The Defilement of the Sanctuary and the Scattering of the Apostles
His throne lasts until the passing of the heavens, but like the days of heaven; for after the passing, heaven is. It is not possible for its passing to be perishable. And The bright and vigorous things can be days of the earth, but the bright and luminous mysteries of truth are days of heaven;ewise, the throne of the Savior, having been placed unshakable, remains forever.
In this, God steadfastly promises by swearing, upon which He has spoken and enters into (Ps 88:36–38). Since He does not change His mind after swearing, giving an unpassable priesthood according to the order of Melchizedek, He remains constant; and having promised to Abraham with an oath that in his seed all the nations of the earth would be blessed, He shows the immovability of the blessing. If indeed He gives something by chance, He does not swear upon it; for indeed, having given the kingdom to Saul without an oath, He did not change His mind. Since He also willed that the Savior be born from David according to the flesh, and that his seed, having come from David, be unpassable and steadfast, He was faithful to Him regarding the making of the unshakable promises. Therefore, O Moses, David says: 'In my holiness, not lying, upon which I promised, his seed remains for ever, sharing the throne of his beginning with the Sun of Righteousness.' And the moon remains most fully illuminated as the gathering of those being enlightened by Christ for ever, when the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the righteous shall shine forth like the sun in the kingdom of their Father (Ps 88:39–46). And a faithful witness concerning this being so in the heavens exists; concerning Job he says, 'Behold, in the heavens is my witness and my supporter in the highest' (Job 16:19).
But Didymus did not give the intellect in the same way as the interpretation of Eusebius: 'You, O Lord, having said the seed of Christ remains for ever, have cast away his seed.' Having rendered him powerless, taking up the Christ, who, having been anointed with holy oil, remains for ever and ever, those descending from him shall be shown mercy. Having overthrown the covenant of your servant, having cast up the Christ, though having said you would not profane your covenant with him.
And having defiled even his sanctuary into the earth, indeed his body is given unto death and a memory, while the church, being near, and his sanctuary having been defiled into that earth in the times during which you permitted or continued persecutions to be accomplished for the sake of the godless.
But Christ, the servant of God, is found having taken the form of a servant, becoming according to what was said to the angel, 'Behold the handmaid of the Lord, let it be to me according to your word' (Luke 1:38). And you demolished all his enclosures from his sons, every most fortified help, so that those attempting to plot against them might be able to act against them. For enclosures, according to the Scripture, are diversely becoming guards from God; and it is possible to call the apostles the enclosures of the Christ's vineyard, whom those seeing them scattered say are being removed by God, having been scandalized in the night of the betrayal of Jesus (Matt 26:56). You reproached his strongholds with cowardice. It has been said that the true disciples of Christ are his strongholds, having been placed in cowardice at the time of the betrayal of Jesus.
It followed that Christ was snatched away by those pursuing or departing from the way. But Christ, being snatched away, is not another from those snatching away his body; for you are the body of Christ and members in part (1 Cor 12:27). And it is possible also to call the strongholds of his church according to various local dwellings his strongholds.
To this also you reproach him toward those called his neighbors because of being toward him and around him. For those who seem to be gathered as neighbors of him through a pseudonymous knowledge, thinking that they contain his Scripture and are near his church, are those through whom they think and act badly, reproaching him. For just as he who works rightly and praises rightly according to the truth glorifies him from the opposite, so those who are disposed oppositely to the right ones reproach him. Because of these things, you reproached him on the right side of his enemies; for they exult as if they had overcome by their own power, and having done so, you abandoned him. And you reproached him upon those things happening to him, and those hating him, not assisting him in the war. But rather you turned away the sword of his help, the...
