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is also what was written by Habakkuk: "I considered your works and was amazed." The prophet says that the ecstasy thus interpreted came from the Lord, magnified upon those who receive benefits. 5.135 When this happened, "Judah will be drawn up in Jerusalem," about whom it was said: "Judah, let your brothers praise you," Judah, who confesses on behalf of all. And Judah, being transformed, is drawn up confessing in the true Jerusalem, in which "the one who dwells is not shaken forever," so that he may gather from all around the strength of all the peoples, gold and silver and a multitude of garments, which is very great. 5.136 It has often been made clear both in other divinely-inspired scriptures and in the prophet set forth for examination, that the enlightened mind is signified by the meaning of gold, and the intelligent and precise word by the name of silver. Hence it is fitting to apply the garments correspondingly to the gold and silver, a great multitude of which the holy Judah gathered from all around, from all the peoples, that is, from all who have believed from the nations. 5.137 But clothing and garments, according to a divine allegorical interpretation, are the virtues in their various forms and the deeds accomplished according to them, and the dogmas of piety and the mysteries of truth. With these vestments is covered ···· the bride of Christ, being the Church, and a queen, as is sung in the forty-fourth Psalm: "The queen stood at your right hand in clothing of wrought gold, robed in many colors," and in addition: "In golden fringes, robed in many colors." 5.138 For may the mind not be so blinded as to think that the Holy Spirit teaches about physical garments, but about garments that belong to and adorn the inner man, about which it is written commandingly in Ecclesiastes: "Let your garments be white at all times," which God Himself puts on and clothes the soul that says with thanksgiving: "I rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with a garment of salvation and a robe of gladness." 5.139 To her who is thus adorned with the world of garments, the bridegroom who gave them to her says: "I clothed you with fine-spun garments and fine linen," calling those things fine-spun that are woven from the most delicate and subtle thoughts and deeds ··· and fine linen are those things woven from perceptible actions and words, since fine linen grows from the earth, so as to be compared in this way to perceptible things. 5.140 Judah, having gathered to be drawn up in the intelligible Jerusalem which sees peace, the strength of the peoples from all around, gathered the intelligible treasures of the peoples, being gold, silver, a very great multitude of garments, that is, mind and word according to what has been interpreted allegorically and the clothing assigned, gathered into a very great multitude. Since sufficient clarification has been given for the present saying, let us set forth what follows it. 5.141 Zach. XIV, 15: And this will be the fall of the horses and of the mules and of the camels and of the donkeys and of all the cattle that are in those camps, according to this fall. 5.142 Just as the nations that stood badly, having fallen, blessedly 5.142 and praiseworthily rose up, as was just now interpreted, so also the horses, mules, camels, donkeys, according to allegory, having fallen from the state in which they are such, will rise up for their own good in a saving manner. 5.143 For the horses that became mad for females by neighing for their neighbors' wives have fallen from the pleasure-loving passion and adulterous state, so that they may rise up in a praiseworthy resurrection, about which Jesus said to his disciples: "Rise, let us go from here," and to the Church from the nations which became his bride he cries: "Arise, come, my love." Of this understanding is the apostolic word which goes thus: "Awake, you who are sleeping, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you."

