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Καὶ σὺ καρδία σαλεύθητι καὶ σείσθητι. πρὸς τὴν τοῦ βαβυλωνίου καρδίαν
φησὶν, ὅτι πολλοὶ ὑπὸ σοῦ ἐσαλεύθησαν πρὶν, νῦν οὖν καὶ σὺ ἡ μηδέποτε ἐλπίσασα
σαλευθῆναι καὶ μεταπεσεῖν ἀπὸ τῆς εὐημερίας, ἀλλ’ ἀκράδαντος ἐσαεὶ στήσεσθαι καὶ
διὰ τοῦτο σκληρυνομένη, σαλεύθητι, τουτέστι, σύνες ὅτι μετέπεσέ σοι ἡ εὐημερία,
καὶ αἴσθησιν λαβοῦσα τῶν εἰς σὲ γενομένων, ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν ἀλαζονείᾳ στάσεως,
σαλεύθητι καὶ σείσθητι, τρόμον τινὰ παθοῦσα καὶ λύπην ἀναλαβοῦσα καὶ μετανοίας
ἀρχήν. ὅτι δὲ πολλοὶ ἐν εὐθηνίαις ὄντες οἴονται μηδέποτε σαλευθῆναι, μαρτυρεῖ
δαυεὶδ, λέγων Ἐγὼ δὲ εἶπα ἐν τῆ εὐθηνίᾳ μου Οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ ἐς τὸν αἰῶνα, μὴ
ἐννοήσας ὅτι σὺ τὴν εὐπρέπειάν μου καὶ περιφάνειαν ἐνεδυνάμωσας κοὶ σταθηρὰν
τέως εἶναι πεποίηκας· οὐχ ὅτι ἐγὼ ἤμην ἄξιος, ἀλλ’ ὅτι σὺ ἠθέλησας· κύριε γάρ
φησιν, ἐν τῷ θελήματί σου, παρέσχου τῷ κάλλει μου δύναμιν· ἀπέστρεψας δὲ τὸ
πρόσωπόν σου καὶ ἐγενήθην τεταραγμένος. τοῦτον οὖν τὸν ταραγμὸν παθεῖν
παραινεῖ τῷ Βαβυλωνίῳ. καὶ μακάριος ὃς ἐν τῷ μαστίζεσθαι ὑπὸ Θεοῦ ταράττεται
καὶ σαλεύεται ἀπὸ τῆς κακίας, καὶ οὐ λέγει ὅτι ἀνδρειοῦμαι. ἐκύκλωσεν ἐπὶ σὲ,
ποτήριον δεξίας κυρίου. διὰ τοῦτό φησι παραινῶ σοι σεισθῆναι καὶ σαλευθῆναι,
διότι ἦλθεν ἐπὶ σὲ ἡ δικαία τοῦ Θεοῦ τιμωρία· ταύτην γὰρ ποτήριον θείας δεξιᾶς
ὀνομάζει. καὶ πολλαχοῦ δὲ ἀλλαχοῦ ἡ τιμωρία ποτήριον λέγεται· ὁ δὲ πιὼν κα
μεθυσθεὶς σαλεύεται.
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And you, O heart of Babylon, be shaken and stirred. He speaks to the heart of the Babylonian, saying that many were shaken by you before; now, therefore, you also, who never expected to be shaken or to fall from prosperity, but to stand unshaken forever, and for this reason were hardened, be shaken—that is, understand that your prosperity has fallen away, and having taken perception of what has happened to you, from your stance of arrogance, be shaken and stirred, suffering a kind of trembling, taking up grief, and beginning repentance. That many, while in prosperity, think they will never be shaken, David testifies, saying, "I said in my prosperity, 'I will never be shaken forever,' not considering that you strengthened my comeliness and splendor and made them stable for a time; not that I was worthy, but that you willed it; for, he says, 'Lord, by your will you gave power to my beauty; but you turned away your face, and I became troubled.'" He therefore advises the Babylonian to suffer this trouble. And blessed is he who, when chastised by God, is troubled and shaken from evil, and does not say, "I am brave." The cup of the Lord's right hand has encircled you. For this reason, he says, I advise you to be stirred and shaken, because the just punishment of God has come upon you; for he calls this the cup of the divine right hand. And in many other places punishment is called a cup; and he who drinks and becomes drunk is shaken.
