On Jeremiah (Homilies 12-20) On And you shall say to this people: Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Every wineskin will be filled with wine up

 Therefore He here named the punishments unmixed wine, which they drink who are worthy of unmixed wine, that is, of unmixed punishment. But there are a

 to have the preeminence of a more honorable name than the people, God spares him so that he might not be punished when he sins. But the things written

 that God, sparing many, does not spare one. I will also take the example of a physician, showing that in sparing the whole body he does not spare one

 Then after this he commands them not to be lifted up, and teaches what must be done. What then is it to hear and what is it to give ear, let us unders

 does darkness not happen? Work while the light is in you. <The light is in you>, if you have in you the one who said: I am the light of the world

 glory to God those who do things contrary to the glory of God through their sins. 12.12 “Give glory to the Lord our God before it grows dark, before y

 the prophets, lest we fall under the prophecy that says: but if you do not listen secretly, your soul will weep because of insolence. As many of you

 to cast a vote against the one who has sinned, each of the onlookers does not spare, does not look sad, does not pity, does not return to intercede fo

 What follows also fits: You have turned me away, says the Lord, you will go backward. Because you have turned away from the Son of God, and because

 but not of pains that bring health to those being treated. 14.2 That people, therefore, was sick various diseases were among the people who were call

 spiritual riches, but they turned away from what was being said and did not present themselves receptive so that they might be indebted for this reas

 how often I wanted to gather your children together» and what follows. And these things are also clearly spoken by the Savior in the passage, “Woe is

 of the double-minded is judged. If you bear the image of the heavenly one having put off the image of the earthly one, you are not earth condemnin

 of their affliction, he says, that is against the enemy, I stood by you on their behalf. And who is the enemy but our adversary the devil, who affli

 to a land which he did not know. For a fire is kindled from my wrath, it will be burned against you. After this, <ὁ> he who prayed above completes t

 In the present case, it was necessary † for such a thing to happen in the church of God. The one who was condemned has been condemned, so-and-so † whi

 becomes inimitable, so that I become so great that no one is like me in character, in speech, in deeds, in wisdom, then I am able to say, because I al

 a limb, the physician tries to make a restoration of the dislocated part. When someone is outside his fatherland, whether justly or unjustly, and rece

 my Savior and Lord is about to stand before the Father, being judged with all of us men. And he is judged with all men. I say: he is judged, he himsel

 my dispensation did this and that, and for your salvation I endured. When the Savior says these things, what shall we do? For he is about to be judged

 uncleanness.” Having put these things to death, “he does not rely on the flesh of his own arm.” “Cursed is he who has his hope in man.” And at the sam

 to take the souls that are on the hills, those not lying below? And see if the prophet did not cry out mystically saying these things and presenting t

 my ‘Soul, you have good things laid up for many years rest, eat, drink, be merry.’” You see the one below the mountains, the one below the hills, th

 what awaits us, must be understood. If, then, we depart this life having sins, but also having virtues, will we be saved on account of the virtues, bu

 that the gentiles who sin receive their sins simply, but we receive our offenses doubly. For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge

 it is written with an iron pen, with a diamond point, engraved upon the breast of the heart ” but again, the word 'their' does not follow in that case

 simpler than the believers. “The partridge called,” therefore, “it gathered what it did not hatch, making its wealth not with judgment.” The partridge

 your names are written in the heavens”. Therefore one must rejoice, if one becomes such a person, so that his name may be inscribed in the heavens. Bu

 for “there shall be trouble in Jacob, nor shall toil be seen in Israel.” There is no labor for one following Jesus the very act of following removes

 has ascended far above the earthen vessels. Below are the earthen vessels, and the nature that administers the earthen vessels, condescending to the t

 into the potter's house and he recounts what he saw, saying: and behold, he was doing a work with his hands, and the vessel which he was making in th

 to be planted,” a whole nation and since this <the> nation being built up and planted has a good promise, but is able to sin, he says after speaking

 Christ, the mystery of the church, the one who comes to the synagogue and does not bear fruit. 18.6 At last I will speak against a nation or even aga

 speaking to the child in a childish way, or that I may speak more emphatically, in an infantile way, that you have borne with the manners of your son

 of the Lord saying through the prophet: And the Lord spoke to them. And to <us> now the Lord says through the scriptures, Let each one turn from hi

 Jews but since they did not thirst for Christ and the Holy Spirit, they cannot drink even from God. Those from the heresies seemed to have thirsted f

