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but also things beyond what is necessary; and one might see this being done by some even in the present. The parable of Lazarus also testifies to this, showing that that rich man did not even share with the poor man the crumbs falling from the table. But "You trampled the leftovers with your feet," was said metaphorically, as of sheep, eating the grass, and trampling the rest, and first drinking the water, then muddying it with their own feet. κʹ. For this reason, Adonai the Lord says these things: Behold, I am against you, and I will judge between a strong sheep and between a weak sheep. Then he speaks of the insolence of the strong. καʹ. Because you push with your sides, and with your shoulders, and you gore with your horns, and you drove out all the weak, until you drove them out, and my sheep were scattered to every passerby. And I will save my sheep, and they will no longer be for plunder. He has said everything as of sheep, shoulders, and horns, and sides; but through all these he has convicted the unjust dominion of those in power; nevertheless he promises security to the sheep. "And I will judge between sheep and sheep, and between ram and ram." I will judge, he says, and I will not 81.1161 overlook those who are wronged, but I will exact punishment from the wrongdoers. Then the promise of the common salvation of all. κγʹ. And I will raise up over them one shepherd, who will shepherd them, my servant David, he will shepherd them, and he will give them rest, and he will be their shepherd. Having said above, "I will shepherd," here he says that David will be their shepherd, whom he also calls a servant; but who is this? Or is it not clear that it is the Lord Christ, born from the seed of David according to the flesh? Therefore also a servant, as a man; and this according to nature, not according to rank; for if those who have believed in him are not servants, but sons, much more he himself, through whom the servants have enjoyed freedom, is not a servant, but a son. Thus also the blessed Paul says: "Who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant." And Isaiah also cries out from his person, saying: "Thus says the Lord, who formed me from the womb, a servant to himself to gather Jacob; and Israel will be gathered to him; Behold, I have given you as a covenant of the people, as a light to the nations, that you should be for salvation to the end of the earth." And this: "And Jacob my child, I will help him." In the Hebrew, it reads, "My servant." And the divine evangelist also applied this testimony to our Lord Jesus. Therefore he is called a servant, as a man, and this, as I said, not according to rank, but according to nature; for he took the form of a servant. And concerning the shepherd of the sheep being one, the Lord also said in the Gospels: "And I have other sheep that are not of