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they will know that I am the Lord." Thus, having foretold the things that would happen to Moab, he transfers the discourse to Seir, also known as Edom. 12-14. Thus says Adonai the Lord: Because of what Idumea did in taking vengeance with wrath on the house of Judah, and they bore a grudge, and exacted punishment from them; therefore thus says Adonai the Lord: And I will stretch out my hand upon Idumea, and I will destroy from it man and beast, and I will make it desolate, and from Teman and Dedan they shall fall pursued by the sword. And I will give my vengeance upon Idumea by the hand of my people Israel, and they will do in Idumea according to my wrath, and they will know my vengeance, says Adonai the Lord. For not only did they rejoice similarly to the Moabites and Ammonites, but they also showed their own wickedness by their deeds, keeping that former wrath; "For, it says, 'Esau was angry with Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him;'" for this reason I will not deliver them to other enemies, but to my own people who were wronged by them, so that through complete desolation they might learn the power of my dominion. And Teman is a city of Idumea, and Dedan likewise, of those born to the patriarch Abraham from Keturah, and they were eponymous with their founders. And Dedan was near Idumea, and was in accord. Thus, having foretold the things concerning these, he transfers the prophecy to the foreigners. For the Idumeans are not foreigners, being descendants of Isaac; nor indeed the Ammonites and Moabites, who trace their lineage from Lot. Therefore, the Tyrians and Si 81.1065 donians were foreigners, and all others who were their neighbors; but divine Scripture especially calls foreigners the Ashkelonites and Gazans, Gittites and Ekronites, and Ashdodites, since they had land joined to the tribe of Judah, and were very much borderers and neighbors. Therefore, he also says the things that will happen to these. 15-17. Thus says Adonai the Lord: Because of what the foreigners did in wrath, and they rose up for vengeance, exulting with their whole soul, to destroy in everlasting enmity. Therefore thus says Adonai the Lord: Behold, I will stretch out my hands upon the foreigners, and I will destroy the Cretans, and I will destroy the remnant who inhabit the seacoast. And I will execute great vengeance upon them with the rebukes of my anger, and they will know that I am Adonai the Lord, when I give my vengeance upon them. And he charges these with wrath, similarly to the Idumeans. For, having borne a grudge, he says, against my people, as having conquered and established their own kingdom, they made the time of disaster a time of punishment, and rising up, they inflicted countless evils upon them; for this reason I will exact penalties from them for their wrath, and I will deliver them to divinely-sent plagues, and with the rulers I will destroy the subjects, and I will give them over to inescapable evils; so that through what they endure they may know the power of my dominion. But let us not wait to know our Master through the experience of evils; but receiving the knowledge through His ever-flowing gifts, let us be grateful for the good deeds, and let us flee the passion of wrath, having learned its destructive fruits; and let us keep the apostolic commandment, not waiting for the sun to set on our grief against one another; but let us extinguish our anger before its setting. For thus we shall also cease the anger of the just judge against us, and we shall reap that lovely and much-desired good will; which may we all attain, by the grace and loving-kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, with whom is the glory to the Father, with the Holy Spirit, unto the ages of ages; Amen.

