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they still expect good things, which have come. Concerning the children slain by Herod. A prophecy concerning the New Testament. And the Jews still expect the written building of the city in this place. And this came to an end when it was done, when they came up from Babylon. Jeremiah is commanded to buy the field of his paternal uncle, and having bought it he says that the city was handed over, and 56.380 to be commanded to buy a field. But God says to him: The present evils are on account of the sins of the people; there will be a time when the city will be inhabited again. He foretells to Zedekiah that he will be captured, and he rebukes those who, having freed the slaves, enslaved them again, and he threatens that there will be a great calamity. For this reason, he commands the sons of Jonadab to make a house. But they refuse. Jeremiah is commanded to write whatever he prophesied against Israel, so that at least in this way they might be afraid, hearing again the evils that are about to befall them. And he commands Baruch to do it, and he did. And having written, he read it to the Jews. And when the rulers heard, they reported it to King Jehoiakim. And he, taking the book, burned it. And Jeremiah is commanded to write another such book. And he prophesies disasters to the king on account of this audacious act. He prophesies the capture of Jerusalem; and Jeremiah is arrested and thrown into prison, and having been summoned from there by Zedekiah, he tells him that he will be captured, and asks not to be sent back to the prison. And the rulers, taking him, threw him into the cistern of mire. And Abdamelech brought him up from there. And having been summoned again by the king, he foretells salvation to him, if he should willingly go out to the enemies; but if he should not be willing, destruction for the whole city, and that great evils will befall him. And since he did not persuade him to go out, the barbarian came up, and the city was captured with Zedekiah. And the rulers of Nebuchadnezzar treated Jeremiah well. He foretells salvation to Abdamelech. And they, having received a choice from the captain of the guard, so as to depart wherever they wished, he comes to Gedaliah, whom he had appointed as ruler for those left behind in Judea. The Jews scattered in the fields were gathered to Gedaliah. Ishmael slays Gedaliah, and certain others, and taking the people of Gedaliah, Ishmael went to the land of the Ammonites. And when Johanan, one of the rulers, who was well-disposed toward Gedaliah, saw him, Ishmael fled with only eight men, and Johanan took the people. Having been asked to pray to God for them, and having prayed, and having advised them not to enter Egypt (for God threatens death, if they should resettle there), he did not persuade them. But when they came to Tahpanhes, he exhorts them not to practice idolatry. And when they contradicted, he