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

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 anger something exceptional, his wrath something superior, and there was nothing in these akin to their homonyms, in the same way also his repentance is homonymous with our repentance; and things are homonymous of which only the name is common, but the definition of the substance corresponding to the name is different. Therefore, only the name of God's wrath and the wrath of anyone whatsoever is common, and only the name of anyone's anger and God's anger is common. So also must one understand it in the case of repentance. And he who is able will investigate what God's repentance accomplishes, what it accomplished. It deposed Saul who was reigning unlawfully, it raised up for the people a king according to the heart of God; for because of that good repentance he said: “I have found a man after my own heart, David the son of Jesse.” But all these things are a preface for me because the beginning of the reading from Jeremiah is as follows: “You have deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.” 20.2 For we are investigating lest, just as everyone's wrath is bad but God's is for reproof, and everyone's anger is harsh but what is called God's is for instruction, and the repentance of all of us accuses the weakness of the reasoning that preceded the repentance, but in the case of God his repentance does not accuse God but the external circumstances for which the repentance is undertaken, so also one must understand the deception of God as being of a different kind from our deception, which we deceive. What then is the deception of God besides this one , which the prophet, understanding it when he ceased being deceived, says, knowing the benefit from having been deceived, “You have deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived”? And first I will use a Hebrew tradition, which has come to us through someone who fled on account of the faith of Christ and because he had returned from the law and had come to where we are staying. He related, then, something that seemed either a myth or an account able to lead the hearers to “You have deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.” He said, then, things of this sort: God does not rule as a tyrant, but as a king, and in reigning he does not compel, but persuades, and wishes those under his dispensation to offer themselves willingly, so that one's good may not be by necessity, but according to his free will. This very thing Paul also, knowing it, said in the letter to Philemon, to Philemon concerning Onesimus: “so that your good deed might not be by necessity but of your own free will.” The God of all was able, therefore, to produce a supposed good in us, so that we might give alms by necessity and be temperate by necessity, but he has not wished it. Therefore he commands us to do what we do not out of grief or necessity, so that what is done may be voluntary. He seeks a way, therefore, so to speak, how someone might willingly do what God wishes. Therefore the tradition told me something of this kind also: He wished to send Jeremiah to prophesy to all the nations and before all the nations to the people. But since the prophecies had something rather gloomy about them (for they announced punishments, with which each will be punished according to his desert), and he knew the disposition of the prophet, not wishing to prophesy the worse things to the people of Israel, for this reason he arranged to say: “Take this cup, and you will make all the nations to whom I will send you drink it.” God therefore commanded Jeremiah to take a cup, and urging him to “take the cup of unmixed wine,” he says: “and I will send you to all the nations having this cup of unmixed wine.” But Jeremiah, hearing that he was being sent to all the nations, to minister to them a cup of wrath, a cup of punishments, not suspecting that Israel also was about to drink from the cup of punishment, being deceived took the cup to make all the nations drink. Having taken the cup he heard: “and you will first make Jerusalem drink.” Since, therefore, he expected one thing, but another thing met him, on this account indeed he says: “You have deceived me, Lord, and I was deceived.” Similar to this narrative, he also explained in Isaiah; for that one also, not knowing what he was about to be commanded to say