 Immer, and that he was a priest, and what rank he held among the people, that he was appointed leader of the house of the Lord at the time when Jeremi

 God will do it». And such a high priest is superficially beautiful and a whitewashed wall, full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness on the ins

 of the disciples, as they were asking him, Where do you want us to prepare the Passover for you?, he said, As you are going, a man will meet you ca

 the sons of Jerusalem have departed and the city has been destroyed. But if you examine the matter and see the city not as stones, but as people, you

 burning in my bones, and I am weary on all sides and cannot bear it, because I heard the reproach of many gathering together round about,” and “saying

 For not only the adulterer is liable to the gehenna of fire, but also the one who says to his brother, fool. But if the one who says to his brothe

 you should think that his repentance has some kinship with the repentance of those who repent. For just as his word was something exceptional, his ang

 to the people, he hears God saying according to the scriptures: Whom shall I send, and who will go to this people? And he, it says, answered: Behol

 And I have insults as wood, I have drunkennesses as wood, thefts as wood, and I have built upon my structure ten thousand other pieces of wood. Do you

 to despise», see if it is not truly for this reason, since they did not think they were deceived, they stored up for themselves «wrath in the day of w

 a laughingstock, all the day I was derided”? What am I saying, Jeremiah? and my Jesus was mocked for it says, “the Pharisees, who were lovers of mone

 the unrighteous man “for it will be,” he says, “when you call upon me, I will not listen to you.” There, then, the unrighteous and it is clear that

 to discipline the body with fasts and to enslave it» «by abstaining from such foods,» and in every way «by the spirit to put to death the deeds of the

 in my bones, and I am exhausted on all sides and cannot bear it.” I fear lest such a thing is what is reserved for us, becoming a fire, as happened in

 let us all, his friends, conspire against him watch his intention, and he will be deceived.” They wanted to deceive him with another deadly deception

 let him examine. Nevertheless, what awaits us are tormentors and one who examines hearts and reins for our sins from which sins if we are not quickly

What follows also fits: "You have turned me away, says the Lord, you will go backward." Because you have turned away from the Son of God, and because you have turned away from the Son of God you have turned away from God, what more is there to say? And since Jerusalem in Judea turned away from Christ, from whom, synecdochically, all the Jews are to be understood, for this reason "you will go backward." For there was a time when she did not go backward, but forward; but now she goes backward, "and they turned back in their hearts to Egypt," it is clear that they should go backward. As to what "you will go backward" means, or what it is to stretch forward to the things that are before, we will present it thus. The just man "stretches forward to what is before, forgetting what is behind." It is clear that one who is disposed contrary to the just man remembers what is behind and does not stretch forward to what is before. And he who remembers what is behind disobeys Jesus when he teaches and says: "let him not turn back to take his cloak," he disobeys Jesus when he says: "remember Lot's wife," he disobeys Jesus when he says: "no one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God." And it is also written in the Law that the angels said to Lot as he was leaving Sodom: "do not look back, nor stop anywhere in the surrounding plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away." And this has a meaning worthy of an angelic spirit: "do not look back," always stretch forward to what is before. You have left Sodom, do not turn back to Sodom. You have left wickedness and sin, do not turn back to it, "nor stop anywhere in the surrounding plain." And even if you keep the first commandment which says, "do not look back," it is not enough for you to be saved, unless you also hear the second commandment which says, "nor stop anywhere in the surrounding plain." For one who has begun to make progress must not stand in the plain of Sodom, even if he has passed through Sodom, but having passed from standing in the plain, he is to be saved on the mountain, according to, "do not look back, nor stop anywhere in the surrounding plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away." If you do not wish to be swept away with the Sodomites, never turn back, nor stand in the plain of Sodom, nor be anywhere else than on the mountain; for only there is it possible to be saved. And the mountain is the Lord Jesus, to whom is the glory and the power forever. Amen. 14.t On "Woe is me, mother," up to "Therefore thus says the Lord: if you return, then I will restore you." Homily 14. 14.1 Physicians of bodies, being present with the sick and always dedicating themselves to the therapy of the sick according to the will of the medical art, see terrible things and touch unpleasant things, and from the misfortunes of others they reap their own sorrows, and their life is always in a state of crisis. For they are never with the healthy, but always with the wounded, with those having sores, with those filled with pus, fevers, various diseases. And if someone wishes to practice medicine, he will not be annoyed nor neglect the will of the art he has undertaken, when he is with such people as we have said before. This introduction has been said by me because the prophets are also, as it were, physicians of souls and always spend their time where there are those in need of therapy; for "those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick." What physicians suffer from intemperate patients, this also the prophets and teachers suffer from those who do not wish to be healed. For from this they are hated, as prescribing contrary to the choice of the desire of the sick, as preventing those who, even in sickness, wish not to receive things worthy of their sicknesses from living luxuriously and taking pleasure. The intemperate among the sick therefore flee physicians, often reviling them and speaking ill of them and doing anything whatsoever that an enemy would do to an enemy. For these forget that they approach as friends, looking at the hardship of the regimen, at the hardship of the physicians' blow from the knife, not at the end which comes after the pain, and they hate them as fathers of pains only,

