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

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 me, for I have become as one who gathers stubble in the harvest and as a gleaner in the vintage, when there is no cluster to eat the first-fruits. Woe is me, my soul, for the godly man has perished from the earth, and there is none upright among men. They all judge for blood». For he came [as one who gathers stubble] to the harvest that he might reap, and he finds many sinners and says: “Woe is me, for I have become as one who gathers stubble in the harvest”. He came to gather the fruit of life among men, he finds many sins in us and for this reason he says: “and as a gleaner in the vintage, when there is no cluster to eat the first-fruits”. And elsewhere he says something similar to these things, speaking to the Father: “What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to corruption?” How have I so greatly profited men? What have they done worthy of the blood which I poured out for them? “What profit is there in <my> blood, in my coming down” from heaven? I have come down, I came to the earth, I gave myself over to corruption, I put on a human body; what worthy of these things has been accomplished by men? “What profit is there in my blood, in my going down to corruption? Shall the dust confess to you, or declare your truth”? Such, then, is also what is said here first by the Savior, “Woe is me, mother, what a man you have borne me”? The Savior does not say “Woe is me, mother” as God, but as man, as in the prophet: “Woe is me, my soul, for the godly man has perished from the earth”. But the soul was human, for this reason it was troubled, for this reason it was also very sorrowful. But the Word who was in the beginning with God is not troubled; he would not say “woe is me”. For neither does the Word admit of death, but it is the human part that admitted this, as we have often established. 14.7 “What a man you have borne me, a man being judged and being contended with in all the earth”? If you see for me the martyrs everywhere being judged <and> in each church standing before the judges, you will see in what way Jesus Christ is judged in each of the martyrs; for it is he who is judged in those who bear witness to the truth. And you will be persuaded to accept this when you see that he does not say it is you in prison when you are in prison, but himself, not you who are hungry when you are hungry, but himself, not you who are thirsty, but himself. “I was in prison and you came to me. I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave <me> drink”. Therefore, whenever a Christian is judged for no other reason, not for his own sins, but because he is a Christian, it is Christ who is being judged. In all the earth, therefore, Christ Jesus is judged; and so whenever a Christian is judged, it is Christ who is being judged; not only in these courts, but suppose a Christian is falsely accused [as must happen] and charged with something, then too Christ is judged unjustly. “What a man you have borne me, a man being judged and being contended with in all the earth?” 14.8 <And you will also understand it in this way, how he “is judged and contended with in all the earth”.> Who, then, does not judge the Christian doctrine? Which of the gentiles does not even simply examine it? Which of the Jews does not speak things concerning Christians? Which of the Greeks? Which of the philosophers? Which of the common people? [And you will also understand it in this way, how he “is judged and contended with in all the earth”.] Everywhere Jesus is judged and put on trial; and by some he is condemned, but by others he is not condemned. If he is not condemned, he is accepted; you open the doors for him, he comes in to you; you believe in him, <he dines with you>. But if you do not accept when you hear about Christianity, you have done nothing other than to condemn Jesus <as> a liar, as one who deceived men, as one not speaking the truth, by not having believed the word which he teaches. “what a man you have borne me, a man being judged and being contended with in all the earth?” As many as completely disbelieve, condemn him; but as many as do not disbelieve but doubt concerning him, are in dispute about him. Jesus suffers two things among men; by the unbelievers he is condemned, but by the

ποσάκις ἠθέλησα ἐπισυναγαγεῖν τὰ τέκνα σου» καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. σαφῶς δὲ καὶ ταῦτα ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος λέλεκται ἐν τῷ «οἴμοι ὅτι ἐγενήθην ὡς συνάγων καλάμην ἐν ἀμητῷ καὶ ὡς ἐπι φυλλίδα ἐν τρυγητῷ, οὐκ ὄντος στάχυος τοῦ φαγεῖν τὰ πρωτόγονα. οἴμοι ψυχή, ὅτι ἀπόλωλεν εὐλαβὴς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ὁ κατορθῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποις οὐχ ὑπάρχει. πάντες εἰς αἵματα δικάζονται». ἦλθε γὰρ [ὡς συνάγων καλάμην] εἰς ἀμητὸν ἵνα θερίσῃ, καὶ εὑρίσκει πολλοὺς ἁμαρτωλοὺς καὶ λέγει· «οἴμοι ὅτι ἐγενήθην ὡς συνάγων καλάμην ἐν ἀμητῷ». ἦλθε τρυγῆσαι καρπὸν ζωῆς ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις, εὑρίσκει πολλὰ ἁμαρτήματα ἐν ἡμῖν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο λέγει· «καὶ ὡς ἐπιφυλλίδα ἐν τρυγητῷ, οὐκ ὄντος στάχυος τοῦ φαγεῖν τὰ πρωτόγονα». φησὶ καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ τὸ παραπλήσιον τούτοις πρὸς τὸν πατέρα λέγων· «τίς ὠφέλεια ἐν τῷ αἵματί μου, ἐν τῷ καταβῆναί με εἰς διαφθοράν;» τί ὠφέλησα τηλικοῦτο τοὺς ἀνθρώπους; τί ἄξιον τοῦ αἵματος, οὗ ἐξέχεα ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν, πεποιήκασι; «τίς ὠφέλεια ἐν τῷ αἵματί <μου>, ἐν τῷ καταβῆναί με» ἐξ οὐρανῶν; καταβέβηκα, ἦλθον ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, ἐπέδωκα ἐμαυτὸν διαφθορᾷ, ἐφόρεσα σῶμα ἀνθρώπινον· τί αὐτῶν ἄξιον κατώρθωται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις; «τίς ὠφέλεια ἐν τῷ αἵματί μου, ἐν τῷ καταβῆναί με εἰς διαφθοράν; μὴ ἐξομολογήσεταί σοι χοῦς, ἢ ἀναγγελεῖ τὴν ἀλήθειάν σου»; τοιοῦτο οὖν ἐστι καὶ τὸ ἐνθάδε πρῶτον ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος λεγόμενον τὸ «οἴμοι ἐγώ, μῆτερ, ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες ἄνδρα»; οὐχὶ ᾗ θεὸς ὁ σωτὴρ λέγει τὸ «οἴμοι ἐγώ, μῆτερ» ἀλλ' ᾗ ἄνθρωπος, ὡς ἐν τῷ προφήτῃ· «οἴμοι ψυχή, ὅτι ἀπόλωλεν εὐλαβὴς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς». ἡ δὲ ψυχὴ ἀνθρωπίνη ἦν, διὰ τοῦτο καὶ τε τάρακται, διὰ τοῦτο καὶ περίλυπος ἦν. ὁ δὲ λόγος ὁ ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεὸν οὐ τετάρακται, ἐκεῖνος οὐκ ἂν λέγοι τὸ «οἴμοι». οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ λόγος ἐπιδέχεται θάνατον, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἀνθρώπινόν ἐστι τὸ τοῦτο ἐπιδεξάμενον, ὡς πολλάκις παρεστήσαμεν. 14.7 «Ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινόμενον ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ»; ἐὰν ἴδῃς μοι τοὺς πανταχοῦ μάρτυρας δικαζομένους <καὶ> καθ' ἑκάστην ἐκκλησίαν παρισταμένους τοῖς δικασταῖς, ὄψει τίνα τρόπον Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἐν ἑκάστῳ τῶν μαρτύρων δικάζεται· αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστιν ὁ ἐν τοῖς μαρτυ<ροῦ>σι τῇ ἀληθείᾳ δικαζόμενος. καὶ τοῦτο πεισθήσῃ παραδέξασθαι βλέπων ὅτι οὐ σέ φησιν εἶναι ἐν φυλακῇ ὅταν σὺ ᾖς ἐν φυλακῇ, ἀλλ' ἑαυτόν, οὐ σὲ πεινῶντα ὅταν σὺ πεινᾷς, ἀλλ' ἑαυτόν, οὐ σὲ διψῶντα, ἀλλ' ἑαυτόν. «ἐν φυλακῇ ἤμην καὶ ἤλθετε πρός με. ἐπείνων καὶ ἐδώκατέ μοι φαγεῖν, ἐδίψων καὶ ἐπο τίσατέ <με>«. οὐκοῦν κἂν δικάζηται Χριστιανὸς οὐ δι' ἄλλο τι, οὐ διὰ τὰς ἰδίας ἁμαρτίας, ἀλλ' ὅτι Χριστιανός ἐστι, Χριστός ἐστιν ὁ δικαζόμενος. ἐν πάσῃ οὖν τῇ γῇ δικάζεται Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς· καὶ ὁσάκις οὖν Χριστιανὸς δικάζεται, Χριστός ἐστιν ὁ δικαζόμενος· οὐ μόνον ἐπὶ τούτων τῶν δικαστηρίων, ἀλλὰ φέρε συκοφαντεῖσθαι Χριστιανὸν [ἃ δεῖ] περί τινος ἐγκαλούμενον, καὶ τότε Χριστὸς ἀδίκως δικάζεται. «Ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινόμενον ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ;» 14.8 <καὶ ἔτι δὲ οὕτως νοήσεις, πῶς «δικάζεται καὶ διακρίνεται ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ».> τίς οὖν οὐ δικάζει τὸν Χριστιανὸν λόγον; τίς τῶν ἐθνῶν κἂν ἁπλῶς οὐκ ἐξετάζει αὐτόν; τίς οὐ λέγει τῶν Ἰουδαίων τὰ περὶ Χριστιανῶν; τίς τῶν Ἑλλήνων; τίς τῶν φιλοσόφων; τίς τῶν ἰδιωτῶν; [καὶ ἔτι δὲ οὕτως νοήσεις, πῶς «δικάζεται καὶ δια κρίνεται ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ».] πανταχοῦ Ἰησοῦς δικάζεται καὶ κρίνεται· καὶ ὑφ' ὧν μὲν καταδικάζεται, ὑφ' ὧν δὲ οὐ καταδικάζεται. ἐὰν μὴ καταδικάζηται, παράδεκτος γίνεται· ἀνοίγεις αὐτῷ τὰς θυρίδας, εἰσέρχεται πρός σε· πιστεύεις εἰς αὐτόν, <δειπνεῖ μετὰ σοῦ>. ἐὰν δὲ μὴ παραδέξῃ περὶ Χριστιανισμοῦ ἀκούων, οὐδὲν ἄλλο πεποίηκας ἢ κατε δίκασας τὸν Ἰησοῦν <ὡς> ψευδόμενον, ὡς πλανήσαντα τοὺς ἀνθρώ πους, ὡς οὐκ ἀληθεύοντα, διὰ τοῦ μὴ πεπιστευκέναι τῷ λόγῳ ᾧ διδάσκει. «ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινόμενον ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ;» ὅσοι μὲν τέλεον ἀπιστοῦσι, καταδικάζουσιν αὐτόν· ὅσοι δὲ οὐκ ἀπιστοῦσιν ἀλλὰ ἀμφιβάλλουσι περὶ αὐτοῦ, διακρίνονται περὶ αὐτοῦ. δύο πάσχει ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐν ἀνθρώποις· ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν ἀπίστων καταδικάζεται, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν