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who will resist you? Therefore the same one is both the provider of light, and is terrible; to those on the right a bestower of light, but to those on the left terrible, to whom indeed he will also say: Go into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. Then he adds next: From that time your wrath. But from what time, except from when the riders of the horses grew drowsy, and the senseless in heart slept their sleep? For from that time they treasured up for themselves wrath in a day of wrath; so that it is said to them: Walk in the light of your fire, and in the flame which you have kindled. For each one, at the time he sins, from then on treasures up wrath for himself; wrath being understood as the punishment stored up for transgressors. Next it is said: From heaven you made judgment heard. But pay careful attention, that it does not say, you 'did,' but you 'made heard.' For before the time of judgment arrived for those who pass their mortal life before the judgment, he caused the words about the judgment to be heard through the divine readings. But for now, he made the coming judgment heard from heaven; but when the time of the righteous judgment of God has come, The earth, he says, feared and was still when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. The text clearly presents through these things the reason for the judgment; for it is to save the meek of the earth. For concerning the ungodly it is said: The ungodly will not rise in the judgment, nor sinners in the council of the righteous; because the Lord knows the way of the righteous, and the way of the ungodly will perish. Therefore, when God rises to judgment to save all the meek of the earth, the earth will be afraid and will be still. For the meek will obtain salvation, but the others will be given over to wrath; but the rest of the earth and those who have attained the middle state will cease from turmoil, having taken on the divine fear. Because the thought of man will confess to you, and the remnant of thought will keep festival for you. And this, he says, will happen when God rises to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. What is this, but, the thought of man will confess to you? For every tongue and every reasoning and thought of men will confess to God at the time of judgment, when the secret things of men will be made manifest. And the remnant, he says, of thought will keep festival for you. And what would be a remnant of thought other than the reasoning purified from every wicked 23.885 thought? being like those concerning whom it is said: A remnant has been made according to the election of grace. Thus, indeed, it is itself called a remnant of thought; therefore it will keep festival then, having indeed received in due time the promises of the heavenly kingdom. Vow and pay to the Lord your God your vows, all you who are round about him; to the terrible one, and to him who takes away the spirit of princes, to the terrible one among the kings of the earth. Having finished the discourse on the judgment of God, he then exhorts all of us to vow, and to pay our vows to the Lord our God; and as there is still time in this present life, he advises us to do this of necessity. He is accustomed to call promises 'vows'; wherefore it is said: If you make a vow, do not delay to pay it; it is better not to vow, than to vow and not to pay. Therefore let each of us pay his own purpose and his own promise as a vow, remembering the one who said: Offer to God a sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to the Lord; and call upon me in the day of affliction, and I will deliver you, and you will glorify me. Now therefore, he says, vow and pay. For there will be a time when all who are round about him will bring gifts. For at the time of his kingdom the kings of Tarshish and the islands will bring gifts, the kings of the Arabs and of Sheba will offer gifts, and all the kings of the earth will worship him. Then, indeed, as he sits on the throne of his glory, all will worship him with gifts; that is,

