Paraphrase of the Gospel according to John, from Daniel Heinsius's Sacred Aristarchus

NONNUS OF PANOPOLIS: PARAPHRASE OF THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN

(From the edition of Daniel Heinsius, titled: *Aristarchus sacer*, or Exercises on Nonnus’ Metaphrase on John, in the first part of which the interpreter is examined, and in the latter his interpretation is compared with the sacred writer; in both, many passages of the Holy Evangelist are illustrated. - Added is the text of Nonnus and the Holy Evangelist: also three indices; one, the Greek of Sylburgius on Nonnus, two recent ones on the *Aristarchus*, the other Greek, the other Latin. - Leiden, from the press of Bonaventura and Abraham Elzevir, Academ. typogr., 1627.)

INTERPRETATION OF THE HOLY GOSPEL ACCORDING TO JOHN BY NONNUS OF PANOPOLIS. CAPUT I.

^A 1-21 Timeless was, beyond reach, in an ineffable beginning the Word, of equal nature, coeval with the Begetter, Son without mother, and the Word of the self-begotten God, light, light from light. From the Father he was undivided, sitting on an eternal throne. And the Word was God, born on high. This from the beginning shone together with God, the craftsman of the world, older than the world. And all things were made through him, both breathless and breathing; and without the laborious Word, nothing that existed came into being. And in him was implanted Life, precious to all, and the light of short-lived men. Life was the nourisher of all. In the murky world, however, an earthly-holding radiance shone with heavenly beams, and the darkness did not grasp it. In the forest which the bees have grazed, there was a certain mountain-wanderer, a dweller in the desolate rock, herald of the primordial ^B baptism; his name was divine John, who saves the people. He arose, a steadfast-speaking Messenger, so that he might utter testimony concerning the light, so that all, by the voice of one herald, might have the right faith, the infinite one, mother of the world. He was not, however, the intellectual light, but [was sent] so that he might only...

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1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 All things were made through him, and without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and the life was the light of ^C men. 5 And the light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it. 6 There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. 7 He came for testimony, that he might bear witness concerning the light, that all might believe through him. 8 He was not that light, but [came] that he might bear witness concerning the light.

^A He would reveal to all the divinely-spoken jaw, ^B And appear as the precursor of the unutterable light, declaring a common testimony to the God-accepting people. For the Only-Begotten Word was truly the primordial light with His Father, He who purifies every man, illuminating with spiritual rays the nature of men coming upon the earth. But to the unbelieving world He was unperceived, and the infinite world existed through Him, and the wandering world did not know the approaching Word. He was near His own; but his own, in senseless madness, did not honor Him as a guest. But such as with prudent mind ^C received Him unswervingly, and did not have a wandering mind, He granted to all the one heavenly honor, that they should be called children of God the ever-living Father, those whom nature did not bring forth in childbirth, nor did the life of human will know [them as] fruit; nor did the nuptial bed, born of fleshly love, plow [them], but they were born children of God, non-plowed, of the Begetter. And the Word, existing by Himself, became flesh, God [made] man, late-born, yet before-born, joining in an ineffable bond the divine face to the mortal-like form. And God dwelt in a home with men, and we saw His glory with human eyes, as the honor of the Only-Begotten Son from the most high Begetter. And He was filled with grace and with the truth of the Begetter. ^D Regarding the flesh-bearing Word, the holy forerunner man, John, confirmed the testifying voice: "This is he of whom I spoke in blameless story: He has come before me, [who is] posterior, he who arrives, because He was before me." That we all have received from His fullness another grace, set against the former grace: because the Begetter gave the Book of the whole Law to the people through Moses, and grace and truth came to the world through Christ. And God, self-begotten, no one ever beheld with forward-walking eyes; He told [it] in His divine story, He who is cherished in the divine accustomed bosom, the Only-Begotten, walking together with the blameless Begetter. Such is the story of the testimony, which the faithful and truth-speaking herald John uttered with an immortal voice, when the people of the Hebrews sent forth Levites and wakeful priests to the back of the desert forest.

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9 That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: 13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ. 18 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him. 19 And this is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou?

^A The vigilant priests, where the fugitive exile of men dwelt, a dwelling constructed from the roots of its mountain house. The gathered sacrificers asked with swift speech: Who are you? Are you the Christ? And the herald answered with a responsive voice, and did not hide, and did not deny: I am not Christ the king. 21 And the band of Hebrew men, commissioned, interrogated the divine man again with a word: Tell us who then you are. Have you appeared as Elias, a citizen of the Thesbite land? And he answered: I am not the late, eccentric Elias returning to earth. And the bold band of unwashed-footed priests said: Are you to me the one whom they call a diviniloquent prophet, a messenger of things to come? And he answered in double speech: I am not Elias, I am not a divine prophet. ^B And again the crowd of divinely called priests said: Who are you, that we may announce to all, going back to the sacrificing men—us who were sent with swift foot to come hither—what word have you spoken concerning yourself to the questioning people? But he, from the divine book of the ancient man, sounded forth a voice impelled by God: "The voice of one crying in the desert, Prepare the due way of the King of all," and let a path be most ready for him: as the multiscious Esaias wrote in the divine book. 22 And another band, the incredulous sect of the erring Pharisees, was sent, and asked the wise theologizing man with a word: And why do you baptize? Whence do you wash man with water, if you are not the Christ existing on high, nor are you Elias, the charioteer of the rapid fire, nor a prophet burning with the Spirit, filled with divine utterance? ^C And to them the divine man sounded a word upon their questioning: I myself have come to you, baptizing with the water of a pure bath: but the one who comes after, who today stands in your midst; of whom I am not worthy, applying my human hand to the extreme foot, to loosen only the straps of his divine sandal. These things were happening at Bethabara near the divine land, across the flow of the Jordan river. But when dawn had brought another course from afar, the chaste John, stretching forth his eye to the opposite side, noticed Jesus, and as he was passing nearby, pointing with his finger, he showed him to the witnessing people: "Behold, the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." ^D

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20 And he confessed, and denied not; but confessed, I am not the Christ. 21 And they asked him, What then? Art thou Elias? And he saith, I am not. Art thou that prophet? And he answered, No. 22 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? that we may give an answer to them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? 23 He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias. 24 And they which were sent were of the Pharisees. 25 And they asked him, and said unto him, Why baptizest thou then, if thou be not that Christ, nor Elias, neither that prophet? 26 John answered them, saying, I baptize with water: but there standeth one among you, whom ye know not; 27 He it is, who coming after me is preferred before me, whose shoe's latchet I am not worthy to unloose. 28 These things were done in Bethabara beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing. 29 The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.

^A Behold, the prudent Lamb of God drawing near. This is he of whom I said: He who comes after me is a man who was before me. 51 I did not know him before with my eyes; but in order that he, having a face unknown to the sons of Israel, might be manifested to them, I came as a precursor of an unproclaimed way, baptizing an untaught, incredulous, wandering people.

52 And opening his divine mouth, he uttered testimony to all the inquiring people with a voice that soothed all: that he saw the Spirit of God descending from heavenly bosoms, borne by the intelligent vibration of wings, an exact imitation of a dove, until it came upon him, and remained there. 53 "I myself did not know him before," he said, "but he himself said to me in his significative voice—he who sent me to baptize with lavacers of water those who were to be regenerated, whereas they were without fire and spirit—'Upon whom you shall behold the Spirit of God descending and remaining firmly, this one shall bestow light upon men who were not illuminated, baptizing with fire and Spirit.' 54 And I saw him with my eyes, and spoke a true witnessing voice, that this is the Son of the ever-living God."

^B 55 But when another dawn brought back the light, the divine man stood, and two disciples were near him, still ignorant of Christ’s divine form. Seeing Christ walking as a traveler on the earth, the chaste John, the sublime charioteer of a high-coursing chariot, again sounded in his accustomed voice: "This lamb of God, who speaks for God, is walking." ^C 57 And the two men, not wandering, hearing the divine voice of the truthful man, followed the traveling Christ as later wayfarers. 58 Turning his divinely-taught gaze toward the two men, he questioned the double train of followers: "Whither are you coming, and what are you seeking?" Both sounded a single, concordant voice to the questioning King: "Rabbi (which they call teacher), where do you live?" 59 And the King communicated a single voice to both: "Come and see." And they went as far as the house, and learned where he lived. And the domestic disciples spent that day within Christ’s house, close to God. The tenth hour ran swiftly by.

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50 This is he of whom I said: After me comes a man who was before me; for he was before me. 51 And I knew him not; but that he should be made manifest to Israel, therefore came I baptizing with water. 52 And John bore witness, saying: I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. 53 And I knew him not; but he that sent me to baptize with water, the same said to me: Upon whom you shall see the Spirit descending and remaining on him, the same is he which baptizes with the Holy Spirit. 54 And I saw, and bore record that this is the Son of God. ^D 55 The next day again John stood, and two of his disciples. 56 And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he said: Behold the Lamb of God. 57 And the two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus. 58 Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and said to them: What seek you? They said to him: Rabbi (which is to say, being interpreted, Teacher), where do you live? 60 He said to them: Come and see. They came and saw where he lived, and stayed with him that day. And it was about the tenth hour.

