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He fully convinced me, showing me the prints of the nails and the wound of the spear in His side. And again, counting forty days from the first Lord's day, from Sunday until Thursday, you shall celebrate the feast of the Lord's Ascension, on which, having fulfilled all the economy and ordinance, He ascended to the God and Father who sent Him, sitting at the right hand of power and waiting, until His enemies are put under His feet. Who also will come at the consummation of the age with power and great glory, to judge the living and the dead and to give to each according to his works; and then they will see the beloved Son of God, whom they pierced, and recognizing Him, they will mourn for themselves, tribe by tribe, and their women by themselves. For even now on the tenth of the month Gorpiaeus, they gather and read the Lamentations of Jeremiah, in which it is said: “The breath before our face, Christ the Lord, was taken in their corruptions,” and Baruch, in which it is written: “This is our God, no other shall be accounted of in comparison to Him; He has found out every way of knowledge, and has shown it to Jacob His servant and to Israel His beloved; after this He was seen upon the earth and conversed with men.” And when they read, they beat their breasts and lament, as they themselves think, for the desolation caused by Nebuchadnezzar, but as the truth has it, they unwillingly make a prelude to the mourning that will overtake them. And after ten days from the Ascension, which becomes the fiftieth day from the first Lord's day, let there be a great feast for you; for at the third hour on that day, the Lord Jesus sent to us the gift of the Holy Spirit, and we were filled with His energy and spoke in new tongues, as He prompted in us, and we proclaimed to both Jews and Gentiles, that He is the Christ of God, the one appointed by Him as judge of the living and the dead. Of this one Moses testified, saying: "The Lord received fire from the Lord and rained it down." This one Jacob saw as a man and said: "I have seen God face to face, and my soul was saved." This one Abraham, having shown hospitality, confessed to be a judge and his own Lord. This one Moses saw at the bush; concerning this one he said in Deuteronomy: "A prophet will the Lord God raise up for you from your brothers, like me; you shall listen to him in all things, whatever he may say to you; and it shall be that every soul, whoever does not

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ἐπληροφόρησεν, δείξας μοι τοὺς τύπους τῶν ἥλων καὶ τῆς λόγχης ἐν τῇ πλευρᾷ τὴν τρῶσιν. Καὶ πάλιν ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης κυριακῆς ἀριθμήσαντες τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρας, ἀπὸ κυριακῆς ἄχρι πέμπτης ἑορτάσατε τὴν ἑορτὴν τῆς ἀναλήψεως τοῦ Κυρίου, καθ' ἣν πληρώσας πᾶσαν οἰκονομίαν καὶ διάταξιν ἀνῆλθεν πρὸς τὸν ἀποστείλαντα αὐτὸν Θεὸν καὶ Πατέρα, καθίσας ἐκ δεξιῶν τῆς δυνάμεως καὶ περιμένων, ἕως ἂν τεθῶσιν οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας αὐτοῦ. Ὃς καὶ ἐλεύσεται ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τοῦ αἰῶνος μετὰ δυνάμεως καὶ δόξης πολλῆς, κρῖναι ζῶντας καὶ νεκροὺς καὶ ἀποδοῦναι ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ· καὶ τότε ὄψονται τὸν ἀγα πητὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὃν ἐξεκέντησαν, καὶ ἐπιγνόντες αὐτὸν κόψονται ἐφ' ἑαυτοῖς φυλὴ κατὰ φυλὴν, καὶ αἱ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν κατ' ἰδίαν. Καὶ γὰρ καὶ νῦν δεκάτῃ τοῦ Γορπιαίου μηνὸς συναθροιζόμενοι τοὺς Θρήνους Ἱερεμίου ἀναγινώσκουσιν, ἐν οἷς εἴρηται· «Πνεῦμα πρὸ προσώπου ἡμῶν Χριστὸς Κύριος συνελήφθη ἐν ταῖς διαφθο ραῖς αὐτῶν», καὶ τὸν Βαρούχ, ἐν ᾧ γέγραπται· «Oὗτος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, οὐ λογισθήσεται ἕτερος πρὸς αὐτόν· ἐξεῦρεν πᾶσαν ὁδὸν ἐπιστήμης, καὶ ἔδειξεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τῷ παιδὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ τῷ ἠγαπημένῳ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ· μετὰ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς êφθη καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συνανεστράφη.» Καὶ ὅταν ἀναγνῶσιν, κόπτονται καὶ θρηνοῦσιν, ὡς μὲν αὐτοὶ νομίζουσιν, τὴν ἐρημίαν τὴν ὑπὸ Ναβουχοδονόσορ γενομένην, ὡς δὲ ἡ ἀλήθεια ἔχει, προοίμια ποιοῦνται ἄκοντες τοῦ μέλλοντος αὐτοὺς καταλαμβάνειν πένθους. Μετὰ δὲ δέκα ἡμέρας τῆς ἀναλήψεως, ἥτις ἀπὸ τῆς πρώτης κυριακῆς πεντηκοστὴ γίνεται, ἑορτὴ μεγάλη ὑμῖν ἔστω· ἐν αὐτῇ γὰρ ὥρᾳ τρίτῃ ἀπέστειλεν εἰς ἡμᾶς ὁ Κύριος Ἰησοῦς τὴν δωρεὰν τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, καὶ ἐπλήσθημεν αὐτοῦ τῆς ἐνεργείας καὶ γλώσσαις καιναῖς ἐλαλήσαμεν, καθὼς ἐκεῖνο ὑπήχει ἐν ἡμῖν, καὶ ἐκηρύξαμεν Ἰουδαίοις τε καὶ ἔθνεσιν, αὐτὸν εἶναι τὸν Χριστὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ τὸν ὡρισμένον ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κριτὴν ζώντων καὶ νεκρῶν. Τοῦτον Μωϋσῆς μαρτυρῶν ἔλεγεν· «Ἔλαβεν Κύριος παρὰ Κυρίου πῦρ καὶ ἔβρεξεν.» Τοῦτον εἶδεν Ἰακὼβ ὡς ἄνθρωπον καὶ εἶπεν· «Eἶδον Θεὸν πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσω πον, καὶ ἐσώθη μου ἡ ψυχή.» Τοῦτον Ἀβραὰμ ξενοδοχήσας κριτὴν ὡμολόγει καὶ ἑαυτοῦ Κύριον. Τοῦτον Μωϋσῆς ἐπὶ τῆς βάτου τεθέαται· περὶ τούτου ἐν ∆ευτερονομίῳ ἔλεγεν· «Προφήτην ὑμῖν ἀναστήσει Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἐκ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ὑμῶν ὡς ἐμέ· αὐτοῦ ἀκούσεσθε κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἂν λαλήσῃ πρὸς ὑμᾶς· ἔσται δὲ πᾶσα ψυχή, ἥτις ἂν μὴ