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they will enslave; and so great a desolation will seize you, that in you the fishermen will dry their wetted nets, and what they are accustomed to do on the smooth rocks near the sea, this they will do in you because of the great desolation. And the phrase, "You shall be built no more," we shall learn from the prophecy of the blessed prophet Isaiah. For that prophet also prophesied sorrowful things for Tyre, but he limited the sorrowful things to a specified time; "For Tyre," he says, "shall be forgotten for seventy years, as the time of one king, as the time of a man; and it shall be, after seventy years, God will visit Tyre, and she shall be restored again to her former state, and she shall be a marketplace for all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of all the earth, and her merchandise shall be holy to the Lord," and so forth. Therefore, the phrase "It shall not be built," hints at the change of ways; that it shall not be built according to its former impiety, but will receive a different and completely opposite building, which, according to the prophet Isaiah, shall be holy to the Lord. And the facts bear witness, and the piety that now prevails. For from its former superstition and error concerning idols, having turned to God, it received the light of the knowledge of God. 15, 10. For thus says the Lord to Tyre: Shall not the islands shake at the sound of your fall, 81.1072 when your wounded groan, when the slain by swords are in your midst? And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and they shall take off the tiaras from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered garments? They shall be utterly amazed, they shall sit upon the ground, and they shall fear their own destruction, and they shall groan over you? Tyre was famous from of old, not only in Asia, but also in Europe; therefore, necessarily, the calamity that befell it became well-known. And learning of this, he says, those who inhabit the islands will be terrified, and their kings, out of despair and grief, will strip their heads of the diadems; for these he called tiaras; and they will take off their costly clothing, and will assume a mournful appearance, expecting to suffer the same things. For he signified this by saying: "And they shall fear their own destruction." So much will the report of your evils distress them, that they will also take up a lamentation for you, and will say: 17, 18. How you have perished, and been destroyed from the sea, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants? who gave her terror to all who inhabit it. And the islands shall be afraid from the day of your fall, and the islands shall be troubled by your power in the sea. Considering, he says, your former power, and observing the calamity that has now befallen you, they will lament you, who were once so celebrated and renowned; but they will be anxious for themselves, fearing lest they fall into the same things. 19, 20. For thus says the Lord Adonai: When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that shall not be inhabited, when I bring up the abyss upon you, and much water shall cover you. And I will bring you down to those who go down into the pit, to the people of old, and I will make you dwell in the depths of the earth, as an eternal desert with those who go down into the pit, so that you may not be inhabited, nor rise up on the land of the living. - He called the Babylonian army an abyss because of its multitude. For since it is also surrounded by water, and resembles an island, being entirely situated within the sea, and having one entrance from the land, he fittingly used the trope, calling the multitude of enemies much water and an abyss. And the phrase, "I will bring you down to those who go down into the pit, to the people of old;" signifies death, under which all who pass through this life end their present age. He therefore named the dead "the people of old." And the phrase, "Nor rise up on the land of the living," declares that of the Psalm. "Therefore the ungodly shall not stand 81.1073 in the judgment, nor sinners in

