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And Zion again, the pious commonwealth of the Church. And instead of, [And] he will turn away ungodlinesses from Jacob, Symmachus says: And to those who have turned away ungodliness in Jacob. And Aquila: And to those who have turned away impiety in Jacob. For to these he will come, and these he will deliver. But they will be blamed for not turning themselves. And this, he says, is my covenant with them. And what is this? My spirit, which is upon you, which giving to the disciples he said: "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven him." This therefore is the New Covenant, and the chief point of the mystery, which is in you the redeemer, and of those being delivered, whom he said from the root of Jesse, saying that the Spirit of God rests upon him. Of which he imparted to the disciples, so that they too might impart to the worthy. And the words, which Christ has spoken, are my covenant, he says, and it remains forever. And the Savior also said: "Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away." Therefore the clearest proof of redemption is to come into participation of the Holy Spirit, through which the boast of adoption is brought, and to receive, as some say, in the tongue the word of faith, as Paul says: "The word is near you. In your mouth, and in your heart." For we have received the word of faith, the saving confession that brings about righteousness. For thus Christ, who cried of old, justifies the ungodly: "I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud." Which, being always in us, is also passed on to those after us, always saving those who believe. And some have explained the whole matter thus: God, making a covenant with Abraham, when he made the sacrifices on the basis of the promises; and having legislated through Moses in a similar way; and now through the prophet he says he is making a covenant through the things spoken to the people, which will have force not only for those present, but also for those to come, if they should wish to wipe out their sins through repentance. For thus God fulfills the promises, giving to those who repent, not to the unworthy. CHAP. 60. akb'. 9Shine, shine, Jerusalem. For your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. Behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness 2617 over the nations. But upon you the Lord will appear, and his glory will be seen upon you. And kings will walk by your light, and nations by your brightness. Lift up your eyes round about, and see your children gathered together. Behold, all your sons have come from afar, and your daughters will be carried on shoulders. Then you will see, and you will fear, and you will be amazed in your heart, because the wealth of the sea, and of nations, and of peoples will turn to you9, etc. Having announced the coming of Christ, he wishes those from Israel to be the first to partake of it, according to: "I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." This he also commanded the disciples, forbidding them to go into the way of the Gentiles, nor into a city of the Samaritans. Who also said: "It was necessary for the word to be proclaimed first to you." And Christ was the light, and the truth, and the life, and the light, that enlightens every man coming into the world; from whom he exhorts Jerusalem, that is, its inhabitants, to be enlightened, and says that the light is hers pre-eminently, both because of the promise of the fathers, and because the things concerning Christ were proclaimed to her by the prophets. For this reason he did not say simply "light," but "the light" anaphorically, of which if she had partaken, she would have remained in peace forever, according to: "If you also had known the things that make for peace." But since she did not receive it, he adds: "But now the days will come upon you," and what follows. And she has fallen away from all the promises now mentioned, which perhaps would have happened to her even physically. For at the same time they were deprived of the light, and of these things. But "Jerusalem" is not found in the others. But Aquila says, Arise, be enlightened, because your light has come. And Symmachus likewise, and the Hebrew, so that the word is addressed to those who have received the aforementioned redeemer, or kinsman, of whom he said that from the east and the west they would fear the name of the Lord. Therefore this pious commonwealth is called the city of God, and Jerusalem. For with her

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Σιὼν δὲ πάλιν, τὸ θεοσεβὲς τῆς Ἐκκλησίας πολίτευμα. Ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ, [Καὶ] ἀποστρέψει ἀσεβείας ἀπὸ Ἰακὼβ, ὁ Σύμμαχος· Καὶ τοῖς ἀποστρέψασιν ἀσέβειαν ἐν Ἰακώβ. Ὁ δὲ Ἀκύλας·Καὶ τοῖς ἀποστρέψασιν ἀθεσίαν ἐν Ἰακώβ. Τούτοις γὰρ ἥξει, καὶ τούτους ῥύσεται. Ἑαυτοὺς δὲ μὴ ἐπιστρέφοντες αἰτιάσονται. Καὶ αὕτη, φησὶν, αὐτοῖς ἡ παρ' ἐμοῦ διαθήκη. Τίς δὲ αὕτης; Τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἐμὸν, ὅ ἐστιν ἐπὶ σοὶ, ὃ διδοὺς τοῖς μαθηταῖς ἔλεγε· "Λάβετε Πνεῦμα ἅγιον. Ἐάν τινος ἀφῆτε τὰς ἁμαρτίας, ἀφίεται αὐτῷ." Τοῦτο τοίνυν ἡ Καινὴ ∆ιαθήκη, καὶ τοῦ μυστηρίου τὸ κεφάλαιον, ὅπερ ἐστὶν ἐν σοὶ τῷ ἀγχιστεῖ, καὶ ῥυομένων, ὃν ἐκ τῆς ῥίζης ἔφασκεν Ἰεσσαὶ, ἐπαναπαύεσθαι λέγων ἐπ' αὐτὸν Πνεῦμα τοῦ Θεοῦ. Οὗ δὴ μετέδωκε τοῖς μαθηταῖς, ὡς ἂν καὶ αὐτοὶ μεταδοῖεν ἀξίους. Τὰ δὲ ῥήματα, ἃ λελάληκεν ὁ Χριστὸς, διαθήκη μου, φησὶν, ἐστὶ, καὶ μένει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Καὶ ὁ Σωτὴρ δὲ ἔλεγεν· "Ὁ οὐρανὸς, καὶ ἡ γῆ παρελεύσεται· οἱ δὲ λόγοι μου οὐ μὴ παρέλθωσι." Σαφεστάτη τοίνυν τῆς λυτρώσεως ἀπόδειξις, τὸ ἐν μεθέξει γενέσθαι Πνεύματος ἁγίου, δι' οὗ καὶ τὸ τῆς υἱοθεσίας φέρεται καύχημα, καὶ τὸ λαβεῖν, φασί τινες, ἐν γλώττῃ τὸ ῥῆμα τῆς πίστεως, Παύλου λέγοντος· "Ἐγγύς σου τὸ ῥῆμά ἐστιν. Ἐν τῷ στόματί σου, καὶ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ σου." Ἐλάβομεν γὰρ τὸ ῥῆμα τῆς πίστεως, τὴν σωτήριον ὁμολογίαν