of whom he knew it was good for them to have free will; and because he likewise knew it was good, he made both universal and particular judgments, yet with free will being preserved. Wherefore the Word says these things both in the casting down of the tower and in the multiplicity and alteration of tongues: And the Lord said, 'Behold, one race and one lip of all, and this they have begun to do; and now all that they purpose to do will not fail them.' And the words, My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue has cleaved to my throat, were likewise a prediction of the things that were about to happen to him according to the Father's will. For the power of his strong word, by which he always confuted the Pharisees and scribes who disputed with him, and simply the teachers among your race, was held in check like a well-watered and strong spring whose water was turned aside, when he became silent and was no longer willing to answer anyone anything before Pilate, as has been shown in the memoirs of his apostles, so that what was spoken through Isaiah might also have its active fruit, where it is said: The Lord gives me a tongue to know when I must speak a word. And his saying, You are my God, do not depart from me, at the same time taught that all must hope in the God who made all things and seek salvation and help from him alone, and not think, like the rest of men, to be able to be saved through race or wealth or strength or wisdom; such as you have always done, at one time making a calf, and always appearing ungrateful and murderers of the just and puffed up because of your race. For if the Son of God is shown saying he cannot be saved either because he is the Son or because he is strong or because he is wise, but in addition to being sinless, as Isaiah says, that he had not sinned even to a word, for he did no iniquity, nor guile with his mouth, he could not be saved without God, how do you, or others who expect to be saved without this hope, not reckon that you are deceiving yourselves? But the things spoken next in the psalm: For trouble is near, for there is none to help me; many calves have compassed me, fat bulls have beset me round; they opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and a roaring lion; I am poured out like water, and all my bones are scattered; was a prediction of the things that likewise happened to him. For on that night, when those from your people, sent by the Pharisees and scribes according to their teaching, came upon him from the Mount of Olives, those whom the word called horned and forward calves surrounded him. And to say, Fat bulls have beset me round, foretold those who themselves did things similar to the calves, when he was led to your teachers; whom the word called bulls for this reason, because the bulls of