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θρόνον αὐτοῦ μέχρι τοῦ παρελθεῖν τὸν οὐρανόν, ἀλλ' ̔Ως τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ οὐρανοῦ· καὶ μετὰ τὴν πάροδον γὰρ οὐρανός ἐστιν. οὐ γὰρ ι σον τῷ φθαρῆναι τὸ παρελθεῖν αὐτόν. ∆ύναται δὲ καὶ τὰ λαμπρὰ καὶ περιμάχητα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἡμέραι γῆς ει ναι, οὐρανοῦ δὲ ἡμέραι τὰ φωτεινὰ καὶ φωτοειδῆ τῆς ἀληθείας μυστήρια οι ς παραπλησίως ὁ θρόνος τοῦ σωτῆρος τεθεὶς ἀσάλευτος εἰς ἀεὶ διαμένει. 893 Ps 88,36– 38 Ενθα βεβαίως ἐπαγγέλλεται θεὸς ὀμόσας, ἐφ' οι ς ει ρηκεν εἰσάγεται. ἐπεὶ ου ν τῷ κατὰ τὴν τάξιν Μελχίσεδεκ ἀπαράβατον ἱερωσύνην δίδωσιν ὀμνύς, οὐ μεταμέλεται· καὶ τῷ ̓Αβραὰμ δὲ ἐπαγγειλάμενος μεθ' ο ρκων ἐν τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ εὐλογηθήσεσθαι πάντα τὰ ε θνη τῆς γῆς τὸ ἀμετακίνητον τῆς εὐλογίας δηλοῖ. εἰ δέ που προσκαίρως δίδωσί τι, οὐκ ο μνυσιν ἐπὶ τούτῳ· ἀμέλει γοῦν οὐ μεθ' ο ρκων ἐγχειρίσας τὴν βασιλείαν τῷ Σαοὺλ μετεμελήθη. ἐπεὶ ου ν καὶ τὸ ἐκ τοῦ ∆αυὶδ γενέσθαι τὸν σωτῆρα κατὰ σάρκα καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐκ τοῦ ∆αυὶδ γεγενημένου ἀπαράβατον καὶ βέβαιον ει ναι ἐβούλετο, ω μοσεν αὐτῷ ἐπὶ τῷ τὰς ὑποσχέσεις ἀσαλεύτους ε σεσθαι. ̓Επεὶ τοίνυν ω μοσα ∆αυὶδ ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ μου οὐ ψευδόμενος ἐφ' οι ς ἐπηγγειλάμην, Τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μένει, συνδιαιωνίζοντος τοῦ θρόνου τῆς ἀρχῆς αὐτοῦ αὐτῷ τῷ ἡλίῳ τῆς δικαιοσύνης. καὶ ἡ σελήνη δὲ τὸ α θροισμα τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ φωτιζομένων εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα διαμένει πληρέστατα πεφωτισμένη, πληρουμένου τοῦ Εσται τὸ φῶς τῆς σελήνης ὡς τὸ φῶς τοῦ ἡλίου, ἐκλαμψάντων δὲ τῶν δικαίων ὡς ὁ η λιος ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῶν. μαρτὺς δὲ πιστὸς περὶ τοῦ ου τως ε χειν ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἐστιν, περὶ ου ̓Ιώβ φησιν ̓Ιδοὺ γὰρ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ὁ μάρτυς μου καὶ ὁ συνίστωρ μου ἐν ὑψίστοις. 894 Ps 88,39–46 ∆ίδυμος δὲ τῆς Εὐσεβίου ἑρμηνείας τὴν διάνοιαν ου τως ἀποδέδωκε· Σὺ, ω δέσποτα, εἰπὼν Τὸ σπέρμα τοῦ Χριστοῦ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μένει, ἀπώσω τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ. ἐξουδένωσας αὐτὸν ἀναλαβόμενον τὸν Χριστὸν ο ν ἐν ἐλαίῳ ἁγίῳ ε χρισας ε λαιον μένον εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος ε ξειν, καθ' ο ἐλεοῦνται οἱ ἐξ αὐτοῦ φῦντες. ἀναβαλλόμενος ου ν τὸν Χριστὸν κατέστρεψας τὴν διαθήκην αὐτοῦ ο ντος δούλου σου, καίτοι εἰπὼν μὴ βεβηλώσειν τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν διαθήκην σου. ἐβεβήλωσας δὲ καὶ τὸ ἁγιαστήριον αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν γῆν, η τοι εἰς θάνατον καὶ μνῆμα τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ παραδοὺς η τὴν ἐκκλησίαν τυγχάνουσαν οι κον καὶ ἁγιαστήριον αὐτοῦ βεβηλώσας 181 εἰς τὴν γῆν αὐτὴν ἐν τοῖς καιροῖς καθ' ου ς ἐπέτρεψας η συνεχώρησας διωγμοὺς πρὸς ἀθέων ἐπιτελεῖσθαι. ∆οῦλος δὲ θεοῦ ὁ Χριστὸς τυγχάνει ἀναλαβὼν τὴν τοῦ δούλου μορφήν, γενόμενος ἐκ τῆς εἰπούσης τῷ ἀγγέλῳ ̓Ιδοὺ ἡ δούλη κυρίου, γένοιτό μοι κατὰ τὸ ῥῆμά σου. Καὶ πάντας τοὺς φραγμοὺς αὐτοῦ καθεῖλες ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ, πᾶσαν ὀχυρωτάτην βοήθειαν, ὡς πάντα τὸν ἐπιβουλεύειν αὐτοῖς ἐπιχειροῦντα δύνασθαι κατ' αὐτῶν. φραγμοὶ γὰρ κατὰ τὴν γραφὴν ἀδιαφόρως θεόθεν γινόμεναι φρουραί· φραγμοὺς δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἀμπελῶνος δυνατὸν εἰρῆσθαι τοὺς ἀποστόλους ου ς καθαιρεῖσθαι ὑπὸ θεοῦ φασιν οἱ ὁρῶντες αὐτοὺς ἐσκορπισμένους καὶ σκανδαλισθέντας ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ τῆς παραδόσεως ̓Ιησοῦ. Εθου τὰ ὀχυρώματα αὐτοῦ δειλίαν. ὀχυρώματα τοῦ Χριστοῦ οἱ γνήσιοι μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ τυγχάνουσιν α περ δειλωθέντα κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς παραδόσεως ̓Ιησοῦ δειλίᾳ τεθεῖσθαι ει ρηνται. ῳ ἠκολούθησεν τὸ διηρπάσθαι αὐτὸν τὸν Χριστὸν ὑπὸ τῶν διοδευόντων η παραπορευομένων ὁδόν. Χριστὸς δὲ διαρπαζόμενος οὐχ ε τερος τῶν διαρπαζόντων αὐτοῦ τὸ σῶμα τυγχάνει· ̔Υμεῖς γάρ ἐστε σῶμα Χριστοῦ καὶ μέλη ἐκ μέρους. δυνατὸν δὲ καὶ τὰς κατὰ διαφόρους παροικίας ἐκκλησίας ὀχυρώματα αὐτοῦ εἰρῆσθαι. Πρὸς τούτῳ καὶ ο νειδος αὐτὸν ε θου τοῖς διὰ τὸ πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ πέριξ αὐτοῦ ει ναι καλουμένοις γείτοσιν αὐτοῦ. οἱ γὰρ δοκοῦντες τῆς γραφῆς αὐτοῦ περιέχεσθαι καὶ ἐγγὺς τῆς ἐκκλησίας αὐτοῦ διὰ ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ἀθροιζόμενοι γείτονες αὐτοῦ τυγχάνουσι· δι' ω ν κακῶς φρονοῦσι καὶ πράττουσιν, ὀνειδίζουσιν αὐτόν. ὡς γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου δοξάζει αὐτὸν ὁ ὀρθῶς καὶ ἐπαινετῶς ἐνεργῶν κατὰ τὴν ἀλήθειαν φρονῶν, ου τως ὁ ἐναντίως τοῖς ὀρθῶς ε χουσι διακείμενος ὀνειδίζει αὐτόν. ∆ιὰ ταῦτα υ ψωσας δεξιὰν τῶν ἐχθρῶν αὐτοῦ· ἐπαίρονται γὰρ ὡς ἰδίᾳ δυνάμει περιγενόμενοι καὶ ποιήσαντες α διέθηκας αὐτόν. ευ φρανας δὲ ἐπὶ τοῖς συμβεβηκόσιν αὐτῷ καὶ τοὺς μισοῦντας αὐτόν, οὐκ ἀντιλαμβανόμενος αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ. ἀλλὰ γὰρ καὶ ἀπέστρεψας τῆς βοηθείας τὴν ῥομφαίαν αὐτοῦ η τὴν
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