Synopsis scripturae sacrae

 Of beeri, in the days of uzziah, and jotham, and ahaz, and hezekiah, kings of judah, and in the days of jeroboam the son of joash, king of israel. the

 Among the hebrews also esther and that ruth, being united with judges, is counted as one book and esther as another one and thus again the number o

 Silvanus and timothy, to the church of the thessalonians, in god the father and the lord jesus christ.” and the beginning of the second: “paul and sil

 The expulsion, and the slaying of abel by his brother cain, and the translation of enoch, and the construction of the ark, and the flood that happened

 These ten commandments on the tablets: first, i am the lord your god second, you shall not make for yourself an idol, nor the likeness of anything t

 To them that spring from the earth such as are the locust, the francolin, the grasshopper, and the like to them, and the serpent-fighter. but those t

 Of the altar, and the limit of the times of the service of the levites so that from twenty-five years they should begin to serve but having become f

 In gai, in the region beyond on the borders of moab from gai to dibon-gad from dibon-gad to almon-diblathaim and from almon-diblathaim to the mount

 Commandments and he reminds the people again, that they might keep them. and he repeats in it both the exodus from egypt, and all the good deeds done

 He says to be, whose land joshua also gave to the remaining tribes as an inheritance according to their lot: the hittite, and the amorite, and the can

 Book 8, ruth. the book is called this because it contains only the history of ruth. this ruth was a moabitess by race, and she excelled in prudence. h

 And when the foreigners came, and the people fled, he alone stood his ground and he drove off the foreigners, and saved the barley. and three mighty

 Of the shilonite, and of the one who cried out against the altar of samaria and concerning elijah and elisha, and of the one who prophesied to ahab c

 The son of david reigned over all the people for 40 years, he also and he did evil. and in his time there were the prophets nathan and gad. rehoboam

 Josiah his son, 31 years. the people raised him up as king, being eight years old and he did what was right in every way of david, and did not turn a

 And he took the gold and the vessels. jeroboam his son, for 41 years and he did evil. zacharias his son, for six months, and he did evil. up to this

 Of a jewish eunuch. and the reason for the return was this: three soldiers guarding the king, of whom one was zerubbabel, contended over a problem, a

 Being closed, and to station some on the right, and others on the left and thus, for some to sing psalms, and to praise, and to sing, and to hymn god

 “a praise of a song,” ʹ, βʹ, δʹ and the one, “of praise,” ρμδʹ. again, those not inscribed “to david,” but referred to others, are these, ληʹ, μαʹ, μ

 To be anointed the 28th, of the departing tabernacle the 29th, of the dedication of the house the 30th, of ecstasy the 31st, of understanding the

 Is called the wisdom of solomon. but he entitled the present book proverbs, since proverbs are sayings of the wise, like riddles, which on the one han

 He finds the meaning contained in them such as: “a wise son is saved from the heat, but a lawless son becomes wind-blasted in the harvest ” and again

 When it rejoices, the face flourishes but when it is in sorrows, it is gloomy ” and, “an upright heart seeks perception but the mouth of the uninstr

 The egyptians indeed imagined, but the greeks were about to create myths concerning these things for this reason this man, moved by the holy spirit,

 With enigmatic allegory. for the meaning of the doctrines in it is hidden not in the obvious, but in secret. but being searched for, it is found, beca

 Of the race to the word, and of the church from the gentiles to him, and of the word again to her and to the human race then of the gentiles to jerus

 Encampments, and having broken their swords, and henceforth being peacefully minded. the one from the gentiles, seeing jerusalem as if blaming her, de

 At the affliction that befell him, three of his friends came to console him, eliphaz the king of the temanites, bildad the tyrant of the shuhites, zop

 This one announces against idumea and its end, and against the nations that acted insolently toward israel. for he signifies that the house of esau wi

 Against jerusalem. and the word of the lord came to him. and the greater part of his prophecy is good news concerning the incarnate coming of the word

 And to the ruler of tyre, and a lament against him, and to the sons of his people, and against the shepherds of israel. and finally, describing the bu

 He wished to hang mordecai on it the next day but the king, by some good providence having stayed awake that night, and not being able to sleep, comm

 His soldiers being unaware. and so then the assyrians fled, and the sons of israel, running together from all sides, cut down the assyrians. and so ha

 His son tobias, having gone into media, and having buried his parents-in-law, and having heard about the destruction of nineveh, died at 107 years of

 Of snakes, of cats, and of similar things. that god benefited israel with quails instead of frogs. that also for the bite of snakes the salvation of t

