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

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 † while sitting was doing such things; it was necessary for an ecclesiastical vindication to occur, and it has occurred; the one who was entrusted has done the work which it was necessary for him to have done. That man goes about speaking evil of the one who vindicated the truth. But let us not do this, let us not lend our ears to those who, because they have been cast out, speak evil of the one who cast them out or of the one who voted with him. who also, when injustice was indeed proven and had occurred †. The wonderful apostles, being insulted in countless ways for the sake of the truth, say: “I am well pleased in weaknesses, in insults and hardships, in persecutions and distresses, for Christ's sake.” May it only be for me, when insulted, to know that I am insulted for nothing else than for Christ, and when in hardships, to know that the cause of the hardships is Christ. May it be for me, when reviled, to know that the pretext for the reviling is no other than that I vindicate the truth and contend on behalf of the things that have been written, so that all things may happen according to the word of God, for this reason I am blasphemed. And so let us all, with as much strength as we have, hasten toward the prophetic life, toward the apostolic life, not fleeing from what is troublesome; <for> if an athlete flees the trouble of the contest, he will not receive the sweetness of the crown. 14.15 “And your word will be to me for gladness.” It is not now, but “it will be”; for since at the present time your word is for me prisons, trials, troubles, slanders, toils, yet the end of these things will be gladness. “and your word will be to me for gladness and joy of my heart, because your name has been called upon me, O Lord Almighty.” And if Christ says it, the name of the Father has been called upon him. “I did not sit in the council of those who jest.” If ever the prophet saw the council was not of serious people but of jesters, he fled from assembling rather than hastened to a congregation of jesters. Therefore you must understand the difference between a council of jesters and of [not] serious people. This council is serious and does all things with seriousness and worthy of seriousness and according to what is said; the word is serious, the life is serious, and in every way the council is not of jesters, but of serious people. But when the council, having abandoned its seriousness concerning necessary things, devotes itself to the games of this age and to the games that come from wickedness, it becomes a council of jesters. Therefore this one says: “I did not sit in the council of those who jest, but I was cautious because of your <hand>.” With two things set before me, to sit in a council of jesters and to offend you, O God, and not to please you, or to rise up from a council of jesters and to do those things which were dear to you, I chose rather to stand up from the council of jesters and to be a friend to you, than by doing the opposite to become an enemy to your blessedness. “I did not sit in the council of those who jest, but I was cautious because of your hand.” And our Savior did not sit “in the council of those who jest,” but rose up from them. And it is a sign of the Savior having been raised up from a council of jesters, that he said: “Your house is left to you desolate.” For the Word of God has left the council of the Jews and has made for himself another council and church, the one from the Gentiles. 14.16 “I sat alone.” And the words here are edifying. When there is a multitude of sinners and they do not bear the righteous man living <right>eously, it is not at all strange for one fleeing the council of wickedness to imitate the one who said: “I sat alone,” and to imitate Elijah who said: “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have torn down your altars, and I am left all alone, and they seek my life to take it.” But perhaps if you should examine more deeply the phrase “I sat alone,” you will find some meaning worthy of prophetic depth. When we imitate the life of the many, so that it is not withdrawn and better and exceptional compared to the many, I cannot say: “I sat alone,” but: I sat with many. But whenever my life

παρόντος ἔδει † γενέσθαι τοιοῦτον εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ θεοῦ. κατεγνώσθη ὁ καταγνωσθείς, ὁ δεῖνα † καθεζόμενος ἐποίει τὰ τοιάδε· ἔδει γενέσθαι ἐκκλη σιαστικὴν ἐκδικίαν, καὶ γέγονεν· πεποίηκεν ὁ ἐγκεχειρισμένος τὸ ἔργον ὃ ἔδει αὐτὸν πεποιηκέναι. περιέρχεται ἐκεῖνος λέγων κακῶς τὸν ἐκδικήσαντα τὴν ἀλήθειαν. ἀλλ' ἡμεῖς τοῦτο μὴ ποιῶμεν, μὴ παρέχωμεν τὰς ἀκοὰς τοῖς διὰ τὸ ἐκβεβλῆσθαι λέγουσι κακῶς τὸν ἐκβαλόντα ἢ τὸν σύμψηφον γενόμενον. οἱ καὶ ἀδικίας γε ἐλεγχο μένης καὶ γεγενημένης †. οἱ θαυμάσιοι ἀπόστολοι μυρία ὑβριζόμενοι διὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν λέγουσιν· «εὐδοκῶ ἐν ἀσθενείαις, ἐν ὕβρεσι καὶ ἀνάγκαις, ἐν διωγμοῖς καὶ στενοχωρίαις, ὑπὲρ Χριστοῦ». μόνον εἴη με ὑβριζόμενον εἰδέναι ὅτι οὐ δι' ἄλλο τι ὑβρίζομαι ἢ διὰ Χριστόν, ἐν ἀνάγκαις γενόμενον εἰδέναι ὅτι ἡ ὑπόθεσις τῶν ἀναγκαίων ὁ Χριστός ἐστιν. εἴη με λοιδορούμενον εἰδέναι ὅτι ἡ πρόφασις τῆς λοιδορίας οὐκ ἔστιν ἄλλη, ἢ ὅτι ἐκδικῶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ πρεσβεύω ὑπὲρ τῶν γεγραμμένων, ἵνα κατὰ λόγον θεοῦ πάντα γίνηται, διὰ τοῦτο βλασφημοῦμαι. καὶ ἡμεῖς οὖν πάντες, ὅση δύναμις, σπεύσωμεν ἐπὶ τὸν βίον τὸν προφητικόν, ἐπὶ τὸν βίον τὸν ἀποστολικόν, τὸ ὀχληρὸν μὴ φεύγοντες· ἀθλητὴς <γὰρ> ἐὰν φύγῃ τὸ τῆς ἀθλήσεως ὀχληρόν, τὸ ἡδὺ τοῦ στεφάνου οὐκ ἀπολήψεται. 14.15 «Καὶ ἔσται ὁ λόγος σου ἐμοὶ εἰς εὐφροσύνην». οὐκ ἔστι νῦν, ἀλλ' «ἔσται»· ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος ὁ λόγος σου ἐμοὶ εἰς φυλα κάς, εἰς δίκας, εἰς πράγματα, εἰς δυσφημίας, εἰς πόνους, ἀλλὰ τὸ τέλος τούτων εὐφροσύνη ἔσται. «καὶ ἔσται ὁ λόγος σου ἐμοὶ εἰς εὐφροσύνην καὶ χαρὰν καρδίας μου, ὅτι ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐπ' ἐμέ, κύριε παντοκράτορ». κἂν Χριστὸς λέγῃ, τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ πατρὸς ἐπικέκληται ἐπ' αὐτόν. «οὐκ ἐκάθισα ἐν συνεδρίῳ αὐτῶν παιζόντων». εἴ ποτε ἑώρακε τὸ συνέδριον ὁ προφήτης οὐ σπουδαζόντων ἀλλὰ παιζόντων, ἔφευγε μᾶλλον τὸ συνάγεσθαι ἤπερ ἔσπευδεν ἐπὶ συναγωγὴν παιζόν των. νοῆσαί σε οὖν δεῖ διαφορὰν συνεδρίου παιζόντων καὶ [μὴ] σπουδαζόντων. τὸ συνέδριον τοῦτο σπουδαῖόν ἐστι καὶ πάντα ποιεῖ μετὰ σπουδῆς καὶ σπουδῆς ἄξια καὶ κατὰ τὸ λεγόμενον· σπουδὴ ὁ λόγος, σπουδὴ ὁ βίος, καὶ πάντῃ ἐστὶ τὸ συνέδριον οὐ παιζόντων, ἀλλὰ σπουδαζόντων. ὅταν δὲ τὸ συνέδριον καταλιπὸν τὴν σπουδὴν τὴν περὶ τὰ ἀναγκαῖα σχολάζῃ τοῖς παιγνίοις τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου καὶ παιγνίοις τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς κακίας, γίνεται συνέδριον παιζόντων. φησὶν οὖν οὗτος· «οὐκ ἐκάθισα ἐν συνεδρίῳ αὐτῶν παιζόντων, ἀλλ' εὐλαβούμην ἀπὸ προσώπου <χειρός> σου». δύο προκειμένων, καθέζεσθαι ἐν συνεδρίῳ παιζόντων καὶ σοὶ τῷ θεῷ προσκόπτειν καὶ σοὶ μὴ ἀρέσκειν, ἢ ἐγείρεσθαι ἀπὸ συνεδρίου παιζόν των καὶ ποιεῖν ταῦτα ἃ σοὶ φίλον ἦν, εἱλόμην μᾶλλον ἀνίστασθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ συνεδρίου τῶν παιζόντων καὶ σοὶ φίλος εἶναι, ἤπερ τὸ ἐναντίον ποιῶν ἐχθρὸς γενέσθαι τῇ μακαριότητί σου. «οὐκ ἐκάθισα ἐν συνεδρίῳ αὐτῶν παιζόντων, ἀλλ' εὐλαβούμην ἀπὸ προσώπου χειρός σου». καὶ ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν οὐκ ἐκάθισεν «ἐν συνεδρίῳ αὐτῶν παιζόντων», ἀλλ' ἀπανέστη ἀπ' αὐτῶν. καὶ σημεῖόν ἐστι τοῦ ἐγη γέρθαι τὸν σωτῆρα ἀπὸ συνεδρίου παιζόντων, τὸ εἰρηκέναι αὐτόν· «ἀφίεται ὑμῖν ὁ οἶκος ὑμῶν ἔρημος». καταλέλοιπε γὰρ ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ τὸ Ἰουδαίων συνέδριον καὶ ἄλλο συνέδριον καὶ ἐκκλησίαν ἑαυτῷ πεποίηκε τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν. 14.16 «Κατὰ μόνας ἐκαθήμην». καὶ τὰ ῥήματα ἐνταῦθα οἰκοδομεῖ. ὅταν πλῆθος ᾖ ἁμαρτωλῶν καὶ μὴ φέρωσι τὸν δίκαιον βιοῦντα <δι>καίως, οὐδὲν ἄτοπόν ἐστι φεύγοντα τὸ συνέδριον τῆς κακίας μιμήσασθαι τὸν εἰπόντα· «κατὰ μόνας ἐκαθήμην», μιμήσασθαι καὶ τὸν λέγοντα Ἠλίαν· «κύριε, τοὺς προφήτας σου ἀπέκτειναν, τὰ θυσιαστήριά σου κατέσκαψαν, κἀγὼ ὑπελείφθην μονώτατος, καὶ ζητοῦσι τὴν ψυχήν μου λαβεῖν αὐτήν». τάχα δὲ κἂν βαθύτερον ἐξετάσῃς τὸ «κατὰ μόνας ἐκαθήμην», εὑρήσεις τινὰ ἄξιον νοῦν βάθους προφητικοῦ. ὅταν τὸν τῶν πολλῶν βίον μιμώμεθα, ὥστε μὴ εἶναι ἀνακεχωρηκότα αὐτὸν καὶ κρείττονα καὶ ἐξαίρετον παρὰ τοὺς πολλούς, οὐ δύναμαι λέγειν· «κατὰ μόνας ἐκαθήμην», ἀλλά· μετὰ πολλῶν ἐκαθήμην. ἐπὰν δὲ ὁ βίος μου