^A And there was one who came into the hall receiving God, Andreas, a fisher of men, after his marine catch, brother of Simon the fisherman: one, moreover, of those whom God took into his hospitality. As he heard the common voice of John, he was a companion to his associate, appearing near; both, however, with one faithful will followed Christ: the one, walking ahead, found his own brother, a searcher of the fertile sea, Simon: and he said in quick speech: "Brother, we have found the wise Messiah, who is God, a man whom the Jews call Christ in the Greek tongue." Having spoken thus, he led his brother, a swift traveler, to where Jesus lived: but with a friendly face Christ, seeing Simon, mollified him with wise speech: "You were the son of Joannes to me; but you are Simon, a worker of the sea: you shall be called Cephas to me." Receive a second, newer name, which other men call Peter; but the cognomen will veil the older, more excellent name of Simon, the sign of Peter, of a firm faith. ^B But when the rising dawn, appearing on high, had reddened with dewy rays, Jesus, after the dark night, wished to go to the fishy city of the long-haired Galileans: and nearby he found Philip; and the King ordered him to become his faithful helper, a traveler going behind: "Follow you also, Philip." And still fresh, hearing with his ears, he received the word, and with his footsteps he outstripped the voice. ^C Philip had Bethsaida as his common fatherland, where Andreas lived, where bold Simon dwelt. And Philip mollified Nathanael with his speech, finding him beneath a spreading tree: "Whom the wise man Moses of old described in [his] divine book, we have found, whom all the prophets, as heralds of the future, confirmed together in one concordant word: Jesus, called the holy son of Joseph, an inhabitant of Nazareth, the Son of God." And to the approaching one, Nathanael communicated a word of swift counsel to Philip: "Can any good be from Nazareth?" And to the one asking, ^D the companion Philip said to the one ignorant of evils: "Come and see." And the King showed Nathanael, the swift-footed traveler going nearby, to the people: "This is the true son of Israel, showing no changing deceit to anyone, nor manifesting crooked counsels." And Nathanael, hearing, set forth his voice in wonder.

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41 Andreas, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two who heard from John, and followed him. 42 He first finds his own brother Simon, and says to him: We have found the Messiah, which is, being interpreted, the Christ. 43 And he brought him to Jesus. And Jesus looking upon him, said: You are Simon children of Jona; you shall be called Cephas, which is interpreted Peter. 44 On the morrow, Jesus wished to go forth into Galilee; and finds Philip, and says to him: Follow me. 45 And Philip was from Bethsaida, from the city of Andreas and Peter. 46 Philip finds Nathanael, and says to him: Him of whom Moses wrote in the law, and the prophets, we have found, Jesus the son of Joseph, from Nazareth. 47 And Nathanael said to him: Can any good thing be from Nazareth? Philip says to him: Come and see. 48 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him, and says concerning him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile. 49 Nathanael says to him: Whence do you know me?

with admiration, the voice: How do you know me in your mind, whom you have not seen before with your eyes? Tell me, whence do you know me? And to the man the Lord uttered a divine voice from his chin [that is, mouth]: Before Philip called you, I saw you ^A lurking under the shady fig tree, among its high-foliaged branches, seeing you with eyes and mind when you were not present. Nathanael, however, cried out, having a ready-believing mind, striking his faithful brow with pious hand in wonder: Rabbi, sublime shepherd of the heavenly recesses, you are the king of Israel, you are Christ, the Word, the Son of the ever-living God. But I will call you both God and king of the sons of Israel, and I will declare you the true Son of the living God. And the King himself confirmed it, drawing him into a better hope: You have faith, having heard only one fearless word, that I said to you that I only saw you at the root of the fig tree; with more trusting eyes you shall see higher miracles. Testifying with firm-speaking words, let Amen Amen be a holy thing, you shall see heaven opened by divine impulse, with invisible spirits flying in the manner of a crown, and you shall see the winged company of the angelic host, a traveler descending by a heavenly way, brought down from heaven: and by a returning way ascending again into heaven, sublime, walking in the air, the minister of the Son of man.

CAP. II.

^C But when the third nuptial dawn had marked its purple ^D rocks, in the Canaanite field of fertile Galilee, there was a wedding—the seed-bearing principle of the life of the child-bearing [race]; and the wedding was happy, because at the earthly banquet Christ was called a guest to the feasting people of long-haired men, and the disciples were reclining together, all in order: and to the banquet there came the very Virgin Mother of Christ, the Mother of God, touching the nuptial table with immaculate hand, she who brought forth the child [yet] shunned the marriage bed, always pursuing virginity. But all the sweet-smelling wine-jars were empty, with cups being replenished again and again for the drinkers; and the sad [guests], at the wine-loving banquet where wine rejoiced, the cupbearers, ministers for the table deprived of Bacchus, were reaching in vain with dry hands for the cups. But to the half-perfect drunkenness of the wedding and the table lacking wine, the mother, reclining with Christ who also knew, said: These weddings are in need, warding off the evil with your voice. For they do not have the moisture of sweet wine that rains down well. And Christ said to her: What is that to me, woman, or to you yourself? Not yet has my final course of the circling hour come.

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50 Nathanael answered and says to him: Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are the king of Israel. 51 Jesus answered and said to him: Because I said to you, I saw you under the fig tree, you believe; you shall see greater things than these. 52 And he says to him: Amen amen I say to you, From now on you shall see heaven opened, and the angels of God ascending and descending upon the Son of man.

CAP. II.

1 And on the third day a marriage was made in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. 2 And Jesus also was called, and his disciples, to the marriage. 3 And the wine failing, the mother of Jesus says to him: They have no wine. 4 Jesus says to her: What is that to me and to you, woman? My hour is not yet come.

^A And Mary bade the servants to accomplish whatever Christ might say. Six water-pots, joined together by the wall on which they leaned, were there, holding three measures in their wide bosom, or two; and each one, keeping the purifying water for the Jews in its rocky hollow, bubbled forth pure water. And Christ, urging the ministers of the thirsty feast, uttered a vine-bearing voice: "Fill me the water-pots, pregnant with newly poured water." And the servants filled them all, one after another, in turn, until the surface of the water crowned the lips of each. Suddenly the miracle occurred, and the water changed its nature, having been transformed into the color of black wine, with a reddening flux; and through the bosom of the water-pot, the joyful humor of pure water flowed as wine. And the King commanded the overseer with a significant voice: "Draw from the fountain of the interior tank, and bring the sweet water to the master of the feast." And they drew it forth in abundance, in returning cups. And when the steward of the feast had tasted with a testifying throat the water, which had been turned into wine by the reddening flux, the man did not know from where it was; but the crowd of water-carrying servants knew, who had drawn the water into the stone vessels from the fountains. Then the master of the feast, calling the newly wedded bridegroom into the house, addressed him with this word: "Every man, in the beginning, brings forth good wine, and when they are drunken, then he brings the lesser; but you have kept this better wine within the house until the last hour." This first-appearing miracle in the wine-loving bridal chamber Jesus performed, where he hears of the Cananean lodging, built high for the unshorn Galileans. And he manifested his glorious honor to the Hebrews at the thirsty feast; and the disciples confirmed the ambiguity of their mind with firm character. The King did not remain in the Cananean land, called the bridal feast, after the banquet of the wine-lacking nuptials, but going to the mansions of maritime Capernaum, he bent his returning steps, walking the downward path himself, together with his kindred who accompanied him; and the Virgin Mother, the God-bearer, followed her own born son, with whom the twelve-fold company of his disciples followed, walking one path in the rear. ^{B C D}

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5 The mother of Jesus says to the servants: Whatever he says to you, do it. 6 Now there were set there six water-pots of stone, according to the purification of the Jews, containing two or three measures apiece. 7 Jesus says to them: Fill the water-pots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. 8 And he says to them: Draw out now, and bear to the master of the feast. And they brought it. 9 When the master of the feast had tasted the water becoming wine (and he knew not whence it was, but the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast calls the bridegroom 10 and says to him: Every man at first sets forth the good wine, and when they have drunk freely, then that which is worse; you have kept the good wine until now. 11 This beginning of signs Jesus did in Cana of Galilee, and manifested his glory; and his disciples believed in him. 12 After this he went down to Capernaum, he and his mother and his brethren and his disciples; and there they stayed not many days.

^A Nor did he remain there for many days, frequenting the place: for the Passover was then near. Honorably fulfilling the sacred observance, he went up to the seat of Jerusalem with his prudent disciples. 14 In the divine temple he found horned oxen, and the ranks of wool-bearing sheep, and doves of various limbs; and he found the seated company of money-changers of the rich table, and he saw a large throng trading above the seats, having a venal business. 15 And twisting complex strands of rope in his hands, he made a scourge, and he drove out the herd of oxen, and the ranks of sheep, outside the fragrant house; and frequently turning, he struck the overturned, profit-seeking seat ^B headlong from the sacred pavement; and with a sharp vibration he poured onto the ground the money of the much-turning table. And to the man selling doves he sounded the voice: "Carry these things outside the stony temple, and do not, burdened by the goad of a mind greedy for gain, make the holy house of my Father a market: for this is a house of prayer." 16 And the disciples remembered what was signed in the divinely inspired book: "Zeal for your divine house consumes me." 17 And the people vomited forth a threatening voice upon him: "What various signs among the Hebrews will you show, that you have accomplished these things?" To the contentious people, the King vomited forth an admirable, unknown voice: "Destroy this building, and I will raise it up myself in three days." 18 And the people exclaimed: "Which Solomon made with diverse ornament of stones, weaving back into a long beginning forty and six years of those greedy for building, will you raise up the house, loosened again by later buildings, after such a goal, after the course of the third dawn?" 19 He spoke of the temple of his body, which by a certain fearful word Christ was about to raise up on the third day. 20 But when indeed, after the bosom of the unreturnable abyss, the Returner from the underworld, by a certain life-giving fate, resumed his ancient, backward-turning heavenly honor, then only did the disciples remember that he had spoken of the house as his body; and they confirmed the divine word of the tongue-of-God book, and they believed the word which Jesus spoke. 21 And as he was in the divinely built temple, and passed through the seats of Jerusalem,

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13 And the Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. ^C 14 And he found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the money-changers sitting. 15 And having made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep and the oxen, and poured out the money of the changers, and overthrew the tables; 16 And to them that sold doves he said, "Take these things hence; make not my Father's house a house of merchandise." 17 And his disciples remembered that it is written, "The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up." 18 The Jews therefore answered and said unto him, "What sign showest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?" ^D 19 Jesus answered and said unto them, "Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up." 20 Then said the Jews, "Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou raise it up in three days?" 21 But he spake of the temple of his body. 22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the Scripture, and the word which Jesus had said. 23 Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding the signs which he did.