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τίς ἀντιστήσεταί σοι; Οὐκοῦν ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ φωτὸς πάροχος, καὶ φοβερὸς τυγχάνει· τοῖς μὲν δεξιοῖς φωτὸς χορηγὸς, τοῖς δὲ ἀριστεροῖς φοβερὸς, οἷς δὴ καὶ φήσει· Πορεύεσθε εἰς τὸ πῦρ τὸ αἰώνιον τὸ ἡτοιμασμένον τῷ διαβόλῳ καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις αὐτοῦ. Εἶθ' ἑξῆς ἐπιφέρει· Ἀπὸ τότε ἡ ὀργή σου. Ἀπὸ τότε δὲ, πότε, ἀλλ' ἢ ἀφ' οὗ ἐνύσταξαν οἱ ἐπιβεβηκότες τοὺς ἵππους, καὶ ὕπνωσαν ὕπνον αὐτῶν οἱ ἀσύνετοι τῇ καρδίᾳ; Ἐξ ἐκείνου γὰρ αὐτοὶ ἑαυτοῖς ἐθησαύρισαν ὀργὴν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ὀργῆς· ὡς λέγεσθαι πρὸς αὐτούς· Πορεύεσθε τῷ φωτὶ τοῦ πυρὸς ὑμῶν, καὶ τῇ φλογὶ ᾗ ἐξεκαύσατε. Ἕκαστος γὰρ καθ' ὃν καιρὸν ἁμαρτάνει, ἀπὸ τότε ὀργὴν ἑαυτῷ θησαυρίζει· ὀργῆς νοουμένης τῆς τοῖς πλημμελοῦσι τεταμιευμένης τιμωρίας. Ἑξῆς δὲ εἴρηται· Ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἠκούτισας κρίσιν. Πρόσχες δὲ ἐπιμελῶς, ὡς οὐκ εἴρηται, ἐποίησας, ἀλλ' ἠκούτισας. Πρὶν γὰρ ἐπιβῆναι τὸν τῆς κρίσεως καιρὸν τοῖς πρὸ τῆς κρίσεως τὸν θνητὸν βίον διανύουσι, τοὺς περὶ τῆς κρίσεως λόγους ἀκουσθῆναι ἐποίησε διὰ τῶν θείων ἀναγνωσμάτων. Ἀλλὰ νῦν μὲν ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἀκουστὴν ἐποίησε τὴν μέλλουσαν κρίσιν· ἐπιστάντος δὲ τοῦ καιροῦ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ δικαιοκρισίας, Γῆ, φησὶν, ἐφοβήθη καὶ ἡσύχασεν ἐν τῷ ἀναστῆναι εἰς κρίσιν τὸν Θεὸν, τοῦ σῶσαι πάντας τοὺς πραεῖς τῆς γῆς. Σαφῶς δὲ παρίστησι διὰ τούτων ὁ λόγος τὸ αἴτιον τῆς κρίσεως· ὑπὲρ γὰρ τοῦ σῶσαι τοὺς πραεῖς τῆς γῆς. Περὶ γὰρ τῶν ἀσεβῶν εἴρηται· Οὐκ ἀναστήσονται ἀσεβεῖς ἐν κρίσει, οὐδὲ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἐν βουλῇ δικαίων· ὅτι γινώσκει Κύριος ὁδὸν δικαίων, καὶ ὁδὸς ἀσεβῶν ἀπολεῖται. Ἀναστάντος τοίνυν τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰς κρίσιν ὑπὲρ τοῦ σῶσαι πάντας τοὺς πραεῖς τῆς γῆς, γῆ φοβηθήσεται καὶ ἡσυχάσει. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ πραεῖς τεύξονται τῆς σωτηρίας, οἱ δὲ τῇ ὀργῇ παραδοθήσονται· ἡ δὲ λοιπὴ γῆ καὶ οἱ τὴν μέσην εἰληφότες κατάστασιν παύσονται τῆς ταραχῆς τὸν θεῖον ἀνειληφότες φόβον. Ὅτι ἐνθύμιον ἀνθρώπου ἐξομολογήσεταί σοι, καὶ ἐγκατάλειμμα ἐνθυμίου ἑορτάσει σοι. Καὶ τοῦτό φησιν ἔσεσθαι ἐν τῷ ἀναστῆναι τὸν Θεὸν εἰς κρίσιν, τοῦ σῶσαι πάντας τοὺς πραεῖς τῆς γῆς. Τί δὲ τοῦτο ἢ, ἐνθύμιον ἀνθρώπου ἐξομολογήσεταί σοι; Πᾶσα γὰρ γλῶσσα καὶ πᾶς λογισμὸς καὶ ἐνθύμησις ἀνθρώπων ἐξομολογήσεται τῷ Θεῷ κατὰ τὸν τῆς κρίσεως καιρὸν, ὅτε τὰ κρυπτὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων φανερὰ γενήσεται. Καὶ ἐγκατάλειμμα δὲ, φησὶν, ἐνθυμίου ἑορτάσει σοι. Τί δ' ἂν γένοιτο ἐγκατάλειμμα ἐνθυμίου ἢ ὁ κεκαθαρμένος ἀπὸ πάσης πονηρᾶς ἐν 23.885 θυμήσεως λογισμός; ὅμοιος ὢν ἐκείνοις περὶ ὧν εἴρηται· Λεῖμμα κατ' ἐκλογὴν χάριτος γέγονεν. Οὕτω γοῦν αὐτὸς ἐγκατάλειμμα ἐνθυμίου ὠνόμασται· διὸ ἑορτάσει τότε, ἅτε δὴ κατὰ καιρὸν τὰς ἐπαγγελίας ἀπολαβὼν τῆς οὐρανίου βασιλείας. Εὔξασθε καὶ ἀπόδοτε Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ τὰς εὐχὰς ὑμῶν, πάντες οἱ κύκλῳ αὐτοῦ· τῷ φοβερῷ καὶ ἀφαιρουμένῳ πνεύματα ἀρχόντων, τῷ φοβερῷ παρὰ τοῖς βασιλεῦσι τῆς γῆς. Συντελέσας τὸν περὶ τῆς κρίσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ λόγον, παραινετικῶς λοιπὸν πᾶσιν ἡμῖν προστάττει εὔχεσθαι, καὶ ἀποδιδόναι Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν τὰς εὐχάς· ὡς ἔτι δὲ καιρός ἐστι κατὰ τὸν ἐνεστῶτα βίον, ἀναγκαίως τοῦτο ποιεῖν παραινεῖ. Εὐχὰς δὲ τὰς ἐπαγγελίας εἴωθεν ὀνομάζειν· διὸ λέλεκται· Ἐὰν εὔξῃ εὐχὴν, μὴ χρονίσῃς ἀποδοῦναι· ἀγαθὸν τὸ μὴ εὔξασθαι, ἢ τὸ εὔξασθαι καὶ μὴ ἀποδοῦναι. Ἕκαστος τοίνυν τῶν ἡμῶν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πρόθεσιν καὶ τὴν οἰκείαν ἐπαγγελίαν ὥσπερ εὐχὴν ἀποδιδότω, μεμνημένος τοῦ φήσαντος· Θῦσον τῷ Θεῷ θυσίαν αἰνέσεως, καὶ ἀπόδος τῷ Κυρίῳ τὰς εὐχάς σου· καὶ ἐπικάλεσαί με ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως, καὶ ἐξελοῦμαί σε, καὶ δοξάσεις με. Νῦν μὲν οὖν, φησὶν, εὔξασθε καὶ ἀπόδοτε. Ἔσται γὰρ καιρὸς ἐν ᾧ πάντες οἱ κύκλῳ αὐτοῦ οἴσουσι δῶρα. Κατὰ γὰρ τὸν τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ καιρὸν βασιλεῖς Θαρσεῖς καὶ νῆσοι δῶρα προσάξουσι, βασιλεῖς Ἀράβων καὶ Σαβὰ δῶρα προσοίσουσι, καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν αὐτῷ πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς. Τότε γοῦν καθημένῳ ἐπὶ θρόνου δόξης αὐτοῦ προσκυνήσουσι πάντες μετὰ δώρων· τουτέστι,