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τί δέ ἐστι τὸ ἐκύκλωσεν, ἢ ὅτι κύκλῳ σε περιέλαβεν, ὥστε
μὴ δύνασθαί σε διαφυγεῖν ταύτην· ἢ ὅτι ὥσπερ ἐν συμποσίῳ τὸ ποτήριον κύκλῳ
περιέρχεται τοὺς συμπότας, οὕτω καὶ ἡ ἐκ Θεοῦ τιμωρία, πρότερον μὲν τὰς ἄλλας
βασιλείας περιῆλθε, διὰ σοῦ τιμωρησαμένη ταύτας, καὶ μεθύσασα συμφορῶν, κύκλῳ
δὲ διερχομένη νῦν ἔφθασε καὶ ἐπὶ σὲ, ὥστε ὀφείλεις τοῦτο πιεῖν. ἡ δεξιὰ γὰρ τοῦ
κυρίου προσφέρει σοι τοῦτο, καὶ ἀδύνατον ἐκφυγεῖν, τὴν γὰρ χεῖρα αὐτοῦ τὴν
ὑψηλὴν, τίς ἀποστρέψει; καὶ συνήχθη ἀτιμία ἐπὶ τὴν δόξαν σου. ὥσπερ ὅταν
εὐημερεῖς, πάντοθεν συνήγετό σοι ἡ δόξα, καὶ ἀπὸ πλούτου καὶ ἀπὸ ἀνδρίας, καὶ
συνέσεως καὶ πλήθους ὑπηκόων καὶ τῶν τοιούτων· οὕτω νῦν ἡ ἀτιμία συναχθήσεται
σοι ἀπὸ πενίας, ἀπὸ δειλίας, ἀπὸ ἀσυνεσίας, ἀπὸ τοῦ μηδένα ἔχειν ὑπήκοον, καὶ
ἁπλῶς, πόντων τῶν τοιούτων. ὁ γὰρ ἔνδοξος ἀφ’ ὧν δοξάζεται, ἐξ ἐκείνων ἀτιμοῦται
ἐκπεσὼν αὐτῶν. ἐπεὶ δὲ ὁ κύριος ἐν τῆ καρδίᾳ τῆς γῆς τρεῖς ἡμέρας ἐποίησε τῷ
ᾅδῃ ἐνδιατρίψας, πρὸς ταύτην τὴν καρδίαν φησὶ ὅτι σείσθητι. τάχα μὲν καὶ ἀπὸ
μν
τοῦ σεισμοῦ τοῦ γενομένου ἐν τῷ ἐκπνεῦσαι αὐτὸν, ὅτε καὶ τὰ σημεῖα ἀνεῴχθη·
τάχα δὲ καὶ ὡς πάσης τῆς ἀρχῆς τοῦ ᾅδου σαλευομένης, καὶ τῶν χαλκῶν πυλῶν
English
What does "encircled" mean, except that it has surrounded you in a circle, so that you cannot escape this? Or that, just as at a symposium the cup goes around in a circle to the guests, so also the punishment from God first went around the other kingdoms, punishing them through you and making them drunk with misfortunes, and now, going around in a circle, it has reached you as well, so that you must drink this. For the right hand of the Lord offers this to you, and it is impossible to escape, for who will turn aside his high hand? And dishonor has been gathered upon your glory. Just as when you were prosperous, glory was gathered to you from all sides, from wealth and from courage, and from wisdom and from the multitude of subjects and the like, so now dishonor will be gathered to you from poverty, from cowardice, from folly, from having no subject, and simply from all such things. For the glorious one is dishonored by those very things from which he is glorified, when he falls from them. And since the Lord spent three days in the heart of the earth, dwelling in Hades, he says to this heart: be shaken. Perhaps this is from the earthquake that occurred when he expired, when also the signs were opened; perhaps also because the whole realm of Hades was being shaken, and the bronze gates
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iiijuani κὺ τùς
»ίλλι\ -ὺ τυϊϊ ΛοκτϋηΗϊ ιφμὁmτ‘ Ttivrti* ὣ ἠτ‘μὠμμ-lν.
