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to send up a hymn. But he is able to do this 227 when he becomes upright in soul and mind; for "praise is fitting for the upright." 19 May those who unjustly hate me not rejoice over me. Great is the confidence of the one saying these things. They hate me unjustly. Although I provide no pretext or reason for them to attack me hostilely, they do this. Since, therefore, being enemies, they rejoice when I fall into evils, may I not fall into evils, so that they might rejoice over me, might rise up against me; for he who wants to lead someone into licentiousness then rejoices over him, being evil he rejoices, when he falls into what he has striven to entangle him in. May this not happen to me, therefore, that those who unjustly hate me might rejoice. 19 Those who hate me without cause and wink with their eyes. "3unjustly"3 and "3without cause"3 are the same, that is, "3without reason"3 "and winking" against me "with their eyes"; not only do they speak against me with words, but they also wink with their eyes. And since often, when the heterodox on behalf of those who harm us, with whom they wink with their eyes, with their own minds, agree to evil, they are of one mind in impiety 20 For they spoke peaceful things to me, and with anger they devised deceits. This is one form of impiety; speaking peaceful things, they did not do peaceful things. And this is to do wrong. He speaks peaceful things among his friends, among his companions as if a lover of his fellows, but he devises deceits with anger. Everyone who has deceit toward his neighbor does this while being angry with him. And I say: anger is a desire for revenge. And in any case, he who approaches someone with deceit wants to harm him, so that the deceitful person is also an angry one. But often in appearance he does not seem to be angry, speaking peaceful things. At any rate, this is also said in Jeremiah about someone: "He speaks peaceful things to his neighbor, but in himself he has enmity." "To me," therefore, he says, "they spoke peaceful things." They did not simply "speak peaceful things," but "to me"; wanting to deceive me, they spoke peaceful things; for a truly peaceful man does not speak peaceful things to someone while having another thought against him. For example, the Savior says among other things that "the peacemakers are blessed," "for they are sons of God." It is characteristic of the sons of God to be peaceful. And he called those who make peace "peacemakers." When they bring those who are divided in purpose to harmony and friendship, they are peacemakers. And they are also peacemakers in themselves. First, having made peace within themselves, so as not to have conflicting thoughts or deeds; then they made peace