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In these, the things concerning the coming of Christ to humanity are clearly prophesied; and at leisure each word might receive a more precise clarification. Ps. Of Obadiah. 15. The vision of Obadiah; Thus says the Lord God to Idumea, I have heard a report from the Lord, and he has sent forth a message to the nations. Since here also the Lord God 116 heard a report from the Lord, we have fittingly noted the passage. Ps. From Jonah. -10. We have not found a partial prophecy specifically about Christ in the present text; but since to the generation that asked the Savior for a sign he said that no other would be given to it than the sign of Jonah the prophet, adding, for just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so also will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights; for this reason, therefore, we have necessarily also noted this scripture among the testimonies concerning Christ. Ps. From Micah. 17. For, behold, the Lord, the Lord, comes forth from his place, and he will come down, and he will tread upon the high places of the earth, and the mountains will be shaken from beneath him, and the valleys will melt like wax before the face of fire. We have supposed these things to be said concerning the second coming of Christ. Ps. Of the same. 18. Hear these things, you rulers of the house of Jacob, and you remnant of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all that is right, who build Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with iniquities, her leaders judged for gifts, and her priests 117 gave answers for a price, and her prophets divined for silver, and they rested upon the Lord, saying, Is not the Lord among us? No evil shall come upon us; therefore because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a watch-tower for fruit, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest. And it shall be in the last of days that the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest, established on the tops of the mountains, and it will be exalted above the hills; and peoples will come to it, and many nations will go to it and say, Come, let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and they will show us his way, and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem, and he shall judge between many peoples, and he will rebuke a strong nation even afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no longer lift up sword against nation, and they shall no longer learn to war. The word having said that, on account of the impieties of the Jewish people, Mount Zion will be plowed as a field, and the formerly esteemed holy city Jerusalem will be as a watch-tower for fruit, next prophesies concerning another mountain of the Lord, which at the time of the prophecy did indeed exist, but was not manifest to ordinary people, as it was to be revealed in the last of days and to be exalted above the hills and the mountains; and the word foretells that to this new mountain will come, no longer that Israel, but peoples and many nations, saying, Come and let us go up to 118 the mountain of the Lord; and not only to the mountain of the Lord, but also to the house of the God of Jacob, being clearly another besides the one in Jerusalem; for it had said a little before that this city, having been made desolate, would become as a watch-tower for fruit; and, consistently with Mount Zion and Jerusalem being desolated, and others being seen in their place, it is said that another law, besides that given by Moses from Mount Horeb, will go forth from the new mountain, it too being named Zion, homonymously with the former; and further, a word of the Lord, along with the new law, is said to come forth from the new Jerusalem, which it called above the house of the God of Jacob; the word, having gone forth to all the nations, is foretold to judge between many peoples and to rebuke a strong nation, and to benefit so much through its own judgment and rebuke those who are rebuked, as of the

