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Aquila: "who will not endure a man and will not wait for sons of men". 2.3.153 through which all the hope of the apostles of our Savior was not in a man but in their Savior and Lord; and this was the Word of God. 2.3.154 to whom he adds next: "And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest and as a young lion among flocks of sheep, which, when it passes through and separates and seizes, there is none to deliver." Through these words I think is shown the boldness and fearlessness of the apostolic proclamation; 2.3.155 for like a lion and a young lion, bursting into the forest of the nations and into the flocks of human sheep, and separating the worthy from the unworthy, they brought them under the word of Christ. To whom next are proclaimed the things from him: "Your hand shall be lifted up against those who afflict you, and all your enemies shall be utterly destroyed." which it is also possible to see with our eyes; for though countless ones have afflicted the word of Christ and are still warring against it, it has been exalted and has become stronger than all. 2.3.156 But the hand of Christ was also lifted up against all those who afflicted him, and all his enemies who from time to time rise up against his church are said to be utterly destroyed. 2.3.157 52. From Zephaniah. "For then I will turn to the peoples a language, in the name of the Lord, to serve him under one yoke. From the ends of the rivers of Ethiopia I will receive those who supplicate me, of the dispersed they shall bring sacrifices to me. In that day you shall not be put to shame for all your practices wherein you acted impiously against me; for then I will take away from you the blemishes of your insolence, and you shall no more be added to boast upon my holy mountain. And I will leave in you a meek and humble people, 2.3.158 and the remnant of Israel shall fear in the name of the Lord, and they will not do injustice and they will not speak vain things, and a deceitful tongue shall not be found in their mouth, because they themselves shall feed and lie down, and there shall be no one to make them afraid." 2.3.159 And in these words the Lord has promised to leave for himself "a meek and humble people," indicating none other than the one from the circumcision who has believed in his Christ. And again, that only the remnant of Israel will be saved with the calling of the rest of the nations, which he signified in the first parts of the prophecy. 2.3.160 53. From Zechariah. "Behold, a day is coming upon you, and your spoils shall be divided in you. And I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to war, and the city shall be captured, and the houses plundered, and the women defiled, and half of the city shall go into captivity, but the remnant of my people shall not be utterly destroyed from the city." 2.3.161 These things also are in harmony with what was set forth before, fulfilled in the destruction of the whole nation of the Jews that came upon them after the coming of Christ. Therefore after the return from Babylon Zechariah prophesies these things, proclaiming the final siege of the people that would happen under the Romans, at which time the whole nation of the Jews would become subject to their enemies, he says that only "the remnant" of the people would be saved, clearly indicating the apostles of our Savior themselves. 2.3.162 54. From Jeremiah. "Return, O backsliding children, says the Lord, for I will be your Lord, and I will take you one from a city and two from a family and I will bring you to Zion, and I will give you shepherds according to my heart, and they will shepherd you, shepherding with knowledge. And it shall be, if you are multiplied and increased, says the Lord, in those days, they will no longer say, 'the ark of the covenant of the Lord of Israel' it will not come to mind, nor will it be named or made any more." 2.3.163 Likewise also in these things he proclaims the return of Israel that would happen at the coming of our Savior Jesus Christ, at which "one from a city and two from a family" and exceedingly

