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did he set it up?; And if the circumcision of the child was necessary, why before God sent him, did He not command him with gentleness to circumcise the child? And why, since it was a transgression, did the good angel not gently admonish the one sent by God for such a ministry? ............................................................... 93

QUESTION 18 . ........................................................................................................... 94 If the doers of the law will be justified, according to the Apostle, how does he say again: " As many of you as are justified by the law; you have fallen from grace?" ..................................... 94

QUESTION 19 . ........................................................................................................... 94 What is: "For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law will be judged by the law?" And how does the same one say again: " When God will judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel? " If they will be judged by the law, how by Jesus Christ? ........................................................ 94

QUESTION 20 .............................................................................................................. 95 What is the fig tree in the Gospel that was withered illogically, as far as it appears? What is the intemperance of hunger, seeking fruit out of season? And what is the curse of the senseless thing?......................................................................................................... 95

QUESTION 21 . .......................................................................................................... 96 What is, "Having disarmed the principalities and the powers," and what follows? And how was he clothed with them at all, having been born without sin?.............................. 96

QUESTION 22 . .......................................................................................................... 98 If in the ages to come God will show His riches, how have the ends of the ages come upon us? ....................................................................... 98

QUESTION 22 . ........................................................................................................ 100 If David reigned only over Israel according to the flesh; and Israel according to the flesh rejected the kingdom of Christ, for which reason it passed to the Gentiles; how, according to the voice of the Archangel (325), will this stand: "And God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever?"........ 100

QUESTION 24. ......................................................................................................... 102 What is the text in Acts concerning Peter: "When they had passed the first and the second guard, we came (they came) to the iron gate?" .............. 102

QUESTION 25 . ........................................................................................................ 102 What is, "But I want you to know that the head of every man is Christ, the head of woman is man, and the head of Christ is God; and every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonors his head; but every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if she were shaved?" And what again is: "For this reason the woman ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels?" ....................................................................................................................... 102

QUESTION 26......................................................................................................... 106 If the king of Babylon is allegorized as the devil, what is the meaning of that which, through [Gist. ᾧδιά] the prophet Jeremiah, he threatens to the kings of the nations, and to the king of Judah: yokes and bonds, and famine, and death, and the sword, and captivity, if they do not serve him? But for those who willingly serve, to be with ease upon their land; and that he calls him a servant, saying: " I have given all the land (341) to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and the beasts of the field I have given to serve him." What then is the servitude of the devil, and what are the beasts, and what are the six kinds of threat, and who are the kings of the nations, and the king of Judah? .............................................................. 106

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ἔστησε; Καί εἰ ἀναγκαία ἦν ἡ περιτομή τοῦ παιδίου, διά τί πρό τοῦ αὐτόν τόν Θεόν ἀποστεῖλαι, μετά ἡμερότητος οὐκ ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ περιτεμεῖν τό παιδίον; ∆ιά τί δέ καί ὅτι πταῖσμα ἦν, ὁ ἀγαθός ἄγγελος τόν ὑπό τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς τοιαύτην διακονίαν ἀποστελλόμενον, ἡμέρως οὐκ ἐνουθέτησεν; ............................................................... 93

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΙΗ΄ . ........................................................................................................... 94 Εἰ οἱ ποιηταί τοῦ νόμου δικαιωθήσονται, κατά τόν Ἀπόστολον, πῶς πάλιν

λέγει· " Ὅσοι ἐν νόμῳ δικαιοῦσθε, τῆς χάριτος ἐξεπέσατε;" ..................................... 94 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΙΘ΄ . ........................................................................................................... 94 Τί ἐστιν· " Ὅσοι ἀνόμως ἥμαρτον, ἀνόμως καί ἀπολοῦνται· καί ὅσοι ἐν νόμῳ

ἥμαρτον, διά νόμου κριθήσονται;" Καί πῶς ὁ αὐτός λέγει πάλιν· " Ὅτε κρινεῖ ὁ Θεός τά κρυπτά τῶν ἀνθρώπων κατά τό Εὐαγγέλιόν μου, διά Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ; " Εἰ διά νόμου κριθήσονται, πῶς διά Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ; ........................................................ 94

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Κ΄ .............................................................................................................. 95 Τίς ἡ ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ παραλόγως, ὅσον πρός τό φαινόμενον, ξηρανθεῖσα

συκῆ; Τίς ἡ ἀκρασία τῆς πείνης, παρά καιρόν ἐπιζητούσης καρπόν; Καί τίς ἡ τοῦ ἀναισθήτου κατάρα;......................................................................................................... 95