foretells a great destruction for them, and to the king of the Egyptians he foretells the destruction of Egypt, and of the other nations, he tells of the destruction of the Moabites, and of the Ammonites and Edomites, he foretells the destruction of Damascus and Elam, and the destruction of Babylon, and the return of the Jews from there. How Jerusalem was captured he foretells, and how Jehoiachin, who willingly surrendered to Nebuchadnezzar with his mother, came from dishonor to honor. Synopsis of the things spoken to the prophet Ezekiel. The prophet sees the vision of the Cherubim, and is commanded to speak to the Israelites from God. 56.381 He is carried by the Spirit into the captivity, and is urged by God to announce with boldness and without hesitation to both the lawless and the righteous the way that leads to life, and to proclaim the commandments of God. He is commanded to shut himself in, and to proclaim the siege of Jerusalem through the model of the brick and the pan. And he is commanded also to lie on one side for a number of days, showing the affliction that will be for the people in the captivity. He foretells through the loaves, which he makes on dung, and through the division of the hair, their death and their dispersion; and the desolation of the city and

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ἀγαθὰ ἔτι προσδοκῶσιν, ἅπερ ἦλθον. Περὶ τῶν ἀναιρεθέντων παιδίων ὑπὸ Ἡρώδου. Περὶ τῆς Νέας ∆ιαθήκης προφητεία. Καὶ τὴν ἐν τῷ τόπῳ δὲ τούτῳ οἰκοδομὴν γεγραμμένην τῆς πόλεως ἔτι προσδοκῶσιν Ἰουδαῖοι. Καὶ αὕτη δὲ τέλος ἔσχεν, ὅτε ἀνῆλθον ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος γενομένη. Κελεύεται ὁ Ἱερεμίας ἀγοράσαι τὸν ἀγρὸν τοῦ πατραδέλφου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀγοράσας λέγει, ὅτι ἡ πόλις παρεδόθη, καὶ 56.380 κελεύειν ἀγοράσαι ἀγρόν. Ὁ δὲ Θεός φησι πρὸς αὐτόν· Τὰ μὲν παρόντα κακὰ διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας τοῦ λαοῦ· ἔσται καιρὸς, ὅτε πάλιν κατοικηθήσεται ἡ πόλις. Προλέγει τῷ Σεδεκίᾳ, ὅτι ἁλώσεται, καὶ ἐγκαλεῖ τοὺς δούλους, οὓς ἠλευθέρωσαν, πάλιν καταδουλωσαμένοις, καὶ ἀπειλεῖ μεγάλην ἔσεσθαι συμφοράν. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο κελεύει τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰωναδὰβ ποιεῖν οἶκον. Οἱ δὲ παραιτοῦνται. Κελεύεται ὁ Ἱερεμίας γράψαι, ὅσα προεφήτευσεν ἐπὶ Ἰσραὴλ, ἵνα οὕτω γοῦν φοβηθῶσιν, ἀκούσαντες πάλιν τὰ μέλλοντα αὐτοὺς διαδέχεσθαι κακά. Ὁ δὲ προστάσσει τῷ Βαροὺχ, τοῦ ποιῆσαι, καὶ ἐποίησε. Καὶ γράψας ἀνέγνω τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις. Ὡς δὲ ἤκουσαν οἱ ἄρχοντες, ἀνήγγειλαν τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἰωακείμ. Ὁ δὲ λαβὼν τὸ βιβλίον κατέκαυσε. Καὶ κελεύεται Ἰερεμίας ἕτερον γράψαι βιβλίον τοιοῦτον. Καὶ προφητεύει τῷ βασιλεῖ συμφορὰς διὰ τὸ τόλμημα τοῦτο. Προφητεύει τὴν ἅλωσιν Ἱερουσαλήμ· καὶ συλλαμβάνεται καὶ ἐμβάλλεται εἰς δεσμωτήριον ὁ Ἱερεμίας, καὶ μεταπεμφθεὶς ἐκεῖθεν ὑπὸ Σεδεκίου, λέγει αὐτῷ, ὅτι