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

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 reason, not even one was indebted to me. For who accepted what was said, so that from accepting he might become a debtor of what he heard and be required, as a debtor of what was said, to pay the interest? Therefore, it is better in this respect for the hearer to receive from the speaker rational silver and to be in debt, than by not accepting nor receiving, not even to be in debt. For the phrase "not even one was indebted to me" is set down as among the accusations. 14.5 But "Woe is me, mother, that you bore me a man of strife and a man of contention in all the earth," I do not think it fits the other prophets to say this in the way it fits Jeremiah; for most of the prophets began to prophesy after some time, after wickedness, after their sins, having changed, but Jeremiah prophesies from childhood. And it is possible to give an example from the scriptures. Isaiah did not hear, "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you, and before you came forth from the womb, I consecrated you; I have appointed you a prophet to the nations"; nor did he say, "I do not know how to speak, for I am a youth," but when he saw the vision that is recorded in his prophecy, [he saw] and said, "Woe is me, wretched one that I am, because having unclean lips I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips, and I have seen the King, the Lord of hosts, with my eyes," "and one of the Seraphim," he says, "was sent to me, and he touched my lips and said, 'Behold, I have taken away your iniquities, and this will cleanse your sins.'" <after> his sins, therefore, which he had committed previously, Isaiah later became worthy of the Holy Spirit and prophesied. And you might find the same in another case. But not so Jeremiah; for still from swaddling clothes, having been adorned with the prophetic spirit, he prophesied from childhood, which is why he said (for I am first recounting the common view): "Woe is me, mother, that you bore me a man of strife and a man of contention in all the earth"? But one of those before me addressed this passage, saying that he said these things not to his physical mother, but to the mother who bears prophets. And who bears prophets <but> the wisdom of God? He said, therefore, "Woe is me, mother," "that you bore me," O Wisdom? And the children of wisdom are also recorded in the gospel: "and wisdom sends forth her children." Therefore it is said: "Woe is me, mother," my wisdom, "that you bore me a man of strife," who am I, that I have been born to such an extent that I should be judged, that I should be in contention on account of the reproofs, on account of the rebukes, on account of the teaching, with all those on the earth? If Jeremiah says these things: "that you bore me a man of strife and a man of contention in all the earth," I am unable to explain the phrase "in all the earth"; for Jeremiah was not in contention