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Ἀκούσατε δέ, πῶς καὶ περὶ τῶν κηρυξάντων τὴν διδαχὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ μηνυσάντων τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν προεῤῥέθη, τοῦ προειρημένου προφήτου καὶ βασιλέως οὕτως εἰπόντος διὰ τοῦ προφητικοῦ πνεύματος· Ἡμέρα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐρεύγεται ῥῆμα, καὶ νὺξ τῇ νυκτὶ ἀναγγέλλει γνῶσιν. Οὐκ εἰσὶ λαλιαὶ οὐδὲ λόγοι, ὧν οὐχὶ ἀκούονται αἱ φωναὶ αἰτῶν. Εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αἰτῶν. Ἐν τῷ ἡλίῳ ἔθετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐτοῦ, καὶ αὐτός, ὡς νυμφίος ἐκπορευόμενος ἐκ παστοῦ αἰτοῦ, ἀγαλλιάσεται ὡς γίγας δραμεῖν ὁδόν. Πρὸς τούτοις δὲ καὶ λόγων ἑτέρων τῶν προφητευθέντων δι αἰτοῦ τοῦ Δαυῒδ καλῶς ἔχον καὶ οἰκείως ἐπιμνησθῆναι λελογίσμεθα, ἐξ ὧν μαθεῖν ὑμῖν πάρεστι, πῶς προτρέπεται ζῆν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους τὸ προφητικὸν πνεῦμα, καὶ πῶς μηνύει τὴν γεγενημένην Ἡρώδου τοῖ βασιλέως Ἰουδαίων καὶ αἰτῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ Πιλάτου τοῖ ὑμετέρου παρ αὐτοῖς γενομένου ἐπιτρόπου σὺν τοῖς αὐτοῦ στρατιώταις κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ συνέλευσιν, καὶ ὅτι πιστεύεσθαι ἔμελλεν ὑπὸ τῶν ἐκ παντὸς γένους ἀνθρώπων, καὶ ὅτι αὐτὸν υἱὸν καλεῖ ὁ θεὸς καὶ ὑποτάσσειν αὐτῷ πάντας ἐχθροὺς ἐπήγγελται, καὶ πῶς οἱ δαίμονες, ὅσον ἐπ αἰτοῖς, τήν τε τοῦ πατρὸς πάντων καὶ δεσπότου θεοῦ καὶ τὴν αἰτοῦ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἐξουσίαν φυγεῖν πειρῶνται, καὶ ὡς εἰς μετάνοιαν καλεῖ πάντας ὁ θεὸς πρὶν ἐλθεῖν τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς κρίσεως. Εἰρηνται δὲ οὕτως· Μακάριος ἀνήρ, ὃς οὐκ ἐπορεύθη ἐν βουλῇ ἀσεβῶν καὶ ἐν ὁδῷ ἁμαρτωλῶν οὐκ ἔστη καὶ ἐπὶ καθέδραν λοιμῶν οὐκ ἐκάθισεν, ἀλλ ἢ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ κυρίου τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ αἰτοῦ μελετήσει ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός. Καὶ ἔσται ὡς τὸ ξύλον τὸ πεφυτευμένον παρὰ τὰς διεξόδους τῶν ὑδάτων, ὃ τὸν καρπὸν αὐτοῦ δώσει ἐν καιρῷ αἰτοῦ, καὶ τὸ φύλλον αὐτοῦ οὐκ ἀποῤῥυήσεται, καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἂν ποιῇ κατευοδωθήσεται. Οὐχ οὕτως οἱ ἀσεβεῖς, οὐχ οὕτως, ἀλλἤ ὡσεὶ χνοῦς, ὃν ἐκρίπτει ὁ ἄνεμος ἀπο προσώπου τῆς γῆς· διὰ τοῦτο οὐκ ἀναστήσονται ἀσεβεῖς ἐν κρίσει οὐδὲ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἐν βουλῇ δικαίων, ὅτι γινώσκει κύριος ὁδὸν δικαίων, καὶ ὁδὸς ἀσεβῶν ἀπολεῖται. Ινα τί ἐφρύαξαν ἔθνη. καὶ λαοὶ ἐμελέτησαν καινά; (??)αρέστησαν οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ, λέγοντες· Διαῤῥήξωμεν τοὺς δεσμοὺς αἰ τῶν καὶ ἀποῤῥίψωμεν ἀφ ἡμῶν τὸν ζυγὸν αὐτῶν.Ὁ κατοικῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἐκγελάσεται αὐτούς. καὶ ὁ κύριος ἐκμυκτηριεῖ αὐτούς· τότε λαλήσει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐν ὀργῇ αὑτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ θυμῷ αὐτοῦ ταράξει αὐτούς. Ἐγὼ δὲ κατεστάθην βασιλεὺς ὑπ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ Σιὼν ὄρος τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ, διαγγέλλων τὸ πρόσταγμα κυρίου. Κύριος εἷπε πρός με· Υἱός μσυ εἶ σύ, ἐγὼ σήμερον γεγέννηκά σε. Αἴτησαι παρ ἐμοῦ, καὶ δώσω σοι ἔθνη κληρονομίαν σου, καὶ τὴν κατάχεσίν σου τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς· ποιμανεῖς αὐτοὺς ἑν ῥάβδῳ σιδηρᾷ, ὡς σκεύη κεραμέως συντρίψεις αὐτοὺς. Καὶ νῦν βασιλεῖς σύνετε, παιδεύθητε πάντες οἱ κρίνοντες τὴν γῆν. Δουλεύσατε τῷ κυρίῳ ἐν φόβῳ, καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε αὐτῷ ἐν τρ(??)μῳ. Δράξασθε παιδείας, μή ποτε ὀργισθῇ κύριος, καὶ ἀπολεῖσθε ἐξ ὁδοῦ δικαίας, ὅταν ἐκκαυθῇ ἐν τάχει ὁ θυμὸς αὐτοῦ. Μακάριοι πάντες οἱ πεποιθότες ἐπ αὐτόν
