Repentance and the Divine Mercy
It happens through good works, every kind of word, and all knowledge, in silver and gold, and outside of Egypt by God. For it is impossible for one being weak and lacking the aforementioned silver and gold to come out of Egypt.
The set-forth voice is especially holy of those before the coming of the Savior, entreating that the Lord might remember them in the good pleasure of His people (Ps 105:4–6), since He was well-pleased in His beloved Son to save, judging His people and the world; thus he says, showing Him: 'This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased' (Matt 3:17). Because the divine prophets, desiring to see and hear the things happening and being spoken concerning Jesus by the eye of the mind, are worthy that their memory be made in the salvation according to the good pleasure.
And Christ is often called the salvation of God, as also in Ezekiel: 'For all flesh is the salvation of our God' (Ezek 36:26). This visitation, the father of the baptizer making manifest concerning God, says: 'Through the bowels of the mercy of our God, in whom he visited us, the sunrise from on high' (Luke 1:78). Having visited us in His salvation, it will be for us to become His chosen ones and to behold in the goodness of His chosen ones the joy being fulfilled, and to be made glad in the divine feast of the nation being completed from all those believing.
And may it be accomplished for us also to be praised with His inheritance, for it is for us as heirs to have the inheritance. Who is this church from the Gentiles, saying, 'Let them depart from me, and I will give you the inheritance of the Gentiles' (Isa 66:8)? For spiritually, remaining according to the Gospel, those attending to the law are praised with the aforementioned inheritance. And they are praised by God and by the holy powers, receiving those who hasten to be well-pleasing to God.
And the divine men, taking up also the countenance of those who repent of those on whom they acted wickedly, and teaching how they must repent after the sins, saying, 'We have not sinned, but we have sinned like our fathers'—calling their fathers the ancestors and those who came before, or those who begat them in wickedness—will not say everything when confessing, saying, 'We have turned away'...
We have acted perversely and done wrong. And even regarding those who are counted among those who repent, they do not appear to have been pious. For we were not made outside of the divinity, but being contained by it, we were defeated by passions and hard toil, and we sinned and did other things. Psalm 105:9: God, who rebuked the Red Sea, is praised by all. If even Jesus, when the sea is tossing, rebukes the sea, so that from a storm a calm becomes, He is proven to be God, He who rebuked the Red Sea, and He is the Son of Him. But because God rebuked the Red Sea, the ancient sea becomes dry, as if it were to be passable, and the abyss is no longer called by the abundance of the waters. Psalm 105:19: And they made a calf in Horeb, having a vision of the Apis brought from Egypt in Memphis. Therefore, they worshiped this calf and other carvings, being bound to the drama of polytheism. Immediately, indeed, having made a calf, they were showing many, saying, 'These are not your gods, Israel, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.'
The following psalm, its praise being of the divine benefits and mercies toward men that have been done, has the sequence arranged. Psalm 106:1: Those upon whom the surrounding tribulations fall (without any of them bringing this upon themselves), knowing that the good God has these things, says the following verses. And since some are becoming in temporary things thought to be good, they do not simply have a trial of God's mercy, but are being pitied for ever, having the eternal good things from Him. For if even the good God has pitied someone with eternal mercy. He also makes mercy for thousands for those who love Him the same, preparing for them. An eye has not seen, nor has an ear heard, nor has it ascended to the heart of man. It is said also previously that the good is synonymous with the good. Psalm 106:4: Therefore also, being in the desert, we wandered, not having a guide and a leader to follow, finding either a city well-arranged after the holy law in which we were able to dwell without departing from it, but virtue and the wisdom of God. Psalm 106:10b: And of the...
