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a dwelling place, and for those who have reached the height of blessedness, from which not even those of lower rank will be deprived, but arriving at certain periods for heavenly feasts, they will partake of a certain divine and unceasing joy, enjoying unspoken goods, having been filled with which, they will return to their own dwelling places, there is a true Sabbath rest and repose of souls. And "all flesh" means the gentiles, according to what was said: "And all flesh shall see the salvation of God." And elsewhere: "I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh, and they shall prophesy." And he speaks thus, so that the Jews might not think these things were spoken about them; for which reason he indicates every race of men. But these will come. But the citizens of that Jerusalem are the myriads, according to Paul, of angels, the Church of the firstborn. There they will be forever, being ministers of God, appointed under the great high priest. And all will see the destruction of the ungodly, understanding what goods they have been deprived of. And instead of "their carcasses," Symmachus said "their extremities." But whose carcasses? Those about whom he said at the beginning: "I have begotten and raised up sons, but they have rejected me." Whom, being far from them, those going out from Jerusalem will behold, and will return to their own dwelling places. And by "unending worm" he means the conscience in repenting of one's own sins, in being deprived of such goods, their soul being ever bitten, and accusing themselves for their past wickedness. And "unquenchable fire," that which was spoken by the Savior, eternal, prepared for the devil; and they will be a sight for the flesh that is not being punished, about which he said: "All flesh shall come to worship before me." Or it will see the end of the 2717 punished, while it enjoys the good things. But some said that these things indicate the calamities brought upon the Jews by the hand of the Romans, being given over to slaughter. who also became a spectacle in the flesh, and all but suffer an endless punishment. But others say that through good and terrible things God exhorts the Jews, who indeed also promises his own presence. But the presence is not understood in one way. "For you will not have gone through the cities of Israel, before the Son of Man comes," he says. which he said, not indicating his glorious presence, of course, but his visitation to them in power, as he also now indicated their visitation to us, saying, that 9he will gather9 them from all 9the nations9, into which being scattered they learned their languages, and when they rejected him, Christ 9gathered the nations9, who 9will come9 bearing in memory the apostles who called them, and becoming zealous for them. Whose joy he indicates by the chariots, which was first indicated through the eunuch [missing].

