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of the house those eating so as to be sufficient for the meal and nothing be left over, and that the sheep be sacrificed "on the fourteenth" "toward evening". Therefore for five days the victim is with those who are about to be saved through it; and when the fifth is completed, the sacrificial animal is sacrificed, death passes over, and the one saved enjoys perpetual light, through both the whole night with the moon shining and the sun succeeding the moon, for this happens on the fifteenth and the full moon. 9 These five intervals show the entire time of the world divided into five, both that from Adam until Noah and that from Noah until Abraham and that from Abraham to Moses and that from Moses to the coming of Christ and a fifth, <that> of the coming itself; in which entire time salvation through the blessed victim was set before man, but was not yet accomplished, but in the fifth interval of time the true pasch was sacrificed and the first-born man saved through it went out into the perpetual light; and that the pasch was to be sacrificed not at the evening itself but "toward evening" signified that Christ would suffer not at the very end of the present age but toward 10 it.

The parable <of Christ> dividing the day into five showed time thus divided, and those called into the vineyard, that is, into the work of righteousness, saying that some were called around the first hour, some around the third, some around the sixth, some the ninth, and some the eleventh; for these were different callings and different justifications, one in the time of Adam, another in the time of Noah, another in the time of Abraham, another in the time of Moses, and last and most perfect that in the time of Christ's coming, when also the wage for the works is given first to the last according to the saving parable, since we first receive regeneration in baptism, for whom "Christ was sacrificed," for whom He rose and breathed the Holy Spirit into us for our renewal.

11 This, then, is the fourteenth understood mystically, and such is the symbol of the victim and the bright night and day succeeding the sacrifice; but the whole sacrificial animal being eaten in each house and none of the flesh being carried "outside" signifies one house alone having salvation in Christ, and this was the church throughout the whole world, formerly alienated from God, but now alone having a familiar relationship with God because it received those sent from the Lord Jesus, just as the house of Rahab, the former prostitute, having received the spies from Joshua, alone was saved 12 when Jericho was being sacked; so that even if the houses of the Hebrews are many, they have the power of one, just as the churches in cities and countries, being many in number, are one church; for Christ in them is one everywhere, the perfect and undivided—for which reason the sacrificial animal in each house was "perfect" and was not divided into different parts;—at any rate, Paul also says that we are all one in Christ, because the Lord is one and the faith is one.

13 Therefore, the law necessarily prefigured the indivisible union of the sacrificial animal in Christ, in this prefiguring also the union of the church; indeed, we have salvation in Christ and in the sacrifice of Christ, and we know that all things before the coming were prepared for the coming, and this alone was set forth from the beginning for the salvation of all humanity as if before their eyes, that Christ was sacrificed for all, and we understand that this salvation belongs to the one church, and that no one outside the catholic church and faith is able to partake of Christ nor 14 to be saved; and knowing these things, we know that the salvation of the whole world is accomplished not in the things according to the law but in Christ, nor do we assign anything toward hope to the godless heresies but place them completely outside of hope, since indeed they do not have even the slightest participation in Christ