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ἐξανδραποδίσουσι· τοσαύτη δὲ καταλήψεται ἐρημία, ὡς ἐν σοὶ τοὺς ἁλιέας ξηραίνειν τὰς βραχείσας σα γήνας, καὶ ἅπερ ποιεῖν εἰώθασιν ἐν ταῖς λείαις πέ τραις, ταῖς τῇ θαλάττῃ πλησιαζούσαις, τοῦτο ἐν σοὶ διὰ τὴν πολλὴν ἐρημίαν ποιήσουσι. Τὸ δὲ, "Οὐκ ἔτι οὐ μὴ οἰκοδομηθήσῃ," ἐκ τῆς τοῦ μακαρίου Ἡσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου μαθησόμεθα προφητείας. Κἀκεῖνος γὰρ ὁ προφήτης λυπηρὰ τῇ Τύρῳ προεθέσπισεν, ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ τινὶ ῥητῷ τὰ λυπηρὰ περιώρισε· "Καταλει φθήσεται γὰρ, φησὶ, Τύρος ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη, ὡς χρόνον βασιλέως ἑνὸς, ὡς χρόνον ἀνθρώπου· καὶ ἔσται, μετὰ τὰ ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτη ἐπισκοπὴν ποιήσει ὁ Θεὸς Τύρου, καὶ πάλιν ἀποκατασταθήσεται εἰς τὸ ἀρχαῖον, καὶ ἔσται ἐμπόριον πάσαις ταῖς βασιλείαις τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσης τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἔσται ἡ ἐμπορία αὐτῆς ἁγία τῷ Κυρίῳ," καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. Τὸ τοίνυν, "Οὐ μὴ οἰκοδομηθήσεται," τὴν τῶν τρόπων μεταβολὴν αἰνίττεται· ὅτι κατὰ τὴν προτέ ραν ἀσέβειαν οὐκ οἰκοδομηθήσεται, ἀλλ' ἑτέραν καὶ ἄντικρυς ἐναντίαν οἰκοδομὴν λήψεται, ἥτις, κατὰ τὸν προφήτην Ἡσαΐαν, ἁγία ἔσται τῷ Κυρίῳ. Καὶ μαρ τυρεῖ τὰ πράγματα, καὶ ἡ νῦν κρατοῦσα εὐσέβεια. Ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆς προτέρας δεισιδαιμονίας καὶ τῆς περὶ τὰ εἴδωλα πλάνης, πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἐπιστρέψασα, τὸ τῆς θεογνωσίας ἐδέξατο φῶς ιεʹ, ιʹ. Ὅτι τάδε λέγει Κύριος τῇ Σόρ· Μὴ οὐχὶ ἀπὸ φωνῆς τῆς πτώσεώς σου, ἐν τῷ 81.1072 στενάξαι τραυματίας σου, ἐν τῷ ἀναιρεθῆναι μαχαίραις ἐν μέσῳ σου, σεισθήσονται αἱ νῆσοι, Καὶ καταβήσονται ἀπὸ τῶν θρόνων αὑτῶν πάν τες ἄρχοντες τῶν ἐθνῶν τῆς θαλάσσης, καὶ ἀφελοῦνται τὰς μίτρας ἀπὸ τῶν κεφαλῶν αὑ τῶν, καὶ τὸν ἱματισμὸν αὑτῶν τὸν ποικίλον ἐκ δύσονται; ἐκστάσει ἐκστήσονται, ἐπὶ γῆν καθ ιοῦνται, καὶ φοβηθήσονται τὴν ἀπώλειαν αὑ τῶν, καὶ στενάξουσιν ἐπὶ σέ; Ἐπίσημος ἦν ἡ Τύρος ἀνέκαθεν, οὐκ ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν Εὐρώπῃ· ἀναγκαίως τοίνυν καὶ ἡ προσπεσοῦσα αὐτῇ συμφορὰ γνώριμος ἐγένετο. Ταύτην δὲ, φησὶ, μαθόν τες οἱ τὰς νήσους οἰκοῦντες ἐκδειματωθήσονται, καὶ οἱ τούτων δὲ βασιλεῖς ἐξ ἀθυμίας καὶ ἀχθηδόνος, καὶ τῶν διαδημάτων τὰς κεφαλὰς γυμνώσουσι· ταῦτα γὰρ μίτρας ἐκάλεσε· καὶ τὴν πολυτελῆ ἐσθῆτα ἐκ δύσονται, καὶ πένθιμον ἀναλήψονται σχῆμα, τὰ αὐτὰ πείσεσθαι προσδοκῶντες. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐσήμανεν εἰρη κώς· "Καὶ φοβηθήσονται τὴν ἀπώλειαν αὑτῶν." Οὕτω δὲ αὐτοὺς ἀνιάσει ἡ τῶν σῶν κακῶν ἀγγελία, ὅτι καὶ θρῆνον ἐπὶ σοὶ λήψονται, καὶ ἐροῦσι· ιζʹ, ιηʹ. Πῶς ἀπώλου, καὶ κατελύθης ἐκ θα λάσσης, ἡ πόλις ἡ ἐπαινετὴ, ἥτις ἐγενήθη ἰσχυρὰ ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ, αὐτὴ, καὶ οἱ κατοικοῦντες αὐτήν; ἡ δοῦσα τὸν φόβον αὑτῆς πᾶσι τοῖς κατοικοῦσιν αὐτήν. Καὶ φοβηθήσονται αἱ νῆσοι ἀφ' ἡμέρας πτώσεώς σου, καὶ ταραχθήσονται αἱ νῆσοι ἀπὸ τῆς ἐξουσίας σου ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ. Λογιζό μενοι, φησὶ, τὴν προτέραν ἐξουσίαν σου, καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος καταλαβοῦσάν σε συμφορὰν θεωροῦντες, σὲ μὲν θρηνήσουσι τὴν πάλαι πολυθρύλλητον καὶ περιβόητον· τὰ δὲ κατὰ σφᾶς αὐτοὺς μεριμνήσουσι, δεδοικότες μὴ τοῖς αὐτοῖς περιπέσωσιν. ιθʹ, κʹ. Ὅτι τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Ὅτανδῶ σε πόλιν ἠρημωμένην, ὡς τὰς πόλεις τὰς μὴ κατοικηθησομένας, ἐν τῷ ἀναγαγεῖν με ἐπὶ σὲ τὴν ἄβυσσον, καὶ καλύψει σε ὕδωρ πολύ. Καὶ κατα βιβάσω σε πρὸς τοὺς καταβαίνοντας εἰς βόθρον, πρὸς λαὸν αἰῶνος, καὶ κατοικιῶ σε εἰς βάθη τῆς γῆς, ὡς ἔρημον αἰώνιον μετὰ καταβαινόντων εἰς βόθρον, ὅπως μὴ κατοικηθῇς, μηδὲ ἀναστῇς ἐπὶ γῆν ζωῆς. - Ἄβυσσον ἐκάλεσε τοῦ Βαβυλωνίου τὴν στρατείαν διὰ τὸ πλῆθος. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ καὶ αὐτὴ περίῤῥητός ἐστι, καὶ νῆσος ἐμφερὴς, πᾶσα μὲν ἔνδον ἐν τῇ θαλάττῃ κειμένη, μίαν δὲ ἀπὸ γῆς εἴσοδον ἔχουσα, ἁρμοδίως ἐχρήσατο τῇ τροπῇ, ὕδωρ πολὺ καὶ ἄβυσσον καλέσας τῶν πολεμίων τὸ πλῆθος. Τὸ δὲ, "Καταβιβάσω πρὸς τοὺς καταβαίνοντας εἰς βό θρον πρὸς λαὸν αἰῶνος·" τὸν θάνατον σημαίνει, ὑφ' ὃν τελοῦσιν ἅπαντες τὸν παρόντα αἰῶνα οἱ τὸν βίον ἐπεξιόντες. Λαὸν τοίνυν αἰῶνος τοὺς νεκροὺς ὠνό μασε. Τὸ δὲ, "Μὴ ἀναστῇς ἐπὶ γῆν ζωῆς," τὸ ψαλ μικὸν ἐκεῖνο δηλοῖ. "∆ιὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀναστήσονται 81.1073 ἀσεβεῖς ἐν κρίσει, οὐδὲ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἐν