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power bore and nourished. The grace of the Spirit personifies these things, teaching not to be proud in themselves but to know the provider of good things. 5When it becomes audible to Egypt, pain will seize them concerning Tyre. For from the misfortunes of Tyre the Egyptians will be anxious for themselves. 6Depart to Carthage, wail, |129 a| you who dwell in this island. There was an ancient friendship for the Carthaginians and Tyrians, and the cities made commercial contracts with one another. For this reason indeed he urges the Carthaginians also to wail. 7Was not this your hubris from the beginning, before she was handed over? The account of the punishment teaches what is just. For hubris, that is, lawlessness and arrogance, preceded the siege. Her own feet will lead her far away into exile. Her feet he calls her way, that is, the practices of their lives. For because of these things she became captive to the spear. This the same prophet also says elsewhere: "Woe to the lawless one, evil things will happen to him according to the works of his hands." 8Who planned these things against Tyre? Who cast this vote against her? Is she weaker or not strong? Instead of: Is she a small city and having little power, not sufficient to stand against enemies? Then he shows her prosperity: Her merchants are the rulers of Canaan, and her traders are the glorious ones of the earth. And indeed she is a most royal city and a much-celebrated emporium of the inhabited world. What then is the cause of the misfortunes? 9The Lord Sabaoth planned to undo all the hubris of the glorious and to dishonor everything glorious upon the earth. Here he calls the arrogant and the proud "glorious." For he opposes these. For he does not strip of glory those having the renown of virtue, but those who are ignorant of their nature and think themselves above it. 10Work your land, for ships no longer come from Carthage. 11And your hand is no longer strong at sea, provoking kings. Cease from commerce and take up agriculture, and instead of the sea, work the land. For you will no longer perhaps enjoy abundance from the sea, nor will you be an object of envy to neighboring kings. The Lord Sabaoth has commanded concerning Canaan to destroy her strength. 12And they will say: No longer continue to commit hubris and to wrong the virgin daughter of Sidon. He calls Canaan not the nature but the manner. And the words themselves make this clear; for while accusing Tyre, he cares for Sidon, and Sidon is the firstborn of Canaan; for he says, "Canaan begot Sidon his firstborn." It is worthy to marvel at and to praise the philanthropy of the master, because of the two cities, both Tyre and Sidon, which embraced impiety and lawlessness, he accuses the one but cares for the other, since Tyre committed injustice, taking her prominence as an occasion for arrogance, while Sidon was wronged by her; and the philanthropic God did not look away at her impiety, but at the injustice she endured. And if you go to the Kittim, not even there will there be rest for you; 13and to the land of the Chaldeans, and it has been desolated by the Assyrians, not even there will there be rest for you, because its wall has fallen, he founded it for fleets, he set up its battlements, they raised its towers; its wall has fallen. As the enemies attacked from all sides and all kinds of evils surrounded her, he poses a question to her: Where, he says, have you planned to go? To the Kittim, that is, to Cyprus? But not even there will you find a pause from evils. For it is easy for those who have ships, using their power, to lead you even from there and carry you away captive to the spear. But did you plan to take refuge in Babylon, trusting in your ancient kinship? -for indeed Nimrod who built it traces his lineage from Canaan-but the impious and lawless life made this city also desolate of its inhabitants. For the word hints at this, saying: It has been desolated by the Assyrians, that is.... of her and of her own impiety and lawlessness. Its wall has fallen, instead of: it has been stripped of all security. He founded

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δύναμις ἔτεκε καὶ ἐξέθρεψεν. Προσωποποιεῖ δὲ ταῦτα ἡ χάρις τοῦ πνεύματος διδάσκουσα μὴ ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς μέγα φρονεῖν ἀλλ' εἰδέναι τὸν τῶν ἀγαθῶν χορηγόν. 5Ὅταν δὲ ἀκουστὸν γένηται Αἰγύπτῳ, λήψεται αὐτοὺς ὀδύνη περὶ Τύρου. Ἀπὸ γὰρ τῶν συμφορῶν τοῦ Τύρου οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι σφ ᾶς αὐτοὺς μεριμνήσουσιν. 6Ἀπέλθετε εἰς Καρχηδόνα, ὀλολύξατε |129 a| οἱ κατοικοῦντες ἐν τῇ νήσῳ ταύτῃ. Παλαιὰ ἦν Καρχηδονίοις καὶ Τυρίοις φιλία, καὶ τὰ τῆς ἐμπορίας συμβόλαια πρὸς ἀλλήλας αἱ πόλεις ἐποιοῦντο. Οὗ δὴ χάριν καὶ τοῖς Καρχηδονίοις ὀλολύζειν παρακελεύεται. 7Οὐχ αὕτη ἦν ὑμῶν ἡ ὕβρις ἡ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς πρὶν ἢ παραδοθῆναι αὐτήν; ∆ιδάσκει ὁ λόγος τῆς τιμωρίας τὸ δίκαιον. Ὕβρις γάρ, τουτέστι παρανομία καὶ ἀλαζονεία, τῆς πολιορκίας ἡγήσατο. Ἀπάξουσιν αὐτὴν οἱ πόδες αὐτῆς πόρρωθεν εἰς ἀποικίαν. Πόδας αὐτῆς καλεῖ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτῆς, τουτέστι τῶν βίων τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα. ∆ιὰ ταῦτα γὰρ ἐγένετο δορυάλωτος. Τοῦτο καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ λέγει ὁ αὐτὸς προφήτης· «Οὐαὶ τῷ ἀνόμῳ, πονηρὰ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ συμβήσεται αὐτῷ.» 8Τίς ταῦτα ἐβουλεύσατο ἐπὶ Τύρον; Τίς ταύτην κατ' αὐτῆς τὴν ψῆφον ἐξήνεγκεν; Μὴ ἥσσων ἐστὶν ἢ οὐκ ἰσχύει; Ἀντὶ τοῦ· Μὴ μικρὰ πόλις ἐστὶ καὶ ὀλίγην ἔχουσα δύναμιν, οὐκ ἀποχρῶσαν