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΚΑ΄ . .......................................................................................................... 96 Τί ἐστιν, "Ἀπεκδυσάμενος τάς ἀρχάς καί τάς ἐξουσίας," καί τά ἑξῆς; Πῶς δέ

καί ἦν αὐτάς ὅλως ἐνδυσάμενος, ἁμαρτίας χωρίς γεγενημένος;.............................. 96 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΚΒ΄ . .......................................................................................................... 98 Εἰ ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσι τοῖς ἐπερχομένοις δείξει τόν πλοῦτο αὐτοῦ ὁ Θεός, πῶς εἰς

ἡμᾶς τά τέλη τῶν αἰώνων κατήντησεν; ....................................................................... 98 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΚΒ΄ . ........................................................................................................ 100 Εἰ ∆αβίδ τοῦ κατά σάρκα μόνον Ἰσραήλ ἐβασίλευσεν· ὁ δέ κατά σάρκα Ἰσραήλ

τήν τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀπώσατο βασιλείαν, διό καί μετῆλθεν ἐπί τά ἔθνη· πῶς κατά τήν φωνήν τοῦ Ἀρχαγγέλου (325) σταθήσεται, τό· "Καί δώσει αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός τόν θρόνον ∆αβίδ τοῦ πατρός αὐτοῦ, καί βασιλεύσει ἐπί τόν οἶκον Ἰακώβ εἰς αἰῶνας;"........ 100

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Κ∆΄. ......................................................................................................... 102 Τί ἐστι τό ἐν ταῖς Πράξεσι περί τοῦ Πέτρου κείμενον· " ∆ιελθόντες πρώτην

φυλακήν καί δευτέραν, ἤλθομεν (ἦλθον) ἐπί τήν πύλην τήν σιδηρᾶν;" .............. 102 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΚΕ ΄. ........................................................................................................ 102 Τί ἐστι, "Θέλω ὑμᾶς εἰδέναι, ὅτι παντός ἀνδρός ἡ κεφαλή ὁ Χριστός ἐστι,

κεφαλή δέ γυναικός ὁ ἀνήρ, κεφαλή δέ Χριστοῦ ὁ Θεός· καί πᾶς ἀνήρ προσευχόμενος ἤ προφητεύων κατά κεφαλῆς ἔχων καταισχύνει τήν κεφαλήν αὐτοῦ· πᾶσα δέ γυνή προσευχομένη ἤ προφητεύουσα ἀκατακαλύπτῳ τῇ κεφαλῇ καταισχύνει τήν κεφαλήν αὐτῆς· ἕν γάρ καίτό αὐτό ἐστι τῇ ἐξυρημένη;" Καί τί πάλιν ἐστί τό· "∆ιά τοῦτο ὀφείλει ἡ γυνή ἐξουσίαν ἔχειν ἐπί τῆς κεφαλῆς διά τούς ἀγγέλους;" ....................................................................................................................... 102

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Κστ΄......................................................................................................... 106 Εἰ ὁ βασιλεύς Βαβυλῶνος ἀλληγορεῖται εἰς τόν διάβολον, τίς ὁ λόγος ὅν διά

[Gist. ᾧδιά] τοῦ, προφήτου Ἱερεμίου ἀπειλεῖ τοῖς βασιλεῦσι τῶν ἐθνῶν, καί τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἰούδα· κλοιούς καί δεσμούς, καί λιμόν, καί θάνατον, καί μάχαιραν, καί αἰχμαλωσίαν, ἐάν μή αὐτῷ δουλεύσωσι; Τοῖς δέ ἑκουσίως δουλεύουσι, μετά ἀνέσεως εἶναι ἐπί τῆς γῆς αὐτῶν· καί ὅτι δοῦλον αὐτόν προσαγορεύει, λέγων· " Ἐγώ ἔδωκα πᾶσαν τήν γῆν (341) Ναβουχοδονόσορ βασιλεῖ Βαβυλῶνος, τῷ δούλῳ μου, καί τά θηρία τοῦ ἀγροῦ δέδωκα δουλεύειν αὐτῷ." Τίς οὖν ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ διαβόλου δουλεία, καί τίνα τά θηρία, καί τίνα τά ἕξ εἴδη τῆς ἀπειλῆς, καί τίνες οἱ βασιλεῖς τῶν ἐθνῶν, καί ὁ βασιλεύς Ἰούδα; .............................................................. 106

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΚΖ΄ . ........................................................................................................ 110