ἁρμόσει καὶ τὸ ἑξῆς· «σὺ ἀπεστράφης με, λέγει κύριος, ὀπίσω πορεύσῃ». ὅτι ἀπεστράφης τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ διὰ τὸ ἀπεστράφθαι τὸν υἱὸν τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπεστράφης τὸν θεόν, τί δεῖ καὶ λέγειν; καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἀπε στράφη ἡ Ἱερουσαλὴμ <ἡ> ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ τὸν Χριστόν, ἀφ' ἧς συνεκδοχικῶς πάντας τοὺς Ἰουδαίους νοητέον, διὰ τοῦτο «ὀπίσω πορεύσῃ». ἦν γὰρ ὅτε οὐκ ὀπίσω ἐπορεύετο, ἀλλὰ ἔμπροσθεν· νῦν δὲ ὀπίσω πορεύεται «καὶ ἐστράφησαν ταῖς καρδίαις εἰς Αἴγυπτον», δῆλον ὅτι ἵνα ὀπίσω πορευθῶσι. περὶ δὲ τοῦ τί ἐστι τὸ «ὀπίσω πορεύσῃ» ἢ τί τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἐπεκτείνεσθαι, οὕτω παραστήσομεν. ὁ δίκαιος «τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἐπεκτείνεται, τῶν ὄπισθεν ἐπιλανθάνεται». δῆλον ὅτι ὁ ἐναντίως τῷ δικαίῳ διακείμενος τῶν ὀπίσω μέμνηται καὶ τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν οὐκ ἐπεκτείνεται. τῶν δὲ ὀπίσω μεμνημένος παρακούει τοῦ Ἰησοῦ διδάσκοντος καὶ λέγοντος· «μὴ στραφήτω εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω ἆραι τὸ ἱμάτιον αὐτοῦ», παρακούει τοῦ Ἰησοῦ λέγοντος· «μνημονεύετε τῆς γυναικὸς Λώτ», παρακούει τοῦ Ἰησοῦ λέγοντος· «οὐδεὶς βαλὼν τὴν χεῖρα ἐπ' ἄροτρον καὶ στραφεὶς εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, εὔθετός ἐστι τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ θεοῦ». καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ δὲ γέγραπται, ὅτι εἶπον οἱ ἄγγελοι πρὸς τὸν ἐξελθόντα ἀπὸ Σοδόμων Λώτ· «μὴ περιβλέψῃ εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω μηδὲ στῇς ἐν πάσῃ τῇ περιχώρῳ· εἰς τὸ ὄρος σῴζου, μήποτε συμπαραληφθῇς». καὶ τοῦτο δὲ ἔχει διάνοιαν ἀξίαν ἀγγελικοῦ πνεύματος· «μὴ περιβλέψῃ εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω», ἀεὶ τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἐπεκτείνου. καταλέλοιπας Σόδομα, μὴ στρέφου εἰς Σόδομα. κατα λέλοιπας τὴν κακίαν καὶ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν, μὴ ἐπιστραφῇς πρὸς αὐτὴν «μηδὲ στῇς ἐν πάσῃ τῇ περιχώρῳ». κἂν τηρήσῃς τὴν προτέραν ἐντολὴν τὴν λέγουσαν· «μὴ περιβλέψῃ εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω», οὐκ ἀρκεῖ σοι πρὸς τὸ σωθῆναι, ἐὰν μὴ καὶ τῆς δευτέρας ἐντολῆς ἀκούσῃς λεγούσης· «μηδὲ στῇς ἐν πάσῃ τῇ περιχώρῳ». οὐ δεῖ γὰρ ἀρξάμενον προκόπτειν