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Ἀκύλας· «ὃς οὐχ ὑπομενεῖ ἄνδρα καὶ οὐ περιμενεῖ υἱοὺς ἀνθρώπων». 2.3.153 δι' ὧν πᾶσα τῶν ἀποστόλων τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐλπὶς οὔτε εἰς ἄνθρωπον ἀλλ' εἰς τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ κύριον αὐτῶν· οὗτος δὲ ἦν ὁ τοῦ θεοῦ λόγος. 2.3.154 οἷς ἑξῆς ἐπιλέγει· «καὶ ἔσται τὸ ὑπόλειμμα Ἰακὼβ ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἐν μέσῳ λαῶν πολλῶν, ὡς λέων ἐν τοῖς κτήνεσι τοῦ δρυμοῦ καὶ ὡς σκύμνος ἐν ποιμνίοις προβάτων, ὃν τρόπον ὅταν διέλθῃ καὶ διαστείλας ἁρπάσῃ, καὶ μὴ ᾖ ὁ ἐξαιρούμενος». δι' ὧν οἶμαι δηλοῦσθαι τὸ θαρσαλέον καὶ ἀκατάπληκτον τοῦ ἀποστολικοῦ κηρύγματος· 2.3.155 δίκην γοῦν λέοντος καὶ σκύμνου ἐν τῷ δρυμῷ τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ ἐν ταῖς τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων προβάτων ἀγέλαις εἰσβαλόντες, καὶ διαστείλαντες τοὺς ἀξίους ἀπὸ τῶν ἀναξίων ὑπηγάγοντο τῷ Χριστοῦ λόγῳ. πρὸς ὃν ἑξῆς ἀναφωνεῖται τὰ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ· «ὑψωθήσεται ἡ χείρ σου ἐπὶ τοὺς θλίβοντάς σε, καὶ πάντες οἱ ἐχθροί σου ἐξολοθρευθήσονται». ὃ καὶ αὐτὸ πάρεστιν ὀφθαλμοῖς παραλαμβάνειν· μυρίων γὰρ ὅσων τὸν Χριστοῦ λόγον θλιψάντων καὶ εἰσέτι νῦν πολεμούντων ὑπερήρθη καὶ κρείττων πάντων γέγονεν. 2.3.156 ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑψώθη ἡ χεὶρ τοῦ Χριστοῦ κατὰ πάντων τῶν θλιψάντων αὐτόν, οἵ τε ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ πάντες οἱ κατὰ χρόνους ἐπανιστάμενοι αὐτοῦ τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ ἐξολοθρευθήσεσθαι λέγονται. 2.3.157 νβʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Σοφονίου. «Ὅτι τότε μεταστρέψω ἐπὶ λαοὺς γλῶσσαν, εἰς ὄνομα κυρίου, τοῦ δουλεύειν αὐτῷ ὑπὸ ζυγὸν ἕνα. ἐκ περάτων ποταμῶν Αἰθιοπίας προσδέξομαι τοὺς ἱκετεύοντάς με, τῶν διεσπαρμένων οἴσουσι θυσίας μοι. ἐν τῇ ἡμέρα ἐκείνῃ οὐ μὴ καταισχυνθῇς ἐκ πάντων τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων σου ὧν ἠσέβησας εἰς ἐμέ· ὅτι τότε περιελῶ ἀπὸ σοῦ τὰ φαυλίσματα τῆς ὕβρεώς σου, καὶ οὐκ ἔτι οὐ μὴ προστεθῇς τοῦ μεγαλαυχῆσαι ἐπὶ τὸ ὄρος τὸ ἅγιόν μου. καὶ ὑπολείψομαι ἐν σοὶ λαὸν πρᾶον καὶ ταπεινόν, 2.3.158 καὶ εὐλαβηθήσονται ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι κυρίου οἱ κατάλοιποι τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, καὶ οὐ ποιήσουσιν ἀδικίαν καὶ οὐ λαλήσουσιν μάταια, καὶ οὐ μὴ εὑρεθῇ ἐν στόματι αὐτῶν γλῶσσα δολία, διότι αὐτοὶ νεμήσονται καὶ κοιτασθήσονται, καὶ οὐκ ἔσται ὁ ἐκφοβῶν αὐτούς». 2.3.159 Καὶ ἐν τούτοις ὑπολείψεσθαι ἑαυτῷ «λαὸν πραῢν καὶ ταπεινὸν» ὁ κύριος ἐπήγγελται, οὐκ ἄλλον δηλῶν ἢ τὸν ἐκ περιτομῆς εἰς τὸν Χριστὸν αὐτοῦ πεπιστευκότα. καὶ πάλιν τοὺς καταλοίπους τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ μόνους σωθήσεσθαι μετὰ τῆς τῶν λοιπῶν ἐθνῶν κλήσεως, ἣν ἐν τοῖς πρώτοις τῆς προφητείας ἐσήμαινεν. 2.3.160 νγʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζαχαρίου. «Ἰδοὺ ἡμέρα ἔρχεται ἐν σοί, καὶ διαμερισθήσεται τὰ σκῦλά σου ἐν σοί. καὶ ἐπισυνάξω πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ εἰς πόλεμον, καὶ ἁλώσεται ἡ πόλις, καὶ διαρπαγήσονται οἰκίαι, καὶ γυναῖκες μολυνθήσονται, καὶ ἐξελεύσεται τὸ ἥμισυ τῆς πόλεως ἐν αἰχμαλωσίᾳ, οἱ δὲ κατάλοιποι τοῦ λαοῦ μου οὐ μὴ ἐξολοθρευθήσονται ἐκ τῆς πόλεως.» 2.3.161 Συνᾴδει καὶ ταῦτα τοῖς προτεθειμένοις, ἐπὶ τῷ ὀλέθρῳ τοῦ παντὸς Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους μετελθόντι αὐτοὺς μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίαν πεπληρωμένα. μετὰ οὖν τὴν ἀπὸ Βαβυλῶνος ἐπάνοδον ταῦτα ὁ Ζαχαρίας προφητεύει, θεσπίζων τὴν ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων γενησομένην ὑστάτην πολιορκίαν τοῦ λαοῦ, ἐφ' ᾗ τοῦ παντὸς ἔθνους Ἰουδαίων ὑποχειρίου τοῖς πολεμίοις γενησομένου μόνους φησὶν «τοὺς καταλοίπους» τοῦ λαοῦ σωθήσεσθαι, ἄντικρυς αὐτοὺς τοὺς ἀποστόλους τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν δηλῶν. 2.3.162 νδʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου. «Ἐπιστράφητε, υἱοὶ ἀφεστηκότες,λέγει κύριος, δι' ὅτι ἐγὼ κατακυριεύσω ὑμῶν, καὶ λήψομαι ὑμᾶς ἕνα ἐκ πόλεως καὶ δύο ἐκ πατριᾶς καὶ εἰσάξω ὑμᾶς εἰς Σιών, καὶ δώσω ὑμῖν ποιμένας κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν μου, καὶ ποιμανοῦσιν ὑμᾶς ποιμαίνοντες μετ' ἐπιστήμης. καὶ ἔσται, ἐὰν πληθυνθῆτε καὶ αὐξηθῆτε, λέγει κύριος, ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις ἐκείναις, οὐκ ἐροῦσιν ἔτι κιβωτὸς διαθήκης κυρίου Ἰσραὴλ οὐκ ἀναβήσεται ἐπὶ καρδίαν, οὐδὲ ὀνομασθήσεται καὶ οὐ ποιηθήσεται ἔτι.» 2.3.163 Ὁμοῦ καὶ ἐν τούτοις τὴν ἐπιστροφὴν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ τὴν ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ γενησομένην θεσπίζει, καθ' ἣν «ἕνα ἐκ πόλεως καὶ δύο ἐκ πατριᾶς» καὶ σφόδρα