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I will restore the land. 35, 30. Then I will bring you out into the wilderness of the peoples, and I will enter into judgment with you there face to face. In the way that I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of Egypt, so will I judge you, says Adonai the Lord. And he calls the nations the wilderness of peoples, being formerly desolate of God; and through this he signified beforehand that when piety was brought to the nations, these too will depart from the worship of idols, being ashamed of the change of the formerly impious nations. And the phrase, "I will enter into judgment with you face to face," reveals the reproof that comes through deeds; For the deeds themselves, he says, then all but crying out, will convict your disobedient and lawless mind, showing the obedience of the peoples formerly deprived; just as, therefore, having entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness, I delivered them to utter 81.1001 destruction; so also I will bring punishment upon you; and this he has made clearer through the following words, having said: 37, 38. And I will make you pass under my rod, and I will bring you into the number of the covenant; And I will choose out from you the impious, and those who have fallen away. For the impious, and those who have abandoned my legislation, I will scatter using the rod, but those worthy of the number, and who have become guardians of my covenant, I will bring in, and I will deem them worthy of my providence. And through these things he signified both the apostolic choir, and those who through it have believed in the divine preaching; then, persisting in the threat against the wicked, he adds: "Because I will bring them out from the land of their sojourning, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel; and you shall know that I am the Lord." For having brought them back from captivity, he says, these very ones who have behaved in an impious manner I will scatter again among all the nations. And this received its fulfillment after the cross of our Savior; for the Romans, having enslaved them, scattered them throughout the inhabited world, and drove them from their royal city; thus having foretold the grievous things, the philanthropist again offers them exhortation and counsel; for he is mindful of his own promises; and he said that he does not desire the death of the lawless one, so much as that he should turn and live. Therefore he says: 39, 40. And you, O house of Israel, thus says Adonai the Lord: Let each one cast away his practices; and after this, if you will listen to me, you will no longer profane my holy name with your gifts and with your practices. Because on my holy mountain, on the high mountain of Israel, says Adonai the Lord; there the whole house of Israel will serve me completely in the land, and there I will accept them, and there I will look for your first-fruits, and the first-fruits of your consecrated gifts in all your holy things. For if you are willing to be persuaded, he says, and you cease from profaning my holy name (for being called by my name, and living lawlessly, and offering gifts to idols, you attribute to me the blasphemy of impiety); you will return to your ancestral land, and you will enjoy the customary providence, offering with a good mind the first-fruits of the good things you receive, and seeing me also accepting them graciously. 41, 42. For with a fragrant aroma, he says, I will accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you from the countries in which you were scattered among them, and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the peoples; And you will know 81.1004 that I am the Lord, when I bring you into the land of Israel, into the land for which I lifted my hand, to give it to your fathers. And he has put "I will be sanctified" instead of "I will be glorified"; for all, seeing both my benefits and your gratitude, will reap much profit, seeing the weakness of their so-called gods, and contemplating my power through my beneficence toward you. 43. And you shall remember there your ways, and all your practices, in which you were defiled in them, and you shall smite your faces