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μονὴν, καὶ τοῖς εἰς ἄκρον μακαριότητος ἥκουσιν, ἧς οὐ στερήσονται οὐδὲ οἱ ὑποβεβηκότες, κατὰ δὲ περιόδους τινὰς ἐν οὐρανίοις ἑορταῖς ἀφικνούμενοι, ἐνθέου τε καὶ ἀλήκτου τινὸς εὐφροσύνης μεταλήψονται, ἀῤῥήτων ἀγαθῶν ἀπολαύσοντες, ὧν ἐμφορηθέντες εἰς μονὰς τὰς ἑαυτῶν ἐπανήξουσιν, ἐκεῖ Σαββατισμὸς ἀληθὴς καὶ ψυχῶν ἐστιν ἀνάπαυσις. Σὰρξ δὲ πᾶσα τὰ ἔθνη, κατὰ τὸ ῥηθέν· "Καὶ ὄψεται πᾶσα σὰρξ τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ Θεοῦ." Καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ· "Ἐκχεῶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πνεύματός μου ἐπὶ πᾶσαν σάρκα, καὶ προφητεύσουσιν." Οὕτω δὲ λέγει, ἵνα μὴ περὶ αὐτῶν ταῦτα λέγεσθαι νομίσωσιν Ἰουδαῖοι· δι' ὃ πᾶν ἀνθρώπων γένος δηλοῖ. Ἀλλ' οὗτοι μὲν ἥξουσιν. Οἱ δὲ τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐκείνης πολῖταί εἰσιν αἱ μυριάδες, κατὰ Παῦλον, ἀγγέλων, ἡ Ἐκκλησία πρωτοτόκων. Ἐκεῖ διὰ παντὸς ἔσονται λειτουργοὶ Θεοῦ ὄντες, ὑπ' ἀρχιερεῖ τῷ μεγάλῳ ταττόμενοι. Πάντες δὲ ὄψονται τῶν ἀσεβῶν τὴν ἀπώλειαν, ἐννοοῦντες οἵων ἀγαθῶν ἐστερήθησαν. Ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ, τὰ κῶλα, τὰ ἔσχατα Σύμμαχος ἔφησεν. Τίνων δὲ τὰ κῶλα; περὶ ὧν ἔλεγε κατ' ἀρχάς· "Υἱοὺς ἐγέννησα, καὶ ὕψωσα· αὐτοὶ δέ με ἠθέτησαν." Οὓς μακρὰν ἑαυτῶν ὄντας οἱ ἐκ τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐξιόντες θεάσονται, καὶ ἐπὶ τὰς οἰκείας μονὰς ἐπανήξουσι. Σκώληκα δέ φησιν ἀτελεύτητον τὴν ἐν τῷ μετανοεῖν τῶν ἰδίων ἁμαρτημάτων συνείδησιν, ἐν τῷ τοιούτων ἀγαθῶν ἐστερῆσθαι δακνομένων ἀεὶ τὴν ψυχὴν, καὶ κατηγορούντων ἑαυτῶν ἐπὶ τῇ φθασάσῃ κακίᾳ. Πῦρ δὲ ἄσβεστον, τὸ ῥηθὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ Σωτῆρος, αἰώνιον, ἡτοιμασμένων τῷ διαβόλῳ· σαρκὶ δὲ εἰς ὅρασιν ἔσονται τῇ μὴ κολαζομένῃ, περὶ ἧς ἔφη· Ἥξει πᾶσα σὰρξ τοῦ προσκυνῆσαι ἐνώπιόν μου. Ἢ τὸ τῶν 2717 κολαζομένων ὄψεται τέλος αὐτὴ τῶν ἀγαθῶν ἀπολαύουσα. Τινὲς δὲ ταῦτα δηλοῦν ἔφασαν τὰς ἐπενεχθείσας Ἰουδαίοις συμφορὰς ὑπὸ τῆς Ῥωμαίων χειρὸς εἰς σφαγὴν δεδομένοις. Οἳ καὶ ἐν τῇ σαρκὶ γεγόνασι θεατοὶ, καὶ μονονουχὶ δίκην ἀτελεύτητον πάσχουσιν. Ἄλλοι δέ φασιν, ὡς διὰ χρηστῶν καὶ φοβερῶν ὁ Θεὸς τοὺς Ἰουδαίους προτρέπεται, ὅς γε καὶ παρουσίαν ἰδίαν κατεπαγγέλλεται. Ἡ δὲ παρουσία οὐ καθ' ἕνα τρόπον νοεῖται. "Καὶ γὰρ οὐ μὴ τελέσητε τὰς πόλεις τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ, ἕως ἂν ἔλθῃ, φησὶν, ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου." Ὅπερ εἶπεν οὐ δήπου τὴν ἔνδοξον αὐτοῦ παρουσίαν δηλῶν, τὴν δὲ κατ' ἐνέργειαν αὐτοῦ πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐπιφοίτησιν, ὡς καὶ νῦν τὴν αὐτῶν ἐπίσκεψιν ὑπεδήλωσεν εἰς ἡμᾶς, λέγων, ὡς 9ἐπισυνάξει9 αὐτοὺς ἐκ πάντων 9τῶν ἐθνῶν9, εἰς ἃ διασπαρέντες τὰς ἐκείνων γλώσσας ἐξέμαθον, ἀθετησάντων δὲ αὐτῶν Χριστὸς 9τὰ ἔθνη συνήγαγεν9, οἵπερ 9ἥξουσι9 τοὺς καλέσαντας αὐτοὺς ἀποστόλους τῇ μνήμῃ φέροντες, καὶ ζηλωταὶ τούτων γινόμενοι. Ὧν τὴν εὐθυμίαν διὰ τῶν ὀχημάτων δηλοῖ, ἥτις ἐδηλοῦτο πρώτως διὰ τοῦ εὐνούχου [λείπει].