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he is coming, says the Lord Almighty. And who will endure the day of his coming? or who will stand in his sight? because he enters like a refiner's fire, and like the soap of launderers; and he will sit refining and purifying as silver and gold. The things concerning the second coming of Christ are also prophesied through these words, when ... s sent forth from God and Father of all, he 133 Christ of God, who is now called the angel of the covenant, will look upon the way before the face of the father, that is, he will prepare and make ready the souls of men for the kingdom of the Father; when, after he has built the spiritual temple from rational and living stones, that is, the church, the Lord and God the Word himself will come with the angel of the covenant to the aforementioned temple; then, as if announcing his second coming, the Word says to the sinners, behold, the Lord Almighty is coming; and who will endure the day of his coming? or who will stand in his sight? and so on; which must be carefully attended to, being spoken by the Lord Almighty himself as if about another; and it must be asked of those of the circumcision, if they might have anything to say about the lord indicated here and the angel of the covenant with him, about whom the Lord Almighty says, behold, he is coming, and the rest; through which, according to us, the second coming of Christ is proclaimed; who, being the Word of God, having arrived, will enter into each soul, judging each one concerning the things done by him during his life, washing and refining like gold through fire, and purifying the ruling faculties of all. For the Father has given all judgment to the Son, according to the word that says also in the psalms, God, give your judgment to the king, and your righteousness to the king's son; to judge your people in righteousness, and your poor in judgment; where the king is proclaimed to be the divinity and he 134 God the Word himself; but the man whom he assumed, the son of the king. Of the same angel. 32. And the sun of righteousness will rise for those who fear my name, and healing in his wings. The sun of righteousness is the true light which enlightens every man coming into the world; who is said to rise only for those who fear the name of his Father; for to those who are not such he threatens to set, according to the saying, and the sun will set upon the prophets who lead my people astray, as it is said in one of the prophets. These things are from the twelve prophets; but since it is our intention to include the things from Isaiah in a separate writing because of their multitude, come let us turn and examine the things from the other great prophets. Ψ. From Jeremiah. 33. Lord, make known to me, and I will know; then I saw their deeds. I, like an innocent lamb led to be sacrificed, did not know; they devised a plot against me, saying, Come and let us put wood into his bread, and let us wipe him away from the land of the living, and may his name be remembered no more. Our Savior and Lord Jesus Christ, according to the prophecy in Isaiah, was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent, and according to the one at hand, as 135 an innocent lamb led to be sacrificed, I did not know; and his passion on the cross can be indicated through the words, come and let us put wood into his bread and let us wipe him away from the land of the living; and may his name be remembered no more; which are spoken from the person of those who plotted against him. For if indeed his body was bread, as he himself teaches when saying to the disciples, take, eat, this is my body, and this was what was displayed upon the wood on the cross, it could reasonably be said of him, come and let us put wood into his bread; and if the things concerning this passage should also have a deeper contemplation, what has been said does not at all hinder that. Ψ. Of the same. 34. I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance, I have given the

