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trusting." The Moabite, who has no face to enter the house of God, trusts in the glory of this age. -After the history, understand that he neglected to cut off his youthful impulses. 93.708 "He has not been poured from vessel to vessel." In the historical sense, he says, he was never settled elsewhere, nor did he lose any of his own. But in the spiritual sense, he says vessel here means the cup. There is a cup of wrath, and a cup of salvation; he did not therefore turn, he says, the cup of wrath into that of salvation, instead of, he did not appease the divine wrath. "And therefore his taste has remained." The bitter taste of sin; and he calls his scent the death-bearing. "And therefore, behold, the days." He remained in his way, and he speaks of those who take him captive. "His horns." His glory. "From Bethel." In which Jeroboam set up the calves. The word has a reference against diabolical evil. "How will you say: We are strong?" Because he boasted against God, and he wars against the Israelites, who did him no wrong, that is, us. "Staff." The glorious kingdom. "Rod of magnificence." The strength of his greatness. "Sitting in Arar." In decay, in rottenness. "And upon the house." He means their royal city. -This is said to be what is now called Daphne. "The horn of Moab was broken." Instead of, both his glory and his strength; for hand means action. "Make him drunk." In his strength he shall be broken. "And indeed he was for a laughingstock." Because you also mocked Israel, as being punished not for sins, but through the weakness of their God. "And in your thefts." Stealing, he says, you found your things, because you warred against Israel. For this will also fit against demons, who, having been wronged in nothing beforehand, wage war against us for free. "At the mouth of a pit." In the form of a ravine. - He still threatens against the Moabite land, as having insulted God Himself by saying: God is not strong enough to save Israel. "Is it not enough?" Did he not act thus, or thus, expecting that it is a retribution? did he not bring all his power to the insult against me? "Cry out upon the men shorn for drought." Upon the adorned men of the Moabite land; for the land is parched. Or thus, upon those who ought to be parched and to mourn for their sins; but who are shorn and live luxuriously through contempt. "As with the weeping of Jazer I will weep." As I did to Jazer, he says, so also will I do to Sebamah. And he mentioned vines, because the enemies were ravaging the fruits. 93.709 "Your branches have passed over the sea." They were shut in by the multitude of the enemies. "The city of Jazer." The same manner that befell Jazer, has also befallen you. "It has been cut short." It was cut short, he says, the joy of the Moabite land. For just as they perhaps began to rejoice, the wrath came upon them. "And there was wine." But not even wine, he says, dripping from the grape placed in the winepress, had time to be trodden; for just as they began to tread, the report of the enemies cut them off. "In the morning they did not tread." Instead of, they will be dried up; and he speaks of a God-sent wrath. "Therefore the heart of Moab, like flutes." The flute cries out by the force of the breath of another blowing. Therefore, being forced by the enemies, they will cry out, and I, being pressed by their own insolence, will cry out upon them. "How has he changed?" Instead of, how has he been reversed? "Behold, as an eagle." He likened Nebuchadnezzar to an eagle, and Ezekiel also, because of the vehemence of the attack, and the inescapability of the danger, with the strongholds contributing nothing to this, but all resolution being dissolved with the greatest fear, like a woman about to give birth. CHAPTER 49. "To the sons of Ammon." To the Ammonites, being from Ammon. "Or one who will receive." One who will receive, instead of, an heir, he says. Is there not among the sons of Israel one who ought to inherit the cities of the tribe of Gilead, that the Ammonites have taken them? "Why has Melchol taken possession?" Melchol is both an idol, and a king of the Ammonites so called. Rabbath, a city of the Ammonites. "Gird yourselves with sackcloths." He exhorts the cities of the Ammonites to bewail one another's misfortunes. "Why do you exult?"

