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

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 same time, to those who hope in dignities. So-and-so is my friend, he is a centurion, he is a procurator; so-and-so is my friend and is rich and provides for me. Then also to such a one this is said: “Cursed is the man who has his hope in man.” We hope in no man, even if they seem to be our friends; for we hope not in them but in our Lord, who is Christ Jesus, to whom is the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen. 16.t <On “Behold, I am sending many fishers, says the Lord” up to “The sin of Judah is written with an iron pen, with a diamond point engraved on the breast of their heart.”> Homily 16. 16.1 It is written in the Gospel according to Matthew that our Savior came by the Sea of Galilee and saw “Simon and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishers.” Then the account says that the Savior, seeing them, said: “Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they left their nets and followed him.” And Jesus has made them take up fishing for <men>. And “he found two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, in the boat with their father, mending their nets; and he called them” to the same skill, and made them also fishers of men. And if anyone has understood those who have from God the grace of discourse, woven like nets and composed from the sacred scriptures like a casting-net, so that the weave is cast around the souls of the hearers, and has also understood this being done skillfully according to the science which Jesus taught, he will see in what way not only then but also now our Savior sends fishers of men after instructing them, so that we might be able to come up from the sea and flee its bitter waves. But those lifeless fish, when they come up in the drag-nets and in the casting-nets and in the nets or on the hooks, die a death that is not succeeded by life. But the one caught by the fishers of Jesus and who has come up from the sea, he himself also dies, but he dies to the world, he dies to sin, and after dying to the world and to sin, he is made alive by the Word of God and takes up another life. Just as if you were able, by hypothesis, to conceive of the soul of the fish changing after it has departed from the fish's body and becoming something better than a fish (I have used an example, let no one take it as a pretext for † things he has not heard), you will conceive of something of this sort. You have come up from the sea, having fallen into the nets of Jesus' disciples, and having come out, you change your soul; you are no longer a fish living <in> the salty waves of the sea, but immediately your soul changes and is transformed and becomes something better and more divine than what it was before. And that it is transformed and changed, hear Paul saying: “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as from the Lord, the Spirit.” And this fish, having been transformed, the one caught by the fishers of Jesus, leaving its life in the sea, makes its life in the mountains, so that it no longer needs fishers to bring it up from the sea, but a second kind of men, who are called hunters, who hunt “from every mountain and from every hill.” Therefore, having come up from the sea and having been caught in the nets of Jesus' disciples, change from the sea, forget it, come to the mountains, the prophets, and to the hills, the righteous, and make your life there, so that after these things, when the time of your departure arrives, the many hunters may be sent, who are different from the fishers. Who could these be but those [ap]pointed to receiv

