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and arrogance kindles my wrath. 6Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent, until I have repaid into their bosom 7all their sins and the sins of their fathers together, says the Lord. Since living with all lawlessness as though having attained the highest virtue they despise others, they will reap the reward of what they dare, and he teaches that not only in the present life but also in the one to come they will pay the penalty; for on this account he has said: And of their fathers together, says the Lord. Who burned incense on the mountains. He says these things concerning their fathers. And on the hills they reproached me. I will repay their works first into their bosom. He has revealed the judgment that will be in the future life. Then he teaches for what reason he bore with them transgressing for so long a time: 8Thus says the Lord: As a grape is found in the cluster, and they will say: Do not destroy it, because the blessing of the Lord is in it, so will I do for the sake of him who serves me; for his sake I will not destroy all. For just as, he says, if someone finds one ripe grape in a cluster, for its sake he spares the whole cluster, so that he may offer the first-fruit to God, so I, having promised Abraham to bless all the nations in his seed, for the sake of that seed I bore with all of Israel transgressing, for this reason I did not overlook them serving the Egyptians, for this reason I freed them from the power of the Babylonians. 9And I will bring forth the seed from Jacob and from Judah, and he will inherit my holy mountain. The prophetic word has clearly shown us the one prophesied; for having recalled the seed, through which God promised to give the blessing to the nations, he mentioned Jacob and Judah. For the blessing which Jacob received through his forefathers and from the God of his forefathers, this he gave neither to Reuben the firstborn, nor to Simeon the second, nor to Levi the third, from whom the race of priests sprang, nor to Joseph the beloved, but to Judah; for he said, «A ruler shall not fail from Judah, nor a leader from his loins, until he comes for whom it is reserved, and he is the expectation of the nations.» For this reason the God of all said: And I will bring forth the seed from Jacob and from Judah, that is, the expectation of the nations, through which I promised to bless all the tribes of the earth. Then after the Lord Christ he mentions the apostles who believed in him and the others who succeeded to their preaching: |182 b| And my elect and my servants will inherit it and will dwell there. Then he also foretells the calling of the nations: 10And there shall be in the forest folds for flocks, and the valley of Achor for a resting place for herds for my people who have sought me. He calls the nations a forest on account of their former unbelief, and he calls the churches folds, and the peoples gathered in them flocks. And through the valley of Achor he alludes to the compunction that occurs in the churches; for Achar, or also Achor, who had stolen and transgressed the law concerning the accursed thing, they stoned in a certain valley and on account of this event they were filled with much compunction. 11But you who forsake me and forget my holy mountain, and prepare a table for Fortune, and fill up a mixed drink for the demon, 12I will deliver you to the sword, you shall all fall by the slaughter. For all things are full of impiety; first, to abandon the benefactor and to despise the temple dedicated to God, then instead of God to serve the demons who are opposed to God, and instead of the providence of God to choose Fortune and to think that it governs human affairs and that it provides the things supplied by God. Because I called you and you did not listen, I spoke and you did not hear, and you did evil before me and chose the things that I did not will. He called them both through the prophets, and they continued to resist; and he called them also when he became man; for «Jesus»

