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 is forced to descend into a foreign state and if the demons should see any good understanding accompanying him, they hasten to subject it to the sowi

 escaping. The heifer, taken first, signified the first generation. For just as the heifer struggles against the yoke, so also the first generation of

 the river, but to keep alive every female. For the devil, the spiritual Pharaoh, also conceived a threefold manner of plotting against the spiritual I

 He interprets what that one speaks spiritually and obscurely, and transforms his weak voice to be more melodious. For I have not come, he says, to abo

 the Gospel according to Christ, had as a son the multitude of those being reborn to it through the Holy Spirit whom she also circumcised with a stone

 and easy to comprehend is the mystery concerning Christ. But God did not lead the Jews to this immediately, but through the long law and the many ridd

 Moses commanded Joshua son of Nun to choose mighty men and go out and fight 77.1196 Amalek, signified that Jesus Christ would be subject to the comman

 of the people of the Jews, and servant of God, he ascends to the highest knowledge of God but the people are prevented from approaching, lest they di

 coming after it, demands this final penalty, as one who, after being freed from the burden of sin, is again voluntarily subjected to it. And He comman

 But the eighth ineffably suggests the mystery of the eternal well-being of the 77.1204 beings. The sixth day is called Preparation, because on it the

 and poverty of intellect, they make their neighbors, that is, those of the same faith, partners, so that through one another they may be raised to hig

 unmixed with wickedness, those partaking of the true Lamb nourish their own soul, throughout the whole weekly age, which is measured by the week. And

 the body bears uncircumcision. Circumcision is mystical, a voluntary removal of the passions. The circumcision of circumcision is the putting away of

 of rational discernment, as Israel did in the time of Moses, commits idolatry. For having cast into the fire of the passions the words concerning theo

 to do good things, and to walk toward good things. Humpbacked is the one bent downwards, and not able to look up from earthly things. Sun-spotted is o

 God, ostracizing stupidity, and wishing his subjects to belong to necessity alone, through the not weaving together of linen and wool, banished variet

 but in heaven God Himself whom alone they both worship and attend. And on the day that the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, an

 they were catechized by the evangelists. Or otherwise, the four types of meanings were a symbol of the four types of moral discourse. Of which the one

 Aaron's rod, as a symbol of watchfulness. For to Jeremiah, seeing a staff of a nut tree, God says: Behold, I am watchful over my words. And it budded

 bracelets, and rings, and armlets, and braided chains. For the leaders of the people in Christ and the eminent often surpass the evangelical commands

 with bodily ways of the ministry of the virtues, they return to the contemplation of kindred intelligible things. A foreign boy and a servant-girl are

 undertaking. For she will pay the penalty for the offense to God, the Father of spirits, and she will be his wife, as having already been joined to hi

 of the other man wherefore he is required to pay the penalty for the murder, but he alone suffers loss in his soul. For this, I think, is what this m

 war for one year he shall cheer his wife, whom he has taken. For it is not right that one who has just taken a spouse for himself should be led out t

 Virtue is the mother of the good deeds from it. And its nest is the soul in which it dwells. It is necessary for those who encounter them to be benefi

 its fruit for three years will be unpurified for you. It shall not be eaten, and in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy to the Lord. But in th

 dragging down to earth, those things that draw up to heaven. Saul, is the natural 77.1249 law, which from the beginning received from the Lord the lot

 David is the law according to the spirit, who reigns over the Christians who worship God spiritually. But Saul is the law according to the letter, who

 the face of the Lord, according to David, and learns the cause of such a famine, that this injustice was against Saul, and against his house, with whi

 taking from the spiritual David, that is, the law according to the spirit, may kill the aforementioned sons and grandsons of 77.1257 Saul then in eve

 of knowledge, if it should receive the divine and discerning word, which brings to memory former sins, and will prefer even to nature itself the heali

