Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets 6.6.1–7.1.14 (Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets)

Theodoret of Cyrus

Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets 6.6.1–7.1.14

Theodoret of Cyrus · Commentary on the Twelve Minor Prophets · probably 430s (before ca. 446) · Cyrrhus · 30 passages

Greek text: PG 81.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).

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Preface 6, chapter 6

6.6.1PG 81

α'. «᾿Αχούδατε δὴ ἃ εἶπε Κύριος " ᾿Ανάστηθι, καὶ χρίθητι πρὸς τὰ ὄρη, καὶ ἀκουσάτωσαν βουνοὶ φωνὴν σου. » ᾿Απόδλεψον εἰς τὰ ὄρη, τὰ διὰ τῆς ἐμῆς ἐπικουρίας νεκροὺς τοὺς σοὺς πολεμίους δεξάμενα, Καὶ εἰπὲ μετὰ παῤῥησίας, εἴπερ ἄρ᾽ ἂν δύνασαι, καὶ μὴ ἐμφράττῃ σου τὸ στόμα τῆς εὐεργεσίας τὸ μέγεθος" τοιγάρτοι σοῦ τοῦτο ποιεῖν οὐ δυναμένου, ἐγὼ

a'. «᾿Achoudate dē ha eipe Kyrios " ᾿Anastēthi, kai chrithēti pros ta orē, kai akousatōsan bounoi phōnēn sou. » ᾿Apodlepson eis ta orē, ta dia tēs emēs epikourias nekrous tous sous polemious dexamena, Kai eipe meta parrhēsias, eiper ar᾽ an dynasai, kai mē emphrattę̄ sou to stoma tēs euergesias to megethos" toigartoi sou touto poiein ou dynamenou, egō

1. "Hear now what the Lord has said: Arise, plead your case before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice." Look to the mountains that, through my help, received your enemies as corpses, and speak with boldness, if indeed you can, and if the greatness of the benefaction does not stop your mouth. But since you cannot do this, I

Mic 6:1 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God summons his people to plead their case before the mountains that witnessed his help.

Lemma: Mic 6:1. The section ends in mid-sentence; the comment continues in the next section.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.1 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 81 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

6.6.2PG 81

β΄. ε᾿Αχούσατε, βουνοὶ "", τὴν χρίσιν τοῦ Κυρίου, καὶ αἱ φάραγγες, θεμέλια τῆς γῆς. ὅτι χρίσις τῷ Κυρίῳ πρὸς τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ μετὰ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ νοσοῦσι, κριταῖς τοῖς; ἀψύχοις κατὰ τῶν λογικῶν χρήσομαι.

b΄. e᾿Achousate, bounoi "", tēn chrisin tou Kyriou, kai hai pharanges, themelia tēs gēs. hoti chrisis tǭ Kyriǭ pros ton laon autou, kai meta tou Israēl nosousi, kritais tois? apsychois kata tōn logikōn chrēsomai.

2. "Hear, you hills, the judgment of the Lord, and you ravines, foundations of the earth; for the Lord has a case against his people, and [he will argue] with Israel." … since you are sick [with insensibility], I will use the soulless as judges against the rational.

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Mic 6:2 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Because the people are insensible, God calls the lifeless hills as judges.

Lemma: Mic 6:2. Words are lost in the scan with the Latin debris; marked "…", with bracketed words supplied by sense.

Notes on the original text

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Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.2 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 81 (archive.org OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.

6.6.3PG 81

Υ΄. «Λαός μον, τί ἐποίησά σοι, ἣ τί ἐλύπησά σς-, ρᾶσαι παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ. Καὶ ἐπειδὴ σιγᾷν ἣν ἀνάγκη μιδὲν μοι" » εἴτι λέγειν ἔχεις, εἰπὲ προφανῶς.

Y΄. «Laos mon, ti epoiēsa soi, hē ti elypēsa ss-, rasai par᾽ emou. Kai epeidē sigąn hēn anankē miden moi" » eiti legein echeis, eipe prophanōs.

3. "My people, what have I done to you, or how have I grieved you …" … from me. And since you must keep silent, having nothing to say against me, if you have anything to say, say it openly.

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Mic 6:3 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God challenges his people to say what wrong he has done them.

Lemma: Mic 6:3. Most of the lemma and the opening of the comment are lost in the scan; marked "…".

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.3 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.6.4PG 81

δ΄. « Διότι ἀνήγαγόν σε ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου, καὶ ἐξ οἴχου δουλείας ἐλυτρωσάμην σε, καὶ πρὸ προτώπου σου τὸν Μωσῆν, καὶ ᾿Ααρὼν, καὶ Μαριάμ. ν» ᾿Αλλ' ἄρα μὴ τοῦτο ὡς ἀδίκημα προῦφέρεις, ὅτι σε τῆς πικρᾶς τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἀπαλλάξας δουλείας, ἀχραιφνὴ σοι τὴν ἐλευθερίαν μην, ὑπουργοῖς ἀνδράσι θαυμασίοις καὶ ἀοιδίμοις χρησάμενος, τῷ Μωσῇ, καὶ τῷ ᾿Ααρὼν, οὐδὲ τὰς γυναῖκας τῆς προσηκούσης ἀποστερήπας ἐπιμελείας, καὶ ταύταις τὴν Μαριὰμ ἐπιστήσας, καὶ προφττιχοῦ χαρίσματος ἐμπλήσας : ᾿Αλλ᾽ εἰ τούτων ἀμνη μονῆσαι θέλεις, τῶν κατὰ τὸν Βαλαὰμ ἀναμνήσύττι, καὶ σκόπησον, ἐπὶ τίσι μὲν αὑτὸν ὁ Βαλαὰμ μετεπέμψατο" ὅπως δὲ ἐκεῖνος, ὑπὸ τῆς ἐμῆς δυνάμεω; ἐνεργούμενος, οὐκ ἀρὰν ὑμῖν, ἀλλ᾽ εὐλογίαν προσἤνεγκε. Τούτων δὲ ἔδρων ἕχαστον, οὐ μισθόν συ: δικαιοσύνης "ὀρέγων, ἀλλὰ τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ ξιχαιοσύντ,» δήλην ποιῶν ὑποσχόμενος γὰρ τῷ ὑμετέρῳ πρηπάτορι, τὰς πρὸς ἐκεῖνον ἐπλήρουν συνθῆκας. Τούτοὺς "Ἶ ὁ προφήτης ὡς ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ ποιησάμενος τοὺς λόγους, καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ τὴν ἀναλγνη σία» θεώμενος, αὐτὸς ἀντὶ τοῦ λαοῦ τοὺς τῆς εὐσεδείας ἀναχινεῖ λογισμοὺς, καί φησιν"

d΄. « Dioti anēgagon se ek gēs Aigyptou, kai ex oichou douleias elytrōsamēn se, kai pro protōpou sou ton Mōsēn, kai ᾿Aarōn, kai Mariam. n» ᾿All' ara mē touto hōs adikēma prouphereis, hoti se tēs pikras tōn Aigyptiōn apallaxas douleias, achraiphnē soi tēn eleutherian mēn, hypourgois andrasi thaumasiois kai aoidimois chrēsamenos, tǭ Mōsę̄, kai tǭ ᾿Aarōn, oude tas gynaikas tēs prosēkousēs aposterēpas epimeleias, kai tautais tēn Mariam epistēsas, kai prophttichou charismatos emplēsas : ᾿All᾽ ei toutōn amnē monēsai theleis, tōn kata ton Balaam anamnēsytti, kai skopēson, epi tisi men hauton ho Balaam metepempsato" hopōs de ekeinos, hypo tēs emēs dynameō? energoumenos, ouk aran hymin, all᾽ eulogian prosēnenke. Toutōn de edrōn hechaston, ou misthon sy: dikaiosynēs "oregōn, alla tēn emautou xichaiosynt,» dēlēn poiōn hyposchomenos gar tǭ hymeterǭ prēpatori, tas pros ekeinon eplēroun synthēkas. Toutous "I ho prophētēs hōs ek prosōpou tou Theou poiēsamenos tous logous, kai tou laou tēn analgnē sia» theōmenos, autos anti tou laou tous tēs eusedeias anachinei logismous, kai phēsin"

4. "For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, and [I sent] before your face Moses and Aaron and Miriam." Can it be that you bring this forward as an injury: that, having freed you from the bitter slavery of the Egyptians, I [gave] you unmixed freedom, using wonderful and celebrated men as my ministers, Moses and Aaron, and not depriving even the women of fitting care, but setting Miriam over them and filling her with the prophetic gift? But if you wish to forget these things, remember what happened with Balaam, and consider for what purpose [Balak] summoned him, and how he, moved by my power, offered you not a curse but a blessing. And I did each of these things not as holding out to you a reward for righteousness, but as making my own righteousness plain; for having made promises to your forefather, I was fulfilling my covenant with him. Having thus spoken these words as in the person of God, and seeing the insensibility of the people, the prophet himself, in place of the people, stirs up the thoughts of piety and says:

Mic 6:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 6:5 (allusion, high confidence) · Num 22:5–24:25 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 15:20 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God recalls the exodus, the leadership of Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, and Balaam's blessing, all given to keep his promise to Abraham.

Lemma: Mic 6:4, with a paraphrase of 6:5. The scan reads "Balaam summoned him"; the sense requires Balak (Num 22:5), and the translation supplies it in brackets. Miriam as prophetess: Exod 15:20.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (hyphenated word broken by a marginal letter): ἀπαλλά - Β ξας → ἀπαλλάξας.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.4 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.6.6PG 81

ς΄. « Ἐν τίνι καταλάδω τὸν Κύριον; ἀντιλὴτομαι Θεοῦ μου ὑψίστου; » Πῶς ἀμείψομαι τὸν τοσούτων μοι πρόξενον ἀγαθῶν; ποίαις ἀντιδόσεσι « Εἰ καταλήψομαι αὑτὸν ἐν ὁλοχαυτώμασιν, ἐν χιλιάσι χριῶν, ἢ μυριάσι χιμάρων πιόνων; εἰ δώσω "ἢ πρωτότοκά μου ὑπὲρ ἀσεθείας μου ", καρπὸν κοιλίας μου ὑπὲρ ἁμαρτίας ψυχῖ'ς μου; ν» Οὐδὲν, φησὶ, τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων, οὐ μόσχων πλῆθος, οὐκ ὁλόκληρα ποίμνια, οὐ μυριάδες ἐρίφων (χιμάρους γὰρ τοὺς ἕνιαυσίους ἐρίφους καλεῖ), οὐκ οἱ πρῶτοι λύσαντε: τὰς ὠδῖνας παῖδες, εἰς θυσίαν τῷ Θεῷ προσφερόμενο:, λῦσαί μου τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἀρχοῦσι τὸ πλῖθος. Εἰ δὲ ἄπαντα ταῦτα εἰς ἁμαρτημάτων λύσιν οὐκ ἀπόχρη, τίσι τὰς θείας εὐεργεσίας ἀμείψομαι; οὕτω τοὺς ἀνθρωπίνου; προτεθειχὼς λογισμοὺς, τὴν θείαν προσφέρει πάλιν ἀπόκρισιν.

s΄. « En tini kataladō ton Kyrion? antilētomai Theou mou hypsistou? » Pōs ameipsomai ton tosoutōn moi proxenon agathōn? poiais antidosesi « Ei katalēpsomai hauton en holochautōmasin, en chiliasi chriōn, ē myriasi chimarōn pionōn? ei dōsō "ē prōtotoka mou hyper asetheias mou ", karpon koilias mou hyper hamartias psychi's mou? n» Ouden, phēsi, tōn anthrōpinōn, ou moschōn plēthos, ouk holoklēra poimnia, ou myriades eriphōn (chimarous gar tous heniausious eriphous kalei), ouk hoi prōtoi lysante: tas ōdinas paides, eis thysian tǭ Theǭ prospheromeno:, lysai mou tōn hamartēmatōn archousi to plithos. Ei de apanta tauta eis hamartēmatōn lysin ouk apochrē, tisi tas theias euergesias ameipsomai? houtō tous anthrōpinou? protetheichōs logismous, tēn theian prospherei palin apokrisin.

6. "With what shall I come before the Lord and lay hold of my God most high?" How shall I repay the one who has provided me with so many good things? With what return gifts? "Shall I come before him with whole burnt offerings, with thousands of rams or myriads of fat goats? Shall I give my firstborn for my impiety, the fruit of my womb for the sin of my soul?" Nothing human, he says, not a multitude of calves, nor whole flocks, nor myriads of kids (for he calls the yearling kids "goats"), nor the children who first loosed the pangs of birth, offered to God in sacrifice, is enough to loose the multitude of my sins. And if all these do not suffice for the loosing of sins, with what shall I repay the divine benefits? Having thus set out human reasonings, he again brings forward the divine answer.

Mic 6:6–7 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The prophet, speaking for the people, asks what offering could repay God or atone for sin, and concludes that no sacrifice suffices.

Lemma: Mic 6:6–7.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.6 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.6.8PG 81

η΄. « ᾿Ανηγγέλη ᾽ σοι, ἄνθρωπε, τί χαλόν" καὶ τί Κύριο; ἐκζητεῖ παρὰ σοῦ, ἀλλ᾽ ἢ τοῦ " ποιεῖν κρῖμα, καὶ ἀγαπᾷν ἔλεον δ, καὶ ἕτοιμον εἶναι τοῦ πορΞύεσθαι ὀπίσω" Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου; » Τοῦτο καὶ διὰ μακαρίου 1 Δα) ὁ τῶν ὅλων ἔφη Θεός ἐχθαλὼν' γὰρ ἅπαντα τῶν θυσιῶν τὸν χατάληγον, καὶ εἰρηκώς " «Οὐ δέξομαι ἐκ τοῦ οἴχου σου μόσχους, οὐδὲ ἐκ τῶν ποιμνίων σου χιμάρους" ἐμὰ γάρ ἔστι πάντα τὰ θηρία τοῦ δρυμοῦ 5" » ἐπήγαγε " ε Θῦσον τῷ Θεῷ θυσίαν αἰνέσεως, καὶ ἀπόδος τῷ τὰς εὐχάς σου " καὶ ἐπικάλεσαΐ με ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεώς σου, καὶ ἐξελοῦμαΐ σε, καὶ δοξάσεις με. » Καὶ πάλιν" «Ὅτ: εἰ ἠθέλτσας θυσίαν, ἔδωκα ἄν" ὁλοκαυτώματα οὖκ εὐδοκήσεις. Θυσία τῷ Θεῷ πνεῦμα συντετριμμένον" καρδίαν συντετριμμένην καὶ τεταπεινωμένην ὁ Θεὺς οὐκ ἐξουδενώσει,» Ἕαυτὰ δὲ καὶ παρὰ πᾶσιν εὕροι τις ἂν τοῖς προφέταις. ε Λέγει τοίνυν κἀνταῦθα, ὅτι Δηλά ἔστι τὰ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ σοι νομοθετηθέντα. τὰρ ἐπιμελεῖσθαί σε τοῦ δικαίηυ, καὶ περὶ τὸν πέλας εἶναι φιλάνθρωπον, καὶ εἰς ἅπαντα ὑπακούειν τῷ πεποιηκότι Θεῷ. Ταυτὰ δὲ καὶ δικ Μωσέως ἐνομοθέτησεν" « ᾿Αγαπήσεις Κύριον τὸν Θεόν σον ἐξ ὅλης τῆς καρδίας σου, καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς ψυχῆς σον, καὶ ἐξ ὅλης τῆς διανοίας σου, καὶ ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου, ὡς σεαυτόν. » Τούτων τοίνυν ὑπὸ σοῦ γιγνομένων, ἕ

