Σὺ δὲ τί μιγνύεις τὰ ἄμικτα καὶ φύρεις ἐν ταὐτῷ τὰ κεχωρισμένα; Εἰσὶν αὐτοῖς καὶ ἄλλαι πάνδημοι πανηγύρεις. Τὴν μὲν σκηνοπηγίαν καλοῦσι, τὴν δὲ ἄλλην ἀκούω σαλπίγγων
ὑπόμνησιν. Λελήθασι δὲ χριστιανῶν μυστήρια ἑορταζόντες, ἐπειδὴ τῆς μὲν σκηνῆς ἡ δημιουργία ἔμπρακτός ἐστιν ἡ προφητεία τῆς ἐκκλησίας ταύτης, ἣν ὁ Λόγος ἡμῶν συνεστήσατο. Διὰ τοῦτο καὶ φύλλοις κοσμοῦσι τὴν σκηνὴν καὶ ὁπώραις καλλωπίζουσι τὰ προσκήνια εἰς τύπον τοῦ τὴν νέαν ἐκκλησίαν τὴν εὔκαρπον μέλλειν ὑποβλαστάνειν τῷ νόμῳ. Ἡ δὲ τῶν σαλπίγγων ἑορτὴ διεγείρει τὰς ψυχὰς πρὸς τὴν ἑτοιμασίαν τῆς ἀναστάσεως, καθὼς Παῦλος φησι· Σαλπίσει γὰρ καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ ἀναστήσονται. Διδάσκει δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν καὶ Σωτὴρ ἐν εὐαγγελίοις λέγων· Καὶ ἀποστελεῖ τοὺς ἀγγέλους αὐτοῦ μετὰ σάλπιγγος φωνῆς μεγάλης καὶ ἐπισυνάξουσι τοὺς ἐκλεκτοὺς αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῶν τεσσάρων ἀνέμων ἀπ' ἄκρων οὐρανῶν ἕως ἄκρων αὐτῶν. Τούτων δὲ τῶν λόγων ἀκούοντες τάχα τοιαύτῃ χρήσονται πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀντιρρήσει· ὅτι τῶν ἀρχαίων μεμνημένοι θαυμάτων τῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ εὐεργεσίων εὐχαριστήρια ταῦτα προσάγουσιν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὄρους Σινᾶ καὶ τῆς σάλπιγγος τῆς ἠχησάσης ἐν τῇ δόσει τοῦ νόμου. Οὐκ ἴσασι δὲ οἱ ματαιόφρονες ὅτι καὶ τότε ἡ σάλπιγξ τυπικῶς παρελήφθη διδομένου τοῦ νόμου.
But why do you mix things that cannot be mixed, and confuse together things that are separate? They have other public festivals as well. One they call the Feast of Tabernacles, and the other I hear is a commemoration of trumpets. They do not realize that they are celebrating the mysteries of Christians, since in the case of the tabernacle the creation is the prophecy of this church in action, which our Word established. For this reason they also adorn the tabernacle with leaves and beautify the forecourts with fruits, as a type of the new church, the fruitful one, which was to spring up under the law. And the feast of trumpets awakens souls to the preparation for the resurrection, just as Paul says: For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised. And our God and Savior himself also teaches in the Gospels, saying: And he will send his angels with a great trumpet sound, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens to their ends. But hearing these words, perhaps they will use some such objection against us: that in remembrance of the ancient wonders, the benefactions of God, they offer these thank-offerings for Mount Sinai and for the trumpet that sounded when the law was given. But the foolish-minded do not know that even then the trumpet was taken up typically when the law was given.
Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ὁ νόμον λαμβάνων εἰς κανόνα βίου καὶ εὔτακτον πολιτείαν ὀφείλει δεδοικέναι τὴν ἐκ τῆς παρακοῆς τιμωρίαν, διὰ τοῦτο ὁ Θεὸς τὰ τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν παραγγέλματα ἔγγραφα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἐκπέμπων εὐθὺς προσέθηκε καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῆς σάλπιγγος, σύμβολον τῆς ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεως, ἵνα οἱ μαθηταὶ τῶν προσταγμάτων διὰ τῆς ἀναστάσεως τὴν κρίσιν προβλέποντες φυλάξωσιν ἀπαράβατα τῆς θείας νομοθεσίας τὰ δόγματα. Οὐκοῦν καὶ νηστεία καὶ σκηνοπηγία καὶ σάλπιγγες τῆς ἡμετέρας εὐσεβείας μυστήρια πάλαι μὲν παραδηλούμενα, καίρῳ δὲ τῷ καθήκοντι λαμβάνοντα τὴν ἔκβασιν, ὅτε τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐτελέσθη τὰ ἐν σαρκὶ θεοφάνεια· ᾧ πρέπει ἡ δόξα καὶ ἡ τιμὴ καὶ ἡ προσκύνησις, νῦν καὶ ἀεί, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.
For since the one who receives the law as a rule of life and an orderly conduct of life ought to fear the punishment that comes from disobedience, for this reason God, when he sent out to men the precepts of our life in writing, immediately added also the sound of the trumpet, a symbol of the resurrection from the dead, so that the disciples of the commandments, foreseeing the judgment through the resurrection, might keep the decrees of the divine legislation inviolate. Therefore both fasting and the Feast of Tabernacles and trumpets are mysteries of our piety, formerly indicated in shadow, but receiving their fulfillment at the fitting time, when the divine manifestations in the flesh of our Savior were accomplished; to whom belong the glory and the honor and the worship, now and always, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.