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τούτων σαφῶς τὰ τῆς εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἐπιδημίας τοῦ Χριστοῦ προφητεύεται· ἐπὶ σχολῆς δ' ἂν ἑκάστη λέξις ἀκριβεστέρας τύχοι σαφηνείας. Ψ. Τοῦ Ἀβδιοῦ. ΙΕʹ. Ὅρασις Ἀβδίου· Τάδε λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς τῇ Ἰδουμαίᾳ, Ἀκοὴν ἤκουσα παρὰ Κυρίου, καὶ περιοχὴν εἰς τὰ ἔθνη ἐξαπέστειλεν. Ἐπεὶ καὶ ἐνταῦθα Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς 116 ἀκοὴν ἤκουσε παρὰ Κυρίου, εἰκότως ἐσημειωσάμεθα τὸν τόπον. Ψ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ. -Ιʹ. Μερικὴν μὲν ἰδίως περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ προφητείαν οὐχ εὕρομεν ἐν τῷ προκειμένῳ· ἐπεὶ δὲ πρὸς τὴν αἰτοῦσαν τὸν Σωτῆρα σημεῖον γενεὰν οὐκ ἄλλο ἔφησεν αὐτῇ δοθήσεσθαι ἢ τὸ σημεῖον Ἰωνᾶ τοῦ προφήτου, ἐπαγαγὼν τὸ, ὥσπερ γὰρ ἦν Ἰωνᾶς ἐν τῇ κοιλίᾳ τοῦ κήτους τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύκτας, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ τῆς γῆς τρεῖς ἡμέρας καὶ τρεῖς νύκτας· τούτου δὴ χάριν ἀναγκαίως καὶ ταύτην ἐν ταῖς περὶ Χριστοῦ μαρτυρίαις ἐσημειωσάμεθα τὴν γραφήν. Ψ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Μειχαία. ΙΖʹ. ∆ιότι, ἰδοὺ, Κύριος κύριος ἐκπορεύεται ἐκ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταβήσεται, καὶ ἐπιβήσεται ἐπὶ τὰ ὕψη τῆς γῆς, καὶ σαλευθήσεται τὰ ὄρη ὑποκάτωθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ αἱ κοιλάδες τακήσονται ὡς κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρός. Περὶ τῆς δευτέρας τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίας ταῦτα λέγεσθαι ὑπειλήφαμεν. Ψ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. ΙΗʹ. Ἀκούσατε δὴ ταῦτα οἱ ἡγούμενοι οἴκου Ἰακὼβ, καὶ οἱ κατάλοιποι οἴκου Ἰσραὴλ, οἱ βδελυσσόμενοι κρίμα, καὶ πάντα τὰ ὀρθὰ διαστρέφοντες, οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες Σιὼν ἐν αἵμασιν, καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐν ἀδικίαις, οἱ ἡγούμενοι αὐτῆς μετὰ δώρων ἔκρινον, καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς αὐτῆς μετὰ μισθοῦ 117 ἀπεκρίνοντο, καὶ οἱ προφῆται αὐτῆς μετὰ ἀργυρίου ἐμαντεύοντο, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον ἐπανεπαύοντο, λέγοντες, Οὐχὶ Κύριος ἐν ἡμῖν ἐστιν; οὐ μὴ ἐπέλθῃ ἐφ' ἡμᾶς κακά· διὰ τοῦτο δι' ὑμᾶς Σιὼν ὡς ἀγρὸς ἀροτριαθήσεται, καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἔσται, καὶ τὸ ὄρος τοῦ οἴκου εἰς ἄλσος δρυμοῦ. Καὶ ἔσται ἐπ' ἐσχάτου τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου, ἕτοιμον ἐπὶ τὰς κορυφὰς τῶν ὀρέων, καὶ μετεωρισθήσεται ὑπεράνω τῶν βουνῶν· καὶ ἥξουσιν ἐπ' αὐτὸ λαοὶ, καὶ πορεύσονται ἐπ' αὐτὸ ἔθνη πολλὰ καὶ ἐροῦσιν, ∆εῦτε ἀναβῶμεν εἰς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου, καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἰακώβ· καὶ δείξουσιν ἡμῖν τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ πορευσόμεθα ἐν ταῖς τρίβοις αὐτοῦ· ὅτι ἐκ Σιὼν ἐξελεύσεται νόμος, καὶ λόγος Κυρίου ἐξ Ἱερουσαλὴμ, καὶ κρινεῖ ἀναμέσον λαῶν πολλῶν, καὶ ἐλέγξει λαὸν ἰσχυρὸν ἕως εἰς μακράν· καὶ κατακόψουσιν τὰς μαχαίρας αὐτῶν εἰς ἄροτρα, καὶ τὰς ζιβύνας αὐτῶν εἰς δρέπανα· καὶ οὐκέτι ἄρῃ ἔθνος ἐπ' ἔθνος μάχαιραν, καὶ οὐκέτι μὴ μάθωσι πολεμεῖν. Εἰπὼν ὁ λόγος ὡς ἄρα διὰ τὰς δυσσεβείας τοῦ Ἰουδαίων λαοῦ τὸ μὲν Σιὼν ὄρος ὡς ἀγρὸς ἀροτριαθήσεται, ἡ δὲ πρότερον νενομισμένη πόλις ἁγία Ἱερουσαλὴμ ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἔσται, ἑξῆς προφητεύει περὶ ἑτέρου ὄρους Κυρίου, ὅπερ ἐπὶ τοῦ τῆς προφητείας καιροῦ ὑφειστήκει μὲν, οὐ μὴν καὶ ἐμφανὲς τοῖς τυχοῦσιν ὑπῆρχεν, ὡς ἐπ' ἐσχάτῳ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀναφανησομένου ὑπεράνω τε τῶν βουνῶν καὶ τῶν ὀρέων μετεωρισθησομένου· ἐπὶ τοῦτο δὲ τὸ καινὸν ὄρος ἥξειν ὁ λόγος προαγορεύει, οὐκέτι τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἐκεῖνον, λαοὺς δὲ καὶ ἔθνη πολλὰ φάσκοντα, δεῦτε καὶ ἀναβῶμεν εἰς 118 τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου· καὶ οὐ μόνον εἰς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἰακὼβ, ἕτερον ὄντα δῆλον ὅτι παρὰ τὸν ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ· ταύτην γὰρ ἐρημωθεῖσαν ὡς ὀπωροφυλάκιον ἔσεσθαι μικρῷ πρόσθεν εἰρήκει· ἀκολούθως δὲ τῷ τὸ Σιὼν ὄρος καὶ τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐρημωθήσεσθαι, ἕτερα δ' ἀντὶ τούτων ὀφθήσεσθαι, καὶ νόμος ἕτερος παρὰ τοῦ Μωσέως ἐξ ὄρους Χωρὴβ δεδομένος ἐξελεύσεσθαι ἐκ τοῦ καινοῦ ὄρους, ὁμωνύμως τῷ προτέρῳ Σιὼν καὶ αὐτοῦ ὀνομαζομένου, λέγεται· ἔτι δὲ καὶ λόγος Κυρίου μετὰ τοῦ καινοῦ νόμου εἴρηται ἐκ τῆς νέας Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ἣν οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἰακὼβ ἀνωτέρω προσεῖπεν, προελεύσεσθαι· ὁ λόγος ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη προελθὼν κρινεῖν ἀνὰ μέσον λαῶν πολλῶν καὶ ἐλέγξειν λαὸν ἰσχυρὸν προηγόρευται, τοσοῦτόν τε ὠφελήσειν διὰ τῆς ἰδίας κρίσεως καὶ τοῦ ἐλέγχου τοὺς ἐλεχθησομένους, ὡς τῆς