Scholia in Lucam

 it is but of some theorems, the end is action. For through 'eyewitnesses,' it denotes the theoretical, and through 'ministers,' the practical. You ca

 you shall call his name John. 17.317 Verse ιδʹ. And you will have joy and gladness and many will rejoice at his birth. Through condescension an angel

 Since it was not given to the embryos to speak because of their immaturity, as the Baptist hastened to proclaim the Redeemer, his mother lent the orga

 of the coming of Christ. For if He made peace through the blood of His cross, both the things on earth and the things in heaven, according to the divi

 of a river? For truly the river of God is coming down, the true water, the saving water. And he preaches, it says, a baptism for the remission of sins

 to point with his finger at him who was present and to say: Behold the Lamb of God. The all-holy Virgin knew, that he was not the child of Joseph, but

 being ashamed, or fearing the Pharisees, and being occupied with other things, or perhaps thinking it was lawful to heal on the Sabbath. For the evang

 from the surrounding country not accepting the presence of Jesus, he nonetheless provided for the salvation of those who could be saved there, sending

 to be healed. For many physicians promised to heal those from the nations. If you see those who philosophize professing truth, they are physicians try

 to see death, and greater than this is to taste it, and still worse than this is for death to follow someone? and not only to follow, but also to have

 to Moses and Elijah he says: This is he and perhaps also to the disciples. Having heard this, and not bearing this glory, they fell on their face, hu

 therefore, as he could not be healed from the affliction by the lesser word of the disciples. The mute and deaf demon is the irrational impulses towar

 mystically understood is the necessity for the father to be hated by us, if we are to be worthy of Jesus. But the saying, Let the dead bury their own

 of your Father, who is in heaven. Let your kingdom come. That every rule and authority and power may be abolished, and also every kingdom of the world

 of bread, smelling the sweet fragrance of Christ's myrrh, the oil of gladness, touching the living word which, being despised by those who judge the

 of the eleventh. And since choice, not time, is examined, which one has made in faith for this reason to those who have done what is required from th

 to him I have bought a field, and I must go out and see it. I ask you, have me excused. Verse 19. And another said: I have bought five yoke of oxen,

 occurring in living flesh, and somehow it releases all impurity from one who has become entirely leprous. For then he is considered unclean, when livi

 he became. But later, on account of his disobedience, he also took up an earthly image. And just as the coin has the image of the ruler of the nations

to Moses and Elijah he says: This is he; and perhaps also to the disciples. Having heard this, and not bearing this glory, they fell on their face, humbled under the mighty hand of God, being greatly afraid, knowing what was said to Moses: For no man shall see my face, and live. And lifting up their eyes, they saw only Jesus. For, I think, Moses the law, and Elijah the prophecy, have become one with Jesus the Gospel. And they have not remained three, as they were before. But understand these things for me more mystically. For according to the sublime will of the letter, Moses and Elijah, having appeared in glory, and having spoken with Jesus, have gone away from where they had come. For it was not seen fit for the things of his glory to be spoken of; for those who heard would have been harmed, and especially the crowds, seeing one so glorified being crucified. Therefore, they did not hide it out of envy, but as fearing that they might not be believed. Then therefore they announced it, after the ascension, after the coming of the Spirit. For when they were filled with boldness, and were deemed worthy of the Spirit, and they had the voice from the signs advocating for them, and all that they said was readily accepted. Verse 42. And Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and gave him back to his father. But one must look upon these things more highly, and it must be noted, that those who suffer, or the relatives of those who suffer, are with the crowds, upon whom Jesus comes down from the heights, having arranged the things beyond them, since they are unable to ascend the mountain to him because of the diseases possessing their souls, to heal them. And it must be examined in which diseases the sufferers ask, believing concerning their own healing, by touching either him, or the hem of his garment. And in which others ask on their behalf; as the centurion concerning his servant, and the royal official concerning his son, and the ruler of the synagogue concerning his daughter; and the Canaanite woman, and now the man kneeling before him concerning his lunatic son. And when the Savior heals of his own accord, without being asked; as the paralytic at the sheep pool. For these things, being examined in comparison with one another, will present many doctrines to him who is able to hear of the wisdom of God hidden in mystery, concerning both the different afflictions of souls, and concerning the manner of their healing. For just as you reasonably refer every disease and infirmity, which Christ previously healed in the crowds, to the passions in souls, so consider by analogy to these things—to the lame and deaf—that the things concerning the lunatic also be examined. For this is a passion that comes on at certain times, but departs for longer periods, during which the one who has suffered is no different from one who is healthy. And so some souls are thought perhaps to be healthy in sobriety, and to live as the word wills; then there are times when they fall down under the passions from their seeming to stand ..... concerning the deceit of this age and the other desires. These, to speak spiritually, are lunatics, being cast down by the spiritual hosts of wickedness in their inmost passions, they fall into the fire of conflagrations; and sometimes into the water, when the king of all the dragons in the waters, casting them down from seeming to breathe freely, to yield to the depths of the waves of the sea of human life. The one who says in Wisdom will contribute to this narrative for us, concerning the constancy of the just man: The discourse of a godly man is always wisdom; but concerning those who have fallen away: But the fool changes like the moon. And it is possible to see even in such people impulses able to draw praise from those who do not pay attention to their unsteadiness, so that one might say that there is, as it were, a full moon in them, or nearly a full moon. And you might see again what seemed to be the light in them waning; not being a light of day, but a light of night, and ceasing to such an extent, until it comes to be that not even the appearance of light is seen in them. If therefore every soul is placed under an angel, the father of the lunatic would be this one asking Jesus as for a son