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πεποιθώς." Ὁ μὴ ἔχων πρόσωπον εἰς οἶκον Θεοῦ εἰσιέναι Μωαβίτης, πέποιθε τῇ δόξῃ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου. -Μετὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν νόησον, ὅτι ἠμέλησεν τὰς νεωτερικὰς ὁρμὰς ἀνακόψαι. 93.708 "Οὐκ ἐνέχεεν ἐξ ἀγγείου εἰς ἀγγεῖον." Πρὸς μὲν ἰστορίαν, Οὐδέποτε, φησὶν, ἀπῳκίσθη, οὐδὲ ἀπώλεσέ τι τῶν ἑαυτοῦ. Πρὸς δὲ διάνοιαν, ἀγγεῖόν φησιν ἐνταῦθα τὸ ποτήριον. Ἔστι δὲ ποτήριον ὀργῆς, καὶ ποτήριον σωτηρίου· οὐκ ἔκλινεν οὖν, φησὶ, τὸ τῆς ὀργῆς ποτήριον εἰς τὸ τοῦ σωτηρίου, ἀντὶ τοῦ, οὐκ ἐξιλεώσατο τὴν θείαν ὀργήν. "Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἔστη γεῦμα αὐτοῦ." Τὸ πικρὸν τῆς ἁμαρτίας γεῦμα· ὀσμὴν δὲ αὐτοῦ φησι τὴν θανατηφόρον. "Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι." Ἐνέμεινε τῇ τροπῇ, φησὶ δὲ αἰχμαλωτίζοντας. "Τὰ κέρατα αὐτοῦ." Τὴν δόξαν αὐτοῦ. "Ἀπὸ Βαιθήλ." Ἐν ᾗ ἔστησε τὰς δαμάλεις ὁ Ἱεροβοάμ. Ἔχει ἀναφορὰν ὁ λόγος κατὰ τῆς διαβολικῆς κακίας. "Πῶς ἐρεῖτε· Ἰσχυροί ἐσμεν;" Ὅτι ἐμεγαλαύχησε κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτὸν ἀδικήσαντας τοὺς Ἰσραηλίτας, τουτέστιν ἡμᾶς, καταπολεμεῖ. "Βακτηρία." Ἡ ἔνδοξος βασιλεία. "Ῥάβδος μεγαλώματος." Ἡ τῆς μεγαλωσύνης ἰσχύς. "Καθημένη ἐν Ἀράρ." Ἐν σήψει, ἐν σαπρίᾳ. "Καὶ ἐπ' οἶκον." Τὴν βασιλικὴν αὐτῶν πόλιν φησίν. -Αὕτη λέγεται ἡ νῦν καλουμένη ∆άφνη. "Κατεάχθη κέρας Μωάβ." Ἀντὶ τοῦ, καὶ ἡ δόξα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ· χεὶρ γὰρ ἡ πρᾶξις. "Μεθύσατε αὐτόν." Ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ αὐτοῦ συντριβήσεται. "Καὶ μὴν εἰς γελοιασμὸν ἦν." Ὅτι καὶ σὺ ἐχλεύαζες τὸν Ἰσραὴλ, ὡς οὐ δι' ἁμαρτίας, ἀλλὰ δι' ἀδυναμίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ αὐτῶν τιμωρούμενον. "Καὶ ἐν κλοπαῖς σου." Κλέπτοντας, φησὶν, εὗρες τὰ σὰ, ὅτι ἐπολέμεις τὸν Ἰσραήλ. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἁρμόσει καὶ κατὰ δαιμόνων, τῶν μηδὲν μὲν προαδικηθέντων, δωρεὰν δὲ ἡμῖν πολεμούντων. "Στόματι βοθύνου." Ἐν σχήματι φάραγγος. - Ἔτι ἀπειλεῖ κατὰ τῆς Μωαβίτιδος, ὡς εἰς αὐτὸν ἐξυβρισάσης τὸν Θεὸν διὰ τοῦ λέγειν· Οὐκ ἰσχύει σώζειν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Ἰσραήλ. "Οὐχὶ τὸ ἱκανόν;" Οὐχ ὡς προσδοκῶν, ὅτι ἀνταπόδοσίς ἐστιν, οὕτως