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καὶ ἡ ἀλαζονεία τὸν ἐμὸν ἐξάπτει θυμόν. 6Ἰδοὺ γέγραπται ἐνώπιον ἐμοῦ· Οὐ μὴ σιωπήσω, ἕως ἂν ἀποδώσω εἰς τὸν κόλπον αὐτῶν 7πάσας τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν καὶ τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, λέγει κύριος. Ἐπειδὴ πάσῃ συζῶντες παρανομίᾳ ὡς ἄκ ρας ἀρετῆς ἐπειλημμένοι τῶν ἄλλων ὑπερφρονοῦσι, δρέψονται ὧν τολμῶσι τἀπίχειρα καὶ δι δάσκει ὡς οὐ μόνον κατὰ τὸν παρόντα βίον ἀλλὰ κἀν τῷ μέλλοντι δώσουσι δίκας· τούτου γὰρ χά ριν εἴρηκεν· Καὶ τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, λέγει κύριος. Οἳ ἐθυμίασαν ἐπὶ τῶν ὀρέων. Περὶ τῶν πατέρων αὐ τῶν ταῦτα λέγει. Καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν βουνῶν ὠνείδισάν με. Ἀποδώσω τὰ ἔργα αὐτῶν πρῶτον εἰς τὸν κόλπον αὐτῶν. Τὴν ἐσομένην ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι βίῳ δεδήλωκε κρίσιν. Εἶτα διδάσκει, τίνος χάριν οὕτως α ὐτῶν παρανομούντων ἐπὶ πλεῖστον ἠνέσχετο χρόνον· 8Οὕτως λέγει κύριος· Ὃν τρόπον ἐὰν εὑρεθῇ ῥὰξ ἐν τῷ βότρυι καὶ ἐροῦσιν· Μὴ λυμήνῃ αὐτήν, ὅτι εὐλογία κυρίου ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτῇ, οὕτως ποιήσω ἕνεκεν τοῦ δουλεύοντός μοι· τούτου ἕνεκεν οὐ μὴ ἀπολέσω πάντας. Ὥσπερ γάρ φησιν, εἴ τις ἐν βότρυι μίαν εὕροι πέπειρον ῥᾶγα, δι' ἐκείνην παντὸς τοῦ βότρυος φείδεται, ἵνα τῷ θεῷ τὴν ἀπαρχὴν προσενέγκῃ, οὕτως ἐγὼ ἐπαγγειλάμενος τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ἐν τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ εὐλογήσειν τὰ ἔθνη πάντα δι' ἐκεῖνο τὸ σπέρμ α παντὸς τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἠνεσχόμην παρανομοῦντος, διὰ τοῦτο οὐ περιεῖδον Αἰγυπτίοις δουλεύοντας, τούτου χάριν αὐτ οὺς τῆς τῶν Βαβυλωνίων ἠλευθέρωσα δυναστείας. 9Καὶ ἐξάξω τὸ ἐξ Ἰακὼβ σπέρμα καὶ ἐξ Ἰούδα, καὶ κληρονομήσει τὸ ὄρος μου τὸ ἅγιον. Ἄντικρυς ἡμῖν τὸν προφητευόμενον ὁ προφητικὸς ὑπέδειξ ε λόγ ος· τοῦ γὰρ σπέρματος ἀναμνήσας, δι' οὗ τὴν εὐλογίαν τοῖς ἔθνεσι δώσειν ὁ θεὸς ἐπηγγείλατο, τοῦ Ἰακὼ β ἐμ νημό νευσε καὶ τοῦ Ἰούδα. Ἣν γὰρ διὰ τῶν προγόνων καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ τῶν προγόνων ὁ Ἰακὼβ εὐλογίαν ἐ δέξ ατο, ταύτην οὔτε τῷ Ῥουβὶμ τῷ πρωτοτόκῳ οὔτε τῷ Συμεὼν τῷ δευτέρῳ οὔτε τῷ Λευὶ τῷ τρίτῳ, ἐξ οὗ τὸ τῶν ἱερέων ἐβλάστησε γένος, οὔτε τῷ Ἰωσὴφ τῷ ποθουμένῳ ἀλλὰ τῷ Ἰούδᾳ δέδωκεν· «Οὐκ ἐκλείψει» γὰρ ἔφη «ἄρχων ἐξ Ἰούδα καὶ ἡγούμενος ἐκ τῶν μηρῶν αὐτοῦ, ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ ᾧ ἀπόκειται, καὶ αὐτὸς προσδοκία ἐθνῶν.» Τούτου χάριν ὁ τῶν ὅλων ἔφη θεός· Καὶ ἐξάξω τὸ ἐξ Ἰακὼβ σπέρμα καὶ ἐξ Ἰούδα, τουτέστι τὴν τῶν ἐθνῶν προσδοκίαν, δι' ἧς εὐλογήσειν ἐπηγγειλάμην πάσας τῆς γῆς τὰς φυλάς. Εἶτα μετὰ τοῦ δεσπότου Χριστοῦ καὶ τῶν εἰς αὐτὸν πεπιστευκότων ἀποστόλων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων τῶν τὸ ἐκείνων διαδεξαμένων κήρυγμα μνημονεύει· |182 b| Καὶ κληρο νομήσουσιν οἱ ἐκλεκτοί μου καὶ οἱ δοῦλοί μου καὶ κατοι κήσουσιν ἐκεῖ. Ἔπειτα καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν προλέγει τὴν κλῆσιν· 10Καὶ ἔσονται ἐν τῷ δρυμῷ ἐπαύλεις ποιμνίων, καὶ φάραγξ Ἀχὼρ εἰς ἀνάπαυσιν βουκολίων τῷ λαῷ μου οἳ ἐζήτησάν με. ∆ρυμὸν τὰ ἔθνη καλεῖ διὰ τὴν προτέραν ἀ πιστίαν , ἐπαύλεις δὲ τὰς ἐκκλησίας καλεῖ, ποίμνια δὲ τοὺς ἐν ταύταις ἀθροι ζομένους λαούς. ∆ιὰ δὲ τῆς Ἀχὼρ φάραγγος αἰνίττεται τὴν ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις γινομένην κατάνυξιν· τὸν γὰρ Ἄχαρ ἢ καὶ Ἀχὼρ κεκλοφότα καὶ τὸν περὶ τοῦ ἀναθέματος παραβεβηκότα νόμον ἔν τινι κατέλ ευσαν φάραγγι καὶ διὰ τοῦτο τὸ πάθος πολλῆς ἐνεπλήσθησαν κατανύξεως. 11Ὑμεῖς δὲ οἱ ἐγκαταλείποντές με καὶ ἐπιλανθανόμενοι τὸ ὄρος τὸ ἅγιόν μου καὶ ἑτοιμάζοντες τῇ τύχῃ τράπεζαν καὶ πληροῦντες τῷ δαίμονι κέρασμα, 12ἐγὼ παραδώσω ὑμᾶς εἰς μάχαιραν, πάντες σφαγῇ πεσεῖσθε. Πάντα γὰρ δυσσε βείας μεστά· πρῶτον μὲν τὸ τὸν εὐεργέτην καταλιπεῖν καὶ τοῦ ἀφιερωμένου τῷ θεῷ καταφρονῆσαι ναοῦ, εἶτα τὸ ἀντὶ θεοῦ τοῖς δαίμοσι τοῖς ἀντιθέοις δουλεῦσαι καὶ ἀντὶ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ προνοίας προελέσθαι τὴν τύχην καὶ ταύτην νομίζειν οἰκονομεῖν τὰ ἀνθρώπεια πράγματα καὶ ταύτην προσφέρειν τὰ ὑπὸ θεοῦ χορηγούμενα. Ὅτι ἐκάλεσα ὑμᾶς καὶ οὐχ ὑπηκούσατε, ἐλάλησα καὶ παρηκούσατε καὶ ἐποιήσατε τὸ πονηρὸν ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ καὶ ἃ οὐκ ἐβουλόμην ἐξελέξασθε. Ἐκάλεσε μὲν αὐτοὺς καὶ διὰ τῶν προφητῶν, καὶ ἀντιτείνοντες διετέλεςαν· ἐκάλεσε δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐνανθρωπήσας· «Ἰησοῦς» γάρ