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Did the Sadducees, then, state the number of the seven brothers for the one woman at random, or does it have some deeper meaning? And if it does, who were they, and who is she? ................................................................................................................................. 124

QUESTION 39 . ........................................................................................................ 125 What are the three days that they wait for the Lord in the wilderness? ....................... 125 QUESTION 40 ........................................................................................................... 127 What is the meaning of the number of the six water jars at the wedding in Cana of Galilee?

........................................................................................................................................... 127 (404) QUESTION 41 . ............................................................................................. 130 What is the meaning of the five husbands of the Samaritan woman, and of the sixth who was not her

husband? ............................................................................................................................. 130 QUESTION 42 . ....................................................................................................... 131 How is it that we are said to commit sin and to know it, but the Lord is said to have become sin, yet not to have known it? And how is it that to become sin and not to know it is not a more serious thing than to commit it and to know it? "For He made Him who knew no sin," it says, "to be sin for us.".................................................. 131

QUESTION 43.......................................................................................................... 132 If the tree of life is said by Scripture to be wisdom, and the work of wisdom is to discern and (412) to know the knowable from the tree of good and evil, then how does it differ from the tree of life? ......................................................................... 132

QUESTION 44 . ........................................................................................................ 134 To whom does God say: "Behold, Adam has become as one of us?" If it is to the Son, how is Adam compared to God, not being of his substance? And if it is to angels, how does he again compare the angel to himself, saying "as one of us" as if to an equal in substance?........................................................................................ 134

QUESTION 45 . ....................................................................................................... 135 What is the meaning in Leviticus of the breast of the wave offering, and the shoulder of the

heave offering, dedicated to the priests in honor of God? ..................................... 135 QUESTION 46........................................................................................................ 136 What is the difference between a mirror and a riddle?.................................................... 136 QUESTION 47. ........................................................................................................ 136 What is, "The voice of one crying in the wilderness," and what follows? What is the wilderness, and what

here is the way of the Lord, and what is its preparation? And what are his paths, and what does it mean to make them straight? And what are the valleys, and what does it mean, "Every valley shall be filled?" What are the mountains and the hills, and what is their humbling? What are the crooked things, and how will they be made straight? What are the rough ways, and how will they become smooth paths? And what is it that follows all these things, "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God?" ............ 136

QUESTION 60. ........................................................................................................ 141 Concerning Uzziah the second book of Chronicles says that "He did that which was right

in the sight of the Lord, and he sought the Lord in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the fear of the Lord, and the Lord made him prosper. And Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem, and at the corner gate, and at the corner [Sgxt. gate] of the valley, and at the corners; and he prevailed, and built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much (433) cattle in Shephelah, and in the plain; and vinedressers in the hill country, and in Carmel, for he was a husbandman." What are the towers, and what is the corner gate, and what is the valley, and its corner; and again, what are the corners, and what are the towers in the wilderness; and what are the hewn-out cisterns, and what is the cattle? and what is the

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Ἄρα γάρ ὡς ἔτυχεν οἱ Σαδδουκαῖοι τόν ἀριθμόν τῶν ἑπτά ἀδελφῶν εἶπον ἐπί τῆς μιᾶς γυναικός, ἤ ἔχει τινά λόγον βαθύτερον; Εἰ δέ ἔχει, τίνες ἐκεῖνοι, καί τίς αὕτη; ................................................................................................................................. 124

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΛΘ΄ . ........................................................................................................ 125 Τίνες αἱ τρεῖς ἡμέραι, ἅς προσμένουσι τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ; ....................... 125 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Μ΄ ........................................................................................................... 127 Τί σημαίνει ὁ ἀριθμός τῶν ἕξ ὑδριῶν ἐν τῷ γάμῳ τῷ ἐν Κανᾷ τῆς Γαλιλαίας;

........................................................................................................................................... 127 (404) ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΜΑ΄ . ............................................................................................. 130 Τίς ὁ λόγος τῶν ε' ἀνδρῶν τῆς Σαμαρείτιδος, καί τοῦ ἕκτου καί μή ὄντος

ἀνδρός; ............................................................................................................................. 130 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΜΒ΄ . ....................................................................................................... 131 Πῶς ἡμεῖς μέν λεγόμεθα ποιῆσαι τήν ἁμαρτίαν καί εἰδέναι, ὁ δέ Κύριος

γενέσθαι μέν ἁμαρτία λέγεται, μή γνῶναι δέ αὐτήν; Πῶς δέ καί τοῦ ποιῆσαι καί εἰδέναι αύτήν οὐκ ἔστι βαρύτερον τό γενέσθαι καί μή γνῶναι; "Τόν γάρ μή γνόντα ἁμαρτίαν, φησίν, ὑπέρ ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίαν ἐποίησεν. ".................................................. 131

