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Εἰς τὴν πόρνην καὶ εἰς τὸν Φαρισαῖον.
Σήμερον ὁ Φαρισαῖος εἰς ἄριστον τὸν Δεσπότην ἐκάλεσε, τιμὴν ὕβρει κεράσας· ἡ δὲ πόρνη αὐτὸν τῇ πίστει εἱστίασεν. Ὄντος γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ τοῦ Σίμωνος, ἰδοὺ γυνὴ πόρνη. Μανικὸν σχῆμα, γυνὴ πόρνη ἐν τῇ πόλει, ὁ ἐντοίχιος πόλεμος, τὸ ἀσιδήρωτον βέλος, ὁ τῶν νέων ἰξὸς, ἡ τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ἀκόνη, ὁ τῶν παθῶν ἐξυπνιασμὸς, ἡ καπηλεία τοῦ σώματος, ἡ ἀνωφελὴς ἐμπορία, ἡ ἐπιζήμιος πραγματεία, ἡ καὶ τῇ πωλούσῃ καὶ τῷ ἀγοράζοντι θάνατον προξενοῦσα, τὸ τῆς νεότητος δίκτυον, ἡ ἀσκέπαστος παγίς.
Ὀφθαλμὸς γὰρ πόρνης παγὶς ἁμαρτωλῶν· ἡ τῆς ἀκολασίας ἐνθήκη, ἡ ἑαυτὴν πωλοῦσα, καὶ τοὺς ἀγοράζοντας δουλαγωγοῦσα, ἡ πολυκέφαλος λέαινα, ἡ δυσωδία τῆς πόλεως, ὁ λοιμὸς ὁ κατὰ πάσης ἕρπων αἰσθήσεως, τὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἄγκιστρον, ὁ περιφερόμενος θάνατος, ἡ ἀγορὰ τῆς ζημίας, ἡ ἐπιθυμία τῆς ἀπωλείας, ἡ τοῦ θανάτου ὀσμὴ, ἡ πολύσηπτος γάγγραινα. Ἰδοὺ γυνὴ ἐν τῇ πόλει, ὁ λοιμὸς τῶν οἰκητόρων, ἡ τυραννὶς τῶν γάμων, ἡ ἀνατροπὴ τῆς σεμνότητος, ἡ τῶν ἀνδρογύνων μάχη, ἡ κακοδάπανος τράπεζα, ἡ τῶν βαλαντίων κένωσις, ἡ τῶν χρημάτων ἐκροὴ, ἡ τῶν καμάτων ἀπώλεια, ἡ τῶν κληρονόμων ληνὸς, ἣν ληνοβάται πατοῦντες τὴν ἑαυτῶν γύμνωσιν ὠρχήσαντο. Ἰδοὺ γυνὴ ἐν τῇ πόλει, ἥτις ἦν ἁμαρτωλός. Ἀλλ' ἡ ἁμαρτωλὸς ἐκείνη τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ προσέδραμε, καὶ ὡς ἐν πυρὶ ἀκάνθας τὰς ἁμαρ τίας ἀνήλωσεν. Ὁ δρυμὸς παράδεισος γέγονεν, ἡ λέαινα ἀρνίον, ἡ δυσωδία μύρον, ἡ ἀπώλεια θησαυρὸς, ἡ κορώνη περιστερὰ, ἡ πόρνη παρθένος, ἀδελφὴ Χριστοῦ, νύμφη τοῦ Λόγου.
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On the Prostitute and the Pharisee.
Today the Pharisee invited the Lord to dinner, mixing honor with insult; but the prostitute feasted him with faith. For while he was in the house of Simon, behold, a prostitute woman. A mad spectacle, a prostitute woman in the city, the war within the walls, the ironless dart, the birdlime for the young, the whetstone of desire, the rouser of passions, the huckstering of the body, the useless commerce, the ruinous trade, which brings death to both the seller and the buyer, the net of youth, the uncovered trap.
For the eye of a prostitute is a trap for sinners; the repository of licentiousness, she who sells herself and enslaves her buyers, the many-headed lioness, the stench of the city, the plague creeping over every sense, the hook of the eyes, the walking death, the marketplace of loss, the desire for destruction, the odor of death, the much-rotting gangrene. Behold, a woman in the city, the plague of the inhabitants, the tyrant of marriages, the overthrow of modesty, the battle of married couples, the costly table, the emptying of purses, the outflow of money, the waste of labors, the winepress of heirs, which the treaders of the winepress danced, exposing their own nakedness. Behold, a woman in the city, who was a sinner. But that sinner ran to righteousness, and consumed her sins like thorns in fire. The thicket has become a paradise, the lioness a lamb, the stench myrrh, the ruin a treasure, the crow a dove, the prostitute a virgin, a sister of Christ, a bride of the Word.