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τῆς οἰκίας τοὺς ἐσθίοντας ὡς ἐξαρκεῖν εἰς τὴν βρῶσιν καὶ μηδὲν περισσεῦσαι, θύεσθαι δὲ "τῇ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ" τὸ πρόβατον "πρὸς ἑσπέραν". Οὐκοῦν πέντε μὲν ἡμέρας σύνεστι τὸ θῦμα τοῖς μέλλουσι σώζεσθαι δι' αὐτοῦ· περαιου μένης δὲ τῆς πέμπτης, τὸ μὲν ἱερεῖον θύεται, ὁ δὲ θάνατος ὑπερβαίνει, ὁ δὲ σωθεὶς ἀπολαύει διηνεκοῦς φωτός, διά τε νυκτὸς ὅλης λαμπούσης σελήνης καὶ τοῦ ἡλίου τὴν σελήνην διαδεχομένου, τοῦτο γὰρ ἐν πεντεκαιδεκάτῃ καὶ πανσελήνῳ 9 γίνεται. Τὰ δὲ πέντε διαστήματα ταῦτα τὸν ἅπαντα δείκνυσι χρόνον τοῦ κόσμου διαιρούμενον εἰς πέντε, εἴς τε τὸν ἀπὸ Ἀδὰμ μέχρι Νῶε καὶ τὸν ἀπὸ Νῶε μέχρι Ἀβραὰμ καὶ τὸν ἐξ Ἀβραὰμ ἐπὶ Μωϋσῆν καὶ τὸν ἀπὸ Μωϋσέως ἐπὶ τὴν Χριστοῦ παρουσίαν καὶ πέμπτον <τὸν> αὐτῆς τῆς παρουσίας· ἐν ᾧ χρόνῳ παντὶ προὔκειτο μὲν ἀνθρώπῳ ἡ διὰ τοῦ μακαρίου θύματος σωτηρία, οὔπω δὲ ἐτελεῖτο, ἐν δὲ τῷ πέμπτῳ διαστήματι τοῦ χρόνου τὸ πάσχα τὸ ἀληθὲς ἐθύετο καὶ ὁ δι' αὐτοῦ σωζόμενος πρωτόγονος ἄνθρωπος εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς ἐξῄει φῶς· καὶ τό γε μὴ ἐπ' αὐτῆς τῆς ἑσπέρας ἀλλὰ "πρὸς ἑσπέραν" τὸ πάσχα θύεσθαι ἐδήλου τὸ μὴ ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ τέλει τοῦ πάροντος αἰῶνος ἀλλὰ πρὸς 10 αὐτὸ [τὸ] πάσχειν Χριστόν.

∆ιῃρημένον δὲ οὕτω τὸν χρόνον ἔδειξεν ἡ παραβολὴ <Χριστοῦ> τεμόντος εἰς πέντε τὴν ἡμέραν καὶ τοὺς κεκλημένους εἰς τὸν ἀμπελῶνα, τοῦτ' ἔστιν εἰς τὴν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἐργασίαν, φάσκοντος καλεῖσθαι τοὺς μὲν ὑπὸ τὴν πρώτην ὥραν, τοὺς δὲ ὑπὸ τρίτην, τοὺς δὲ ὑπὸ ἕκτην, τοὺς δὲ ἐννάτην, τοὺς δὲ ἑνδεκάτην· καὶ γὰρ ἦσαν διάφοροι κλήσεις αὗται καὶ διάφορα δικαιώματα, ἕτερον μὲν τὸ ἐπὶ Ἀδάμ, ἕτερον δὲ τὸ ἐπὶ Νῶε, ἄλλο τὸ ἐπὶ Ἀβραάμ, ἄλλο τὸ ἐπὶ Μωϋσέως, τελευταῖον δὲ καὶ τελεώτατον τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς Χριστοῦ παρουσίας, ὅτε καὶ τῶν ἔργων ὁ μισθὸς ἀποδίδοται πρώτοις τοῖς τελευταίοις κατὰ τὴν σωτήριον παραβολήν, ἐπεὶ πρῶτοι τὴν ἀναγέννησιν ἡμεῖς ἐν βαπτίσματι κομιζόμεθα, οἷς "ἐτύθη Χριστός", ἐφ' ᾧ ἀνέστη καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον εἰς ἀνακαίνισιν ἡμῶν ἐνεφύσησεν.

