Homily on Lazarus
The homily was read by Hesychius, a presbyter of Jerusalem, to James, the brother of the Lord, and David the God-bearer.
If our Savior had not humbled himself, becoming obedient unto death, servants would not have been related, and the clay would not have been called the potter's father.
I greet Bethlehem in Zion, as if she were present.
I see the mother in the daughter.
In you a foster-father one star has risen, and in her many.
That star guided the Magi, but she has guided the Parthians, Medes, Elamites, and all the nations to the light of the lightning.
You draw milk from virgin breasts, but this one brings down the spirit from paternal bosoms.
You leavened the bread, but Zion...
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Greek
Homilia i in sanctum Lazarum (homilia 11) Ἀνεγνώσθη Ἡσυχίου, πρεσβυτέρου Ἱεροσολύμων, εἰς Ἰάκωβον, τὸν ἀδελφὸν τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ ∆αυὶδ τὸν θεοπάτορα. 1 Εἰ μὴ «ἐταπείνωσεν ἑαυτὸν γενόμενος» ὁ σωτὴρ ἡμῶν «ὑπήκοος μέχρι θανάτου», οὐκ ἂν οἰκέται συγγενεῖς ἐχρημάτιζον, οὐκ ἂν ὁ πηλὸς πατὴρ τοῦ κεραμέως ἐλέγετο. Ἐν τῇ Σιὼν τὴν Βηθλεὲμ ὡς παροῦσαν ἀσπάζομαι, ἐν τῇ θυγατρὶ τὴν μητέρα βλέπω. Ἐν σοὶ δᾳδοῦχος ἀστὴρ εἷς ἀνήφθη, ἐν ταύτῃ δὲ πολλοί. Ἐκεῖνος τοὺς Μάγους ὡδήγησεν, αὕτη Πάρθους καὶ Μήδους καὶ Ἐλαμίτας καὶ τοὺς ἐξ ἐθνῶν πάντων τῷ φωτὶ τῆς ἀστραπῆς ἐδᾳδούχησε. Σὺ γάλα ἕλκεις ἐκ μασθῶν παρθενικῶν, αὕτη πνεῦ-μα ἐκ κόλπων κατάγει πατρικῶν. Σὺ τὸν ἄρτον ἐζύμωσας, ἀλλ' ἡ Σιὼν
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Hesychius of Jerusalem, Homilia i in sanctum Lazarum (Greek).
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Khazarzar scan
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- Copy-text PG 93 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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