with all the earth. Or shall we, forcing it, say "in all the earth" instead of "in all of Judea"? For his prophecy, when he was prophesying then, did not reach all the earth. But perhaps as in countless other cases we have shown Jeremiah to be spoken of instead of our Lord Jesus Christ, so also will we say here. At the beginning I noted the phrase, "Behold, I have set you over nations and kingdoms, to root out and to pull down and to destroy and to build and to plant." Jeremiah did not do this. But Jesus Christ rooted out the kingdoms of the [earth's] sin and tore down the structures of wickedness and, in place of those kingdoms, made righteousness and truth reign [in us] in our souls. Therefore, just as it was more fitting for those things to be referred to Christ than to Jeremiah, so I believe are many other things, including these. 14.6 First it must be said concerning "Woe," <whether> on account of its ill-omened character the Savior, who also declares others wretched with "Woe," is able to say it. But we will show from acknowledged sayings, which fit no other than the Savior, in what manner he also wept over Jerusalem; and "Woe" is the cry of one weeping. And it is written in the gospel that when he saw Jerusalem, he wept over it and said: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you,

πνευματικὰ χρήματα, οἱ δὲ ἀπεστρέφοντο ἀπὸ τῶν λεγο μένων καὶ οὐ παρεῖχον αὑτοὺς δεκτικοὺς ἵνα ὀφείλωσι· διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ὠφείλησέ μοι οὐδὲ εἷς. τίς γὰρ παρεδέξατο τὰ λεγόμενα, ἵνα ἐκ τοῦ παραδέχεσθαι ὀφειλέτης γένηται ὧν ἤκουσε καὶ ἀπαιτηθῇ ὡς ὀφειλέτης τῶν λεγομένων τοὺς τόκους; βέλτιον οὖν κατὰ τοῦτο λαβεῖν τὸν ἀκροατὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ λέγοντος λογικὰ ἀργύρια καὶ ὀφείλειν, ἢ μὴ παραδεχόμενον μηδὲ λαμβάνοντα μηδὲ ὀφείλειν. ὡς ἐν ἐγκλή μασι γὰρ κεῖται καὶ τὸ «οὐκ ὠφείλησέ μοι οὐδὲ εἷς». 14.5 Τὸ δὲ «οἴμοι μῆτερ, ὡς τίνα με ἐγέννησας ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινόμενον ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ» οὐκ οἶμαι τοῖς ἄλλοις οὕτως ἁρμόζειν προφήταις λέγειν ὡς τῷ Ἱερεμίᾳ· οἱ μὲν γὰρ πολλοὶ τῶν προφητῶν μετά τινας χρόνους, μετὰ τὴν κακίαν, μετὰ τὰ ἁμαρτή ματα μεταβαλόντες προφητεύειν ἤρξαντο, Ἱερεμίας δὲ ἐκ παίδων προφητεύει. καὶ ἔστι παράδειγμα διδόναι ἀπὸ τῶν γεγραμμένων. Ἡσαΐας οὐκ ἤκουσε· «πρὸ τοῦ με πλάσαι σε ἐν κοιλίᾳ ἐπίσταμαί σε, καὶ πρὸ τοῦ σε ἐξελθεῖν ἐκ μήτρας ἡγίακά σε, προφήτην εἰς ἔθνη τέθεικά σε»· οὐδὲ εἶπεν· «οὐκ ἐπίσταμαι λαλεῖν, ὅτι νεώτερος ἐγώ εἰμι», ἀλλ' ὅτε εἶδε τὴν ὅρασιν τὴν ἀναγεγραμμένην ἐν τῇ προ φητείᾳ αὐτοῦ, [εἶδε] καὶ εἶπεν· «οἴμοι τάλας ἐγώ, ὅτι ἀκάθαρτα χείλη ἔχων ἐν μέσῳ λαοῦ ἀκάθαρτα χείλη ἔχοντος ἐγὼ οἰκῶ, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα κύριον σαβαὼθ εἶδον τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς μου», «καὶ ἀπεστάλη» φησί «πρός με ἓν τῶν Σεραφίμ, καὶ ἥψατο τῶν χειλέων μου καὶ εἶπεν· ἰδοὺ ἀφῄρηκα τὰς ἀνομίας σου, καὶ τὰς ἁμαρτίας σου τοῦτο καθαριεῖ». <μετὰ> τὰς