English
What does "encircled" mean, except that it has surrounded you in a circle, so that you cannot escape this? Or that, just as at a symposium the cup goes around in a circle to the guests, so also the punishment from God goes around to all, and you are not able to escape it. And so, the prophet says, "You have been encircled by the wrath of the Lord." And this is the meaning: that the wrath of the Lord, like a circle, surrounds you, and you cannot flee from it. And just as in a symposium the cup goes around to all, so also the punishment from God goes around to all, and you are not able to escape it. And so, the prophet says, "You have been encircled by the wrath of the Lord." And this is the meaning: that the wrath of the Lord, like a circle, surrounds you, and you cannot flee from it. And the Scripture says that the wrath of the Lord is like a circle, and it surrounds you, and you cannot escape it. And each of the saints, if he is raised up, is not able to escape the wrath of the Lord, but he is caught in it. And so, the prophet says, "You have been encircled by the wrath of the Lord." And this is the meaning: that the wrath of the Lord, like a circle, surrounds you, and you cannot flee from it. And the Scripture says that the wrath of the Lord is like a circle, and it surrounds you, and you cannot escape it. And each of the saints, if he is raised up, is not able to escape the wrath of the Lord, but he is caught in it. And so, the prophet says, "You have been encircled by the wrath of the Lord." And this is the meaning: that the wrath of the Lord, like a circle, surrounds you, and you cannot flee from it. And the Scripture says that the wrath of the Lord is like a circle, and it surrounds you, and you cannot escape it. And each of the saints, if he is raised up, is not able to escape the wrath of the Lord, but he is caught in it. And so, the prophet says, "You have been encircled by the wrath of the Lord." And this is the meaning: that the wrath of the Lord, like a circle, surrounds you, and you cannot flee from it. And the Scripture says that the wrath of the Lord is like a circle, and it surrounds you, and you cannot escape it. And each of the saints, if he is raised up, is not able to escape the wrath of the Lord, but he is caught in it. And so, the prophet says, "You have been encircled by the wrath of the Lord." And this is the meaning: that the wrath of the
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κιιὶ τΙ -’τήρον τῆς τοῦ
κη,ὠυ ὀρr-ις γ̣ιον, καὶ εἰς ToXn4Tru>p4ai’ ΐιτύ ἳρἰων τ-̔̀̀ν ῥωμιdκῶν δηλοδὴ ατιlτ‘υ. μιiτὤ m̔̀ιιι‘ἱmν. ί^Λ η\ ἆ,3 τῶν πρ‘’φητῶν, κοὶ η)Γ• Kυρἱ’υ καὶ τ.-ι τοὺ
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,μς κοὶ γῆ ‘·στι τοῦ Οε,ζ ἳι ὼις Κ φ̔̀ελ‘-ι γλυπτὸν. ὅτι ἱΤλυ·ἄ αυτό"
ἰπλααuν αδιὸ λω-ομα. φαντασίαν ψίυδή, ὅτι πΙποιΟ‘̓́ Ι πλάσας ἰ̔̀ τΙ
‘α αΙτοὺ, ἰοῦ ποιῆσαι ίΓδωλα κωφαὶ οἱ β‘φ’λω·-ω τοῦ κi·ρου ‘·-στἰα. Ttv$ 4S iπὶ τκΐ ‘Y̓̓́ιοα κιΐΐ tuj p,μἰ̔ας rrfKhnjin»»•" διὸ ἣ· ὁ
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ζ̀ωυiφων λ‘-ιἴς Λ
γλίττων wu πλαοτῶν,
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διια,τοιν ‘ γἳφ,εl. ὤλα ί* καὶ τὸ ‘·πλοσ̔ κοὶ τὸ πλ‘iσμα το1̀υ σημαἰκι. ώ
«ιΓτ\)Γ λ̓̔ιuων. ἱ, d ιυr̀ mοιτ̀ο’ mπω-̓̀ν ὁ ττλιίσιΐν ἐπὶ τὸ πλάσμα, ἳι δ‘ὰ
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and what else? The land of the Lord, that is, the Roman land, clearly. After the prophets, and the Lord, and those who hate the world, they gave an account to him. For they say, "The land is the Lord's, and the earth is of God, as if it were a carved image." Because they themselves fashioned it as a vain fantasy, since the one who fashioned it thought that he made deaf idols, the abominations of the Lord's house. Some, on account of the heights and the days, therefore, suddenly, their own, or the grace of God, the fruit, they say, from the idols, that they might not be able to escape from the idols. And they say, "The images of the idols will be utterly destroyed." And they say, "The images, having been made, had a soul." For they were filled and equal, not as they were, but the blasphemy blinded them to other things, of clay or wax, and they carved and sculpted, carving and painting, and they were lifeless images of the carvers, for the work of the maker is a certain likeness and from the hand, and the carving and the sculpture signify the same. For the one who fashions, when he finishes the sculpture, if he does not
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τοῦτο ποιοῦσι τὰ εἴδωλα· ὅσῳ πλείω ποιήσουσι, τοσούτω πλείονος πλείονος
ἐπιτυχεῖν οἰόμενοι. εἰπὼν δὲ φαντασίαν προσέθηκε κοὶ τὸ ψευδῆ, διότι ἐστὶ κοὶ
φαντασία ἀληθὴς, ἤτοι ὅταν τις τὰ φανέντα αὐτῷ ἀναπολῇ αὖθις καθ’ ἑαυτὸν
τοιαῦτα οἷα ἐφάνησαν, ἢ φαντασίαν οἶδεν ἡ γραφὴ καὶ τὴν λαμπρότητα. ἐπεὶ οὖν
πολλαὶ λαμπρότητές εἰσιν ὑφεστῶσαι, ἅτε κοὶ πραγμάτων οὖσαι τοιούτων, ἡ δὲ τῶν
εἰδώλων λαμπρότης ἀνυπόστατός ἐστιν· ἀνυποστάτων διὸ τοῦτο φαντασίαν εἴρηκε
ψευδῆ. οὐαὶ ὁ λέγων τῷ ξύλῳ Ἔκνηψον, ἐγέρθητι, καὶ τῷ λίθῳ ῾Υψώθητι· καὶ
αὐτό ἐστι φαντασία. θρηνεῖ τοὺς ἐν ταῖς περιεχούσαις συμφοραῖς μὴ ἐπὶ τὸν
σῶσαι δυνάμενον καταφεύγοντας, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ τὰ ξύλινα καὶ λίθινα εἴδωλα τρέχοντας,
καὶ δεομένους, ἵνα ὥπερ ὑπνώττοντα διεγερθῶσι καὶ ὑψωθῶσι κατὰ τῶν ἐχθρῶν,
τὴν οἰκείαν δύναμιν ὑψηλὴν κοὶ ἀήττητον δεικνῦντα. ὅρα δὲ, πῶς οὐκ εἶπε Ξύλινον
εἴδωλον ἢ λίθινον, ἀλλὰ ξύλον καὶ λίθον πρὸς ἐντροπὴν πλείω. εἰ γὰρ καὶ εἶδος
ὦι φησὶν ἀνθρώπου, ἀλλ’ δμὼς ξύλον μένει καὶ λίθος. τὸ δὲ εἶδος ὃ περιφέρει
φαντασία ἐστι· ψεύδης πάντως, ὥσπερ προεῖπεν· οὐκ ἔδει γὰρ διττολογῖν. τοῦτο
δἐ ἐστιν ἔλασμα χρυσίου ἢ ἀργυρίου. ἀδιανύητον φαίνεται τὸ ῥητόν· λίθον γὰρ
εἰπὼν καὶ ξύλον, ἐπήγαγε Τοῦτο δέ ἐστιν ἔλασμα χρυσίου ἢ ἀργυρίου. δρᾶ οὖν τὸ
ξύλον καὶ ὁ λίθος ἔλασμά ἐστι χρυσίου ἢ ἀργυρίου; οὐχὶ· ἀλλ’ οὕτως νόησον. τὰ
μὲν εἰσὶ ξύλα καὶ λίθοι, τοῦτο ’δε ἐστιν ἔλασμα· ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἄλλο ἔστιν ἔλασμα
χρυσοῦν ἢ ἀργυροῦν. καὶ πᾶν πνεῦμα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ.