[GREEK COLUMN] Εὐάζων ἔτι Πάσχα, καὶ ἀρνοφάγων ἱερήων ^A Ὄργια μυστιπόλευε φιλόκροτα θυιὰς ἑορτή· Πολλοὶ λύσσαν ἄπιστον ἐπετρέψαντο θυέλλαις, Χριστῷ πίστιν ἔχοντες ἐς οὔνομα. Πειθομένοις δὲ ᾿Ανδράσιν οὐ πίστευεν ἐὸν νέον. Οὐ γὰρ ἀκούειν "Αλλου φθεγγομένοιο νόθης ἐπεδεύετο φωνῆς, "Οφρα μάθῃ νέον ἀνδρὸς ἁμάρτυρον· ἔργα δὲ φωτῶν Ἤδεεν αὐτοδίδακτος, ὅσα φρενὸς ἔνδοθεν ἀνὴρ Εἶχεν, ἀκηρύκτῳ κεκαλυμμένα φάρει σιγῆς.

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^B 1 Ἦν δέ τις ἱερὸν αἷμα γοοπλαγίων Φαρισαίων Ἀρχὸς Ἰουδαίων, πολυλήϊτος, ἔννομος ἀνήρ· Οὔνομα οἱ Νικόδημος. Ἀμάρτυρος οὗτος ὁδίτης Χριστῷ νυκτὸς ἔκανε· φυλασσομένῳ ποδὶ βαίνων, Ἔννυχος εἰς δόμον ἦλθεν, ὅπη φάος. Ἀνδρὶ δὲ πιστῷ Ἰησοῦς ἐνέπων βαπτίσματος ἔνθεον αἴγλην, Νυκτοφανῆ Νικόδημον ἐῷ φαιδρύνατο μύθῳ. Καί οἱ μῦθον ἔλεξε Θεῷ πειθήνιος ἀνήρ· ῾Ραβδὶν ποικιλόμυθε, θεοφραδές, ἴδμεν ὀπωπαῖς, Ὅττι Θεοῦ πομπῇσι διδάσκαλος ἴκεο κόσμου, Ἀνδρομέου βιότοιο βοηθόος· οὐ δύναται γὰρ Θνητὸς ἀνὴρ τάδε πάντα πολύτροπα θαύματα τεύχειν, "Οσσα σὺ θεσπεσίῳ τελέεις παιήονι μύθω, Εἰ μή οἱ συνάεθλος ἀλεξίκακος Θεὸς εἴη. ^C 3 Ἰησοῦς δ’ ἀγόρευεν ἀσημάντῳ τινὶ μύθῳ· Εἰ μή τις μετὰ κέντρα τελεσσιγόνοιο λοχείης Θνητὸς ἀνὴρ τίκτοιτο τὸ δεύτερον, αἰθέρος αὐλῆς Οὐ δύναται βροτὸς οὗτος ἔχειν αἰώνιον ἀρχήν. 4 Καὶ κεράσας Νικόδημος ἀνήρυγε θαύματι φωνήν· Πῶς δύναται μετὰ γῆρας ἀνήρ, μετὰ λευκάδα χαίτην, "Αλλην ἐψιτέλεστον ἔχειν ὠδῖνα γενέθλης; Μὴ δύναται δίχα πατρὸς, ἀεξιτόκου διὰ κόλπου Μητέρος ἀρχαίης ἐγκύμονα γαστέρα δύνων, Θεσμὸν ἰδεῖν γονόεντα παλλιννόστου τοκετοῖο; 5 Ἰησοῦς δ’ ἀπάμειπτο, διδάσκαλον ἄνδρα διδάσκων· Εἰ μή τις καθαροῖσι δέμας λουτροῖσι καθαίρων Πνεύματος ἐξ ἁγίοιο καὶ ὕδατος εὶν ἑνὶ θεσμῷ, Ὁπλοτέρην δέξοιτο γενέθλιον ἄσπορον ἀρχὴν, Ἀντίτυπον μίμημα γυναικείου τοκετοῖο, Οὐ δύναται βροτὸς οὗτος ἐπεσσομένοιο νοῆσαι Οὐρανίην αἰῶνος ἀτέρμονος ἥλικα τιμήν. 6 Καὶ γὰρ ὅπερ μερόπων χθονίη διεώσατο γαστήρ, Σαρκὸς ἀπὸ βροτέης μορφούμενον, ἀνδρομέη σὰρξ Τοῦτο πέλει· τὸ δὲ θεῖον, ὅπερ καθαροῖο λοετροῦ ^D

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24 Αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς οὐκ ἐπίστευεν ἑαυτὸν αὐτοῖς, διὰ τὸ αὐτὸν γινώσκειν πάντας· 25 Καὶ ὅτι οὐ χρείαν εἶχεν ἵνα τις μαρτυρήσῃ περὶ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου· αὐτὸς γὰρ ἐγίνωσκε τί ἦν ἐν τῷ ἀν- θρώπῳ.

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1 Ἦν δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων, Νικόδημος ὄνομα αὐτῷ, ἄρχων τῶν Ἰουδαίων. 2 Οὗτος ἦλθε πρὸς τὸν Ἰησοῦν νυκτὸς, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· ῾Ραββί, οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ἐλήλυθας δι- δάσκαλος· οὐδεὶς γὰρ ταῦτα τὰ σημεῖα δύναται ποιεῖν ἃ σὺ ποιεῖς, ἐὰν μὴ ᾖ ὁ Θεὸς μετ' αὐτοῦ. 3 Ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι, ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἄνωθεν, οὐ δύναται ἰδεῖν τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ. 4 Λέγει πρὸς αὐτὸν ὁ Νικόδημος· Πῶς δύναται ἄνθρωπος γεννηθῆναι γέρων ὤν; μὴ δύναται εἰς τὴν κοιλίαν τῆς μητρὸς αὐτοῦ δεύτερον εἰσελθεῖν καὶ γεννηθῆναι; 5 Ἀπεκρίθη ὁ Ἰησοῦς· Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω σοι, ἐὰν μή τις γεννηθῇ ἐξ ὕδατος καὶ Πνεύματος, οὐ δύναται εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τοῦ Θεοῦ. 6 Τὸ γεγενημένον ἐκ τῆς σαρκὸς, σάρξ ἐστι· καὶ τὸ γεγενημένον ἐκ τοῦ πνεύματος, πνεῦμά ἐστι.

ἐστι. ^A The Spirit is life-originating, by an un-midwived law, an automatic sprout of a reborn birth. Pure of the Spirit, of the pure bath, it is, as far as the wide-spread, steadfast eternity revolves. 7 And do not be amazed at the God-inspired word, if I said to you that it is necessary to perceive another threshold of birth in water. The Spirit, revolving with a certain invisible vibration, knows how to blow wherever it wills; but you hear the God-whirling sound of the airy Voice, appearing close by, carried to your ears; but you cannot know with your eyelids whence it comes, or whither it goes. So of every man who is born of moist spirit, and not of the swirling dust, this is the likeness. 8 He spoke; and Nicodemus answered: How can these things be? And Christ uttered a divine pronouncement: In Israel you are indeed a teacher, and do you not understand? But do these things escape you, and do you not know my intention? 9 Testifying firmly, "Amen, amen," again it shall be, that which we know to be true, full with a divine voice, we speak, sowing into the resistant ears of men with unerring lips; and whatever my ears have learned from the Father who rules from on high, we teach with a knowledgeable voice as a herald of testimony: But the unteachable mind of intractable men does not receive our faithful testimony. 10 Truly, if I have spoken a certain word concerning earthly works, and your ears are so slow to believe: if I should preach the flying host or the works of heaven, how would you, being inexperienced, believe with your hearts, hearing of the nature of an invisible heavenly substance? 11 For never has another mortal, shaking ^B a swift foot, trodden the inaccessible circuit of the heavenly spheres, unless this divine one, who descended from heaven, clothing his immortal form in an unfamiliar flesh, the only Son of Man, who in the starry house having his ancestral soil, eternally dwells in the ether. 12 And just as Moses, near the rugged region of the desert, lifted up the serpent, the destroyer of men, having the formed shape of wooden thorn: so, completing the alleviations of the limb-consuming diseases, the Son of Man will be lifted up for mortals, a likeness of the serpent’s face to dissolve pain; that whoever receives him by the trusting law of the mind, may behold the tranquility of life, rendering men bright, until the wide-extended ^C eternal age [ends].

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7 Do not marvel that I said to you, You must be born from above. 8 The wind blows where it wishes, and you hear its voice, but do not know whence it comes and whither it goes: so is everyone who is born of the Spirit. 9 Nicodemus answered and said to him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said to him, You are the teacher of Israel, and do you not know these things? 11 Amen, amen, I say to you, that we speak what we know, and testify to what we have seen; and you do not receive our testimony. 12 If I have told you earthly things, and you do not believe, how, if I tell you heavenly things, will you believe? 13 And no one has ascended into heaven but he who descended from heaven, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up: 15 That everyone who believes in him may not perish, but have eternal life.

^A For thus the Ruler of the heights, who holds the scepter, loved the wandering world, in that he gave the Only-begotten Word, his Son, as a helper to the four-yoked world, that whosoever receives him, changing his fickle character, bending his neck voluntarily to the unwavering Faith, may come into the eternal choir of heavenly Life, inhabiting an incorruptible house in the tree-planted paradise. For God the Father did not give his Word, his Son, to the world so that he might judge the world before the appointed time, but that he might raise up the whole fallen human generation. He who has appeased him with the law of a steadfast heart, having cast aside his incredulous madness to the wandering winds, possessing the upright faith, is not judged; but if any man, directing his mind-blinded eye onto human flesh, has opened his audacious mouth, resisting God, this man is judged, because with a slowly believing mind he has not yet accepted the faith, and has not changed his purpose, believing in the name of the Only-beloved King, the Son of the most high God. And this is the judgment of the impious world. For from heaven light came onto the earth; and the race of unstable men loved the mist more than the gleaming light, and they do not desire the light as much as the darkness, for their works were crooked. And every man who does wicked things, possessing deeds worthy of the night, hates the light, and never comes near the light, lest the light should expose the works which he performs, covered in secret silence. But he who in piety keeps all things true, will come of his own accord where the light is, so that it may be made manifest that the works which he has done were performed by the will of God. Thus he spoke. And afterwards, leaving the Galilean plain, he entered the holy bosom of the land of the Jews. And God remained there with his divine disciples, dwelling in a strange lodging. And he was baptizing the various tribes of the neighboring land with a wise current, cleansing the filth of the human heart. And the divine John himself was also there, baptizing the wandering people who believed in God with water near the deep-flowing Salem. For there, by the currents of the ever-flowing river, which rolls along with a wide path, ^B abundant water surges, sufficient for all in one place. And the people surrounded the unique man of Piety, and washing away their errors with late-learned repentance, they were purified by the streams. For not yet, because of the marriage chamber of the king... ^{C D}

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16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. 22 After these things came Jesus and his disciples into the land of Judæa; and there he tarried with them, and baptized. 23 And John also was baptizing in Ænon near to Salim, because there was much water there: and they came, and were baptized. 24 For John was not yet cast into prison.

