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to each as he wills”; that is, with authority, not slavishly. You might say the spirit of his face is Christ, the one who gave us the spirit of prophecy; for this is the face of the prophets, and the spirit is the gift, and the shadow is the law, “for the law has a shadow of the good things to come.” Therefore the prophets lived among us and in the shadow of the law. Therefore the prophetic gift, to which the outcome of all prophecy looks, is Christ, that is, from Christ. “For Christ is the end of the law and the prophets.” And it might be said from the person of the apostles and the faithful; “for in him we live and move and have our being”; of whom we said, we will live in his shadow, that is, in imitation of him. For the divine apostle says: “Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.” 117 The word is to those from Edom and Esau the brother of Jacob, foretelling for them an excess of evils (for this is the "you will be drunk and pour out"), concerning whom David also says: “Remember, O Lord, the sons of Edom in the day of Jerusalem, those who said: 'Lay it bare, lay it bare, down to its foundation'.” For being brothers and neighbors, they preserved their ancestral hatred. Having spoken about Christ. In due time he also mentioned this. For Christ was about to destroy the one called Earthly, making it heavenly. For virtue and knowledge are threatening to those who love pleasures through errors and passions, whose drunkenness is the mortification of the flesh, and the overflowing is also to put to death its mindset. 118 You have paid a sufficient penalty, in which Edom will succeed you. And the "he will no more remove you to a colony" he says either with respect to the recall (for you will not remain in captivity, having fulfilled the complete measure; for God lessens the penalty, he does not add to it), or if it is said with respect to a second capture as not going to happen, how did the one after that by the Romans happen? Perhaps therefore the word is about the last one that happened because of Christ, after which there has not been another. and “all Israel will be saved after the fullness of the Gentiles” having abandoned its iniquity; after which is finally the consummation, and the punishment of earthly things, with the judgment awaiting. And the word might also be spoken to the church, which is the daughter of the former synagogue (“for the gifts of God are irrevocable”, and its iniquity ceased through divine baptism), which he no longer hands over to its enemies, he who said: “Here I will dwell, for I have chosen her” and “behold, I am with you all the days until the consummation of the age,” when he also exposed the impiety of those who mind earthly things.

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ἑκάστῳ καθὼς βούλεται»· τουτέστιν αὐθεντικῶς, οὐ δουλικῶς. λέγοις δ' ἂν πνεῦμα προσώπου Χριστόν, τὸν δωρησάμενον ἡμῖν τὸ πνεῦμα τῆς προφητείας· αὕτη γὰρ προφητῶν πρόσωπον, πνεῦμα δὲ τὸ χάρισμα, σκιὰ δὲ ὁ νόμος, «σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν». ἔζησαν οὖν ἐν ἡμῖν οἱ προφῆται καὶ ἐν τῇ τοῦ νόμου σκιᾷ. τὸ οὖν χάρισμα τὸ προφητικόν, πρὸς ὃ βλέπει πάσης τῆς προφητείας ἡ ἔκβασις, Χριστός ἐστιν, τουτέστιν ἀπὸ Χριστοῦ. «τέλος γὰρ νόμου καὶ προφητῶν ὁ Χριστός». ῥηθείη δὲ κἂν ἐκ προσώπου τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν πιστῶν· «ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ καὶ ζῶμεν καὶ κινούμεθα καὶ ἐσμέν»· οὗ εἴπομεν ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ αὐτοῦ ζησόμεθα , τουτέστι κατὰ μίμησιν αὐτοῦ. λέγει γὰρ ὁ θεῖος ἀπόστολος· «μιμηταί μου γίνεσθε, καθὼς κἀγὼ Χριστοῦ». 117 Ὁ λόγος πρὸς τοὺς ἐξ Ἐδὼμ καὶ Ἡσαῦ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ Ἰακώβ, ὑπερβολὴν αὐτοῖς προαγορεύων κακῶν (τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ μεθυσθήσῃ καὶ ἀποχεεῖς ), περὶ ὧν φησι καὶ ∆αβίδ· «μνήσθητι, κύριε, τῶν υἱῶν Ἐδὼμ τὴν ἡμέραν Ἱερουσαλήμ, τῶν λεγόντων· ἐκκενοῦτε, ἐκκενοῦτε ἕως οὗ ὁ θεμέλιος ἐν αὐτῇ». ἀδελφοὶ γὰρ ὄντες καὶ γείτονες, τὸ προγονικὸν διεφύλαξαν μῖσος. περὶ δὲ Χριστοῦ φήσας. εἰς καιρὸν καὶ ταύτης ἐμνήσθη. τὴν γὰρ Γήϊνον προσαγορευομένην πορθεῖν ἔμελλεν ὁ Χριστός, οὐράνιον ἐργαζόμενος. ἀπειλητικὸν γὰρ ἡ ἀρετή τε καὶ γνῶσις πρὸς τοὺς φιληδοῦντας πλάναις καὶ πάθεσιν, ὧν μέθη μὲν ἡ νέκρωσις τῆς σαρκός, ὑπερέκχυσις δὲ καὶ τὸ νεκρῶσαι ταύτης τὸ φρόνημα. 118 Ἱκανὴν ἐξέτισας δίκην, ἐν ᾗ Ἐδὼμ διαδέξεται. τὸ δὲ οὐ προσθήσει τοῦ ἀποικίσαι σε ἢ πρὸς τὴν ἀνάκλησίν φησιν (οὐ γὰρ ἐπιμενεῖς τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ τὸ τέλειον μέτρον πληρώσασα· μειοῖ γὰρ τὴν δίκην ὁ θεός, οὐ προστίθησιν), ἤγουν εἰ πρὸς δευτέραν ὡς μὴ γενησομένην ἅλωσιν εἴρηται, πῶς ἡ μετ' ἐκείνην ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἐγένετο; μήποτε τοίνυν περὶ τῆς ἐσχάτης ὁ λόγος τῆς γεγονυίας διὰ Χριστόν, μεθ' ἣν οὐ γέγονεν ἑτέρα. καὶ «πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται μετὰ τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν» τὴν ἀνομίαν ἀπολιπών· μεθ' ὃ λοιπὸν ἡ συντέλεια, καὶ τῶν γηΐνων ἡ κόλασις, ἐκδεχομένης τῆς κρίσεως. ῥηθείη δ' ἂν καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν ὁ λόγος, ἥτις ἐστὶ θυγάτηρ τῆς πάλαι συναγωγῆς («ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα τοῦ θεοῦ», ἐξέλιπε δὲ ταύτης ἡ ἀνομία διὰ τοῦ θείου βαπτίσματος), ἣν οὐκέτι τοῖς ἐχθροῖς παραδίδωσιν ὁ φήσας· «ὧδε κατοικήσω, ὅτι ᾑρετισάμην αὐτήν» καὶ τὸ «ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ μεθ' ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος», ὅτε καὶ τὴν ἀσέβειαν ἐστηλίτευσε τῶν φρονούντων τὰ γήϊνα.