οὗ ἐγίνωσκε καλὸν εἶναι τὸ αὐτεξούσιον ἔχειν αὐτούς· καὶ ὅτι καλὸν εἶναι ὁμοίως ἐγνώριζε, καὶ καθολικὰς καὶ μερικὰς κρίσεις ἐποίει, πεφυλαγμένου μέντοι τοῦ αὐτεξουσίου. ὅθεν φησὶν ὁ λόγος καὶ ἐν τῇ ἐπὶ τοῦ πύργου καταβολῇ καὶ τῇ τῶν γλωσσῶν πολυφθογγίᾳ καὶ ἐξαλλοιώσει ταῦτα· Καὶ εἶπε κύριος· Ἰδοὺ γένος ἓν καὶ χεῖλος ἓν πάντων, καὶ τοῦτο ἤρξαντο ποιῆσαι· καὶ νῦν οὐκ ἐκλείψει ἐξ αὐτῶν πάντα ὅσα ἂν ἐπιθῶνται ποιεῖν. καὶ τό τε Ἐξηράνθη ὡς ὄστρακον ἡ ἰσχύς μου, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσά μου κεκόλληται τῷ λάρυγγί μου, ὁμοίως τῶν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ μελλόν των γίνεσθαι κατὰ τὸ τοῦ πατρὸς θέλημα προαγγελία ἦν. ἡ γὰρ τοῦ ἰσχυροῦ αὐτοῦ λόγου δύναμις, δι' ἧς ἀεὶ ἤλεγχε τοὺς συζητοῦντας αὐτῷ Φαρισαίους καὶ γραμματεῖς καὶ ἁπλῶς τοὺς ἐν τῷ γένει ὑμῶν διδασκάλους, ἐποχὴν ἔσχε δίκην πολυΰδρου καὶ ἰσχυρᾶς πηγῆς, ἧς τὸ ὕδωρ ἀπεστράφη, σιγήσαντος αὐτοῦ καὶ μηκέτι ἐπὶ Πιλάτου ἀποκρίνασθαι μηδὲν μηδενὶ βουλομένου, ὡς ἐν τοῖς ἀπομνημονεύμασι τῶν ἀποστόλων αὐτοῦ δεδήλωται, ὅπως καὶ τὸ διὰ Ἠσαίου εἰρημένον καρπὸν ἐνεργῆ ἔχῃ, ὅπου εἴρηται· Κύριος δίδωσί μοι γλῶσσαν τοῦ γνῶναι ἡνίκα με δεῖ εἰπεῖν λόγον. τὸ δὲ καὶ εἰπεῖν αὐτόν· Θεός μου εἶ σύ, μὴ ἀποστῇς ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, διδάσκοντος ἅμα ὅτι ἐπὶ θεὸν τὸν πάντα ποιή σαντα ἐλπίζειν δεῖ πάντας καὶ παρ' ἐκείνου μόνου σωτηρίαν καὶ βοήθειαν ζητεῖν, ἀλλὰ μή, ὡς τοὺς λοιποὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων, διὰ γένος ἢ πλοῦτον ἢ ἰσχὺν ἢ σοφίαν νομίζειν δύνασθαι σώζεσθαι· ὁποῖον καὶ ὑμεῖς ἀεὶ ἐπράξατε, ποτὲ μὲν μοσχοποιήσαντες, ἀεὶ δὲ ἀχάριστοι καὶ φονεῖς τῶν δικαίων καὶ τετυφωμένοι διὰ τὸ γένος φαινόμενοι. εἰ γὰρ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ θεοῦ φαίνεται μήτε διὰ τὸ εἶναι υἱὸς μήτε κατὰ τὸ εἶναι ἰσχυρὸς μήτε διὰ τὸ σοφὸς λέγων δύνασθαι σώζεσθαι, ἀλλὰ πρὸς τὸ ἀναμάρτητος εἶναι, ὡς Ἠσαίας φησίν, μηδὲ μέχρι φωνῆς ἡμαρτηκέναι αὐτόν, ἀνομίαν γὰρ οὐκ ἐποίησεν οὐδὲ δόλον τῷ στόματι, ἄνευ τοῦ θεοῦ σωθήσεσθαι μὴ δύνασθαι, πῶς ὑμεῖς ἢ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι οἱ ἄνευ τῆς ἐλπίδος ταύτης σωθήσεσθαι προσδοκῶντες οὐχ ἑαυτοὺς ἀπατᾶν λογίζεσθε; Τὰ δὲ ἑξῆς εἰρημένα ἐν τῷ ψαλμῷ· Ὅτι θλίψις ἐγγύς, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ βοηθῶν μοι· περιεκύκλωσάν με μόσ χοι πολλοί, ταῦροι πίονες περιέσχον με· ἤνοιξαν ἐπ' ἐμὲ τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν ὡς λέων ἁρπάζων καὶ ὠρυόμενος· ὡσεὶ ὕδωρ ἐξε χύθη καὶ διεσκορπίσθη πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου· τῶν ὁμοίως αὐτῷ συμβάντων προαγγελία ἦν. ἐκείνης γὰρ τῆς νυκτός, ὅτε ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὄρους τῶν Ἐλαιῶν ἐπῆλθον αὐτῷ οἱ ἀπὸ τοῦ λαοῦ ὑμῶν ὑπὸ τῶν Φαρισαίων καὶ γραμματέων κατὰ τὴν διδασκαλίαν ἐπιπεμφθέντες, ἐκύκλωσαν αὐτὸν οὓς μόσχους κερατιστὰς καὶ προώλεις ὁ λόγος ἔλεγε. καὶ τὸ Ταῦροι πίονες περιέσχον με εἰπεῖν τοὺς καὶ αὐτοὺς μὲν τὰ ὅμοια τοῖς μόσχοις ποιή σαντας, ὅτε ἤχθη πρὸς τοὺς διδασκάλους ὑμῶν, προέλεγεν· οὓς ὡς ταύρους διὰ τοῦτο ὁ λόγος εἶπεν, ἐπειδὴ τοὺς ταύρους τοῦ