ē΄. « ᾿Anēngelē ᾽ soi, anthrōpe, ti chalon" kai ti Kyrio? ekzētei para sou, all᾽ ē tou " poiein krima, kai agapąn eleon d, kai hetoimon einai tou porXyesthai opisō" Kyriou tou Theou sou? » Touto kai dia makariou 1 Da) ho tōn holōn ephē Theos echthalōn' gar hapanta tōn thysiōn ton chatalēgon, kai eirēkōs " «Ou dexomai ek tou oichou sou moschous, oude ek tōn poimniōn sou chimarous" ema gar esti panta ta thēria tou drymou 5" » epēgage " e Thyson tǭ Theǭ thysian aineseōs, kai apodos tǭ tas euchas sou " kai epikalesaï me en hēmerą thlipseōs sou, kai exeloumaï se, kai doxaseis me. » Kai palin" «Hot: ei ētheltsas thysian, edōka an" holokautōmata ouk eudokēseis. Thysia tǭ Theǭ pneuma syntetrimmenon" kardian syntetrimmenēn kai tetapeinōmenēn ho Theus ouk exoudenōsei,» Heauta de kai para pasin heuroi tis an tois prophetais. e Legei toinyn kantautha, hoti Dēla esti ta par᾽ emou soi nomothetēthenta. tar epimeleisthai se tou dikaiēu, kai peri ton pelas einai philanthrōpon, kai eis hapanta hypakouein tǭ pepoiēkoti Theǭ. Tauta de kai dik Mōseōs enomothetēsen" « ᾿Agapēseis Kyrion ton Theon son ex holēs tēs kardias sou, kai ex holēs tēs psychēs son, kai ex holēs tēs dianoias sou, kai agapēseis ton plēsion sou, hōs seauton. » Toutōn toinyn hypo sou gignomenōn, he

8. "It has been told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord seek from you but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to be ready to walk after the Lord your God?" The God of all said this through the blessed David too. For having rejected the whole list of sacrifices and said, "I will not accept calves from your house, nor goats from your flocks; for all the beasts of the forest are mine," he added: "Offer to God a sacrifice of praise, and pay your vows to [the Most High]; and call upon me in the day of your affliction, and I will deliver you, and you will glorify me." And again: "For if you had desired sacrifice, I would have given it; you will not delight in whole burnt offerings. A sacrifice to God is a broken spirit; a broken and humbled heart God will not despise." One could find the same things in all the prophets. Here too, then, he says: What I have legislated for you is plain; [I command] you to care for justice, to be kind toward your neighbor, and to obey in all things the God who made you. He legislated the same things through Moses too: "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind, and you shall love your neighbor as yourself." If, then, these things are done by you,

Mic 6:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 50:9–10 (49:9-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 50:14–15 (49:14-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 51:16–17 (50:18-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 6:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Lev 19:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 22:37–39 (echo, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God asks not for sacrifices but for justice, mercy, and obedience, as the Psalms and the law of love also teach.

Lemma: Mic 6:8. Quotations: Ps 50:9–10, 14–15 (LXX 49); Ps 51:16–17 (LXX 50:18–19); Deut 6:5 and Lev 19:18, in the form of Matt 22:37–39. The section ends in mid-sentence.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters); Migne's footnotes (variant readings) leaked into the text): ϑίγην. τό. δᾺ ἔλεος, ὁ ὁπ. ἃ μετά. "Δ ᾿Απηγγέλη. καί, Α ἢ. 5 τοῦ. → ; -Α (πππ}. » Πυς ἰἤοι ἤδη 5. απ ἐνόγβογιαι θαι! λων 15 → .

Topics: Ethics

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.8 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.6.9PG 81

θ΄. « Φωνὴ Κυρίου τῇ πόλει ἐπικληθήσεται Ρ, καὶ σώσει φοδηουμένους τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ. » Δι᾿ αὐτῶν γὰρ τῶν πραγμάτων τῆς παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ προνοίας ἀπολαύοντες, δόξετε ἀκούειν καὶ αὐτῆς τοῦ Κυρίου τῆς φωνῆς ποριζούσης ὑμῖν τὴν σωτηρίαν. « ἽἌχουε, φυλή τίς κοσμήσει πόλιν; (.) Μὴ πῦρ, καὶ οἶκος ἀνόμου θησαυρίξων θηταυροὺς ἀνόμους, καὶ μετὰ ὕθρεως ἀδικία:: » Καθάπερ γὰρ οὐ κόσμον πόλει τὸ πῦρ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐμπρησμὸν ἐπάγει καὶ ὅλεθρον- οὕτως ἡ ἐπὶ τὴν ἀδικίαν ῥοπὴ, μετὰ θρασύμένους.

th΄. « Phōnē Kyriou tę̄ polei epiklēthēsetai R, kai sōsei phodēoumenous to onoma autou. » Di᾿ autōn gar tōn pragmatōn tēs par᾽ autou pronoias apolauontes, doxete akouein kai autēs tou Kyriou tēs phōnēs porizousēs hymin tēn sōtērian. « HiAchoue, phylē tis kosmēsei polin? (.) Mē pyr, kai oikos anomou thēsaurixōn thētaurous anomous, kai meta hythreōs adikia:: » Kathaper gar ou kosmon polei to pyr, all᾽ emprēsmon epagei kai holethron- houtōs hē epi tēn adikian rhopē, meta thrasymenous.

9. "The voice of the Lord will be called upon the city, and he will save those who fear his name." For enjoying his providence through the facts themselves, you will seem to hear the very voice of the Lord procuring salvation for you. "Hear, O tribe: who will adorn a city? 10. Is it not fire, and the house of the lawless man storing up lawless treasures, and injustice with insolence?" For just as fire brings a city no adornment but burning and destruction, so the inclination toward injustice, with [insolence] …

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Mic 6:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 6:10 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God's saving voice protects those who fear him, while injustice destroys a city like fire.

Lemmas: Mic 6:9 and 6:10. The end of the section is lost in the scan; marked "…".

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.9 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.6.11PG 81

ια', ιβ', ε« Εἰ δικαιωθήσεται ἐν ζυγῷ ἄδικος "5, καὶ ἐν μαρτίππῳ στάθμια δόλου; Ἐξ " ὧν τὸν πλοῦτον αὑτῶν ἀδικίας ἐνέπλησαν "5, καὶ οἱ ἕνοιχοῦντες ἐν αὐτῷ ἐλάλουν ψευδῇ "2, καὶ ἡ γλῶσσα αὐτῶν ὑψώθη ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτῶν. » Πρὸς τῇ γὰρ ἀσεδείᾳ καὶ παρανομίᾳ, ἐτόλμων ὧν ἀρτίως τὴν κατηγορίαν ἐποιήσατο στάθμια μὲν ἄδικα καὶ ζυγὰ κεκτημένοι, ἐκ πλεονεξίας δὲ τὸν πλοῦτον συλλέγοντες, ψευδέσι δὲ λόγοις τὴν γλῶτταν μολύνοντες. Τούτου χάριν, φησὶν, ἀρχὴν τῆς κατὰ σοῦ τιμωρίας ποιήσομαι, καὶ δίκας σε τῆς παρανομίας εἰσπράξομαι, καὶ συχνά σοι καὶ ἐπάλληλα ἐπάξω κακά. Τοῦτο γὰρ εἶπε"

ia', ib', e« Ei dikaiōthēsetai en zygǭ adikos "5, kai en martippǭ stathmia dolou? Ex " hōn ton plouton hautōn adikias eneplēsan "5, kai hoi henoichountes en autǭ elaloun pseudę̄ "2, kai hē glōssa autōn hypsōthē en tǭ stomati autōn. » Pros tę̄ gar asedeią kai paranomią, etolmōn hōn artiōs tēn katēgorian epoiēsato stathmia men adika kai zyga kektēmenoi, ek pleonexias de ton plouton syllegontes, pseudesi de logois tēn glōttan molynontes. Toutou charin, phēsin, archēn tēs kata sou timōrias poiēsomai, kai dikas se tēs paranomias eispraxomai, kai sychna soi kai epallēla epaxō kaka. Touto gar eipe"

11, 12. "Will the unjust man be justified by the balance, and deceitful weights in the bag? From which they filled their wealth with injustice, and those who live in it spoke lies, and their tongue was exalted in their mouth." For besides impiety and lawlessness, they dared the things of which he has just accused them: they kept unjust weights and balances, gathered their wealth from greed, and defiled their tongue with lying words. For this reason, he says, I will make a beginning of the punishment against you, and exact the penalty for your lawlessness, and bring frequent and successive evils upon you. For this is what he said:

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Mic 6:11–12 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 6:13 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Cheating merchants and liars will be punished with repeated disasters.

Lemma: Mic 6:11–12; the lemma of 6:13 is lost in the scan.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.11 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.6.14PG 81

ιδ΄. ε« Σὺ φάγεσαι, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐμπλησθῇς. » Περιθαλῶ δέ σΞ τῷ ζόφῳ τῶν συμφορῶν, καὶ φνγῇ χρησάμενος οὐκ ἀπαλλαγή σῃ τῶν πολεμούντων. » Ἐχνεύσεις ᾽ γὰρ, φησὶ, καὶ οὐ μὴ διασωθῇς, καὶ ὅσοι ἐὰν "Ὁ διασωθῶσιν, ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ "6 παραδοθήσονται. » ᾿Αλλὰ καὶ πολλὰ πονήσας περὶ τὴν γῆν, τῶν ἐξ αὑτῇς ". » “Ἔοικα, οὐκ ἀπολαύσῃ καρπῶν. « Καὶ ἀφαν:σθήσεται νόμιμα λαοῦ μου. » Καὶ ξιδάσχων, ὡς νῦν οὐ περὶ τοῦ νόμου λέγει τοῦ θείου, ἀλλὰ τῆς παρανόμου πολιτείας, ἐπἦγάγε " «Καὶ πάντα τὰ ἔργα οἴχου ᾿Αχαάδ.ν ᾿Ἔ χείνην γὰρ ζηλώσαντες τὴν ἀσέδειαν, τούτοις παραδοθήσεσθε τοῖς κακοῖ;, ὥστε τοὺς ὁρῶντας τὰς συμδαινούσας ὑμῖν συμφορὰς, τῷ συριγμῷ σημαίνειν τὸ μέγεθος. Ταῦτα πάντα εἰρηχὼὺς ὁ προφήτης ὀλοφύρεται, ὡς πολλοῖς μὲν λόγοις χρησάμενος, ἀνόνητα δὲ πο-

id΄. e« Sy phagesai, kai ou mē emplēsthę̄s. » Perithalō de sX tǭ zophǭ tōn symphorōn, kai phngę̄ chrēsamenos ouk apallagē sę̄ tōn polemountōn. » Echneuseis ᾽ gar, phēsi, kai ou mē diasōthę̄s, kai hosoi ean "Ho diasōthōsin, en rhomphaią "6 paradothēsontai. » ᾿Alla kai polla ponēsas peri tēn gēn, tōn ex hautę̄s ". » “Eoika, ouk apolausę̄ karpōn. « Kai aphan:sthēsetai nomima laou mou. » Kai xidaschōn, hōs nyn ou peri tou nomou legei tou theiou, alla tēs paranomou politeias, epēgage " «Kai panta ta erga oichou ᾿Achaad.n ᾿E cheinēn gar zēlōsantes tēn asedeian, toutois paradothēsesthe tois kakoi?, hōste tous horōntas tas symdainousas hymin symphoras, tǭ syrigmǭ sēmainein to megethos. Tauta panta eirēchōys ho prophētēs olophyretai, hōs pollois men logois chrēsamenos, anonēta de po-

14. "You will eat and not be satisfied." I will surround you with the gloom of calamities, and even by flight you will not be rid of those who make war on you. "For you will turn aside," he says, "and you will not be saved, and whoever are saved will be given over to the sword." And even if you labor much over the land, you will not enjoy its fruits. "And the statutes of my people will be destroyed." And teaching that he is speaking here not of the divine law but of their lawless way of life, he added: "and all the works of the house of Ahab." For having emulated that impiety, you will be handed over to these evils, so that those who see the calamities befalling you will signify their greatness by hissing. Having said all this, the prophet laments, as having used many words to no profit …

Mic 6:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 6:15 (allusion, high confidence) · Mic 6:16 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Kgs 16:30–33 (allusion, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Israel will labor without satisfaction or harvest because it followed the works of Ahab's house.

Lemmas: Mic 6:14, with a paraphrase of 6:15 and quotations of 6:16. Latin debris and Migne's footnotes (with a displaced phrase of Mic 7:1) are removed by logged corrections. The section ends in mid-sentence.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris and Migne's footnotes (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters); Latin debris and a displaced phrase): Δικ} 5 σΟπ τ ι15,. 60 σομίγι πὸ οἱ ἰδίαν Ποὺ 8. πιο" οϑίὰ τοῖο ἐον δ τὰὺ, οἱ τοῖα αηΐμια (ἃ, οἱ (οἵα πιοη(6 {π, δυάϊγα Ὑἱ θ᾽ αν] η] δα! αἴθ γυ 8 ἱπηρον θη γε. 11, 13..« Απ {π|58{Π᾿ πα ταν ἴῃ δἰδίογα 45, οἱ σα] ἢ πηρίοἴαλουν οἱ ἰπί φυ ας Ἰμἰ οἱ αἷι: δὶ δ δρ. ϑιιργα, 1. 1, Ρ. 9217, ἀγροῦ. 9Ὰ κληθήσεται. 5 ἄδ, Α ἄνομος. 1") ἐξ. λήψη. 16. εἰς ῥομφαίαν. Α → ; 6108. ρον Γποτῖβ. ε Εἰ 55 ρα απο οἰ εἴπ ᾿ος πη} 18 τὶ, 5. θυ ἶνα 6οἱ δ γα 116 οδὲ ἀς οἱ Β θησεν ἡ Ψυχή μου → .

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.6.14 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-6-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Preface 6, chapter 7

6.7.1PG 81

α΄. « Οἵ μοι! ὅτι ἐγενήθην ὡς συνάγων καλάμην ἐν ἀμητῷ, καὶ ὡς ἐπιφυλλίδα ἐν τρυγητῷ, οὐκ ὑπάρχοντος βότρυος’ τοῦ φαγεῖν τὰ πρωτόγονα ἐπεπόφησὶ, τοῖς τοὺς ἔἐχπίπτοντας ἀστάχυας συλλέγουσι, ἣ τὰς ὑπὸ τῶν τρυοὐδένα γὰρ οὐδὲ ἐγὼ βότρυν εὐπειθείας τὗρον, καὶ καὖτα λίαν ποθήσας εὑρεῖν τι ἐπέραστον, καὶ ἀπαρχῆς ἄξιον" τοῦτο γὰρ εἶπε" « Τοῦ φαγεῖν τὰ πρωτόγονα ἐπεπόθησεν ἡ φυχή μον. » Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ τῷ Θεῷ τὰ πρωτότοκα προσεφέρετο, τὸ ἀξιέραστον εἰκότως πρωτόγονον προσηγόρευσε. Καὶ εἰρημένα, σαφῇ ποιῆσαι βουλόμενος, ἐπήγαγεν " « Οἵ μοι, Ψυχὴ ! (β΄.) ὅτι ἀπόλωλεν εὐλαδὴς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς, καὶ ὁ 86 κατορθῶν ἐν ἀνθρώποις οὐκ ὑπάρχει. ν Εἶτα ποιεῖται τῶν ἀμαρτημάτων κατάλογον. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ δικάζοντες, φησὶ, τὴν ἄδικον κατὰ τῶν ἀνευθύνων ἐπιφέρουσι "᾽ ψῆφον, καὶ φόνους παρανόμους τολμῶσι - τῶν δὲ λοιπῶν ἕκαστος τοῦ πλείονος ἐφιέμενος σφετερίζεται τὰ τοῦ γείτονος. Ὃ δὲ κατὰ τοὺς νόμους δικάζειν πεπιστευμένος, οὐδὲ τοὺς προσφέροντας ἀναμένει, ἀλλ᾽ αὐτὸς αἰτεῖ δωροδόχῳ κεχρη μένος γνώμῃ. « Ὁ γὰρ ἄρχων, φησὶν, αἰτεῖ, καὶ ὁ κριτὴ; εἰρηνικοὺς λόγους ἐλάλησε" ἐπηεμις Ψυχῆς αὐτοῦ ἐστιν. » Δεξάμενος γὰρ τὰ δῶρα παρὰ τῶν ἀδικούντοιν, τὴν καταθύμιον αὐτοῖς ὑπισχνεῖται νίκην. Ταύτου χάριν φησίν"

a΄. « Hoi moi! hoti egenēthēn hōs synagōn kalamēn en amētǭ, kai hōs epiphyllida en trygētǭ, ouk hyparchontos botryos’ tou phagein ta prōtogona epepophēsi, tois tous eechpiptontas astachyas syllegousi, hē tas hypo tōn tryoudena gar oude egō botryn eupeitheias tyron, kai kauta lian pothēsas heurein ti eperaston, kai aparchēs axion" touto gar eipe" « Tou phagein ta prōtogona epepothēsen hē phychē mon. » Epeidē gar tǭ Theǭ ta prōtotoka prosephereto, to axieraston eikotōs prōtogonon prosēgoreuse. Kai eirēmena, saphę̄ poiēsai boulomenos, epēgagen " « Hoi moi, Psychē ! (b΄.) hoti apolōlen euladēs apo tēs gēs, kai ho 86 katorthōn en anthrōpois ouk hyparchei. n Eita poieitai tōn amartēmatōn katalogon. Hoi men gar dikazontes, phēsi, tēn adikon kata tōn aneuthynōn epipherousi "᾽ psēphon, kai phonous paranomous tolmōsi - tōn de loipōn hekastos tou pleionos ephiemenos spheterizetai ta tou geitonos. Ho de kata tous nomous dikazein pepisteumenos, oude tous prospherontas anamenei, all᾽ autos aitei dōrodochǭ kechrē menos gnōmę̄. « Ho gar archōn, phēsin, aitei, kai ho kritē? eirēnikous logous elalēse" epēemis Psychēs autou estin. » Dexamenos gar ta dōra para tōn adikountoin, tēn katathymion autois hypischneitai nikēn. Tautou charin phēsin"

1. "Woe is me! For I have become like one gathering straw at the harvest, and like a gleaning at the vintage, when there is no cluster to eat; my soul longed for the firstfruits." [I am like], he says, those who gather the fallen ears, or the [grapes left] by the vintagers; for I too found no cluster of obedience, though I greatly longed to find something lovely and worthy to be firstfruits. For this is what he said: "My soul longed to eat the firstfruits." For since the firstborn were offered to God, he fittingly called what is lovely "firstborn". And wishing to make what he had said clear, he added: "Woe is me, my soul! 2. For the godly man has perished from the earth, and there is no one among human beings who does right." Then he makes a list of the sins. Those who judge, he says, bring unjust sentences against the guiltless and dare lawless murders; and each of the rest, desiring more, appropriates what belongs to his neighbor. And the one entrusted with judging according to the laws does not even wait for those who bring gifts, but asks for them himself, with a mind set on bribes. "For the ruler," he says, "asks, and the judge spoke peaceable words; it is the desire of his soul." For having received gifts from the wrongdoers, he promises them the victory they desire. For this reason he says:

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Mic 7:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:3 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The prophet laments that he finds no godly person left, only murderous judges and rulers who demand bribes.

Lemmas: Mic 7:1, 7:2, and part of 7:3 (with a paraphrase of 7:2b–3). Words are lost in the scan in the comment on 7:1; bracketed words supply the sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris; Latin debris (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters)): δά 86 εοηνεῖ- αὶ → ; οἱ θοῦ απὶ ἀϊὸ ι}μος αἰ}: « », νῷ, εἴδει. τοϑ δι, πθὸ → .

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.1 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7.4PG 81

᾿ δ΄. Ἐξελοῦμαι τὰ " ἀγαθὰ αὐτῶν " ὡς σὴς ἐχτρώγῶν, καὶ βαδίζων ἐπὶ κανόνος ἐν ἡμέρᾳ σκοπιᾶς σου.» Δίκην γὰρ σητὸς ἔνδοθεν ξύλου βαδίζοντος, χ' καὶ ἅπαν τοῖς ὁδοῦσι διαφθείροντ τος, ἀναλώσει 5ε ἡ κατὰ σοῦ φερομένη ψῆφος ἐν τῇ τῆς τιμωρίας ἡμέρᾳ. Ταύτην γὰῤ ἐκάλεσε σκοπιὰν, τουτέστι, τὴν κατ᾽ αὐτὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐπιφάνειαν, Εἴτα θρηνητικῶς ὁ φιλάνθρωπος πατὴρ ν" παιδεύοντι ἐοικώς " « Οὐαὶ, οὐἀάλ, αἱ ἐκδικήσεις σου ἦκασι] νῦν ἔσονται χλαυθμοὶ αὑτῶν.» Τούτων δὲ, φησὶ, γινομένων, οὔτε φίλος φίλου προστήσεται, οὔτε βασιλεὺς φροντιεῖ τῶν ὑπηκόων, ἀλλ' ἕκαστος τῆς οἰκείας φροντιεῖ σωτηρίας, τὴν ἀποφυτὴν περισχοπῶν τῶν κακῶν, ὡς μήτε υἱὸν τῷ πατρὶ τὴν προσήκουσαν ἀπονέμειν τιμὴν, μῆτε θυγατέρα μητρὶ τὸ γέρας ἀποδιδόναι, μήτε νύμφην τῆς χηδεστρίας ἐπιμελεῖσθαι " πάντων οἷον ἐν διαστάσει τινὶ γιγνομένων, καὶ ἀλλήλων ὑπερορώντων, καὶ μόλις τῆς οἰκείας σωτηρίας προμηθουμένων. ᾽Αλλ᾽ ἐκεῖνοι μὲν ἐν τούτοις ἔσονται " ἐγὼ δὲ, φησὶν

᾿ d΄. Exeloumai ta " agatha autōn " hōs sēs echtrōgōn, kai badizōn epi kanonos en hēmerą skopias sou.» Dikēn gar sētos endothen xylou badizontos, ch' kai hapan tois hodousi diaphtheiront tos, analōsei 5e hē kata sou pheromenē psēphos en tę̄ tēs timōrias hēmerą. Tautēn gar ekalese skopian, toutesti, tēn kat᾽ autēn tou Theou epiphaneian, Eita thrēnētikōs ho philanthrōpos patēr n" paideuonti eoikōs " « Ouai, ouaal, hai ekdikēseis sou ēkasi] nyn esontai chlauthmoi hautōn.» Toutōn de, phēsi, ginomenōn, oute philos philou prostēsetai, oute basileus phrontiei tōn hypēkoōn, all' hekastos tēs oikeias phrontiei sōtērias, tēn apophytēn perischopōn tōn kakōn, hōs mēte huion tǭ patri tēn prosēkousan aponemein timēn, mēte thygatera mētri to geras apodidonai, mēte nymphēn tēs chēdestrias epimeleisthai " pantōn hoion en diastasei tini gignomenōn, kai allēlōn hyperorōntōn, kai molis tēs oikeias sōtērias promēthoumenōn. ᾽All᾽ ekeinoi men en toutois esontai " egō de, phēsin

4. "I will take away their good things like a devouring moth, and walking on a rule in the day of your watch." For like a moth that walks inside wood and destroys everything with its teeth, the sentence brought against you will consume you in the day of punishment; for this is what he called the "watch", that is, God's appearing upon it. Then, like a loving father chastising his child, he speaks in lament: "Woe, woe, your vengeances have come; now will be their weeping." When these things happen, he says, neither will friend stand by friend nor king care for his subjects, but each will care for his own safety, looking about for an escape from the evils, so that neither will a son render fitting honor to his father, nor a daughter pay her mother due respect, nor a daughter-in-law care for her mother-in-law; all will be as in a kind of civil strife, overlooking one another and scarcely providing for their own safety. But those will be in this condition; but I, he says,

Mic 7:4 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:5–6 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 10:35–36 (echo, low confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Judgment will eat away Israel like a moth, and in the disaster friends, families, and kings will abandon one another.

Lemmas: Mic 7:4, with a paraphrase of 7:5–6 (compare Matt 10:35–36). The section ends in mid-sentence; the lemma follows in the next section.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Migne's footnotes (variant readings) leaked into the text; OCR: διαστάσει broken by Latin debris): 18 ὁ, Π65. ἰὴ Α. " ἔπεπ. ἡ ψυχ. μ. ἃ οἴμοι ψυχή. χ χ. Δ πατρί, → ; δια- Α ΟπΊΠ65 γο} 1} ἢν ἀΐ8δἰ 10 αιοάδπι ἰμΐ, 4110 δἰ τη στάσει → διαστάσει.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.4 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7.7PG 81

ζ΄. « Ἐν τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐπιδλέψομαι 5, ὑπομενῶ ἐπὶ τῷ Θεῳ τῷ Σωτῆρί μου,» Καὶ δεικνὺς, οἷος τῆς ὑπομονῆς ὁ καρπὸς, «ε ᾿Επακούσεταί μου, φησὶν, ὁ Θεός μον. » Οὕτω σαφῶς διδάξας τῆς εἰς Θεὸν ἐλπίδος τὸ κέρδος, τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἀναλαμδάνει τὸ πρόσωπον, χοαὶ πρὸς τὴν Ἰδουμαίαν ποιεῖται τοὺς λόγους, ἐχθρὰν οὖσαν ἀεὶ καὶ πολεμίαν.

z΄. « En tǭ Kyriǭ epidlepsomai 5, hypomenō epi tǭ Theǭ tǭ Sōtēri mou,» Kai deiknys, hoios tēs hypomonēs ho karpos, «e ᾿Epakousetai mou, phēsin, ho Theos mon. » Houtō saphōs didaxas tēs eis Theon elpidos to kerdos, tēs Hierousalēm analamdanei to prosōpon, choai pros tēn Idoumaian poieitai tous logous, echthran ousan aei kai polemian.

7. "But I will look to the Lord; I will wait for God my Savior." And showing what the fruit of patience is: "My God will hear me," he says. Having thus clearly taught the gain of hope in God, he takes up the person of Jerusalem and addresses Idumea, which was always her enemy and foe.

Mic 7:7 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: The prophet waits in hope for God, who will hear him.

Lemma: Mic 7:7.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR slip): Σωτῆ ρίλημου → Σωτῆρί μου.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.7 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7.8PG 81

η΄. « Μὴ ἐπίχαιρέ μοι, ἡ ἐχθρᾷ μου, ὅτι πέπτωχα. » ᾿Αναστήσομαι γὰρ τῆς θείας ἀπολαύουσα κηδεμονίας " αὐτὸς γὰρ καὶ ἐν σκότῳ σῇ τὴν οἰκείαν αἴγλην παρέξει. Νὺν δὲ ὀργὴν Κυρίου ὑποίσω, ὅτι ἥμαρτον αὐτῷ " οἶδα γὰρ τῆς τινωρίας τὸ δίκαιον, εἰς τὸ μέγεθος ἀποδλέπων τῆς ἁμαρτίας. ᾿Αναμένω δὲ ὅμως τὴν δικαίαν κατὰ τῶν πολεμησάντων ὅδ χρίσιν, ΕἸ γὰρ καὶ ἐγὼ δίκας ἔτισα ὑπὲρ ὧν ἐπλημμέλησα, ἀλλ᾽ ἐκεῖνοι ἀδίκῳ κατ᾽ ἐμοῦ ἐχρήσαντο γνώμῃ. Ταυτὴν ἔχει τὴν ἔννοιαν τὸ, « Ἕως ἂν ᾽ διχαιώσῃ τὴν δίκην μον, καὶ ποιήσῃ ᾽Ἶ τὸ κρῖμά μου, καὶ ἐξάξῃ με εἰς τὸ φῶς, καὶ 5 ὅψομαι τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ. ν Ὑπὸ μὲν γὰρ αὐτοῦ χαταχέχριμαι δικαίως " κατὰ δὲ ἐχείνων ἔχω δίκαια πάμπολλα, καὶ τούτου χάριν τὴν θείαν ψί,φον προσμενῶ - ὅταν δὲ ταύτην ἐξενεχθεῖσαν θεάσωμαι, καὶ τῆς ἐχείνων δουλείας ἀπαλλαγῶ,.΄4. « ὍὌφεται ἡ ἐχθρά μου, καὶ καλύψει αὐτὴν αἰσχύνη Ἶ), ἡ λέγουσα πρός με δ Ποῦ ἐστιν 3' ὁ Θεός σον; » Οὐ μόνον δὲ αὔτη ὄψεταί μον τὴν εὖημερίαν, καὶ τοῦ Θεοῦ μου τὴν δύναμιν, καθ᾽ οὗ τὴν γλῶσσαν ἐξέτεινεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐγὼ τὴν αὐτῆς ὄψομαι͵ «Οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου γὰρ ἐπόψονται αὐτὴν - νῦν ἕξσται εἰς καταπάτημα, ὡς πηλὸς ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς. (ι1α΄.) Ἡμέρα ἀλοιφῆς πλίνθου, ἐξάλειψίς συν ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη᾽ καὶ ἀπώσεται νόμιμά σου. Ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ 35 καὶ αἱ πόλεις σου ἥξουσιν εἰς συγκλεισμὸν, καὶ " εἰς διαμερισμὸν ᾿Ασσυρίων. ν Καθάπερ γὰρ ὁ εἰς ἀλοιφὴν καὶ χρίσμα τῶν πλίνθων χατασχευαξόμενος πηλὸς, θύραζε ῥιπτούμενος, ὑπὸ τῶν παριόντων ἁπάντων καταπατεῖται, ὥστε εἰς δέον τὰς βώλους διαλυθῆναι - οὕτως ἔσῃ πρόχειρος ἅπασι καὶ εὐπατουμένη. Τότε σου καὶ οἱ παράνομοι νόμοι λήψονται πέρας, καὶ αἱ πόλεις ὑπομενοῦσι πολιορκίαν". τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκάλεσε συγκχιλεισμόν᾽" καὶ τῶν ἕνοικούντων τὸ πλῆθος ὑπὸ τῶν πολεμίων διαιρούμενον δουλεύειν ἀναγκασθήσεται. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ καὶ αἱ ἄλλαι περίοικοι πόλεις ταῖς Ἰουδαίων ἐφήδοντο συμφοραῖς, ἀναγκαίως καὶ Τύρου, καὶ Συρίας, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων μέμνηται πόλεων, τῶν ὑπὸ ᾿Ασσυρίων καὶ Βαβυλωνίων ἐχπορθηθεισῶν λέγει δὲ καὶ τίνες αὗται, ἀπὸ τῶν ὄρων δήλας αὐτὰς ποιῶν. ε« ᾽Α πὸ φησὶν, ἕως θαλάσσης, καὶ ἀπὸ ὅρους ἕως τοῦ ὅρους. » Τουτέστιν, ἀπὸ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαϊάσσης, τῆς τρὺς ἕω κειμένης, ἕως τῆς πρὸς ἑσπέραν, καὶ ἀπὸ ποῦ ἔρους τῶν Ἰδουμαίων ἕως τοῦ Διθάνου, πάντες εἶ ἕν μέσῳ τοῖ; πολεμίοις παραδοθήτοντχι. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐπήγαγεν εἰρηκώς "ε Ἡμέρα ὕδατος καὶ θορύδου Δίκην γὰρ ὕδατος ῥοίζῳ φερομένον, τῆς στρατιᾶς ὁ ἐκείνης προσθαλεῖ τὸ πλῆθος, καὶ τὴν μὲν γὴν ἐρημίᾳ περιθαλεῖ, σφαγῇ 57 ξὲ καὶ δουλείᾳ τοὺς οἰκήτορας; παραδώσει. Καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν δεικνὺς, « ᾿Απὸ καρπῶν, φησὶν, ἐπιτηδευμάτων αὑτῶν. » Οὕτω τὰ ἐσόμενα τοῖς ὁμόροις ἔθνεσι προθεσπίσας, τὴν μετὰ τὴν ἐπάνοξον εἰρήνην τῷ λαῷ προαγγέλλει.