^A The divine man, grievously bound, underwent a custodian who guarded the king’s house, leading him to destruction. 25 There was a certain contention about purification, between the disciples of John and a Hebrew man. 26 Excited, they came on foot to the divine man and smoothed him with speech: “Rabbi, herald of the primary healing waters, he who was with you across the river's flow, whom you confirmed by wise word as born of God, this man, having an imitation of your pure bath, is baptizing much more; and with concordant spirit, all the citizens hasten like a promiscuous cloud, desiring to obtain his divine bath.” 27 And to them that truthful man said: “No one can take anything from the heavenly ^B bosoms unless this gift has been granted from God. 28 You yourselves are witnesses, knowing when I spoke openly to the people my true voice: I am not the King Christ, the savior of life; but God the High-Ruler sent me as the leader of his way. 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; he who is near, as he speaks, both stands and hears, and receiving the accustomed voice with delighted ears, the faithful friend exults with joy; and my own pleasure has been fulfilled, being very much to be desired. 30 For it is necessary that he, as God, immortal, always have increasing glory; but it is necessary for me, a man, to bear of lesser measure, because I am of a lesser generation. 31 He who comes from above from the heavenly bosoms has stepped high over all; but he who bears the blood of the earth, ^C speaking the works of the earth, is an earthly man. 32 But he who came from the ethereal bosom receiving God, speaks from heaven what he heard, and no one receives his divine testimony. 33 But he who has received the testifying word of the mouth that speaks of God, this truthful man has sealed with his word that God alone is true. 34 For he whom God sent from heaven as a helper of the world, produces through himself the naturally flowing rain of paternal wisdom. For the Word does not bear the measures of wisdom, but the Spirit always gives to him alone the stream of eternal speech. 35 Indeed, God the Father loves his Son, the High-Ruler, and gave him to bear all things in his hand.” ^D

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25 There arose therefore a questioning from the disciples of John with the Jews about purification. 26 And they came to John and said to him, “Rabbi, he who was with you beyond the Jordan, to whom you have borne witness, look, he is baptizing, and all are coming to him.” 27 John answered and said, “A man can receive nothing, unless it has been given to him from heaven. 28 You yourselves bear me witness that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but that ‘I have been sent before him.’ 29 He who has the bride is the bridegroom; but the friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices with joy because of the bridegroom’s voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled. 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. 31 He who comes from above is above all; he who is of the earth is of the earth and speaks of the earth; he who comes from heaven is above all. 32 And what he has seen and heard, this he testifies; and no one receives his testimony. 33 He who has received his testimony has set his seal that God is true. 34 For he whom God has sent speaks the words of God; for God does not give the Spirit by measure. 35 The Father loves the Son, and has given all things into his hand. 36 He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; but he who does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.

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Increasing firm faith by morals that do not err, He will see life here, having sublime honor, Coeval with the regrowing age; but whoever, a man, Living, proud, has not believed in the Son of God, The avenging wrath of the highest God comes, Tormenting the foolish.

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^A 4 And when the Lord knew that the foolish crowd of envious Pharisees had heard—inspired by God—that Jesus was baptizing with water, drawing erring men into the light, and had more disciples than John (2 and the rumor was not true: for the King was not baptizing with water, but his disciples), He left the high foundations of the Jews ^B alone, and came again into the field of the benevolent Galileans, fleeing the unbelieving rage of the intractable Pharisees.

4 And necessity also seized him to walk through watery Samaria, the region bordering the middle of the land: 5 And urging his divine meridian footprint, he came into the ancient city of the Samaritan land, Sychar, built on high: where the planter Jacob had a vineyard, and gave it to his son Joseph, 6 where there is a spring of deep gulf, whence once divine Jacob, having broken the moist foundations of the depressed cavities, drew out deep water from the muddy well. There, however, resting from a long journey, Christ, weary from his travels, rested from labor, sitting near the region where a spring, neighbor to the citizens of the city, poured forth moist water through a terrestrial gulf. The swift, thirsty sixth hour runs by, 7 Where a Samaritan woman, having the accustomed bucket lifted in her bosom, approached the nearby spring, and the King of waters asked for water from her bucket: Come, Samaritan woman, I who have approached your fatherland, give me, who am thirsty, hospitable water. For he was sitting alone then: for seeing the time for eating as the sun circled the sky toward the meridian line, the band of companions ascended into the nearby city. 9 But the woman, questioning with an inquiring word, said: How, being a Jew, did you, an incautious man, ask for unaccustomed water from a Samaritan woman who knows the voice, bearing the avoided blood of the Hebrew fatherland? What fellowship is there between a Samaritan and your ^D race, that you should drink from me? And, if your law forbids it, with a celebrated mouth I will call you a Jew. For the Jews do not [use things in common with Samaritans].

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Σαμαρείταις. ^A For neither were the Jews, who were mingled together, permitted by the common law to discourse with the Samaritans. And Christ said to her in a certain dark saying: If thou hadst known the grace of God the most high, if thou hadst known the gift, and who it is that said to thee: Give me to drink, who am thirsty, of the earthly fountain temporary water, thou wouldst have readily asked of him living water, and he could have provided this wise draught. But the woman, not understanding the life-giving water, said: O King, astonishment holds me; for with a circular movement thou bringest no bucket to draw, nor dost thou raise a rope, that thou mightest lower it into the depths from the subterranean gulfs, drawing forth strange water with alternating hands; and the well is very deep; from the earthly gulf, whence, drawing this vital, strange water, dost thou thyself have other drink? Art thou greater than our divine father Jacob, who has male children? Who provided this well as a gift to the Samaritan land, and drank from it the water nourished by the soil and sanctioned by the covenant, he himself at once, and his children, and the generation of mountain-dwellers, and the herds of four-footed beasts? Jesus taught the woman, who was aroused, drawing her from the darkness into the light: Whosoever drinks of the temporal water of the earthly caverns of a spring, or the sweet stream of a low-lying river, shall thirst again; but the water which I shall provide to him, he who drinks the heavenly water shall never thirst; but the stream shall remain in his breast, leaping with a prudent bound, flowing by the divine impulse of the depths of understanding, from the fountain hidden within, being born again as firm water of eternal life, and not of an earthly river. ^B The woman, with a credulous voice, asked Jesus: Give me, Lord, this vital water to drink, different from the earthly spring, that drinking I may never thirst, and no more come hither to draw the water constrained by deep caverns. He spoke. And with a certain responsive saying, Jesus tested the woman who had had many men: Come and call thy husband: and from the city hasten with swift feet to come hither again. He spoke. And the Samaritan woman, ignorant of the many-seeded unions, lying, uttered a true voice: I, not possessing a husband, whence shall I call a husband to thee? For I do not have a dear spouse. But God rebuked the woman: I know, woman, after five, thy sixth illegitimate bedfellow. ^C

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^A Then, astonished, the Vile Samaritan woman answered with a womanly voice: Lord, I perceive that thou art a prophet who speaks of God. Our fathers, indeed, ascending these mounts, bent their necks in much smoke by the rock, and propitiated God with pure sacrifices; but you have declared another place suitable under the summit of Jerusalem, being an object of care for the divine will, where it is necessary before the divinely-built altar of God, for a suppliant to bend the neck, and to kneel down, bowing the head. And the King answered with a word: Believe me, Samaritan woman, in an infallible word, that the time comes, the guide of piety, bearing a new life, when you shall no longer with the mystical art of your mountain at the divine altar, nor beneath the caves of the sprawling cliffs of Jerusalem, perform a libation drawn from the horns of a bull with ^B taurine blood, bending the suppliant knee against the rock. 22 You indeed, of an erring heart, by a different law, honor Him whom you have not known in your mind, but only by hearsay, performing an imitative image of the true word; but we ignite the mysteries on pure altars, sacrificing what we know with joyful voice, and we celebrate the self-begotten God with a wise sermon. But the time comes for the wise festivals, and now it has drawn near, when those experienced in the mysteries shall incline their suppliant neck to the earth, the neck bent down with the head drawn low, all in truth ^C and spirit. For God, who reigns on high, desires such sacrificers, who themselves bend their companion knees to the earth against the highest peaks, in divine spirit, and with a voice witnessing to the truth, with the face supported downward on the ground. God is true Spirit, whence time draws men, mixing truth and spirit in one desire, that they may honor the God, Father of the eternal world. He spake; and the ignorant woman, with a prophetic voice, spoke to Christ of Christ; and declared that the helper of the world would come late, whom she had near, approaching her: Lord, we have learned by the hearsay of the law-giving fathers, that the divine Messiah shall come, whom the people call Christ: and when he comes, ^D he will teach us ignorant ones all things truly. He spake; and Christ answered with a witnessing word, applying his vocal finger to his silent nose: Christ to—

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19 The woman saith to him: Lord, I perceive that thou art a prophet. 20 Our fathers adored on this mountain; and you say that at Jerusalem is the place where men must adore. 21 Jesus saith to her: Woman, believe me, that the hour cometh, when you shall neither on this mountain, nor in Jerusalem, adore the Father. 22 You adore that which you know not: we adore that which we know; for salvation is of the Jews. 23 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true adorers shall adore the Father in spirit and in truth. For the Father also seeketh such to adore him. 24 God is a spirit; and they that adore him, must adore him in spirit and in truth. 25 The woman saith to him: I know that the Messiah cometh, who is called Christ; therefore, when he is come, he will tell us all things. 26 Jesus saith to her: I am he, who am speaking with thee.

