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to his eyes, to whom we must give account. He said "laid bare" from the metaphor of the hides of slaughtered victims being stripped off. For just as with those, when someone having slaughtered the animal has stripped off the hide from the flesh, all the inward parts are uncovered, and become manifest to our eyes; so also to God are all things manifest and laid open. But consider, I pray you, how he is always in need of fleshly images; which was a sign of the weakness of his hearers. For that they were weak, he showed by saying that they were dull, and had need of milk, not of solid food. All things are naked, he says, and laid bare to his eyes, to whom we must give account. What then is, "In the same example of unbelief"? As if one giving a reason were to say: For 63.62 why did they not see the land? They received a pledge, he says, of the power of God, and when they ought to have believed, giving more heed to fear, and not imagining anything great about God, and being fainthearted, thus they perished. But there is also something else to say, for instance, that having accomplished the greater part of the journey, when they were at the very gates, at the very harbor, they were drowned. This I fear also concerning you, he says. This then is the meaning of, "In the same example of unbelief." For that these also suffered many things, he later testifies to them, saying: "But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions." Let no one then be fainthearted, nor let him fall down, despairing at the end. For there are, there are those who at the beginning attack the contests with flourishing eagerness; but afterwards, not being willing to add a little to the whole, they lost the whole. Sufficient, he says, are your forefathers to teach you not to fall into the same things, so that you not suffer the same things which they suffered. And this is, "In the same example of unbelief." Therefore let us not be weary, he says; which he also says toward the end: "Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees." "Lest any man fall," he says, "after the same example." For this is truly to fall. Then, lest when you hear, "Lest he fall after the same example," you should suppose the same death which they also underwent, see what he says: "For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword." For the word, falling upon their souls more grievously than any sword, inflicts grievous wounds, and gives deadly cuts. And he does not need to offer proof of these things, nor to establish it, having the narrative so manifest. For what war, he says, destroyed them? What sword? Did they not simply fall down of themselves? Let us not, then, since we have not suffered the same things, be careless. As long as it is called "Today," it is possible for us to recover ourselves. But since he spoke thus, lest having heard the things of the soul they should grow negligent, he adds also those of the body, showing that just as a king, when his commanders have committed great sins, first strips them as it were of their command, then having taken away the belt, and the dignity, and having set the herald by, then he punishes them; so also does the sword of the Spirit then work. Then having said this, making the word still more fearful, he speaks concerning the Son, and says: "To whom we must give account." That is, to him we are about to give an account of our deeds. Therefore let us not be remiss, nor be fainthearted. Now the things that have been said are sufficient to instruct us; but he is not satisfied, but adds still more, saying: "We have also a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God." 2. For that he added this for this reason, he went on: "For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities." For this reason he said above: "For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted." See therefore how here also he does the same thing. And what he says is this: He came, he says, 63.63 by a way which we also now travel, or rather a more rugged one; for he had experience of all human things. He said there: "Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight," intimating his divinity. Then, since he took hold of the flesh, he again speaks more condescendingly, saying: "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens;"