ἁλώσεται, καὶ ἀξιοῖ ὥστε μὴ παραπεμφθῆναι εἰς τὸ δεσμωτήριον. Καὶ λαβόντες αὐτὸν οἱ ἄρχοντες ἐνέβαλον εἰς τὸν λάκκον τοῦ βορβόρου. Καὶ ἀνήγαγεν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖθεν ὁ Ἀβδαμελέκ. Καὶ μεταπεμφθεὶς πάλιν ὑπὸ τοῦ βασιλέως, προαγορεύει αὐτῷ σωτηρίαν, εἰ βουληθείη ἑκὼν ἐξελθεῖν πρὸς τοὺς πολεμίους· εἰ δὲ μὴ βουληθείη, ὄλεθρον πάσῃ τῇ πόλει, καὶ αὐτῷ μεγάλα κακὰ ἔσεσθαι. Ὡς δὲ οὐκ ἔπεισεν ἐξελθεῖν, ἀνῆλθεν ὁ βάρβαρος, καὶ ἑάλω ἡ πόλις μετὰ Σεδεκίου. Καὶ τῷ Ἱερεμίᾳ εὖ ἐχρήσαντο οἱ ἄρχοντες τοῦ Ναβουχοδονόσορ. Τῷ Ἀβδεμελὲκ προαγορεύει σωτηρίαν. Αὐτοὺς δὲ λαβόντας αἵρεσιν παρὰ τοῦ ἀρχιμαγείρου, ὥστε ἀπελθεῖν ὅπου βούλοιντο, ἔρχεται πρὸς Γοδολίαν, ὃν κατέστησεν ἄρχοντα τοῖς ὑπολειφθεῖσιν ἐν τῇ Ἰουδαίᾳ. Συνήχθησαν πρὸς Γοδολίαν οἱ διεσπαρμένοι ἐν τοῖς ἀγροῖς Ἰουδαῖοι. Ἰσμαὴλ ἀναιρεῖ τὸν Γοδολίαν, καὶ ἑτέρους τινὰς, καὶ λαβὼν τὸν λαὸν τοῦ Γοδολίου, ἐπορεύθη εἰς τὴν Ἀμμωνῖτιν χῶραν ὁ Ἰσμαήλ. Ὡς δὲ εἶδεν αὐτὸν ὁ Ἰωάνναν, εἷς τις τῶν ἀρχόντων, εὐνοϊκῶς διακείμενος πρὸς Γοδολίαν, ἔφυγε μετὰ τῶν ὀκτὼ μόνων ἀνδρῶν ὁ Ἰσμαὴλ, καὶ τὸν λαὸν ἔλαβεν ὁ Ἰωάνναν. Ὥστεδεηθῆναι τοῦ Θεοῦ περὶ αὐτῶν δεηθεὶς, καὶ συμβουλεύσας αὐτοῖς μὴ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς Αἴγυπτον (θάνατον γὰρ ἀπειλεῖν τὸν Θεὸν, εἰ μετοικήσαιεν ἐκεῖ), οὐκ ἔπεισεν. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἦλθον ἕως Τάφνας, παραινεῖ αὐτοῖς μὴ εἰδωλολατρεῖν. Ὡς δὲ ἀντέλεγον, προαγορεύει αὐτοῖς ὄλεθρον μέγαν, καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων τὴν ἀπώλειαν Αἰγύπτου προλέγει, καὶ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων, τὴν ἀπώλειαν Μωαβιτῶν λέγει, καὶ Ἀμμανιτῶν καὶ Ἰδουμαίων, τὴν ἀπώλειαν ∆αμασκοῦ καὶ Ἐλὰμ προλέγει, καὶ τὴν ἀπώλειαν Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ τὴν ἄνοδον τῶν Ἰουδαίων τὴν ἐκεῖθεν. Πῶς ἑάλω Ἱερουσαλὴμ προλέγει, καὶ ἀπὸ ἀτιμίας εἰς τιμὴν ἦλθε Ἰωακεὶμ, ὁ ἑκὼν προσχωρήσας τῷ Ναβουχοδονόσορ μετὰ τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ. Σύνοψις τῶν τῷ προφήτῃ Ἰεζεκιὴλ εἰρημένων. Ὁρᾷ τὴν ὀπτασίαν τῶν Χερουβὶμ ὁ προφήτης, καὶ κελεύεται λαλῆσαι τοῖς Ἰσραηλίταις παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ. 56.381 Φέρεται ὑπὸ τοῦ Πνεύματος εἰς τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν, καὶ παρορμᾶται ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ πρὸς τὸ μετὰ παῤῥησίας καὶ ἀόκνως τοῖς τε ἀνόμοις καὶ τοῖς δικαίοις τὴν εἰς τὴν ζωὴν φέρουσαν διαγγέλλειν, καὶ τὰς τοῦ Θεοῦ προμηνύειν ἐντολάς. Κελεύεται ἐγκλεῖσαι ἑαυτὸν, καὶ τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ πολιορκίαν προμηνῦσαι διὰ τοῦ ὑποδείγματος τῆς πλίνθου καὶ τοῦ τηγάνου. Κελεύεται δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ ἓν πλευρὸν κοιμηθῆναι ἡμερῶν ἀριθμὸν, φανερῶν τὴν ἐν τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ ἐσομένην τῷ λαῷ θλίψιν. Προλέγει διὰ τῶν ἄρτων, οὓς ἐπὶ βολβίτων ποιεῖ, καὶ διὰ τοῦ μερισμοῦ τῶν τριχῶν τὸν θάνατον αὐτῶν καὶ τὴν διασποράν· καὶ τὴν ἐρήμωσιν τῆς πόλεως καὶ