ē΄. « Mē epichaire moi, hē echthrą mou, hoti peptōcha. » ᾿Anastēsomai gar tēs theias apolauousa kēdemonias " autos gar kai en skotǭ sę̄ tēn oikeian aiglēn parexei. Nyn de orgēn Kyriou hypoisō, hoti hēmarton autǭ " oida gar tēs tinōrias to dikaion, eis to megethos apodlepōn tēs hamartias. ᾿Anamenō de homōs tēn dikaian kata tōn polemēsantōn hod chrisin, EI gar kai egō dikas etisa hyper hōn eplēmmelēsa, all᾽ ekeinoi adikǭ kat᾽ emou echrēsanto gnōmę̄. Tautēn echei tēn ennoian to, « Heōs an ᾽ dichaiōsę̄ tēn dikēn mon, kai poiēsę̄ ᾽I to krima mou, kai exaxę̄ me eis to phōs, kai 5 hopsomai tēn dikaiosynēn autou. n Hypo men gar autou chatachechrimai dikaiōs " kata de echeinōn echō dikaia pampolla, kai toutou charin tēn theian psi,phon prosmenō - hotan de tautēn exenechtheisan theasōmai, kai tēs echeinōn douleias apallagō,.΄4. « HoOphetai hē echthra mou, kai kalypsei autēn aischynē I), hē legousa pros me d Pou estin 3' ho Theos son? » Ou monon de autē opsetai mon tēn euēmerian, kai tou Theou mou tēn dynamin, kath᾽ hou tēn glōssan exeteinen, alla kai egō tēn autēs opsomai͵ «Hoi ophthalmoi mou gar epopsontai autēn - nyn hexstai eis katapatēma, hōs pēlos en tais hodois. (i1a΄.) Hēmera aloiphēs plinthou, exaleipsis syn hē hēmera ekeinē᾽ kai apōsetai nomima sou. En tę̄ hēmerą ekeinę̄ 35 kai hai poleis sou hēxousin eis synkleismon, kai " eis diamerismon ᾿Assyriōn. n Kathaper gar ho eis aloiphēn kai chrisma tōn plinthōn chatascheuaxomenos pēlos, thyraze rhiptoumenos, hypo tōn pariontōn hapantōn katapateitai, hōste eis deon tas bōlous dialythēnai - houtōs esę̄ procheiros hapasi kai eupatoumenē. Tote sou kai hoi paranomoi nomoi lēpsontai peras, kai hai poleis hypomenousi poliorkian". touto gar ekalese synkchileismon᾽" kai tōn henoikountōn to plēthos hypo tōn polemiōn diairoumenon douleuein anankasthēsetai. Epeidē de kai hai allai perioikoi poleis tais Ioudaiōn ephēdonto symphorais, anankaiōs kai Tyrou, kai Syrias, kai tōn allōn memnētai poleōn, tōn hypo ᾿Assyriōn kai Babylōniōn echporthētheisōn legei de kai tines hautai, apo tōn orōn dēlas autas poiōn. e« ᾽A po phēsin, heōs thalassēs, kai apo horous heōs tou horous. » Toutestin, apo tēs Erythras thaïassēs, tēs trys heō keimenēs, heōs tēs pros hesperan, kai apo pou erous tōn Idoumaiōn heōs tou Dithanou, pantes ei hen mesǭ toi? polemiois paradothētontchi. Touto gar epēgagen eirēkōs "e Hēmera hydatos kai thorydou Dikēn gar hydatos rhoizǭ pheromenon, tēs stratias ho ekeinēs prosthalei to plēthos, kai tēn men gēn erēmią perithalei, sphagę̄ 57 xe kai douleią tous oikētoras? paradōsei. Kai tēn aitian deiknys, « ᾿Apo karpōn, phēsin, epitēdeumatōn hautōn. » Houtō ta esomena tois homorois ethnesi prothespisas, tēn meta tēn epanoxon eirēnēn tǭ laǭ proangellei.

8. "Do not rejoice over me, my enemy, because I have fallen." For I will rise, enjoying the divine care; for even in darkness he will give me his own radiance. 9. "Now I will bear the wrath of the Lord, because I sinned against him"; for I know the justice of the punishment when I look at the greatness of the sin. But nevertheless I await the just judgment against those who made war on me. For even if I paid the penalty for my offenses, they treated me with an unjust mind. This is the meaning of: "Until he justifies my cause and executes my judgment, and he will bring me out into the light, and I will see his righteousness." For by him I was justly condemned, but against them I have very many just claims, and for this reason I will wait for the divine verdict. And when I see it pronounced and am freed from their slavery, 10. "my enemy will see, and shame will cover her who says to me: Where is the Lord your God?" Not only will she see my prosperity and the power of my God, against whom she stretched out her tongue, but I too will see hers. "For my eyes will look upon her; now she will be for trampling, like mud in the roads. 11. A day of plastering brick, that day will be your blotting out, and it will reject your statutes. In that day your cities too will come to a siege and to the division of the Assyrians." For just as the mud prepared for plastering and coating bricks, when it is thrown out of doors, is trampled by all who pass by, so that the lumps are broken up as needed, so you will be at hand for all and easily trampled. Then your lawless laws too will come to an end, and your cities will endure a siege (for this is what he called "shutting in"), and the multitude of the inhabitants, divided up by the enemies, will be compelled to serve. And since the other neighboring cities also rejoiced at the calamities of the Jews, he necessarily mentions Tyre, Syria, and the other cities sacked by the Assyrians and Babylonians, and says which they are, making them plain by their boundaries: "From [Tyre to the river]," he says, "[and from sea] to sea, and from mountain to the mountain"; that is, from the Red Sea, lying toward the east, to the sea toward the west, and from the mountain of the Idumeans to Lebanon, all who are in between will be handed over to the enemies. For this is what he added in saying: "A day of water and tumult." For like water rushing with a roar, the multitude of that army will attack, will surround the land with desolation, and will hand its inhabitants over to slaughter and slavery. And showing the cause: "From the fruits of their practices," he says. Having thus foretold what would happen to the neighboring nations, he announces to the people the peace after the return.

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Mic 7:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:11–12 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:13 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Jerusalem accepts God's just punishment but awaits judgment on her gloating enemy, Edom, who with Tyre, Syria, and the neighbors will be trampled like mud.

Lemmas: Mic 7:8, 7:9, 7:10, and 7:11–12, with a paraphrase of 7:12–13. Words of 7:12 lost in the scan are supplied in brackets from the LXX. Latin debris and Migne's footnotes are removed by logged corrections.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters); Migne's footnotes (variant readings) and Latin debris; OCR: Βαβυλωνίων broken by Latin debris; hyphenated word broken by Latin debris): θαι ἢ [οἱ !, 465 θεὶ ἀπο οδί π6 ἴῃ Ἰυσδίῃ, οἱ ν᾽ 468} υἱοῦ, δὺ αὐ ἴῃ οἱ ἤηδιαλυθῆναι → διαλυθῆναι; εὑ- Ὦ Ἔχροβίίἃ πατουμένη → εὐπατουμένη; ᾿ὰ δὲ 32 ἐπ, Α ἀποσχοπεύσω. “ὁ Σωτ. Α ργϑιῃ. τῷ. 81 ἐστιν. Α Κύριος. 3 καὶ -- Ασσυρ Β65. ἴῃ (. 35 πολ. Ο δάαϊϊ, μοι, 5.Ἃ ἡ ἡμέρα ἐκείνη, ριιηοίο πρη δι σον, δ6ἀ δὰ ἐκείνη 36 ἅν). Α οὐ. ᾽Ἴ7Α ποιήσει, εἰ 80 πρ. με. θ68. ἰῃ Α. θη 5. « ἃ μησὶ Α → ; Βαξυλωᾳυοι «4 ΜΘΡΒΟΠΒ : οἰ ἃ πιομίο ἸΔΟΎ πη αὐ πιο ηι πιο 5 οὐμν) ἀἰν 510 (γ᾽ δε η) πολ ἀπιρ 8 ἀχβι βουνοὶ. θοΐπνίων → Βαβυλωνίων.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.8 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7.14PG 81

ιδ΄, « Ποίμαινε τὸν λαόν σου ἐν ῥάβδ.»σου, πρόδατα χληρυνομίας σον. ν Καὶ ἐπειδὴ τροπικῶς τοὺς ἀνθρώπου; ἐχάλεσξ πρόξατα, ἐπέ με{:]|νε τῇ τῶν ἐθνῶν, φησὶ, πάντων χεχωρισμένους, καὶ ἰδιά ζουσαν ἔχοντας τὴν νομήν. Τὸ δὲ, ᾿Εν ἑάδδῳ σου, τὴν τοῦ Ἰούδα σημαίνει φυλήν. Ἐκείνη γὰρ μετὰ τὴν ἐπάνοδον, τῶν ἄλλων ἡγεῖτο, διαιρέσεως οὐκέτι τῶν φυλῶν γενομένης. Εἶτα διδάσκων, ὡς ἅπασαν ἣν πρὸ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας χατεῖχον γῆν μετὰ τὴν ἐπάνοδον, ἐπήγαγς ᾿ « Δρυμὸν ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ Καρμήλου νεμήσονται, τὴν Βασανῖτιν καὶ τὴν Γαλααδῖτιν, κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας τοῦ αἰῶνος. (τιε΄.) Καὶ κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας ἐξοδίας σου ἐκ γῆς Αἰγύπτου δείξω αὑτοῖς θαυμάσια ᾽ν.» “Ὅσην γὰρ, φησὶν, ἐξελθοῦσιν ὑμῖν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου χώραν ἐξωρησάμην, τοσαύτην ὑμῖν ἀπὸ Βαδυλῶνος ἐπανελθοῦσι παρὑμᾶς πειῤωμένους. Ταῦτα γὰρ τὰ ἔθνη θεώμενα, αἱτχύνης ἀναπλησθήσεται, καὶ τῆς οἰκείας δυνάμεως τὴν ἀσθένειαν βλέποντα, « Ἐπιθήσουσι ") χεῖρας ἐπὶ τὸ στόμα αὑτῶν, καὶ τὰ ὦτα αὐτῶν ἀποχωφωθήσεται. (ιζ΄.) Λείξουσι γὰρ χοῦν ὡς ὄφεις σύροντες γῆν", συγχυθήσοντα: "3 ἐν συγκλεισμῷ αὑτῶν ἐπὶ Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ ἡμῶν : ἐκστήσονται καὶ φοδηθήσοντα' ἀπὸ σοῦ. » Ὁρῶντες γάρ σου τὴν ἐξαίφνης γινομένην εὐπραξίαν, καὶ τὴν παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ χορηγουμένην βοήθειάν, οὐδὲ λόγους ἀπηχεῖς κατὰ σοῦ τολμήσουσι φθέγξασθα: " ἀλλὰ δίκην ὄφεων εἰς γῆν ἱλυσπωμένων χαταπεσοῦνται, οὐδὲν οὔτε δρᾶσαι, οὔτε εἰπεῖν τι τολμῶντες. Τούτοις ὁ προφήτης διαχονήσας τοῖς λόγοις, τὴν θείαν ἐχπλητ-

id΄, « Poimaine ton laon sou en rhabd.»sou, prodata chlērynomias son. n Kai epeidē tropikōs tous anthrōpou? echalesx proxata, epe me{:]|ne tę̄ tōn ethnōn, phēsi, pantōn chechōrismenous, kai idia zousan echontas tēn nomēn. To de, ᾿En headdǭ sou, tēn tou Iouda sēmainei phylēn. Ekeinē gar meta tēn epanodon, tōn allōn hēgeito, diaireseōs ouketi tōn phylōn genomenēs. Eita didaskōn, hōs hapasan hēn pro tēs aichmalōsias chateichon gēn meta tēn epanodon, epēgags ᾿ « Drymon en mesǭ tou Karmēlou nemēsontai, tēn Basanitin kai tēn Galaaditin, kata tas hēmeras tou aiōnos. (tie΄.) Kai kata tas hēmeras exodias sou ek gēs Aigyptou deixō hautois thaumasia ᾽n.» “Hosēn gar, phēsin, exelthousin hymin ex Aigyptou chōran exōrēsamēn, tosautēn hymin apo Badylōnos epanelthousi parymas peirōmenous. Tauta gar ta ethnē theōmena, haitchynēs anaplēsthēsetai, kai tēs oikeias dynameōs tēn astheneian bleponta, « Epithēsousi ") cheiras epi to stoma hautōn, kai ta ōta autōn apochōphōthēsetai. (iz΄.) Leixousi gar choun hōs opheis syrontes gēn", synchythēsonta: "3 en synkleismǭ hautōn epi Kyriǭ tǭ Theǭ hēmōn : ekstēsontai kai phodēthēsonta' apo sou. » Horōntes gar sou tēn exaiphnēs ginomenēn eupraxian, kai tēn par᾽ emou chorēgoumenēn boētheian, oude logous apēcheis kata sou tolmēsousi phthenxastha: " alla dikēn opheōn eis gēn hilyspōmenōn chatapesountai, ouden oute drasai, oute eipein ti tolmōntes. Toutois ho prophētēs diachonēsas tois logois, tēn theian echplēt-

14. "Shepherd your people with your rod, the sheep of your inheritance." And since he figuratively called the people sheep, he kept to the figure: [dwelling alone], he says, separated from [the flocks] of all the nations and having a pasture of their own. "With your rod" signifies the tribe of Judah; for after the return it led the others, since there was no longer a division among the tribes. Then, teaching that after the return [they will possess] all the land they held before the captivity, he added: "They will graze the forest in the midst of Carmel, Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. 15. And as in the days of your exodus from the land of Egypt I will show them wonders." For as much land, he says, as I granted you when you came out of Egypt, so much [I will give] you when you return from Babylon, [and I will punish those who] try you. For when the nations see these things they will be filled with shame, and seeing the weakness of their own power, 16. "they will lay their hands on their mouth, and their ears will be deafened. 17. They will lick dust like serpents crawling on the earth; they will be confounded in their enclosure; they will be amazed at the Lord our God and will fear you." For seeing your sudden prosperity and the help supplied by me, they will not dare to utter even harsh words against you, but like serpents crawling on the ground they will fall down, daring neither to do nor to say anything. The prophet, having ministered these words, [marvels at] the divine …

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Mic 7:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 7:16–17 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God will shepherd his returned people as in the exodus, and the nations will be struck dumb with fear.

