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

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 these things, if they should depart from good works: “I will repent of the good things which I spoke of doing for them.” What then are the two nations, the one named first which the word threatens, and the second to which it makes a promise? It threatens, however, so that if it should repent, he would not carry out the threats. It makes a promise, so that if the second nation should change and become unworthy of the promises, it would not obtain them. The whole economy of God for the people in the world is especially concerned with two nations. The first nation was that of Israel, the second, from the advent of Christ, is this nation. To the first nation God made the threats which he made, and we see the results of the threats to the first nation: it has gone into captivity, their city has been razed, the sanctuary has been destroyed, the altar has been thrown down, nothing of their former venerable things is still preserved among them. For God said to that nation: Repent, and they did not repent. After these things were said to them, God speaks to this second nation the things concerning its being built up. But he sees that this nation also is composed of men who are able to fall away again. For this reason he also threatens this one and says: even if I have foretold the things concerning the building and the planting and the cultivation, but this nation is about to sin, then to this one, having sinned, the same things will happen which were said to those others because of their sins, and they will suffer them if they do not repent. Search the whole scripture, and you will find most things being said about these two nations. God chose the fathers, gave them a promise, led a people out of the race of the fathers from Egypt, was long-suffering with them when they sinned, instructed them as a father, brought them in, gave them a land of promise, sent them prophets at various times, instructed and turned them from their sins. He was always long-suffering, sending those who would heal, until the chief physician should come, the prophet who excels prophets, the physician who excels physicians. When he had come, they betrayed and killed him, saying “Away, away with such a one from the earth; crucify, crucify him.” Immediately a visitation came upon the nation, the place where my Jesus was crucified was made desolate, God chose another nation. “The harvest, see how great it is, even if the laborers are few.” And in another way God arranges for the dragnet to be always cast into the sea of this life and fish of every kind are gathered; he sends “the many fishermen”; he sends “the many hunters,” they hunt from “every mountain,” they hunt from “every hill.” See how great an economy there is for the salvation of