ΕΡΩΤHΣΙΣ ΜΓ΄.......................................................................................................... 132 Εἰ τό ξύλον τῆς ζωῆς σοφία λέγεται εἶναι παρά τῇ Γραφῇ, ἔργον δέ σοφίας τό

διακρίνειν καί (412) γνῶναι τό γνωστόν τοῦ καλοῦ καί τοῦ πονηροῦ ξύλον, τί διαφέρει λοιπόν τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς; ......................................................................... 132

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Μ∆΄. ........................................................................................................ 134 Πρός τίνα λέγει ὁ Θεός· "Ἰδού Ἀδάμ γέγονεν ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν;" Εἰ μέν πρός τόν

Υἱόν, καί πῶς συγκρίνεται Ἀδάμ Θεῷ, μή ὤν τῆς οὐσίας αὐτοῦ; Εἰ δέ πρός ἀγγέλους, πῶς τόν ἄγγελον πάλιν ἑαυτῷ συγκρίνει, ὡς πρός ἴσον κατά τήν οὐσίαν λέγων τό, " Ὡς εἷς ἐξ ἡμῶν;"........................................................................................ 134

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΜΕ΄ . ....................................................................................................... 135 Τί σημαίνει τό ἐν τῷ Λευϊτικῷ στηθύνιον τοῦ ἐπιθέματος, καί ὁ βραχίων τοῦ

ἀφαιρέματος, εἰς τιμήν Θεοῦ τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν ἀφιερούμενος; ..................................... 135 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ Μστ΄........................................................................................................ 136 Τίς ἡ διαφορά τοῦ ἐσόπτρου πρός τό αἴνιγμα;.................................................... 136 ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΜΖ΄. ........................................................................................................ 136 Τί ἐστι, " Φωνή βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, "καί τά ἑξῆς; Τίς ἡ ἔρημος, καί τίς

ἐνταῦθα ἡ ὁδός Κυρίου, καί τίς ἡ ἑτοιμασία αὐτῆς; Τίνες τε αἱ τρίβοι αὐτοῦ, καί τί τό εὐθῦναι αὐτάς; Τίνες τε αἱ φάραγγες, καί τί σημαίνει τό " Πληρωθήσεται πᾶσα φάραγξ;" Τίνα τά ὄρη, καί οἱ βουνοί, καί τίς ἡ τούτων ταπείνωσις; Τίνα τά σκολιά, καί πῶς ἔσται εἰς εὐθεῖαν; Τίνες αἱ τραχεῖαι, καί πῶς ἔσονται εἰς ὁδούς λείας; Καί τί τό μετά ταῦτα πάντα, "Καί ὄψεται πᾶσα σάρξ τό Σωτήριον τοῦ Θεοῦ;" ............ 136

ΕΡΩΤΗΣΙΣ ΜΚ΄. ........................................................................................................ 141 Περί τοῦ Ὀζίου φησίν ἡ δευτέρα τῶν Παραλειπομένων, ὅτι " Ἐποίησε τό εὐθές

ἐνώπιον Κυρίου, καί ἦν ἐκζητῶν τόν Κύριον ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις Ζαχαρίου τοῦ συνιέντος ἐν φόβῳ Κυρίου, καί εὐώδωσεν ἐν αὐτῷ ὁ Κύριος. Καί ᾠκοδόμησεν Ὀζίας πύργους ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καί ἐπί τήν πύλην τῆς γωνίας, καί ἐπί τήν γωνίαν [Sgxt. πύλην] τῆς φάραγγος, καί ἐπί τῶν γωνιῶν· καί κατίσχυσεν, καί ᾠκοδόμησεν πύργους ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, καί ἐλατόμησεν λάκκους πολλούς, ὅτι κτήνη (433) πολλά ὑπῆρχεν αὐτῷ ἐν Σεφιλᾷ, καί ἐν τῇ πεδεινῇ· καί ἀμπελουργοί ἐν τῇ ὀρεινῇ, καί ἐν τῷ Καρμήλῳ, ὅτι γεωργός ἦν." Τίνες οἱ πύργοι, καί τίς ἡ πύλη τῆς γωνίας, καί τίς ἡ φάραγξ, καί ἡ γωνία αὐτῆς· καί τίνες πάλιν αἱ γωνίαι, τίνες τε οἱ ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ πύργοι· καί τίνες οἱ λελατομμένοι λάκκοι, τίνα τε τά κτήνη; καί τίς ἡ