^A Christ myself I am who speak to thee; look upon me with thine eyes, O thou who always hearest me with thine ears. I am Christ, nor hath any second one come. 27 Neither did Peter ask him [anything], bold though he was; nor did anyone, daring [to do so], ask him what he seeks or why he speaks with her. 28 But the woman, moving with swifter foot, having left her water-jar at the God-receiving spring, bent her footsteps toward the city and said to all the citizens: Come and behold a God-inspired man, a prophet, who told me all things that I have done. Is this, perchance, the noble-born son of David who is come? 29 The Samaritans, hearing the message as companions, set out together on a swift journey, proceeding from the city to the approach of the divine spring, moved toward God by the goad of one mind, and by his soul-soothing speech. ^B 30 Meanwhile, before the dense waves of men, like a gathering cloud, had come out from the city, the disciples surrounded Christ and addressed him: Rabbi, take these things and eat. But his hand, moving in silent, intelligent witness, set aside the temporal food, saying these things: I bring another vital food, which you do not know in your heart. 31 And one said to another: Has some stranger-man brought him something else to eat? But the King, a lover of the Father, said in words that were felt differently: My food is the word; my drink is the works of the Father. My food is this alone, that I may fulfill the unchanging desire of my Father, and accomplish the divine work. ^C You all do not share in this one speech, you who are skilled in the seasons, [knowing] that there still remains only the fourfold quick path of the months, and that the summer bringing splendid fruits will come? Behold, lift the circle of your sight toward the opposite city, and [see] how the fields bristle with white crops, and how they lack the sickle of human language, and how the prudent ears of grain bloom. But if any man, with lips and not with hands, taking up the speaking sickle, should reap the pious crops of the neighboring earth, he has his reward; and keeping the living [fruit] for God the Father, he gathers an intelligent harvest in a time that does not cease, so that he who sows and he who reaps the divine meadows, may rejoice together, and offer faithful first-fruits to the Father, honoring the plowman and the reaper of piety. From this comes that true saying, ^D that one is the sower, and another is the reaper.

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27 And upon this his disciples came, and they wondered that he was speaking with a woman; yet no one said: What seekest thou? or, Why speakest thou with her? 28 The woman therefore left her water-pot, and went away into the city, and saith to the men: 29 Come, see a man who told me all things that I have done: is this the Christ? 30 They went out therefore from the city, and were coming to him. 31 And in the meantime the disciples were asking him, saying: Rabbi, eat. 32 But he said to them: I have food to eat which you know not. 33 The disciples therefore said to one another: Has anyone brought him something to eat? 34 Jesus saith to them: My food is that I may do the will of him who sent me, and may accomplish his work. 35 Do not you say, that there is yet four months, and the harvest cometh? Behold, I say to you, lift up your eyes, and see the countries, for they are white already to harvest. 36 And he that reapeth receiveth wages, and gathereth fruit unto life everlasting: that both he that soweth and he that reapeth may rejoice together. 37 For in this is the true saying: that one is the sower, and another is the reaper.

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Another plows the corn-bearing seed, shedding it into the furrows, And another, a wreath-bearing reaper, shall harvest the grain. Others labored indeed, agricultural workers in the furrows of the voice, Until they sowed the fruit; but I send you, who have not labored, Into the labor of men, that with your mouths you may be most ready To harvest the ranks of fruits, you who have not sown the field, Nor irrigated the crops. Many dwellers have indeed built up ^B A wandering people, quick to believe, upon firm foundations of faith, Listening to the testimony of the woman who stirred their minds, Declaring that the prophet told her all that she had done. But when the Samaritans, of one mind, came near to him, They besought Christ with a certain affectionate discourse To stay there; and the King rested by the neighboring spring, And quickly went into the city, traveling a common road. And God remained there, until one journey after another Passed by in the swift rotation of the double-yoke dawn. ^C

43 And after the double day, the King, with hastening foot, Departed thence, leaving behind the word fixed in believing ears, And came back again into the field of the Christ-loving Galileans. He did not, however, enter his own envious fatherland alone, For knowing the customs of his fellow-countrymen, He spoke the true, attested word, that a prophet Cannot possess famous honor in his own country. 45 But when Jesus came into the Galilean land, Then, for his return by those paths, a company Of pious Galileans gladly received him, ^D Looking with their eyes upon all that he had done Within the precincts of Jerusalem, when the mothers Of piety, leaders of the dance, brought on the hours of the holy festival, For they themselves were also journeying to that festival. Jesus came, and remained dwelling there, Where the Cana-field is, where before, into a flow of wine, He made the yellow water, changing its snowy nature. 47 There was a certain kingly man, ruling an army, Whose son lay in the people of the maritime Capernaum, Bearing knees sluggishly bound by disease. And the father, loving his offspring, was tormented with an equal flame With the afflicted son, and perhaps even more. This man, hearing [of him], Ran to the Cana-field; and drawing near, he asked Jesus to save his young son.

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38 I sent you to reap that whereon you bestowed no labor: other men have labored, and you are entered into their labors. 39 And many of the Samaritans of that city believed on him for the saying of the woman, who testified, He told me all that ever I did. 40 So when the Samaritans were come unto him, they besought him that he would tarry with them: and he abode there two days. 41 And many more believed because of his own word; 42 And said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying: for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this is indeed the Christ, the Saviour of the world. 43 Now after two days he departed thence, and went into Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet hath no honour in his own country. 45 Then when he was come into Galilee, the Galilaeans received him, having seen all the things that he did at Jerusalem at the feast: for they also went unto the feast. 46 So Jesus came again into Cana of Galilee, where he made the water wine. And there was a certain nobleman, whose son was sick at Capernaum. 47 When he heard that Jesus was come out of Judaea into Galilee, he went unto him, and besought him that he would come down, and heal his son: for he was at the point of death.

in the region descending toward a neighboring city. ^A And the King addressed him with his reproving speech: "Unless you see the manifold miracles of my voice, you never believe me." And the man, drenched with warmer tears from a burning fever, cried out: "Hurry, King, descend, leaving the field of Cana, before my son dies, lacking your voice." And the King encouraged him with his life-giving word: "Go, and you shall find your beloved son living and sound; and he shall gladly feast at your table as a guest with his son." The King spoke; and the man, hastening, believed the speech which Jesus uttered; and he walked in the hope of persuasion. And to him, as he descended the long path, his eager servants ran; yet the man did not ask his servants, but recognized his son as living by the wise silence of his face. And all of them, coming together, spoke to him with joyful speech: "Your son lives, O lover of children, the traveler-boy is walking, now sounder than before." But he, rejoicing, asked his servants about the salvation-giving hour in which he had experienced a more lively tranquility of life. All the servants resounded with one voice: "The sickness left your son when, coming to yesterday's line, the seventh hour ran, preserving his life." The man, instructed, knew by himself the pain-dispelling hour in which the divine King spoke with his life-giving voice: "Go to your house, your child is unharmed." And with pure heart he received unshakeable faith, he himself, and all whom he reared, testifying to the word, they were joined by the defenses of faith, drawing the whole house into the way of blameless piety. ^C This, furthermore, was the second ^D miracle which Jesus performed with his life-giving voice, when he had walked from Judea to the field of Cana in the well-towered Galilee, into a city having famous children of the long-haired Galileans, after the earlier miracle of the wine desired at the wedding, with the water turned into a red-flowing stream.

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Jesus ascended to where the house, neighbor to heaven, shone with the columnar radiance of various stones. And there was a certain elegant, water-bearing pool by the sheep-gate, under five vast porches of the building, a wide bath joined together by skillfully fashioned stones in a highly vaulted cover: . . .

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Jesus said therefore to him: "Unless you see signs and wonders, you will not believe." The royal official says to him: "Lord, descend before my child dies." Jesus says to him: "Go; your son lives." And the man believed the word which Jesus said to him; and he was going. And already as he was descending, his servants met him and reported, saying: "Your boy lives." He inquired therefore of them the hour in which he fared better; and they said to him: "That yesterday at the seventh hour the fever left him." The father knew therefore that it was in that hour in which Jesus said to him: "Your son lives." And he believed, himself and his whole house. This second sign again Jesus did, having come out of Judea into Galilee.

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After these things there was a feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. And there is in Jerusalem by the sheep-gate a pool, called in Hebrew Bethesda, having five porches. In these lay a multitude of the sick...

of those who were blind, lame, and withered, waiting for the moving of the water. ^A For an angel would go down at certain times into the pool and trouble the water; then the first one to descend after the troubling of the water became whole, with whatever infirmity he was afflicted. There was a certain man there who had been thirty-eight years in his infirmity. Jesus, seeing him lying there and knowing that he had already been a long time in that state, says to him, "Do you want to become whole?" The infirm man answered Him, "Sir, I have no man to cast me into the pool when the water is troubled; and while I am coming, another descends before me." Jesus says to him, "Arise, take up your bed, and walk." And immediately the man became whole, and he took up his bed and was walking. And it was the sabbath on that day. The Jews therefore said to the one who had been healed, "It is the sabbath; it is not lawful for you to take up your bed." He answered them, "He who made me whole, that One said to me, 'Take up your bed, and walk.'" They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take up your bed, and walk'?" But he who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had slipped away, a crowd being in the place. After these things, Jesus finds him in the temple and said to him, "Behold, you have been made whole; sin no more, lest something worse happen to you."