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ἐπανάξω γῆν. λεʹ, λʹ. Ἔπειτα ἐξάξω ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν ἔρημον τῶν λαῶν, καὶ διακριθήσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐκεῖ πρόσωπον κατὰ πρόσωπον. Ὃν τρόπον διεκρίθην πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας ὑμῶν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῆς Αἰ γύπτου, οὕτω κρινῶ ὑμᾶς, λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος. Ἔρημον δὲ καλεῖ λαῶν τὰ ἔθνη πάλαι ἔρημα ὄντα Θεοῦ· προεσήμανε δὲ διὰ τούτου, ὅτι τῆς εὐσεβείας εἰς τὰ ἔθνη ἀχθείσης καὶ οὗτοι τῆς τῶν εἰδώλων ἀποστήσονται θεραπείας, τὴν τῶν πάλαι δυσσεβῶν ἐθνῶν μεταβολὴν αἰσχυνόμενοι. Τὸ δὲ, "∆ιακριθήσο μαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς πρόσωπον κατὰ πρόσωπον," τὸν διὰ τῶν πραγμάτων γινόμενον ἔλεγχον παραδηλοῖ· Αὐτὰ γὰρ, φησὶ, τότε τὰ πράγματα μονονουχὶ βοῶντα δι ελέγχει ὑμῶν τὴν ἀπειθῆ καὶ παράνομον γνώμην, τὴν τῶν πάλαι ἐστερημένων λαῶν εὐπείθειαν δεικνύντα· ὥσπερ τοίνυν πρὸς τοὺς ὑμετέρους πα τέρας ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ διακριθεὶς, ὀλέθρῳ αὐτοὺς παν 81.1001 τελεῖ παραδέδωκα· οὕτω καὶ ὑμῖν ἐπάξω τὴν τιμω ρίαν· καὶ τοῦτο διὰ τῶν ἐπαγομένων σαφέστερον πεποίηκεν, εἰρηκώς· λζʹ, ληʹ. Καὶ διάξω ὑμᾶς ὑπὸ τὴν ῥάβδον μου, καὶ εἰσάξω ὑμᾶς ἐν ἀριθμῷ τῆς διαθήκης· Καὶ ἐκλέ ξομαι ἐξ ὑμῶν τοὺς ἀσεβεῖς, καὶ τοὺς ἀφεστη κότας. Τοὺς μὲν γὰρ ἀσεβεῖς, καὶ τοὺς τὴν ἐμὴν νομο θεσίαν καταλιπόντας τῇ ῥάβδῳ χρησάμενος διασπερῶ, τοὺς δὲ ἀριθμοῦ ἀξίους, καὶ τῆς ἐμῆς διαθήκης φύλα κας γενομένους εἰσάξω, καὶ τῆς ἐμῆς ἀξιώσω προνοίας. Ἐσήμανε δὲ διὰ τούτων τόν τε ἀποστολικὸν χορὸν, καὶ τοὺς δι' ἐκείνου τῷ θείῳ πεπιστευκότας κηρύγματι· εἶτα τῇ κατὰ τῶν πονηρῶν ἐπιμένων ἀπειλῇ, ἐπιφέρει· "∆ιότι ἐκ τῆς γῆς τῆς παροικεσίας αὐτῶν ἐξάξω αὐ τοὺς, καὶ εἰς τὴν γῆν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ οὐκ εἰσελεύσονται· καὶ ἐπιγνώσεσθε ὅτι ἐγὼ Κύριος." Ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας, φησὶν, ἐπαναγαγὼν, τούτους αὐτοὺς τοὺς τρόπῳ δυσσεβεῖ κεχρημένους πάλιν εἰς ἅπαντα διασκεδάσω τὰ ἔθνη. Τοῦτο δὲ μετὰ τὸν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν σταυρὸν τὸ πέρας ἐδέξατο· Ῥωμαῖοι γὰρ αὐ τοὺς ἐξανδραποδίσαντες εἰς τὴν οἰκουμένην κατέσπει ραν, καὶ τῆς βασιλικῆς αὐτῶν ἐξήλασαν πόλεως· οὕτω προαγορεύσας τὰ λυπηρὰ, παραίνεσιν αὐτοῖς πάλιν καὶ συμβουλὴν ὁ φιλάνθρωπος προσφέρει· τῶν οἰκείων γὰρ ὑποσχέσεων μέμνηται· ἔφη δὲ μὴ θέλειν τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἀνόμου, ὡς τὸ ἐπιστρέψαι αὐτὸν καὶ ζῇν. Φησὶ τοίνυν· λθʹ, μʹ. Καὶ ὑμεῖς οἶκος τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ, τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Ἕκαστος δὲ ἐπιτηδεύματα αὑτοῦ ἐξάρατε· καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα, ἐὰν ὑμεῖς εἰσ ακούσητέ μου, καὶ τὸ ὄνομά μου τὸ ἅγιον οὐ βε βηλώσητε οὐκέτι ἐν τοῖς δώροις ὑμῶν καὶ τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν ὑμῶν. ∆ιότι ἐπὶ τοῦ ὄρους μου τοῦ ἁγίου, ἐπ' ὄρους ὑψηλοῦ Ἰσραὴλ, λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· ἐκεῖ δουλεύσουσί μοι πᾶς οἶκος Ἰσραὴλ εἰς τέλος ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐκεῖ προσ δέξομαι αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἐκεῖ ἐπισκέψομαι τὰς ἀπαρ χὰς ὑμῶν, καὶ τὰς ἀπαρχὰς τῶν ἀφορισμῶν ὑμῶν ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἁγιάσμασιν ὑμῶν. Ἐὰν γὰρ πεισθῆναι, φησὶν, ἐθελήσητε, καὶ παύσησθε βεβηλοῦν τες τὸ ὄνομά μου τὸ ἅγιον (ἐξ ἐμοῦ γὰρ προσαγο ρευόμενοι, καὶ παρανόμως ζῶντες, καὶ δῶρα τοῖς εἰδώλοις προσφέροντες, ἐμοὶ τὴν τῆς ἀσεβείας βλασφημίαν προστρίβετε)· εἰς τὴν πατρῴαν ἐπαν ήξετε γῆν, καὶ τῆς συνήθους ἀπολαύσεσθε προμη θείας, προσφέροντες μὲν εὐγνωμόνως, ὧν δέχεσθε ἀγαθῶν τὰς ἀπαρχὰς, ὁρῶντες δὲ κἀμὲ εὐμενῶς προσδεχόμενον. μαʹ, μβʹ. Ἐν ὀσμῇ γὰρ, φησὶν, εὐωδίας προσ δέξομαι ὑμᾶς, ἐν τῷ ἐξαγαγεῖν με ὑμᾶς ἐκ τῶν λαῶν, καὶ εἰσδέχεσθαι ὑμᾶς ἐκ τῶν χωρῶν ἐν αἷς διεσκορπίσθητε ἐν αὐταῖς, καὶ ἁγιασθήσομαι ἐν ὑμῖν κατ' ὀφθαλμοὺς τῶν λαῶν· Καὶ ἐπιγνώσεσθε 81.1004 ὅτι ἐγὼ Κύριος, ἐν τῷ εἰσαγαγεῖν με ὑμᾶς εἰς τὴν γῆν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ, εἰς τὴν γῆν εἰς ἣν ἐπῆρα τὴν χεῖρά μου, τοῦ δοῦναι αὐτὴν τοῖς πατράσιν ὑμῶν. Τὸ δὲ ἁγιασθήσομαι ἀντὶ τοῦ δοξασθήσο μαι τέθεικεν· ὁρῶντες γὰρ ἅπαντες καὶ τὰς ἐμὰς εὐεργεσίας, καὶ τὴν ὑμετέραν εὐγνωμοσύνην, πολλὴν ὠφέλειαν καρπώσονται, τῶν μὲν καλουμένων αὐτῶν θεῶν βλέποντες τὴν ἀσθένειαν, τὴν δὲ ἐμὴν διὰ τῆς περὶ ὑμᾶς εὐεργεσίας δύναμιν θεωροῦντες. μγʹ. Καὶ μνησθήσεσθε ἐκεῖ τῶν ὁδῶν ὑμῶν, καὶ τῶν ἐπιτηδευμάτων ὑμῶν πάντων, ἐν οἷς ἐμιάνθητε ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ κόψεσθε τὰ πρόσ ωπα