Lemmas: Mic 7:14, 7:14b–15, and 7:16–17. Words lost in the scan are supplied in brackets by sense; the section ends in mid-sentence.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris inside the lemma (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters); hyphenated word broken by a marginal letter): εὐ ἐκ ἴα: πο εἴ δυάγαηὶ γί πὶ ἰη Πγη Δί θ) βοητδηί65 : ᾿ [οι ἴμ αν, θο ίθι ἰμ!καίιλι65., δὲ ΡοΙη (6 η 5. [π)}5ι}{|25. [5 φαΐ Το καὶ → ; ἀπ- Ὁ ηχεῖὶς → ἀπηχεῖς.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.14 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7.18PG 81

ιη΄. ε Τίς θεὸς ὥσπερ σὺ ἐξαίρων ἀδικίας"), καὶ νομία: αὐτοῦ; » ᾿λῤῥήτῳ γὰρ, φησὶν, ἀγαθότητι, Δέσποτα, κεχρημένος, καὶ λόγων νικώσῃ διήγησιν, οὐκ ἀπαιτεῖς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εὐθύνας τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἀξίας " ἀλλ᾽ ὅταν παιδεύσας μικρὰν μεταμέλειαν ἴδῃς, παρορᾷ: τὰ ἐπταισμένα,, ὑπερθαίνεις τὰ ἡσεδημένα " ὅπερ δὴ καὶ νῦν εἰς τὸν σὸν εἰργάσω λαόν. « Οὐ συνέσχεν " εἰς μαρτύριον ὀργὴν αὑτοῦ, ὅτι θελητὴς ἐλέους ἐστίν. ν Τοῦτο ἔοικε τῷ ὑπὸ τοῦ μαται, οὔτε εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μηνιεῖ " οὐ κατὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν ἐποίησεν ἡμῖν, οὐδὲ κατὰ τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν ἀνταπέδωχεν ἡμῖν. » Καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος τοίνυν λεηικαίας βοᾷ, ὅτ: Τὴν ὀργὴν οὐκ ἐφύλαξεν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον εἰς ἔλεγχον καὶ μαρτυρίαν τῆς τοῦ λαοῦ παρα-

iē΄. e Tis theos hōsper sy exairōn adikias"), kai nomia: autou? » ᾿lrrhētǭ gar, phēsin, agathotēti, Despota, kechrēmenos, kai logōn nikōsę̄ diēgēsin, ouk apaiteis tous anthrōpous euthynas tōn hamartēmatōn axias " all᾽ hotan paideusas mikran metameleian idę̄s, parorą: ta eptaismena,, hyperthaineis ta hēsedēmena " hoper dē kai nyn eis ton son eirgasō laon. « Ou syneschen " eis martyrion orgēn hautou, hoti thelētēs eleous estin. n Touto eoike tǭ hypo tou matai, oute eis ton aiōna mēniei " ou kata tas hamartias hēmōn epoiēsen hēmin, oude kata tas anomias hēmōn antapedōchen hēmin. » Kai ho thespesios toinyn leēikaias boą, hot: Tēn orgēn ouk ephylaxen epi pleiston eis elenchon kai martyrian tēs tou laou para-

18. "Who is a God like you, taking away iniquities and [passing over] his lawlessness?" For using ineffable goodness, Master, he says, that surpasses all telling, you do not exact from human beings the account their sins deserve; but when, after chastising a little, you see repentance, you overlook the stumbles and pass over the impieties, as you have now done for your people. "He did not hold his anger as a testimony, for he delights in mercy." This is like what was said by the blessed [David]: "[He will not be angry to the end], nor will he keep his wrath forever; he has not dealt with us according to our sins, nor repaid us according to our iniquities." And so the inspired Micah too cries out that he did not keep his anger for long as a refutation and testimony of the people's [transgression] …

Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.

Mic 7:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 103:9–10 (102:9-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: No god is like the Lord, who forgives when he sees repentance and does not keep his anger.

Lemma: Mic 7:18. The quotation is Ps 103:9–10 (LXX 102:9–10); its opening words and the psalmist's name are lost in the scan and supplied in brackets. The section ends in mid-sentence.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Migne's footnotes (variant readings) leaked into the text; OCR: μεταμέλειαν broken by Latin debris): ἐδ ήμ, ὕδ. χ, θορ. [ἃ ΑἸεχ,, εθὰ ἀ65. ἰβίὰ ἴῃ Α, δα ἀπρ! οἱ ἐπιεγργεϊαίοηθ, αἱ νἰἀδῖι, οὔ. 5 Γ᾿ στρα- «είας. 51 εἰς σφαγήν, οἱ ἀεϊπάο, δουλείαν. 38 ΤῈ Δ ἀνομίας. ""Α ἀδικίας. "9 Ἔπιῃ, --- στόμα αὖτ. [)65. ἴῃ Δ. υλ. ἢσ5. ἰῃ Α 1 γῆν, Π65. ἰπ ὦ, "5 ( συναχθήσονται. → ; μεταμέ- Α οαι|5 ἀἴφηδα : οι υδὶ ολϑεϊρακίοηα Δ] τα οσί λειαν → μεταμέλειαν.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.18 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7.19PG 81

ιθ΄, ε« Ἐπιστρέψει, καὶ υἰχτειρήσει ἡμᾶς, καταδύσει τὰ; ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, καὶ ἀποῤῥιφήσονται εἰς τὰ βάθη τῆς θαλάσσης πᾶσαι αἱ ἁμαρτίαι "" ἡμῶν. ν Τούτοις παραπλήσια καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ τῶν ὅλων θεὸς διὰ Ἡσαΐου τοῦ προφήτου βοᾷ" « Ἐγώ εἶμι, ἐγώ εἰμι αὑτὸς ὁ ἐξαλείφων τὰς ἀνομίας σου, καὶ οὐ μὴ μνησθῶ τῶν ἀδικιῶν σου.» Τοῦτο γὰρ δὴ τὸ παράδοξον, ὅτι οὐ μόνον ἀφίησιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς μνήμης ἐχθάλλει, καὶ οἷόν τινι βυθῷ παραδίδωσι τῇ λήθῃ. Τοῦτο γὰρ παραδηλῶν καὶ ὁ μακάριος ἔφη Μικαίας " «ε Καταδύσει τὰ; ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν, καὶ ἀποῤῥιφήσονται εἰς τὰ βάθη τῆς θαλάσσης πᾶσα: αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἡμῶν. ν Ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸ εἰς τὸν βυθὸν τῆς θαλάττης βὰλλόμένον, ἀφανές ἔστι παντελῶς - οὕτω, φησὶ, καὶ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν λήθῃ παντελεῖ παραδώσει, διὰ τὰς πρὸς τοὺς ἡμετέρους προγόνους συνγήχας. Καὶ τοῦτα δηλῶν ἐπήγαγε" ἥ

ith΄, e« Epistrepsei, kai uichteirēsei hēmas, katadysei ta? hamartias hēmōn, kai aporrhiphēsontai eis ta bathē tēs thalassēs pasai hai hamartiai "" hēmōn. n Toutois paraplēsia kai autos ho tōn holōn theos dia Hēsaïou tou prophētou boą" « Egō eimi, egō eimi hautos ho exaleiphōn tas anomias sou, kai ou mē mnēsthō tōn adikiōn sou.» Touto gar dē to paradoxon, hoti ou monon aphiēsin, alla kai tēs mnēmēs echthallei, kai hoion tini bythǭ paradidōsi tę̄ lēthę̄. Touto gar paradēlōn kai ho makarios ephē Mikaias " «e Katadysei ta? hamartias hēmōn, kai aporrhiphēsontai eis ta bathē tēs thalassēs pasa: hai hamartiai hēmōn. n Hōsper gar to eis ton bython tēs thalattēs ballomenon, aphanes esti pantelōs - houtō, phēsi, kai tas hamartias hēmōn lēthę̄ pantelei paradōsei, dia tas pros tous hēmeterous progonous syngēchas. Kai touta dēlōn epēgage" hē

19. "He will turn and have compassion on us; he will sink our sins, and all our sins will be cast into the depths of the sea." The God of all himself cries out similar things through the prophet Isaiah: "I am, I am he who blots out your transgressions, and I will not remember your sins." For this is the marvel: that he not only forgives but also casts them out of his memory and hands them over to oblivion as to a kind of abyss. Indicating this, the blessed Micah said: "He will sink our sins, and all our sins will be cast into the depths of the sea." For just as what is thrown into the depths of the sea vanishes entirely, so, he says, he will hand our sins over to utter oblivion because of the covenants with our ancestors. And showing this he added:

Mic 7:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 43:25 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God not only forgives sins but forgets them, casting them into the depths of the sea.

Lemma: Mic 7:19. The quotation is Isa 43:25.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.19 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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6.7.20PG 81

χ΄. « Δώσεις ἀλήθειαν" τῷ Ἰαχὼδ, ἔλεον τῷ ᾿Αδρλὰμ, καθάπερ ὥμοσας τοῖς πατράσιν ἡμῶν κατὰ τὰς ἡμέρας τὰς ἔμπροσθεν. ν Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος λέγει Δαδίδ- ε« Ἐμνήσθη εἰ; τὸν αἰῶνα διαθήκης αὑτοῦ λόζου οὗ ἐνετείλατο εἰς χιλίας γενεὰς, ὃν διέθετο τῷ ᾿Αδραὰμ,, καὶ τοῦ ὄρκου αὑτοῦ τῷ Ἰσαάκ᾽ καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὴν τῷ Ἰαχὼδ εἰς πρόσταγμα, καὶ τῷ Ἵπραΐλ εἰς διαθήκην αἰώνιον. » Τὰς μὲν οὖν ἐκείνων ἁμαρτίας εἰς τὸν τῆς ὑαλάττης βυθὸν ὁ Δεσπότης ἀπέῤῥιψε" τὰς δὲ ἡμετέρας εἰς τὴν ἱερὰν καὶ θείαν ἐξαλείφει χολυμδήθραν, ἧς ἢ Ἐρυθρὰ θάλασσα, κατὰ τὸν θεῖον ᾿ΑΛπόστολον, γεγένητα! τύπος, ἣν διελθὼν ὁ λαὺς, τῆ; Αἰγύπτου ἀπηλλάγη δουλείας. Κατ᾽ ἐκεῖνον καὶ ἡμεῖς τὸν τύπον, διὰ τῆς ἁγίας χολυμδήθρας τῆς τοῦ διαδόλου τυραννίδος ἑλευθερούμενοι, τῆς οἰκείας σωτηρίας φροντίδωμεν " διηνεκῶς τὸν εὐεργέτην ὑμνοῦντες, καὶ τοῖς ἐχείνου νόμοις ἀκολουθοῦντες, καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων τετριμμένην πορείαν ὁδεύοντες ἵνα σὺν αὐτοῖς εἰς τὸ ἀγαθὸν τῆς ὁδοῦ φθάσωμεν τέλος, χάριτι καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, μεθ᾽ οὗ τῷ Πατρὶ ἡ δόξα, σὺν τῷ ἀγίῳ Πνεύματι, νῦν καὶ ἀεὶ, καὶ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων, ᾿Αμήν.

ch΄. « Dōseis alētheian" tǭ Iachōd, eleon tǭ ᾿Adrlam, kathaper hōmosas tois patrasin hēmōn kata tas hēmeras tas emprosthen. n Houtō kai ho makarios legei Dadid- e« Emnēsthē ei? ton aiōna diathēkēs hautou lozou hou eneteilato eis chilias geneas, hon dietheto tǭ ᾿Adraam,, kai tou orkou hautou tǭ Isaak᾽ kai estēsen autēn tǭ Iachōd eis prostagma, kai tǭ Hipraïl eis diathēkēn aiōnion. » Tas men oun ekeinōn hamartias eis ton tēs hyalattēs bython ho Despotēs aperrhipse" tas de hēmeteras eis tēn hieran kai theian exaleiphei cholymdēthran, hēs ē Erythra thalassa, kata ton theion ᾿ALpostolon, gegenēta! typos, hēn dielthōn ho laus, tē? Aigyptou apēllagē douleias. Kat᾽ ekeinon kai hēmeis ton typon, dia tēs hagias cholymdēthras tēs tou diadolou tyrannidos heleutheroumenoi, tēs oikeias sōtērias phrontidōmen " diēnekōs ton euergetēn hymnountes, kai tois echeinou nomois akolouthountes, kai tēn apo tōn hagiōn tetrimmenēn poreian hodeuontes hina syn autois eis to agathon tēs hodou phthasōmen telos, chariti kai philanthrōpią tou Kyriou hēmōn Iēsou Christou, meth᾽ hou tǭ Patri hē doxa, syn tǭ agiǭ Pneumati, nyn kai aei, kai eis tous aiōnas tōn aiōnōn, ᾿Amēn.

20. "You will give truth to Jacob, mercy to Abraham, as you swore to our fathers in the days of old." So too the blessed David says: "He remembered his covenant forever, the word he commanded for a thousand generations, which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac; and he established it for Jacob as an ordinance and for Israel as an everlasting covenant." Their sins, then, the Master cast into the depths of the sea; but ours he blots out in the holy and divine font, of which the Red Sea, according to the divine Apostle, became a type: passing through it, the people was freed from slavery in Egypt. According to that type we too, set free through the holy font from the tyranny of the devil, let us take care of our own salvation, continually praising our benefactor, following his laws, and walking the road worn smooth by the saints, so that with them we may reach the good end of the road, by the grace and kindness of our Lord Jesus Christ, with whom be glory to the Father, with the Holy Spirit, now and always and to the ages of ages. Amen.

Mic 7:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 105:8–10 (104:8-Ps LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 10:1–2 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God keeps his oath to the patriarchs; as Israel's sins were cast into the sea, ours are blotted out in baptism, prefigured by the Red Sea crossing.

Lemma: Mic 7:20. The quotation is Ps 105:8–10 (LXX 104:8–10); the Apostle's typology is 1 Cor 10:1–2. Latin debris and Migne's footnotes at the end of the section are removed.

Notes on the original text

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Topics: Baptism

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 6.7.20 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/6-7-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Preface 7, chapter 0

7.0.1PG 81

Οἱ Νινευῖται τὴν θείαν δείσαντες ἀπειλὴν, ἦν ὁ θεσπέσιος αὑτοῖς ἐκήρυξεν Ἰωνᾶς, μεταμελείᾳ σπουδαίᾳ χρησάμενοι, τὴν σωτηρίαν ηῦραντο. ᾿Αντὶ γὰρ κίας ἀπήλαυσαν. Χρόνου δὲ βραχέος διελθόντος, τῆς ἀφάτου μὲν ταύτης ἐπελάθοντο χάριτος, εἰς δὲ τὴν προτέραν πονηρίαν ἐπανελθόντες, ἄλλα τε μυρία παράνομα δεδράχασι, καὶ τὰς κατὰ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ τεπολμήκχασι στρατείας " καὶ τὰς μὲν δέκα φυλὰς θεαἰχμαλώτους ἀπήγαγον " κατὰ δὲ τῆς Ἰουδαία: Σενναχηρεὶμ στρατεύσας, ἄλλας τε πόλεις εἷλε πολιορκίᾳ, καὶ δὴ κατὰ" τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ τὴν στρατιὰν" ἀποστείλας, κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῶν ὅλων τὴν γ) ῶτταν ἐκίνησεν. ᾿Αλλὰ παραυτίκα μὲν ἀοράτως δι᾽ ἀγγέλου ἑνὸς αἱ πολλαὶ τῷ θανάτῳ μυριάδες - καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ τούτων βασιλεὺς, ταύτην διαφυγὼν τὴν πληγὴν, καὶ κῆρυξ τῆς θεηλάτου τιμωρίας γενόμενος (τούτου γὰρ χάριν σῶον αὑτὸν διαφυγεῖν ἐνδέδωχεν ὁ Θεὸς), ἐν αὐτοῖς τοῖς βασιλείοις ὑπὸ τῶν φύντων δέχεται τὴν πληγήν. Καὶ μικρὸν ὕστερον εἰς Βαδυλῶνα τῆς βασιλείας μετατεθείστς, ἐσδέσθη μὲν ἅπαν τοῦτο τῶν βασιλέων τὸ γένο;, ἀνάστατος δὲ ἡ πόλις ἐγένετο, καὶ ἐρημέᾳ παντελεῖ παρεδόθη. Τοῦτον τῇς Νινευΐ τὸν ὄλεθρον ὁ μαχάριο; Ναοὺμ ὁ προφήτης προλέγει, τοῦ θείου Πνεύματο; δεξάμενος τὴν ἐνέργειαν, καὶ δι᾽ ὧν θεσπίζει διδάσκει, ὡς οὐδὲν ἀτημέλητον, οὐδὲ ἀπρονόητον παρὰ τῷ Δεσπότῃ Θεῷ, ψήφῳ δὲ δικαίᾳ κεχρημένος τῶν βεδιωμένων ἕκαστον ἀπαιτεῖ τὰς εὐθύνας. Οὗ χάριν τὸν μὲν Ἰσραὴλ ἡσεόηκότα παραδέδωκεν ᾿Ασσυρίοις " ᾿Ασσυρίους δὲ θηριωδῶς τούτοις προσενεχθέντας, καὶ ὠμότητι χρησαμένους, πολλὰς δι᾽ ἑτέρων πάλιν εἰσεπράξατο δίκας. Οὔτε γὰρ ὡς θείᾳ βουλῇ διαχονούμενοι τὴν κατὰ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἐποιήσαντο στρατείαν, ἀλλ᾽ αὐθαδείᾳ καὶ ὑρασύτητι χρώμενοι, καὶ τὴν οἰκείαν δυναστείαν κατὰ πάντων ἐκτείνειν πειρώμενοι. Εἴασε δὲ αὑτοὺς ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς εἰς ἔργον ἀγαγεῖν τὸ ἐγχείρημα, δέκας δι᾿ αὐτῶν τὸν Ἰσραὴλ εἰσπρατγόμενος. Ὡς ἂν δὲ μὴ νομίσῃ ἐν οἰκείᾳ δυνάμει μένους πόλεων, παρ᾽ αὐτοὺς τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ τοὺς περιβόλους τὰς πολλὰς κατηχόντισε μυριάδας 5, Ταύτας ἔχει τὰς προῤῥήσεις ἡ τοῦ μακαρίου Ναοὺμ προφητεία " ἀρκτέον δὲ λοιπὸν τῆς τῶν ῥητῶν ἑρμηνείας.