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ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ, πρὸς ὃν ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος. Τετραχηλισμένα εἶπεν ἀπὸ μεταφορᾶς τῶν δερμάτων τῶν ἀπὸ τῶν σφαζομένων ἱερείων ἐξελκομένων. Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐκεῖνα, ἐπειδὰν σφάξας τις ἀπὸ τῆς σαρκὸς παρελκύσῃ τὸ δέρμα, πάντα τὰ ἔνδον ἀποκαλύπτεται, καὶ δῆλα γίνεται τοῖς ἡμετέροις ὀφθαλμοῖς· οὕτω καὶ τῷ Θεῷ δῆλα πρόκειται πάντα. Σὺ δέ μοι θέα, πῶς ἀεὶ τῶν σωματικῶν εἰκόνων δεῖται· ὅπερ ἦν τῆς ἀσθενείας τῶν ἀκουόντων. Ὅτι γὰρ ἀσθενεῖς ἦσαν, ἐδήλωσεν εἰπὼν νωθροὺς αὐτοὺς εἶναι, καὶ χρείαν ἔχοντας γάλακτος, οὐ στερεᾶς τροφῆς. Πάντα γυμνὰ, φησὶ, καὶ τετραχηλισμένα τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς αὐτοῦ, πρὸς ὃν ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος. Τί δέ ἐστιν, Ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ ὑποδείγματι τῆς ἀπειθείας; Ὡς ἄν τις αἰτιολογούμενος εἴποι· ∆ιὰ 63.62 τί οὐκ εἶδον ἐκεῖνοι τὴν γῆν; Ἔλαβον ἀῤῥαβῶνα, φησὶ, τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ δυνάμεως, καὶ δέον πιστεῦσαι, τῷ φόβῳ πλέον δόντες, καὶ μηδὲν μέγα περὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ φαντασθέντες, καὶ ὀλιγοψυχήσαντες, οὕτως ἀπώλοντο. Ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἕτερόν τι εἰπεῖν, οἷον, ὅτι τὸ πλέον ἀνύσαντες τῆς ὁδοῦ, ὅτε πρὸς αὐταῖς ταῖς θύραις ἐγένοντο, πρὸς αὐτῷ τῷ λιμένι, κατεποντίσθησαν. Τοῦτο καὶ περὶ ὑμῶν δέδοικα, φησί. Τοῦτο τοίνυν ἐστὶ τὸ, Ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ ὑποδείγματι τῆς ἀπειθείας. Ὅτι γὰρ καὶ οὗτοι πολλὰ ἔπαθον, ὕστερον αὐτοῖς μαρτυρεῖ λέγων· Ἀναμνήσθητε τὰς πρότερον ἡμέρας, ἐν αἷς φωτισθέντες, πολλὴν ἄθλησιν ὑπεμείνατε παθημάτων. Μηδεὶς οὖν ὀλιγοψυχείτω, μηδὲ πρὸς τὸ τέλος ἀπαγορεύων καταπιπτέτω. Εἰσὶ γὰρ, εἰσὶν οἳ παρὰ μὲν τὴν ἀρχὴν μετὰ ἀκμαζούσης προσβάλλουσι τῆς προθυμίας πρὸς τοὺς ἀγῶνας· ὕστερον δὲ μικρὸν τῷ παντὶ προσθεῖναι μὴ βουληθέντες, τὸ πᾶν ἀπώλεσαν. Ἱκανοὶ, φησὶν, οἱ πρόγονοι παιδεῦσαι ὑμᾶς μὴ τοῖς αὐτοῖς περιπεσεῖν, ὥστε μὴ τὰ αὐτὰ παθεῖν, ἅπερ ἔπαθον. Τοῦτο δέ ἐστιν, Ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ ὑποδείγματι τῆς ἀπειθείας. Οὐκοῦν μὴ ἐκλυώμεθα, φησίν· ὃ καὶ πρὸς τῷ τέλει λέγει· Τὰς παρειμένας χεῖρας καὶ τὰ παραλελυμένα γόνατα ἀνορθώσατε. Ἵνα μὴ ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ τις ὑποδείγματι, φησὶ, πέσῃ. Τοῦτο γὰρ πεσεῖν ὄντως ἐστίν. Εἶτα, ἵνα μὴ ἀκούσας, Ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ ὑποδείγματι πέσῃ, τὸν αὐτὸν θάνατον ὑπολάβῃς, ὅνπερ κἀκεῖνοι ὑπέμειναν, ὅρα τί φησι· Ζῶν γὰρ ὁ λόγος τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ ἐνεργὴς, καὶ τομώτερος ὑπὲρ πᾶσαν μάχαιραν δίστομον. Πάσης γὰρ μαχαίρας χαλεπώτερον εἰς τὰς τούτων ἐμπίπτων ψυχὰς ὁ λόγος, πληγὰς ἐργάζεται χαλεπὰς, καὶ καιρίας δίδωσι τομάς. Καὶ τούτων τὴν ἀπόδειξιν οὐ δεῖται παρασχεῖν, οὐδὲ κατασκευάσαι, ἔχων οὕτω τὴν διήγησιν φανεράν. Ποῖος γὰρ πόλεμος ἐκείνους ἀπώλεσε, φησί; ποία μάχαιρα; οὐχ ἁπλῶς αὐτόματοι κατέπιπτον; Μὴ οὖν, ἐπειδὴ μὴ ἐπάθομεν τὰ αὐτὰ, ἀμεριμνήσωμεν μέχρις οὗ τὸ σήμερον λέγεται, ἔξεστιν ἡμῖν ἀνακτήσασθαι. Ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ οὕτως εἶπεν, ἵνα μὴ τὰ τῆς ψυχῆς ἀκούσαντες ῥᾳθυμήσωσι, προστίθησι καὶ τὰ τοῦ σώματος, δηλῶν, ὅτι καθάπερ τις βασιλεὺς ἄρχοντας ἁμαρτόντας μεγάλα, πρότερον ἀπογυμνοῖ οἷον τῆς στρατείας, εἶτα τὴν ζώνην ἀφελόμενος, καὶ τὸ ἀξίωμα, καὶ τὸν κήρυκα παραστησάμενος, τότε κολάζει· οὕτω καὶ τοῦ Πνεύματος ἡ μάχαιρα τότε ἐργάζεται. Εἶτα τοῦτο εἰπὼν, φοβερώτερον ἔτι τὸν λόγον ποιῶν, περὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ διαλέγεται, καί φησι· Πρὸς ὃν ἡμῖν ὁ λόγος. Ἀντὶ τοῦ, αὐτῷ μέλλομεν δοῦναι εὐθύνας τῶν πεπραγμένων. Οὐκοῦν μὴ ἀναπέσωμεν, μηδὲ ὀλιγοψυχήσωμεν. Ἱκανὰ μὲν οὖν καὶ τὰ εἰρημένα παιδεῦσαι· ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἀρκεῖται, ἀλλ' ἔτι προστίθησι λέγων· Ἔχομεν δὲ καὶ ἀρχιερέα μέγαν, διεληλυθότα τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, Ἰησοῦν τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ. βʹ. Ὅτι γὰρ διὰ τοῦτο προσέθηκεν, ἐπήγαγεν· Οὐ γὰρ ἔχομεν ἀρχιερέα μὴ δυνάμενον συμπαθῆσαι ταῖς ἀσθενείαις ἡμῶν. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο ἀνωτέρω ἔλεγεν· Ἐν ᾧ πέπονθεν αὐτὸς πειρασθεὶς, δύναται τοῖς πειραζομένοις βοηθῆσαι. Ὅρα τοίνυν πῶς καὶ ἐνταῦθα τὸ αὐτὸ ποιεῖ. Ὃ δὲ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν· Ἦλθε, φησὶν, 63.63 ὁδὸν ἢν καὶ ἡμεῖς νῦν, μᾶλλον δὲ καὶ τραχυτέραν· πάντων γὰρ ἔλαβε τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων πεῖραν. Εἶπεν ἐκεῖ· Οὐκ ἔστι κτίσις ἀφανὴς ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ, τὴν θεότητα αἰνιττόμενος. Εἶτα, ἐπειδὴ τῆς σαρκὸς ἐπελάβετο, συγκαταβατικώτερον πάλιν διαλέγεται λέγων· Ἔχοντες οὖν ἀρχιερέα μέγαν, διεληλυθότα τοὺς οὐρανούς·