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ἔρχεται, λέγει Κύριος παντοκράτωρ. Καὶ τίς ὑπομενεῖ ἡμέραν εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ; ἤ τίς ὑποστήσεται ἐν τῇ ὀπτασίᾳ αὐτοῦ; διότι αὐτὸς εἰσπορεύεται ὡς πῦρ χωνευτηρίου, καὶ ὡς ποιὰ πλυνόντων· καὶ καθιεῖται ἀναχωνεύων καὶ καθαρίζων ὡς τὸ ἀργύριον καὶ τὸ χρυσίον. Τὰ περὶ τῆς δευτέρας τοῦ Χριστοῦ παρουσίας καὶ διὰ τούτων προφητεύεται, ὁπηνίκα ... ς τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Πατρὸς τῶν ὅλων ἐξαποσταλεὶς αὐτὸς 133 ὁ Χριστὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ νῦν λεγόμενος τῆς διαθήκης ἄγγελος ἐπιβλέψεται ὁδὸν πρὸ προσώπου τοῦ πατρὸς, τοῦτ' ἔστι προευτρεπίσει καὶ προπαρασκευάσει τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ψυχὰς τῇ τοῦ Πατρὸς βασιλείᾳ· ὅτε ἐκ λογικῶν καὶ ἐμψύχων λίθων τὸν πνευματικὸν ναὸν, τοῦτ' ἔστιν τὴν ἐκκλησίαν, ἐπισκευάσαντος αὐτοῦ, ἥξει αὐτὸς ὁ Κύριος καὶ Θεὸς Λόγος ἅμα αὐτῷ τῷ τῆς διαθήκης ἀγγέλῳ εἰς τὸν δεδηλωμένον ναόν· εἶτα, οἷα τὴν δευτέραν αὐτοῦ παρουσίαν προαγγέλλων, ὁ Λόγος ὡς πρὸς τοὺς ἁμαρτωλοὺς φησὶν, ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται Κύριος παντοκράτωρ· καὶ τίς ὑπομενεῖ ἡμέραν εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ; ἢ τίς ὑποστήσεται ἐν τῇ ὀπτασίᾳ αὐτοῦ; καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς· οἷς ἐπιμελῶς προσεκτέον ὑπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ παντοκράτορος Κυρίου ὡς περὶ ἑτέρου λεγομένοις· καὶ πευστέον τε τῶν ἐκ περιτομῆς, εἴ τινα ἔχοιεν λέγειν τὸν ἐνταῦθα δηλούμενον κύριον καὶ τὸν σὺν αὐτῷ ἄγγελον τῆς διαθήκης, περὶ οὗ Κύριος ὁ παντοκράτωρ φάσκει τὸ, ἴδου ἔρχεται, καὶ τὰ λοιπά· δι' ὧν καθ' ἡμᾶς ἡ δευτέρα τοῦ Χριστοῦ καταγγέλλεται παρουσία· ὃς Λόγος Θεοῦ τυγχάνων παραγενόμενος εἰσπορεύσεται εἰς τὴν ἑκάστου ψυχὴν, κρίνων ἕκαστον περὶ τῶν αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸν βίον πεπραγμένων, ἐκπλύνων τε καὶ διὰ πυρὸς χρυσοῦ δίκην χωνεύων, καὶ καθαρίζων τὰ πάντων ἡγεμονικά. Πᾶσαν γ' οὖν τὴν κρίσιν ὁ Πατὴρ δέδωκεν τῷ Υἱῷ κατὰ τὸν φάσκοντα καὶ ἐν ψαλμοῖς λόγον, Ὁ Θεὸς τὸ κρίμα σου τῷ βασιλεῖ δὸς, καὶ τὴν δικαιοσύνην σου τῷ υἱῷ τοῦ βασιλέως· κρίνειν τὸν λαόν σου ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, καὶ τοὺς πτωχούς σου ἐν κρίσει· ἔνθα βασιλεὺς μὲν ἡ θεότης καὶ αὐτὸς 134 ὁ Θεὸς Λόγος ἀνηγόρευται· ὃν δὲ ἀνείληφεν ἄνθρωπον, υἱὸς τοῦ βασιλέως. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀγγέλου. ΛΒʹ. Καὶ ἀνατελεῖ τοῖς φοβουμένοις τὸ ὄνομά μου ἥλιος δικαιοσύνης, καὶ ἴασις ἐν ταῖς πτέρυξιν αὐτοῦ. Ἥλιος δικαιοσύνης τὸ φῶς ἐστιν τὸ ἀληθινὸν τὸ φωτίζον πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον· ὃς μόνοις ἀνατέλλειν εἴρηται τοῖς φοβουμένοις τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς αὐτοῦ· τοῖς γάρ τοι μὴ τοιούτοις δύσεσθαι ἀπειλεῖ, κατὰ τὸ, καὶ δύσεται ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς πλανῶντας τὸν λαόν μου, ἔν τινι τῶν προφητῶν εἰρημένον. Ταῦτα μὲν τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν δώδεκα προφητῶν· ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ τὰ ἐκ τοῦ Ἠσαίου διὰ τὸ πλῆθος ἐν ἰδίῳ συγγράμματι περιλαβεῖν ἡμῖν πρόκειται, φέρε μεταβάντες τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν λοιπῶν μεγάλων προφητῶν ἐπισκεψώμεθα. Ψ. Ἐκ τοῦ Ἰερεμίου. ΛΓʹ. Κύριε, γνώρισόν μοι, καὶ γνώσομαι· τότε εἶδον τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα αὐτῶν. Ἐγὼ ὡς ἀρνίον ἄκακον ἀγόμενον τοῦ θύεσθαι οὐκ ἔγνων· ἐπ' ἐμὲ ἐλογίσαντο λέγοντες, ∆εῦτε καὶ ἐμβάλωμεν ξύλον εἰς ἄρτον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκτρίψωμεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ γῆς ζώντων, καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ μνησθῇ ἔτι. Ὁ Σωτὴρ καὶ Κύριος ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς κατὰ τὴν ἐν τῷ Ἠσαίᾳ προφητείαν, ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη, καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείραντος αὐτὸν ἄφωνος, κατὰ δὲ τὴν μετὰ χεῖρας, ὡς 135 ἀρνίον ἄκακον ἀγόμενον τοῦ θυέσθαι οὐκ ἔγνων· καὶ τὸ κατὰ τὸν σταυρὸν δὲ πάθος αὐτοῦ δύναται δηλοῦσθαι διὰ τοῦ, δεῦτε καὶ ἐμβάλωμεν ξύλον εἰς ἄρτον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκτρίψωμεν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ γῆς ζώντων· καὶ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ οὐ μὴ μνησθῇ ἔτι· ἅπερ ἐκ προσώπου λέλεκται τῶν ἐπιβουλευσάντων αὐτῷ. Εἰ γὰρ δὴ τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἄρτος ἦν, ὡς αὐτὸς διδάσκει πρὸς τοὺς μαθητὰς λέγων, λάβετε, φάγετε, τοῦτό ἐστι τὸ σῶμά μου, τοῦτο δ' ἦν τὸ πρὸς τῷ ξύλῳ κατὰ τὸν σταυρὸν δειγματισθὲν, περὶ αὐτοῦ λέγοιτ' ἂν εἰκότως τὸ, δεῦτε καὶ ἐμβάλωμεν ξύλον εἰς ἄρτον αὐτοῦ· εἰ δὲ καὶ βαθυτέρας ἔχοιτο θεωρίας τὰ κατὰ τὸν τόπον, οὐδὲν πρὸς ἐκεῖνο λυπεῖ καὶ τὰ εἰρημένα. Ψ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Λ∆ʹ. Ἐγκαταλέλοιπα τὸν οἶκόν μου, ἀφῆκα τὴν κληρονομίαν μου, ἔδωκα τὴν