the nations. “Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on” the first nation that has fallen, “severity; but toward you,” the second nation, promises and “goodness, if you continue in his goodness: otherwise you also will be cut off.” For not only then was the ax laid to the root of the trees. The ax is ready to come again; “The” “ax is laid to the root of the trees,” my Jesus said then, prophesying about Israel against whom the ax was. He himself was the ax for the fruitless tree and he said: “Already the ax is laid to the root of the trees.” As many trees as were there not bearing fruit were cut down and thrown into the fire and have been punished. But now another field has come into being analogous to the first, about which it has been said: “Bringing them in, plant them on the mountain of your inheritance, into your prepared dwelling place.” God brought his nation into the mountain of his inheritance. I seek the mountain not as the Jews do, in inanimate materials. The mountain is Christ. In this we have been planted, upon him we have been kept. See therefore, lest, though <also> he is long-suffering, the master of the house should come and say: “For three years now I have come to this fig tree and it has not borne fruit; cut it down; why does it even make the ground useless”? For it makes the good ground useless,

καταφυτεύεσθαι» ὅλον ἔθνος· καὶ ἐπεὶ τοῦτο <τὸ> ἀνοι κοδομούμενον καὶ καταφυτευόμενον ἔθνος ἐπαγγελίαν ἔχει καλήν, δύναται δὲ ἁμαρτάνειν, φησὶ μετὰ τὸ λαλῆσαι ταῦτα, ἐὰν ἀποστῶσι τῶν ἔργων τῶν ἀγαθῶν· «μετανοήσω περὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ὧν ἐλάλησα τοῦ ποιῆσαι αὐτοῖς». Τίνα οὖν τὰ δύο ἔθνη, τὸ πρότερον ὀνομασθὲν ᾧ ἀπειλεῖ ὁ λό γος, καὶ τὸ δεύτερον ᾧ ἐπαγγέλλεται; ἀπειλεῖ μέντοιγε ὥστε, εἰ μετανοήσαι, μὴ ποιῆσαι τὰ τῆς ἀπειλῆς. ἐπαγγέλλεται ὥστε, εἰ μεταπέσοι καὶ ἄξιον μὴ γένοιτο τὸ δεύτερον ἔθνος τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν, μὴ τεύξεσθαι αὐτῶν. περὶ δύο μάλιστα ἐθνῶν πρόκειται πᾶσα ἡ οἰκονομία τοῦ θεοῦ τοῖς ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ ἀνθρώποις. γέγονε πρῶτον ἔθνος ἐκεῖνο ὁ Ἰσραήλ, δεύτερον ἀπὸ τῆς Χριστοῦ ἐπιδημίας τοῦτο τὸ ἔθνος. τῷ προτέρῳ ἠπείλησεν ὁ θεὸς ἃ ἠπείλησε, καὶ βλέπομεν τὰ τῆς ἀπειλῆς τοῦ προτέρου ἔθνους· ἐν αἰχμαλωσίᾳ γεγένηται, κατεσκάφη αὐτῶν ἡ πόλις, καθῃρέθη τὸ ἁγίασμα, τὸ θυσιαστήριον καταβέβληται, οὐδὲν ἔτι σῴζεται τῶν πάλαι σεμνῶν παρ' αὐτοῖς. ἔλεγε γὰρ ἐκείνῳ τῷ ἔθνει ὁ θεός· μετανοήσατε, καὶ οὐ μετενόησαν. μετὰ τὸ ἐκείνοις εἰρῆσθαι ταῦτα, λέγει τούτῳ τῷ δευτέρῳ ἔθνει ὁ θεὸς τὰ περὶ τοῦ ἀνοικοδομεῖσθαι αὐτό. ὁρᾷ δὲ ὅτι καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ἔθνος ἄνθρωποί εἰσι δυνάμενοι πάλιν παραπεσεῖν. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ τούτῳ ἀπειλεῖ καί φησιν· εἰ καὶ προεῖπον τὰ περὶ τῆς οἰκοδομῆς καὶ τὰ περὶ τῆς καταφυτεύ σεως καὶ τῆς γεωργίας, μέλλει δὲ ἁμαρτάνειν καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ἔθνος, καὶ τούτῳ ἁμαρτήσαντι συμβήσεται ταὐτὰ ἅπερ εἴρηται ἐκείνοις διὰ τὰ ἁμαρτήματα, καὶ πείσονται ἐὰν μὴ μετανοήσωσι. πᾶσαν ἐρεύνησον τὴν γραφήν, καὶ εὑρήσεις τὰ πλεῖστα περὶ τῶν δύο τούτων τῶν ἐθνῶν λεγόμενα. ἐξελέξατο ὁ θεὸς τοὺς πατέρας, ἐπαγγελίαν δέδωκεν αὐτοῖς, ἐξήγαγε λαὸν ἐκ τοῦ γένους τῶν πατέρων ἀπὸ Αἰγύπτου, ἐμακροθύμησεν ἐπ' αὐτοῖς ἁμαρτάνουσιν, ἐπαίδευσεν αὐτοὺς ὡς πατήρ, εἰσήγαγεν αὐτούς, ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς γῆν ἐπαγγελίας, ἔπεμψεν αὐτοῖς προφήτας κατὰ καιρούς, ἐπαίδευσε καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν αὐτοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων. ἐμακροθύμησεν ἀεὶ πέμπων τοὺς θεραπεύοντας, μέχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ ὁ ἀρχιατρός, ὁ διαφέρων προφητῶν προφήτης, ὁ διαφέρων ἰατρῶν ἰατρός. ἐληλυθότα τοῦτον προέδωκαν καὶ ἀπέκτειναν «αἶρε, αἶρε» λέγοντες «ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς τὸν τοιοῦτον· σταύρου, σταύρου αὐτόν». εὐθέως ἦλθεν ἐπισκοπὴ ἐπὶ τὸ ἔθνος, ἠρημώθη ὁ τόπος ἔνθα ἐσταύ ρωταί μου ὁ Ἰησοῦς, ἐξελέξατο ὁ θεὸς ἄλλο ἔθνος. «ὁ θερισμὸς ὁρᾶτε πῶς πολύς ἐστιν, εἰ καὶ οἱ ἐργάται ὀλίγοι εἰσί». καὶ ἄλλως δὲ οἰκονομεῖ ὁ θεὸς τὴν σαγήνην ἀεὶ βάλλεσθαι ἐπὶ τὴν θάλασσαν τοῦ βίου τού του καὶ συνάγονται ἰχθύες παντοδαποί· ἀποστέλλει «τοὺς ἁλιεῖς τοὺς πολλούς»· ἀποστέλλει «τοὺς θηρευτὰς τοὺς πολλούς», θηρεύουσιν ἀπὸ «παντὸς ὄρους», θηρεύουσιν ἀπὸ «παντὸς βουνοῦ». ὅρα πόση οἰκονομία περὶ τῆς τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐστι σωτηρίας. «Ἴδε οὖν χρηστότητα καὶ ἀποτομίαν θεοῦ· ἐπὶ μὲν» τὸ πρότερον ἔθνος καὶ πεσὸν «ἀποτομία, ἐπὶ δὲ σὲ» τὸ δεύτερον ἔθνος ἐπαγγελίαι καὶ «χρηστότης, ἐὰν ἐπιμείνῃς τῇ χρηστότητι· ἐπεὶ καὶ σὺ ἐκκοπήσῃ». οὐ γὰρ ἡ ἀξίνη τότε μόνον πρὸς τὴν ῥίζαν τῶν δένδρων ἔκειτο. ἑτοίμη πάλιν ἐστὶν ἐλθεῖν ἡ ἀξίνη· «ἡ» δὲ «ἀξίνη πρὸς τὴν ῥίζαν τῶν δένδρων κεῖται» ἔλεγέ μου ὁ Ἰησοῦς τότε προφητεύων περὶ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ παρ' ὃν ἡ ἀξίνη ἦν. αὐτὸς ἦν ἡ ἀξίνη τοῦ ἀκάρπου δένδρου καὶ ἔλεγεν· «ἤδη ἡ ἀξίνη πρὸς τὴν ῥίζαν τῶν δένδρων κεῖται». ὅσα ἦν ἐκεῖ δένδρα μὴ ποιοῦντα καρπὸν ἐξεκόπη καὶ εἰς τὸ πῦρ ἐβλήθη καὶ κεκόλασται. νῦν δὲ ἄλλο γεώργιον γεγένηται ἀνάλογον τῷ προ τέρῳ, περὶ οὗ εἴρηται· «εἰσαγαγὼν καταφύτευσον αὐτοὺς εἰς ὄρος κληρονομίας σου, εἰς ἕτοιμον κατοικητήριόν σου». εἰσήγαγεν αὐτοῦ τὸ ἔθνος ὁ θεὸς εἰς ὄρος κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ. τὸ ὄρος ἐγὼ ζητῶ οὐχ ὡς Ἰουδαῖοι οὕτως ἐν ἀψύχοις ὕλαις. τὸ ὄρος ὁ Χριστός ἐστιν. ἐν τούτῳ κατεφυτεύθημεν, ἐπ' αὐτῷ ἐτηρήθημεν. ὁρᾶτε οὖν, ἐὰν <καὶ> μακροθυμήσῃ, μήποτε ἐλθὼν ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης εἴπῃ· «ἤδη τρία ἔτη ἔρχομαι ἐπὶ τὴν συκῆν ταύτην καὶ καρπὸν οὐκ ἤνεγκεν· ἔκκοψον αὐτήν· ἵνα τί καὶ τὴν γῆν καταργεῖ»; καταργεῖ γὰρ τὴν καλὴν γῆν,