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4 Where a burning man, having seen the water leaping with spontaneous bounds, when he had cleansed his body in the undulating bath, had shaken off the hot waves of a long-standing disease, seeing the soothing water as more potent than a physician. 5 Now there was a certain man suffering with perennial toil beside the neighboring spring, having spent three decades in grievous disease, and again eight cycles of rolling years. 6 Seeing this man lying on his customary bed without agitation, Jesus perceived that he had knees bound by an incurable long-standing disease on his bed. 7 And the King questioned him, pouring forth a compassionate voice: "Do you wish to be sound again?" But the sufferer, drawing a breath constrained from his weak heart, the man said with difficulty in a slow, faint voice: "Lord, I lack a benevolent physician for the sick. For I have no man as a servant, so that, seeing the water of the rushing spring moved and elevated of its own accord, he might lift and let me down into the holy pool. For when I move my weak, infirm foot, then another, a younger man, ^B outstripping me with swift vibration, descends more lightly into the uplifting foam of the bubbling pool." 8 And the King confirmed him with His life-giving voice: "Arise, take up your bed, and go, a light traveler." 9 The valetudinarian sprang up, and having planted his footstep on the ground, he stood; and taking the bed and placing it upon his shoulder, he walked through the most spacious house, shaking his unaccustomed knees, and carrying the bed heavy with the weight of his toils upon his shoulder. And then it was the sabbath. 10 And in the stone temple, seeing the man whom the King, prompt in action, had healed with a word from his ancient, pain-bringing disease, they questioned him: "Who is it that ordered you with his telling voice to walk about, carrying your bed back?" 11 And to the envious ones he replied with a wise, God-persuaded word: "He who restored me, who had fallen (prostrate) from my bed, He Himself told me to lift it up and walk." 12 And the proud people of the Jews questioned him again: "Who is he who ordered you with some fearless voice, 'Go, taking your bed carried on your shoulder'?" 13 The man certainly did not know the physician of his disease. 14 And seeing him walking inside the stone temple, having recalled the former water, the avenger of his disease, Christ, restraining...

^A Christ, standing still, commanded him with a testifying word: "See, you have been made whole, having had a disease; sin no more, lest you suffer something worse." And the bold messenger, returning to the Hebrews, stood and cried out to the jealous people who rejected the Word, that Jesus by his own authority had commanded him with a divine voice to travel on, and had made the late-arriving wayfarer a carrier of the bed that had carried his disease. For which reason the Hebrews, raging with a foolish mind, persecuted Jesus, because, when it was the Sabbath, he strove to perform this divine deed at the temple, alone not observing when all men had left off their works and committed themselves to idle thorns. 17 But Jesus spoke, pouring forth a glorious voice: "Even now the Begetter works in the accustomed world with established ways, and I, the Son, weave the work." ^B For which reason the Hebrews were seeking with deceitful destruction to kill Christ, not only because he wished to loosen the lawful splendor observed from the dawn, but because, after the course of the mystical dawn, he had called God, who is self-begotten, his Parent, making his own glory equal to the heavenly King. 19 Jesus said: "Amen, let it be testified: the Son will be able to accomplish nothing by his own will, unless he shall have looked upon his Parent accomplishing it. For all works in the universe, whatsoever my Father does, these the Son, imitating God the Parent, performs. For the Father loves his Son; and whatsoever he does, he shows to the beloved Son, and will show even greater things, that you may marvel for the sake of the more perfect works. 21 For just as the Father raises the dead after death, making alive the backward body of motionless men, so the Son also raises whom he wills, recreating the again-gathered bodies of corruptible men. 22 For my Father will judge no one; but he has given all human judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son as equal to his Parent, just as they also glorify the Father who rules on high. And if anyone has an unstable mind, neither does he glorify the Word-Son of the Parent, nor does he honor the Parent. 24 Let there be again a firm, testifiable ‘Amen’: whoever shall receive our words by the law of a believing mind, and shall believe in my Father, he does not enter into the judgment that is to come, but [is passed] unto that...

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13 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him whole. 16 And for this cause did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to kill him, because he did these things on the Sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them: "My Father works even until now, and I work." 18 For this cause therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only broke the Sabbath, but also called God his own Father, making himself equal to God. 19 Then Jesus answered and said to them: "Amen, amen, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of himself, unless he see the Father doing [it]; for what things soever he does, these also the Son does in like manner. 20 For the Father loves the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does; and he will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. 21 For as the Father raises the dead and gives life, so also the Son gives life to whom he wills. 22 For neither does the Father judge any man, but has given all judgment to the Son; 23 That all may honor the Son, as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son, does not honor the Father who sent him. 24 Amen, amen, I say to you, he who hears my word, and believes him who sent me, has life

^A everlasting, and does not come into judgment, but has passed from death unto life. 25 Amen, amen, I say to you, an hour is coming, and is now here, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear shall live. 26 For as the Father has life in himself, so he has also given to the Son to have life in himself. 27 And he gave him power to execute judgment also, because he is the Son of man. 28 Do not wonder at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs shall hear his voice. 29 And they shall come forth, those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, but those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment. 30 I cannot do anything on my own authority. As I hear, I judge; and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of him who sent me, the Father. 31 If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true. 32 There is another who testifies about me, and I know that the testimony he bears about me is true. 33 You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. 34 But I do not receive human testimony; but I say these things that you may be saved. 35 He was the burning and shining lamp; and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

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^A and immortal life, which time knows not how to destroy, will come transformed from death. For the unforeseen ^B hour, the nurse of men reborn, shall come at last, when the speechless dead shall live again from their silent bosoms, all hearing the voice of my life, which drives away death, the voice of the only-begotten Son, who brings life from the Father. For just as the Creator grants life, the mother of all in the world, from whom he provides the vital spirit to all, so he gave to the Ruler of all and to the Son to carry Life; and he gave him divine authority and honor, and to execute judgment upon whom he wishes by an equal law, because he is called the life-giving Son of man. ^C And do not be astonished if I mentioned a divine voice that is to come, because the final hour is coming, and even now it has approached, when the dead, gathered together, hearing the divine sound of Christ speaking, shall arise from their tombs; and one after another they shall reach the ancient earth to join their new footprints. Those who have fought the irreprehensible and faithful fight, to a resurrection of immortal life; but those who have performed the works of a life full of wanderings with a perverse madness, to a resurrection of judgment. For I cannot do anything ^D of myself from the heavenly Father, but I shall be able to judge as I hear. And my judgment is infallible; for I do not come seeking to perform my own glory, but the Father’s. I do not speak of my own honor. For if I speak my own testimony, another who hears does not believe. For my word is not true, if I speak testimony about myself of myself. But there is another man who is a sufficient witness for me; and I know that his testimony is faithful and true. And those who asked pure John, filled with a divine voice, sent you to the mountain-wandering people, men of the sacred rites; and the divine man sealed the word of truth with an indissoluble statement, a witness firm of speech. But I do not receive the testimony of men from an earthly voice, but teaching the Hebrews, I hold to all these things, so that having learned, I may save you all together by my words. That John, casting intellectual sparks, was the true lamp of piety shining for men.

^A You rejoiced in the testimony of him who appeared, exulting in the waters of the flickering lamp, in the divine waters. But I have a testimony greater than the voice of John, and a more excellent oracle. For the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, they speak out [for themselves], crying with the resonant trumpet of silence; these things preach me and pour forth an unwavering voice. Nor has the Father left me in any unproclaimed silence, he who sent me from the heavens; but he himself, through the mouths of those who speak, gave a living testimony to the divinely-tongued light in a reciprocal book, he who sent me; and you have never seen the divine form of the Father, nor have you heard his voice, nor do you keep his word in unerring ears. For the one whom my Father sent as a helper to the world, you do not receive as God the Son, nor do you receive the sending Father. ^B Search the writings of the divinely-spoken oracles, in which you hope to have—in the cycle of time that circles back—a life that does not wane; but in the Scriptures those very things cry out my testimony with an immortal, trumpet-interpreting word; and you do not hasten, having learned the vocal letters, to come to me with a ready will. I do not receive glory from men. But I have known you by your inhuman customs, nor do you keep the love of the Father, the heavenly King of all. I came crying the paternal name to the world, and you do not receive me as God, nor do you believe the Father. But if some other came, a spurious man falsely named, an anti-god, then you would immediately appease that hostile deceiver in your amazement, so that one might say: They have denied the legitimate one, but have received the spurious one who appeared. ^C But how, how can you honor the Word of God, the Son, while waiting for glory from one another; nor do you seek to know the honor of the only Begetter of all, God? ^D Truly you fear in vain, loosening your accusing lips, that I might report your madness to my Parent. Another accuser in the Scriptures convicts you, Moses the lawgiver, the first-throned, in whom alone your hopes are faithful. For if you had placed his firm word into your unerring ears, you would also believe me with confidence; for the divine man wrote truly about me.

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36 But I have the testimony greater than that of John; for the works which the Father has given me to accomplish, these very works which I do, bear witness of me that the Father has sent me. 37 And the Father who sent me, he himself has borne witness of me. You have neither heard his voice at any time, nor have you seen his form. 38 And you do not have his word abiding in you; because whom he sent, him you do not believe. 39 Search the Scriptures, for you think in them to have eternal life; and they are those that bear witness of me. 40 And you are not willing to come to me, that you may have life. 41 I do not receive glory from men. 42 But I have known you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves. 43 I have come in the name of my Father, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive. 44 How can you believe, receiving glory from one another, and the glory that is from the only God you do not seek? 45 Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father; there is one who accuses you, Moses, in whom you have hoped. 46 For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for he wrote about me.

divine man wrote truthfully. If, however, you do not believe his writings, which God bestowed upon the world, how will you receive with more intractable minds the unwritten voice of our mouths as you hear it? He said.

