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O city of blood, in which Herod reigned, and his descendant of the same name, and similar in manners. Alas, those who seem to be of good order, these have become leaders of disorder. The Jews, being ruled by such men, having been taught murder by them, were driven to Christ-killing; they sawed Isaiah asunder, they killed Jeremiah, they stoned Naboth, they murdered Zechariah, they crucified Christ. But leaving to them the grief for their evils, let us run back to the light of the mystagogy in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

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Ὢ πόλις αἱμάτων, ἐν ᾗ Ἡρώδης ἐβασίλευσε, καὶ ὁ τούτου ἔκγονος ὁμώνυμος, καὶ τοῖς τρόποις ὅμοιος. Οἴμοι, οἱ δοκοῦντες εἶναι τῆς εὐταξίας, οὗτοι ἡγεμόνες τῆς ἀταξίας γεγένηνται. Ὑπὸ τῶν τοιούτων ἀρχόμενοι οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι, τὸν φόνον ὑπ' αὐτῶν διδαχθέντες εἰς χριστοκτονίαν συνηλάθησαν, τὸν Ἡσαΐαν ἐνέπρισαν, τὸν Ἱερεμίαν ἀπέκτειναν, τὸν Ναβουθαὶ ἐλιθοβόλησαν, τὸν Ζαχαρίαν ἐφόνευσαν, τὸν Χριστὸν ἐσταύρωσαν. Ἀλλ' ἐκείνοις τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς κακοῖς πένθος καταλείψαντες, ἐπὶ τὸ τῆς μυσταγωγίας φέγγος ἀναδράμωμεν ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν.