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a healer of treacherous eyes, and has used the hostile medicine, and shows the poison to be an antidote; to ears so-called, but deprived of hearing, He bestows their proper function. With a few loaves in the wilderness He satisfied many thousands, casting the five loaves into His hands as if seed into a field, and bringing upon them the blessing of His tongue like a cloud, He revealed the hands of the apostles as a thick and deep harvest and a full threshing-floor, a threshing-floor not in need of a winnowing-fan and separation, not of a mill and a kneading-trough and fire and an 75.1465 oven, but one gushing forth and welling up with the loaves themselves; and to speak in summary, He stopped flows of blood, willingly being despoiled of His healing; a young girl snatched away untimely by death and mourned by her own, He snatched back and gave her to those who begot her; another young man being escorted to the tomb, He brought back to life, and changed the mourning into joy, and turned the funeral dirge into the theme of wedding hymns; and the foul-smelling corpse He brought forth from the tomb after the fourth day from his death, and commanded the one who was bound to walk, and immediately death fled away, and the dead man ran, having been freed from decay, and having put off the stench of decay, and having escaped the gates of death, and not hindered from running by his bonds, and although deprived of seeing by the covering of his face, he ran unhindered to the one who called him, and recognizing the Master's voice. 26. That He voluntarily accepted the saving passions. Through these and other [exc. of the other previous] miracles, having confirmed the magnitude of the promises, and having trained the choir of the apostles in virtue, He runs as a volunteer to the passions that had been written; having often foretold these things to His disciples, and having rebuked Peter, who did not receive with pleasure the good news of the passions, and having shown that through these the salvation of the world is achieved; wherefore He also showed Himself to those who came, saying: "I am He whom you seek." And being accused, He did not speak against it, and being able to escape notice, He did not endure to do this; and this, having often escaped when He wished; but He both weeps for Jerusalem, as its unbelief was indeed drawing on destruction, and He condemns to utter destruction the long-renowned temple; He endures also being struck on the head [exc. cheek], being buffeted by one serving [exc. serving] a double slavery, being spat upon, reproached, tortured, scourged, and finally crucified, and taking robbers on either side as partners in the punishment, and being numbered with murderers and evildoers, and receiving vinegar and gall as fruit from the evil vineyard, and being crowned with thorns instead of vine-branches and clusters of grapes, and being mocked with a purple robe, and being struck with a reed, and having His side pierced with a lance, and finally being escorted to a tomb. 27. What is the cause of the Lord's sufferings. But He endured these things, contriving our salvation; for since those who had served sin were liable to the penalties of sin, He Himself, being free from sin, and having walked in all righteousness, accepted the punishment of sinners, through the cross, loosing the sentence of the old curse ("for Christ," it says, "has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us; for it is written: Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree"), and through the 75.1468 thorns, putting an end to Adam's punishments (for after the sin [exc. punishment], he heard: "Cursed is the ground in your