μὲν Μωϋσεῖ καὶ Ἡλίᾳ λέγει· Οὗτός ἐστι· τάχα δὲ καὶ τοῖς μαθηταῖς. Ἧς ἀκούσαντες, καὶ ταύτην τὴν δόξαν μὴ φέροντες, ἔπεσον ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ταπεινωθέντες ὑπὸ τὴν κρα ταιὰν χεῖρα τοῦ Θεοῦ, σφόδρα φοβηθέντες, εἰδότες τὸ λεχθὲν πρὸς Μωϋσῆν· Οὐ γὰρ ὄψεται ἄνθρωπος τὸ πρόσωπόν μου, καὶ ζήσεται. Ἐπάραντες δὲ τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς, μόνον εἶδον τὸν Ἰησοῦν. Ἓν γὰρ, οἶμαι, γέγονε Μωσῆς ὁ νόμος, καὶ Ἡλίας ἡ προφητεία, Ἰησοῦ τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ. Καὶ οὐχ ὥσπερ ἦσαν πρότερον τρεῖς μεμενήκασι. Ταῦτα δέ μοι νόει μυστικώτερον. Πρὸς γὰρ τὸ ὑψηλὸν τοῦ γράμματος βούλημα, Μωϋ σῆς καὶ Ἠλίας ὀφθέντες ἐν δόξῃ, καὶ συλλαλήσαν τες τῷ Ἰησοῦ, ἀπεληλύθασιν ὅθεν ἐληλύθεισαν. Οὐδὲ γὰρ βλέπεται ὁ Ἰησοῦς λεχθῆναι τὰ τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ· ἐβλάβησαν γὰρ ἂν οἱ ἀκούοντες, καὶ μάλιστα οἱ ὄχλοι, τὸν οὕτω δεδοξασμένον θεωροῦντες σταυρού μενον. Οὐ τοίνυν φθονήσαντες ἔκρυψαν, ἀλλ' ὡς φο βηθέντες μὴ ἀπιστηθῶσι. Τότε οὖν ἀπήγγειλαν, μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν, μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Πνεύματος παρουσίαν. Ὅτε γὰρ ἐπλήσθησαν παῤῥησίας, καὶ Πνεύματος ἠξιώθησαν, καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν σημείων εἶχον φωνὴν συνηγοροῦσαν αὐτοῖς, καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἔλεγον, εὐπαρά δεκτα ἦν. Στίχ. μβʹ. Ἐπετίμησε δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς τῷ πνεύματι τῷ ἀκαθάρτῳ, καὶ ἰάσατο τὸν παῖδα, καὶ ἀπ έδωκεν αὐτὸν τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ. Ἐπιβλεπτέον δὲ τούτοις ὑψηλότερον, καὶ ση μειωτέον, ὅτι οἱ πάσχοντες, ἢ οἱ τῶν πασχόντων οἰ κεῖοι, μετὰ τῶν ὄχλων εἰσὶν, ἐφ' οὓς κάτεισιν ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀπὸ τῶν ὑψηλῶν, τὰ ὑπὲρ τούτους οἰκονομήσας, ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους ἀναβῆναι μὴ δυναμένους πρὸς αὐτὸν διὰ κατεχούσας τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν νόσους, θεραπεύσων αὐτούς. Ἐξεταστέον δὲ ἐπὶ τίνων νοσημάτων οἱ πάσχοντες ἀξιοῦσι, πιστεύοντες περὶ τῆς αὐτῶν θε ραπείας, ἢ αὐτοῦ, ἢ τοῦ κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου ἁψάμενοι. Ἐπὶ τίνων δὲ ἀξιοῦσι περὶ αὐτῶν ἕτεροι· ὡς ὁ ἑκατόνταρχος ὁ περὶ παιδὸς, καὶ ὁ βασιλικὸς περὶ υἱοῦ, καὶ ὁ ἀρχισυνάγωγος περὶ θυγατρός· καὶ ἡ Χαναναία, καὶ νῦν ὁ γονυπετῶν αὐτὸν ἄνθρωπος περὶ υἱοῦ σεληνιαζομένου. Καὶ πότε ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ ὁ Σωτὴρ μὴ ἀξιωθεὶς ἰᾶται· ὡς τὸν παράλυτον ἐπὶ τῇ προβατικῇ. Αὗται γὰρ, ἀλλήλων ἀντεξετασθεῖσαι, πολλὰ τῷ δυναμένῳ ἀκούειν τῆς ἐν μυστηρίῳ Θεοῦ κεκρυμμένης σοφίας παραστήσουσι δόγματα περί τε τῶν διαφόρων περὶ τὰς ψυχὰς συμπτωμάτων, καὶ περὶ τοῦ τρόπου τῆς θεραπείας αὐτῶν. Ὡς γὰρ πᾶσαν νόσον καὶ μαλακίαν, ἃς ὁ Χριστὸς ἐν τοῖς ὄχλοις πρὶν ἰάσατο, ἀναφέρεις εὐλόγως ἐπὶ τὰ πάθη τὰ ἐν ταῖς ψυχαῖς, οὕτως τούτοις ἀναλογίζου τοῖς τε χωλοῖς καὶ κωφοῖς ἐξετασθῆναι καὶ τὰ περὶ τοῦ σεληνιαζομένου. Ἔστι γὰρ τουτὶ τὸ πάθος ἐπιτι θέμενον μὲν ἔν τισιν ὥραις, ἀφιστάμενον δὲ ἐν πλείο 17.348 σιν, ἐν αἷς οὐδὲν διαφέρει ὁ πεπονθὼς ὑγιαίνων τε. Καὶ ψυχαὶ γοῦν τινες ὑγιαίνειν μὲν ἐν σωφροσύνῃ τάχα νομίζονται, καὶ βιοῦν ὡς ὁ λόγος βούλεται· εἶτα ἔσθ' ὅτε καταπίπτουσιν ὑπὸ τῶν παθῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἑστηκέναι δοκεῖν ..... περὶ τὴν ἀπάτην τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου καὶ ταῖς λοιπαῖς ἐπιθυμίαις. Οὗτοι, πνευματι κῶς εἰπεῖν, σεληνιάζονται, καταβαλλόμενοι ὑπὸ τῶν ἐν τοῖς ἐνδομυχοῦσι πάθεσι πνευματικῶν τῆς πονη ρίας, πίπτουσιν εἰς τὸ πῦρ τῶν πυρώσεων· ἐνίοτε δὲ εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ, ὅτε ὁ βασιλεὺς πάντων τῶν ἐν τοῖς ὕδασι δρακόντων, καταβάλλων αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐλεύθερον δοκεῖν ἀναπνεῖν, ἐπὶ τὸ εἴκειν εἰς τὰ βάθη τῶν κυμάτων τῆς θαλάσσης τοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων βίου. Ταύτῃ τῇ διηγήσει συμβαλεῖται ἡμῖν ὁ λέγων ἐν τῇ Σοφίᾳ, περὶ μὲν τῆς τοῦ δικαίου ὁμαλότητος· ∆ιή γησις εὐσεβοῦς διὰ παντὸς σοφία· περὶ δὲ τῶν ἀποδεδομένων· Ὁ δὲ ἄφρων ὡς σελήνη ἀλλοιοῦται. Καὶ ἔστι καὶ ἐν τοῖς τοιούτοις ἰδεῖν ὁρμὰς συνεπι σπᾶσθαι δυναμένας πρὸς ἔπαινον τοὺς μὴ ἐφιστάντας αὐτῶν τῷ ἀνερματίστῳ, ὥστε εἰπεῖν ἂν οἱονεὶ πανσέ ληνον εἶναι ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἢ παρ' ὀλίγον πανσέληνον. Ἴδοις δ' ἂν πάλιν μιμούμενον τὸ δόξαν εἶναι ἐν αὐτοῖς φῶς· οὐχὶ φῶς ἡμερινὸν τυγχάνον, ἀλλὰ φῶς νυκτερι νὸν, καὶ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον λῆγον, ἕως μηδὲ δοκεῖν φῶς εἶναι ἐπιβλεπόμενον ἐν αὐτοῖς γένηται. Εἰ οὖν πᾶσα ψυχὴ ὑπ' ἀγγέλῳ τέτακται, ὁ τοῦ σεληνιαζο μένου πατὴρ ἂν οὗτος ἀξιῶν ὡς περὶ υἱοῦ τὸν Ἰη