Hoi Nineuitai tēn theian deisantes apeilēn, ēn ho thespesios hautois ekēryxen Iōnas, metameleią spoudaią chrēsamenoi, tēn sōtērian ēuranto. ᾿Anti gar kias apēlausan. Chronou de bracheos dielthontos, tēs aphatou men tautēs epelathonto charitos, eis de tēn proteran ponērian epanelthontes, alla te myria paranoma dedrachasi, kai tas kata tou Israēl tepolmēkchasi strateias " kai tas men deka phylas theaichmalōtous apēgagon " kata de tēs Ioudaia: Sennachēreim strateusas, allas te poleis heile poliorkią, kai dē kata" tēs Hierousalēm tēn stratian" aposteilas, kat᾽ autou tou Theou tōn holōn tēn g) ōttan ekinēsen. ᾿Alla parautika men aoratōs di᾽ angelou henos hai pollai tǭ thanatǭ myriades - kai autos de ho toutōn basileus, tautēn diaphygōn tēn plēgēn, kai kēryx tēs theēlatou timōrias genomenos (toutou gar charin sōon hauton diaphygein endedōchen ho Theos), en autois tois basileiois hypo tōn phyntōn dechetai tēn plēgēn. Kai mikron hysteron eis Badylōna tēs basileias metatetheists, esdesthē men hapan touto tōn basileōn to geno?, anastatos de hē polis egeneto, kai erēmeą pantelei paredothē. Touton tę̄s Nineuï ton olethron ho machario? Naoum ho prophētēs prolegei, tou theiou Pneumato? dexamenos tēn energeian, kai di᾽ hōn thespizei didaskei, hōs ouden atēmelēton, oude apronoēton para tǭ Despotę̄ Theǭ, psēphǭ de dikaią kechrēmenos tōn bediōmenōn hekaston apaitei tas euthynas. Hou charin ton men Israēl hēseoēkota paradedōken ᾿Assyriois " ᾿Assyrious de thēriōdōs toutois prosenechthentas, kai ōmotēti chrēsamenous, pollas di᾽ heterōn palin eisepraxato dikas. Oute gar hōs theią boulę̄ diachonoumenoi tēn kata tou Israēl epoiēsanto strateian, all᾽ authadeią kai hyrasytēti chrōmenoi, kai tēn oikeian dynasteian kata pantōn ekteinein peirōmenoi. Eiase de hautous ho tōn holōn Theos eis ergon agagein to encheirēma, dekas di᾿ autōn ton Israēl eispratgomenos. Hōs an de mē nomisę̄ en oikeią dynamei menous poleōn, par᾽ autous tēs Hierousalēm tous peribolous tas pollas katēchontise myriadas 5, Tautas echei tas prorrhēseis hē tou makariou Naoum prophēteia " arkteon de loipon tēs tōn rhētōn hermēneias.

The Ninevites, fearing the divine threat which the inspired Jonah proclaimed to them, repented earnestly and found salvation; for instead of [destruction] they enjoyed [kindness]. But after a short time they forgot this ineffable grace and returned to their former wickedness; they did countless other lawless things and dared to make campaigns against Israel. They led the ten tribes away captive; and Sennacherib, campaigning against Judea, took other cities by siege, and sending his army against Jerusalem, he moved his tongue against the God of all himself. But at once the many myriads [were handed over] to death, invisibly, through a single angel; and their king himself, who escaped this blow and became a herald of the punishment sent by God (for this is why God let him escape safe), received his blow from his own sons in his very palace. And a little later, when the kingdom passed to Babylon, this whole line of kings was extinguished, and the city was laid waste and given over to utter desolation. This destruction of Nineveh the blessed prophet Nahum foretells, having received the working of the divine Spirit; and through what he prophesies he teaches that nothing is neglected or left without providence by the Master God, but that he demands from each, by a just verdict, an account of how they have lived. For this reason he handed impious Israel over to the Assyrians, and the Assyrians, who treated them savagely and cruelly, he punished severely in turn through others. For they did not make their campaign against Israel as servants of the divine will, but out of arrogance and boldness, trying to extend their own dominion over all. Yet the God of all let them carry out their attempt, exacting justice from Israel through them. And lest [Sennacherib] should think that by his own power [he had become master] of cities, he shot down those many myriads before the very walls of Jerusalem. These are the predictions that the prophecy of the blessed Nahum contains; and now we must begin the interpretation of the words.

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Jonah 3:10 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 17:6 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 18:13 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 19:35–37 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Nineveh, spared after Jonah's preaching, fell back into wickedness and attacked Israel; Nahum foretells its destruction as God's just punishment of an arrogant instrument.

Preface to Nahum. Words are lost in the scan in the first sentences and near the end; bracketed words supply the sense. History: 2 Kgs 17:6; 18:13; 19:35–37.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris; Latin debris (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters); Migne's footnotes (variant readings); OCR: οἰκείαν broken by Latin debris): αἰν᾽ απ πηἰβαγίοογ πὶ ροαυϊοἱ ϑ Δ ΠΘΓ οαρι νας αὐάυχογυμξ τ ἃ Θ απ οἴ ἴῃ δι 416 Ναἐπ → ; ἼΑ ᾿ ν᾽ Υ. ῃ κατά, ὁ γεθπι. καί, ὁ" ( στρατείαν, → ; οἱ- Α παιΐνεις, ηυοπηΐπιβ ἰπ διία κείαν → οἰκείαν; τοὺς Να ΐ περιβόλους → τοὺς περιβόλους.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.0.1 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-0-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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Preface 7, chapter 1

7.1.1PG 81

α΄. « Λῆμμα δ' Νινευΐ " βιδλίον ὁράσεως Ναοὺμ τοῦ Ἐλχεσαίου. ν» Ἢ τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος χάρις διαφόρως ἕν τοῖς θαυμασίοις ἐνεργοῦσα' προφήταις, τοὺς μὲν ὁρᾷν τινα παρ:σχεύαξζεν, ὡς τὸν θεσπέσιον Ἢσαϊαν, καὶ Μικαίᾳν, καὶ Δανιὴλ, καὶ καὶ Ζαχαρίαν" τισὶ δὲ ἐνήχει τινὰ ὡς ἐβούλετο, καὶ ἐνέπνει τὴν προφητείαν, καὶ διὰ τῆς ἐχείνων ἐφθέγγξτο ἃ ἐδούλετο γλώττης. Ἐξαπιναίως γὰρ τῆς τούτων ἐπιλαμδανομένη διανοίας ἡ προφητικὴ χάρις, καὶ τῶν ἀνθρωπείων αὐτοὺς ἁπάντων χωρίξουσα, ὑπουργεῖν καὶ διακονεῖν τοῖς προφητικοῖς παρεσκεύαζε λόγοις. Τοῦτο οὖν δ ὁ προφήτης προσηγόρευσε, τῆς διανοίας τὴν λῆψιν, καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων μετάθεσιν. Ληφθεῖσᾳ γάρ μου, φησὶν, ὑπὸ τοῦ θείου Πνεύματος ἡ διάνοια, προεῖδε τὰ

a΄. « Lēmma d' Nineuï " bidlion horaseōs Naoum tou Elchesaiou. n» Ē tou panagiou Pneumatos charis diaphorōs hen tois thaumasiois energousa' prophētais, tous men horąn tina par:scheuaxzen, hōs ton thespesion Ēsaïan, kai Mikaiąn, kai Daniēl, kai kai Zacharian" tisi de enēchei tina hōs ebouleto, kai enepnei tēn prophēteian, kai dia tēs echeinōn ephthennxto ha edouleto glōttēs. Exapinaiōs gar tēs toutōn epilamdanomenē dianoias hē prophētikē charis, kai tōn anthrōpeiōn autous hapantōn chōrixousa, hypourgein kai diakonein tois prophētikois pareskeuaze logois. Touto oun d ho prophētēs prosēgoreuse, tēs dianoias tēn lēpsin, kai tēn apo tōn anthrōpinōn metathesin. Lēphtheisą gar mou, phēsin, hypo tou theiou Pneumatos hē dianoia, proeide ta

1. "The burden of Nineveh; the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkesite." The grace of the all-holy Spirit, working in different ways in the wonderful prophets, made some of them see certain things, as the inspired Isaiah, Micah, Daniel, … and Zechariah; into others it sounded what it wished and breathed the prophecy, and spoke what it wished through their tongue. For the prophetic grace, suddenly seizing their mind and separating them from all human things, made them serve and minister to the prophetic words. This, then, is what the prophet called "burden" (literally "taking"): the seizing of the mind and its removal from human things. For my mind, he says, being seized by the divine Spirit, foresaw the …

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Nah 1:1 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Theodoret explains the "burden" (lēmma) of Nahum as the Spirit's seizing of the prophet's mind, one of the ways in which the Spirit inspired the prophets.

Lemma: Nah 1:1. Theodoret plays on λῆμμα ("burden", literally "what is taken") and λῆψις ("seizing"). A name is lost in the scan in the list of prophets; the section ends in mid-sentence.

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.1 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.2PG 81

β΄. « ὍΣ Θεὸς ζηλωτῆς, καὶ ἐκδικῶν Κύριος "Ὁ τοὺς ὑπεναντίους αὑτοῦ, καὶ ἐξαίρων αὐτὸς τοὺς αὶ ἐχθροὺς αὑτοῦ. ν Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ κατὰ τῆς Ἱερουσαλὴμ λυττήσαντες βλασφήμοις κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῶν ὅλων ἐχρήσαντο λέγοις, εἰκότως ὑπεναντίους αὐτοὺς καὶ ἐχθροὺς ὀνομάζει, καὶ τὸν ὄλεθρον ἀπειλεῖ. Ζῆλον δὲ τὴν δικαίαν ὀργὴν προσηγόρευσεν. Οὕτω γὰρ ὅδ ὁ νομοθετῶν φησιν “ « Οὐ ποιήσεις παντὸς ἁμοίωμᾳ, ὅσα ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ ἄνω, καὶ ὅσα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς κάτω, καὶ ὅσα ἐν τοῖς ὕδασιν ὑποχάτω τῆς γῆς» ᾷτι ἐγὼ Κύριος ὁ Θεύς σου, θεὸς ζηλωτὴς, πῦρ καταναλίσκον.ν Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μέγας Ἠλίας φησί " ε Ζηλῶν δζήλωσα Κυρίῳ παντοκράτορι Θεῷ Ἰσραήλ " » ἀντὶ τοῦ, Κατὰ τῶν εἰς θεὸν ἀσεδούντων ἀγαναχτῶ ὅδ.

b΄. « HoS Theos zēlōtēs, kai ekdikōn Kyrios "Ho tous hypenantious hautou, kai exairōn autos tous ai echthrous hautou. n Epeidē gar kata tēs Hierousalēm lyttēsantes blasphēmois kata tou Theou tōn holōn echrēsanto legois, eikotōs hypenantious autous kai echthrous onomazei, kai ton olethron apeilei. Zēlon de tēn dikaian orgēn prosēgoreusen. Houtō gar hod ho nomothetōn phēsin “ « Ou poiēseis pantos hamoiōmą, hosa en tǭ ouranǭ anō, kai hosa epi tēs gēs katō, kai hosa en tois hydasin hypochatō tēs gēs» ąti egō Kyrios ho Theus sou, theos zēlōtēs, pyr katanaliskon.n Houtō kai ho megas Ēlias phēsi " e Zēlōn dzēlōsa Kyriǭ pantokratori Theǭ Israēl " » anti tou, Kata tōn eis theon asedountōn aganachtō hod.

2. "God is jealous, and the Lord avenges his adversaries, and he himself removes his enemies." For since, raging against Jerusalem, they used blasphemous words against the God of all, he fittingly calls them adversaries and enemies and threatens destruction. He called the just anger "jealousy". For so the lawgiver says: "You shall not make the likeness of anything that is in heaven above or on the earth below or in the waters under the earth; for I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, a consuming fire." So too the great Elijah says: "I have been very jealous for the Lord God Almighty of Israel", instead of "I am indignant against those who are impious toward God."

Nah 1:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 20:4–5 (quotation, high confidence) · Deut 4:24 (quotation, medium confidence) · 1 Kgs 19:10 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God's "jealousy" is his just anger against the Assyrians who blasphemed him.

Lemma: Nah 1:2. Quotations: Exod 20:4–5 combined with Deut 4:24; 1 Kgs 19:10.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: Ζῆλον broken by stray marks): Ζῆ - «ἴον → Ζῆλον.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.2 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.3PG 81

γ΄. « Κύριος μακρόθυμος, καὶ μεγάλη ἡ ἰσχὺς αὖτοῦ, καὶ ἀθωῶν οὐκ ἀθωύσει δ, » Οὐκ εὐθὺς, φησὶ, καὶ παραυτίκα τὰς τιμωρίας ἐπάγει, ἀλλὰ μακροθυμίᾳ πλείστῃ χρώμενος. Τούτου μάρτυρες ὑμεῖς οἱ Νινευῖται, μεταμελείᾳ χρησάμενοι, καὶ τὴν σωτηρίαν εὑράμενοι, καὶ πάλιν πονηρίᾳ πλείστῃ χρησάμενοι, καὶ τέως δίκας ὑπὲρ ταύτης οὐ τίσαντες " ἀλλὰ Ναοὺμ ἑρμηνεύεται παράκλησις. Οὗτος ἣν ἀπὸ Ἐλχεσεῖν πέραν τοῦ βάριν (Ε΄. πείραν ταύτην βάριν) ἐκ φυλῆς Συμεών. υὗτος μετὰ τὸν ᾿Ιωνᾶν τέρας ἔδωκεν, ὅτι ἀπὸ ὑδάτω" γλυκέων καὶ πυρὸς ἀπολεῖται, ὃ καὶ γέγονεν" ἣ γὰρ περιέχουσα αὐτὴν (Α αὐτῇ) λίμνη χατἐχλεισεν αὐτὴν ἐν σεισμῷ, καὶ πῦρ ἐκ τῆς ἐρήμου τὸ ὑψηλότερον αὐτῆς μέρος ἐνέπρησεν. ᾿λπέθανεν δὲ ἐν εἰρήνῃ, καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν τῇ γῇ αὐτοῦ. Πρόσταγμα κηρυχθῆναι, οἵα ὁ λαὸς μὲν τῶν Ἰουδαίων δξήμαρτεν, ὁ Χοιστὸς δὲ διὰ τοῦ μυστηρίου καὶ τῆς ἀναπτάσεως καὶ τῆς ἀναλήψεως τῆς εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἔπραξεν. ρὼν ἐπὶ πλεῖστον τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων παρανομίας, καὶ τιμωρίαν τοῖς μὴ μεταμελουμένοις ἐπάγειν, Τοῦτο γὰρ εἶπεν ε« ᾿Αθωῶν οὐκ ἀθωώσει"» ἀντὶ τοῦ, τὸν κολάσεως ἄξια πλημμελήσαντα, τῆς τιμωρίας οὐκ ἀπαλλάξει. « Κύριος δ", ἐν συντελείᾳ καὶ ἐν συττεισμῷ ἡ ὁδὸς αὐτοῦ. ν Οὐκέτι φιλανθρωπέας. μεταδώσει ὑμῖν ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς, ἀλλὰ τὸν δλεῦρον ἐπάξει. Τούτῳ ἔοικε τὸ ἐν τῷ ψαλμῷ εἰρη μένον " « Πᾶσαι αἱ ὁδοὶ Κυρίου ἕλεος καὶ ἀλήθεια. » Ἢ τὰρ ἀλήθεια οὐ φιλανθρωπίαν μόνην, ἀλλὰ καὶ τι πωρέαν ἔχει δικαίαν. Οδὸν' τοίνυν κἀνταῦθα κἀκεῖ τὴν ποῖξιν νοητέον. « Καὶ νεφέλαι χον!ορτὸς ποδῶν αὐτοῦ.» ᾿Αρμοδίως μάλα τὸν κονιορτὸν τῇ ὁδῷ προπτέθειχε. Βούλεται δὲ εἰπεῖν, ὅτι Νὺν οὐκέτι μαχροθυμέχ χροΐ σεται, ἀλλ᾽ ὄλεθρον ὑμῖν ἐπάξει, πανταχήδεν ὑμῖν τῶν κακῶν ἐπιστήσας τὸ νέφος. Καὶ διδάτχων, ὡς ῥαδίως πᾶν ὅ τι ἂν ἐθελήση ποιεῖ, ἐπήγαγεν "

