...failure dissolves the involuntary ignorance of the Jews concerning Christ? But the saying, "You, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," was spoken in this sense: That, when they recognize that they crucified me in ignorance, and they ask for a ransom for their offenses, you would grant it to them. For forgiveness is not given to one who considers his own sin not to be a sin but rather righteousness. And what was said by Paul, "I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge," was spoken sparingly with the condescension of the word; becoming weak to the weak, so that according to what was said, he might save the weak. Question 109. If God promised to give the gift of the resurrection to all who have died, and all, having been raised from the tombs, are about to stand before the judge, how will the Lord's judging the dead and the living be fulfilled? And how will the dead be able to be judged, whose bodies have been cast into tombs, while their souls are separated from their bodies? Response. "We shall not all," he says, "sleep." Therefore, he will judge as living those who are then living, and as dead those who are raised from the dead. "The hour is coming," he says, "and now is, when all who are in the tombs will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who have done good will come out to a resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to a resurrection of judgment." One ought, therefore, according to the faithfulness of the word, to consider the possibility of the matter and not to raise an irrational objection. Question 110. If the Lord promised to give a hundredfold to those who leave father or mother or children and the rest, will such people receive a hundred wives as well? And how, when many who have left the aforementioned things for the sake of the commandment have died in poverty and solitude and the desert, has such a promise not been proven false? Response. Just as he speaks of fathers and mothers and brothers and sisters as those who receive Christ according to a disposition of kinship, having left father and mother, brothers and sisters, so also he speaks of a wife as one who, at the time of abandonment for Christ's sake, provides for the one who has left his natural wife. And the church of the Lord Christ, which from the beginning of the Christian preaching was persecuted and plundered for a long time by its opponents, both Greeks and Jews, from where did it receive such an increase as we see both in spiritual and in human things, if not from the divine and living voice of the Savior, which promised a manifold return and effected the recompense in it? And from where did rich men and women, bringing their own possessions into the desert, seek the anchorites there and supply their needs, as we have learned from the histo...

τέρων ἀποτυχία λυτικὴ τῆς Ἰουδαίων κατὰ Χριστοῦ ἀκουσίου ἀγνοίας; Τὸ δὲ Σὺ πάτερ ἄφες αὐτοῖς, οὐ γὰρ οἴδασι τί ποιοῦσι, κατὰ ταύτην εἴρηται τὴν ἔννοιαν· Ὅτι, γνόντες ὅτι κατ' ἄγνοιάν με ἐσταύρωσαν, καὶ αἰτοῦσι λύτρον τῶν πλημ μελειῶν αὑτῶν, παράσχοις αὐτοῖς. Oὐ γὰρ δίδοται ἄφεσις τῷ νομίζοντι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίαν μὴ εἶναι ἁμαρτίαν ἀλλὰ δι καιοσύνην. Καὶ τὸ εἰρημένον τῷ Παύλῳ, τὸ Μαρτυρῶ αὐ τοῖς ὅτι ζῆλον θεοῦ ἔχουσιν, ἀλλ' οὐ κατ' ἐπίγνωσιν, πεφει σμένως εἴρηται τῇ τοῦ λόγου συγκαταβάσει· ἀσθενὴς τοῖς ἀσθενέσι γινόμενος, ἵνα κατὰ τὸ εἰρημένον σώσῃ τοὺς ἀσθενεῖς. Ἐρώτησις ρθ. Eἰ τὸ τῆς ἀναστάσεως δῶρον πᾶσι τοῖς θανοῦσιν ὁ θεὸς διδόναι ὑπέσχετο, καὶ πάντες ἐκ τῶν τάφων ἀναστάντες τῷ κριτῇ παρίστασθαι μέλλουσι, πῶς πληρωθήσεται τὸ κρίνειν νεκροὺς καὶ ζῶντας τὸν κύριον; Πῶς δὲ νεκροὶ κριθῆναι δυ νήσονται, ὧν τὰ μὲν σώματα ἐν μνήμασιν ἔῤῥιπται, αἱ δὲ ψυχαὶ τῶν σωμάτων κεχωρισμέναι εἰσίν; Ἀπόκρισις. Oὐ πάντες, φησί, κοιμηθησόμεθα. Κρινεῖ οὖν ζῶντας μὲν τοὺς τότε ζῶντας, νεκροὺς δὲ τοὺς ἀνισταμένους ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν. Ἔρχεται, φησίν, ὥρα καὶ νῦν ἐστίν, ὅτε πάντες οἱ ἐν τοῖς μνήμασιν ἀκούσονται τῆς φωνῆς τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ ἐξέρχονται οἱ τὰ ἀγαθὰ ποιήσαντες εἰς ἀνάστασιν ζωῆς, οἱ δὲ τὰ φαῦλα πράξαντες εἰς ἀνάστασιν κρίσεως. Ἐχρῆν οὖν κατὰ τὸ πιστὸν τοῦ λόγου θεωρεῖν τὸ δυνατὸν τοῦ πράγματος καὶ μὴ ἀπορεῖν τὴν ἄλογον ἀπορίαν. Ἐρώτησις ρι. Eἰ τοῖς καταλιμπάνουσι πατέρα ἢ μητέρα ἢ τέκνα καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἑκατονταπλασίονα ἐπηγγείλατο διδόναι ὁ κύριος, ἆρα καὶ γυναῖκας ἑκατὸν οἱ τοιοῦτοι ἀντιλήψονται; Πῶς δέ, πολ λῶν τὰ εἰρημένα διὰ τὴν ἐντολὴν καταλιπόντων ἐν πτωχείᾳ καὶ μονότητι καὶ ἐρημίᾳ τελευτησάντων, οὐ διέψευσται ἡ τοι αύτη ὑπόσχεσις; Ἀπόκρισις. Ὥσπερ πατέρας καὶ μητέρας καὶ ἀδελφοὺς καὶ ἀδελφὰς λέγει τοὺς κατ' οἰκειωτικὴν διάθεσιν προσλαμβανομένους τὸν Χριστόν, καταλείψαντας πατέρα τε καὶ μητέρα, ἀδελφούς τε καὶ ἀδελφάς, οὕτως καὶ γυναῖκα λέγει τὴν ἐν καιρῷ τῆς διὰ Χριστὸν ἐγκαταλείψεως προνοουμένην τοῦ καταλείψαντος τὴν φύσει γυναῖκα. Ἡ δὲ ἐκκλησία τοῦ δεσπότου Χριστοῦ, ἡ ἐξ ἀρχῆς τοῦ χριστιανικοῦ κηρύγματος ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτῇ ἀντικειμένων Ἑλλήνων τε καὶ Ἰουδαίων διωκομένη καὶ ἁρπαζομένη πολυχρο νίως, πόθεν ἔν τε τοῖς πνευματικοῖς καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀνθρωπικοῖς τοσαύτην ἣν ὁρῶμεν ἐπίδοσιν ἐδέξατο, μὴ τῆς θείας τε καὶ ζώσης τοῦ σωτῆρος φωνῆς, τῆς κατὰ πολυπλασιασμὸν ὑπο σχομένης, καὶ τὴν ἀντίδοσιν ἐνεργησάσης ἐν αὐτῇ; Πόθεν δὲ πλούσιοι ἄνδρες τε καὶ γυναῖκες τὰς ἑαυτῶν ὑπάρξεις ἐπιφε ρόμενοι ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τοὺς ἐκεῖσε ἀναχωρητὰς ἐζήτησαν καὶ τούτων τὰ ὑστερήματα ἐπλήρωσαν, καθὰ ἔγνωμεν ἐκ τῆς ἱστο