first-created, after whom also the holy men before the law, such as the patriarchs, and Moses and the prophets, then also the apostles.

52.2 "And the firmament declares the work of his hands." By firmament he means God who is impassible and immutable, as also elsewhere the same David says: "I will love you, O Lord, my strength, the Lord is my firmament and 52.3 my refuge." Therefore the firmament itself declares the work of his hands, that is, it shows and reveals the creation of his angels; for it declares and shows those whom he made. 53.1 "Day to day utters speech." As the heavens are in many ways, so also is the day. And the Lord is the word, and he himself is in many places 53.2 called day. "And night to night declares knowledge." The devil knew the Lord was coming, but he did not know if this was Jesus himself; therefore he also tempted him, that he might know; † if he is able, he says to let it be; "and he departed from him for a season," that is, he postponed the discovery until the resurrection. For he knew this was the Lord who was to be resurrected. 53.3 Similarly also the demons, since they also suspected Solomon 53.4 to be the Lord, but they knew he was not, when he sinned. "Night to night:" all the demons knew that the one who rose after the passion was the Lord. And indeed Enoch also says that the transgressing angels taught men astronomy and divination and the other arts.

54.1 "There are no speeches nor words, whose voices are not heard," neither of the days nor of the nights. "Their sound went out into all the earth." 54.2 He transferred the saying to only the holy ones, whom he called both heavens and days.

55.1 The stars, spiritual bodies, which have communicated with presiding angels and are administered by them, are not causes of generation, but significant of things that are happening and will be and have been, concerning both changes of the air and concerning fertility and barrenness and concerning plagues and fires and concerning 55.2 men. Not even in a dream do the stars produce effects, but they signify "both the things that are, and the things that will be, and the things that were before."

56.1 "And in the sun he has set his tabernacle." Here there is a hyperbaton; for the saying is about the second coming. Therefore the hyperbaton must be read thus, in order: "and he, as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, will rejoice as a giant to run his course. His going forth is from the end of heaven; there is none who shall hide himself from its heat." and then: "in the 56.2 sun he has set his tabernacle." Some then say that he lays aside the body of the Lord in the sun, as does Hermogenes, but by body some mean his tabernacle, others the church of the faithful, but our * Pantaenus used to say "that prophecy for the most part expresses its words indefinitely and uses the present tense instead of the future, and again the present instead of the past," which 56.3 also now appears. For "he has set" is used for both the past and the future; for the future, that when this period of the present state has been fulfilled, the Lord will come to the righteous faithful, upon whom he rests as in a tabernacle; for they are all one body, from the same race, having chosen the same faith and righteousness, to be restored to the same unity; 56.4 but some as head, others as eyes, others as ears, others as hands, others as breasts, others as feet will be placed in the sun, luminous, "shining as the sun" or in the sun, since there is a ruling angel in 56.5 the sun; for it has been appointed to rule the days, just as the moon to 56.6 rule the night; and angels have been called days. With the angels of the sun, he says, they will be ranked (one thing like the head of a body, there being one, the sun), they themselves becoming at some period rulers of days, as

πρωτόκτιστοι, μεθ' οὓς καὶ οἱ ἅγιοι πρὸ νόμου ἄνθρωποι, ὡς οἱ πατριάρχαι, καὶ Μωυσῆς καὶ οἱ προφῆται, εἶτα καὶ οἱ ἀπόστολοι.

52.2 "Ποίησιν δὲ χειρῶν αὐτοῦ ἀναγγέλλει τὸ στερέωμα." στερέωμα λέγει

τὸν θεὸν τὸν ἀπαθῆ καὶ ἀμετάβλητον, ὡς καὶ ἀλλαχῇ ὁ αὐτὸς ∆αβίδ· "ἀγαπήσω σε, κύριε, ἡ ἰσχύς μου, κύριος στερέωμά μου καὶ 52.3 καταφυγή μου." τὴν ποίησιν οὖν τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ αὐτὸ τὸ στε ρέωμα ἀναγγέλλει, τοῦτ' ἔστιν δείκνυσι καὶ φαίνει τὴν ποίησιν τῶν ἀγγέλων αὐτοῦ· ἀναγγέλλει γὰρ καὶ δείκνυσιν οὓς ἐποίησεν. 53.1 "Ἡμέρα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐρεύγεται ῥῆμα." ὡς οἱ οὐρανοὶ πολλαχῶς, οὕτως καὶ ἡ ἡμέρα. ῥῆμα δὲ ὁ κύριος, καὶ ὁ αὐτὸς δὲ ἡμέρα πολλαχῇ 53.2 εἴρηται. "καὶ νὺξ νυκτὶ ἀναγγέλλει γ<νῶ>σιν." ὁ διάβολος ᾔδει ἐλευ σόμενον τὸν κύριον, εἰ δὲ <ὁ Ἰησοῦς> αὐτὸς εἴη, οὐκ ἠπίστατο· διὸ καὶ ἐπείραζεν α<ὐτόν>, ἵνα γνῷ· † εἰ δυνατός ἐστιν, ἐᾶν φησι· "καὶ ἀπέστη ἀπ' αὐτοῦ εἰς καιρόν", τουτέστιν ἀνεβάλλετο τὴν εὕρεσιν εἰς τὴν ἀνάστασιν. ᾔδει γὰρ τοῦτον εἶναι τὸν κύριον τὸν ἀναστησό 53.3 μενον. ὁμοίως καὶ οἱ δαίμονες, ἐπεὶ καὶ Σολομῶνα ὑπώπτευσαν 53.4 εἶναι τὸν κύριον, ἔγνωσαν δὲ μὴ εἶναι, ἁμαρτόντος αὐτοῦ. "νὺξ νυκτί·" πάντες οἱ δαίμονες ἔγνωσαν ὅτι κύριος ἦν ὁ ἀναστὰς μετὰ τὸ πάθος. ἤδη δὲ καὶ Ἐνώχ φησιν τοὺς παραβάντας ἀγγέλους διδάξαι τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀστρονομίαν καὶ μαντικὴν καὶ τὰς ἄλλας τέχνας.

54.1 "Οὐκ εἰσὶ λαλιαὶ οὐδὲ λόγοι, ὧν οὐκ ἀκούονται αἱ φωναὶ αὐτῶν", οὔτε

τῶν ἡμερῶν οὔτε τῶν νυκτῶν. "εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν 54.2 ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν." μετήνεγκεν τὸν λόγον ἐπὶ μόνους τοὺς ἁγίους, οὓς οὐρανούς τε εἴρηκεν καὶ ἡμέρας. 55.1 Οἱ ἀστέρες, σώματα πνευματικά, κεκοινωνηκότα ἀγγέλοις ἐφε στῶσι διοικούμενα, οὐκ αἴτια γενέσεως, σημαντικὰ δὲ τῶν γινομένων τε καὶ ἐσομένων καὶ γενομένων ἐπί τε τροπῶν ἀέρων ἐπί τε εὐφο ρίας καὶ ἀκαρπίας ἐπί τε λοιμῶν καὶ φλογμῶν ἐπί τε τῶν ἀνθρώ 55.2 πων. οὐδ' ὄναρ τὰς ἐνεργείας ποιεῖ τὰ ἄστρα, σημαίνει δὲ "τά τ' ἐόντα, τά τ' ἐ<σ>σόμενα, πρό τ' ἐόντα".

56.1 "Καὶ ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ." ἐνταῦθα ὑπερ <β>ατόν ἐστι·

περὶ γὰρ τῆς παρουσίας τῆς δευτέρας <ὁ> λόγος. οὕτως οὖν ἀναγνωστέον τὸ ὑπερβατὸν κατὰ ἀκολουθίαν. "καὶ αὐτὸς ὡς νυμφίος ἐκπορευό<μ>ε<νο>ς ἐκ παστοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀγαλλιάσεται ὡς γίγας <δραμε>ῖν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ. ἀπ' ἄκρου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἡ ἔξοδος <αὐτο>ῦ· οὐκ ἔστιν ὃς ἀποκρυβήσεται τὴν θέρμην αὐτοῦ." καὶ τότε· "ἐν τῷ 56.2 ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ." ἔνιοι μὲν οὖν φασι τὸ σῶμα τοῦ κυρίου ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ αὐτὸν ἀποτίθεσθαι, ὡς Ἑρμογένης, σῶμα δὲ λέ γουσιν οἳ μὲν τὸ σκῆνος αὐτοῦ, οἳ δὲ τὴν τῶν πιστῶν ἐκκλησίαν, ὁ Πάνταινος δὲ * ἡμῶν ἔλεγεν "ἀορίστως τὴν προφητείαν ἐκφέρειν τὰς λέξεις ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πλεῖστον καὶ τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἀντὶ τοῦ μέλλοντος χρῆσθαι χρόνῳ καὶ πάλιν τῷ ἐνεστῶτι ἀντὶ τοῦ παρῳχηκότος", ὃ 56.3 καὶ νῦν φαίνεται. τὸ γὰρ "ἔθετο" καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρῳχηκότος καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐσομένου τάσσεται· ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ ἐσομένου, ὅτι πληρωθείσης ταύ της τῆς κατὰ τὴν παροῦσαν κατάστασιν περιόδου ὁ κύριος ἐλεύσεται πρὸς τοὺς δικαίους τοὺς πιστούς, οἷς ἐπαναπαύεται καθάπερ σκηνῇ· ἓν γὰρ σῶμα οἱ πάντες ἐκ τοῦ αὐτοῦ γένους τὴν αὐτὴν πίστιν καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἑλόμενοι, εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν ἑνότητα ἀποκαταστησόμενοι· 56.4 ἀλλ' οἳ μὲν ὡς κεφαλή, οἳ δὲ ὡς ὀφθαλμοί, οἳ δὲ ὡς ὦτα, οἳ δὲ ὡς χεῖρες, οἳ δὲ ὡς στήθη, οἳ δὲ ὡς πόδες ἐν ἡλίῳ τεθήσονται φωτει νοί, "λάμψαντες ὡς ὁ ἥλιος" ἢ ἐν ἡλίῳ, ἐπεὶ ἀρχοντικὸς ἄγγελος ἐν 56.5 ἡλίῳ· εἰς ἀρχὴν γὰρ ἡμερῶν τέτακται, καθάπερ ἡ σελήνη εἰς τὸ ἄρ 56.6 χειν νυκτός· ἡμέραι δὲ ἄγγελοι ἐκλήθησαν. μετὰ τῶν μεθ' ἡλίου ἀγγέλων, φησί, ταγήσονται (ἓν ὥσπερ κεφαλὴ σώματος, ὄντος ἑνός, ὁ ἥλιος), ἐσόμενοί ποτε κατά τινα περίοδ<ον> καὶ αὐτοὶ ἄρχοντες ἡμερῶν, ὡς