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5.26.3 And the saying which declares this also announces the good news: "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Zion, for behold, I come and will dwell in your midst." For we have believed that the God Word dwells in the midst of the church, just as indeed he has promised, saying: "Behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age," 5.26.4 and "where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." And when I myself, he says, the Lord, have come and dwelt in your midst, you will then receive a greater knowledge concerning God the Almighty, as I the Lord ascribe the cause of my mission to men to the Father who sent me; 5.26.5 and you will know "that the Lord Almighty has sent me" to you. And next, concerning another Lord and God, the Lord himself speaks thus: "and I will strengthen them in the Lord their God, and in his name they will boast, says the Lord." Who then would be those who boast in the Lord...? 5.27.1 From the same. "And the Lord showed me Joshua the high priest, standing before the face of the angel of the Lord, and the devil stood at his right hand to oppose him. And the Lord said to the devil, may the Lord rebuke you, O devil, and may the Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you." 5.27.2 Again here too the Lord says that another Lord will rebuke the devil, not the Lord who is speaking himself rebuking, but mentioning another Lord. Through these things I think it is clearly demonstrated, the proof concerning the two Lords, the Father and God of all, and him who after the Father has received lordship and dominion over all created things. 5.28.1 From Malachi. "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will look upon the way before my face, and suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come into the temple, and the angel of the covenant whom you desire; behold, he is coming, says the Lord Almighty. And who will endure the day of his coming?" 5.28.2 These things are also similar to the former. For the Lord himself, God Almighty, says that the Lord will come into his temple, speaking about another; and he thus reveals the God Word. After this he also names him "angel of the covenant," whom the Lord Almighty himself teaches that he sends before his own face, saying: behold, I will send my messenger before my face. 5.28.3 But this same one, whom he called angel, he next again names Lord, saying, "and suddenly the Lord will come," and "the angel of the covenant." And having spoken of one and the same, he adds: "behold, he is coming, and who will endure the day of his coming," signifying his second and glorious coming. And he who prophesies all these things is the Lord Almighty, the God of all. 5.29.1 From the same. "And to those who fear my name the sun of righteousness will arise, and there will be healing in his wings." He who has often been named Lord and God and angel and chief captain, and Christ and priest, and Word and wisdom of God and image, this same one is now called "sun of righteousness." The Father who begot him therefore promises that he will arise, not for all, but only for those who fear his name, giving them as a reward for their fear of him the light of the sun of righteousness. And this would be the God Word, who said: "I am the light of the world." Which was the light that enlightens "every man coming into the world." 5.29.2 Therefore, not the perceptible sun nor the one manifest to all, both rational and irrational, 5.29.2 but the divine and intelligible one, the cause of all virtue and righteousness, God says at present will arise only for those who fear him, hiding him from the unworthy. Concerning whom he says somewhere else: "and the sun will set upon the prophets who lead my people astray." 5.30.1 From Jeremiah. "O Lord, my strength and my help and my refuge in the day of affliction, to you the nations will come from the end of the earth, and they will say, How our fathers have possessed false idols, and there is no benefit in them. If he shall make

