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threatens with final destruction the one who pursued their impiety, which things it is not of the present occasion to interpret word for word. But since so many things have been proclaimed beforehand concerning the one who was about to betray our savior and lord, and of the others who plotted against him, it is time to see also the things prophesied that were to happen concerning his passion. 10.6.1 From Amos. 'The Lord swears against the pride of Jacob, if all your works shall be forgotten forever, and for these things the earth shall not be troubled, and everyone who dwells in it shall mourn, and the end shall rise up like a river, and shall go down like a river of Egypt. And it shall be in that day, says the Lord, the sun shall set at noon, and the light shall be darkened upon the earth in the daytime; 10.6.2 and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and I will bring up sackcloth upon every loin, and baldness upon every head, and I will make him as the mourning for a beloved, and those with him as a day of grief. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will send a famine upon the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord; and the waters shall be shaken from sea to sea, and from the north to the east they shall run about seeking the word of the Lord and shall not find it.' 10.6.3 The present prophecy, proclaiming the insolence and pride and rebellion against our savior, which those of the circumcision raised up against him, says that the Lord swears 'against the pride of Jacob,' that there would be no forgetting of the things they had dared against him, and that their land along with its inhabitants will suffer things worthy of mourning, and that no longer, as before, being chastised for a short time will they be restored again, but their affairs will come to a complete end. 'Their end,' it says, 'shall rise up like a river,' alluding to the wrath that came upon them at no other time than during the Roman empire, a river that would rise up against them, who were formerly on high. 10.6.4 And indeed, after the declared wrath from God against them, again their affairs 'shall go down,' it says, 'like a river of Egypt'; by which I think it is signified that the former lofty and honored-by-God and, as it were, high-lying advantages of the Jewish nation will become like the fleeting and river-like passing affairs of the unbelieving nations, and will be turned from a height to a low estate. 10.6.5 Then, following these things, declaring the very events that happened around the time of the saving passion, it says, 'in that day, says the Lord, the sun shall set at noon, and the light shall be darkened upon the earth in the daytime,' which also found a clear fulfillment, when our savior was lifted up, according to the evangelist, 'from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land until the ninth hour, and about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, "aēli aēli lema sabachthani".' 10.6.6 And when these things were fulfilled in this manner, it says next: 'and I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and I will bring up sackcloth upon every loin, and baldness upon every head, and I will make him as the mourning for a beloved, and those with him as a day of grief. Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, and I will send a famine upon the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord,' and what follows. 10.6.7 All these things, prophesied to come to pass because of their pride, which was against Christ, showed the clear fulfillment of the prophecy after their plot against our savior. 10.6.8 Not before, therefore, but from that time and until now has God turned 'their feasts into mourning and their songs into lamentation,' having deprived them of their famous metropolis, and having destroyed the revered sanctuary within it during the rule of the Roman emperors Titus and Vespasian, so that they are not even able to come upon it