 And that it is necessary to propitiate him, and not to walk in the desire of the heart. concerning not being carried about by every wind, and concerni

 Teaching of money, of great ones, and of rulers, to a son and wife, to a brother and friend concerning an evil servant. concerning foolish dreams co

 Hezekiah was humble-minded, and a friend of isaiah, and the slayer of rabshakeh. how the lord redeemed israel by the hand of isaiah, striking the camp

 A scribe is prevented from following, and the disciple is compelled. he stills the storm of the sea. the demons fall into the swine. jesus came into h

 Many. he resolved the matter of the certificate of divorce. he discourses concerning the manner of eunuchism. he blesses the children. the rich man ap

 Of publicans. the pharisees accuse [him] concerning this. the disciples of john bring a charge concerning fasting but he defends himself. he passes t

 Of god. peter denies. jesus is led to pilate he is crucified. mary the mother of james the younger was there, and magdalene, and salome. joseph takes

 Turns back.” he appointed seventy disciples, and sends them out two by two, having advised them to carry nothing. he rebukes the cities. then he says,

 Then he calls the children. the rich man approaches, asking what he must do to inherit eternal life. he speaks to the disciples about his passion but

 Peter: “you have the words of eternal life, to whom shall we go?” when it was the feast of tabernacles, his brothers urge him to go up into the temple

 John. but they departed, and again withdrew. mary sees the angels, then jesus, and he speaks with her. then he appeared to the disciples when the door

 And their bonds were loosed. from the body of paul they carried away handkerchiefs to the sick and those possessed by demons, and they were healed. pa

 Not to pay attention to those who deceive, saying that their destruction will come, just as also happened to the transgressing angels. and he foretell

 And first he accepts her children walking well then, teaching that our mystery is not recent, he exhorts again concerning love, and that they should

 Having deified, and having worshipped the creature rather than the creator. and he also accuses the jews, as not having kept the law but rather throu

 But he rebukes them for making the schisms, but also advises that virtue not be considered in word, but in deed and power then, having rebuked the on

 Henceforth they should no longer pay attention to those who deceived them, but rather to hold fast to the faith in christ, and to know that the grace

 To abide in the faith, signifying, that paul himself is a minister of the gospel, in which they were instructed then he also discusses the law and th

 Of the disorderly, but also to cast them out. for he showed such ones to be both meddlesome and wanderers. and in general he instructed that the one n

 The occasion for this epistle is also thus: since those who had journeyed with paul had left him, the apostle, wanting timothy to come to him, writes

 Thyatira, to sardis, to philadelphia, and to laodicea. and the things that are in the vision are many and various. and finally he saw the destruction

 Four books of maccabees, ptolemaica, psalms and the ode of solomon, susanna. these are the disputed books of the old testament. and again, the apocryp

 Years of the interpretation of the 72. a third interpretation is that of symmachus. he, being a samaritan, and not having been honored by his own peop

encampments, and having broken their swords, and henceforth being peacefully minded. The one from the Gentiles, seeing Jerusalem as if blaming her, defends herself concerning herself; because her calling is not in vain; "I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. Do not look at me, because I am darkened, because the sun has looked upon me. The sons of my mother fought against me; they made me a keeper in the vineyards. My own vineyard I have not kept." I am black; but I am under the sun itself. For even if I am uncircumcised, she says, yet I have renounced idols, and I went out from the house of my mother, just as Abraham did; for I am of that faith. And for this reason I ask, "Bring me into the house of wine, set love in order over me, keep me with ointments, stay me with apples; for I am wounded with love." Pay no attention to my uncircumcision, but in love receive me, O law and prophets. And if I am ill-smelling in my wildness, yet you instruct me, and strengthen me with your fragrance; for I am wounded by love. And for this reason, "I have adjured you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the powers and by the forces of the field, that you stir not up, nor awaken love, until it please." I adjure you, O fathers, not against the powers, for it is not permitted, but in the powers of paradise, so that, looking to that one, as to Adam, you might receive me. For there also there was no circumcision; but now the things of Adam are being renewed. The Word, seeing the faith of the Gentiles, and accepting it, says: "You are beautiful, my neighbor, as good pleasure, lovely as Jerusalem, a wonder as those set in array." For not otherwise, than as Jerusalem must be those from the Gentiles, so that one people may be formed. And this happens, when, along with honoring the law, we believe in Christ. For God is one of the law and of the Gospels. And he who has not become as Jerusalem does not become a neighbor of the Word. Jerusalem, seeing the faith of her children, and the philanthropy of the Word, says: "I went down into the garden of nuts to see the fruits of the valley, if the pomegranates had budded; there I will give you my breasts. My soul knew not, it made me the chariots of Amminadab." For into the garden of nuts, that is, into the Scriptures, I came, which are like nuts, hard on the outside, 28.357 but spiritual on the inside. I saw that I must be yoked as in a chariot to the calling from the Gentiles. Both peoples, therefore, having been yoked together, henceforth the proclamation was sent everywhere, and of this the angels become ministers, saying: "Go forth and see in Solomon in the crown with which his mother crowned him on the day of his wedding, and on the day of the gladness of his heart." For he who comes out from wickedness will also see the immutable union of the Word with the body. For when the wedding of the Word to us took place through the union with the body, then also He made the victory over death, through which He has filled all things with gladness. Such are the dialogues in the Song of Songs; from which one, having taken a starting point, is able from the book itself to connect like things with like things according to the sense. Book 17, Job. The book is titled Job, because it contains the history concerning him, both how he suffered, having been tempted by the devil; and having conquered and having piously endured the afflictions brought upon him, he received everything back twofold again, and became more glorious than he was, and again had ten children. He suffered when he was 70 years old, so that all the years of his life were 240. For after the afflictions he lived another 170 years. And Job was before Moses; for he was the fifth from Abraham, a descendant of Esau. Because of the