11 Αὕτη μὲν οὖν ἡ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη μυστικῶς νοουμένη, καὶ τοιοῦτον τὸ τοῦ θύματος σύμβολον καὶ ἡ τὴν θυσίαν διαδεχομένη φωτεινὴ νὺξ καὶ ἡμέρα· τὸ δὲ ὅλον ἐφ' ἑκάστης οἰκίας ἐσθίεσθαι τὸ ἱερεῖον καὶ μὴ ἐκφέρεσθαι τῶν κρεῶν "ἔξω" δηλοῖ μίαν οἰκίαν μόνην ἔχουσαν τὴν ἐν Χριστῷ σωτηρίαν, αὕτη δὲ ἦν ἡ καθ' ὅλης τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐκκλησία, ἡ πάλαι μὲν ἀλλοτρία θεοῦ, νῦν δὲ μόνη πρὸς θεὸν οἰκείως ἔχουσα διὰ τὸ δέξασθαι τοὺς ἀποσταλέντας παρὰ τοῦ κυρίου Ἰησοῦ, ὥσπερ ἡ τῆς Ῥαὰβ ἡ τῆς πάλαι πόρνης οἰκία τοὺς κατασκόπους ὑποδεξαμένη τοὺς παρὰ Ἰησοῦ μόνη καὶ 12 ἐσώζετο, τῆς Ἱεριχῶ πορθουμένης· ὥστε εἰ καὶ πλείους αἱ τῶν Ἑβραίων οἰκίαι μιᾶς ἔχουσι δύναμιν, ὥσπερ αἱ κατὰ πόλεις καὶ χώρας ἐκκλησίαι πολλαὶ τὸν ἀριθμὸν οὖσαι μία ἐστὶν ἐκκλησία· εἷς γὰρ ἐν αὐταῖς ὁ Χριστὸς ἁπανταχοῦ ὁ τέλειος καὶ ἀμέριστος-διόπερ "τέλειον" ἦν ἐφ' ἑκάστης οἰκίας τὸ ἱερεῖον καὶ οὐκ εἰς διαφόρους ἐμερίζετο· - φησὶ γοῦν ἡμᾶς καὶ ὁ Παῦλος ἕνα εἶναι πάντας ἐν Χριστῷ, διότι καὶ ὁ κύριος εἷς καὶ ἡ πίστις μία.

13 Τὴν οὖν ἕνωσιν τοῦ ἱερείου τὴν ἀδιαίρετον ἀναγκαίως ὁ νόμος εἰς Χριστὸν προετύπου, ἐν ταύτῃ καὶ τὴν τῆς ἐκκλησίας ἕνωσιν προδιατυπῶν· ἐν Χριστῷ μὲν δὴ τὴν σωτηρίαν ἔχομεν καὶ ἐν τῇ θυσίᾳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, καὶ πάντα τὰ πρὸ τῆς παρουσίας εἰς τὴν παρουσίαν προευτρεπισθέντα γινώσκομεν καὶ τοῦτο μόνον εἰς σωτηρίαν ἁπάσῃ τῇ ἀνθρωπότητι προκείμενον ἐξ ἀρχῆς καθαπερεὶ πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν τὸν Χριστὸν ὑπὲρ πάντων τυθῆναι, μιᾷ δὲ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ προσήκουσαν τὴν σωτηρίαν ταύτην ἐπιστάμεθα καὶ μηδένα τῆς καθολικῆς ἔξωθεν ἐκκλησίας καὶ πίστεως μετέχειν Χριστοῦ δυνάμενον 14 μηδὲ σώζεσθαι· καὶ ταῦτα εἰδότες οὔτε ἐν τοῖς κατὰ νόμον ἀλλ' ἐν Χριστῷ τὴν ἁπαντὸς τοῦ κόσμου σωτηρίαν ἴσμεν περαιουμένην, οὐδὲ ταῖς ἀθέοις αἱρέσεσιν ἀπονέμομέν τι πρὸς τὴν ἐλπίδα ἀλλὰ παντελῶς ἔξω τῆς ἐλπίδος τίθεμεν αὐτάς, ἅτε δὴ μηδὲ τὴν βραχυτάτην ἐχούσας Χριστοῦ μετουσίαν