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1 And subsequently, having cut across the water facing [them] in a ship with many nails, he entered the neighboring land. 2 But the people were excited, seeing the miracles which he did according to his custom, delivering the heavy-laden bodies of afflicted men. 3 And traversing the deserted edge of the hilly ground, he ascended a high-peaked mountain; and the disciples surrounded him like a crown as he sat in the middle. 4 And near at hand was the festal season of the Hebrews, which they call the Passover. 5 Through the tree-filled thicket he lifted his eyes, and saw another countless, neighbor-coming crowd of traveler-people, one after another. He gently addressed Philip, who was sitting, with a word: Tell me, from where shall we buy a flood of many-seeded loaves for so many men? 6 But he concealed his intention, and tested the mind of Philip, who did not know; for he himself knew what he was about to do. 7 But anxious Philip mixed voice with wonder: Two hundred denarii-worth of loaves are not sufficient to satisfy a people equal to the sands in measure, so that each may have a small part. 8 But one of the divine companions raised a voice of good news—Andrew, pouring out a meal-nourishing voice to the King, the brother of Simon the fisherman who works in the waters: 9 There is a certain boy here having five barley loaves, and two neighboring fishes of the sea, double roasted fishes; but what will these accomplish, divided among so many-tongued and joined people? 10 But Jesus commanded his most ready companions: Make the mixed ranks of guests recline upon the earth. And there was infinite grass there; and a copious, folded crowd was a guest upon the earth. Five thousand of varying kind were in number of guests, and each was leaning against a neighboring wall, reclining in rows upon a green, long table. 11 And taking the five barley loaves—

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1 After these things Jesus went across the Sea of Galilee of Tiberias. 2 And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his signs which he did on those who were sick. 3 And Jesus went up into the mountain, and there he sat with his disciples. 4 Now the passover, the feast of the Jews, was near. 5 Jesus therefore lifted up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude comes to him, he says to Philip: From where shall we buy loaves, that these may eat? 6 (But this he said testing him; for he himself knew what he was about to do.) 7 Philip answered him: Two hundred denarii worth of loaves are not sufficient for them, that each of them may receive a little something. 8 One of his disciples, Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, says to him: 9 There is a young boy here who has five barley loaves and two fish; but what are these for so many? 10 And Jesus said: Make the people recline. Now there was much grass in the place. The men therefore reclined, in number about five thousand. 11 And Jesus took the loaves, and having given thanks he distributed them to the disciples, and the disciples to those who were reclining; likewise also from the fish as much as they wanted.

^A Christ, rendering thanks to the ever-living Father, broke them with a curved motion of his clasped hand, and gave them to the guests, and offered food to all, and of the twin offspring as much as they desired. 12 But when satiety reached the hungry crowd from the abundant table, Jesus commanded the like-minded disciples: "Gather all the solid fragments of the overflowing table in one swift swirl, so that nothing may perish." 13 And one after another, the impulsive troop of companions was swept along, carrying the bulk of the gathered loaves in their cupped hands. From the green grass he gathered up the scattered remainder of the food that was left over; and searching round and about from the group of five loaves, until he filled twelve circles of baskets with his capacious bosom. 14 And many others from elsewhere resounded, perceiving the miracle which Christ had done for the whole feasting crowd, honoring the spontaneously regrowing feast of loaves: "This is truly the prophet whom they celebrate, who is rumored to come as the ruler of the eternal world." ^B 63 And the self-taught King, knowing the thought of the heart, that the people gathered there were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again to the lonely rock of the woody mountain. 16 And when the shadowy cone of the approaching darkness ran up, the disciples were driven to the nearby sea. And having rushed into the sea-wandering ship, the chariot of the sea, the disciples were crossing to the opposite land, heading for the city of Capernaum. ^C And just appeared the black-bordered mist which covered the whole land, and having tightened her many-colored tunic about her body, the starry heaven shone. But Christ had not yet arrived for the desiring disciples. And as the storm pressed on, the curved surge of the salt sea rose up nearby, and the rowers marked the water with long oars, driven by contrary winds. And having cut through three decades of furlongs or twenty-five, they watched Christ walking upon the sea, having a dry footprint, a swift traveler of the passable salt sea. And being terrified they cried out. But Jesus spoke to the terrified disciples: "Leave your fear to the winds; I am Christ, the swift traveler of the sea." And they wanted to draw him into the ship, and the force of the salt sea.

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12 And when they were filled, he says to his disciples: "Gather the fragments that are left over, so that nothing may be lost." 13 They gathered them, therefore, and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves, which were left over for those who had eaten. 14 The men, therefore, having seen the sign which Jesus did, said: "This is truly the prophet who is coming into the world." ^D 15 Jesus therefore, knowing that they were about to come and seize him to make him king, withdrew again to the mountain, he himself alone. 16 And when evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, 17 And having entered into the boat, they were coming across the sea to Capernaum. And darkness had already come, and Jesus had not come to them. 18 And the sea was being stirred up by a great wind blowing. 19 Therefore, having rowed about twenty-five or thirty furlongs, they see Jesus walking upon the sea, and coming near the boat; and they were afraid. 20 But he says to them: "It is I, do not fear." 21 Therefore they wanted to take him into the boat; and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

^A It was then, and there was a harbor, when by divine agitation, like a winged mind and without winds or oars, the ship reached the distant harbor of its own accord. 22 But when the dawn, reddening the neighboring Tiberian rock, marked the shadowy mist on the summit, the people standing on the beautiful shore across the opposite sea looked around, because by the holy lake there were not anchored near the shore other ships joined together in order, except for one ship alone, unnavigated, and because Jesus himself was not then sailing in a sea-going ship with his divine companions, but because the disciples had sailed alone to the opposite land. Taking other ships where the shores of Tiberias are, they stirred the sea and came near the place where the numberless people ate the divine bread upon the grassy table, which the immortal hand of Christ broke, giving thanks to the Ruler of all, the Father. 23 And not finding Christ the life-bearing King, nor the disciples following, they whitened the sea-water with foam-bearing oars, sailing toward the city of Capernaum. 24 And finding Christ near across the restless sea, they surrounded him and said with a sweet speech: "Rabbi king, when did you sail hither?" 25 But Jesus, rebuking the ^B people who were mindful of the quick feast, drawing the men wandering from temporal food to a life-giving banquet, said: "I know what you come seeking; for you did not come because of those miracles which I did, with the customary word which you saw, but some desire draws you, gathering again the divine bread, which eating at an infinite feast you may be satisfied from my table. 26 But commit to the winds a companion, food quickly corruptible, for those wandering much, and rather accomplish that food remaining for an everlasting table, which the life-bearing Son of man alone will give, for this did God the Father seal." 27 And the people of the Jews asking, broke into an inquiring voice: "Tell us what we shall do, that we may accomplish the works of God with a rite pleasing to God?" 28 But the King answered with a speech: "Having right faith, that you may receive the one who has appeared, whom He sent." 29 And the people replied: "What sign will you perform for us who desire it?"

^D 22 The next day the crowd that stood on the other side of the sea, seeing that there was no other boat there except one, that into which his disciples had entered, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but his disciples alone had gone away— 23 but other boats came from Tiberias near the place where they had eaten the bread, after the Lord had given thanks— 24 when therefore the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves entered into the boats, and came to Capernaum, seeking Jesus. 25 And finding him on the other side of the sea, they said to him: "Rabbi, when did you get here?" 26 Jesus answered them and said: "Amen, amen I say to you, you seek me not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Labor not for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures unto life everlasting, which the Son of man will give you; for him the Father, even God, has sealed." 28 They said therefore to him: "What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?" 29 Jesus answered and said to them: "This is the work of God, that you believe in whom he has sent." 30 They said therefore to him: "What sign then do you do, that we may see and believe you?"

^A What will you do similar to the former works? Our fathers beheld the eternal food of heaven near the desert rock, which the many-worded writer records to have been granted by heaven to the immense people, to sustain the great multitude with bread."

32 Jesus answered, rebuking the proud people: "Moses did not previously grant to you, by the desert rock, the heavenly honey-flowing bread to eat: but it was my Father who granted it, who even now shall grant to you another, more excellent, true bread of wisdom from heaven. 33 For this is the bread which, descending from heaven, has given life to the whole world, precious to all." 34 And again the gathering of the men of the Jews said thus: "Lord of life, grant us that we may consume this true heavenly bread which you have said is enduring."

35 Jesus opened his divinely-speaking mouth, and from his lips he poured forth a voice filled with grace: ^B "I am the eternal bread of life: the mortal man who comes to me shall never hunger with black famine, and everyone who increases our unwavering faith shall never thirst, until, while still creeping in this bent age, he changes to the infinite goal of broad generation. 36 But I said to you that you have seen with your eyes the miracles of my voice, and you do not believe the Father. 37 Every man whom my Father gave to me shall bend his footsteps toward me, led by God; nor shall I cast out those men who come newly believing, ^C but I will receive them with a rejoicing mind. For I have not come from heaven fulfilling my own desire, but that of the Father. 38 This is the desire of the Father, the ruler of all, that I lose none of those whom my Father has given, but that I raise him up from the dark abyss, bringing him back from the dead, when the last hour comes. 39 For this is the will of my bright Father, that everyone who looks upon me, directing a placid eye, may come to the eternal assembly of future life: and I shall raise him up again, gathered, when the light of that last dawn arrives. (41 etc. up to 55.)

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31 Our fathers ate the manna in the desert, as it is written: "He gave them bread from heaven to eat." 32 Jesus therefore said to them: "Amen, amen, I say to you, Moses did not give you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. 33 For the bread of God is that which comes down from heaven and gives life to the world." 34 They said therefore ^D to him: "Lord, give us this bread always." 35 Jesus said to them: "I am the bread of life: he who comes to me shall not hunger; and he who believes in me shall never thirst. 36 But I said to you that you have seen me, and you do not believe. 37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and him who comes to me I will not cast out. 38 Because I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. 39 This is the will of the Father who sent me, that of all that he has given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up in the last day. 40 This is the will of my Father who sent me, that everyone who sees the Son, and believes in him, may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up in the last day." 41 The Jews therefore murmured about him, because he said: "I am the bread that came down from heaven."