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ἀσέβειαν τὸν μετελθόντα αὐτοὺς ἔσχατον ὄλεθρον ἀπειλεῖ, ἅπερ κατὰ λέξιν ἑρμηνεύειν οὐ τοῦ παρόντος τυγχάνει καιροῦ. Ἀλλὰ γὰρ τοσούτων περὶ τοῦ προδώσειν μέλλοντος τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ κύριον ἡμῶν τῶν τε ἄλλως ἐπιβεβουλευκότων αὐτῷ προαναφωνηθέντων, καιρὸς ἰδεῖν καὶ τὰ ἀμφὶ τὸ πάθος αὐτοῦ μέλλοντα συμβήσεσθαι θεσπιζόμενα. 10.6.1 Ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀμώς. «Ὀμνύει κύριος κατὰ ὑπερηφανείαςἸακώβ, εἰ ἐπιλησθήσεται εἰς νῖκος πάντα τὰ ἔργα ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις οὐ ταραχθήσεται ἡ γῆ, καὶ πενθήσει πᾶς ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν αὐτῇ, καὶ ἀναβήσεται ὡς ποταμὸς συντέλεια, καὶ καταβήσεται ὡς ποταμὸς Αἰγύπτου. καὶ ἔσται ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, λέγει κύριος, δύσεται ὁ ἥλιος μεσημβρίας, καὶ συσκοτάσει ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τὸ φῶς· 10.6.2 καὶ μεταστρέψω τὰς ἑορτὰς ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος, καὶ πάσας τὰς ᾠδὰς ὑμῶν εἰς θρῆνον, καὶ ἀναβιβῶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ὀσφὺν σάκκον, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν κεφαλὴν φαλάκρωμα, καὶ θήσομαι αὐτὸν ὥσπερ πένθος ἀγαπητοῦ, καὶ τοὺς μετ' αὐτοῦ ὡς ἡμέραν ὀδύνης. ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει κύριος, καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ λιμὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, οὐ λιμὸν ἄρτου οὐδὲ δίψαν ὕδατος, ἀλλὰ λιμὸν τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι λόγον κυρίου· καὶ σαλευθήσονται ὕδατα ἀπὸ θαλάσσης ἕως θαλάσσης, καὶ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ ἕως ἀνατολῶν περιδραμοῦνται ζητοῦντες τὸν λόγον κυρίου καὶ οὐ μὴ εὕρωσιν.» 10.6.3 Τὴν κατὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ὕβριν καὶ ὑπερηφανίαν καὶ ἐπανάστασιν, ἣν ἐπανέστησαν αὐτῷ οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς, θεσπίζουσα ἡ παροῦσα προφητεία ὀμνύναι τὸν κύριόν φησι «καθ' ὑπερηφανίας Ἰακώβ», ὡς οὐ μὴ γένοιτο λήθη τῶν κατ' αὐτοῦ τετολμημένων αὐτοῖς, καὶ ὅτι πένθους ἄξια πείσεται ἡ γῆ αὐτῶν μετὰ καὶ τῶν οἰκητόρων, καὶ ὅτι οὐκέθ' ὡς τὸ πρὶν εἰς βραχὺ παιδευθέντες αὖθις ἀποκατασταθήσονται, ἀλλ' εἰς συντέλειαν τὰ κατ' αὐτοὺς ἥξει. «ἀναβήσεται», γοῦν φησίν, «ὡς ποταμὸς ἡ συντέλεια» αὐτῶν, τὴν ἐπελθοῦσαν αὐτοῖς οὐδ' ἄλλοτε ἢ κατὰ τὴν Ῥωμαίων βασιλείαν ὀργὴν ποταμὸν ἀναβησόμενον ἐπ' αὐτούς, ὡς ἐν ὕψει τὸ πρὶν ὄντας, αἰνιττόμενος. 10.6.4 καὶ δὴ μετὰ τὴν δηλωθεῖσαν κατ' αὐτῶν ἐκ τοῦ θεοῦ ὀργὴν αὖθις τὰ κατ' αὐτοὺς πράγματα «ὡς ποταμός», φησίν, «Αἰγύπτου» «καταβήσεται»· δι' ὧν οἶμαι δηλοῦσθαι, ὅτι τὰ πάλαι μετέωρα καὶ παρὰ θεῷ τετιμημένα καὶ ὥσπερ ἐν ὕψει κείμενα πλεονεκτήματα τοῦ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους ὅμοια τοῖς ῥευστοῖς καὶ δίκην ποταμοῦ παρατρέχουσιν τῶν ἀπίστων ἐθνῶν πράγμασιν καταστήσεται, ἀφ' ὕψους τε εἰς ταπεινὸν περιτραπήσεται. 10.6.5 εἶθ' ἑξῆς τούτοις αὐτὰ δὴ τὰ ἀμφὶ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦ σωτηρίου πάθους συμβεβηκότα δηλῶν, «ἐν ἐκείνῃ», φησίν, «τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, λέγει κύριος, δύσεται ὁ ἥλιος μεσημβρίας, καὶ συσκοτάσει ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τὸ φῶς», ἃ καὶ ἐναργῆ τὴν ἔκβασιν εἴληφεν, ὅτε τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ὑψωθέντος κατὰ τὸν εὐαγγελιστὴν «ἀπὸ ἕκτης ὥρας σκότος ἐγένετο ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἕως ὥρας ἐνάτης, περὶ δὲ τὴν ἐνάτην ὥραν ἀνεβόησεν ὁ Ἰησοῦς φωνῇ μεγάλῃ λέγων ἀηλὶ ἀηλὶ λεμᾶ σαβαχθανί». 10.6.6 Τούτων δὲ τοῦτον ἐπιτελεσθέντων τὸν τρόπον, ἑξῆς ἐπιλέγει· «καὶ μεταστρέψω τὰς ἑορτὰς ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος, καὶ πάσας τὰς ᾠδὰς ὑμῶν εἰς θρῆνον, καὶ ἀναβιβῶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ὀσφὺν σάκκον, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν κεφαλὴν φαλάκρωμα, καὶ θήσομαι αὐτὸν ὥσπερ πένθος ἀγαπητοῦ, καὶ τοὺς μετ' αὐτοῦ ὡς ἡμέραν ὀδύνης. ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει κύριος, καὶ ἐξαποστελῶ λιμὸν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, οὐ λιμὸν ἄρτου οὐδὲ δίψαν ὕδατος, ἀλλὰ λιμὸν τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι λόγον κυρίου», καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς. 10.6.7 ἅπερ ἅπαντα διὰ τὴν ὑπερηφανίαν αὐτῶν, τὴν κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ γεγενημένην, ἔσεσθαι προφητευθέντα ἐναργῆ τὴν ἔκβασιν τῆς προρρήσεως ἀπεδείξατο μετὰ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐπιβουλὴν αὐτῶν. 10.6.8 οὐ πρότερον γοῦν, ἀλλ' ἐξ ἐκείνου καὶ εἰς δεῦρο μετέστρεψεν αὐτῶν ὁ θεὸς «τὰς ἑορτὰς εἰς πένθος καὶ τὰς ᾠδὰς εἰς θρῆνον», τῆς περιβοήτου μητροπόλεως ἀποστερήσας αὐτούς, καὶ τὸ ἐν αὐτῇ σεμνὸν ἁγίασμα κατὰ τὴν ἐπὶ Τίτου καὶ Οὐεσπασιανοῦ Ῥωμαίων αὐτοκρατόρων ἡγεμονίαν καθελών, ὡς μηδὲ ἐλθόντας δύνασθαι ἐπ' αὐτῆς