ἀκαθαρσίαν». νεκρώσας ταῦτα «οὐ στηρίζει σάρκα τοῦ βραχίο νος αὐτοῦ». «ἐπικατάρατος ὃς τὴν ἐλπίδα ἔχει ἐπ' ἄνθρωπον». ἅμα δὲ πρὸς τοὺς ἐλπίζοντας ἐπὶ ἀξιώμασιν. ὁ δεῖνά μου φίλος ἐστὶν ἑκατόνταρχος, ἐπίτροπός ἐστιν· ὁ δεῖνά μου φίλος καὶ πλούσιός ἐστι καὶ παρέχεταί μοι. ἔπειτα καὶ πρὸς τὸν τοιοῦτον λέγεται τοῦτο· «ἐπικατάρατος ἄνθρωπος ὃς τὴν ἐλπίδα ἔχει ἐπ' ἄνθρωπον». ἐπ' οὐδένα ἄνθρωπον ἐλπίζομεν, κἂν δοκῶσιν ἡμῶν εἶναι φίλοι· οὐ γὰρ ἐπ' αὐτοὺς ἀλλ' ἐπὶ κύριον ἡμῶν ἐλπίζομεν, ὅς ἐστι Χριστὸς Ἰησοῦς, ᾧ ἐστιν ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν. 16.t <Εἰς τὸ «ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἀποστέλλω τοὺς ἁλιεῖς τοὺς πολλούς, λέγει κύριος» μέχρι τοῦ «ἁμαρτία Ἰούδα γέγραπται ἐν γραφείῳ σιδηρῷ, ἐν ὄνυχι ἀδαμαντίνῳ ἐγκεκολαμμένη ἐπὶ τοῦ στήθους τῆς καρδίας αὐτῶν».> Ὁμιλία ιʹ. 16.1 Ἀναγέγραπται ἐν τῷ κατὰ Ματθαῖον εὐαγγελίῳ ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν ἐληλυθέναι παρὰ τὴν θάλασσαν τῆς Γαλιλαίας καὶ ἑωρακέναι «Σίμωνα καὶ Ἀνδρέαν τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, βάλλοντας ἀμφίβληστρον εἰς τὴν θά λασσαν· ἦσαν γὰρ ἁλιεῖς». εἶτά φησιν ὁ λόγος ὅτι ὁ σωτὴρ ἰδὼν αὐτοὺς εἶπε· «δεῦτε ὀπίσω μου, καὶ ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων. οἱ δὲ ἀφέντες τὰ δίκτυα ἠκολούθησαν αὐτῷ». καὶ πεποίηκεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ <ἀνθρώπων> ἀναλαβεῖν τὸ ἁλιεύειν. καὶ «ἄλλους δὲ δύο ἀδελφοὺς εὗρεν, Ἰάκωβον τὸν τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ μετὰ τοῦ πατρὸς καταρτίζοντας τὰ δίκτυα· καὶ τούτους ἐκάλεσεν» ἐπὶ τὴν αὐτὴν ἐπιστήμην, πεποίηκε δὲ κἀκείνους ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων. καὶ εἴ τίς γε κατενόησε τοὺς ἔχοντας ἀπὸ θεοῦ χάριν λόγου πεπλεγμένην ὡς δίκτυα καὶ συγκειμένην ἀπὸ τῶν ἱερῶν γραφῶν ὡς ἀμφίβληστρον, ὥστε περιβάλλεσθαι ταῖς ψυχαῖς τῶν ἀκροατῶν τὸ πλέγμα, κατενόησε δὲ καὶ τεχνικῶς τοῦτο γινόμενον κατὰ τὴν ἐπιστήμην ἣν ἐδίδαξεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς, ὄψε<τα>ι τίνα τρόπον οὐ μό νον τότε ἀλλὰ καὶ νῦν ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν πέμπει ἁλιεῖς ἀνθρώπων παι δεύσας αὐτούς, ἵνα δυνηθῶμεν ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης ἀνελθεῖν καὶ φυγεῖν αὐτῆς τὰ πικρὰ κύματα. Ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνοι οἱ ἰχθύες οἱ ἄψυχοι ἀνελθόντες ἐν ταῖς σαγήναις καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀμφιβλήστροις καὶ ἐν τοῖς δικτύοις ἢ ἐν τοῖς ἀγκίστροις, ἀποθνῄσκουσι θάνατον οὐχὶ διαδεχομένης ζωῆς τὸν θάνατον. ὁ δὲ συλληφθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν ἁλιέων Ἰησοῦ καὶ ἀνελθὼν ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης, καὶ αὐτὸς μὲν ἀποθνῄσκει, ἀποθνῄσκει δὲ τῷ κόσμῳ, ἀποθνῄσκει τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ, καὶ μετὰ τὸ ἀποθανεῖν τῷ κόσμῳ καὶ τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ ζωο ποιεῖται ὑπὸ τοῦ λόγου τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἀναλαμβάνει ἄλλην ζωήν. ὡσεὶ ἐδύνω καθ' ὑπόθεσιν νοῆσαι τὴν τοῦ ἰχθύος ψυχὴν μεταβάλλουσαν μετὰ τὸ ἐξελθεῖν ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος τοῦ ἰχθυακοῦ καὶ γινομένην τι κρεῖττον παρ' ἰχθῦν (παράδειγμα ἔλαβον, μὴ ἀφορμάς τις λαμβανέτω † ὧν οὐκ ἤκουσε), τοιοῦτον δή τι νοήσεις. ἀνελήλυθας ἀπὸ τῆς θα λάσσης ὑποπεσὼν τοῖς δικτύοις τῶν μαθητῶν Ἰησοῦ, ἐξελθὼν μετα βάλλεις τὴν ψυχήν, οὐκέτι ἰχθῦς εἶ διατρίβων <ἐν> τοῖς ἁλμυροῖς τῆς θαλάσσης κύμασιν, ἀλλ' εὐθέως σου μεταβάλλει ἡ ψυχὴ καὶ μετα μορφοῦται καὶ γίνεται κρεῖττόν τι καὶ θειότερον παρ' ὃ ἦν τὸ πρό τερον. ὅτι δὲ μεταμορφοῦται καὶ μεταβάλλεται, ἄκουε Παύλου λέ γοντος· «ἡμεῖς δὲ πάντες ἀνακεκαλυμμένῳ προσώπῳ τὴν δόξαν κυρίου κατοπτριζόμενοι τὴν αὐτὴν εἰκόνα μεταμορφούμεθα ἀπὸ δόξης εἰς δόξαν, καθάπερ ἀπὸ κυρίου πνεύματος». καὶ μεταμορφωθείς γε οὗτος ὁ ἰχθῦς ὁ ὑπὸ τῶν ἁλιέων Ἰησοῦ συλληφθείς, καταλιπὼν τὰς ἐν θαλάσσῃ διατριβάς, διατριβὰς ποιεῖται ἐν ὄρεσιν, ὥστε αὐτὸν δεη θῆναι οὐκέτι ἁλιέων τῶν ἀναγόντων αὐτὸν ἀπὸ θαλάσσης, ἀλλὰ δευτέρων τινῶν, οἳ ὀνομάζονται θηρευταί, οἵτινες θηρεύουσιν «ἀπὸ παντὸς ὄρους καὶ ἀπὸ παντὸς βουνοῦ». Ἀναβὰς οὖν σὺ ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ συλληφθεὶς τοῖς δικτύοις τῶν μαθητῶν Ἰησοῦ, μετάβαλε ἀπὸ τῆς θαλάσσης, ἐπιλάθου αὐτῆς, ἧκε ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη, τοὺς προφήτας, καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς βουνούς, τοὺς δικαίους, καὶ ποιοῦ ἐκεῖ τὰς διατριβάς, ἵνα μετὰ ταῦτα, ὅταν ὁ καιρός σοι τῆς ἐξόδου ἐπιστῇ, πεμφθῶσιν οἱ πολλοὶ θηρευταί, ἕτεροι παρὰ τοὺς ἁλιεῖς. τίνες δ' ἂν εἶεν οὗτοι ἢ οἱ [ἐπι]τεταγμένοι ἐπὶ τὸ παραλαμ