 The Lord in the desert I mean in the world, and in the nature of men, digging out and cleansing the hearts of the worthy from material weight and min

 of the city. Since Hezekiah is interpreted as 'strength of God,' every mind 77.1265 that through practical philosophy has acquired divine strength, wh

 through themselves they again turn him away, as he flees into his land which is the fixed habit of evil, whom his sons kill as he is fleeing, and the

 the king of the Assyrians, flees to God, and silently cries out to Him, through progress in virtue and knowledge, and receives an angel as an ally th

 at once a philosopher and a lover of God has both Judah and Jerusalem the one taken as the habit of confession and repentance for Judah is interpret

 becomes a lofty and exalted mind, and in the good things given to it by God, boasts as if in its own accomplishments. There comes by providence upon t

 the spear and the flask of water that is, the power of practical virtue, and the grace of gnostic contemplation, even if he again gives these things

 of king Darius, I mean of the natural law, having conquered by him, lifts up his face to heaven, that is, the disposition of the soul, in which are th

 not being guarded. For lead is a symbol of punishment, but silver of brightness. And the seven eyes of this practical faith are the seven gifts of the

 constituted. For since matter is indeed a tetrad, because of the tetraktys of its elements, and form is a pentad, because of the fivefold nature of se

 they rise up for mischief. And approaching Zerubbabel, and Joshua and the leaders of the families, they say to them: We will build with you for like

undertaking. For she will pay the penalty for the offense to God, the Father of spirits, and she will be his wife, as having already been joined to him, and having made herself unworthy of the pure bridegroom. A woman who approaches a beast to be violated by it will die with the beast. For bloody [or, heretical] conversations and unions with the dogmas of heretics who have fallen into irrationality and bestiality bring death to the soul, both to the one who imparts the corruption and to the one who receives it, being made effeminate towards the conversation through weakness of soul. If two men are fighting and strike a pregnant woman, and her child comes out not fully formed, the one who struck her shall be fined according to what the woman's husband imposes. But if it is fully formed, he will give life for life. The fruit and conception of the mind would be faith in Christ, which impresses the divine characteristics and imposes the transfiguration of Christ upon souls. If, therefore, while two opponents are disputing about dogmas, a certain soul that is listening is scandalized, while still pregnant with faith in Christ, and miscarries it; if it was still incomplete and unformed, the one responsible for the scandal will pay the penalty that the bridegroom of such a soul, Christ, imposes. And he will pay, it says, with an assessment, that is, with also acknowledging thanks that the ultimate penalty is not demanded. But if it was in labor with a perfect faith in Christ, as regards its character and formation—for this is what "fully formed" signifies—then, as one who has already murdered a perfect soul, he will forfeit his own soul, being required to pay the ultimate penalty. If a bull gores a man or a woman, and kills them, it will be stoned with stones, and its flesh will not be eaten. But the owner of the bull will be innocent. If someone's subordinate, being irascible and insolent, or otherwise a heretic, destroys a soul, having become the cause of its spiritual death, he himself will undergo the ultimate punishment; but no one will partake of his deeds and words. But the one who has authority over him is not responsible, as being ignorant of his wickedness and malice. But if, it says, they testify against him to his master, and he does not do away with him, he too will also die. For by knowing and tolerating, he becomes a partner in the murder. But if a ransom, it says, is imposed on him, he will give a ransom for his soul, whatever they impose on him. That is, if having confessed he falls under penances, he will fulfill whatever he is commanded. But if, it says, the bull gores a son or a daughter and kills them, it will be according to the declared ordinance of the law. But if a male or female slave, he shall give thirty silver didrachms to their 77.1237 master, and the bull shall be stoned. For since those who are killed are different, you will understand man and woman to be those more advanced in virtue. Of whom the one is stronger in understanding, the other weaker. And son and daughter, those younger in virtue; of whom again the one is stronger, being enslaved to sins, of whom likewise the one is stronger, the other weaker. And through the payment of the silver, he alluded to the lesser penalty. For the death of a sinner and of a righteous person are not equal in penalty. If someone's bull gores his neighbor's bull, and it dies, they shall sell the live bull, and they shall divide its silver, and they shall divide the dead bull. If a loss is caused to someone by a person unintentionally, let the one who suffered loss share in the remaining profit with the one who caused the loss, which is signified by the still-living bull. And let the one who unintentionally caused the loss again share in the loss with the one who suffered loss. Which will happen through sympathizing with him. But if, it says, a warning had been given about the bull, and he does not do away with it, and it kills the neighbor's bull, he will repay bull for bull, and the dead one will be his. For by knowing and not securing it, he seems to have cooperated in the killing

ἐγχείρημα. Ἀποτίσει γὰρ τῷ Πατρὶ τῶν πνευμάτων Θεῷ δίκην τοῦ πλημμελήματος, αὐτοῦ δὲ ἔσται γυνὴ, ὡς ἤδη συναφθεῖσα αὐτῷ, καὶ ἀναξίαν τοῦ καθαροῦ νυμφίου ἑαυτὴν καταστήσασα. Γυνὴ, ἥτις προσελεύσεται πρὸς κτῆνος βιασθῆναι ὑπ' αὐτοῦ, ἀποθανεῖται μετὰ τοῦ κτήνους. Αἱῤῥοητικαὶ [ἴσ. αἱρετικαὶ] γὰρ ὁμιλίαι καὶ μίξεις αἱ πρὸς τὰ δόγματα τῶν εἰς ἀλογίαν καὶ κτηνωδίαν ἐμπεσόντων αἱρετικῶν, θάνατον ψυχῆς ἐπάγουσι, τῷ τε μεταδιδόντι τῆς λύμης, καὶ τῷ μεταλαμβάνοντι, θηλυνθέντι πρὸς τὴν ὁμιλίαν, διὰ μαλακίαν ψυχῆς. Ἐὰν μάχωνται δύο ἄνδρες καὶ πατάξωσι γυναῖκα ἐν γαστρὶ ἔχουσαν, καὶ ἐξέλθῃ τὸ παιδίον αὐτῆς μὴ ἐξεικονισμένον, ζημιωθήσεται ὁ πατάξας καθ' ὅ τι ἂν ἐπιβάλλῃ ὁ ἀνὴρ τῆς γυναικός. Ἐὰν δὲ ἐξεικονισμένον ᾖ, δώσει τὴν ψυχὴν ἀντὶ ψυχῆς. Καρπὸς ἂν εἴη καὶ κύημα νοῦ, ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, ἥτις τοὺς θείους ἐνσημαίνεται χαρακτῆρας, καὶ τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ μεταμόρφωσιν ἐπιτίθησι ταῖς ψυχαῖς. Ἐὰν οὖν, τινῶν δύο ἀντιθέτων λογομαχούντων περὶ δόγματα, σκανδαλισθῇ ψυχή τις ἀκροωμένη, ἐγκυμονοῦσα ἔτι τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν πίστιν, καὶ ἀποβάληται ταύτην· εἰ μὲν ἀτελὴς ἦν ἔτι καὶ ἀκαλλὴς, ἀποδώσει δίκην ὁ τοῦ σκανδάλου παραίτιος, ἣν ἐπιβάλλῃ ὁ νυμφίος τῆς τοιαύτης ψυχῆς, Χριστός. Ἀποδώσει δὲ, φησὶ, μετὰ ἀξιώματος, τοῦτ' ἔστι, μετὰ καὶ τοῦ ὁμολογεῖν χάριν, ὅτι μὴ καὶ τὴν ἐσχάτην ἀπαιτεῖται δίκην. Εἰ δὲ τελείαν ὤδινε τὴν εἰς Χριστὸν πίστιν, ὅσον εἰς χαρακτῆρα καὶ μόρφωσιν· τοῦτο γὰρ δηλοῖ τὸ ἐξεικονισμένον· λοιπὸν, ὡς ἤδη τελείαν ψυχὴν φονεύσας, τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ζημιωθήσεται ψυχὴν, ἀπαιτούμενος τὴν ἐσχάτην δίκην. Ἐὰν κερατίσῃ ταῦρος ἄνδρα ἢ γυναῖκα, καὶ ἀποκτείνῃ, λίθοις λιθοβοληθήσεται, καὶ οὐ βρωθήσεται τὰ κρέα αὐτοῦ. Ὁ δὲ κύριος τοῦ ταύρου ἀθῶος ἔσται. Ἐὰν ὑπεξούσιός τινος, θυμώδης καὶ ὑβριστὴς, ἢ ἑτέρως αἱρετικὸς ἀνέλῃ ψυχὴν, αἴτιος αὐτῇ ψυχικοῦ θανάτου γενόμενος, αὐτὸς μὲν τὴν ἐσχάτην ὑποστήσεται κόλασιν· τῶν δὲ πράξεων καὶ λόγων αὐτοῦ, οὐδεὶς μεταλήψεται. Ὁ δὲ τούτου κατεξουσιάζων ἀνεύθυνος· ὡς ἀγνοῶν τὴν πονηρίαν καὶ κακίαν αὐτοῦ. Ἐὰν δὲ, φησὶ, διαμαρτύρωνται τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐκ ἀφανίσῃ αὐτὸν, καὶ αὐτὸς προσαποθανεῖται. Εἰδὼς γὰρ καὶ ἀνεχόμενος, κοινωνὸς γίνεται τοῦ φόνου. Ἐὰν δὲ λύτρα, φησὶν, ἐπιβληθῇ αὐτῷ, δώσει λύτρα τῆς ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ, ὅσα ἂν ἐπιβάλωσιν αὐτῷ. Τοῦτ' ἔστιν, Ἐὰν ἐξομολογησάμενος ἐπιτιμίοις ὑποπέσῃ, πληρώσει ὅσα ἂν κελευσθῇ. Ἐὰν δὲ, φησὶν, υἱὸν ἢ θυγατέρα κερατίσῃ, ὁ ταῦρος καὶ ἀνέλῃ, γενήσεται κατὰ τὸ δηλωθὲν δικαίωμα τοῦ νόμου. Ἐὰν δὲ παῖδα ἢ παιδίσκην, ἀργυρίου λʹ δίδραχμα δώσει τῷ κυρίῳ 77.1237 αὐτῶν, καὶ ὁ ταῦρος λιθοβοληθήσεται. Ἐπεὶ γὰρ διάφοροι οἱ ἀναιρούμενοι, ἄνδρα μὲν καὶ γυναῖκα νοήσεις τοὺς παλαιοτέρους εἰς ἀρετήν. Ὧν ὁ μὲν ἰσχυρότερος εἰς φρόνησιν, ὁ δὲ ἀσθενέστερος. Υἱὸν δὲ καὶ θυγατέρα τοὺς νεωτέρους εἰς ἀρετήν· ὧν αὖθις ὁ μὲν ἰσχυρότερος, δεδουλωμένος ταῖς ἁμαρτίαις, ὧν ὁμοίως ὁ μὲν ἰσχυρότερος, ὁ δὲ ἀσθενέστερος. ∆ιὰ δὲ τῆς ἀποτίσεως τοῦ ἀργυρίου, τὴν ἐλάττονα ζημίαν ᾐνίξατο. Οὐ γὰρ ἴσον εἰς ζημίαν ἁμαρτωλοῦ καὶ δικαίου θάνατος. Ἐάν τινος ταῦρος κερατίσῃ τὸν ταῦρον τοῦ πλησίον, καὶ τελευτῇ, ἀποδώσονται τὸν ταῦ ρον τὸν ζῶντα, καὶ διελοῦνται τὸ ἀργύριον αὐ τοῦ, καὶ τὸν ταῦρον τὸν τεθνεῶτα διελοῦνται. Ἐὰν παρ' οὐχ ἑκόντος τινὸς ζημία γενήσεται πρὸς τινὰ, ὁ μὲν ζημιωθεὶς συμμετασχέτω τοῦ παραμείναντος κέρδους τῷ ζημιώσαντι, ὃ δηλοῦται διὰ τοῦ ζῶντος ἔτι ταύρου. Ὁ δ' ἀβουλήτως ζημιώσας, πάλιν συμμετασχέτω τῆς ζημίας· τῷ ζημιωθέντι. Ὃ γενήσεται διὰ τοῦ συλλυπεῖσθαι αὐτῷ. Ἐὰν δὲ, φησὶ, διαμαρτυρηθείη περὶ τοῦ ταύρου, καὶ μὴ ἀφανίσῃ αὐτὸν, καὶ ἀνέλῃ τὸν ταῦρον τοῦ πλησίον, ἀποτίσει ταῦρον ἀντὶ τοῦ ταύρου, ὁ δὲ τετελευτηκὼς αὐτῷ ἔσται. Εἰδὼς γὰρ καὶ μὴ ἀσφαλισάμενος, δοκεῖ συγκατεργάσασθαι τὴν ἀναίρεσιν