this fold, and I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice, and there will be one flock, one shepherd." Then he adds: κδʹ. And I the Lord will be their God, and my servant David a ruler in their midst. And he shows the truthfulness of what has been said by what he adds. "I the Lord have spoken." For the worthiness of the one who has spoken is sufficient for the confirmation of the words. κεʹ. And I will make a covenant of peace with David. Of this Paul is the interpreter; for he cries out concerning Christ: "He himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of the fence." And this he also said above: "And I will raise up over them one shepherd," For one shepherds both those who have believed from the Gentiles and those from the Jews. "And I will make evil beasts disappear from the land." Both the hordes of evil demons, and men suffering from beastliness, some being 81.1164 changed, and becoming rational, and being completely freed from being beasts, others being stopped by death. "And they will dwell in the wilderness with confidence, and they will sleep in the forests." Both are fruitless; but he says that they will both possess and cultivate the wilderness of the Gentiles, and in the forest of the Jews they will have rest, and healing. And

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ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰ πέρα τῆς χρείας· καὶ τοῦτο ἴδοι τις ἂν καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος ὑπ' ἐνίων γιγνόμενον. Μαρτυρεῖ δὲ καὶ ἡ τοῦ Λαζάρου παραβολὴ, δείξασα τὸν πλούσιον ἐκεῖνον μηδὲ τῶν ἐκπιπτόντων ἀπὸ τῆς τραπέζης ψι χίων μεταδεδωκότα τῷ πένητι. Τὸ δὲ "Κατεπατεῖτε τὰ κατάλοιπα τοῖς ποσὶ," τροπικῶς ὡς ἐπὶ προβά των ἐῤῥέθη, ἐσθιόντων τὴν πόαν, καὶ τὴν λοιπὴν πα τούντων, καὶ πρῶτον τὸ ὕδωρ πινόντων, εἶτα τοῖς ποσὶν αὑτῶν καταθολούντων. κʹ. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ πρὸς ὑμᾶς, καὶ κρινῶ ἀναμέσον προβάτου ἰσχυροῦ καὶ ἀναμέσον προβάτου ἀσθενοῦς. Εἶτα λέγει τῶν ἰσχυρῶν τὴν θρασύτητα. καʹ. Ἐπειδὴ ταῖς πλευραῖς ὑμῶν, καὶ τοῖς ὤμοις ὑμῶν διωθεῖσθε, καὶ τοῖς κέρασιν ὑμῶν ἐκερατίζετε, πάντα δὲ τὰ ἐκλείποντα ἐξεθλί βετε, ἕως οὗ ἐξώσατε αὐτὰ ἔξω, καὶ διε σπάρη τὰ πρόβατά μου παντὶ παραπορευομένῳ. Καὶ σώσω τὰ πρόβατά μου, καὶ οὐκέτι ἔσται εἰς προνομήν. Πάντα ὡς ἐπὶ προβάτων εἴρηκεν, ὤμους, καὶ κέρατα, καὶ πλευράς· διὰ πάντων δὲ τῶν ἐν δυνάμει τὴν ἄδικον δυναστείαν διήλεγξεν· ὑπισχνεῖται δὲ ὅμως ἀσφάλειαν τοῖς προβάτοις. "Καὶ κρινῶ ἀναμέσον προβάτου καὶ προβάτου, καὶ ἀνα μέσον κριοῦ πρὸς κριόν." ∆ικάσω, φησὶ, καὶ οὐ πε 81.1161 ριόψομαι ἀδικουμένους, ἀλλὰ δίκας τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας πράξομαι. Εἶτα τῆς κοινῆς πάντων σωτηρίας ἡ ὑπόσχεσις. κγʹ. Καὶ ἀναστήσω ἐπ' αὐτοὺς ποιμένα ἕνα, ὃς ποιμανεῖ αὐτοὺς, τὸν δοῦλόν μου ∆αβὶδ, αὐτὸς ποιμανεῖ αὐτοὺς, καὶ αὐτὸς ἀναπαύ σει αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἔσται αὐτῶν ποιμήν. Ἄνω εἰρη κὼς, "Ἐγὼ ποιμανῶ," ἐνταῦθα τὸν ∆αβὶδ αὐτῶν ἔσεσθαι ποιμένα λέγει, ὃν καὶ δοῦλον προσαγορεύει· τίς δὲ οὗτός ἐστιν; Ἢ δῆλον, ὡς ὁ ∆εσπότης Χρι στὸς, ἐκ σπέρματος ∆αβὶδ κατὰ σάρκα γενόμενος; ∆ιὸ καὶ δοῦλος, ὡς ἄνθρωπος· καὶ τοῦτο δὲ κατὰ τὴν φύσιν, οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν· εἰ γὰρ οἱ εἰς αὐτὸν πεπι στευκότες οὐ δοῦλοι, ἀλλ' υἱοὶ, πολλῷ μᾶλλον αὐτὸς, δι' ὃν οἱ δοῦλοι τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἀπήλαυσαν, οὐ δοῦλος, ἀλλ' υἱός. Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος λέγει Παῦλος· "Ὃς ἐν μορφῇ Θεοῦ ὑπάρχων, οὐχ ἁρπαγμὸν ἡγήσατο τὸ εἶναι ἴσα Θεῷ, ἀλλ' ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσε μορφὴν δούλου λαβών." Καὶ Ἡσαΐας δὲ ἐκ προσώπου αὐτοῦ βοᾷ λέγων· "Οὕτω λέγει Κύριος, ὁ πλάσας με ἐκ κοι λίας, δοῦλον ἑαυτῷ συναγαγεῖν τὸν Ἰακώβ· καὶ Ἰσραὴλ συναχθήσεται πρὸς αὐτόν· Ἰδοὺ δέδωκά σε εἰς διαθήκην γένους, εἰς φῶς ἐθνῶν, τοῦ εἶναί σε εἰς σωτηρίαν ἕως ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς." Καὶ τό· "Ἰακὼβ δὲ ὁ παῖς μου, ἀντιλήψομαι αὐτοῦ." Παρὰ τῷ Ἑβραίῳ, "Ὁ δοῦλός μου" κεῖται. Ταύτην δὲ τὴν μαρτυρίαν καὶ ὁ θεῖος εὐαγγελιστὴς εἰς τὸν Κύριον ἡμῶν ἔλαβε Ἰησοῦν. ∆οῦλος τοίνυν κέκληται, ὡς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ τοῦτο δὲ, ὡς ἔφην, οὐ κατὰ τὴν ἀξίαν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τὴν φύσιν· δούλου γὰρ ἔλαβε μορφήν. Περὶ δὲ τοῦ ἕνα εἶναι τὸν τῶν προβάτων ποιμένα καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐν τοῖς Εὐαγγελίοις ἔφη· "Καὶ ἄλλα πρόβατα ἔχω, ἃ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐκ τῆς αὐλῆς ταύτης, κἀκεῖνά με δεῖ ἀγαγεῖν, καὶ τῆς φωνῆς μου ἀκού σουσι, καὶ γενήσεται μία ποίμνη, εἷς ποιμήν." Εἶτα ἐπάγει· κδʹ. Καὶ ἐγὼ Κύριος ἔσομαι αὐτοῖς εἰς Θεὸν, καὶ ὁ δοῦλός μου ∆αβὶδ ἄρχων ἐν μέσῳ αὐ τῶν. Καὶ τὸ ἀψευδὲς τῶν εἰρημένων τοῖς ἐπαγομέ νοις δείκνυσιν. "Ἐγὼ Κύριος ἐλάλησα." Ἀρκεῖ γὰρ εἰς βεβαίωσιν τῶν λόγων ἡ τοῦ εἰρηκότος ἀξία. κεʹ. Καὶ διαθήσομαι τῷ ∆αβὶδ διαθήκην εἰρήνης. Τούτου ὁ Παῦλος ἑρμηνευτής· βοᾷ γὰρ περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ· "Αὐτός ἐστιν ἡ εἰρήνη ἡμῶν, ὁ ποιήσας τὰ ἀμφότερα ἓν, καὶ τὸ μεσότοιχον τοῦ φραγμοῦ λύσας." Τοῦτο δὲ καὶ ἄνω ἔφη· "Καὶ ἀναστήσω ἐπ' αὐτοὺς ποιμένα ἕνα," Εἷς γὰρ καὶ τοὺς ἐξ ἐθνῶν καὶ τοὺς ἐξ Ἰουδαίων πεπιστευκότας ποιμαί νει. "Καὶ ἀφανιῶ θηρία πονηρὰ ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς." Καὶ τῶν πονηρῶν δαιμόνων τὰ στίφη, καὶ τοὺς θηριωδίαν νοσοῦντας ἀνθρώπους, τοὺς μὲν μετα 81.1164 βαλλομένους, καὶ λογικοὺς γινομένους, καὶ τοῦ εἶναι θηρία παντελῶς ἀπαλλαττομένους, τοὺς δὲ τῷ θανάτῳ παυομένους. "Καὶ κατοικήσουσιν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ πεποιθότες, καὶ ὑπνώσουσιν ἐν τοῖς δρυ μοῖς." Ἀμφότερα ἄκαρπα· λέγει δὲ, ὅτι καὶ τὴν ἔρημον τῶν ἐθνῶν καθέξουσί τε καὶ γεωργήσουσι, καὶ ἐν τῷ δρυμῷ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἀνάπαυσιν ἕξουσι, καὶ θεραπείαν. Καὶ