ἁμαρτίας οὖν, ἃς πρότερον ἐποίησεν, ὕστερον γέγονεν ἄξιος τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος Ἡσαΐας· καὶ ἐπροφήτευσε. καὶ ἐπ' ἄλλῳ τὸ παραπλήσιον εὕροις ἄν. ἄλλ' οὐχ οὕτως ὁ Ἱερεμίας· ἔτι γὰρ ἐκ σπαργάνων τῷ πνεύματι τῷ προφητικῷ κοσμηθεὶς ἐκ παίδων προεφήτευσε, διὸ ἔλεγε (τὸ κοινὸν γὰρ πρῶτον διηγοῦμαι)· «οἴμοι ἐγώ, μῆτερ, ὡς τίνα με ἐγέννησας ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινό μενον πάσῃ τῇ γῇ»; Τῶν πρὸ ἐμοῦ δέ τις ἐπέβαλε τῷ τόπῳ λέγων ὅτι ταῦτα ἔλεγεν οὐ πρὸς τὴν μητέρα τὴν σωματικήν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὴν μητέρα τὴν γεννῶσαν προφήτας. τίς δὲ γεννᾷ προφήτας <ἢ> ἡ σοφία τοῦ θεοῦ; ἔλεγεν οὖν τὸ «οἴμοι ἐγώ, μῆτερ», «ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες», ὦ σοφία; τὰ δὲ τέκνα τῆς σοφίας καὶ ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ἀναγέγραπται· «καὶ ἀπο στέλλει ἡ σοφία τὰ τέκνα αὐτῆς». εἴρηται οὖν· «οἴμοι ἐγώ, μῆτερ» ἐμὴ σοφία «ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον», τίς εἰμι ἐγώ, ὅτι εἰς τοσοῦτον γεγέννημαι, ἵνα δικάζωμαι, ἵνα διακρίνωμαι διὰ τοὺς ἐλέγχους, διὰ τὰς ἐπιπλήξεις, διὰ τὴν διδασκαλίαν πρὸς πάντας τοὺς ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς; ἐὰν ὁ Ἱερεμίας ταῦτα λέγῃ· «ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινόμενον πάσῃ τῇ γῇ», οὐκ ἔχω διηγήσασθαι τὸ «πάσῃ τῇ γῇ»· οὐ γὰρ πάσῃ τῇ γῇ διεκρίνετο Ἱερεμίας. ἢ βιασά μενοι ἐροῦμεν τὸ «πάσῃ τῇ γῇ» ἀντὶ τοῦ πάσῃ τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ; οὐ γὰρ ἔφθανεν ἡ προφητεία αὐτοῦ προφητεύοντος τότε εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. μήποτε δὲ ὡς ἐπὶ ἄλλων μυρίων ἐδείξαμεν τὸν Ἱερεμίαν ἀντὶ τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰρῆσθαι, οὕτως καὶ ἐνταῦθα ἐροῦμεν. ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ ἐπεσημειωσάμην τὸ «ἰδοὺ τέθεικά σε εἰς ἔθνη καὶ βασιλείας, ἐκριζοῦν καὶ κατασκάπτειν καὶ ἀπολλύειν καὶ οἰκοδομεῖν καὶ καταφυτεύειν». τοῦτο οὐκ ἐποίησεν ὁ Ἱερεμίας. Ἰησοῦς δὲ Χριστὸς τὰς τῆς [γῆς] ἁμαρτίας βασιλείας ἐξερρίζωσεν καὶ τὰς οἰκοδομὰς τῆς κακίας κατέσκαψε καὶ ἐποίησεν ἀντὶ ἐκείνων τῶν βασιλειῶν βασιλεῦσαι [ἡμῶν] τὴν δικαιοσύνην καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ἡμῶν. ὥσπερ οὖν ἐκεῖνα ἐπὶ τὸν Χριστὸν μᾶλλον ἥρμοζεν ἀναφέρεσθαι ἢ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἱερεμίαν, οὕτως ἡγοῦμαι καὶ ἄλλα πολλὰ καὶ ταῦτα. 14.6 Πρῶτον λεκτέον περὶ τοῦ «οἴμοι», <εἰ> διὰ τὸ δυσφημοειδὲς δύναται ὁ σωτὴρ λέγειν ὁ καὶ ταλανίζων ἑτέρους τὸ «οἴμοι». παρα στήσομεν δὲ ἀπὸ ὁμολογουμένων λέξεων, αἵτινες οὐχ ἁρμόζουσιν ἄλλῳ ἢ τῷ σωτῆρι, τίνα τρόπον καὶ ἔκλαυσεν ἐπὶ τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ· κλαίοντος δὲ φωνή ἐστι τὸ «οἴμοι». καὶ κεῖται ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ ὅτι ἰδὼν τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἔκλαυσεν ἐπ' αὐτὴν καὶ εἶπεν· «Ἱερουσαλὴμ Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἡ ἀποκτείνουσα τοὺς προφήτας καὶ λιθοβολοῦσα τοὺς ἀπεσταλ μένους πρὸς αὐτήν,