g΄. « Kyrios makrothymos, kai megalē hē ischys autou, kai athōōn ouk athōysei d, » Ouk euthys, phēsi, kai parautika tas timōrias epagei, alla makrothymią pleistę̄ chrōmenos. Toutou martyres hymeis hoi Nineuitai, metameleią chrēsamenoi, kai tēn sōtērian heuramenoi, kai palin ponērią pleistę̄ chrēsamenoi, kai teōs dikas hyper tautēs ou tisantes " alla Naoum hermēneuetai paraklēsis. Houtos hēn apo Elchesein peran tou barin (E΄. peiran tautēn barin) ek phylēs Symeōn. hyytos meta ton ᾿Iōnan teras edōken, hoti apo hydatō" glykeōn kai pyros apoleitai, ho kai gegonen" hē gar periechousa autēn (A autę̄) limnē chatechleisen autēn en seismǭ, kai pyr ek tēs erēmou to hypsēloteron autēs meros eneprēsen. ᾿lpethanen de en eirēnę̄, kai etaphē en tę̄ gę̄ autou. Prostagma kērychthēnai, hoia ho laos men tōn Ioudaiōn dxēmarten, ho Choistos de dia tou mystēriou kai tēs anaptaseōs kai tēs analēpseōs tēs eis ouranous epraxen. rōn epi pleiston tas tōn anthrōpōn paranomias, kai timōrian tois mē metameloumenois epagein, Touto gar eipen e« ᾿Athōōn ouk athōōsei"» anti tou, ton kolaseōs axia plēmmelēsanta, tēs timōrias ouk apallaxei. « Kyrios d", en synteleią kai en sytteismǭ hē hodos autou. n Ouketi philanthrōpeas. metadōsei hymin ho tōn holōn Theos, alla ton dleuron epaxei. Toutǭ eoike to en tǭ psalmǭ eirē menon " « Pasai hai hodoi Kyriou heleos kai alētheia. » Ē tar alētheia ou philanthrōpian monēn, alla kai ti pōrean echei dikaian. Odon' toinyn kantautha kakei tēn poixin noēteon. « Kai nephelai chon!ortos podōn autou.» ᾿Armodiōs mala ton koniorton tę̄ hodǭ proptetheiche. Bouletai de eipein, hoti Nyn ouketi machrothymech chroï setai, all᾽ olethron hymin epaxei, pantachēden hymin tōn kakōn epistēsas to nephos. Kai didatchōn, hōs rhadiōs pan ho ti an ethelēsē poiei, epēgagen "

3. "The Lord is long-suffering, and his strength is great, and he will not acquit the guilty." Not at once, he says, nor immediately does he bring on punishments, but he uses very great long-suffering. You Ninevites are witnesses of this: you repented and found salvation, and then again practiced very great wickedness, and have not yet paid the penalty for it. But though he bears for a very long time with the lawless deeds of human beings, [he also knows how] to bring punishment on those who do not repent. For this is what he said: "He will not acquit the guilty", that is, he will not free from punishment one who has committed offenses that deserve chastisement. "The Lord: in consummation and in shaking is his way." The God of all will no longer give you a share of his kindness, but will bring destruction on you. Like this is what is said in the psalm: "All the ways of the Lord are mercy and truth." For truth includes not kindness only but also just punishment. So both here and there one must understand "way" as action. "And clouds are the dust of his feet." Very aptly he has joined the dust to the way. He means: now he will no longer use long-suffering but will bring destruction on you, setting the cloud of evils over you on every side. And teaching that he easily does whatever he wishes, he added:

[In the scan the following notice is printed within this section: "Nahum is interpreted 'consolation'. He was from Elkesei beyond Bet[habara], of the tribe of Simeon. After Jonah he gave a sign that Nineveh would perish by fresh water and by fire, which also happened: for the lake that surrounded it flooded it in an earthquake, and fire from the desert burned its higher part. He died in peace and was buried in his own land." And a heading: "Prediction: to be proclaimed, the sins of the people of the Jews, and what Christ accomplished through the mystery, the resurrection, and the ascension into heaven."]

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Nah 1:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 25:10 (24:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God is long-suffering, as Nineveh's earlier rescue shows, but will not leave the unrepentant unpunished; the notice on Nahum's life follows.

Lemma: Nah 1:3. The quotation is Ps 25:10 (LXX 24:10). The notice on Nahum set in brackets at the end follows the tradition of the Lives of the Prophets, which Migne prints with the commentary (the place-name is damaged in the scan; a variant reading is omitted); the heading after it is of uncertain origin. Latin debris and Migne's footnotes are removed by logged corrections.

Notes on the original text

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Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.3 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.4PG 81

δ΄. « ᾿Απειλῶν θαλάσσῃ, καὶ" ξηραίνων αὐτὴν, καὶ πάντας τοὺς ποταμοὺς ἐξερημῶν ",. ν» ΕἸ γὰρ δηχ"μάσειεν ἅπαν τῆς τε θαλάττης καὶ τῶν ποταμῶν φροῦδον ποιῖσαι τὸ ὕδωρ, ἐν ἀκαρεῖ τοῦτο δρᾶσαι δυνήσετα! " καὶ τούτον τὴν ἀπόδειξιν ἀπὸ τῶν ἤδη γεὲὁ ἹΚάρμτλος, καὶ πάντα “5 τὰ ἐξανθοῦντα τοῦ Λιδάνου ἐξέλιπε. » Ποινὴν γὰρ ἀπαιτῆσαι βουληθεὶς τούς τε τὴν Βασανῖτιν, καὶ τὸν Κάρμηλον, καὶ τὸν Αἰδανον οἰκοῦντας, ὑμῖν τούτους παρέδωκα. Ὑμεῖς δὲ τὰς τούτων χώρας δῃώσαντες, καὶ τὰς πόλεις πορ-

d΄. « ᾿Apeilōn thalassę̄, kai" xērainōn autēn, kai pantas tous potamous exerēmōn ",. n» EI gar dēch"maseien hapan tēs te thalattēs kai tōn potamōn phroudon poiisai to hydōr, en akarei touto drasai dynēseta! " kai touton tēn apodeixin apo tōn ēdē geeo HiKarmtlos, kai panta “5 ta exanthounta tou Lidanou exelipe. » Poinēn gar apaitēsai boulētheis tous te tēn Basanitin, kai ton Karmēlon, kai ton Aidanon oikountas, hymin toutous paredōka. Hymeis de tas toutōn chōras dę̄ōsantes, kai tas poleis por-

4. "Threatening the sea and drying it up, and making all the rivers desolate." For if he should wish to make all the water of the sea and of the rivers vanish, he will be able to do it in an instant; and [he gives] the proof of this from what has already [happened] … "[Bashan was made small], and Carmel, and all the blossoms of Lebanon failed." For wishing to exact a penalty from those who lived in Bashan, Carmel, and Lebanon, I handed them over to you. But you, having ravaged their lands and sacked their cities, …

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Nah 1:4 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God can dry up sea and rivers in an instant; he used Assyria to punish Bashan, Carmel, and Lebanon.

Lemma: Nah 1:4. Words are lost in the scan in the middle and at the end of the section; marked "…", with bracketed words supplied from the LXX and by sense.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.4 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.5PG 81

ε΄. « Τὰ ὅρη ἐσείσθησαν “' ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ, καὶ οἱ βουνοὶ ἐσαλεύθησαν, καὶ ἀνεστάλη ἡ γῇ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὖτοῦ ἡ σύμπασα, καὶ πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες ἐν αὐτῇ. » Ἐπειδὴ γάρ τινες ὑπελάμθανον αὐτὸν μόνον Ἰουδαίων εἶναι Θεὸν, εἰκότως ὁ προφήτης διδάσκει, ὅτι ὄρη, καὶ βουνοὺς, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν σὺν “οἷς κατοικοῦσι γεύματι μόνῳ συσσείει " τὸ δὲ, ἀνεστά, ἰὴ ἡ γῆ, ὁ μὲν ᾿Ακύλας, ἔφριξεν, εἴπεν' ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος, ἐκινήθη.

e΄. « Ta horē eseisthēsan “' ap᾽ autou, kai hoi bounoi esaleuthēsan, kai anestalē hē gę̄ apo prosōpou autou hē sympasa, kai pantes hoi katoikountes en autę̄. » Epeidē gar tines hypelamthanon auton monon Ioudaiōn einai Theon, eikotōs ho prophētēs didaskei, hoti orē, kai bounous, kai pasan tēn gēn syn “hois katoikousi geumati monǭ sysseiei " to de, anesta, iē hē gē, ho men ᾿Akylas, ephrixen, eipen' ho de Symmachos, ekinēthē.

5. "The mountains were shaken by him, and the hills were moved, and the whole earth was lifted up before his face, and all who dwell in it." For since some supposed that he was the God of the Jews alone, the prophet fittingly teaches that he shakes the mountains and hills and the whole earth with its inhabitants by a nod alone. For "the earth was lifted up" Aquila said "shuddered", and Symmachus "was moved".

Nah 1:5 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God shakes the whole earth by a nod, showing he is not the God of the Jews alone.

Lemma: Nah 1:5.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.5 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.6PG 81

ς΄. « Πρὸ 45 προσώπου ὀργῆς 55 αὐτοῦ τίς ὑποστήσεται; καὶ τίς ἀντιστήσεται ἐν ὀργὴ θυμοῦ αὐποῦ; Ὃ θυμὸς αὐτοῦ τήκει ἀρχὰς, καὶ πέτρα: δ διεθρύδησαν ἀπ᾽ αὐτοῦ. » Εἰ γὰρ τοὺς ἐπὶ δυναστείαις βρενθυομένους, καὶ πετρῶν ἔχειν ἰσχὺν λύει" τίς ἱκανὸς ἀντιστῆναι τῇ ἐκεῖθεν φερομένη παιδείᾳ; ᾿Αλλ᾽ ὥσπερ τοὺς ἀλαζόνα: χαταλύξι ῥᾳδίως, οὕτως χρηστός ἔστι Κύριος τοῖς ὑπομένουσιν αὐτὸν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως, καὶ γινώσκων τοὺς εὐλαθουμένους αὐτόν. Δείξας δὲ, ὅπως προσφέρεται τοῖς τὰς ἐπιφερομένας ὑπομένουσι παιδείας, καὶ μηδὲν ἀπηχὲς φθεγγομένοις, πάλιν τὴν κατὰ τῶν ἀνοσίων διεξέρχεται τιμωρίαν.

s΄. « Pro 45 prosōpou orgēs 55 autou tis hypostēsetai? kai tis antistēsetai en orgē thymou aupou? Ho thymos autou tēkei archas, kai petra: d diethrydēsan ap᾽ autou. » Ei gar tous epi dynasteiais brenthyomenous, kai petrōn echein ischyn lyei" tis hikanos antistēnai tę̄ ekeithen pheromenē paideią? ᾿All᾽ hōsper tous alazona: chatalyxi rhądiōs, houtōs chrēstos esti Kyrios tois hypomenousin auton en hēmerą thlipseōs, kai ginōskōn tous eulathoumenous auton. Deixas de, hopōs prospheretai tois tas epipheromenas hypomenousi paideias, kai mēden apēches phthengomenois, palin tēn kata tōn anosiōn diexerchetai timōrian.

6. "Who will stand before the face of his anger? And who will resist in the wrath of his anger? His anger melts rulers, and the rocks were shattered by him." For if he destroys those who swagger in their dominion and have the strength of rocks, who is able to withstand the chastisement that comes from him? But just as he easily destroys the boastful, so "the Lord is good to those who wait for him in the day of affliction, and he knows those who revere him." Having shown how he treats those who endure the chastisements brought upon them and say nothing harsh, he again sets out the punishment of the wicked.

Nah 1:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Nah 1:7 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: No one can withstand God's anger, yet he is good to those who wait for him in affliction.

Lemma: Nah 1:6, with a quotation of 1:7 woven into the comment. Migne's footnotes at the end of the section are removed.

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Digital text corrected (Migne's footnotes (variant readings) leaked into the text): δ ζρ, Δ καί. 55 Δ ἐξ ἐρήμων, “᾽ πάντα. 05. ἴπ Δ. “Δ ἐσείσθη. Ηρό, Α ἀπό. 53 ὀργῆς. [}65. → .

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.6 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.8PG 81

η΄. « Καὶ ἐν χατχχλυσμῷ πορείας συντέλειαν ποιήσεται " τοὺς ἐξεγειρομένους 5" καὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτοῦ διώξεται σκότος. » Πανωλεθρίᾳ γὰρ καὶ σκότῳ διηνεκεῖ τοὺς κατ᾽ αὐτοῦ θρατυνομένους παραδώσει. θρίαν ἐκάλεσεν. Εἶτα κατ᾽ ἐρώτησιν "

ē΄. « Kai en chatchchlysmǭ poreias synteleian poiēsetai " tous exegeiromenous 5" kai tous echthrous autou diōxetai skotos. » Panōlethrią gar kai skotǭ diēnekei tous kat᾽ autou thratynomenous paradōsei. thrian ekalesen. Eita kat᾽ erōtēsin "

8. "And with a flood of his course he will make an end of those who rise up, and darkness will pursue his enemies." For he will hand over those who are emboldened against him to total destruction and perpetual darkness. … he called the total destruction [a flood]. Then, by way of a question:

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Nah 1:8 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God will sweep away his enemies like a flood and pursue them with darkness.

Lemma: Nah 1:8. A line is lost in the scan before "he called"; marked "…", with the bracketed word supplied by sense. The section ends in mid-sentence.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris inside the lemma (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters)): 5 Α Ὑεκβ. 8. « Εἰ ἴῃ → .

