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115 Mt 23, 16-22 He calls the gold in the temple the golden vessels dedicated in the sanctuary for the glory of God, namely the golden Cherubim or the golden jar that held the manna, which the Jews supposed were more precious than the temple. For this reason they were also condemned by the Lord, because not only did they overlook those who swore and permit them to swear, but because they said: It is nothing to swear by the temple; or they even accustomed the people to perjure themselves indifferently in this matter. For this reason the Lord also declares that whoever swears by the temple swears by all the things inside the temple; and the same applies in similar cases. But the statement contains a riddle against them; because, not accepting Christ the truth, they judged Moses and the types through him to be more honorable than Christ, rejecting Christ who sanctifies Moses, but praising the law, which was also praiseworthy, not because it has the shadows and the types, but because it prefigures the true mystery of the worship in Christ, just as the gold is good because of the temple that sanctifies it and heaven is good because of God who sanctifies it and dwells in it. 116 Mt 23, 25-26 But following human traditions, they washed the cups and the plates, but they polluted them by the things put inside, drinking in them wine from slander and eating from plunder. Therefore he commands to abstain from these things, so that by clean vessels they drink wine not obtained from injustice, the thing that is drunk, which is inside the cup, may also become clean.

117 Mt 24, 1 The Lord, having gone out of the temple, teaches not to pay attention to

earthly things, even if they are dedicated to God. 118 Mt 24, 9 The apostles were greatly afflicted, being plotted against by Jews and Gentiles, who were also scandalized by them. 119 Mt 24, 10 That traveling the broad and spacious way, being many and of those who seem to believe, will be scandalized. 120 Mt 24, 11 He calls false prophets the heretics who have led many of the more simple astray at the end of the age. 121 col1 Mt 24, 15 The Jews think the abomination of desolation is the final Roman war machine, or a pig's head sent into the temple to be the abomination, or the standards brought into the sanctuary by Pilate. The Jews suppose the abomination of desolation to be the final Roman war machine, that is, the pig's head sent into the temple by the Romans or the standards brought in by Pilate or what Josephus hints happened during the siege of Jerusalem; for women, having sacrificed their own children, ate them. 122 Mt 24, 15 Universally, the abomination of desolation is the antichrist, but the image of Caesar, which Pilate set up in the temple, also became an abomination of the desolation of Jerusalem. 123 Mt 24, 19 Perhaps this alludes to what Josephus says happened, when during the siege, compelled by famine, having sacrificed their own children, they ate them. 124 Mt 24, 27 For as the lightning: figuratively, the lightning of truth, to which the coming of the Son of Man is likened, is made plain in all legal, prophetic, evangelical, and apostolic scripture. And coming forth from the east, from the principles of God, it shines even to the west of the economy of the passion. But see if the law is one east, the end of the law one west. Another east to west is Jesus Christ to Paul, to whom last of all He appeared as to one untimely born. 125 Mt 24, 28 For wherever the fallen corpse of the economy of the passion is set, not the ordinary will be gathered, but the most exalted disciples and those who think and know lofty things, that is, the mysteries of the divinity. Therefore he said not vultures nor ravens, but the animal that does not eat carrion, that is, the eagle; for as the historians say about it, that it touches nothing that died of itself. 126 Mt 25, 14 He calls his going away his ascension into heaven, when he also handed over

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115 Mt 23, 16-22 Τὸν ἐν τῷ ναῷ χρυσὸν λέγει τὰ εἰς δόξαν θεοῦ χρυσᾶ σκεύη ἀνατιθέμενα ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἤτοι τὰ χρυσᾶ Χερουβὶμ ἢ τὴν χρυσῆν στάμνον τὴν ἔχουσαν τὸ μάννα, ἅπερ προτιμότερα εἶναι ὑπελάμβανον Ἰουδαῖοι τοῦ ναοῦ. διὸ καὶ κατεγινώσκοντο ὑπὸ τοῦ κυρίου, ὅτι οὐ μόνον παρεώρων τοὺς ὀμνύοντας καὶ συνεχώρουν αὐτοῖς ὀμνύειν, ἀλλ' ὅτι ἔλεγον· οὐδέν ἐστι τὸ κατὰ τοῦ ναοῦ ὀμόσαι· ἢ καὶ εἴθιζον τὸν λαὸν ἀδιαφόρως ἐπιορκεῖν κατὰ τοῦτο. διὸ καὶ ὁ κύριος ἀποφαντικῶς φησιν, ὅτι ὁ ὀμνύων ἐν τῷ ναῷ κατὰ πάντων τῶν ὄντων ἔσω ἐν τῷ ναῷ ὀμνύει· καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ὁμοίων τὸ αὐτό. ἔχει δὲ ὁ λόγος αἴνιγμα κατ' αὐτῶν· ἀνθ' ὧν τὸν Χριστὸν οὐ δεχόμενοι τὴν ἀλήθειαν τὸν Μωυσέα καὶ τοὺς δι' αὐτοῦ τύπους τιμιωτέρους ἔκρινον τοῦ Χριστοῦ τὸν μὲν Χριστὸν τὸν ἁγιάζοντα Μωυσέα ἀθετοῦντες, ἐπαινοῦντες δὲ τὸν νόμον, ὥσπερ ἦν καὶ ἐπαινετός, οὐχ ὅτι ἔχει τὰς σκιὰς καὶ τοὺς τύπους, ἀλλ' ὅτι προανατυποῖ τῆς ἐν Χριστῷ λατρείας τὸ ἀληθὲς μυστήριον, ὡς καλὸς ὁ χρυσὸς διὰ τὸν ἁγιάζοντα αὐτὸν ναὸν καὶ καλὸς ὁ οὐρανὸς διὰ τὸν ἁγιάζοντα αὐτὸν θεὸν καὶ ἐνοικοῦντα ἐν αὐτῷ. 116 Mt 23, 25-26 Ἀνθρωπίναις δὲ παραδόσεσιν ἀκολουθοῦντες ἔπλυνον τὰ ποτήρια καὶ τὰς παροψίδας, ἐμόλυνον δὲ αὐτὰ διὰ τῶν ἔσωθεν ἐπιβαλλομένων, ἐν αὐτοῖς οἶνον ἐκ συκοφαντιῶν πίνοντες καὶ ἐξ ἁρπαγῆς ἐ σθίοντες. διὸ ἀπέχεσθαι τούτων παραγγέλλει, ἵνα δι' ὧν καθαρῶν πίνουσιν οἶνον οὐκ ἐξ ἀδικίας πορισθέντα καθαρὸν γένηται καὶ τὸ πινόμενον, ὅπερ ἔσωθέν ἐστι τοῦ ποτηρίου.

