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the sandal of a covered journey. Of old, then, he used a naked journey, creating and providing, but now with the flesh which he is clothed in, which also happens to be his sandal. And since some have shod themselves with the gospel in the preparation of peace, this sandal also, having been spread everywhere, was extended over Idumea according to both of the aforementioned ways.

1033 Ps 108,6-8 Not all things are on the right hand for everyone, but for the virtuous, the intelligible things and the things of virtue, and for the wicked, the things of the senses and the things of vice; on the right hand of the saint God stands, but on that of the sinner, the devil. But perhaps someone will object, saying: And concerning Jesus the great high priest, who was a saint, it is said, "And the devil stood at his right hand to oppose him." But the objector did not pay attention to the difference in the words; for concerning Judas it is written, "Let the Devil stand at his right hand," but concerning the great high priest, "And the devil stood at his right hand to oppose him;" for he stands fighting and resisting the right-handedness of the saint, even if he is not able to overthrow the one at whose right hand God is; but he stands at the right hand of Judas as in his own place. Therefore he is wicked, and what follows also shows his depravity, with the savior praying that the prayer of Judas become sin. A prayer becomes sin for the one who offers it, when he fails to obtain what he asks for. He prayed, then, in a certain way betraying the teacher, that his word might disappear and all the disciples and believers be scattered, but he failed. For his word ran, and those who believed in him, increasing daily, filled the whole world. And in another way a prayer becomes sin for someone, when he asks to receive from God not what he ought but what is not advantageous for him, and for this reason he is judged, since he asked for things that it is not fitting for God to give nor were they profitable for him. The days of every betrayer of the truth become few, which he had while being enlightened, before he betrayed the truth. being enlightened by the true light, and another takes his office in his place becoming a teacher, who both remained and progressed in the truth.

1034 Ps 108,14a The fathers of Judas, those who begot him according to betrayal, can be those who, by giving the silver, incited him to this, and also Satan who put it into his heart to betray the Lord, and the rulers of this age who have its wisdom, about whom Paul says, "For if they had known, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory."

1035 Ps 108,16c And he put him to death, having become the cause of his being handed over to death.

1036 Ps 108,21-23 He who is clothed in the form of a servant speaks to the Father as to the Lord. And he speaks to the Lord, so that he may show mercy with him, benefiting the believers who are his body; for what happens to his body he reckons to himself. Therefore he says, "Deal with me for your name's sake," since in this I have come to those whom you sent me, saying, "I have come in the name of the Father;" therefore, for the sake of this name, act, "Because your mercy is good," being beneficent and full of goodness; but act, since "And my heart is troubled within me." You could also say the apostles, who are of one soul with him, are his heart, with the lesser believers being his body. Since, therefore, the disciples were scattered, being scandalized on that night when Judas and the crowd of the Pharisees came to seize him, it happened that they, being his heart, were troubled. However, even if his heart was troubled, it did not depart from him, being contained by him and being inside his disciples. But also everyone whose heart is troubled by thoughts or passions, yet who does or says nothing according to the disturbance, will say, "My heart was troubled within me." Then since always in

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κεκαλυμμένης πορείας τὸ ὑπόδημα. πάλαι μὲν ουν γυμνῇ τῇ πορείᾳ ἐχρῆτο κτίζων προνοούμενος, νῦν δὲ μετὰ σαρκὸς ης περίκειται η καὶ ὑπόδημα αὐτοῦ τυγχάνει. ἐπειδὴ δὲ καὶ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον ὑπεδήσαντό τινες τῇ ἑτοιμασίᾳ τῆς εἰρήνης, καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ὑπόδημα πανταχοῦ διαδοθὲν ἐξετάθη ἐπὶ τὴν ̓Ιδουμαίαν καθ' ἑκατέρους τοὺς εἰρημένους τρόπους.

1033 Ps 108,6-8 Οὐ πᾶσι τὰ αὐτὰ δεξιά, ἀλλὰ τῷ μὲν σπουδαίῳ τὰ νοητὰ καὶ

τὰ τῆς ἀρετῆς, τῷ δὲ φαύλῳ τὰ αἰσθητὰ καὶ τὰ τῆς κακίας· ἐν μὲν τοῖς δεξιοῖς τοῦ ἁγίου θεὸς ισταται, ἐν δὲ τοῖς τοῦ ἁμαρτωλοῦ διάβολος. ἀλλ' ισως ἀντερεῖ τις λέγων· Καὶ περὶ ̓Ιησοῦ τοῦ μεγάλου ἱερέως ἁγίου τυγχάνοντος λέλεκται Καὶ ὁ διάβολος εἱστήκει ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀντικεῖσθαι αὐτῷ. οὐκ ἐπέστησε δὲ ὁ ἀνθιστάμενος τῇ τῶν λέξεων διαφορᾷ· ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ ̓Ιούδα ∆ιάβολος στήτω ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτοῦ γέγραπται, ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ μεγάλου ἱερέως Καὶ ὁ διάβολος εἱστήκει ἐκ δεξιῶν αὐτοῦ ἀντικεῖσθαι αὐτῷ· τῇ γὰρ δεξιότητι τοῦ ἁγίου ισταται μαχόμενος καὶ ἀνθιστάμενος, εἰ καὶ ἀνατρέψαι οὐχ οιός τέ ἐστι τὸν ου ὁ θεὸς ἐν τοῖς δεξιοῖς ἐστι· τοῦ δὲ ̓Ιούδα ὡς ἐν ἰδίῳ τόπῳ τοῖς δεξιοῖς ισταται. διὸ καὶ φαῦλός ἐστι, καὶ ετι τὸ ἑπόμενον ἐμφαίνει τὴν πονηρίαν αὐτοῦ, τοῦ σωτῆρος εὐχομένου εἰς ἁμαρτίαν γενέσθαι τὴν τοῦ ̓Ιούδα προσευχήν. γίνεται εἰς ἁμαρτίαν προσευχὴ τῷ ἀναπέμποντι αὐτήν, οταν ἀποτυγχάνῃ ων αἰτεῖται. Ηυξατο γοῦν, τρόπον τινὰ προδιδοὺς τὸν διδάσκαλον, ἀφανισθῆναι τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ καὶ σκορπισθῆναι πάντας τοὺς μαθητὰς καὶ πεπιστευκότας, ἀλλ' ἀπέτυχεν. εδραμε γοῦν ὁ λόγος αὐτοῦ, καὶ οἱ πιστεύοντες αὐτῷ ὁσημέραι αὐξάνοντες τὴν πᾶσαν οἰκουμένην ἐπλήρωσαν. Καὶ αλλως γε γίνεταί τινι εἰς ἁμαρτίαν ἡ προσευχή, οταν μὴ α δεῖ ἀλλὰ α μὴ συμφέροι αὐτῷ ἀξιοῖ λαβεῖν παρὰ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο κρίναντος αὐτόν, ἐπεὶ μηδὲ α πρέπει θεὸν διδόναι μηδὲ αὐτῷ λυσιτελῆ ᾐτήσατο. Παντὸς δὲ προδότου τῆς ἀληθείας γίνονται αἱ ἡμέραι ὀλίγαι, ας ειχε φωτιζόμενος, πρὶν προδῷ τὴν ἀλήθειαν. ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀληθινοῦ φωτὸς φωτιζόμενος, λαμβάνει δὲ καὶ τούτου τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν ἀντ' αὐτοῦ διδάσκαλος γινόμενος, ὁ καὶ ἐμμείνας καὶ προκόψας ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ. 1034 Ps 108,14a Πατέρες τοῦ ̓Ιούδα οἱ κατὰ προδοσίαν γεννήσαντες αὐτὸν ειναι δύνανται οι τε διὰ τῆς δόσεως τῶν ἀργυρίων εἰς τοῦτο αὐτὸν παρορμήσαντες, καὶ ετι ὁ βαλὼν εἰς τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ Σατανᾶς προδοῦναι τὸν κύριον, καὶ οἱ εχοντες σοφίαν τούτου τοῦ αἰῶνος αρχοντες περὶ ων ὁ Παῦλος Εἰ γὰρ εγνωσαν, οὐκ αν τὸν κύριον τῆς δόξης ἐσταύρωσαν. 1035 Ps 108,16c ̓Εθανάτωσε δὲ αὐτόν, αιτιος γενόμενος τοῦ εἰς θάνατον παραδοθῆναι. 1036 Ps 108,21-23 ̔Ο τὴν τοῦ δούλου μορφὴν περικείμενος ὡς πρὸς κύριον τὸν πατέρα λαλεῖ. λέγει δὲ τῷ κυρίῳ, οπως ποιήσει μετ' αὐτοῦ ελεος εὐεργετῶν τοὺς πιστεύοντας οντας αὐτοῦ σῶμα· τὰ γὰρ εἰς τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ γινόμενα ἑαυτῷ λογίζεται. διό φησι Ποίησον μετ' ἐμοῦ ενεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματος σου, ἐπείπερ ἐν τούτῳ ἐλήλυθα πρὸς ους ἀπέστειλάς με φάσκων ̓Εγὼ ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ πατρὸς ἐλήλυθα· ενεκεν ουν τούτου τοῦ ὀνόματος ποίησον, Οτι χρηστὸν τὸ ελεός σου, εὐεργετικὸν ον καὶ μεστὸν ἀγαθότητος· ποίησον δέ, ἐπεὶ Καὶ ἡ καρδία μου τετάρακται ἐντός μου. Λέγοις δ' αν καρδίαν καὶ ἰσοψύχους αὐτοῦ τοὺς ἀποστόλους, τῶν ὑποδεεστέρων πεπιστευκότων τυγχανόντων αὐτῷ σῶμα. ἐπεὶ ουν ἐσκορπίσθησαν οἱ μαθηταὶ σκανδαλισθέντες ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ἐκείνῃ, οτ' ἐπαρέστησαν ἐπὶ τῷ κρατῆσαι αὐτὸν ̓Ιούδας καὶ ὁ τῶν Φαρισαίων οχλος, τεταράχθαι αὐτοὺς καρδίαν αὐτοῦ τυγχάνοντας συνέβη. πλὴν εἰ καὶ ἐταράχθη ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ, ἀλλ' ουν οὐκ ἀπέστη αὐτοῦ, περιεχομένη αὐτοῦ καὶ ενδον ουσα τῶν μαθητῶν αὐτοῦ. ̓Αλλὰ καὶ πᾶς ὁ ταραττόμενος τὴν καρδίαν ἀπὸ λογισμῶν η παθῶν, μηδὲν δὲ πράττων η λέγων κατὰ τὴν ταραχήν, ἐρεῖ τὸ ̓Εταράχθη ἡ καρδία μου ἐντός μου. Ειτ' ἐπεὶ ἀεὶ ἐν