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παρεμβολὰς, καὶ συντρίψαντες τὰς μαχαί ρας, καὶ λοιπὸν εἰρηνικὰ φρονοῦντες. Ἡ ἐξ ἐθνῶν ὁρῶσα τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ὥσπερ μεμφομένην, ἀπολο γεῖται περὶ ἑαυτῆς· ὅτι μὴ ἀργὴ αὐτῆς ἐστιν ἡ κλῆσις· «Μέλαινά εἰμι καὶ καλὴ, θυγατέρες Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ὡς σκηνώματα Κηδὰρ, ὡς δέῤῥεις Σαλομῶν. Μὴ βλέψητέ με, ὅτι ἐγὼ μεμελανωμένη εἰμὶ, ὅτι παρέβλεψέ με ὁ ἥλιος. Υἱοὶ μητρός μου ἐμαχέσαντο ἐν ἐμοί· ἔθεντό με φυλάκισσαν ἐν ἀμπελῶσιν. Ἀμπελῶνα ἐμὸν οὐκ ἐφύλαξα.» Μέλαινά εἰμι· ἀλλ' ὑπ' αὐτὸν τὸν ἥλιόν εἰμι. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἀκρόβυστός εἰμι, φησὶν, ἀλλ' ἀπετα ξάμην εἰδώλοις, καὶ ἐξῆλθον ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου τῆς μητρός μου, ὥσπερ καὶ ὁ Ἀβραάμ· ἐκείνης γάρ εἰμι τῆς πίστεως. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἀξιῶ, «Εἰσάγαγέ με εἰς οἶκον τοῦ οἴνου, τάξατε ἐπ' ἐμὲ ἀγάπην, τηρήσατέ με ἐν μύροις, στοιβάσατέ με ἐν μήλοις· ὅτι τετρωμένη ἀγά πης ἐγώ.» Μὴ τῇ ἀκροβυστίᾳ προσέχητε, ἀλλ' ἐν ἀγά πῃ προσλάβου με, ὦ νόμε καὶ προφῆται. Καὶ εἰ δυσ ώδης εἰμὶ τῇ ἀγριότητι, ἀλλὰ σύ με παίδευε, καὶ εὐωδίᾳ σου στήριξον· τέτρωμαι γὰρ τῇ ἀγάπῃ. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο, «Ὥρκισα ὑμᾶς, θυγατέρες Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ἐν ταῖς δυνάμεσι καὶ ταῖς ἰσχύσι τοῦ ἀγροῦ, ἐὰν ἐγεί ρητε, καὶ ἐξεγείρητε τὴν ἀγάπην, ἕως οὗ θελήσῃ.» Ὁρκίζω ὑμᾶς, ὦ πατέρες, οὐ κατὰ τῶν δυνάμεων, οὐκ ἔξεστι γὰρ, ἀλλ' ἐν δυνάμεσι τοῦ παραδείσου, ἵν', εἰς ἐκεῖνον βλέποντες, ὡς τὸν Ἀδὰμ, οὕτως με προσδέ ξησθε. Καὶ γὰρ κἀκεῖ οὐκ ἦν περιτομή· ἄρτι δὲ τὰ τοῦ Ἀδὰμ ἀνακαινίζεται. Ὁ Λόγος ὁρῶν τὴν πίστιν τῶν ἐθνῶν, καὶ ἀποδεχόμενος λέγει· «Καλὴ, ἡ πλη σίον μου, ὡς εὐδοκία, ὡραία ὡς Ἱερουσαλὴμ, θάμ βος ὡς τεταγμέναι.» Οὐ γὰρ ἄλλως, ἢ ὡς τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ δεῖ εἶναι τοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἵνα εἷς λαὸς γένηται. Τοῦτο δὲ γίνεται, ὅταν μετὰ τοῦ τιμᾷν