I will avenge my blood from the Chaldeans. \"And it shall be.\" The supply of evils. \"Because like lions.\" Her kings. \"In the heat.\" In their own boldness. \"I will give them a drink.\" That is, the recompense of evils. \"And bring them down.\" Either the prophet prays this against the demons, or God commands this to be done in vengeance against the perceptible Babylon, the intelligible one. \"How she is taken.\" The saints are astonished at the fall and desolation of Babylon. \"The sea has come up upon Babylon.\" Upon perceptible Babylon, the multitude of enemies; upon intelligible Babylon, the bath of regeneration, which obliterates sin. \"They became.\" The constitutions of the kingdom. \"And in Babylon.\" Sensibly, the spoils which formerly, when conquering, she used to take from enemies. But as for the meaning, that death swallowed them up, having prevailed. And again God has taken away every tear from the face of the earth. \"Being saved from the earth.\" Those, he says, who have departed from earthly things, always advance in virtue, and do not stand still, but run, so that you may attain. \"Those from afar.\" The idolaters of old, far from God. \"And Jerusalem.\" In Jerusalem the Jews used to sacrifice.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[{"kind":"lacuna","severity":"caution","text":"The source is fragmentary here: the edition marks a break or an editorial bracket, and the English carries across it. Treat the bridge as supplied, not translated."}]},{"i":75,"ref":"p75","source":"κελεύει δὲ τὴν ὅρασιν τῆς εἰρήνης· τοῦτο γὰρ ἑρμηνεύεται Ἱερουσαλήμ· ἀναβαίνειν εἰς τὰς τῶν πιστῶν καρδίας, ἵνα εἰρηνεύωσι πρὸς Θεὸν τὰ ἀρεστὰ αὐτῷ ποιοῦντες. \"Κατεκάλυψεν ἀτιμία.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὸ ῥητὸν, ὅτι εἰς τὸν θεῖον ναὸν εἰσῆλθον οἱ πολέμιοι· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ὅτι εἰς τὰ ἄδυτα τῆς ψυχῆς ἔσκηψαν οἱ ἀκάθαρτοι δαίμονες. \"Καὶ ἀπώλεσεν.\" Πρὸς μὲν τὸ ῥητὸν, τῆς ἐκ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πολυθεΐας· πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ὅτι ἀνέκραζον ἐκβακχευόμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν δαιμόνων. \"Τάδε λέγει Κύριος.\" Ὁ Σατανᾶς καθ' ὅλης τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ τεμένη εἰδώλων ἱδρύσας. \"Καὶ αἱ πύλαι.\" Αἱ ἀπάγουσαι εἰς τὴν ἀπώλειαν· τοῦτο δὲ τελείως γίνεται ἐν τῇ καθόλου συντελείᾳ. \"Οὐ κοπιάζουσι.\" Τῷ Βαβυλωνίῳ, ἢ καὶ τῇ πλάνῃ δουλεύοντες. –Οὐκ ἐκλείψουσι, φησί· τὸ γὰρ, οὒ, κατὰ κοινοῦ κεῖται· ὑπὸ τῆς ἀρχῆς τῶν Βαβυλωνίων τυραννούμενοι, ἢ καὶ τοῦ Σατανᾶ. Ἐν γὰρ Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ πάντες ζωοποιηθήσονται. \"Εἰπεῖν τῷ Σαραίᾳ.\" Ἔπεμψεν ὁ Σεδεκίας τὸν Σαρέαν πρεσβευτὴν, δῶρα κομίζοντα τῷ Ναβουχοδονόσορ. Οὗτος λέγεται εἶναι ὁ Βαρούχ. \"Καὶ εἶπεν","english":"He commands the vision of peace—for this is what \"Jerusalem\" means—to ascend into the hearts of the faithful, so that they may be at peace with God by doing what is pleasing to him. \"Shame has covered.\" According to the literal sense, because the enemies entered the divine temple; according to the deeper meaning, because the unclean demons rushed into the innermost recesses of the soul. \"And it destroyed.\" According to the literal sense, [it destroyed] the polytheism that came from men; according to the deeper meaning, because they cried out, raving under the influence of the demons. \"Thus says the Lord.\" Satan, who established the precincts of idols throughout the whole inhabited world. \"And the gates.