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punishment. 39. And I will deliver you into their hands, and they shall demolish your brothel. That is, the temples of the demons. "And they shall tear down your foundation." Through these words he alluded to the divine temple; for its base, and foundation, and groundwork, was the worship performed in it. "And they shall strip you of your clothes, 81.948 and shall take the instruments of your boasting, and shall leave you naked and disgraced." Through these words he declared the sacking and the enslavement. 40, 41. And they shall bring multitudes up against you, and they shall stone you with stones, and shall slaughter you with their swords; and they shall burn your houses with fire, and shall execute judgments on you in the sight of many women. These things happened at the time of the captivity; but he related them tropologically, as of an adulterous woman being stoned, and slaughtered, and burned; for which reason, remaining with the trope, he added: "And they shall execute judgments on you in the sight of many women;" but he does not call the women "women," but tropologically calls the cities so, since he also brings the city itself, being a city, into the court of judgment in the manner of a woman. Then he alludes to the benefit from the punishment. "And I will turn you from fornication, and you shall no longer give hire." For being stripped of prosperity, and delivered to captivity, you will no longer have the resources for that evil provision, and want will become for you a cause of benefit. 42. And I will let loose my wrath upon you, and my jealousy shall be taken away from you, and I will rest, and will be concerned no more. Again, tropologically, as of a husband jealous of his wife's adultery, he said these things. For by using punishment, he says, I will put an end to your licentiousness, and I will be freed from my care for you; for your lovers will no longer move me to jealousy. And I will bring this punishment upon you: 43. Because you did not remember the day of your infancy, and you grieved me in all these things; and I, behold, I have given your ways upon your head, says Adonai the Lord. You, he says, have brought on the course of these evils, not being willing to take into consideration what you became from what you were, and how I made you, who were cheap, and small, and altogether insignificant, renowned, and very conspicuous. "And so I have not acted according to all your impiety in all your iniquities." You endure nothing, he says, worthy of your sins; for the punishment is small when compared to the impiety. 44. These are all the things that they have said against you in a parable, saying: As is the mother, so is the daughter. The common proverb, he says, befits you, that the daughter is like her mother; and above he named her mother the Hittite. 