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in the kingdom of Christ and God." These things he also wrote to the Philippians: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are good, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things, which ye have both learned, and received, and seen in me." Likewise he also writes to the Colossians: "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience." And the Old Scripture has legislated in harmony with the New. For God himself says: "Be holy, as I also am holy." And: "Do not pay attention to a wicked woman; for the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, which for a season is sweet to your throat, but afterward you will find it bitterer than gall." And one can find myriad other things condemning this intemperance. But the all-defiled and ill-named called debauchery a mystical communion. 28. —On Repentance. But Holy Scripture not only forbids transgressions, but also heals those who have received their wounds. For it abhors the savagery of Novatus, and accuses those shepherds who have not taken this care of the sheep. And God himself says: "O shepherds, the weak you have not strengthened, and the sick you have not healed, and that which was unwell you did not make whole, and the wandering you did not bring back, and the lost you did not seek." He who accuses those who have not exercised this forethought, it is clear that He wishes the weak of the sheep to be deemed worthy of healing; for this reason He said to the same prophet: "I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from my mouth, and you shall warn him from me. When I say to the sinner, You shall surely die, and you do not warn the sinner 83.548 to warn the wicked man, to turn him from his wicked way that he may live, that lawless man shall die in his iniquity, but I will require his blood at your hand." And after a little: "As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the sinner, but that he should turn from his wicked way, and live." Then exhortatively: "Turn ye, turn ye from your wicked way; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?" Then He commands the prophet to convey this word to them: "And you, son of man, say to the children of your people: The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day that he goes astray. and the iniquity of the lawless shall not kill him in the day that he turns from his iniquity, and does judgment and justice, and restores the pledge of a debtor, and pays back what he has robbed. If the lawless man has walked in the statutes of life, so as not to do injustice, he shall surely live, and shall not die, all his sins that he has committed shall not be remembered against him, because he has done judgment and justice, in them he shall live." And to Nebuchadnezzar the blessed Daniel offered the medicines of repentance. "And now, he says, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to you: and redeem your iniquities with alms, and your injustices with mercy to the poor." And the prophecy of the divine Jeremiah is full of this teaching. For at one time he says: "Return, ye backsliding children, and I will return to you, saith the Lord God." And at another: "Wash your heart from wickedness, O Israel, that you may be saved, lest thoughts of your pains be found in you." And again: "Does not he who falls rise up, or he who turns away not return?" And one can find many other such admonitions from him. And the all-wise

