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to the darkness, 'Be revealed.'" And that he is not speaking of a mere man, he himself was the one who said, "'This is our God, no other shall be accounted of in comparison with him.'" Isaiah, "'Be strong, you weak hands and feeble knees; comfort, you faint-hearted in mind; be strong, fear not. Behold our God, behold the Lord comes with strength.'" And again, "'Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear; then shall the lame man leap as a hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be distinct.'" And again, "'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me; he has sent me to preach good tidings to the poor, to proclaim release to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind.'"

5. Concerning the betrayal.

David, "'He who eats my bread has lifted up his heel against me.'"

6. Concerning the Passion. "'My people, they who call you blessed lead you astray, and trouble the path of your feet.

But now the Lord will stand up for judgment, and will bring his people to trial. The Lord himself shall come to judgment with the elders of the people, and with their rulers.'" David, "'Why did the heathen rage, and the peoples imagine vain things? The kings of the earth stood up, and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ.'" Jeremiah, "'The breath of our face, God the Lord, was taken in their corruptions, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.'" Isaiah, "'He bears our iniquities, and is in sorrow for us, and we accounted him to be in trouble, and in suffering, and in affliction. But he was wounded for our sins, and bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace was upon him, by his stripes we were healed. All we as sheep have gone astray; every one has gone astray in his own way. And the Lord delivered him up for our sins; and he, because of his affliction, opens not his mouth. He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is dumb, so he opens not his mouth in 46.213 his humiliation, because his life is taken from the earth; for the sins of my people he was led to death. And I will give the wicked for his burial, and the rich for his death, because he did no iniquity, nor was guile found in his mouth.'" And after a little, "'Therefore he shall inherit many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because his soul was delivered up to death, because he did no iniquity, and was numbered with the transgressors; and he bore the sins of many, and was delivered up for their sins.'" From these things it is clear that the Prophet is not speaking about the people who were led away into Babylon, as some have supposed. For how could the people, for the sins of the people, be led to death? Or which people, and of which people? And again, "'I gave my back to the scourges, and my cheeks to blows, and my face I did not turn away from the shame of spitting.'" And again, "'He had no form, nor beauty, but his form was dishonored, failing beyond the sons of men.'" And again, he who said these things, said, "'And who shall declare his generation?'" David, "'For many dogs have compassed me; the assembly of the wicked has enclosed me. They pierced my hands and my feet; they have numbered all my bones.

And they have looked and stared upon me; they parted my garments among them, and for my vesture they cast lots.'" Jeremiah, "'But I was like an innocent lamb led to be sacrificed, I knew it not.'" And again, "'Come, and let us put wood into

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τῷ σκότει, Ἀνακαλύφθητε.» Καὶ ὅτι οὐ περὶ ψιλοῦ ἀνθρώπου λέγει, αὐτὸς ἦν ὁ εἰπὼν, «Οὗτος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος πρὸς αὐτόν.» Ἡσαΐας, «Ἰσχύσατε, χεῖρες ἀνειμέναι καὶ γόνατα παραλελυμένα· παρακαλέσατε, οἱ ὀλιγόψυχοι τῇ διανοίᾳ· ἰσχύσατε, μὴ φοβεῖσθε. Ἰδοὺ ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ἰδοὺ Κύριος μετὰ ἰσχύος ἔρχεται.» Καὶ πάλιν, «Τότε ἀνοιχθήσονται ὀφθαλμοὶ τυφλῶν, καὶ ὦτα κωφῶν ἀκούσονται· τότε ἁλεῖται, ὡς ἔλαφος, ὁ χωλὸς, καὶ τρανὴ ἔσται γλῶσσα μογιλάλων.» Καὶ πάλιν, «Πνεῦμα Κυρίου ἐπ' ἐμὲ, οὗ εἵνεκεν ἔχρισέ με· εὐαγγελίσασθαι πτωχοῖς ἀπέσταλκέ με, κηρύξαι αἰχμαλώτοις ἄφεσιν καὶ τυ φλοῖς ἀνάβλεψιν.»

Εʹ. Περὶ προδοσίας.

∆αβὶδ, «Ὁ ἐσθίων ἄρτους μου, ἐμεγάλυνεν ἐπ' ἐμὲ πτερνισμόν.»

ʹ. Περὶ Πάθους. «Λαός μου, οἱ μακαρίζοντες ὑμᾶς πλανῶσιν ὑμᾶς, καὶ τὴν τρίβον τῶν ποδῶν

ὑμῶν ἐκταράσσουσιν. Ἀλλὰ νῦν καταστήσεται Κύριος εἰς κρίσιν, καὶ στή σει τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ εἰς κρίσιν. Αὐτὸς Κύριος εἰς κρίσιν ἥξει μετὰ τῶν πρεσβυτέρων τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ μετὰ τῶν ἀρχόντων αὐτῶν.» ∆αβὶδ, «Ἵνα τί ἐφρύα ξαν ἔθνη, καὶ λαοὶ ἐμελέτησαν κενά; Παρέστησαν οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κατὰ τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐ τοῦ.» Ἱερεμίας, «Πνεῦμα προσώπου ἡμῶν Θεὸς Κύριος συνελήφθη ἐν ταῖς διαφθοραῖς αὐτῶν, οὗ εἴπομεν· Ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ ζησόμεθα ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν.» Ἡσαΐας, «Αὐτὸς τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν φέρει, καὶ περὶ ἡμῶν ὀδυνᾶται καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐλογισάμεθα αὐ τὸν ἐν πόνῳ, καὶ ἐν πληγῇ, καὶ ἐν κακώσει. Αὐτὸς δὲ ἐτραυματίσθη διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, καὶ μεμα λάκισται διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν. Παιδεία εἰρήνης ἡμῶν ἐπ' αὐτὸν, τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς ἰάθημεν. Πάντες ὡς πρόβατα ἐπλανήθημεν· ἕκαστος τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ ἐπλανήθη. Καὶ Κύριος παρέδωκεν αὐτὸν διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν· καὶ αὐτὸς διὰ τὸ κεκακῶσθαι οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα. Ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη, καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείραντος αὐτὸν ἄφωνος, οὕτως οὐκ ἀνοίγει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ ἐν 46.213 τῇ ταπεινώσει αὐτοῦ, ὅτι αἴρεται ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ· ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τοῦ λαοῦ μου ἤχθη εἰς θάνατον. Καὶ δώσω τοὺς πονηροὺς ἀντὶ ταφῆς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοὺς πλουσίους ἀντὶ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἀνο μίαν οὐκ ἐποίησεν, οὐδὲ εὑρέθη δόλος ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ.» Καὶ μετά τινα, «∆ιὰ τοῦτο αὐτὸς κληρονομήσει πολλοὺς, καὶ τῶν ἰσχυρῶν μεριεῖ σκῦλα, ἀνθ' ὧν παρεδόθη εἰς θάνατον ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἀνομίαν οὐκ ἐποίησε, καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνόμοις ἐλογίσθη· καὶ αὐτὸς ἁμαρτίας πολλῶν ἀνήνεγκε, καὶ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν παρεδόθη.» Ἐκ τούτων δῆλον ὅτι οὐ περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ τοῦ ἀπαχθέντος ἐν Βα βυλῶνι ὁ Προφήτης λέγει, ὥς τινες ὑπέλαβον. Πῶς γὰρ ἂν ὁ λαὸς, ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τοῦ λαοῦ ἤχθη εἰς θάνατον; ἢ ποῖος λαὸς, καὶ ποίου λαοῦ; Καὶ πάλιν, «Τὸν νῶτόν μου ἔδωκα εἰς μάστιγας, τὰς δὲ σιαγόνας μου εἰς ῥαπίσματα, τὸ δὲ πρόσωπόν μου οὐκ ἀπ έστρεψα ἀπὸ αἰσχύνης ἐμπτυσμάτων.» Καὶ πάλιν, «Οὐκ εἶχεν εἶδος, οὐδὲ κάλλος, ἀλλὰ τὸ εἶδος αὐτοῦ ἄτιμον, ἐκλεῖπον παρὰ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων.» Καὶ πάλιν ὁ ταῦτα εἰπὼν, εἶπε, «Τὴν δὲ γενεὰν αὐτοῦ τίς διηγήσεται;» ∆αβὶδ, «Ὅτι ἐκύκλωσάν με κύνες πολλοί· συναγωγὴ πονηρευομένων περιέσχον με. Ὤρυξαν χεῖράς μου, καὶ πόδας μου· ἐξηρίθμησαν πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου.

Αὐτοὶ δὲ κατενόησαν, καὶ ἐπεῖδόν με· διεμερίσαντο τὰ ἱμάτιά μου ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἱματισμόν μου ἔβαλον κλῆρον.» Ἱερεμίας, «Ἐγὼ δὲ ὡς ἀρνίον ἄκακον ἀγόμενον τοῦ θύεσθαι, οὐκ ἔγνων.» Καὶ πάλιν, «∆εῦτε, καὶ ἐμβάλλωμεν ξύλον εἰς