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of the prophecy that says, and the handmade things of Egypt will be shaken. But these things will also be fulfilled during his second and glorious kingdom from the heavens, during which it would also likely be shaken; and then the aforementioned handmade things of Egypt will be more violently shaken, whose heart they also say will be defeated, as the divine Word subjects them to himself and will then humble every high thing that is now exalted against the knowledge of God; But all that follows in the prophecy will be rendered through allegory alone. Ps. 11. In that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the land of the Egyptians, and a pillar at its border to the Lord; and it will be for a sign forever, the Lord in the land 190 of Egypt; for they will cry to the Lord because of those who afflict them, and he will send them a man who will save them, judging he will save them; and the Lord will be known to the Egyptians; and the Egyptians will know the Lord in that day; and they will make sacrifices and a gift; and they will make vows to God. And who else could be the man sent by the Lord, who saved the Egyptians by judging, than the Christ of God, he who took the form of a servant and was found in appearance as a man. And if Egypt is understood tropologically as the life of men, the superstitious and those who have suffered from material things would be the Egyptians, whom the God of all pitied as they were afflicted by the demons that tyrannized them, having sent the aforementioned man, who saved with a salvation befitting God, so that those who were formerly excluded from the assembly of the Lord according to the law might, through the epiphany that came to them, know the Lord, the Lord himself making himself known to them; and it is clear how in the declared land of the Egyptians an altar was established for the Lord from the gatherings held in every place for prayers and the worship of God. But someone might say, proceeding from the phrase, and there will be an altar to the Lord in the land of the Egyptians, that if indeed the altar is a certain place of sacrifices, where irrational animals are slaughtered for the Word of God, most justly a greater and truer altar for God has come to be through Christ in the whole terrestrial place, which is tropologically called Egypt, because of the martyrs everywhere being sacrifices and, as it were, 191 victims offered up to God on behalf of the human race, and in the physical land of the Egyptians itself, where so many and such great martyrs glorified God with their own blood; but if those of the circumcision are unconvinced by what has been rendered, let them say themselves when and where and by whom an altar was established for the Lord in Egypt, and who is the man who saved the Egyptians, and in what way and when did the Lord become known to the Egyptians, so that they, having departed from their former error, received the knowledge of him; for such is what it is to know the Lord. And all the rest of the prophecy depends on a deeper meaning, which this is not the time to unfold. Ps. 12. O Lord, in affliction I remembered you; in a little affliction is your instruction to us; and as a woman in travail draws near to giving birth, and in her pangs she cried out, so have we become for your beloved. A certain inscription in the Psalms is titled "for the beloved"; and again it is said, "the king of powers of the beloved"; but it is shown in those places that the one called the beloved of God is none other than Christ. For this reason we have also noted the "beloved" at hand; considering him to be that one, whom also a voice from heaven clearly proclaimed, saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." 192 Ps. 13. Hear the words of the Lord, you afflicted men, and rulers of this people who are in Jerusalem; Because you said, "We have made a covenant with Hades, and agreements with death; if a rushing tempest should pass by, it will not come upon us; we have made falsehood our hope, and by falsehood we will be sheltered;" therefore thus says the Lord, the Lord: "Behold, I am laying in the foundations of Zion a precious stone,