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The idols do this: the more they make, the more they think to obtain a greater share. And having said "apparition," he added "false," because there is also a true apparition—that is, when someone recalls to himself again the things that appeared to him, just as they appeared, or Scripture knows apparition also as brightness. Since, then, there are many brightnesses that subsist, even being of such things, while the brightness of idols is unsubstantial—because of this, he called it a false apparition. "Woe," says the one to the wood, "Wake up, arise," and to the stone, "Be exalted"; and this is an apparition. He laments those who, in the calamities that surround them, do not flee to the one who can save, but run to wooden and stone idols, and beg that they, as if sleeping, be awakened and exalted against their enemies, showing their own power as high and invincible. Observe how he did not say "wooden idol" or "stone idol," but "wood" and "stone," for greater reproach. For even if it bears the form of a man, yet it remains wood and stone. And the form it carries is an apparition—false, certainly, as he said before; for he ought not to repeat himself. "This, however, is a plate of gold or silver." The text seems unintelligible; for having said "stone" and "wood," he added, "This, however, is a plate of gold or silver." Does the wood and the stone, then, become a plate of gold or silver? No; but understand it thus: there are woods and stones, but this is a plate—that is, another thing is a gold or silver plate. And there is no spirit in it.
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ἀντὶ τοὺ, οὐδὲν πνεῦμα
ἔστιν ἐν αὐτῷ, οὔτε τὸ φυσικὸν, οὔτε τὸ αἰσθητικὸν, οὔτε τὸ λογικόν. ὁ δὲ κύριος
ἐν ναῷ ἀτίω αὐτοῦ· εὐλαβείσθω ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ. τὰ μὲν
εἴδωλά φησι κωφὰ καὶ ἀσθενῆ καὶ μηδένα ὠφελῆσαι δυνάμενα· ὁ δὲ κύριος ὦι μὲν
οἷόν τινα ναὸν, τὸν οὐρανὸν, καὶ ἐν ἐκείνῳ κατοικεῖ, ὡς ἁγίῳ, ἅγιος. κατοικεῖ δὲ κοί
τὸν ἐν ἱερουσαλὴμ ναὸν, ὃν ὁ ἐπὶ τοῖς εἰδώλοις πεποιθὼς ἐνέπρησεν, ὑπὲρ οὗ κοὶ
δίκας δώσει. εἰ δὲ ἐν οὐρανῷ κατοικεῖ, πᾶσα ἡ γῆ εὐλαβείσθω τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ,
τουτέστι, τὴν ἐπιστασίαν αὐτοῦ κοὶ ἐπίσκεψιν τῶν ἡμετέρων ἔργων. καὶ μηδεὶς
καταφρονείτω μηδὲ ἀλαζονευέσθω, πρὸς τὰ τῷ βοβυλωνίῳ συμβεβηκότα ἀφορῶν. ναὸς τοῦ κυρίου κοὶ τὸ σῶμα, ὃ ἐκ τῆς ἁγίας παρθένου ἑαυτῷ συνέπηξεν, ὃν καὶ νῦν
κατοικεῖ. πάντες οὖν οἱ τὰ τῆς γῆς φρονοῦντες εὐλαβείσθωσαν ἀπὸ τοῦ προσώπου
αὐτοῦ· τῆς δευτέρας φημὶ παρουσίας, ὅτε ἦξει ἐπισκέψασθαι τὰ ἡμέτερα φοβερώτερον,
οὐχὶ διορθώσασθαι.
English
Instead of saying, "there is no spirit in it," neither the natural, nor the sensitive, nor the rational. But the Lord is in his own temple; let the whole earth be reverent before his face. The idols, he says, are mute and weak and able to benefit no one; but the Lord has a temple, so to speak, the heaven, and dwells in that as in a holy place, being holy. He also dwells in the temple in Jerusalem, which the one who trusted in the idols set on fire, for which he will also pay the penalty. But if he dwells in heaven, let the whole earth be reverent before his face, that is, before his oversight and inspection of our works. And let no one despise or be arrogant, looking to what happened to the Babylonian. The temple of the Lord is also the body, which he constructed for himself from the holy virgin, and in which he now dwells. Therefore, let all who think of earthly things be reverent before his face—I mean, of the second coming, when he will come to inspect our deeds more terribly, not to correct them.
Citation. Tergwame, “Commentary on St. Cyril In XII Prophetas”, tlg3129.ogl001:1, machine-draft, 2026. https://naxiai.com/christian/works/tlg3129.ogl001#s1
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