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Στᾶσα γὰρ ὄπισθεν τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἡ τῆς αἱμοῤῥοούσης μαθήτρια, δάκρυσι τοὺς πόδας ἔβρεξε, καὶ ταῖς θριξὶν ἐξέμαξε, καὶ τοῖς χείλεσι κατεφίλει τὰ ἴχνη, καὶ μύρῳ πολυτίμῳ ἤλειφεν. Ὅλα τὰ ὅπλα τῆς ἁμαρτίας τῷ βασιλεῖ προσήνεγκεν, εἰρήνην αἰτῶν· καὶ τὴν πανοπλίαν τῶν κακῶν τοῖς ποσὶ τοῦ Δεσπότου προσήγαγε. Καὶ ἐπειδὴ πάλαι ἠναγκασμένοις δάκρυσι πολλοὺς εἰς πάθος ἐξέλυσεν, ἀληθινοῖς νῦν δάκρυσι τὸν Δεσπότην δυσωπήσασα, ἑαυτὴν ἀπέλυσε· καὶ ἡ τὰς τρίχας κακομηχάνως πλέξασα, καὶ ἀσέμνως πυργώσασα ταῖς θριξὶν ὡς ὀθόνῃ, τοῦ Χριστοῦ τοὺς πόδας ἐξέμασσεν οὐ τὸν Δεσπότην λευκαίνουσα, ἀλλ' ἑαυτὴν ἁγιάζουσα. Ἐξωμολογεῖτο γὰρ διὰ τῶν τριχῶν, ὅσους δι' αὐτῶν ἀγκιστρεύσασα εἰς θάνατον ἡλίευσε. Καὶ μύρῳ ἤλειφε πολυτίμῳ. Διὰ τί; Ἐπειδὴ πάλαι μυριζομένη πολλοὺς ἐβορβόρωσεν· ὁμοίως καὶ τοῖς ἀρώμασι κακῶς χρησαμένη, εἰς κύνας ῥινηλάτας τοὺς ἐραστὰς μετεσκεύαζε. Νῦν δὲ τῷ μύρῳ καλῶς χρησαμένη, καὶ τῷ ἀληθινῷ τὸ μύρον προσκομίσασα, τὰ σατανικὰ μυρίσματα ἀπενίψατο. Εἶτα ὡς ὁ Κύριος αὐτὴν προσεδέξατο ταῦτα πράττουσαν, ὁ Σίμων ἐψιθύριζε, Δεσποτικῆς ἀγαθότητος λογοθέτης γινόμενος. Λέγει αὐτῷ Δεσπότης· Σίμων, ὁ ἐπὶ τιμῇ καλέσας με, καὶ ἀτιμάσας με, ὡς οὐ προσεδόκησα· Δύο χρεωφειλέται ἦσαν δανειστῇ τινι, σὺ καὶ αὐτὴ, ἐμοῦ οὐ χρεῶσται οὔτε ὀφειλέται, ἀλλὰ χρεωφειλέται, διπλοῖ ὑπεύθυνοι τυγχάνοντες, ὅτι καὶ τὸ φυσικὸν δάνειον, καὶ τοῦ νόμου τὸ κεφάλαιον λαβόντες, εἰς ἀμφότερα τῷ εὐεργέτῃ παρεπέσατε. Ὁ εἷς ὤφειλε δηνάρια πεντακόσια, –σὺ ὁ Φαρισαῖος, ὁ βαρύτερα, καὶ πλείονα ἔχων τὰ ψυχικὰ ἁμαρτήματα·
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Standing behind Jesus, the disciple of the woman with the issue of blood bathed his feet with tears, wiped them with her hair, kissed the prints with her lips, and anointed them with costly ointment. She brought all the weapons of sin to the King, asking for peace; and she presented the full armor of evils at the feet of the Master. And since long ago she had dissolved many into passion with forced tears, now with genuine tears she entreated the Master and released herself; and she who had cunningly braided her hair and indecently piled it up like a cloth, wiped the feet of Christ with her hair, not whitening the Master but sanctifying herself. For she confessed through her hair how many she had hooked and fished to death through it. And she anointed with costly ointment. Why? Because long ago, perfuming herself, she had befouled many; similarly, using aromatics evilly, she had transformed her lovers into tracking dogs. But now, using the ointment well and presenting the ointment to the true one, she washed off the satanic perfumes. Then, as the Lord received her doing these things, Simon whispered, becoming a auditor of the Lord’s goodness. The Master says to him: Simon, you who invited me in honor and dishonored me, as I did not expect: Two debtors were to a certain lender, you and she, not my debtors or borrowers, but debtors, being doubly liable because, having received both the natural loan and the capital of the law, you defaulted to the benefactor in both. One owed five hundred denarii—you the Pharisee, who have heavier and more numerous spiritual sins.