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.8 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.9PG 81

θ΄. «Τί λογίζεσθε ἐπὶ τὸν Κύριον; » Ποίαν, φησὶν, ὑπολαμθάνετε δύναμιν αὐτὸν ἔχειν; Συντέλειαν οαὐτὺς ποιήσει, καὶ 57 οὐκ ἐκδικήσει δὶς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ ἐν θλίψει. » ᾿Αθρόαν, φησὶν, ὑμῖν ἐπάξει τὴν τίμωεἴαν, ὥστε μὴ δεηθῆναι δευτέρας πληγῆς. υ΄ς «Ὅτι Ξως θεμελίου" αὑτῶν χερσωθήσονται, καὶ καλάμη ξηρασίας μεστή. ν» Ὥσπερ γὰρ τὸ πῦρ ξηρὰν 1' καλάμην καταναλίσκει ῥᾳδίως, καὶ ἡ παρὰ τοὺς φραγμοὺς φυομένη βοτάνη, καὶ τοῖς παλιούροις μάλιστα συμπλεχομένη, οὔτε ἐκείνους ἀνθεῖν ἐᾷ, καὶ αὕτη τῷ χρόνω διαφθείρεται - οὕτως ὑμεῖς τὰς τῶν ἄλλων καταλύσαντες βασιλείας, καὶ τῆς βασιλείας Καὶ τῆς τιμωρίας τὸ δίκαιον δεικνὺς, ἐπήγαγεν "

th΄. «Ti logizesthe epi ton Kyrion? » Poian, phēsin, hypolamthanete dynamin auton echein? Synteleian oautys poiēsei, kai 57 ouk ekdikēsei dis epi to auto en thlipsei. » ᾿Athroan, phēsin, hymin epaxei tēn timōeian, hōste mē deēthēnai deuteras plēgēs. y΄s «Hoti Xōs themeliou" hautōn chersōthēsontai, kai kalamē xērasias mestē. n» Hōsper gar to pyr xēran 1' kalamēn katanaliskei rhądiōs, kai hē para tous phragmous phyomenē botanē, kai tois paliourois malista symplechomenē, oute ekeinous anthein eą, kai hautē tǭ chronō diaphtheiretai - houtōs hymeis tas tōn allōn katalysantes basileias, kai tēs basileias Kai tēs timōrias to dikaion deiknys, epēgagen "

9. "What do you devise against the Lord?" What kind of power, he says, do you suppose he has? "He himself will make an end, and he will not take vengeance twice at the same time in affliction." He will bring the punishment on you all at once, he says, so that there will be no need of a second blow. 10. "For they will be laid bare to their foundation, and like stubble full of dryness [they will be consumed]." For just as fire easily consumes dry stubble, and the weed that grows by the hedges and is most entangled with the thorns neither lets them flower and is itself destroyed in time, so you, having destroyed the kingdoms of others, [will lose] your own kingdom too … And showing the justice of the punishment, he added:

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Nah 1:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Nah 1:10 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: God will destroy Nineveh at one stroke, as fire consumes dry stubble.

Lemmas: Nah 1:9 and 1:10. Words lost in the scan are supplied in brackets by sense; the section ends in mid-sentence.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.9 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.11PG 81

ια΄, « Ἐκ σοῦ ἐξελεύσεται λογισμὸς κατὰ τοῦ Κυρίου, πονηρὰ βουλευόμενος ἐναντία. γ Ταῦτα δὲ πείπῃ διὰ τὰς μανιχὰς τῆς σῆς ἐννοίας ὠδῖνας, Διδάσκει δὲ ταύτας ἡμᾶς καὶ ἡ τετάρτη τῶν Βασιλειῶν ἱστορία, καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιο; Ἡσαΐας. Ἐν ἐκείναις γὰρ φημίαν ἐχείνην κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ τῶν ὅλων λυττήσας " « Εἴπατε ἙἘζεχίᾳ " Τάδε λέγε: ὁ βασιλεὺς ὁ μέγας, ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων " Μή σε ἀπατάτω ὁ Θεός σου ἕν ᾧ σὺ πέποιθας ἐπ᾽ αὐτῷ, ὅτι ῥύσεται τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐκ χειρός μου.» Καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ τούποῖ; προσόμοια. Ταύτην αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀλαζονείαν ὑποδεικνὺς ὁ Θεὸς ἔλεγε διὰ τοῦ προφῆτου "ε Ἐπισκχέψομαι ἐπὶ τὸν νοῦν τὸν μέγαν, τὸν βασιλέα τῶν ᾿Ασπυρίων " » οὕτω τῶν λογισμῶν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀλαζο-

ia΄, « Ek sou exeleusetai logismos kata tou Kyriou, ponēra bouleuomenos enantia. g Tauta de peipę̄ dia tas manichas tēs sēs ennoias ōdinas, Didaskei de tautas hēmas kai hē tetartē tōn Basileiōn historia, kai ho thespesio? Hēsaïas. En ekeinais gar phēmian echeinēn kata tou Theou tōn holōn lyttēsas " « Eipate HeEzechią " Tade lege: ho basileus ho megas, ho basileus tōn ᾿Assyriōn " Mē se apatatō ho Theos sou hen hǭ sy pepoithas ep᾽ autǭ, hoti rhysetai tēn Hierousalēm ek cheiros mou.» Kai ta alla ta toupoi? prosomoia. Tautēn autou tēn alazoneian hypodeiknys ho Theos elege dia tou prophētou "e Episkchepsomai epi ton noun ton megan, ton basilea tōn ᾿Aspyriōn " » houtō tōn logismōn autou tēn alazo-

11. "From you will come forth a reasoning against the Lord, devising evil, contrary things." You will suffer these things because of the mad pangs of your thought. The fourth history of the Kingdoms and the inspired Isaiah teach us about these. For in them [is recorded] the blasphemy that he uttered, raging against the God of all: "Say to Hezekiah: Thus says the great king, the king of the Assyrians: Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you, saying that he will deliver Jerusalem from my hand", and the other things like these. Pointing out this arrogance of his, God said through the prophet: "I will visit upon the great mind, the king of the Assyrians"; so the arrogance of his thoughts …

Nah 1:11 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 19:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 37:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 10:12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Nineveh will be punished for Sennacherib's blasphemous boasting against God.

Lemma: Nah 1:11. Quotations: 2 Kgs 19:10 (Isa 37:10); Isa 10:12. The section ends in mid-sentence.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.11 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.12PG 81

ιβ΄. ε Τάδε λέγει Κύριος, χατάρχων ὑδάτων πολλῶν, καὶ οὕτω διασταλήσονται. ν Π11ῆθος ὑδάτων τὸ πλῇθος τῶν Βαθυλωνίων χαλεξ, τὸ κατὰ τῆς Νινευῖΐ στρατεῦσαν, ὃ δίκην ὑδάτων τοῖς λόχοις διαιρεθὲν, εἰς τὴν τῆς πόλεως πολιορκίαν ἐχώρησε. Τούτου δὲ, φησὶ, τϑνομένον, « Ἢ ἀκοή σου οὐκ ἐναχουφθύσεται ἔτι, »

ib΄. e Tade legei Kyrios, chatarchōn hydatōn pollōn, kai houtō diastalēsontai. n P11ēthos hydatōn to plę̄thos tōn Bathylōniōn chalex, to kata tēs Nineuiï strateusan, ho dikēn hydatōn tois lochois diairethen, eis tēn tēs poleōs poliorkian echōrēse. Toutou de, phēsi, tϑnomenon, « Ē akoē sou ouk enachouphthysetai eti, »

12. "Thus says the Lord, ruling over many waters: even so they will be divided." He calls the multitude of the Babylonians that campaigned against Nineveh a multitude of waters; divided into companies like waters, it advanced to besiege the city. And when this happens, he says, "your report will be heard no more."

Nah 1:12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: The Babylonian army, like many waters, will besiege and silence Nineveh.

Lemma: Nah 1:12.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.12 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.13PG 81

γ΄. « Κἀὶ νῦν συντρίψω τὴν ῥάθδον αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ σοῦ, καὶ τοὺς; δεσμούς σου 13 διαῤῥήξω. » Αήψομαι γὰρ παρὰ σοῦ τὴν ἐξουσίαν, ἣν ἔδωκά σοι πάλαι" καὶ καταλύσω σου τὴν δυναστείαν, τοὺς ταύτης διαῤῥήξας συνδέσμους. Ῥάδδον γὰρ τὴν ἐξουσίαν καλεῖ " καὶ τοῦτο σαφῶς ἡμᾶς διὰ Ἡσαῖου τοῦ προφήτου διδάσκει " « Οὐαὶ ᾿Ασσυρίοις ἡ ῥάθδος τοῦ θυμοὺ μου καὶ τῆς ὀργῆς μου ἔστιν ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν αὐτῶν. »

g΄. « Kai nyn syntripsō tēn rhathdon autou apo sou, kai tous? desmous sou 13 diarrhēxō. » Aēpsomai gar para sou tēn exousian, hēn edōka soi palai" kai katalysō sou tēn dynasteian, tous tautēs diarrhēxas syndesmous. Rhaddon gar tēn exousian kalei " kai touto saphōs hēmas dia Hēsaiou tou prophētou didaskei " « Ouai ᾿Assyriois hē rhathdos tou thymou mou kai tēs orgēs mou estin en tais chersin autōn. »

13. "And now I will break his rod from you, and I will burst your bonds." For I will take from you the authority I gave you long ago, and I will destroy your dominion, bursting its bonds. For he calls authority a rod; and this he teaches us clearly through the prophet Isaiah: "Woe to the Assyrians; the rod of my anger and of my wrath is in their hands."

Nah 1:13 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 10:5 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: God will break Assyria's rod, the authority he once gave it.

Lemma: Nah 1:13. The quotation is Isa 10:5. Latin debris and Migne's footnotes are removed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin debris and Migne's footnotes; Latin debris and Migne's footnotes (Migne's parallel column read as Greek letters)): εἰ ἰὴ γα Ἀγ ἐν διηϊμὶ Ὁ τοὐϊφοπίυγ 'π βο ἐμ ἀΐποηι, οἱ δι ΐ, οἱ Γυπάΐ 8. ρα εἰς. Εἰ απ) ἀς- [ἃ μο πὶ μὰ δά δἰπι ἢ! εἀ ποιη θη μα εἰμὶ, οὅ “5. Α συντελείας. 56 Α ἐπεγειρομένους. 61 καὶ, Ὦρ5. ἴῃ Α. 49. (ὶ πλεχομένη. Ἶ5.Α βρωθήσεται. ξηρ. Ο ργρθῖν, τήν, 75 καὶ ὁλ, παρ, 65. ἰη Ο. 75 σον. [)05. ὄπ Αν οἱ ἴγαβ πο οδ᾽ Α → ; Μο ε Νοῖ θεοὶ ταὶ ἀἰϑραγάαπι οι] {1} 18, οἱ σοη Δ} Ῥοηδηι ἴῃ ἰοπὶ οἱ 8018 (μὴν, Του πὶ Υἱτὰ πὶ, (βοῖϊ αἱ γὸἴμφαΐ 1 [εᾶ. χ, ὃ, τι ὅρη. 11, 7. κα 70λη. χχ, 99. → .

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.13 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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7.1.14PG 81

ιδ΄. ε Καὶ ἐντελεῖται περὶ σοῦ Κύριος. » Ἐμοῦ γὰρ νεύοντος ταῦτα πείσῃ. « Οὐ σπαρήσεται ἔχ τοῦ ὀνόματός σου ἕτι.ν Οὐκέτι γὰρ ἡ σὴ προσηγορέα τοῖς ὑπηκόοις ἐπιτεθήσεται "ἔθος γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν βασιλευόντὼν τοὺς ἀρχομένους καλεῖσθαι " οὕτως ἀπὴ Βαόδυλῶνος Βαθυλώνιοι " καὶ ἀπὸ Κύρου τὸῦ Πέρσου Πέρσαι - καὶ Μακεδόνες ἀπὸ Μακεδόνων ὕστερον" καὶ νῦν ἀπὸ Ῥώμης Ῥωμαῖοι. « Ἐξ οἴχαυ Θεοῦ σου ἐξολοθρεύσω γλυπτὰ, καὶ χωνευτὰ θήσομαι ταφήν σου, ὅτι ἠτιμώθης 1"..» Κοινωνήσουσι δέ σοξ τῆς ἀπωλείας καὶ οἱ χειρόχμητοί σου θεοὶ, οὺς εἰς τὴν γῆν καταχρύψεις, καὶ ὡς ἐν τάφοις τισὶ χαταχώσεις, ἵνα ᾿μὴ καὶ αὐτοὶ λάφυρα γένωνται τῶν πολεβίων. κεἰ, « Ὅτι ταχεῖς ἰδοὺ ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη πόδες "5 εὐαγγελιζομένου, καὶ ἀπαγγέλλοντος εἰρήνην. » Τούτων δὲ κατὰ σοῦ γιγνομένων, πολλοὶ δραμοῦνται τοῖς τὴν Ἰουδαίαν οἰκοῦσι τὰ τῆς εἰρήνης κομίζοντες εὐα ἐλια. « Ἑόρταξε, Ἰούδα 35, τὰς ἑορτάς" σου ἀπόδος τῷ Θεῷ "7 τὰς εὐχάς σου. Διότι οὗ μὴ προστεθῶσι" ἕτι τοῦ διελθεῖν εἰς παλαίωσιν " συντετέλεσται, ἐξ, ρται 8.» Ὑμεῖς δὲ, φησὶν, ἀκούσαντες τὴν τῶν το- Θεῷ πανηγύρεις, καὶ τὰς ἐξ ἔθους θυσίας προυφέρετε " παντελῇ γὰρ ὑπέμεινε τὸν ὄλεθρον ὁ τὰς ς πολλὰς καθ᾽ ὑμῶν ποιησάμενος στρατείας, καὶ ἢ οὐκέτι οἱονεὶ ἀναλῶσαι καὶ δαπανῆσαι ὑμᾶς ἐπι-

id΄. e Kai enteleitai peri sou Kyrios. » Emou gar neuontos tauta peisę̄. « Ou sparēsetai ech tou onomatos sou heti.n Ouketi gar hē sē prosēgorea tois hypēkoois epitethēsetai "ethos gar apo tōn basileuontōn tous archomenous kaleisthai " houtōs apē Baodylōnos Bathylōnioi " kai apo Kyrou tou Persou Persai - kai Makedones apo Makedonōn hysteron" kai nyn apo Rhōmēs Rhōmaioi. « Ex oichau Theou sou exolothreusō glypta, kai chōneuta thēsomai taphēn sou, hoti ētimōthēs 1"..» Koinōnēsousi de sox tēs apōleias kai hoi cheirochmētoi sou theoi, ous eis tēn gēn katachrypseis, kai hōs en taphois tisi chatachōseis, hina ᾿mē kai autoi laphyra genōntai tōn polebiōn. kei, « Hoti tacheis idou epi ta orē podes "5 euangelizomenou, kai apangellontos eirēnēn. » Toutōn de kata sou gignomenōn, polloi dramountai tois tēn Ioudaian oikousi ta tēs eirēnēs komizontes eua elia. « Heortaxe, Iouda 35, tas heortas" sou apodos tǭ Theǭ "7 tas euchas sou. Dioti hou mē prostethōsi" heti tou dielthein eis palaiōsin " syntetelestai, ex, rtai 8.» Hymeis de, phēsin, akousantes tēn tōn to- Theǭ panēgyreis, kai tas ex ethous thysias proupherete " pantelę̄ gar hypemeine ton olethron ho tas s pollas kath᾽ hymōn poiēsamenos strateias, kai ē ouketi hoionei analōsai kai dapanēsai hymas epi-

14. "And the Lord will give a command concerning you." For you will suffer these things at my nod. "Your name will no longer be sown." For your name will no longer be given to your subjects (for it is customary for the ruled to be named after those who rule: so from Babylon came Babylonians, from Cyrus the Persian Persians, later Macedonians from the Macedonians, and now from Rome Romans). "From the house of your god I will destroy carved images and molten images; I will make it your grave, for you have been dishonored." Your handmade gods will share your destruction; you will hide them in the earth and bury them as in tombs, so that they too may not become spoils of the enemies. 15. "For behold, on the mountains the swift feet of one who brings good news and announces peace." When these things happen against you, many will run to those who live in Judea, bringing them the good news of peace. "Celebrate your feasts, Judah; pay your vows to God. For they will no longer pass through you to bring you to decay; it is finished, it is cut off." And you, he says, having heard the good news …, held festivals to God and offered the customary sacrifices; for the one who had made so many campaigns against you suffered total destruction, and [is] no longer [able] to consume and devour you …

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Nah 1:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Nah 1:15 (2:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Nineveh's name and idols will perish, and messengers will bring Judah the good news of peace, so that it can keep its feasts again.

Lemmas: Nah 1:14 and 1:15 (Hebrew and LXX 2:1). Words are lost in the scan in the comment on 1:15; marked "…". The section ends in mid-sentence.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR: τὴν γῆν with a marginal letter): τῆν Β Υἦν → τὴν γῆν.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Comm. Proph. min. 7.1.14 (PG 81; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-prophetas-minores/7-1-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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