ἑστάναι ἐν τῇ περιχώρῳ Σοδόμων, εἰ καὶ Σόδομα διαβέβηκεν, ἀλλὰ διαβάντα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑστάναι ἐν τῇ περιχώρῳ σῴζεσθαι εἰς τὸ ὄρος κατὰ τὸ «μὴ περιβλέψῃ εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω μηδὲ στῇς ἐν πάσῃ τῇ περι χώρῳ· εἰς τὸ ὄρος σῴζου, μήποτε συμπαραληφθῇς». εἰ βούλει μὴ συμπαραληφθῆναι Σοδομίταις, μήποτε εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω στραφῇς μηδὲ στῇς ἐν τῇ περιχώρῳ Σοδόμων μηδὲ ἀλλαχοῦ γένῃ ἢ εἰς τὸ ὄρος· ἐκεῖ γάρ ἐστι μόνον σωθῆναι. ἔστι δὲ τὸ ὄρος κύριος Ἰησοῦς, ᾧ ἐστιν ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. Ἀμήν. 14.t Εἰς τὸ «οἴμοι ἐγὼ μῆτερ» μέχρι τοῦ «διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει κύριος· ἐὰν ἐπιστραφῇς, καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω σε». Ὁμιλία ιδʹ. 14.1 Οἱ ἰατροὶ τῶν σωμάτων παρὰ τοὺς κάμνοντας γινόμενοι καὶ ἀεὶ τῇ θεραπείᾳ τῶν καμνόντων ἑαυτοὺς ἐπιδιδόντες κατὰ τὸ βούλημα τῆς τέχνης τῆς ἰατρικῆς ὁρῶσι δεινὰ καὶ θιγγάνουσιν ἀηδῶν, <καὶ> ἐπ' ἀλλοτρίαις συμφοραῖς καρποῦνται ἰδίας λύπας, καὶ ἔστιν ἀεὶ ὁ βίος αὐτῶν ἐν περιστάσει. οὐδέποτε γάρ εἰσι μετὰ ὑγιαινόντων, ἀλλ' ἀεὶ μετὰ τῶν τραυματιῶν, μετὰ τῶν νομὰς ἐχόντων, μετὰ τῶν πεπληρω μένων πύων, πυρετῶν, νόσων ποικίλων. καὶ εἰ βούλεταί τις στείλα σθαι τὴν ἰατρικήν, οὐκ ἀγανακτήσει οὐδ' ἀμελήσει τοῦ βουλήματος τῆς τέχνης ἧς ἀνείληφεν, ἐπὰν ᾖ μετὰ τῶν τοιούτων ὡς προειρήκαμεν. Τοῦτο δέ μοι τὸ προοίμιον λέλεκται διὰ τὸ καὶ τοὺς προφήτας οἷον εἶναι ἰατροὺς ψυχῶν καὶ ἀεὶ προσδιατρίβειν ὅπου οἱ δεόμενοι θεραπείας· «οὐ» γὰρ «χρείαν ἔχουσιν οἱ ὑγιαίνοντες ἰατροῦ ἀλλ' οἱ κακῶς ἔχοντες». ὅπερ δὲ πάσχουσιν ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκολάστων καμνόντων ἰατροί, τοῦτο πάσχουσι καὶ οἱ προφῆται καὶ οἱ διδάσκαλοι ὑπὸ τῶν οὐ βουλομένων θεραπεύεσθαι. ἐκεῖθεν γὰρ μισοῦνται, ὡς διατασσόμενοι παρὰ τὴν προαίρεσιν τῆς ἐπιθυμίας τῶν καμνόντων, ὡς κωλύοντες τρυφᾶν καὶ ἥδεσθαι τοὺς καὶ ἐν νόσοις βουλομένους μὴ τὰ ἄξια τῶν νόσων λαμβάνειν. φεύγουσιν οὖν οἱ ἀκόλαστοι τῶν καμνόντων ἰατρούς, πολλάκις αὐτοῖς καὶ λοιδορούμενοι καὶ κακολογοῦντες αὐτοὺς καὶ πᾶν ὁτιποτοῦν ποιοῦντες ὃ ποιήσειεν ἂν ἐχθρὸς ἐχθρῷ. ἐπιλανθά νονται γὰρ οὗτοι ὅτι ὡς φίλοι προσέρχονται, ἀφορῶντες εἰς τὸ ἐπίπονον τῆς διαίτης, εἰς τὸ ἐπίπονον τῆς ἀπὸ σιδήρου ἰατρῶν πληγῆς, οὐκ εἰς τὸ τέλος τὸ μετὰ τὸν πόνον, καὶ μισοῦσιν ὡς πατέρας πόνων μόνον,