τοῖς πολεμίοις ἀνθίστασθαι; Εἶτα δείκνυσιν αὐτῆς τὴν εὐπραξί αν · Οἱ ἔμποροι αὐτῆς ἄρχοντες Χαναάν, καὶ οἱ μεταβόλοι αὐτῆς ἔνδοξοι τῆς γῆς. Καὶ μὴν βασιλικωτά τη πόλις ἐστὶ καὶ πολυθρύλητον τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐμπόριον. Τίς τοίνυν ἡ αἰτία τῶν συμφορῶν; 9Κύριος Σαβαὼθ ἐβουλεύσατο παραλῦσαι πᾶσαν τὴν ὕβριν τῶν ἐνδόξων καὶ ἀτιμάσαι πᾶν ἔνδοξον ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. Ἐνδόξους ἐνταῦθα τοὺς ἀλαζόνας καὶ ὑπερηφάνους καλεῖ. Τούτοις γὰρ ἀντιτάσσεται. Οὐ γὰρ τοὺς τῆς ἀρετῆς ἔχοντας κλέος τῆς δόξης γυμνοῖ ἀλλὰ τοὺς τὴν φύσιν ἀγνοοῦντας καὶ ὑπὲρ ταύτην φρονοῦντας. 10Ἐργάζου τὴν γῆν σου, καὶ γὰρ πλοῖα οὐκέτι ἔρχεται ἐκ Καρχηδόνος. 11Ἡ δὲ χείρ σου οὐκέτι ἰσχύει κατὰ θάλασσαν παροξύνουσα βασιλεῖς. Παῦσαι ἀπὸ τῆς ἐμπορίας καὶ ἔχου τῆς γεωργίας καὶ ἀντὶ τῆς θαλάσσης ἐργάζου τὴν γῆν. Οὐκέτι γὰρ ἴσως τῆς ἀπὸ θαλάττης ἀφθονίας ἀπολαύσεις οὐδὲ ἐπίφθονος ἔσῃ τοῖς πελάζουσι βασιλεῦσιν. Κύριος Σαβαὼθ ἐντέταλται περὶ Χαναὰν ἀπολέσαι αὐτῆς τὴν ἰσχύν. 12Καὶ ἐροῦσιν· Οὐκέτι μὴ προσθῆτε τοῦ ὑβρίζειν καὶ ἀδικεῖν τὴν παρθένον θυγατέρα Σιδῶνος. Χαναὰν οὐ τὴν φύσιν ἀλλὰ τὸν τρόπον καλεῖ. Καὶ δηλοῖ αὐτὰ τὰ ῥήματα· τῆς γὰρ Τύρου κατηγορῶν κήδεται τῆς Σιδῶνος, ἡ δὲ Σιδὼν π ρω τότοκος τοῦ Χαναάν· «Χαναὰν» γάρ φησιν «ἐγέννησε τὸν Σιδῶνα πρωτότοκον.» Ἄξιον δὲ θαυμάσαι τε κ αὶ ὑμνῆσαι τὴν τοῦ δεσπότου φιλανθρωπίαν, ὅτι τῶν δύο πόλεων, καὶ τῆς Τύρου καὶ τῆς Σιδῶνος, τὴν ἀσέ βειαν καὶ τὴν παρανομίαν ἀσπαζομένων τῆς μὲν κατηγορεῖ τῆς δὲ κήδεται, ἐπειδὴ ἡ μὲν Τύρος ἠδίκ ησεν ἀφορμὴν εἰς ἀλαζονείαν τὴν περιφάνειαν ἔχουσα, ἠδικεῖτο δὲ παρ' αὐτῆς ἡ Σιδών· καὶ οὐκ ἀφεώρα ὁ φ ιλάνθρωπος θεὸς εἰς τὴν αὐτῆς ἀσέβειαν ἀλλ' εἰς ἣν ὑπέμεινεν ἀδικίαν. Καὶ ἐὰν ἀπέλθῃς εἰς Κιτιεῖς, οὐδὲ ἐκεῖ ἀνάπαυσις ἔσται σοι· 13καὶ εἰς γῆν Χαλδαίων, καὶ αὐτὴ ἠρήμωται ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων, οὐδὲ ἐκεῖ ἀνάπαυσις ἔσται σοι, ὅτι πέπτωκε τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς, ἐθεμελίωσεν αὐτὴν σιίμ, ἔστησεν ἐπάλξεις αὐτῆς, ἐξήγειραν βάρεις αὐτῆς· ὁ τοῖχος αὐτῆς πέπτωκεν. Ὡς τῶν πολεμίων πανταχόθεν προσβαλόντων καὶ παν το δαπῶν αὐτὴν κυκλωσάντων κακῶν ἐρώτησιν αὐτῇ προσάγει· Ποῦ φησι βεβούλευσ αι ἀπελθεῖν ; εἰ ς Κι τιεῖς, τουτέστιν εἰς Κύπρον; Ἀλλ' οὐδὲ ἐκεῖ παῦλαν εὑρήσεις κακῶν. Ῥᾴδιον γὰρ τοῖς ἔχουσι ν αῦ ν, πρ οσ χρ ησα μένοις δυνάμει κἀκεῖθεν ἀγαγεῖν σε καὶ ἀπαγαγεῖν δορυάλωτον. Ἀλλὰ τὴν Βα βυλῶνα καταλαβεῖν ἐβουλεύσω τῇ ἀρχαίᾳ συγγενείᾳ θαρροῦσα; -καὶ γὰρ Νεβρὼδ ὁ ταύτην δείμα ς ἐκ τοῦ Χαναὰν κατάγει τὸ γένος-ἀλλὰ καὶ ταύτην ἔρημον εἰργάσατο τῶν οἰκητόρων ὁ δυσσεβὴς καὶ παρά νομος βίος. Τοῦτο γὰρ ὁ λόγος αἰνίττεται λέγων· Ἠρήμωται ὑπὸ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων, τουτέστιν .... αὐτῆς καὶ τῆς οἰκείας δυσσεβείας τε καὶ παρανομίας. Πέπτωκε τὸ τεῖχος αὐτῆς, ἀντὶ τοῦ· ἀσφαλείας πάσης γεγύμνωται. Ἐθεμελίωσεν