God [Exodus: God]. And Naboth had one vineyard. {Cyril.} Isaiah suggests to us to understand the vineyard as Israel. But its leaders, of whom Ahab is a type, desired to have it, but they did not persuade him to betray to them the choice vineyard of his father, so that they might also convert it into a garden of herbs, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men, and giving it to drink a muddy subversion. Then what did the God-hated Jezebel do, that is, the Synagogue of the Jews, concurring with the griefs of the leaders? She pursues by deceit the just Naboth, that is, the one who is coming. For Emmanuel was slain, being falsely accused. The God of the mountains is the God of Israel. {Cyril.} For those of Israel thought that they had conquered, with God being able to save only on the mountains or even on the hills; we have been defeated, therefore, it says, because the God of the mountains is the God of Israel; but if we should happen to meet for battle in the bare plains, we will certainly prevail, since the God of Israel is weak in the valleys. But these are charges of Hellenic madness, and the terrible loose-tonguedness of those who do not know the true and natural God. Therefore, the all-powerful God was very rightly indignant against the foreigners, because even 69.693 when conquering Israel, as I said, they offered thank-offerings to their own gods, talking nonsense they thought to have power even over God Himself. And he finds another man, and said: Strike me. {Cyril.} Do you hear how he who refused to strike the prophet was miserably slain, having fallen upon a terrible beast? And yet how is it not true to say that not daring to strike down a holy man and a prophet was the fruit of reverence? But in the word of the Lord, disobedience has become also an inescapable offense. Thus it is an inescapable offense to do something contrary to what seems good to God or not to do without delay the things commanded by him. Therefore it is necessary that whatever would please God be accomplished by us without hesitation and delay. But to do, or even choose to think, anything other than this, brings the charge of contempt; for such men have all but decided hereafter to rebuke God, as one who has sometimes not deliberated rightly.

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And now you have taken the silver, etc. {Cyril.} Christ also says this in the holy Gospels: Carry no purse, nor bag, nor sandals, and greet no one on the road. For it is necessary to proceed to the work with a straight impulse, and not even to return a blessing for a blessing; for distraction towards others is a loss of earnestness, and to spend in vain on non-essential things the time fitting for proclamations, nor to grant to friendships unprofitable delay.

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Regum And they inherited Samaria. {Cyril.} These, then, having taken the inheritance, having inhabited the land of the Samaritans, and perhaps they have become fathers of children; and they have inclined to the customs of the Jews, having dreaded the attacks of the lions. From them came both Sarasar and Arbeseser, who was also named king, because he was at that time the leader of those who had been resettled in Samaria

Θεόν [ξοδ. Θεός]. Καὶ ἀμπελὼν εἶς ἦν τῷ Ναβουθαί. {Κυρίλλου.} Ἀμπελῶνα νοεῖν τὸν Ἰσραὴλ Ἡσαΐας ἡμῖν ὑποτίθεται. Ἀλλ' οἱ τούτου ἡγούμενοι, ὧν φέρει