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ἐπιγνώσονται, ὅτι ἐγὼ Κύριος." Οὕτω τὰ συμβησόμενα τῷ Μωὰβ προαγορεύσας, ἐπὶ τὸν Σηεὶρ, τὸν καὶ Ἐδὼμ, μεταφέρει τὸν λόγον ιβʹ-ιδʹ. Τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Ἀνθ' ὧν ἐποίησεν ἡ Ἰδουμαία ἐν τῷ ἐκδικῆσαι αὐτοὺς ἐκδίκησιν ἐν μήνιδι ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰούδα, καὶ ἐμνησικάκησαν, καὶ ἐξεδίκησαν δίκην ἀπ' αὐ τῶν· διὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Καὶ ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰδουμαίαν, καὶ ἐξολοθρεύσω ἐξ αὐτῆς ἄνθρωπον καὶ κτῆνος, καὶ θήσομαι αὐτὴν ἔρημον, καὶ ἐκ Θαιμὰν καὶ ∆αιδὰν διωκόμενοι ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ πεσοῦνται. Καὶ δώσω τὴν ἐκδίκησίν μου ἐπὶ τὴν Ἰδουμαίαν ἐν χειρὶ λαοῦ μου Ἰσραὴλ, καὶ ποιήσουσιν ἐν τῇ Ἰδουμαίᾳ κατὰ τὴν ὀργήν μου, καὶ ἐπιγνώσον ται τὴν ἐκδίκησίν μου, λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ οὐ μόνον παραπλησίως Μωαβίταις καὶ Ἀμμανίταις ἐφήσθησαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἔργοις τὴν οἰ κείαν ἐπεδείξαντο πονηρίαν, τὴν προτέραν ἐκείνην μῆνιν φυλάξαντες· "Ἐνεκότει γὰρ, φησὶν, Ἠσαῦ τῷ Ἰακὼβ περὶ τῆς εὐλογίας ἧς ηὐλόγησεν αὐτὸν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ·" τούτου χάριν οὐχ ἑτέροις αὐτοὺς πολεμίοις παραδώσω, ἀλλ' αὐτῷ τῷ ὑπ' αὐτῶν ἠδικη μένῳ λαῷ μου, ὥστε διὰ τῆς παντελοῦς ἐρημίας μαθεῖν αὐτοὺς τῆς ἐμῆς δεσποτείας τὴν δύναμιν. Θαιμὰν δὲ πόλις τῆς Ἰδουμαίας, καὶ ∆αιδὰν ὡσαύτως, τῶν ἀπὸ Χεττούρας γενομένων τῷ πατριάρχῃ Ἀβραὰμ, ἐπώνυμοι δὲ ἦσαν τῶν οἰκιστῶν. Ἐπλησίαζε δὲ ἡ ∆αιδὰν τῇ Ἰδουμαίᾳ, καὶ συνεφώνει. Οὕτω τὰ κατὰ τούτους προαγορεύσας, ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους μεταφέρει τὴν πρόῤῥησιν. Ἰδουμαῖοι γὰρ οὐκ ἀλλό φυλοι, τοῦ Ἰσαὰκ ὄντες ἀπόγονοι· οὔτε μὴν Ἀμμανῖται καὶ Μωαβῖται, ἐκ τοῦ Λὼτ τὸ γένος κατ άγοντες. Ἦσαν μὲν οὖν ἀλλόφυλοι καὶ Τύριοι καὶ Σι 81.1065 δώνιοι, καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι πάντες οἱ τούτων πλησιόχωροι· διαφερόντως δὲ ἀλλοφύλους ἡ θεία καλεῖ Γραφὴ Ἀσκαλωνίτας καὶ Γαζαίους, Γετθαίους τε καὶ Ἀκα- ρωνίτας, καὶ Ἀζωτίους, ἐπειδὴ τῇ τοῦ Ἰούδα φυλῇ συνημμένην εἶχον τὴν γῆν, καὶ λίαν ἦσαν ὅμοροι, καὶ πλησιόχωροι. Λέγει τοίνυν καὶ τὰ τούτοις συμβησόμενα. ιεʹ- ιζʹ. Τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Ἀνθ' ὧν ἐποίησαν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι ἐν μήνιδι, καὶ ἐξανέστη σαν ἐκδίκησιν ἐπιχαίροντες ἐξ ὅλης ψυχῆς, τοῦ διαφθεῖραι κατ' ἔχθραν αἰώνιον. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐκτενῶ τὰς χεῖράς μου ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀλλοφύλους, καὶ ἐξολο θρεύσω τοὺς Κρῆτας, καὶ ἀπολῶ τοὺς καταλοί πους τοὺς κατοικοῦντας τὴν παραλίαν. Καὶ ποιήσω εἰς αὐτοὺς ἐκδικήσεις μεγάλας ἐν ἐλε γμοῖς θυμοῦ μου, καὶ ἐπιγνώσονται, ὅτι ἐγὼ Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος, ἐν τῷ δοῦναι τὴν ἐκδίκησίν μου ἐπ' αὐτούς. Καὶ τούτοις ὁμοίως τοῖς Ἰδουμαίοις μῆνιν ἐγκαλεῖ. Μνησικακήσαντες γὰρ, φησὶ, τῷ λαῷ μου, ὡς νενικηκότι καὶ τὴν οἰκείαν βασιλείαν κρα τύναντι, τὸν τῆς συμφορᾶς καιρὸν τιμωρίας καιρὸν ἐποιήσαντο, καὶ ἐπαναστάντες μυρία διέθεσαν αὐ τοῖς κακά· τούτου χάριν ἐγὼ δίκας αὐτοὺς τῆς μή νιδος πράξομαι, καὶ θεηλάτοις αὐτοὺς παραδώσω πληγαῖς, καὶ σὺν τοῖς ἄρχουσι τοὺς ὑπηκόους δια φθερῶ, καὶ ἀφύκτοις αὐτοὺς ἐκδώσω κακοῖς· ἵνα δι' ὧν ὑπομένουσι τῆς ἐμῆς δεσποτείας ἐπιγνῶσι τὴν δύναμιν. Ἡμεῖς δὲ μὴ ἀναμένωμεν διὰ τῆς τῶν κακῶν πείρας τὸν ἡμέτερον ἐπιγνῶναι ∆εσπότην· ἀλλὰ διὰ τῶν ἀεννάων αὐτοῦ δωρεῶν δεξάμενοι τὴν ἐπίγνωσιν, εὐγνώμονες περὶ τὰς εὐεργεσίας γενώ μεθα, καὶ φύγωμεν τῆς μήνιδος τὸ πάθος, τοὺς ὀλε θρίους τούτου μαθόντες καρπούς· καὶ τὴν ἀποστο λικὴν φυλάξωμεν ἐντολὴν, μὴ ἀναμένοντες τῇ λύπῃ τῇ κατ' ἀλλήλων ἐπιδῦναι τὸν ἥλιον· ἀλλὰ πρὸ τῶν ἐκείνου δυσμῶν τὴν ὀργὴν κατασβέσωμεν. Οὕτω γὰρ καὶ τὴν καθ' ἡμῶν ὀργὴν τοῦ δικαίου κριτοῦ παύσο μεν, καὶ τὴν ἐράσμιον ἐκείνην καὶ τριπόθητον εὐ μένειαν καρπωσόμεθα· ἧς εἴη πάντας ἡμᾶς ἐπιτυ χεῖν, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, μεθ' οὗ τῷ Πατρὶ ἡ δόξα, σὺν τῷ ἁγίῳ Πνεύματι, εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων· Ἀμήν.

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