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wisdom is found, but in a long and full life, knowledge; for accurate experience is a teacher, having taken the revelation from above as a co-worker; enjoying which, and being enlightened by its splendor, may we never miss the truth, in Christ Jesus our Lord, with whom be glory to the Father, with the Holy Spirit, now and forever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.

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your face toward Mount Seir, and prophesy against it, and say to it: Thus says the Lord Adonai: Behold, I am against you, Mount Seir, and I will stretch out my hand against you, and I will make you a desolation, and you will be desolate. And in your cities I will make a desolation, and you will be a wasteland, and you will know that I am the Lord. Seir is a mountain of Idumea, as we have already said before; and the Idumeans, tracing their lineage from Esau, were exceedingly hostile and ill-disposed toward the Jews, for which reason they also rejoiced at the calamities brought upon them; to these the God of all threatens utter desolation. And the phrase, "I will stretch out my hand against you," he has used metaphorically from those who strike with their hands, 81.1172 showing the vehemence of his anger. Yet we know that the divine nature is impassible, and that such words are measured by the capacity of the hearers. Having thus threatened the punishment, he also brings forward the cause: 5. Because you have had an everlasting enmity, and you have ambushed the house of Israel with deceit, by the hand of enemies, by the sword in the time of their affliction, and in the time of their final iniquity. He accuses the Idumeans of holding a grudge, and of plots secretly made against Israel. For he has indicated these things, having said: "You have ambushed the house of Israel with deceit by the hand of enemies, by the sword in the time of their affliction, that is, when their enemies came upon them, you fortified their roads against them with ambushes and snares, not even allowing them to flee. For thus also the other interpreters have interpreted it: "And you delivered up," he says, "the sons of Israel to the hand of the sword, in the time of their affliction, in the time of their iniquity before me." For while paying the penalty for the iniquity, or according to the Seventy, the injustice committed against me, he says, the house of Israel had an intensification of their calamities, through your deceits, and your plots with their enemies. Therefore, the prophetic word teaches us not to trample upon those who are being punished for their sins, but to weep with those who weep, according to the apostolic admonition. 6. Therefore, as I live, says the Lord Adonai, you have surely sinned against blood, and blood shall pursue you; for you have hated your blood, your blood will pursue you. -And here he calls "blood" not war, but kinship. For since, he says, you have made war on your own race, you will rightly be warred against by it, and the kinsmen whom you hated, I will raise up as enemies against you. And the kinsmen of the Idumeans are the Jews; for they trace their lineage from two brothers: the one from Edom, who is also Esau; the other from Jacob, who is also Israel. 7. And I will make Mount Seir a desolation, and a wasteland. Then he also tells the manner of the desolation. "And I will cut off from it man and beast, both him that passes through and him that returns." And these things indicate the extremity of the desolation, that he will strip it not only of its inhabitants, but also of travelers passing by; and he also foretells in what way he will destroy the inhabitants. 8, 9. And I will fill your hills with your wounded, and your valleys, and in all your plains; for those wounded by the sword will fall in you. And I will make you an everlasting desolation 81.1173, and your cities shall not be inhabited any more, and you will know that I am the Lord. Again, "everlasting desolation," and "shall not be inhabited any more," he has used according to the scriptural idiom. Therefore from what has already

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ΤΟΜΟΣ Ι∆ʹ. ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ ΛΕʹ. αʹ-δʹ. Καὶ ἐγένετο λόγος Κυρίου πρός με λέ γων· Υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, ἐπίστρεψον

τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπ' ὄρους Σηεὶρ, καὶ προφήτευσον ἐπ' αὐτὸ, καὶ εἰπὲ αὐτῷ· Τάδε λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· Ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σὲ, ὄρος Σηεὶρ, καὶ ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ σὲ, καὶ δώσω σε ἔρημον, καὶ ἐρη μωθήσῃ. Καὶ ἐν ταῖς πόλεσί σου ἐρημίαν ποιήσω, καὶ σὺ εἰς ἔρημον ἔσῃ, καὶ γνώσῃ ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος. Τὸ Σηεὶρ ὄρος τῆς Ἰδουμαίας ἐστὶν, ὡς καὶ ἤδη προειρήκαμεν· οἱ δὲ Ἰδουμαῖοι ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἡσαῦ τὸ γένος κατάγοντες, ἀπεχθῶς λίαν καὶ δυσμενῶς περὶ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους διέκειντο, οὗ χάριν καὶ ταῖς ἐπενεχθείσαις αὐτοῖς ἐφήσθησαν συμφοραῖς· τούτοις ἀπειλεῖ τῶν ὅλων ὁ Θεὸς ἐρη μίαν ἐσχάτην. Τὸ δὲ, "Ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ σὲ," ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τῶν ταῖς χερσὶ παιόντων τέθεικε, 81.1172 τῆς ὀργῆς δεικνὺς τὸ σφοδρόν. Ἴσμεν δὲ ὅμως ἀπαθῆ τὴν θείαν φύσιν, καὶ τοὺς τοιούτους λόγους τῇ τῶν ἀκουόντων δυνάμει μετρουμένους. Οὕτως ἀπειλήσας τὴν τιμωρίαν, ἐπάγει καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν· εʹ. Ἀντὶ τοῦ γενέσθαι ἐν σοὶ ἔχθραν αἰώνιον, καὶ ἐνεκάθισας τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραὴλ ἐν δόλῳ, ἐν χειρὶ ἐχθρῶν, μαχαίρᾳ ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεως αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐν καιρῷ ἀδικίας ἐπ' ἐσχάτῳ. Ἐγ καλεῖ τοὺς Ἰδουμαίους μνησικακίαν, καὶ ἐπιβουλὰς κρύβδην κατὰ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ γεγενημένας. Ταῦτα γὰρ παρεδήλωσεν, εἰρηκώς· "Ἐνεκάθισας τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰσραὴλ ἐν δόλῳ ἐν χειρὶ ἐχθρῶν, μαχαίρᾳ ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεως αὐτῶν, τουτέστι, τῶν πολεμίων αὐτοῖς ἐπελθόντων, λόχοις καὶ ἐνέδραις τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῖς ἐπετείχιζες, οὐδὲ φυγεῖν αὐτοῖς ἐπιτρέπων. Οὕτω γὰρ καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι ἑρμηνευταὶ ἡρμήνευσαν· "Καὶ συνέκλεισας, φησὶ, τοὺς υἱοὺς Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ χεῖρα ῥομφαίας, ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεως αὐτῶν, ἐν καιρῷ ἀνο μίας ἔμπροσθέν μου." Τῆς γὰρ ἀνομίας, ἢ κατὰ τοὺς Ἑβδομήκοντα, ἀδικίας τῆς εἰς ἐμὲ γενομένης, τίνοντες, φησὶ, δίκας οἱ τοῦ οἴκου Ἰσραὴλ, ἐπίτασιν ἔσχον τῶν συμφορῶν, τοὺς σοὺς δόλους, καὶ τὰς μετὰ τῶν πολεμίων ἐπιβουλάς. ∆ιδάσκει τοίνυν ἡμᾶς ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος, μηδὲ τοῖς ἁμαρτιῶν ἕνεκεν κολαζομένοις ἐπεμβαίνειν, ἀλλὰ κλαίειν μετὰ κλαιόντων, κατὰ τὴν ἀποστολικὴν νουθεσίαν. ʹ. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο, Ζῶ ἐγὼ, λέγει Ἀδωναῒ Κύριος· ἦ μὴν εἰς αἷμα ἥμαρτες, καὶ αἷμα διώξεταί σε· αἷμα γάρ σου ἐμίσησας, τὸ αἷμά σου διώξει σε. -Αἷμα δὲ ἐνταῦθα οὐ τὸν πόλεμον, ἀλλὰ τὴν συγγένειαν ὀνομάζει. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ, φησὶ, τῷ γένει σου πεπολέμηκας, εἰκότως ὑπὸ τούτου πολεμηθήσῃ, καὶ τοὺς συγγενεῖς, οὓς ἐμίσησας, ἐπαναστήσω σοι πολεμίους. Συγγενεῖς δὲ Ἰδουμαίων οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι· ἐκ δύο γὰρ ἀδελφῶν τὸ γένος κατάγουσιν· οἱ μὲν ἐξ Ἐδὼμ, τοῦ καὶ Ἡσαῦ· οἱ δὲ ἐξ Ἰακὼβ, τοῦ καὶἸσραήλ. ζʹ. Καὶ δώσω τὸ ὄρος Σηεὶρ εἰς ἔρημον, καὶ ἠρημωμένον. Εἶτα λέγει καὶ τῆς ἐρημίας τὸν τρό πον. "Καὶ ἀπολῶ ἀπ' αὐτοῦ ἄνθρωπον καὶ κτήνη, καὶ παραπορευόμενον καὶ ἀναστρέφοντα." Ταῦτα δὲ δηλοῖ ἐρημίας ὑπερβολὴν, ὅτι οὐ μόνον οἰκητόρων αὐτὸ γυμνώσει, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁδιτῶν παριόντων· προλέγει δὲ καὶ τίνι τρόπῳ δαπανήσει τοὺς ἐνοι κοῦντας. ηʹ, θʹ. Καὶ ἐμπλήσω τῶν τραυματιῶν σου τοὺς βουνούς σου, καὶ τὰς φάραγγάς σου, καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς πεδίοις σου· τετραυματισμένοι γὰρ μαχαίρᾳ πεσοῦνται ἐν σοί. Καὶ ἔρημον αἰώνιον 81.1173 θήσομαί σε, καὶ αἱ πόλεις σου οὐ μὴ κατοικη θῶσιν ἔτι, καὶ γνώσῃ, ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος. Πάλιν τὸ "ἔρημον αἰώνιον," καὶ "οὐ μὴ κατοικη θῶσιν ἔτι," κατὰ τὸ γραφικὸν ἰδίωμα τέθεικεν. Ἀπὸ τῶν ἤδη τοίνυν