45. You are the daughter of your mother, who cast off her husband and her children, and the sister of your sisters, who cast off their husband and their children. He shows through these things that he is God not only of the Jews, but also of the nations; for he was formerly God 81.949 also of them, before they received the stain of idolatry; for which reason he said that they too cast off their husband and their children, having denied God, and having sacrificed their children to demons. Then he makes the statement clearer: Your mother was a Hittite, and your father an Amorite. (40.) Your elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters, who dwells on your left, and your younger sister who dwells on your right is Sodom and her daughters. -He says Samaria is the elder sister, naming her not according to time, but according to the teaching of impiety; for according to time, Sodom is elder; but since she first emulated the practices of Samaria, then in part extended her transgression, so as to be likened even to Sodom. And he calls Sodom the younger sister, as having later embraced kinship with her; for he called the fellowship of impiety kinship. The phrase, "on the right and on the left," he has placed because of the position of the places; for to those in Jerusalem facing east, on the right are the

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τιμωρίαν. λθʹ. Καὶ παραδώσω σε εἰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, καὶ κατασκάψουσι τὸ πορνεῖόν σου. Τουτέστι, τὰ τῶν δαιμόνων τεμένη. "Καὶ καθελοῦσι τὴν βάσιν σου." Τὸν θεῖον νεὼν διὰ τούτων ᾐνίξατο· βάσις γὰρ αὐ τῶν, καὶ κρηπὶς, καὶ ὑποβάθρα, ἡ ἐν ἐκείνῳ ἐπιτε λουμένη λατρεία. "Καὶ ἐκδύσουσί σε τὰ ἱμάτιά σου, 81.948 καὶ λήψονται τὰ σκεύη τῆς καυχήσεώς σου, καὶ ἀφ ήσουσί σε γυμνὴν καὶ ἀσχημονοῦσαν." Τὴν πόρθησιν καὶ τὸν ἀνδραποδισμὸν διὰ τούτων ἐδήλωσε. μʹ, μαʹ. Καὶ ἄξουσιν ὑπὲρ σὲ ὄχλους, καὶ λιθοβολήσουσί σε ἐν λίθοις, καὶ κατασφάξουσί σε ἐν τοῖς ξίφεσιν αὑτῶν· καὶ ἐμπρήσουσι τοὺς οἴκους σου ἐν πυρὶ, καὶ ποιήσουσιν ἐν σοὶ ἐκδι κήσεις ἐνώπιον γυναικῶν πολλῶν. Ταῦτα κατὰ τὸν τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας καιρόν· τροπικῶς δὲ αὐτὰ, ὡς ἐπὶ γυναικὸς διεξῆλθε μοιχευτρίας, καταλευομέ νης, καὶ σφαττομένης, καὶ ἐμπιπραμένης· οὗ χάριν ἐπιμείνας τῇ τροπῇ ἐπήγαγε· "Καὶ ποιήσουσιν ἐν σοὶ ἐκδικήσεις ἐνώπιον γυναικῶν πολλῶν·" οὐ γυναῖ κας δὲ τὰς γυναῖκας ὀνομάζει, ἀλλὰ τροπικῶς τὰς πόλεις οὕτω καλεῖ, ἐπειδὴ καὶ αὐτὴν πόλιν οὖσαν δίκην γυναικὸς εἰς τὸ δικαστήριον εἰσάγει. Εἶτα τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς τιμωρίας ὠφέλειαν αἰνίττεται. "Καὶ ἀπο στρέψω σε ἀπὸ πορνείας, καὶ μισθώματα οὐ μὴ προσ δῷς ἔτι." Γυμνωθεῖσα γὰρ τῆς εὐημερίας, καὶ τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ παραδοθεῖσα, οὐκ ἔτι λοιπὸν ἕξεις τῆς κακῆς ἐκείνης χορηγίας τὰς ὕλας, ἡ δὲ σπάνις ὠφελείας σοι γενήσεται πρόξενος. μβʹ. Καὶ ἐπαφήσω τὸν θυμόν μου ἐπὶ σὲ, καὶ ἐξαρθήσεται ὁ ζῆλός μου ἐκ σοῦ, καὶ ἀνα παύσομαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ μεριμνήσω ἔτι. Τροπικῶς πάλιν, ὡς ἐπὶ ἀνδρὸς ζηλοτυποῦντος τῆς γυναικὸς τὴν μοιχείαν, καὶ ταῦτα ἔφη. Τῇ γὰρ τιμωρίᾳ, φησὶ, χρησάμενος καταπαύσω σου τὴν ἀκολασίαν, καὶ τῆς ἐπὶ σοὶ φροντίδος ἀπαλλαγήσομαι· οὐκέτι γάρ με εἰς ζηλοτυπίαν οἱ ἐρασταί σου κινήσουσι. Ταύτην δέ σοι τὴν τιμωρίαν ἐπάξω· μγʹ. Ἀνθ' ὧν οὐκ ἐμνήσθης τῆς ἡμέρας τῆς νηπιότητός σου, καὶ ἐλύπεις με ἐν πᾶσι τούτοις· καὶ ἐγὼ ἰδοὺ τὰς ὁδούς σου εἰς κεφαλήν σου δέ δωκα, λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος. Σὺ, φησὶν, ἐπεσπάσω τὴν τῶν κακῶν τούτων φορὰν, οὐ βουληθεῖσα λαβεῖν εἰς διάνοιαν, οἵα ἀνθ' οἵας ἐγένου, καὶ ὅπως σε εὐτελῆ οὖσαν, καὶ σμικρὰν, καὶ παντελῶς ἄσημον, ἀοίδιμον ἀπέφηνα, καὶ λίαν περιφανῆ. "Καὶ οὕτως οὐκ ἐποίησα κατὰ πᾶσαν τὴν ἀσέβειάν σου ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ἀνομίαις σου." Οὐδὲν, φησὶ, τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἄξιον ὑπομένεις· σμικρὰ γὰρ ἡ τιμωρία τῇ ἀσεβείᾳ συγκρινομένη. μδʹ. Ταῦτά ἐστι πάντα, ὅσα εἶπον κατὰ σοῦ ἐν παραβολῇ, λέγοντες· Καθὼς ἡ μήτηρ καὶ ἡ θυ γάτηρ. Ἁρμόττει σοι, φησὶν, ἡ περιφερομένη παρ οιμία, ὅτι μητρὶ ἔοικεν ἡ θυγάτηρ· μητέρα δὲ αὐτῆς ἄνω τὴν Χετταίαν ὠνόμασε. μεʹ. Θυγάτηρ τῆς μητρός σου σὺ εἶ, τῆς ἀπωσαμένης τὸν ἄνδρα αὑτῆς καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὑ τῆς, καὶ ἀδελφὴ τῶν ἀδελφῶν σου, τῶν ἀπωσα μένων τὸν ἄνδρα αὑτῶν καὶ τὰ τέκνα αὑτῶν. ∆είκνυσι διὰ τούτων, ὡς οὐκ Ἰουδαίων ὁ Θεὸς μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐθνῶν· καὶ γὰρ ἐκείνων πάλαι Θεὸς 81.949 ἐχρημάτισε, πρὶν αὐτοὺς δέξασθαι τῆς εἰδωλο λατρείας τὴν λώβην· διὸ κἀκείνους ἔφη, καὶ τὸν ἄνδρα ἀπώσασθαι, καὶ τὰ τέκνα, τὸν μὲν Θεὸν ἀρνηθέντας, τὰ δὲ τέκνα τοῖς δαίμοσι καταθύσαντας. Εἶτα σαφέστερον τὸν λόγον ποιεῖ· Ἡ μήτηρ ὑμῶν Χετταία, καὶ ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν Ἀμοῤῥαῖος. (μʹ.) Ἡ ἀδελφή σου ἡ πρεσβυτέρα Σαμάρεια, αὐτὴ καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτῆς, καὶ ἡ κατοικοῦσα ἐξ εὐωνύμων σου, καὶ ἡ ἀδελφή σου ἡ νεωτέρα ἡ κατοικοῦσα ἐκ δεξιῶν σου, Σόδομα, καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες αὐτῆς. -Πρεσβυτέραν ἀδελφὴν τὴν Σαμάρειάν φησιν, οὐ κατὰ τὸν χρόνον, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν τῆς ἀσεβείας διδασκαλίαν ὠνόμασε· κατὰ γὰρ τὸν χρόνον, ἡ Σόδομα πρεσβυτέρα· ἀλλ' ἐπειδὴ τὰ τῆς Σαμαρείας πρότερον ἐζήλωσεν ἐπιτηδεύματα, εἶτα κατὰ μέρος τὴν παρανομίαν ἐξέτεινεν, ὡς καὶ Σοδόμοις ἀπεικασθῆναι. Νεωτέραν δὲ ἀδελφὴν προσ αγορεύει τὴν Σόδομα, ὡς ὕστερον τὴν πρὸς αὐτὴν ἀσπασαμένην συγγένειαν· τὴν γὰρ τῆς ἀσεβείας κοι νωνίαν συγγένειαν προσηγόρευσε. Τὸ δὲ, "ἐκ δεξιῶν καὶ ἐξ εὐωνύμων," διὰ τὴν θέσιν τῶν τόπων τέ θεικε· τοῖς γὰρ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις πρὸς ἀνατολὰς τετραμμένοις, ἐκ δεξιῶν μὲν τὰ