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τῆς λεγούσης προφητείας, καὶ σεισθήσεται τὰ χειροποίητα Αἰγύπτου. Ταῦτα δὲ καὶ κατὰ τὴν δευτέραν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔνδοξον ἀπ' οὐρανῶν βασιλείαν πληρωθήσεται, καθ' ἣν καὶ αὐτὴν σεισθήσεσθαι εἰκὸς ἂν εἴη· καὶ τότε μᾶλλον κλονηθήσεσθαι τὰ ἀποδεδομένα χειροποιητὰ Αἰγύπτου, ὧν καὶ τὴν καρδίαν ἡττηθήσεσθαι φασὶν, ἐν αὐτοῖς τοῦ θείου Λόγου καθυποτάξαντος ἑαυτῷ καὶ ταπεινώσοντος τότε πᾶν ὕψωμα τὸ νῦν ἐπαιρόμενον κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ· τὰ δ' ἑξῆς τῆς προφητείας ἅπαντα διὰ μόνης ἀποδοθήσεται τροπολογίας. Ψ. ΙΑʹ. Τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἔσται θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐν χώρᾳ Αἰγυπτίων, καὶ στήλη πρὸς τὸ ὅριον αὐτῆς τῷ Κυρίῳ· καὶ ἔσται εἰς σημεῖον εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα Κύριος ἐν χώρᾳ 190 Αἰγύπτου· ὅτι κεκράξονται πρὸς Κύριον διὰ τοὺς θλίβοντας αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀποστελεῖ αὐτοῖς ἄνθρωπον ὃς σώσει αὐτοὺς, κρίνων σώσει αὐτούς· καὶ γνωστὸς ἔσται Κύριος τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις· καὶ γνώσονται οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι τὸν Κύριον ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ· καὶ ποιήσουσιν θυσίας καὶ δῶρον· καὶ εὔξονται εὐχὰς τῷ Θεῷ. Καὶ τίς ἂν ἄλλος εἴη ὁ ἀποσταλεὶς ὑπὸ Κυρίου ἄνθρωπος, καὶ σώσας τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους διὰ τοῦ κρίνειν, ἢ ὁ Χριστὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὁ μορφὴν δούλου λαβὼν καὶ σχήματι εὑρεθεὶς ὡς ἄνθρωπος. Αἰγύπτου δὲ τροπικῶς νοουμένου τοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων βίου, εἶεν ἂν οἱ δεισιδαίμονες καὶ τοῖς ὑλικοῖς προπεπονθότες Αἰγύπτιοι, οὓς ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς κατελεήσας θλιβομένους ὑπὸ τῶν κατατυραννούντων αὐτοὺς δαιμόνων, ἀποστείλας τὸν προειρημένον ἄνθρωπον, ὃς ἔσωσεν σωτηρίαν Θεῷ πρέπουσαν, ὥστε τοὺς πάλαι κατὰ τὸν νόμον εἰργομένους τῆς ἐκκλησίας Κυρίου διὰ τῆς γενομένης αὐτοῖς ἐπιφανίας ἐπιγνῶναι τὸν Κύριον, αὐτοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου γνωστὸν αὑτὸν αὐτοῖς ἐμποιοῦντος· σαφὲς δ' ὅπως ἐν τῇ δηλωθείσῃ τῇ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων χώρᾳ συνέστη τῷ Κυρίῳ θυσιαστήριον ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν παντὶ τόπῳ εἰς εὐχὰς καὶ Θεοῦ θρησκείαν ἐπιτελουμένων ἀθροισμάτων. Εἴποι δ' ἄν τις ἐπιβαίνων τῇ λέξει εἰς τὸ, καὶ ἔσται θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐν χώρᾳ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων, εἰ δὴ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τόπος τίς ἐστιν θυμάτων, ἐπὶ λόγῳ Θεοῦ ζῴων ἀλόγων σφαγιαζομένων, δικαιότατα ἂν μεῖζον καὶ ἀληθέστερον διὰ Χριστοῦ γεγονέναι τῷ Θεῷ θυσιαστήριον ἐν ὅλῳ τε τῷ περιγείῳ τόπῳ, Αἰγύπτῳ τροπικῶς χρηματίζοντι, διὰ τοὺς πανταχόσε μάρτυρας θύματα καὶ οἱονεὶ 191 σφάγια ὑπὲρ τοῦ γένους τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἀναφερομένων τῷ Θεῷ καὶ ἐν αὐτῇ δὲ τῇ σωματικῇ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων χώρᾳ, ἔνθα τοσοῦτοι καὶ τηλικοῦτοι μάρτυρες ἐδόξασαν τὸν Θεὸν τῷ ἰδίῳ αὐτῶν αἵματι· ἀλλ' εἰ δυσπειθῶς ἔχοιεν πρὸς τὰ ἀποδεδομένα οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς, λεγέτωσαν αὐτοὶ πότε καὶ ποῦ καὶ πρὸς τίνος θυσιαστήριον κατέστη τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, τίς δὲ ὁ ἄνθρωπος ὁ σώσας τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους, τίνα τε τρόπον καὶ πότε γνωστὸς ἐγένετο Κύριος τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις, ὥστε αὐτοὺς ἀποστάντας τῆς προτέρας πλάνης τὴν περὶ αὐτοῦ γνῶσιν ἀναλαβεῖν· τοιοῦτον γάρ ἐστι τὸ ἐπιγνῶναι Κύριον. Καὶ ὅλα δὲ τὰ ἑξῆς τῆς προφητείας βαθυτέρας ἤρτηται διανοίας, ἣν οὐχ ὁ παρὼν ἀναπτύσσειν καιρός. Ψ. ΙΒʹ. Κύριε, ἐν θλίψει ἐμνήσθην σου· ἐν θλίψει μικρᾷ ἡ παιδεία σου ἡμῖν· καὶ ὡς ἡ ὠδίνουσα ἐγγίζει τοῦ τεκεῖν, καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ ὠδῖνι αὐτῆς ἐκέκραξεν, οὕτως ἐγενήθημεν τῷ ἀγαπητῷ σου. Ἐπιγραφή τις ἐν Ψαλμοῖς ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ φέρεται· καὶ πάλιν εἴρηται, ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν δυνάμεων τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ· δείκνυται δ' ἐν τοῖς τόποις οὐκ ἄλλος ὢν τοῦ Χριστοῦ λεγόμενος ἀγαπητὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ. Τούτου χάριν ἐπεσημηνάμεθα καὶ τὸν ἐν χερσὶν ἀγαπητόν· αὐτὸν ἐκεῖνον ὑπολαμβάνοντες εἶναι, ὃν καὶ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ φωνὴ σαφῶς ἀνεκήρυξε φήσασα, Οὗτος ἐστὶν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητὸς ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα. 192 Ψ. ΙΓʹ. Ἀκούσατε λόγων Κυρίου, ἄνδρες τεθλιμμένοι, καὶ ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ τούτου οἱ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ· Ὅτι εἴπατε, Ἐποιήσαμεν διαθήκην μετὰ τοῦ Ἅιδου, καὶ μετὰ τοῦ θανάτου συνθήκας· καταιγὶς φερομένη ἐὰν παρέλθῃ, οὐ μὴ ἔλθῃ ἐφ' ἡμᾶς· ἐθήκαμεν ψεῦδος τὴν ἐλπίδα ἡμῶν, καὶ τῷ ψεύδει σκεπασθησόμεθα· διὰ τοῦτο οὕτως λέγει Κύριος Κύριος· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐμβάλλω εἰς τὰ θεμέλια Σιὼν λίθον πολυτελῆ,