khazarzar-john-chrysostom-in-meretricem-et-in-pharisaeum:3 · narrativemedium
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Ἐπειδὴ οἱ τελῶναι καὶ αἱ πόρναι προάγουσιν ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν· –ὁ δὲ ἕτερος πεντήκοντα, ὁ ὑπεύθυνος τῆς πόρνης τρόπος.
Μὴ ἐχόντων καὶ αὐτῶν ἀποδοῦναι διὰ κατορθωμάτων καλῶν πράξεων, ἀμφοτέροις ἐχαρίσατο πίστιν λαβὼν, καὶ σχίσας τὸ χειρόγραφον. Εἰπὲ, τίς αὐτὸν πλεῖον ἀγαπήσει; Εἶτα ὁ Φαρισαῖος, Ὑπολαμβάνω, ὅτι ᾧ τὸ πλεῖον ἐχαρίσατο, Καὶ δικαστὴς ἑαυτοῦ ὁ ὑπεύθυνος ἐγίνετο, καὶ τὸν Δεσπότην ἐπαινέτην εὕρισκε λέγοντα· Ὀρθῶς ἔκρινας. Ἄκουε λοιπόν· Βλέπεις ταύτην τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν ὀλιγότερά σου χρεωστήσασαν, καὶ πλείονα ξένια καὶ δῶρα προσκομίσασαν; βλέπεις ταύτην τὴν γυναῖκα τὴν πολλῶν ἀπώλειαν γενομένην; τὸν ἔμψυχον τάφον· τὸν περιφερόμενον θάνατον; Εἰσῆλθόν σου εἰς τὸν οἶκον· ὕδωρ, τὸ εὔωνον καὶ πᾶσι προκείμενον, ἐπὶ τοὺς πόδας μου οὐκ ἤνεγκας· αὕτη δὲ πηγὰς δακρύων ἐξ ὀμμάτων τοῖς ποσί μου προσήνεγκε.
Φίλημά μοι οὐκ ἔδωκας· αὕτη δὲ τὰ χείλη αὐτῆς τοῖς ἐμοῖς ποσὶν ὑπέστρωσεν. Ἐλαίῳ τὴν κεφαλήν μου, ὡς ἐλεηθεὶς παρ' ἐμοῦ, οὐκ ἤλειψας· αὕτη δὲ μύρῳ τὸ σῶμα, τῇ δὲ πίστει τὴν θεότητά μου ἐμύρισεν. Οὗ χάριν λέγω σοι, ἀφέωνται αὐτῆς αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αἱ πολλαί· ἵνα πληρωθῇ τὸ ἐν ψαλμοῖς εἰρημένον, Ἀφῆκας τὰς ἀνομίας τοῦ λαοῦ σου, καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ Ἰωάννου κηρυχθὲν, Ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου. Αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν.
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Since the tax collectors and the prostitutes lead you into the kingdom of heaven—but the other, the fifty, the manner of the one liable to the prostitute.
When they too were unable to repay through good deeds and righteous actions, he granted faith to both, taking it, and tore up the promissory note. Tell me, who will love him more? Then the Pharisee: "I suppose that to whom he granted more." And the one liable became his own judge, and found the Master as his praiser, saying, "You have judged rightly." Listen then: Do you see this woman who owed less than you, and brought more gifts and presents? Do you see this woman who became the ruin of many? The living tomb; the death that goes about? I entered your house; you did not bring water, cheap and available to all, to my feet; but she brought fountains of tears from her eyes to my feet.
You gave me no kiss; but she spread her lips under my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil, as one pitied by me; but she anointed my body with myrrh, and with faith she anointed my divinity. For this reason I say to you, her many sins are forgiven; so that what is said in the Psalms might be fulfilled, "You have forgiven the lawlessness of your people," and what was proclaimed by John, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." Glory to him for the ages. Amen.
Citation. Tergwame, “In meretricem et in pharisaeum”, khazarzar-john-chrysostom-in-meretricem-et-in-pharisaeum:1, machine-draft, 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/works/khazarzar-john-chrysostom-in-meretricem-et-in-pharisaeum#s1
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