117 Mt 24, 1 Ἐξελθὼν τοῦ ἱεροῦ ὁ κύριος διδάσκει μὴ προσέχειν τοῖς

ἐπιγείοις, κἂν θεῷ ἀνακείμενα ᾖ. 118 Mt 24, 9 Πολλὰ ἐθλίβησαν οἱ ἀπόστολοι ὑπὸ Ἰουδαίων καὶ ἐθνῶν ἐπιβουλευόμενοι, οἳ καὶ ἐσκανδαλίζοντο κατ' αὐτῶν. 119 Mt 24, 10 Ὅτι τὴν πλατεῖαν καὶ εὐρύχωρον ὁδὸν ὁδεύοντες, πολλοὶ ὄντες καὶ τῶν δοκούντων πιστεύειν, σκανδαλισθήσονται. 120 Mt 24, 11 Ψευδοπροφήτας λέγει τοὺς αἱρετικοὺς τοὺς πλανήσαντας πολλοὺς τῶν ἀκεραιοτέρων ἐπὶ τῆς συντελείας. 121 col1 Mt 24, 15 Βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως Ἰουδαῖοι οἴονται τὸ τελευταῖον Ῥωμαίων μηχάνημα ἢ εἰσπεμφθεῖσαν εἰς τὸν ναὸν χοιρείαν κεφαλὴν εἶναι τὸ βδέλυγμα ἢ τὰς ὑπὸ Πιλάτου εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν εἰσαχθείσας σημείας. Βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι ὑπολαμβάνουσι τὸ τελευταῖον τῶν Ῥωμαίων μηχάνημα, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὴν πεμφθεῖσαν εἰς τὸν ναὸν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων χορείαν κεφαλὴν ἢ τὰς ὑπὸ Πιλάτου εἰσαχθείσας σημείας ἢ ὅπερ αἰνίττεται ὁ Ἰώσηπος γεγενῆσθαι ἐν τῇ πολιορκίᾳ τῶν Ἱεροσολύμων· καὶ γὰρ γυναῖκες θύσασαι τὰ ἑαυτῶν τέκνα ἔφαγον. 122 Mt 24, 15 Βδέλυγμα ἐρημώσεως καθολικῶς ὁ ἀντίχριστος, γέγονε δὲ καὶ βδέλυγμα τῆς ἐρημώσεως τῆς Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἡ εἰκὼν Καίσαρος, ἣν ἀνέστησε Πιλᾶτος ἐν τῷ ναῷ. 123 Mt 24, 19 Ἴσως τοῦτο αἰνίττεται, ὅ φησιν Ἰώσηπος γεγενῆσθαι, ὅτε ἐν τῇ πολιορκίᾳ ἀπὸ λιμοῦ βιασθεῖσαι θύσασαι τὰ ἑαυτῶν τέκνα ἔφαγον. 124 Mt 24, 27 Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἡ ἀστραπή· τροπικῶς ἡ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀστραπή, ᾗ ἔοικεν ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ἐν πάσῃ ἐξομαλίζεται νομικῇ, προφητικῇ, εὐαγγελικῇ, ἀποστολικῇ γραφῇ. καὶ ἐξελθοῦσα ἀπὸ ἀνατολῶν, τῶν ἀρχῶν τοῦ θεοῦ, φαίνεται ἕως τῶν κατὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν τοῦ πάθους δυσμῶν. ὅρα δὲ εἰ μία ἀνατολὴ ὁ νόμος, μία δύσις τὸ πέρας τοῦ νόμου. ἄλλη ἀνατολὴ ἕως δύσεως Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἕως Παύλου, ᾧ ἐσχάτῳ πάντων ὡσπερεὶ ἐκτρώματι ἐφάνη. 125 Mt 24, 28 Ὅπου γὰρ τὸ κατὰ τὴν οἰκονομίαν τοῦ πάθους πτῶμα πεσὸν στήσεται, συναχθήσονται οὐχ οἱ τυχόντες, ἀλλ' οἱ ὑψηλότατοι μαθηταὶ καὶ τὰ ὑψηλὰ φρονοῦντες καὶ γινώσκοντες, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὰ τῆς θεότητος μυστήρια. διὸ οὐ γῦπας εἴρηκεν οὐδὲ κόρακας, ἀλλὰ τὸ μὴ νεκροβόρον ζῷον, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὸν ἀετόν· ὡς γὰρ λέγουσιν οἱ ἱστοροῦντες περὶ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι οὐδενὸς ἅπτεται θνησιμαίου. 126 Mt 25, 14 Ἐκδημίαν αὐτοῦ καλεῖ τὴν εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἄνοδον, ὅτε καὶ παρέδωκε