\" The gates that lead to destruction; and this happens completely in the universal consummation. \"They do not labor.\" Those serving the Babylonian, or also the deception. —They shall not fail, he says; for the \"not\" is placed in common [with both verbs]: being tyrannized by the rule of the Babylonians, or also of Satan. For in Christ Jesus all shall be made alive. \"To speak to Seraiah.\" Zedekiah sent Seraiah as an envoy, bearing gifts to Nebuchadnezzar. This man is said to be Baruch. \"And he said","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]},{"i":76,"ref":"p76","source":"Ἱερεμίας πρὸς Σαραίαν.\" Οὗτος λέγεται εἶναι ὁ Βαροὺχ, κατὰ χάριν μετωνομασμένος. ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΝΒʹ. \"Θυγάτηρ Ἱερεμίου.\" Οὐ τοῦ προφήτου. Παρθένος γὰρ ἱστορεῖται εἶναι ὁ προφήτης, ὡς κελευσθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ μὴ γῆμαι. Καὶ ὁ μὲν πατὴρ αὐτῆς ἐκ Λοβενὰ, ὁ δὲ προφήτης ἐξ Ἀναθώθ· ταύτην εὑρήσεις καὶ ἐν τῷ τέλει τῆς τετάρτης τῶν Βασιλειῶν. \"Καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτῷ.\" Ἐνδίκως αὐτὸν ἔκρινεν, ὡς παραβεβηκότα τὰς ἐν τῷ θείῳ ναῷ ὁρκωμοσίας. \"Καὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς Σεδεκίου ἐξετύφλωσε.\" Ἐργάζεσθαι ἐν τῷ μύλωνι. \"Καὶ τὰς βάσεις.\" Δοχεῖον ἦν ὕδατος, διὰ τὸ πολυχώρητον θάλασσα καλούμενον. \"Καὶ τοὺς τρεῖς.\" Τοὺς ἐπιστάτας τῶν θυρωρῶν. \"Καὶ τὸν γραμματέα.\" Τὸν ἀπογραφόμενον τὰ τέλη, καὶ τοὺς εἰσιόντας καὶ τοὺς ἐξιόντας εἰς τὸν πόλεμον. Κατακαύσας δηλονότι καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα σκεύη τὰ ἱερὰ τὰ δυσκατακόμιστα. Τοσοῦτον δηλοῦται τὸ πάχος τοῦ στύλου. \"Ἐν γῇ Ἡμάθ.\" Ἡμάθ ἡ νῦν καλουμένη Ἀντιόχεια· Δεβλαθὰ δὲ τὸ ταύτης προάστειον ἡ Δάφνη. \"Ἔλαβεν Οὐλαιμαδάχαρ.\" Ἐπειδὴ δὲ οἱ αἰχμάλωτοι κάτω νεύουσιν ὑπὸ τῆς συμφορᾶς, ἔλαβε, φησὶ, τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ, ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἀνώρθωσεν, ὕψωσεν, ἄνω βλέπειν παρεσκεύασεν. Ὡς καὶ Δαβὶδ λέγει· Ἰδοὺ ὕψωσε κεφαλήν μου ἐπ' ἐχθρούς μου. Τὸ, ἔλαβεν ἀντὶ τοῦ, ὕψωσεν, ὡς ἐν τῷ τέλει τῆς τετάρτης τῶν Βασιλειῶν φησιν.","english":"Jeremiah to Seraiah.\" This man is said to be Baruch, renamed by grace. CHAPTER 52. \"Daughter of Jeremiah.\" Not of the prophet. For the prophet is recorded to have been a virgin, since he was commanded by God not to marry. And her father was from Lobena, but the prophet was from Anathoth; you will find this woman also at the end of the fourth book of Kingdoms. \"And he spoke with him.\" He judged him justly, as one who had transgressed the oaths sworn in the divine temple. \"And he blinded the eyes of Zedekiah.\" To work at the mill. \"And the bases.\" It was a water vessel, called \"sea\" because of its great capacity. \"And the three.\" The overseers of the gatekeepers. \"And the scribe.\" The one who recorded the taxes, and those entering and those going out to war. Having burned, clearly, also all the other sacred vessels that were hard to carry. So great is the thickness of the pillar shown to be. \"In the land of Hamath.\" Hamath is what is now called Antioch; and Debaltha is its suburb, Daphne. \"Ulaemadachar took.\" Since the captives bow down under misfortune, he took, it says, his head—that is, he raised him up, exalted him, made him look upward. As also David says: Behold, he has lifted up my head against my enemies. \"He took\" is used in place of \"he lifted up,\" as he says at the end of the fourth book of Kingdoms.","structure":"narrative","commentary":[],"ambiguities":[],"confidence":"","notes":[]}]}