也請聽論到那些要宣揚他的教訓、傳報他顯現之人的預言，就是前面所提的先知兼君王藉預言之靈所說的：「這日到那日發出言語，這夜到那夜傳出知識。無言無語，也無聲音可聽。它們的聲音傳遍天下，它們的言語傳到地極。神在其間為太陽安設帳幕；太陽如新郎出洞房，又如勇士歡然奔路。」除這些以外，我們認為也當合宜地提及藉同一位大衛所預言的其他話語，從中你們可以學到：預言之靈如何勸勉人怎樣度日；又如何預告那場敵擋基督的聚集，就是猶太人的王希律、猶太人自己、以及你們在他們中間的巡撫彼拉多帶著他的兵丁所行的；並且他必要被各族人所信；神稱他為兒子，並應許使他一切的仇敵都服在他以下；又眾鬼魔如何竭其所能，企圖逃避萬有之父和主宰神並他基督的權柄；以及神如何在審判之日來到以先呼召眾人悔改。其話如下：「不從惡人的計謀，不站罪人的道路，不坐褻慢人的座位，惟喜愛耶和華的律法，晝夜思想，這人便為有福。他要像一棵樹栽在溪水旁，按時候結果子，葉子也不枯乾，凡他所作的盡都順利。惡人並不是這樣，乃像糠秕被風吹散在地面上。因此，當審判的時候，惡人必站立不住，罪人在義人的會中也是如此；因為耶和華知道義人的道路，惡人的道路卻必滅亡。」「外邦為甚麼爭鬧，萬民為甚麼謀算虛妄的事？地上的君王一齊起來，臣宰一同商議，要敵擋耶和華並他的受膏者，說：『我們要掙開他們的捆綁，脫去他們的繩索。』那坐在天上的必發笑，主必嗤笑他們；那時他要在怒中責備他們，在烈怒中驚嚇他們。我已立我的王在錫安——我的聖山上了，要傳述耶和華的命令。耶和華曾對我說：『你是我的兒子，我今日生你。你求我，我就將列國賜你為基業，將地極賜你為田產；你必用鐵杖打破他們，將他們如同窯匠的瓦器摔碎。』現在你們君王應當省悟，你們審判世界的應當受管教。當存畏懼事奉耶和華，又當存戰兢而快樂。當以恭敬接受管教，恐怕耶和華發怒，你們便在道中滅亡，因為他的怒氣快要發作。凡投靠他的，都是有福的。」
Hear too how it was foretold concerning those who would proclaim his teaching and announce his appearing, the aforementioned prophet and king having spoken thus through the prophetic Spirit: "Day to day pours forth speech, and night to night declares knowledge. There is no speech nor language where their voices are not heard. Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the inhabited world. In the sun he has set his tabernacle, and he, like a bridegroom coming forth from his chamber, will rejoice as a giant to run his course." In addition to these, we have thought it good and fitting to mention also other of the words prophesied through the same David, from which you can learn how the prophetic Spirit exhorts men to live, and how it foretells the gathering that took place against Christ by Herod the king of the Jews and by the Jews themselves and by Pilate your procurator among them with his soldiers; and that he was to be believed on by men of every race; and that God calls him Son and has promised to subject all his enemies to him; and how the demons, so far as in them lies, try to escape the authority of God the Father and Master of all and of his Christ; and how God calls all to repentance before the day of judgment comes. The words are these: "Blessed is the man who has not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law he will meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the streams of water, which will yield its fruit in its season, and its leaf shall not wither, and whatever he does shall prosper. Not so the ungodly, not so; but they are like the chaff which the wind drives away from the face of the earth. Therefore the ungodly shall not rise in the judgment, nor sinners in the counsel of the righteous; for the Lord knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish." "Why did the nations rage, and the peoples devise vain things? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ, saying: Let us break their bonds and cast away their yoke from us. He who dwells in the heavens shall laugh them to scorn, and the Lord shall mock them; then he shall speak to them in his anger, and in his fury he shall trouble them. But I have been set as king by him upon Zion his holy mountain, declaring the decree of the Lord. The Lord said to me: You are my Son; today I have begotten you. Ask of me, and I will give you the nations for your inheritance, and the ends of the earth for your possession; you shall shepherd them with a rod of iron, you shall dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. And now, kings, be wise; be instructed, all you who judge the earth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice in him with trembling. Lay hold of instruction, lest the Lord be angry, and you perish from the righteous way, when his wrath is quickly kindled. Blessed are all they who trust in him."