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5.26.3 ταύτην δὲ καὶ εὐαγγελίζεται τὸ φάσκον λόγιον· «χαῖρε καὶ εὐφραίνου, θύγατερ Σιών, ἰδοὺ ἔρχομαι καὶ κατασκηνώσω ἐν μέσῳ σου». ἐν μέσῳ γὰρ τῆς ἐκκλησίας τὸν θεὸν λόγον κατασκηνοῦν πεπιστεύκαμεν, ὡς γοῦν καὶ ἐπήγγελται φήσας· «ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ μεθ' ὑμῶν εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος», 5.26.4 καὶ «ὅπου δύο ἢ τρεῖς συνηγμένοι εἰσὶν εἰς τὸ ἐμὸν ὄνομα, ἐκεῖ εἰμι ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῶν». ἐπειδὰν δὲ ἐγώ, φησίν, αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος ἐλθὼν κατασκηνώσω ἐν μέσῳ σου, μείζονα τότε γνῶσιν περὶ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ παντοκράτορος ἀναλήψῃ, ἐμοῦ τοῦ κυρίου τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἀποστολῆς ἀνατιθέντος τῷ ἐξαποστείλαντί με πατρί· 5.26.5 γνώσῃ δ' «ὅτι κύριος παντοκράτωρ ἀπέσταλκέν με» πρός σε. καὶ ἑξῆς περὶ ἑτέρου κυρίου καὶ θεοῦ ὧδέ πως αὐτὸς ὁ κύριος ἐπιλέγει· «καὶ κατισχύσω αὐτοὺς ἐν κυρίῳ θεῷ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ καυχήσονται, λέγει κύριος». τίνες δὲ ἂν εἶεν οἱ ἐν τῷ κυρίῳ καυχώμενοι ...; 5.27.1 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. «Καὶ ἔδειξεν μοι κύριος Ἰησοῦν τὸν ἱερέα τὸν μέγαν, ἑστῶτα πρὸ προσώπου ἀγγέλου κυρίου, καὶ ὁ διάβολος εἱστήκει ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀντικεῖσθαι αὐτῷ. καὶ εἶπεν κύριος πρὸς τὸν διάβολον, ἐπιτιμήσαι κύριος ἐν σοί, διάβολε, καὶ ἐπιτιμήσαι κύριος ἐν σοὶ ὁ ἐκλεξάμενος τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ.» 5.27.2 Πάλιν καὶ ἐνταῦθα ὁ κύριος ἕτερον κύριον ἐπιτιμήσειν τῷ διαβόλῳ φησίν, οὐκ αὐτὸς ὁ προσδιαλεγόμενος κύριος ἐπιτιμῶν, ἀλλ' ἑτέρου μνημονεύων κυρίου. δι' ὧν ἡγοῦμαι σαφῶς παρίστασθαι τὴν περὶ τῶν δύο κυρίων, τοῦ πατρὸς καὶ θεοῦ τῶν ὅλων, καὶ τοῦ μετὰ τὸν πατέρα τὴν κατὰ πάντων τῶν γενητῶν κυρείαν καὶ δεσποτείαν διειληφότος, ἀπόδειξιν. 5.28.1 Τοῦ Μαλαχίου. «Ἰδοὺ ἐξαποστέλλω τὸν ἄγγελόν μου, καὶ ἐπιβλέψεται ὁδὸν πρὸ προσώπου μου, καὶ ἐξαίφνης ἥξει εἰς τὸν ναὸν κύριος ὃν ὑμεῖς ζητεῖτε, καὶ ὁ ἄγγελος τῆς διαθήκης ὃν ὑμεῖς θέλετε· ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται, λέγει κύριος παντοκράτωρ. καὶ τίς ὑπομενεῖ ἡμέραν εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ;» 5.28.2 Ὅμοια καὶ ταῦτα τοῖς προτέροις. κύριος γὰρ αὐτὸς ὁ θεὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ ἥξειν φησὶν εἰς τὸν ναὸν αὐτοῦ κύριον, περὶ ἑτέρου λέγων· δηλοῖ δ' ἄρα τὸν θεὸν λόγον. μετὰ τοῦτο δὲ καὶ «ἄγγελον τῆς διαθήκης» ὀνομάζει, ὃν καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ παντοκράτωρ κύριος ἐξαποστέλλειν ἑαυτοῦ πρὸ προσώπου διδάσκει λέγων· ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐξαποστελῶ τὸν ἄγγελόν μου πρὸ προσώπου μου. 5.28.3 τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τοῦτον, ὃν ἄγγελον ἀπεκάλεσεν, πάλιν ἑξῆς κύριον ὀνομάζει, «καὶ ἐξαίφνης ἥξει κύριος», ἐπιλέγων, «καὶ ὁ ἄγγελος τῆς διαθήκης». ἕνα δὲ καὶ τὸν αὐτὸν προειπών, ἐπιφέρει· «ἰδοὺ ἔρχεται, καὶ τίς ὑπομενεῖ ἡμέραν εἰσόδου αὐτοῦ,» τὴν δευτέραν καὶ ἔνδοξον παρουσίαν αὐτοῦ σημαίνων. ὁ ταῦτα δὲ πάντα θεσπίζων κύριός ἐστι παντοκράτωρ ὁ τῶν ὅλων θεός. 5.29.1 Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. «Καὶ ἀνατελεῖ τοῖς φοβουμένοις τὸ ὄνομά μου ἥλιος δικαιοσύνης, καὶ ἴασις ἔσται ἐν ταῖς πτέρυξιν αὐτοῦ.» Ὁ πολλάκις ὀνομασθεὶς κύριος καὶ θεὸς καὶ ἄγγελος καὶ ἀρχιστράτηγος, Χριστός τε καὶ ἱερεύς, καὶ λόγος καὶ σοφία θεοῦ καὶ εἰκὼν νῦν αὐτὸς οὗτος «ἥλιος» κέκληται «δικαιοσύνης». τοῦτον δὴ οὖν αὐτὸν ὁ γεννήσας πατὴρ οὐ τοῖς πᾶσιν ἀλλὰ μόνοις τοῖς τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ φοβουμένοις ἀνατελεῖν ἐπαγγέλλεται, γέρας αὐτοῖς τοῦ εἰς αὐτὸν φόβου διδοὺς τὸ φῶς τοῦ τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἡλίου. εἴη δ' ἂν οὗτος ὁ θεὸς λόγος, ὁ εἰπών· «ἐγώ εἰμι τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου». ὅπερ ἦν φῶς τὸ φωτίζον «πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον». 5.29.2 τοῦτον δὴ οὖν ἀλλ' οὐ τὸν αἰσθητὸν οὐδὲ τὸν προφανῆ τοῖς 5.29.2 πᾶσι λογικοῖς τε καὶ ἀλόγοις ἥλιον, ἀλλὰ τὸν ἔνθεον καὶ νοερὸν καὶ πάσης ἀρετῆς καὶ δικαιοσύνης αἴτιον, μόνοις τοῖς φοβουμένοις αὐτὸν ἀνατελεῖν ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντος ὁ θεός φησιν, ἀποκρύπτων αὐτὸν τῶν ἀναξίων. περὶ ὧν ἀλλαχόθι που λέγει· «καὶ δύσεται ὁ ἥλιος ἐπὶ τοὺς προφήτας τοὺς πλανῶντας τὸν λαόν μου». 5.30.1 Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου. «Κύριε, ἡ ἰσχύς μου καὶ βοήθεια μου καὶ καταφυγή μου ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως, πρὸς σὲ ἔθνη ἥξουσιν ἀπ' ἐσχάτου τῆς γῆς, καὶ ἐροῦσιν, ὡς ψευδῆ ἐκτήσαντο οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν εἴδωλα, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτοῖς ὠφέλεια. εἰ ποιήσει