in themselves. And this peace they also transfer to others; for what they themselves are, they want their students to be also. They teach the soul to be at peace with the body and the body with the soul; for when the soul "pummels the body and makes it a slave," and the soul rules while the body is ruled, there is peace of body and soul. Just as, therefore, they have established peace in themselves, so also they do this in others who are loved and loving or even fighting. For this reason also in the Didache, the book of catechesis, it is said: "You shall make peace among those who are fighting." But he who brings others who are fighting to peace and reconciliation has first brought peace to himself; he has no battle in himself, he has no conflicting thoughts. 21 And they widened their mouth against me. They widened their speech against me, speaking peaceful things. But their mind was constricted by deceit, being gathered to the same point, not praiseworthily, but so as not to have its proper virtues. This is also possible: "they widened against me," as though speaking peaceful things and devising deceits with anger, they thought to deceive me. Then, finally, they began to laugh loudly and to widen their speech against me. You have such symbols in the histories; Delilah, the prostitute introduced in the book of Judges, plotted with deceits to lead on 228 Samson, so that she might give him to the foreigners who wished to kill him. And she was saying: "In what will your strength weaken, or in what, like one of the

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ὕμνον ἀναπέμπειν. τότε δὲ τοῦτο 227 πρᾶξαι δύναται, ὅταν εὐθὴς κατὰ τὴν ψυχὴν καὶ τὸν νοῦν γένηται· "τοῖς" γὰρ "εὐθέσιν πρέπει αἴνεσις". 19 μὴ ἐπιχαρείησάν μοι οἱ ἐχθραίνοντές μοι ἀδίκως. μεγάλη παρρησία τοῦ ταῦτα λέγοντος. ἀδίκως ἐχθραίνουσίν μοι. ἐμοῦ οὐ παρέχοντος πρόφασιν οὐδὲ αἰτίαν τοῦ ἐχθρικῶς ἐπικεῖσθαί μοι αὐτῷ, τοῦτο πράττουσιν. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν ἐχθροὶ ὄντες χαίρουσιν, ὅταν κακοῖς περιπέσω, μὴ περιπέσοιμι κακοῖς, ὥστε ἐκείνους ἐπιχαίρειν μοι, ἐφιστάναι μοι· ὁ γὰρ βουλόμενός τινα εἰς ἀκολασίαν ἀγαγεῖν τότε ἐπιχαίρει αὐτῷ, ἐπιχαίρει κακὸς ὤν, ὅταν περιπέσῃ οἷς ἐσπούδασεν αὐτὸν περιβαλεῖν. μὴ τοῦτο οὖν ὑπάρξῃ μοι, ὥστε ἐπιχαρῆναι τοὺς ἐκθραίνοντάς μοι ἀδίκως. 19 οἱ μισοῦντές με δωρεὰν καὶ διανεύοντες ὀφθαλμοῖς. τὸ "3ἀδίκως"3 καὶ τὸ "3δωρεὰν ταὐτόν ἐστιν, τὸ "3ἄνευ αἰτίας"3 "καὶ διανεύοντες̣" κατ' ἐμοῦ "ὀφθαλμοῖς"· οὐ μόνον λόγοις λέγουσιν κατ' ἐμοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ διανεύουσιν ὀφθαλμοῖς. καὶ ἐπεὶ πολλάκις, ὅταν οἱ ἑτερόδοξοι ὑπὲρ τῶν ἡμᾶς κακούντων, πρὸς οὓς διανεύουσιν τοῖς ὀφθαλμοῖς, τοῖς νουσὶν ἑαυτῶν, συμφωνοῦσιν εἰς τὸ κακόν, ὁμοφρονοῦσιν εἰς τὴν ἀ σέβειαν 20 ὅτι ἐμοὶ μὲν εἰρηνικὰ ἐλάλουν