τὸν νόμον πιστεύωμεν τὸν Χριστόν. Εἷς γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ νόμου καὶ τῶν Εὐαγγελίων. Καὶ ὁ μὴ ὡς Ἱερουσαλὴμ γενόμενος οὐ γίνεται πλησίον τοῦ Λόγου. Ἡ Ἱερουσαλὴμ, ὁρῶσα τῶν τέκνων τὴν πίστιν, καὶ τὴν τοῦ Λόγου φιλανθρωπίαν, λέγει· «Εἰς κῆπον καρύας κατ έβην ἰδεῖν ἐν γεννήματι τοῦ χειμάῤῥου, εἰ ἤνθησαν αἱ ῥοιαί· ἐκεῖ δώσω τοὺς μαστούς μου. Οὐκ ἔγνω ἡ ψυχή μου, ἔθετό με ἅρματα Ἀμιναδάβ.» Εἰς γὰρ τὸν κῆπον τῆς καρύας, τοῦτ' ἔστιν εἰς τὰς Γραφὰς, ἐγενόμην, αἵτινες ὡς καρύαι εἰσὶν, ἔξωθεν μὲν σκλη 28.357 ραὶ, ἔσωθεν δὲ πνευματικαί. Εἶδον, ὅτι ζευχθῆναί με δεῖ ὡς ἐν ἅρματι τῇ ἐξ ἐθνῶν κλήσει. Ζευχθέντων τοίνυν ἀμφοτέρων τῶν λαῶν, λοιπὸν πανταχοῦ τὸ κή ρυγμα ἀπεστάλη, καὶ τούτου γίνονται διάκονοι οἱ ἄγγε λοι, λέγοντες· «Ἐξέλθετε καὶ ἴδετε ἐν τῷ Σαλομὼν ἐν τῷ στεφάνῳ, ᾧ ἐστεφάνωσεν αὐτὸν ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ νυμφεύσεως αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ εὐφρο σύνης καρδίας αὐτοῦ.» Ὁ γὰρ ἐξερχόμενος ἀπὸ τῆς κακίας ὄψεται καὶ τὴν τοῦ Λόγου πρὸς τὸ σῶμα ἄτρε πτον ἕνωσιν. Ὅτε γὰρ γέγονε νύμφευσις τοῦ Λόγου πρὸς ἡμᾶς διὰ τῆς τοῦ σώματος ἑνώσεως, τότε καὶ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ θανάτου νίκην πεποίηκε, δι' ἢν εὐφροσύ νης πάντα πεπλήρωκε. Τοιαῦτα ἐν τῷ Ἄσματι τῶν ᾀσμάτων τὰ τῶν διαλόγων ἐστίν· ἐξ ὧν ἀφορμήν τις λαβὼν, δύναται ἀπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ βιβλίου τὰ ὅμοια τοῖς ὁμοίοις συνάπτειν κατὰ τὸν νοῦν. Βιβλίον ιζʹ, Ἰώβ. Ἰὼβ ἐπιγέγραπται τὸ βιβλίον, ἐπειδὴ τὴν κατ' αὐτὸν ἱστορίαν περιέχει, πῶς τε πέπονθε, πει ρασθεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου· καὶ νικήσας καὶ ὑπομείνας εὐσεβῶς τὰς ἐπενεχθείσας αὐτῷ πληγὰς, διπλᾶ πάλιν πάντα ἀπέλαβε, καὶ γέγονεν ἐνδοξότερος ὑπὲρ ὃ ἦν, καὶ ἔσχε πάλιν τέκνα δέκα. Πέπονθε δὲ ἐτῶν ὢν οʹ, ὡς εἶναι πάντα τὰ ἔτη τῆς ζωῆς αὐτοῦ σμʹ. Μετὰ γὰρ τὰς πληγὰς ἔζησεν ἕτερα ἔτη ροʹ. Γέγονε δὲ Ἰὼβ πρὸ Μωϋσέως· ἀπὸ γὰρ Ἀβραὰμ πέμπτος ἦν, ἔκγονος τοῦ Ἠσαῦ. ∆ιὰ τὴν

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