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ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ Χριστοῦ καὶ Θεοῦ." Ταῦτα καὶ Φιλιππησίοις ἐπέστειλε· "Τὸ λοιπὸν, ἀδελφοὶ, ὅσα ἐστὶν ἀληθῆ, ὅσα σεμνὰ, ὅσα ἀγαθὰ, ὅσα δίκαια, ὅσα ἁγνὰ, ὅσα προσφιλῆ, ὅσα εὔφημα, εἴ τις ἀρετὴ, καὶ εἴ τις ἔπαινος, ταῦτα λογίζεσθε, ἃ καὶ ἐμάθετε, καὶ παρ ελάβετε, καὶ εἴδετε ἐν ἐμοί." Ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ Κολοσσαεῦσι γράφει· "Νεκρώσατε οὖν τὰ μέλη ὑμῶν τὰ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, πορνείαν, ἀκαθαρσίαν, πάθος, ἐπιθυμίαν κακὴν, καὶ τὴν πλεονεξίαν, ἥτις ἐστὶν εἰδωλολατρεία, δι' ἃ ἔρχεται ἡ ὀργὴ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπὶ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῆς ἀπειθείας." Καὶ ἡ Παλαιὰ δὲ Γραφὴ συνῳδὰ νενομοθέτηκε τῇ Καινῇ. Καὶ γὰρ αὐτός φησιν ὁ Θεός· "Ἅγιοι γίγνεσθε καθὼς κἀγὼ ἅγιός εἰμι." Καί· "Μὴ πρόσεχε φαύλῃ γυναικί· μέλι γὰρ ἀποστάζει ἀπὸ χειλέων γυναικὸς πόρνης, ἣ πρὸς καιρὸν μὲν γλυκαίνει τὸν σὸν φάρυγγα, ὕστερον δὲ πικρότερον χολῆς εὑρήσεις." Καὶ ἄλλα δὲ μύρια ἔστιν εὑρεῖν ταυτησὶ τῆς ἀκολασίας κατηγοροῦντα. Οἱ δὲ παμμίαροι καὶ δυσώνυμοι, καὶ μυστικὴν κοι νωνίαν ὠνόμασαν τὴν ἀσέλγειαν. ΚΗʹ. -Περὶ μετανοίας. Ἡ δὲ θεία Γραφὴ οὐ μόνον ἀπαγορεύει παρανο μίας, ἀλλὰ καὶ θεραπεύει τοὺς τὰ τούτων τραύμα τα δεξαμένους. Τὴν γὰρ Ναυάτου θηριωδίαν βδελύτ τεται, καὶ κατηγορεῖ τῶν ποιμένων, ὅσοι ταύτην οὐκ ἐποιήσαντο τῶν προβάτων τὴν ἐπιμέλειαν. Καί φησιν αὐτὸς ὁ Θεός· "Ὦ οἱ ποιμένες, τὸ ἠσθενηκὸς οὐκ ἐνισχύσατε, καὶ τὸ ἄῤῥωστον οὐκ ἰάσασθε, καὶ τὸ κακῶς ἔχον οὐκ ἐσωματοποιήσατε, καὶ τὸ πλανώμε νον οὐκ ἐπεστρέψατε, καὶ τὸ ἀπολωλὸς οὐκ ἐπεζη τήσατε." Ὁ δὲ τῶν ταύτην μὴ πεποιημένων τὴν προμήθειαν κατηγορῶν, δῆλον ὅτι βούλεται θερα πείας ἀξιοῦσθαι τὰ ἀσθενῆ τῶν προβάτων· διά τοι τοῦτο πρὸς τὸν αὐτὸν ἔφη προφήτην· "Σκοπὸν δέδωκά σε τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραήλ, καὶ ἀκούσῃ ἐκ τοῦ στόματός μου λόγον, καὶ προφυλάξεις αὐτὸν παρ' ἐμοῦ. Ἐν τῷ εἰπεῖν με τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ, Θανάτῳ ἀποθανῇ, καὶ μὴ διαστείλῃ τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ 83.548 τοῦ φυλάξασθαι τὸν ἀσεβῆ, τοῦ ἀποστρέψαι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ αὑτοῦ τῆς πονηρᾶς τοῦ ζῆσαι αὐτὸν, αὐτὸς ὁ ἄνομος ἐν τῇ ἀνομίᾳ αὐτοῦ ἀποθανεῖται, τὸ δὲ αἷμα αὐτοῦ ἐκ τῆς χειρός σου ἐκζητήσω." Καὶ μετ' ὀλίγα· "Ζῶ ἐγὼ, λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος, ὅτι οὐ βούλομαι τὸν θάνατον τοῦ ἁμαρτωλοῦ, ὡς τὸ ἐπι στρέψαι αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ αὑτοῦ πονηρᾶς, καὶ ζῇν αὐτόν." Εἶτα παραινετικῶς· "Ἐπιστροφῇ ἐπιστρέψατε ἀπὸ τῆς ὁδοῦ ὑμῶν τῆς πονηρᾶς, καὶ ἱνατί ἀποθνήσκετε, οἶκος Ἰσραήλ;" Ἔπειτα κελεύει τῷ προφήτῃ, καὶ τοῦτον πρὸς αὐτοὺς διαπορθμεῦσαι τὸν λόγον· "Καὶ σὺ, υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, εἰπὲ πρὸς τοὺς υἱοὺς τοῦ λαοῦ σου· ∆ικαιοσύνη δικαίου οὐ μὴ ἐξ έληται αὐτὸν ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ πλανηθῇ. καὶ ἀνομία ἀνόμου οὐ μὴ ἀποκτείνῃ αὐτὸν ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἀποστρέψῃ ἀπὸ τῆς ἀνομίας αὑτοῦ, καὶ ποιήσῃ κρῖμα καὶ δικαιοσύνην, καὶ ἐνεχυριασμὸν ὀφείλον τος ἀποδῷ, καὶ ἅρπαγμα ἀποτίσει. Εἰ ὁ ἄνομος ἐν τοῖς προστάγμασι τῆς ζωῆς διαπεπόρευται τοῦ μὴ ποιῆσαι ἄδικον, ζωῇ ζήσεται, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπο θάνῃ, πᾶσαι αἱ ἁμαρτίαι αὐτοῦ ἃς ἥμαρτεν οὐ μὴ μνησθήσονται αὐτοῦ, ὅτι κρῖμα καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἐποίησεν, ἐν αὐτοῖς ζήσεται." Καὶ τῷ Ναβουχοδο νόσορ ὁ μακάριος ∆ανιὴλ τὰ τῆς μετανοίας προσενή νοχε φάρμακα. "Καὶ νῦν γὰρ, φησὶ, βασιλεῦ, ἡ βουλή μου ἀρεσάτω σοι· καὶ ἐν ἐλεημοσύνῃ ἀπόλουσαι τὰς ἀνομίας σου, καὶ τὰς ἀδικίας σου ἐν οἰκτιρμοῖς πενήτων." Ἡ δὲ τοῦ θείου Ἱερεμίου προφητεία ταυτησὶ τῆς διδασκαλίας ἀνάπλεως. Νῦν μὲν γάρ φησιν· "Ἐπιστράφητε, υἱοὶ ἀφεστηκότες, καὶ ἐπιστραφήσομαι πρὸς ὑμᾶς, λέγει Κύριος ὁ Θεός." Νῦν δέ· "Ἀπόπλυνε ἀπὸ κακίας τὴν καρδίαν σου, Ἰσραὴλ, ἵνα σωθῇς, μήποτε εὑρεθῶσιν ἐν σοὶ διαλογισμοὶ πόνων σου." Καὶ πάλιν· "Μὴ ὁ πίπτων οὐκ ἀνίσταται, ἢ ὁ ἀποστρέφων οὐκ ἐπιστρέφει;" Καὶ ἄλλας δὲ πλείστας ἔστιν εὑρεῖν τοιαύτας παρ' αὐτῷ νουθεσίας. Καὶ ὁ πάνσοφος δὲ