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a recalling; and to transplant, to dwell securely on the earth after the return. And the word of the Lord came. Of Chrysostom, otherwise Olympiodorus. These things were at intervals, whenever he says: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying; for it was not in sequence, but he gave time to comprehend what was being said. A rod of a nut tree. For this wood is hard, and heavy, and good for striking. Why did they see these things? Because the events and the visions were clearer, and struck the hearer more. For the rod is a symbol of a blow. Having urged him to the prophecy, he also constrains him more through the vision. But some have interpreted 'of a nut tree' as 'of an almond tree'. But the Hebrew has it thus: I see a watchful rod. For 'watchfulness' and 'almond' are expressed by the same words in Hebrew. He adds, therefore: And the Lord said to me, You have seen well; that is, I will no longer be patient with them, but I will bring the sentence. He took it from the metaphor of those who watch sinners, finding them in the very act. Some said 'of a nut tree,' was seen on account of the strength of the punishment. That He punishes them, then, he indicated through these things; but in what manner, he adds: For behold, I am watchful. Since sleep, in God's case, is a kind of long-suffering; How long will you sleep, O Lord? that is, I am now coming forth. I do not persuade by word, be persuaded by the sight of the rod. I do not say, but I do. And its face. The face, that is, the burning of the cauldron. And he calls Jerusalem a cauldron, and the disaster a burning; and from the north, to indicate the attack of the Babylonians. 64.753 That is, there he was seeing, there he was looking, there he was turned. He signifies the tumult, the boiling, the pain, the frying through the cauldron. This is the greatest remedy, to preserve the one who is sick, to frighten, to chasten, to bring on through the sight itself, and to hold back, and to give a time for repentance. For neither would he have brought it on immediately, so as not to destroy the fruit of repentance; nor did he desist, so as not to dissolve the fear. You see, then, each thing measured out, and the medicine compounded from opposites, as it is with physicians. For what need was there not to bring it on? But they would have become more slothful. But to bring it on? But they would have gained nothing. Therefore he also holds back, and contrives that things be believed through the sight, shaking their mind, and showing the living nature of the word. For behold, I am calling together. Here he indicates the war of the kings, that of the Babylonians. Not one king, or a second, but all. See how he sets the kings over them, as if there were not even a war and a battle, but as if they were coming for plunder laid out before them, as if upon ready slaves, as if upon those captured and subdued. Two things happen here: so that these people should not think that those are the strong ones, and the persuaders, perhaps but the ones persuaded that God leads and carries all things; in order that uidetur leg. also those, so that not thinking it to signify in turn a spontaneous war and siege, they might set their thrones not as if warring, but as if resting. And I will speak to them with judgment. With my judgment I will discourse with them, and having convicted them for their lawlessness, thus I will punish them. To the works of their hands. I do not even say another thing, but that it is foreign; and not only this, but that they worshipped the works of their hands. Nothing is so unworthy of God, as to be created; especially indeed to be created, but much more so by humans. And you, gird yourself. Work with me, cooperate with me. What is 'gird yourself'? For just as a physician commanding a student for a great work; for they were not mere words, nor did it need to be said once, nor in a short time, that is, Be courageous; for you there is a battle line, a fight and a war of no ordinary kind. And arise. Not that he was sitting; for how could he, seeing such things, and hearing such things?; but, Arouse yourself, attend to the things being said, you need double the attention, both for the

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ἀνάκλησιν· καὶ μεταφυτεύειν, τὸ μετὰ τὴν ἐπάνοδον ἀσφαλῶς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς κατοικεῖν. Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου. Τοῦ Χρυσοστόμου, ἄλλ. Ὀλυμπιοδώρου. Ταῦτα ἐκ διαλείμματος, ὅταν εἴπῃ· Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέγων· οὐ γὰρ ἐφεξῆς, ἀλλ' ἐδίδου συνιδεῖν τὰ λεγόμενα. Βακτηρίαν καρυΐνην. Τὸ γὰρ ξύλον τοῦτο στεῤῥὸν, καὶ βαρὺ, καὶ πληκτικόν. Τίνος ἕνεκεν ταῦτα ἔβλεπον; Ὅτι τὰ πράγματα καὶ αἱ ὄψεις ἐναργέστεραι ἦσαν, καὶ μᾶλλον ἔπληττον τὸν ἀκροατήν. Ἡ γὰρ ῥάβδος πληγῆς ἐστι σύμβολον. Προτρεψάμενος αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν προφητείαν, καὶ διὰ τῆς ὀπτασίας μᾶλλον δυσωπεῖ. Τὸ δὲ καρυΐνην, ἀμυγδαλίνην τινὲς ἡρμήνευσαν. Ὁ δὲ Ἑβραῖος οὕτως ἔχει· Βακτηρίαν ἐγρηγορυῖαν ἐγὼ ὁρῶ. Ἡ γὰρ ἐγρήγορσις καὶ τὸ ἀμύγδαλον διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ Ἑβραϊκῷ προφέρεται ῥημάτων. Ἐπάγει γοῦν· Καὶ εἶπε Κυρίος πρός με, Καλῶς ἑώρακας· τουτέστιν, Οὐκ ἔτι αὐτοῖς μακροθυμῶ, ἀλλ' ἐπάγω τὴν ψῆφον. Ἔλαβε δὲ ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τῶν παρατηρούντων τοὺς ἁμαρτάνοντας, ἐπ' αὐτοφώρῳ αὐτοὺς εὑρισκόντων. Τινὲς καρυΐνην ἔφασαν, διὰ τὸ ἰσχυρὸν τῆς τιμωρίας, ἑωρᾶσθαι. Ὅτι μὲν οὖν τιμωρεῖται αὐτοὺς, ἐμήνυσε διὰ τούτων· τίνα δὲ τὸν τρόπον, ἐπάγει· ∆ιότι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐγρήγορα. Ἐπειδὴ καὶ ὁ ὕπνος ἐπὶ Θεοῦ, μακροθυμία τίς ἐστιν· Ἕως πότε ὑπνοῖς, Κύριε; τουτέστιν Ἤδη ὑπεξέρχομαι. Οὐ πείθω ῥήματι, τῇ ὄψει τῆς ῥάβδου πείσθητι. Οὐ λέγω, ἀλλὰ ποιῶ. Καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ. Τὸ πρόσωπον, τουτέστιν ἡ ἔκκαυσις γίνεται τοῦ λέβητος. Καλεῖ δὲ λέβητα τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ἔκκαυσιν δὲ τὴν συμφοράν· ἀπὸ βοῤῥᾶ δὲ, ἵνα μηνύσῃ τὴν τῶν Βαβυλωνίων ἔφοδον. 64.753 Τουτέστιν, ἐκεῖ ἑώρα, ἐκεῖ ἔβλεπεν, ἐκεῖ ἐτέτραπτο. Τὸν θόρυβον, τὴν ζέσιν, τὴν ὀδύνην, τὸν τηγανισμὸν διὰ τοῦ λέβητος δηλοῖ. Τοῦτο ἰατρεία μεγίστη, τὸ διαφυλάξαι τὸν κάμνοντα, φοβῆσαι, σωφρονίσαι, ἐπαγαγεῖν διὰ τῆς ὄψεως αὐτῆς, καὶ ἀνασχεῖν, καὶ δοῦναι μετανοίας καιρόν. Οὔτε γὰρ ἂν ἐπήγαγεν εὐθέως, ὥστε μὴ ἀνελεῖν τὸν ἐκ τῆς μετανοίας καρπόν· οὔτε ἀπέστη· ὥστε μὴ ἐκλῦσαι τὸν φόβον. Ὁρᾷς οὖν ἕκαστον μεμετρημένον, καὶ ἐξ ἐναντίων τὸ φάρμακον συγκείμενον, οἷόν ἐστι ἐπὶ τῶν ἰατρῶν. Τί γὰρ ἔδει μὴ ἐπαγαγεῖν; ἀλλὰ ῥᾳθυμότεροι ἐγένοντο ἄν. Ἀλλ' ἐπαγαγεῖν; ἀλλ' οὐδὲν ἂν ἐκέρδανον. ∆ιὸ καὶ ἀφίστησι, καὶ μηχανᾶται πιστὰ εἶναι διὰ τῆς ὄψεως, κατασείων τὴν διάνοιαν αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ ἔμψυχον τοῦ λόγου δεικνύς. ∆ιότι ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ συγκαλῶ. Τῶν βασιλέων τὸν πόλεμον δηλοῖ ἐνταῦθα, τὸν τῶν Βαβυλωνίων. Οὐχ ἕνα βασιλέα, ἢ δεύτερον, ἀλλὰ πάντας. Ὅρα πῶς ἐφίστησιν αὐτοὺς τοὺς βασιλεῖς, ὡς οὐδὲ πολέμου καὶ μάχης οὔσης, ἀλλ' ὡς ἐπὶ προκειμένην ἡκόντων ἁρπαγὴν, ὡς ἐπὶ δούλους ἑτοίμους, ὡς ἐπὶ ἁλόντας καὶ χειρουμένους. ∆ύο ἐνταῦθα γίνεται· ὥστε μηδὲ τούτους νομίσαι, ἐκείνους εἶναι τοὺς ἰσχυροὺς, καὶ πείθοντας, ἴσ. ἀλλὰ πειθομένους ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς πάντα ἄγει καὶ φέρει· ἵνα uidetur leg. κἀκείνους ἵνα μὴ νομίσαντες, πάλιν αὐτόματον πόλεμον καὶ πολιορκίαν δηλοῦν, θήσωσι τοὺς θρόνους αὐτῶν οὐχ ὡς πολεμοῦντες, ἀλλ' ὡς ἀναπαυόμενοι. Καὶ λαλήσω πρὸς αὐτοὺς μετὰ κρίσεως. Μετὰ κρίσεώς μου διαλεχθήσομαι πρὸς αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἐλέγξας αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τῇ παρανομίᾳ, οὕτως αὐτοὺς τιμωρήσομαι. Τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν. Οὐδὲ λέγω ἕτερον, ἀλλ' ὅτι ἀλλότριον· καὶ οὐδὲ τοῦτο μόνον, ἀλλ' ὅτι προσεκύνησαν τοῖς ἔργοις τῶν χειρῶν. Οὐδὲν οὕτως ἀνάξιον Θεοῦ, ὡς τὸ γενέσθαι· μάλιστα μὲν καὶ τὸ γενέσθαι, πολλῷ δὲ πλέον τὸ παρὰ ἀνθρώπων. Καὶ σὺ περίζωσαι. Σύμπραξόν μοι, συνέργησόν μοι. Τί ἐστι τὸ περίζωσαι; καθάπερ γὰρ ἰατρὸς μαθητῇ ἐπιτάττων πρὸς ἔργον μέγα· οὐ γὰρ ψιλὰ ἦν ῥήματα, οὐδὲ ἅπαξ εἰπεῖν ἔδει, οὐδὲ βραχεῖ χρόνῳ, τουτέστιν, Ἀνδρεῖος γενοῦ· παράταξίς σοι, μάχη καὶ πόλεμος οὐχ ὁ τυχών. Καὶ ἀνάστηθι. Οὐχ ὅτι ἐκάθητο· πῶς γὰρ, τοιαῦτα ὁρῶν, καὶ τοιαῦτα ἀκούων;· ἀλλὰ, ∆ιέγειρον σαυτὸν, πρόσεχε τοῖς λεγομένοις, διπλῆς σοι δεῖ τῆς προσοχῆς, πρός τε τὰ