δικαιοσύνης πρόξενον. ∆ικαιοῖ γὰρ οὕτω τὸν ἀσεβῆ Χριστὸς ὁ πάλαι βοῶν· "Ἀπήλειψα ὡς νεφέλην τὰς ἀνομίας σου." Ὅπερ ὂν ἐν ἡμῖν ἀεὶ, καὶ τοῖς μεθ' ἡμᾶς παραπέμπεται σῶζον ἀεὶ τοὺς πιστεύοντας. Τινὲς δὲ οὕτως τὸ πᾶν ἐξηγήσαντο· Θεὸς διαθήκην θέμενος πρὸς Ἀβραὰμ, ἡνίκα τὰς θυσίας ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐπαγγελίαις πεποίηται· καὶ διὰ Μωσέως δὲ καθ' ὅμοιον τρόπον νομοθετήσας· καὶ νῦν διὰ τοῦ προφήτου διατίθεσθαι φάσκει διὰ τῶν λαλουμένων πρὸς τὸν λαὸν, ἃ τὴν ἰσχὺν ἕξει οὐ μόνον ἐπὶ τῶν παρόντων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ἐσομένων, εἰ θέλοιεν διὰ μετανοίας ἀπαλείφειν τὰς ἑαυτῶν ἁμαρτίας. Οὕτω γὰρ Θεὸς τὰς ἐπαγγελίας πληροῖ, μετανοοῦσιν οὐκ ἀναξίοις διδούς. ΚΕΦΑΛ. Ξʹ. ακβʹ. 9Φωτίζου, φωτίζου, Ἱερουσαλήμ. Ἥκει γάρ σου τὸ φῶς, καὶ ἡ δόξα Κυρίου ἐπὶ σὲ ἀνατέταλκεν. Ἰδοὺ σκότος καλύψει γῆν, καὶ γνόφος 2617 ἐπ' ἔθνη. Ἐπὶ δὲ σὲ φανήσεται Κύριος, καὶ ἡ δόξα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ σὲ ὀφθήσεται. Καὶ πορεύσονται βασιλεῖς τῷ φωτί σου, καὶ ἔθνη τῇ λαμπρότητί σου. Ἆρον κύκλῳ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς σου, καὶ ἴδε συνηγμένα τὰ τέκνα σου. Ἰδοὺ ἥκασι πάντες οἱ υἱοί σου μακρόθεν, καὶ αἱ θυγατέρες σου ἐπ' ὤμων ἀρθήσονται. Τότε ὄψῃ, καὶ φοβηθήσῃ, καὶ ἐκστήσῃ τῇ καρδίᾳ, ὅτι μεταβαλεῖ εἰς σὲ πλοῦτος θαλάσσης, καὶ ἐθνῶν, καὶ λαῶν9, κ.τ.λ. Χριστοῦ παρουσίαν εὐαγγελισάμενος, πρώτους βούλεται μεταλαβεῖν αὐτῆς τοὺς ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ, κατὰ τό· "Οὐκ ἀπεστάλην εἰ μὴ εἰς τὰ πρόβατα τὰ ἀπολωλότα οἴκου Ἰσραήλ." Ὃ καὶ τοῖς μαθηταῖς παρήγγελλεν, ἀπαγορεύσας αὐτοῖς εἰς ὁδὸν ἐθνῶν μὴ πορεύεσθαι, μηδὲ εἰς πόλιν Σαμαρειτῶν. Οἳ καὶ ἔλεγον· "Ὑμῖν ἦν πρῶτον ἀναγκαῖον κηρυχθῆναι τὸν λόγον." Χριστὸς δὲ ἦν τὸ φῶς, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια, καὶ ἡ ζωὴ, καὶ τὸ φῶς, τὸ φωτίζον πάντα ἄνθρωπον ἐρχόμενον εἰς τὸν κόσμον· ἐξ οὗ τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, δηλονότι τοὺς ταύτης οἰκήτορας, φωτισθῆναι προτρέπεται, αὐτῆς τε εἶναί φησι προηγουμένως τὸ φῶς, διά τε τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τῶν πατέρων, καὶ τὸ τὰ περὶ Χριστοῦ ταύτῃ παρὰ τῶν προφητῶν κεκηρύχθαι. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο γὰρ οὐχ ἁπλῶς φῶς εἶπεν, ἀλλὰ τὸ φῶς ἀναφορικῶς, οὗπερ εἰ μετέσχε, διέμεινεν ἂν ἐν εἰρήνῃ μέχρι παντὸς, κατὰ τό· "Εἰ ἔγνως καὶ σὺ τὰ πρὸς εἰρήνην." Αὐτῆς δὲ μὴ δεξαμένης, ἐπιφέρει· "Νῦν δὲ ἥξουσιν ἡμέραι ἐπὶ σὲ," καὶ τὰ ἐφεξῆς. Πασῶν τε τῶν νῦν λεγομένων ἐξέπεσεν ἐπαγγελιῶν, αἳ τάχα ἂν αὐτῇ ἐγένοντο καὶ σωματικῶς. Ἅμα τε γὰρ τοῦ φωτὸς, καὶ τούτων ἐστέρηντο. Τὸ δὲ Ἱερουσαλὴμ οὐ κεῖται παρὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις. Ἀλλ' ὁ μὲν Ἀκύλας Ἀνάστηθι, φωτίζου, φησὶν, ὅτι ἦλθεν φῶς σου. Καὶ Σύμμαχος ὁμοίως, καὶ τὸ Ἑβραϊκὸν, ὡς εἶναι τὸν λόγον πρὸς τοὺς δεδεγμένους τὸν εἰρημένον λυτρωτὴν, ἢ ἀγχιστέα, οὓς ἔλεγεν ἐξ ἀνατολῶν καὶ δυσμῶν τοὔνομα Κυρίου φοβηθήσεσθαι. Τὸ οὖν θεοσεβὲς τοῦτο πολίτευμα, πόλις καλεῖται Θεοῦ, καὶ Ἱερουσαλήμ. Παρ' αὐτῇ γὰρ