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τύπον ὁ Ἀχαὰβ, ἐπεθύμουν αὐτὸν ἔχειν, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἔπειθον καταπροδοῦναι σφίσιν τὸν τοῦ πατρὸς ἐξαίρετον ἀμπελῶνα, ἵνα καὶ εἰς κῆπον αὐτὸν λαχανίας μετασκευάσωσι, διδάσκοντες διδασκαλίας ἐντάλματα ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ποτίζοντες αὐτὸν ἀνατροπὴν θολεράν. Εἶτα τί δέδρακεν ἡ θεομίσητος Ἰεζάβελ, τουτέστιν ἡ τῶν Ἰουδαίων Συναγωγὴ, ταῖς τῶν ἡγουμένων συνδραμοῦσα λύπαις; ∆όλῳ μέτεισι τὸν δίκαιον Ναβουθαὶ, τουτέστι τὸν ἐρχόμενον. Ἀνῄρηται γὰρ συκοφαντούμενος ὁ Ἐμμανουήλ. Θεὸς ὀρέων Θεὸς Ἰσραήλ. {Κυρίλλου.} Ὤοντο γὰρ ὅτι νενικήκασιν οἱ ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ, μόνοις τοῖς ὄρεσιν ἢ καὶ ἐν τοῖς βουνοῖς δυναμένου σώζειν Θεοῦ· ἡττήμεθα δὴ οὖν, φησὶν, ὅτι Θεὸς ὀρέων Θεὸς Ἰσραήλ· εἰ δὲ δὴ γένοιτο συνελθεῖν εἰς μάχην ἐν πεδίοις ἐψιλωμένοις, περιεσόμεθα πάντως, ἀτονοῦντος ἐν κοιλάσι τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἰσραήλ. Ἑλληνικῆς δὲ ταῦτα φρενοβλαβείας ἐγκλήματα, καὶ τῶν οὐκ εἰδότων τὸν ἀληθῆ καὶ κατὰ φύσιν Θεὸν ἀθυροστομία δεινή. Οὐκοῦν ἠγανάκτει κατὰ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων καὶ σφόδρα εἰκότως ὁ πάντα ἰσχύων Θεὸς, ὅτι καὶ 69.693 νικῶντες, ὡς ἔφην, τὸν Ἰσραὴλ, τοῖς ἰδίοις θεοῖς ἀνῆπτον τὰ χαριστήρια, ληροῦντες ᾤοντο καὶ αὐτοῦ κρατῆσαι Θεοῦ. Καὶ εὑρίσκει ἄνθρωπον ἄλλον, καὶ εἶπε· Πάταξόν με. {Κυρίλλου.} Ἀκούεις ὅπως ὁ πατάξαι τὸν προφήτην παραιτούμενος, ἐλεεινῶς ἀνῃρέθη, δεινῷ θηρίῳ περιπεσών; Καίτοι πῶς οὐκ ἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν ὡς ἦν εὐλαβείας καρπὸς τὸ καταπαίειν μὴ ἀποτολμᾷν ἅγιον καὶ προφήτην; Ἀλλ' ἐν λόγῳ Κυρίου καὶ δυσδιάφυκτον ἔγκλημα γέγονεν παρακοή. Οὕτως δυσδιάφυκτον ἔγκλημα τὸ ποιεῖν τι παρὰ τὸ δοκοῦν τῷ Θεῷ ἢ τὸ μὴ ἀμελ[λ]ητὶ ποιεῖν τὰ παρ' αὐτοῦ προσταττόμενα Οὐκοῦν ἀναγκαῖον ὄκνου τε δίχα καὶ μελλησμοῦ ἀποπεραίνεσθαι πρὸς ἡμῶν, ὅπερ ἂν ἁνδάνοι Θεῷ. Τὸ δὲ ἕτερόν τι παρὰ τοῦτο δρᾷν, ἢ καὶ ἑλέσθαι φρονεῖν, ὑπεροψίας ἔγκλημα φέρει· μόνον γὰρ οὐχὶ καὶ ἐπιτιμᾷν ἐγνώκασιν οἱ τοιοίδε λοιπὸν, ὡς οὐκ ὀρθῶς ἔσθ' ὄτε βουλευσαμένῳ Θεῷ.

ΒΙΒΛΟΣ ∆ʹ.

Καὶ νῦν ἔλαβες τὸ ἀργύριον, κ.τ.λ. {Κυρίλλου.} Τοῦτο καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις Εὐαγγελίοις φησί· Μὴ βαστάσητε βαλάντιον μηδὲ πήραν ἢ ὑποδήματα, καὶ μηδένα κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ἀσπάσησθε. Χρὴ γὰρ εὐθείᾳ ὁρμῇ ἐπὶ τὸ ἔργον χωρεῖν, καὶ μηδὲ εὐλογοῦντα ἀντευλογεῖν· ζημία γὰρ τῆς σπουδῆς ἡ πρὸς ἑτέρους ἀπόνευσις, καὶ τὸν τοῖς κηρύγμασι πρέποντα καιρὸν εἰκῆ δαπανᾷν οὐκ ἐπ' ἀναγκαίοις πράγμασι, μηδὲ χαρίζεσθαι φιλίαις τὸν ἀνωφελῆ μελλησμόν.

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Regum Καὶ ἐκληρονόμησαν τὴν Σαμάρειαν. {Κυρίλλου.} Οὗτοι δὴ οὖν οἱ κλῆρον

ἑλόντες τὴν Σαμαρειτῶν κατῳκηκότες γῆν, καὶ τέκνων που τάχα γεγόνασι πατέρες· καὶ τοῖς Ἰουδαίων ἤθεσι προσνενεύκασι, τὰς τῶν λεόντων ἐφόδους κατοῤῥωδήσαντες. Ἐξ αὐτῶν γεγόνασι Σαρασάρ τε καὶ Ἀρβεσέσερ, ὃς καὶ ὠνόμασται βασιλεὺς, διά τοι τοῦτον καθηγεῖσθαι τὸ τηνικάδε τῶν ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ μετῳκισθέντων