248

conspiracy; from the scriptures noted below. 1. From Psalm 40. 2. From Psalm 54. 3. From Psalm 108. 4. From Zechariah. 5. From Jeremiah. Concerning the things that happened around the time of his passion. 6. From Amos. 7. From Zechariah. 8. From Psalm 21. The Tenth Book of the Evangelical Demonstration. After the prophecies which have been given concerning the advent among men of the proclaimed god, the time now calls for us to go through the things concerning his departure from his life among men, and to consider again what sort of things were divinely decreed from ancient prophetic times to happen to him. 10.Prooem.2 But first I will go through the things concerning those who conspired for his death, which are no small part of the present proposition. But before the argument, we must keep in mind what has often been said by us concerning the economy regarding him, that indeed some things are conceived with respect to his divinity, and others with respect to his incarnation. 10.Prooem.3 For in one place he is introduced as being the Word of God and the power of God and the wisdom of God, 'the angel of great counsel,' and a great and eternal high priest, making sacrifice and propitiating the Father on behalf of the creation and salvation of all generated things; and in another place 'the lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world' and a 'sheep led to the slaughter'; and this was the human tabernacle, which, like some high priest, taking it in the manner of a lamb and a sheep from our flock and making a holy offering of the firstfruit of the human race, he brought to the Father, through which he also communed with the nature of men, which was not otherwise able to become a hearer of the Word of God and of an incorporeal and intellectual power, nor to conceive of anything greater than flesh and bodies through eyes of flesh. 10.Prooem.4 Therefore, whatever things might seem to be said of him in a more humble way in the present matters, these things suggest that we should understand them of the lamb of God who takes away 'the sin of the world' and the human tabernacle. For he was the 'lamb' 'taking away the sin of the world' according to John the Baptist, who said, 'Behold the lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world,' and he was also the lamb led to slaughter according to the oracle in Isaiah which says: 'He was led as a sheep to the slaughter, and as a lamb before its shearer is silent'. 10.Prooem.5 And concerning the same one, as concerning a lamb, it was also said: 'for the sins of my people he was led to death'. For it was necessary for the lamb of God, who was taken up by the great high priest on behalf of the other kindred lambs and on behalf of the entire human flock, to be offered as a sacrifice to God 10.Prooem.6 'For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection from the dead,' says the apostle, and 'as by one transgression judgment came upon all men to condemnation, so also by one act of righteousness the free gift came to all men to justification of life'. 10.Prooem.7 Whence he himself also taught his own disciples that he was life and light and truth and the other concepts of the theology concerning him, but to those uninitiated in the mysteries concerning him he said: Why 'do you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth?' Therefore, just as the properties of his theology have been set forth in the previous sections, in the same way here also the human sufferings of the lamb will be presented, with the things before his passion being in the middle, having comprehended both at once, those things pertaining to his divinity and those pertaining to his humanity. 10.Prooem.8 Since these things have been usefully observed by us beforehand, let us now take up the oracles themselves concerning Judas the betrayer and the conspiracy that was made with him against Christ, and concerning the things that happened around the time of his passion. 10.1.1 From Psalm 40. 'Blessed is he that considers the poor and needy, in the evil day the Lord will deliver him. The Lord will preserve him, and keep him alive, and bless him upon the earth, and not deliver him into the hands of his enemies. The Lord will help him on his bed of suffering, you have turned all his bed in his sickness