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ἐπίβουλον ὀμμά των θεραπευτὴν, καὶ τῷ πολεμίῳ φαρμάκῳ κέχρη ται, καὶ τὸ δηλητήριον ἀλεξητήριον δείκνυσι· ταῖς ἀκοαῖς καλουμέναις, τὸ δὲ ἀκούειν ἀφῃρημέναις, τὴν οἰκείαν ἐνέργειαν ἐπιδίδωσι. Ἄρτοις ὀλίγοις ἐν ἐρήμῳ πολλὰς ἐκόρεσε χιλιάδας, τοὺς πέντε ἄρτους, ὥσπερ εἰς ἄρουραν σπέρμα, ταῖς χερσὶν ἐμβαλὼν, καὶ τῆς γλώττης τὴν εὐλογίαν οἷόν τι νέφος ἐπαγαγὼν, δασὺ καὶ βαθὺ λήϊον καὶ ἅλω πλήρη τὰς τῶν ἀποστόλων χεῖρας ἀπέφηνεν, ἅλω οὐ πτύου δεομένην καὶ δια κρίσεως, οὐ μύλου καὶ μάκτρας καὶ πυρὸς καὶ κλι 75.1465 βάνου, ἀλλ' αὐτοὺς τοὺς ἄρτους βρύουσάν τε καὶ πηγάζουσαν· καὶ ἵνα ἐν κεφαλαίῳ εἴπω, αἵματος ἔστησεν ὀχετοὺς τὴν ἴασιν ἑκοντὶ συληθείς· κόρην ἄωρον ἁρπαγεῖσαν ὑπὸ θανάτου καὶ πενθουμένην ὑπὸ τῶν οἰκείων ἀνθαρπάσας τοῖς φύσασιν ἀποδέδωκεν· ἕτερον νεανίαν εἰς τὸν τάφον προπεμπόμενον, εἰς ζωὴν ἐπανήγαγε, καὶ εἰς χαρὰν τὸ πένθος μετέβαλε, καὶ τὸν ἐπιτάφιον θρῆνον εἰς ὕμνων λόγον γαμηλίων ἔτρεψε· καὶ τὸν δυσώδη νεκρὸν μετὰ τετάρτην τῆς τελευτῆς ἐκ τῆς θήκης ἐξήγαγε, καὶ τὸν πεπεδημέ νον βαδίζειν ἐκέλευσεν, καὶ παραχρῆμα ὅ τε θάνατος ἐδραπέτευσεν, καὶ ὁ νεκρὸς ἔδραμε τῆς σηπεδόνος ἀπαλλαγεὶς, καὶ τὴν τῆς σηπεδόνος ἀποθέμενος δυσωδίαν, καὶ τὰς τοῦ θανάτου πύλας διαφυγὼν, καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν δεσμῶν τρέχειν οὐ κωλυόμενος, καὶ τῷ μὲν τοῦ προσώπου καλύμματι τὸ βλέπειν ἀφῃρημένος, ἀκωλύτως δὲ τρέχων πρὸς τὸν καλέσαντα, καὶ τὴν ∆εσποτικὴν ἐπιγινώσκων φωνήν. Κςʹ. Ὅτι ἑκουσίως τὰ σωτήρια πάθη κατεδέξατο. ∆ιὰ τούτων καὶ ἄλλων [ξοδ. τῶν προ ἄλλων] θαυ μάτων, τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν ἐμπεδώσας τὸ μέγεθος, καὶ τὸν χορὸν τῶν ἀποστόλων εἰς ἀρετὴν παιδοτριβήσας, προστρέχει τοῖς ἀναγράπτοις πάθεσιν ἐθελοντής· πολλάκις μὲν ταῦτα τοῖς φοιτηταῖς προμηνύσας, ἐπιτιμήσας δὲ τῷ Πέτρῳ, μεθ' ἡδονῆς μὴ καταδεξα μένῳ τὰ τῶν παθῶν εὐαγγέλια, καὶ δείξας ὡς διὰ τούτων κατορθοῦται τῆς οἰκουμένης ἡ σωτηρία· διὸ καὶ τοῖς ἐπελθοῦσιν ἑαυτὸν ὑπέδειξεν λέγων· «Ἐγώ εἰμι ὃν ζητεῖτε.» Καὶ κατηγορούμενος οὐκ ἀντεῖπεν, καὶ δυνάμενος λαθεῖν, τοῦτο ποιεῖν οὐκ ἠνέσχετο· καὶ ταῦτα πολλάκις ἡνίκα ἠβουλήθη διαφυγών· ἀλλὰ καὶ κλαίει μὲν τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ὡς δὴ τῆς ἀπιστίας ἐπισπωμένης τὸν ὄλεθρον, καταψηφίζεται δὲ παν ωλεθρίως τοῦ πολυθρυλλήτου πάλαι νεώ· ἀνέχεται καὶ ἐπὶ κάρης [ξοδ. κόρης] παιόμενος, ὑπὸ διπλῆν δουλείαν δουλεύοντος [ξοδ. δουλεύοντες] κολαφιζόμε νος, ἐμπτυόμενος, ὀνειδιζόμενος, στρεβλούμενος, μαστιγούμενος, καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον σταυρούμενος, καὶ λαμβάνων λῃστὰς τῆς τιμωρίας κοινωνοὺς ἑκα τέρωθεν, καὶ ἀνδροφόνοις καὶ κακούργοις συνταττό μενος, καὶ ὄξος καὶ χολὴν παρὰ τοῦ κακοῦ ἀμπελῶ νος καρπούμενος, καὶ ἀκάνθαις ἀντὶ κλημάτων καὶ βοτρύων στεφόμενος, καὶ πορφυρίδι χλευαζόμενος, καὶ καλάμῳ παιόμενος, καὶ λόγχῃ τὴν πλευρὰν ὀρυττόμενος, καὶ τέλος τάφῳ παραπεμπόμενος. ΚΖʹ. Τίς τῶν ∆εσποτικῶν παθημάτων ἡ αἰτία. Ὑπέμεινε δὲ ταῦτα, τὴν ἡμετέραν μηχανώμενος σωτηρίαν· ἐπειδὴ γὰρ οἱ τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ δουλεύσαντες τοῖς ἐπιτιμίοις ὑπεύθυνοι τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἐτύγχανον, αὐτὸς ἁμαρτίας ἀπηλλαγμένος, καὶ διὰ πάσης ὁδεύ σας δικαιοσύνης, τὴν τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν κατεδέξατο τιμωρίαν, διὰ μὲν τοῦ σταυροῦ, τῆς παλαιᾶς κατ άρας τὴν ἀπόφασιν λύων «(Χριστὸς γὰρ, φησὶν, ἐξηγόρασεν ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῆς κατάρας τοῦ νόμου, γενό μενος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν κατάρα· γέγραπται γάρ· Ἐπι κατάρατος πᾶς ὁ κρεμάμενος ἐν ξύλῳ»), διὰ δὲ τῶν 75.1468 ἀκανθῶν, τέλος διδοὺς ταῖς Ἀδὰμ τιμωρίαις (μετὰ γὰρ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν [ξοδ. τιμωρίαν], ἤκουσεν ἐκεῖνος· «Ἐπικατάρατος ἡ γῆ ἐν τοῖς