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ὑπάρχει καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἁμβακοὺμ γεγραμμένον· «Κατενόησα τὰ ἔργα σου καὶ ἐξέστην.» Τὴν οὕτω ἡρμηνευμένην ἔκστασιν γεγονέναι παρὰ Κυρίου ἐπὶ τοὺς εὐεργετουμένους̣ μεμεγεθυσμένην ὁ προφήτης φησίν. 5.135 Οὗ συμβάντος, «παρατάξεται ὁ Ἰούδας ἐν τῇ Ἰερουσαλήμ», περὶ οὗ εἴρηται· «Ἰούδα, σὲ αἰνέσαισαν οἱ ἀδελφοί σου», ὁ ὑπὲρ πάντων ἐξομολογούμενος Ἰούδας. Παρατάσσεται δὲ ὁ μεταλαμβανόμενος Ἰούδας ἐξομολογούμενος ἐν τῇ ἀληθινῇ Ἰερουσαλήμ, ἐν ᾗ «ὁ κατοικῶν οὐ σαλεύεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα», ἵνα συναγάγῃ κυκλόθεν τὴν ἰσχὺν πάντων τῶν λαῶν, χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον καὶ πλῆθος ἱματίων, οὖσαν σφόδρα. 5.136 Πολλάκις σεσαφήνισται καὶ ἐν ἄλλαις θεοπνεύστοις γραφαῖς καὶ τῷ εἰς ἐξέτασιν προκειμένῳ προ̣φήτῃ σημαίνεσθαι τὸν νοῦν τὸν πεφωτισμένον τῇ σημασίᾳ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τὸν συνετὸν καὶ ἠκριβωμένον λόγον τῇ τοῦ ἀργυρίου προσηγορίᾳ. Ὅθεν προσήκει καταλλήλως τῷ χρυ̣σῷ καὶ ἀργυρίῳ καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια ἐφαρμόσαι, ὧν μέγα τὸ πλ̣ῆθος ὁ ἁ´̣γιος Ἰούδας συνῆξεν κυκλόθεν ἀπὸ πάντων̣ τῶν λαῶν̣, του῀̣τ' ἔστιν πάντων τῶν πεπιστευκότων ἐξ ἐθνῶν. 5.137 Ἱματισμὸς δὲ καὶ ἱμάτια κατὰ θείαν ἀναγωγη`̣ν̣ αἱ κατ' εἰ῀̣δ̣ος ἀρετ̣αὶ τυγχάνουσιν καὶ αἱ κατ' αὐτὰς ἐπιτελούμεναι πράξεις, καὶ τὰ δόγματα τῆς εὐσεβείας καὶ τὰ τη῀̣ς ἀληθείας μυστήρια. Τούτοις τοῖς ἀμφίοις ἐγκαλύπτεται ···· η῾̣ Χριστοῦ νύμφη, Ἐκκλησία οὖσα, καὶ βασιλίς, ὡς ἐν τετταρακοστῷ καὶ τετάρτῳ Ψαλμῷ ᾄδεται· «Παρέστη ἡ βασίλισσα ἐκ δεξιῶν σου ἐν ἱματισμῷ διαχρύσῳ περιβεβλημένη πεποικιλμένη», καὶ προσέτι· «Ἐν κροσσωτοῖς χρυσοῖς περιβεβλημένη πεποικιλμένοις.» 5.138 Μὴ γὰρ ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον ἡ διάνοια τυφλωθείη ὡς νομίσαι περὶ ἐσθημάτων σωματικῶν διδάσκειν τὸ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, ἀλλὰ περὶ ἱματίων ἐπόντων καὶ κοσμούντων τὸν ἔσω ἄνθρωπον, περὶ ὧν ἐν Ἐκκλησιαστῇ γέγραπται προστακτικῶς· «Ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ λευκὰ ἔστωσαν τὰ ἱμάτιά σο̣υ», ἃ αὐτὸς ὁ Θεὸς ἀμφιέννυσιν καὶ ἐνδιδύσκει τὴν εὐχαριστητικῶς λέγουσαν ψυχήν· «Ἀγαλλιῶμαι ἐπὶ τῷ Κυρίῳ· ἐνέδυσεν γάρ με ἱματισμὸν σωτηρίου καὶ χιτῶνα εὐφροσύνης.» 5.139 Πρὸς τὴν οὕτω ἐναβρυνομένην ἐπὶ κόσμῳ ἐσθημάτων, ὁ παρασχὼν αὐτῇ αὐτὰ νυμφίος φησίν· «Ἐνέδυσά σε τρίχαπτα καὶ βύσσινα», τρίχαπτα καλῶν τ̣ὰ ἐξ ἰσχνοτ̣άτων̣ καὶ λεπτῶν νοημάτων καὶ ἔργων ὑφ̣ανθέντα ··· β̣ύσσινα δέ ἐστιν τὰ ἐκ τῶν αἰσθητῶν πράξεών τε καὶ λόγων συμπλακέντα, τῆς βύσσου ἐκ τῆς γῆς φυομένης, ὡς κατὰ τοῦτο το̣ῖς αἰσθ̣ητοῖς παραβάλλεσθαι. 5.140 Συναγαγὼν ὁ Ἰούδας παραταξόμενος ἐν τῇ ὁρώσῃ τὴν εἰρήνην νοητῇ Ἰερουσαλὴμ τὴν ἰσχὺν τῶν λαῶν κυκλόθεν, συνήγαγεν τὰ νοητὰ τῶν λαῶν κειμήλια ὑπάρχοντα χρυσίον, ἀργύριον, πλῆθος ἱματίων σφόδρα, νοῦν δηλονότι καὶ λόγον κατὰ τὰ ἡρμηνευμένα κατ' ἀναγωγὴν καὶ τὸν ἀποδοθέντα ἱματισμὸν εἰς πλῆθος σφόδρα συνηγμένον. Αὐτάρκως εἰς τὸ παρὸν ῥητὸν γεναμένης σαφηνείας, τὰ ἑξῆς αὐτῷ ἐκθώμεθα. 5.141 Zach. XIV, 15: Καὶ αὕτη ἔσται ἡ πτῶσις τῶν ἵππων καὶ τῶν ἡμιόνων καὶ τῶν καμήλ̣ων καὶ τῶν ὄνων καὶ πάντων τῶν κτηνῶν τῶν ὄντων ἐν ταῖς παρεμβολαῖς ἐκείναις κατὰ τὴν πτῶσιν ταύτην. 5.142 Ὥσπερ τὰ ἑστηκότα κακῶς ἔθνη πεσόντα μακαρίως 5.142 καὶ ἐπαινετῶς ἀνέστ̣η, ὡς ἀρτίως ἡρμηνεύθη, οὕτως οἱ κατ' ἀλληγορίαν ἵπποι, ἡμίονοι, κάμηλοι, ὄνοι, πεσόντες ἀπὸ τῆς στάσεως ἧς εἰσιν τοιοῦτοι, σωτηριωδῶς ἀν̣αστήσονται ἐπὶ ἰδίῳ καλῷ. 5.143 Οἱ γὰρ θηλυμανεῖς ἵπποι γενόμενοι τῷ χρεμετίζειν ἐπὶ τὰς τοῦ πλησίον γαμετάς, πεπτώκασιν ἀπὸ τοῦ φιληδ̣όνου πάθους καὶ μοιχικῆς καταστάσεως, ἵν' ἀναστῶσιν εἰς ἐπαινετὴν ἀνέγερσιν, περὶ ἧς Ἰησοῦς τοῖς παιδευομένοις εἶπεν· «Ἐγείρεσθε, ἄγωμεν ἐντεῦθεν», καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν̣ Ἐκκλησίαν γενομένην αὐτοῦ νύμφην βοᾷ· «Ἀνάστα ἐλθέ, ἡ πλησίον μου.» Τῆς νοήσεως ταύτης τυγχάνει τὸ ἀποστολικὸν ἔχον ὧδε· «Ἔγειρε, ὁ καθεύδων καὶ ἀνάστα ἐκ τῶν νεκρῶν, καὶ ἐπιφαύσει σοι ὁ Χριστός.»