ἔπραξεν, ἢ οὕτως; οὐ πᾶσαν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν εἰσήνεγκεν εἰς τὴν κατ' ἐμοῦ ὕβριν; "Βοήσατε ἐπ' ἄνδρας κειράδας αὐχμοῦ." Ἐπὶ τοὺς κεκαλλωπισμένους ἄνδρας τῆς Μωαβίτιδος· αὐχμώδης γὰρ ἡ χώρα. Ἢ οὕτως, ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφείλοντας αὐχμώδεις εἶναι, καὶ πενθεῖν διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας· κειρομένους δὲ καὶ τρυφῶντας διὰ καταφρόνησιν. "Ὡς κλαυθμὸν Ἰαζὴρ ἀποκλαύσομαι." Ὡς τὴνἸαζὴρ, φησὶν, οὕτως καὶ τὴν Σεβαμὴν ποιήσω. Ἀμπέλων δὲ ἐμνήσθη, διὰ τὸ τοὺς πολεμίους δῃοῦν τοὺς καρπούς. 93.709 "Κλήματά σου διῆλθε θάλασσαν." Ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν πολεμίων κατεκλείσθησαν. "Πόλις Ἰαζήρ." Ὁ αὐτὸς τρόπος ὁ ἁψάμενος Ἰαζὴρ,καὶ σοῦ ἥψατο. "Συνεψήσθη." Συνεκόπη, φησὶ, χαρὰ τῆς Μωαβίτιδος. Ἅμα γὰρ τυχὸν ἤρχοντο εὐφραίνεσθαι, ἐπετίθετο ἡ ὀργή. "Καὶ οἶνος ἦν." Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ οἶνος, φησὶν, ἀποστάζων ἐκ τῆς σταφυλῆς τῆς ἀποτεθείσης ἐν τῷ ληνῷ, ἔφθασε πατηθῆναι· ἅμα γὰρ ἤρχοντο πατῆσαι, καὶ ἡ ἀκοὴ τῶν πολεμίων ἀνέκοπτεν αὐτούς. "Πρωῒ οὐκ ἐπάτησαν." Ἀντὶ τοῦ ξηρανθήσονται· θεήλατον δέ φησιν ὀργήν. "∆ιὰ τοῦτο καρδία τοῦ Μωὰβ, ὥσπερ αὐλοί." Ὁ αὐλὸς ὑπὸ τῆς βίας τοῦ πνεύματος ἑτέρου φυσῶντος βοᾷ. Βιαζόμενοι τοιγαροῦν ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων βοήσουσι, κἀγὼ δὲ ὑπὸ τῆς ἑαυτῶν ὕβρεως συνωθούμενος κεκράξομαι ἐπ' αὐτούς. "Πῶς κατήλλαξε;" Ἀντὶ τοῦ, πως ἀντεστράφη; "Ἰδοὺ ὡς ἀετός." Ἀετῷ παρείκασε τὸν Ναβουχοδονόσορ καὶ Ἰεζεκιὴλ διὰ τὸ σφοδρὸν τῆς ὁρμῆς, καὶ τοῦ κινδύνου τὸ ἄφυκτον, μηδὲν εἰς τοῦτο τῶν ὀχυρωμάτων συναιρομένων, πάσης δὲ γιγνομένης μετὰ πλείστου δέους ἐκλύσεως, γυναικὸς δίκην μελλούσης τίκτειν ΚΕΦΑΛ. ΜΘʹ. "Τοῖς υἱοῖς Ἀμμών." Ἀμμανίταις, ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀμμὰν ὄντες. "Ἢ παραληψόμενος." Παραληψόμενος, ἀντὶ τοῦ, κληρονόμος, φησίν. Οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν υἱοῖς Ἰσραὴλ ὁ ὀφείλων κληρονομῆσαι τὰς πόλεις τῆς φυλῆς τοῦ Γαλαὰδ ὅτι ταύτας εἰλήφασιν οἱ Ἀμμανῖται. "∆ιατί παρέλαβε Μελχόλ;" Μελχὸλ καὶ εἴδωλον, καὶ βασιλεὺς Ἀμμανιτῶν οὕτω καλούμενος. Ῥαββὰθ, πόλις Ἀμμανιτῶν. "Περιζώσασθε σάκκους." Ταῖς πόλεσι τῶν Ἀμμανιτῶν παρεγγυᾷ τὰς ἀλλήλων ὀλοφύρεσθαι συμφοράς. "Τί ἀγαλλιᾶσθε;"