248

συσκευῆς· ἐκ τῶν ὑποσεσημειωμένων γραφῶν. αʹ. Ἀπὸ Ψαλμοῦ μʹ. βʹ. Ἀπὸ Ψαλμοῦ νδʹ. γʹ. Ἀπὸ Ψαλμοῦ ρηʹ. δʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζαχαρίου. εʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου. Περὶ τῶν ἀμφὶ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦ πάθους αὐτοῦ συμβεβηκότων. ʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀμώς. ζʹ. Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζαχαρίου. ηʹ. Ἀπὸ Ψαλμοῦ καʹ. Εὐαγγελικῆς ἀποδείξεως τόμος δέκατος. Μετὰ τὰς ἀποδεδομένας προρρήσεις περὶ τῆς εἰς ἀνθρώπους ἀφίξεως τοῦ προκηρυττομένου θεοῦ καλεῖ δὴ καιρὸς καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν ἀπαλλαγὴν τοῦ ἐξ ἀνθρώπων αὐτοῦ βίου διεξελθεῖν, συνιδεῖν τε αὖθις οἷα συμβήσεσθαι περὶ αὐτὸν ἄνωθεν ἐκ τῶν προφητικῶν ἐθεσπίζετο χρόνων. 10.Prooem.2 πρῶτα δὲ διελεύσομαι τὰ περὶ τῶν τὸν θάνατον αὐτῷ συσκευωρησαμένων, μέρος οὐ μικρὸν τυγχάνοντα τῆς προκειμένης προτάσεως. πρὸ δέ γε τοῦ λόγου τὰ πολλάκις ἡμῖν εἰρημένα περὶ τῆς κατ' αὐτὸν οἰκονομίας τηρητέον, ὅτι δὴ τὰ μὲν κατὰ τὴν θεότητα αὐτοῦ τὰ δὲ κατὰ τὴν ἐνανθρώπησιν ἐπινοεῖται. 10.Prooem.3 πῆ μὲν γὰρ εἰσάγεται λόγος ὢν θεοῦ καὶ θεοῦ δύναμις καὶ θεοῦ σοφία, «μεγάλης τε βουλῆς ἄγγελος», μέγας τε καὶ αἰώνιος ἀρχιερεὺς ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν γεννητῶν ἁπάντων οὐσιώσεώς τε καὶ σωτηρίας ἱερωμένος καὶ ἱλεούμενος τὸν πατέρα, πῆ δὲ «ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου» καὶ «πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν» ἀγόμενον· τοῦτο δὲ ἦν τὸ ἀνθρώπειον σκῆνος, ὃ δίκην ἀμνοῦ καὶ προβάτου ἐκ τῆς ἡμετέρας ἀγέλης οἷά τις ἀρχιερεὺς ἀναλαβὼν καὶ τὴν ἀπαρχὴν τοῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένους καλλιερησάμενος προσηγάγετο τῷ πατρί, δι' οὗ καὶ τῇ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὡμίλησεν φύσει, οὐκ ἄλλως δυναμένῃ λόγου θεοῦ καὶ δυνάμεως ἀσωμάτου καὶ νοερᾶς ἐπηκόῳ γενέσθαι οὐδέ τι μεῖζον σαρκῶν καὶ σωμάτων δι' ὀφθαλμῶν σαρκὸς ἐπινοῆσαι. 10.Prooem.4 ὅσα τοίνυν ἐπὶ τὸ ταπεινότερον δόξειεν ἂν ἐν τοῖς προκειμένοις περὶ αὐτοῦ λέγεσθαι, ταῦτα τὸν ἀμνὸν ὁρᾶν τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν αἴροντα «τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου» καὶ τὸ σκῆνος τὸ ἀνθρώπειον ὑποβάλλει νοεῖν. «ἀμνὸς» μὲν γὰρ ἦν «αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου» κατὰ τὸν βαπτιστὴν Ἰωάννην τὸν λέγοντα «ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου», ἀμνὸς δὲ ἦν καὶ ὁ ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἀγόμενος κατὰ τὸ παρὰ τῷ Ἡσαΐᾳ λόγιον φάσκον· «ὡς πρόβατον ἐπὶ σφαγὴν ἤχθη, καὶ ὡς ἀμνὸς ἐναντίον τοῦ κείροντος ἄφωνος». 10.Prooem.5 περὶ τοῦ αὐτοῦ δὲ ὡς περὶ ἀμνοῦ ἐλέγετο καὶ τὸ «ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τοῦ λαοῦ μου ἤχθη εἰς θάνατον». ἔδει γὰρ τὸν ἀμνὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, τὸν ὑπὸ τοῦ μεγάλου ἀρχιερέως ἀναληφθέντα ὑπὲρ τῶν λοιπῶν συγγενῶν ἀμνῶν καὶ ὑπὲρ πάσης τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης ἀγέλης, θυσίαν τῷ θεῷ προσαχθῆναι 10.Prooem.6 «ἐπειδὴ γὰρ δι' ἀνθρώπου ὁ θάνατος, καὶ δι' ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἀνάστασις ἡ ἐκ νεκρῶν» φησιν ὁ ἀπόστολος, καὶ «ὥσπερ δι' ἑνὸς παραπτώματος εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους εἰς κατάκριμα, οὕτως καὶ δι' ἑνὸς δικαιώματος εἰς πάντας ἀνθρώπους εἰς δικαίωσιν ζωῆς». 10.Prooem.7 ἔνθεν καὶ αὐτὸς τοῖς μὲν ἑαυτοῦ μαθηταῖς ζωὴν καὶ φῶς καὶ ἀλήθειαν ἑαυτὸν εἶναι καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς ἐπινοίας τῆς κατ' αὐτὸν θεολογίας ἐπαίδευεν, τοῖς δὲ ἀμυήτοις τῶν κατ' αὐτὸν ἀπορρήτων ἔλεγεν· τί «με ζητεῖτε ἀποκτεῖναι ἄνθρωπον, ὃς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ὑμῖν λελάληκα;» ὥσπερ οὖν τὰ τῆς θεολογίας ἰδιώματα ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἀποδέδοται, τὸν ὅμοιον δὴ τρόπον κἀνταῦθα τοῦ ἀμνοῦ τὰ ἀνθρωποπαθῆ παραστήσεται, τῶν πρὸ τοῦ πάθους αὐτοῦ μέσον ὄντων, ὁμοῦ τε ἄμφω, τά τε κατὰ τὸν θεὸν καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν ἄνθρωπον αὐτοῦ, περιειληφότων. 10.Prooem.8 τούτων χρησίμως ἡμῖν προτετηρημένων, ἤδη καὶ τῶν λογίων αὐτῶν ἐφαψώμεθα περὶ τῆς Ἰούδα τοῦ προδότου καὶ τῶν σὺν αὐτῷ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ γενομένης συσκευῆς περί τε τῶν ἀμφὶ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦ πάθους αὐτοῦ συμβεβηκότων. 10.1.1 Ἀπὸ ψαλμοῦ μʹ. «Μακάριος ὁ συνιὼν ἐπὶ πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα, ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πονηρᾷ ῥύσεται αὐτὸν ὁ κύριος. κύριος διαφυλάξει αὐτόν, καὶ ζήσαι αὐτόν, καὶ μακαρίσαι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ γῇ, καὶ μὴ παραδῷ αὐτὸν εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν αὐτοῦ. κύριος βοηθήσει αὐτῷ ἐπὶ κλίνης ὀδύνης αὐτοῦ, ὅλην τὴν κοίτην αὐτοῦ ἔστρεψας ἐν τῇ ἀρρωστίᾳ