νομίσῃς συγγένειάν τινα ἔχειν τὴν μεταμέλειαν αὐτοῦ τῇ μεταμελείᾳ τῶν μετα<με>λουμένων. ὡς γὰρ ἐξαίρετόν τι εἶχεν ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ, ἐξαίρετόν <τι> ἡ ὀργὴ αὐτοῦ, ὑπερέχον τι ὁ θυμὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ οὐδὲν τούτοις συγγενὲς ἦν τοῖς ὁμωνύμοις, τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον καὶ ἡ μεταμέλεια αὐτοῦ ὁμώνυμόν ἐστι τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ μεταμελείᾳ· ὁμώνυμα δέ ἐστιν, ὧν ὄνομα μόνον κοινόν, ὁ δὲ κατὰ τοὔνομα τῆς οὐσίας λόγος ἕτερος. μόνον οὖν ὄνομα κοινὸν θυμοῦ θεοῦ καὶ θυμοῦ οὑτινοσοῦν, καὶ μόνον ὄνομα κοινὸν ὀργῆς οὑτινοσοῦν καὶ ὀργῆς θεοῦ. οὕτως καὶ ἐπὶ μεταμελείας νοητέον. καὶ ζητήσει ὁ δυνάμενος, τί μεταμέλεια ἐργάζεται θεοῦ, τί εἰργάσατο. τὸν Σαοὺλ καθεῖλε βασιλεύοντα παρανόμως, ἀνέστησε βασιλέα τῷ λαῷ τὸν κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ θεοῦ· εἶπε γὰρ διὰ τὴν ἀγαθὴν ἐκείνην μεταμέλειαν· «εὗρον ἄνδρα κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν μου, ∆αβὶδ υἱὸν Ἰεσσαί». ἀλλὰ ταῦτά μοι προοίμια πάντα ἐστὶ διὰ τὸ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου ἀναγνώσεως οὕτως ἔχειν· «ἠπάτησάς με, κύριε, καὶ ἠπατήθην». 20.2 ζητοῦμεν γάρ, μήποτε ὡς ὁ πάντων θυμὸς κακὸς ὁ δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐλεγκτικός, καὶ πάντων μὲν ἡ ὀργὴ χαλεπὴ ἡ δὲ καλουμένη τοῦ θεοῦ παιδευτική, καὶ πάντων μὲν ἡμῶν <ἡ> μεταμέλεια κατηγορεῖ ἀσθενείας τοῦ λογισμοῦ. τοῦ πρὸ τῆς μεταμελείας, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ οὐ τοῦ θεοῦ κατηγορεῖ ἡ μεταμέλεια αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ τῶν ἔξω πραγμάτων ἐφ' οἷς ἡ μεταμέλεια λαμβάνεται, οὕτω δεῖ νοῆσαι καὶ τὴν ἀπάτην τοῦ θεοῦ ἑτερογενῆ τυγχάνουσαν παρὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν ἀπάτην, ἣν ἀπατῶμεν. τίς οὖν ἡ παρὰ <ταύ>την τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπάτη, ἥντινα νοήσας ὁ προφήτης, ὅτε ἐπαύσατο ἀπατώμενος, φησὶ γνοὺς τὴν ὠφέλειαν τὴν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἠπατῆσθαι τὸ «ἠπάτησάς με, κύριε, καὶ ἠπατήθην»; Καὶ πρῶτον χρήσομαι παραδόσει Ἑβραϊκῇ, ἐληλυθυίᾳ εἰς ἡμᾶς διά τινος φυγόντος διὰ τὴν Χριστοῦ πίστιν καὶ διὰ τὸ ἐπαναβεβηκέναι ἀπὸ τοῦ νόμου καὶ ἐληλυθότος ἔνθα διατρίβομεν. ἔλεγε δή τινα εἴτε μῦθον φαινόμενον εἴτε λόγον δυνάμενον προσάγειν τοὺς ἀκούοντας τῷ «ἠπάτησάς με, κύριε, καὶ ἠπατήθην». ἔλεγε δή τινα τοιαῦτα· ὁ θεὸς οὐ τυραννεῖ, ἀλλὰ βασιλεύει, καὶ βασιλεύων οὐ βιάζεται, ἀλλὰ πείθει, καὶ βούλεται ἑκουσίως παρέχειν ἑαυτοὺς τοὺς ὑπ' αὐτῷ τῇ οἰκονομίᾳ αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ κατὰ ἀνάγκην τὸ ἀγαθόν τινος ᾖ, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὸ ἑκούσιον αὐτοῦ. ὅπερ καὶ ὁ Παῦλος ἐπιστάμενος ἔλεγεν ἐν τῇ πρὸς Φιλήμονα ἐπιστολῇ τῷ Φιλήμονι περὶ τοῦ Ὀνησίμου· «ἵνα μὴ κατὰ ἀνάγκην τὸ ἀγαθόν σου ᾖ ἀλλὰ κατὰ ἑκούσιον». ἠδύνατο τοίνυν ὁ τῶν ὅλων θεὸς ποιῆσαι νομιζόμενον ἀγαθὸν ἐν ἡμῖν, ἵνα ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἐλεημοσύνας διδῶμεν καὶ ἐξ ἀνάγκης σωφρο- νῶμεν, ἀλλ' οὐ βεβούληται. διὸ μὴ ἐκ λύπης ἢ ἐξ ἀνάγκης προστάσσει ἡμῖν ποιεῖν ἃ ποιοῦμεν, ἵνα ἑκούσιον ᾖ τὸ γινόμενον. ὁδὸν οὖν, ἵν' οὕτως εἴπω, ζητεῖ πῶς ἂν ἑκουσίως τις ποιήσαι, ἃ ὁ θεὸς βούλεται. ἔλεγεν οὖν μοι ἡ παράδοσις καὶ τοιοῦτόν τι· ἐβούλετο τὸν Ἱερεμίαν πέμψαι προφητεύσοντα πᾶσι τοῖς ἔθνεσι καὶ πρὸ πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν τῷ λαῷ. ἐπεὶ δὲ αἱ προφητεῖαι σκυθρωπότερόν τι εἶχον (ἀπήγγελλον γὰρ κολάσεις, ἃς ἕκαστος κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν κολασθήσεται), καὶ ᾔδει τὴν προαίρεσιν τοῦ προφήτου μὴ βουλομένου τὰ χείρονα προφητεῦσαι τῷ λαῷ Ἰσραήλ, διὰ τοῦτο ᾠκονόμησεν εἰ πεῖν· «λάβε τὸ ποτήριον τοῦτο, καὶ ποτιεῖς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη πρὸς ἃ ἐγὼ ἐξαποστελῶ σε πρὸς αὐτούς». προσέταξεν οὖν ὁ θεὸς τῷ Ἱερεμίᾳ λαβεῖν ποτήριον, προτρεπόμενος δὲ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὸ «λαβεῖν τὸ ποτήριον τοῦ οἴνου τοῦ ἀκράτου», φησί· «καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ σε πρὸς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἔχοντα τοῦτο τὸ ποτήριον τοῦ οἴνου τοῦ ἀκράτου». ἀκούσας δὲ ὁ Ἱερεμίας ὅτι ἀποστέλλεται πρὸς πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, ὅτι διακονήσων αὐτοῖς ποτήριον ὀργῆς, ποτήριον κολάσεων, μὴ ὑπονοήσας ὅτι καὶ Ἰσραὴλ μέλλει πίνειν ἀπὸ τοῦ τῆς κολάσεως ποτηρίου, ἀπατηθεὶς ἔλαβε τὸ ποτήριον τοῦ ποτίσαι πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. λαβὼν τὸ ποτήριον ἤκουσε· «καὶ ποτιεῖς πρῶτον τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ». ἐπεὶ οὖν ἄλλο μὲν προσεδόκησεν, ἄλλο δὲ αὐτῷ ἀπήντησεν, ἐπὶ τούτῳ δή φησιν· «ἠπάτησάς με, κύριε, καὶ ἠπατήθην». Παραπλήσιον ταύτῃ τῇ διηγήσει ἀπεδίδου καὶ ἐν τῷ Ἡσαΐᾳ· κἀκεῖνος γὰρ οὐκ εἰδὼς τί μέλλει προστάσσεσθαι λέγειν