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ε ργοις ἀγαθοῖς παντί τε λόγῳ καὶ πάσῃ γνώσει, ἐν ἀργυρίῳ καὶ χρυσίῳ, καὶ ε ξω τῆς Αἰγύπτου ὑπὸ θεοῦ γίνεται. ἀδύνατον γὰρ ἀσθενοῦντά τινα καὶ χρυσίου καὶ ἀργυρίου τῶν προειρημένων στερούμενον ἐξελθεῖν τῆς Αἰγύπτου. 1012 Ps 105,4–6 ̔Αγίων ἐστὶν ἡ προκειμένη μάλιστα φωνὴ τῶν πρὸ τῆς ἐπιδημίας τοῦ σωτῆρος παρακαλούντων, ο πως μνησθῇ αὐτῶν ὁ κύριος ἐν τῇ εὐδοκίᾳ τοῦ λαοῦ αὐτοῦ η ν ηὐδόκησεν ἐν τῷ ἀγαπητῷ υἱῷ ἑαυτοῦ σῶσαι κρίνας τὸν λαὸν ἑαυτοῦ καὶ τὸν κόσμον· δεικνὺς γοῦν αὐτόν φησιν Ου τός ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητὸς ἐν ῳ ηὐδόκησα. ἐπεὶ ου ν ο μματι διανοίας ει δον οἱ θεῖοι προφῆται ἐπιθυμήσαντες ἰδεῖν καὶ ἀκοῦσαι τὰ πρὸς ̓Ιησοῦ γινόμενα καὶ λαλούμενα, ἀξιοῦσι μνήμην αὐτῶν γενέσθαι ἐν τῇ κατὰ τὴν εὐδοκίαν σωτηρίᾳ. Σωτήριον δὲ θεοῦ πολλάκις ὁ Χριστὸς λέγεται, ὡς καὶ ἐν τῷ Οψεται πᾶσα σὰρξ τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ θεοῦ ἡμῶν. ταύτην τὴν ἐπίσκεψιν ὁ τοῦ βαπτιστοῦ πατὴρ ἐμφανίζων περὶ θεοῦ φησι ∆ιὰ σπλάγχνα ἐλέους θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἐν οι ς ἐπεσκέψατο ἡμᾶς ἀνατολὴ ἐξ υ ψους. ̓Επισκεψαμένου δὲ ἡμᾶς ἐν τῷ σωτηρίῳ ἑαυτοῦ, ὑπάρξει ἡμῖν τὸ ἐκλεκτοὺς αὐτοῦ γενέσθαι καὶ θεάσασθαι ἐν τῇ χρηστότητι τῶν ἐκλεκτῶν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπιτελουμένην χαρὰν καὶ εὐφρανθῆναι ἐν τῇ θείᾳ εὐωχίᾳ τοῦ ε θνους τοῦ συμπληρουμένου ἐκ πάντων τῶν πιστευόντων. Κατορθωθείη δὲ ἡμῖν καὶ τὸ ἐπαινεῖσθαι μετὰ τῆς κληρονομίας αὐτοῦ, η τοι η ς ὀρέξει ἡμῖν ὡς κληρονόμοις η η ς ε χει κληρονομίας. τίς δὲ αυ τη η ἡ ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐκκλησία κατὰ τὸ Αι τησαι παρ' ἐμοῦ, καὶ δώσω σοι ε θνη τὴν κληρονομίαν σου; πνευματικῶς γὰρ λοιπὸν κατὰ τὸ εὐαγγέλιον τῷ νόμῳ προσέχοντες ἐπαινοῦνται μετὰ τῆς προειρημένης κληρονομίας. ἐπαινοῦνται δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν ἱερῶν δυνάμεων ἀποδεχομένων τοὺς εὐδοκιμεῖν σπεύδοντας παρὰ τῷ θεῷ. ̓Αναλαμβάνοντες δὲ καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον οἱ θεῖοι α νδρες τῶν μεταγινωσκόντων ἐφ' οι ς ε δρασαν κακῶς, καὶ διδάσκοντες πῶς μετὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας μετανοεῖν δεῖ φασιν, οὐχ ̔Αμαρτάνομεν, ἀλλ' ̔Ημάρτομεν μετὰ τῶν πατρῶν ἡμῶν· πατέρας ἑαυτῶν λέγοντες η τοι τοὺς προγόνους καὶ προγενεστέρους η τοὺς κατὰ κακίαν αὐτοὺς γεγεννηκότας. πάντ' ου ν α λέξουσιν ἐξομολογούμενοι εἰς παρῳχηκότα χρόνον ἐνέκλιναν φάσκοντες ̔Ημάρτομεν ἠνομήσαμεν ἠδικήσαμεν. ευ δὲ καὶ τὸ ἀπαριθμουμένους ἐφ' οι ς μετανοοῦσι μὴ φάναι ̓Ησεβήσαμεν· οὐ γὰρ ε ξω τῆς θεότητος γενάμενοι ἀλλὰ περιεχόμενοι αὐτῆς ὑπὸ παθῶν καὶ μοχθηρᾶς ε ξεως ἡττώμενοι ἡμάρτανον καὶ τὰ α λλα ἐποίουν. 1013 Ps 105,9 ̔Ο ἐπιτιμήσας τῇ ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ πᾶσι θεὸς ἀνωμολόγηται. εἰ ου ν καὶ ̓Ιησοῦς κλονουμένῃ ἐπιτιμᾷ τῇ θαλάσσῃ, ι ν' ἐκ τρικυμίας η κλύδωνος γαλήνη γένηται, θεὸς ω ν ἀποδείκνυται αὐτὸς ω ν ὁ ἐπιτιμήσας τῇ ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ ῃ υἱὸς ἐκείνου. Ομως δ' ἐπιτιμήσαντος τοῦ θεοῦ τῇ ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ, ξηραίνεται ὡς διοδεύσιμον αὐτὴν γένεσθαι τὴν πάλαι θάλασσαν καὶ α βυσσον διὰ τὸ τῶν ὑδάτων πλῆθος ου τω καλουμένην. 1014 Ps 105,19 Καὶ ἐποίησαν μόσχον ἐν Χωρήβ, ε χοντες φαντασίαν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου κομισθεῖσαν τοῦ ἐν Μέμφει Απιδος. διὸ καὶ πρὸς τούτῳ τῷ μόσχῳ καὶ ἑτέροις γλυπτοῖς προσεκύνησαν, συνεσχημένοι τῷ δράματι τῆς πολυθεότητος. αὐτίκα γοῦν μόσχον 216 ε να πεποιηκότες ὡς πολλοὺς δεικνῦντες ε φασκον Ου τοι οἱ θεοί σου, ̓Ισραήλ, οἱ ἀναγαγόντες σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου. 1015 Ps 106 αργ Καὶ ὁ ἐπιφερόμενος ψαλμός, περιέχων θεοῦ εὐεργεσίας καὶ ἐλεημοσύνας πρὸς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους γεγενημένας αι νος αὐτοῦ τυγχάνων, προτεταγμένον ε χει τὸ ἀλληλουϊά. 1016 Ps 106,1bc Οι ς μεταπίπτει τὰ περιεστηκότα θλιβερά (μηδὲν αὐτῶν εἰσενεγκαμένων εἰς τοῦτο), ἐλέει χρηστοῦ θεοῦ ταῦτα ε χειν ἐγνωκότες λέγειεν α ν τοὺς προκειμένους στίχους. καὶ ἐπεὶ ει έν τινες ἐν προσκαίροις νομιζομένοις ἀγαθοῖς γινόμενοι, ου τοι ἐλέου θεοῦ ἁπλῶς πεῖραν ε χουσιν, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐλεουμένων τῶν αἰώνια ἀγαθὰ παρ' αὐτοῦ ἐχόντων. ει πε γοῦν καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ χρηστὸς θεὸς πρός τινα ̓Ελέῳ αἰωνίῳ ἐλέησά σε. ου τω δὲ καὶ ε λεος ποιεῖ εἰς χιλιάδας τοῖς αὐτὸν ἀγαπῶσιν, ἑτοιμάζων αὐτοῖς α ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ ει δεν οὐδὲ ου ς η κουσεν οὐδ' ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου ἀνέβη. ει ρηται καὶ πρότερον τὸ ἀγαθὸν τῷ χρηστῷ συνωνυμεῖν. 1017 Ps 106,4 ∆ιὸ καὶ ἐν ἐρήμῳ τε ἀρετῶν ο ντες ἐπλανώμεθα, ποδηγὸν καὶ ἡγεμόνα μὴ ε χοντες ῳ ἑπόμενοι εὑρεῖν οι οί τε η μεν μετὰ τὴν ὁδὸν πόλιν ευ διατεταγμένην ἱερῷ νόμῳ ἐν ῃ κατοικεῖν ἠδυνάμεθα μὴ ἀναχωροῦντες αὐτῆς. ε στι δὲ ἀρετὴ καὶ θεοῦ σοφία. 1018 Ps 106,10b Καὶ τῆς
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