καὶ ἐπ' ὀργὴν δόλους διελογίζοντο. ἓν εἶδος τῆς ἀσεβείας τοῦτο· εἰρηνικὰ λαλοῦντες οὐκ εἰρηνικὰ ἔπραττον. τοῦτο δὲ ἀδικῆσαί ἐστιν. εἰρηνικὰ λαλεῖ ἐν τοῖς φίλοις, ἐν τοῖς ἑταίροις ὡς φιλάλληλος, δόλους δὲ διαλογίζεται ἐπ' ὀργῇ. πᾶς δόλον εἰς τὸν πλησίον ἔχων ὀργιζόμενος αὐτῷ τοῦτο ποιεῖ. καὶ λέγω· ἡ ὀργὴ ὄρεξίς ἐστιν τιμωρίας. πάντως δὲ ὁ δόλῳ τινὶ προσερχόμενος βλάψαι ἐκεῖνον θέλει, ὥστε ὁ δόλιος καὶ ὀργίλος ἐστίν. τῷ δὲ δοκεῖν οὔκ ἐστιν πολλάκις ὀργίλος φαινόμενος εἰρηνικὰ λαλῶν. τοῦτο γοῦν καὶ ἐν Ἰηρεμίᾳ λέγεται περί τινος· "τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ λαλεῖ εἰρηνικὰ καὶ ἐν ἑαυτῷ ἔχει τὴν ἔχθραν". "ἐμοὶ" οὖν, φησίν, "εἰρηνικὰ ἐλάλουν". οὐκ "εἰρηνικὰ" ἁπλῶς "ἐλάλουν", ἀλλ' "ἐμοί"· ἐμὲ ἀπατῆσαι θέλοντες εἰρηνικὰ ἐλάλουν· οὐ γὰρ ὁ ἀληθῶς εἰρηνικὸς ἄνθρωπος λαλεῖ τινι εἰρηνικὰ ἄλλην ἔχων διάνοιαν κατ' ἐκείνου. αὐτίκα γοῦν ὁ σωτὴρ λέγει πρὸς ἑτέροις "τοὺς εἰρηνοποιοὺς μακαρίους" εἶναι, "ὅτι υἱοὶ θεοῦ εἰσιν". υἱῶν θεοῦ ἐστιν τὸ εἰρηνικοὶ εἶναι. εἰρηνοποιοὺς δὲ εἶπεν τοὺς ποιοῦντας εἰρήνην. ὅταν εἰς συμφωνίαν καὶ φιλίαν ἄγωσιν τοὺς διεστηκότας τῇ προαιρέσει, εἰρηνοποιοί εἰσιν. καὶ ἐφ' ἑαυτῶν δὲ εἰρηνοποιοί εἰσιν. πρότερον δὲ εἰρήνην ἐν ἑαυτοῖς ποιήσαντες, ὥστε μηδὲ λογισμοὺς μαχομένους ἔχειν ἑαυτοῖς ἢ ἔργα· τότε εἰρήνην ἐποίησαν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς. ταύτην δὲ τὴν εἰρήνην καὶ εἰς ἑτέρους μεταφέρουσιν· οἷοι γὰρ ὑπάρχουσιν αὐτοί, καὶ τοὺς διδασκομένους θέλουσιν εἶναι. εἰρηνεύειν διδάσκουσιν τὴν ψυχὴν πρὸς τὸ σῶμα καὶ τὸ σῶμα πρὸς τὴν ψυχήν· ὅταν γὰρ ἡ ψυχὴ "ὑπωπιάζῃ τὸ σῶμα καὶ δουλαγωγῇ", καὶ ἄρχῃ μὲν ἡ ψυχή, ἄρχηται δὲ τὸ σῶμα, εἰρήνη ἐστὶν σώματος καὶ ψυχῆς. ὥσπερ οὖν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς κατεσκεύασαν εἰρήνην, οὕτω καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἄλλοις τοῖς στεργομένοις καὶ ἀγαπῶσιν ἢ καὶ μαχομένοις τοῦτο πράττουσιν. διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐν τῇ ∆ιδαχῇ τῇ βίβλῳ τῆς κατηχήσεως λέγεται· "εἰρηνεύσεις μαχομένους". ὁ δὲ ἄλλους μαχομένους εἰς εἰρήνην καὶ συναλλαγὰς φέρων ἑαυτὸν πρότερον εἰρήνευσεν, οὐκ ἔχει μάχην ἐν ἑαυτῷ, οὐκ ἔχει λογισμοὺς μαχομένους. 21 καὶ ἐπλάτυναν ἐπ' ἐμὲ τὸ στόμα αὐτῶν. τὸν λόγον ἑαυτῶν ἐπλάτυναν ἐπ' ἐμὲ εἰρηνικὰ λαλοῦντες. ὁ νοῦς δὲ αὐτῶν ἐστενεύετο ὑπὸ τοῦ δόλου εἰς ταὐτὸν συναγόμενος οὐκ ἐπαινετῶς, ἀλλ' ὥστε μὴ ἔχειν τὰς οἰκείας ἀρετάς. δύναται καὶ τοῦτο· "ἐπλάτυναν ἐπ' ἐμὲ" ὡς εἰρηνικὰ λαλοῦντες καὶ ἐπ' ὀργῇ δόλους διαλογιζόμενοι ἔδοξάν με ἀπατᾶν. τότε λοιπὸν ἤρξαντο πλατὺ καχάζειν καὶ πλατύνειν ἐπ' ἐμὲ τὸν λόγον αὐτῶν. ἔχεις ἐν ἱστορίαις σύμβολα τοιαῦτα· ἡ ∆αλιλὰ ἡ εἰςαγομένη ἐν τῇ βίβλῳ τῶν Κριτῶν πόρνη δόλοις ἐβουλεύετο ἐπ228 αγαγέσθαι τὸν Σαμψών, ἵνα δῷ τοῖς ἀλλοφύλοις τοῖς φονεῦσαι αὐτὸν ἐθέλουσιν. καὶ ἔλεγεν ὅτι· "ἐν τίνι ἀσθενήσει σου ἡ ἰσχὺς ἢ τίνι ὡς εἷς τῶν