42 And they said: "Is not this Jesus the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he: 'I came down from heaven'?" 43 Jesus therefore answered and said to them: "Murmur not among yourselves. 44 No man can come to me, except the Father, who hath sent me, draw him; and I will raise him up in the last day. 45 It is written in the prophets: 'And they shall all be taught of God.' Every one that hath heard of the Father, and hath learned, cometh to me. 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father, but he who is of God, he hath seen the Father. 47 Amen, amen I say unto you, he that believeth in me, hath everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life. 49 Your fathers did eat manna in the desert, and are dead. 50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven; that if any man eat of it, he may not die. 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven. 52 If any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever; and the bread that I will give, is my flesh, for the life of the world." 53 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying: "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" 54 Then Jesus said to them: "Amen, amen I say unto you: except you eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you. 55 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath everlasting life: and I will raise him up in the last day. 56 For my flesh is meat indeed: and my blood is drink indeed. 57 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, abideth in me, and I in him. 58 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eat

understanding? ^A The Spirit is what gives life, and it is superior; but the alien nature of the earthly flesh will profit nothing. The divine flow of our words, which I mean, is life and spirit combined, and a true utterance. ^B But some are incredulous with an insensate madness. For He knew who they were that had an erring mind, committing their faith to winds that wander upon the sea, and which man it was that was going to betray Him to the Jews, agitated by the stimulus of the silver disease. And the King said to them: Therefore I said to you: No one of mortal men can come to me of his own will, unless it be that a man beloved by our God should receive this gift as the Father grants it. On account of which, the weak man, walking with a backward step, departed far from the band of the coming pilgrims: no longer, as before, changing his mutable habit, did he follow Christ again. But the Lord, observing the people ^C of His companions who were of another mind and unstable, recalling the alien and wandering people, said to the twelve more faithful disciples: Are you also hastening to go away with the strangers? Are disciples like illegitimate ones? And Peter, called by his name Simon, said to Him: To whom, more excellent than you, shall we come? For you have the honey-sweet flows of the words of eternal Life: And knowing these things not from the silent books of the ancients, we believe with one and concordant will, that you alone are the holy one of God. But the King, ^D speaking sweetly, said an explicit word to the believing Peter: Have I not, knowing the entire mind of the men, chosen you out of many? And one has been numbered among you who is hostile, mutable, a member of the household of the disciples, a new devil as he shall be called by posterity? He said this, signifying the convicted Iscariot, Judas, the deceitful son of the wretched Simon. For he was about to deliver Him up to a vital fate, maddened by gold, caught in a treacherous hunting-net, being one of the twelve companions.

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^A they with deceit planned to destroy Him, the sons of the Jews, rejoicing in holy ruin. 2 Now there was a public annual festival near at hand for God, named for the tabernacles being fixed. ^B And close by, the false kinsmen, the fourfold sons of Joseph, urging Christ on, sounded a harmonious voice: "Depart from here, and when the celebration of the festival is, hasten to visit the land bordering Judæa, that having converted the unbelieving, wandering people, the disciples might recover the old faith in You, seeing Your works perfected by a wise word. For no one of men weaves a hidden work, a work covered in the invisible darkness of silence, but wishes to be bold openly; if You do these various miracles, show the miracles clearly to the world." Such things they said in vain, being unbelieving like others; though they were brothers of Christ, the ruler of all, they denied the firm custom of the faith themselves. 6 And to them the King answered with a replying word: "My time has not yet come; but yours is always spread ready and free. For the world, mad with its accustomed storm of rage, can never hate you; but it hates me and drives me away, because I alone, with a voice bearing witness without sparing, rebuke the world stuffed with habitual sin, crying out that the works it performs are alien to the law. Do you, sonorous, approach the celebration of the festival: I am not yet honoring the recently fixed tents, nor shall I ascend to the sacred festival; for the course of my time is not yet completed for me." So saying, He traversed the holy ground of the unshorn Galileans. ^C And as the kinsmen ascended to the temple, late also He Himself bent His divine foot toward the recently celebrated festival. And the Jews were searching for Him with dear necessity: "Where did He go? Where is He?" And to the muttering people, an infinite talk flowed from voices not silent. And many spoke a pious, testifying voice, that He is wise and performs excellent miracles. But others contended against it with voices agreeing from the throat: "He is not wise, not truly wise is this one; but he deceives the mind of the gathered people with deceitful words." Such things indeed they conferred among themselves. And then no one was bold enough to speak openly of Him with an intrepid voice, having freed their lips, avoiding the terror of the Jews.

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2 Now the festival of the Jews, the Feast of Tabernacles, was near. 3 Therefore His brothers said to Him, "Depart from here, and go into Judæa, that Your disciples also may see the works which You are doing. 4 For no one does anything in secret while he himself seeks to be known openly; if You do these things, show Yourself to the world." 5 For even His brothers did not believe in Him. 6 Jesus therefore says to them, "My time has not yet come; but your time is always ready. 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify of it that its works are evil. 8 You go up to this feast; I am not yet going up to this feast, for My time has not been fulfilled." 9 And saying these things to them, He stayed in Galilee. 10 But when His brothers had gone up, then He also went up to the feast, not openly, but as it were in secret. 11 The Jews therefore were seeking Him at the feast, and saying, "Where is He?" 12 And there was much murmuring concerning Him among the crowds. Some were saying, "He is good"; others were saying, "No; but He deceives the crowd." 13 Yet no one spoke openly of Him for fear of the Jews.

^A When the festival was in its middle course, Jesus was ascending; and in the stony temple He taught the ranks of yoke-fellows of men. And the prudent crowd of Jews marveled at Him. They whispered one to another, turn by turn: "Whence does this man pour forth written speech? How does he know letters, which he has not learned with skilled art? How does he know letters, being untaught?" And to those asking, the King poured forth speech from divine lips: "My learning is not multiscient, but it is of the Father who sent Me. If any man wills to know the grace of My teaching, whether it is some divine gift of the Creator from heaven, or whether I speak from My own gifts, emitting a spontaneous voice. Every man who boasts of his own glorious honor, testifying from his own wisdom to himself, this man seeks his own glory; but he who performs the will of God who sent him, this man walks blameless in the path of truth, and there is nothing destructive in him."

And the King said to them in turn: "Did not Moses give you the law as an avenger of men's slaughter? And whence have you snatched the word of the most high God? Nor does any one of you perform the law, for you all seek to kill Me with a hidden death." And the people said to Him: "A goad of an aerial demon drives your mind; who seeks to tame you?"

And Jesus spoke a wise law, for which the people, in a circular manner, with hidden-faced mystery, cut off the summit of the procreative defense of shame: ^B "I have done one work, and you all marvel, rebuking me for the sake of a pious work. For whose sake Moses delivered to you the cutting of the law-bearing iron? Not because it was Moses' gift, but it was the donation of your fathers; and by a certain primeval law, when the light of the seventh dawn comes, you circumcise the newborn male with iron, that the lawful shackles of Moses not be broken without promise. But if a man receives the holy cutting with the accustomed iron, you all raise against me an offensive clamor of threats, if I have again restored to you, by my word of succor, a man entirely putrefied with a circular disease, when it was the Sabbath, having made him whole, and not with a cutting iron? Judge not by according favor to the eyes of mortals, but judging justice, cut with the true word, so that righteousness—"

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14 Now when the festival was at its middle, Jesus went up into the temple and taught. ^D 15 And the Jews marveled, saying, "How does this man know letters, having not learned?" 16 Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not mine, but His who sent Me. 17 If any man wills to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from Myself. 18 He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of Him who sent him, the same is true, and there is no unrighteousness in him. 19 Has not Moses given you the law, and no one of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill Me?" 20 The crowd answered and said, "You have a demon; who seeks to kill you?" 21 Jesus answered and said to them, "I did one work, and you all marvel. 22 For this cause Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. 23 If a man receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses should not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a man entirely whole on the Sabbath? 24 Judge not according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."

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lest you should esteem an ancient law above a person. And some of the holy city of Jerusalem said: Is this not he whom the common citizens seek to tame with pernicious iron? Behold how, without fear, he pours out his accustomed voice in the presence of the whole watching multitude. Does the voice of god-speaking men reach the princes of the city, that they know this is Christ? But when Christ the King comes, no man knows whence he is; yet you know this man. ^B But Jesus cried out in the silver-gleaming temple: You know me, and you are learned in my discourse; you know also whence I am, even if you hide this in silence. For I do not come here to you of my own accord, but my Father is true regarding this mission. But I know him well, because I have come from him, and he has sent me to come. And some, spurred on, were stirred up to seize Jesus with unsparing hands: yet no one of them laid his heavy hands upon him, because his bloody hour, willed by the Father, had not yet come. And many from the gathered multitude believed; and they honored Jesus with a unanimous discourse: When Christ the King who saves the people comes, will he do more excellent miracles with his pain-soothing mouth than the works this man has done? And the incredulous people, of the mind of the erring Pharisees, heard the querulous, unbridled voice of the wordy, muttering multitude. And the envious high priests sent forth officers to seize Jesus, who was unattainable to their cruel hand. ^C And the King spoke to them, in an obscure discourse prophesying the hour of his own voluntary and swift fate: For a little while yet I remain with you upon the earth, and soon I shall return to my Father who sent me; and you shall seek me: but you will not find me; and you cannot pass, following my footsteps, into the path that I shall travel. And the people spoke among themselves in groups there: Whither does this man intend to go after a little while, departing hence? Does the wanderer hasten to go to the neighboring cities, where the scattered ranks of the Gentiles are, to teach the sons of the Greeks the law of his own wisdom? What indeed is this speech which he addressed to the witnessing people? ^D

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25 Then some of them of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill? 26 And lo, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known indeed that this is the very Christ? 27 But we know this man whence he is; but when Christ comes, no man knows whence he is. 28 Jesus therefore cried in the temple, teaching, and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself, but he that sent me is true, whom you know not. 29 But I know him, because I am from him, and he has sent me. 30 They sought therefore to take him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come. 31 But many of the people believed in him, and said: When Christ comes, shall he do more miracles than these which this man has done? 32 The Pharisees heard the people murmuring these things concerning him: and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him. 33 Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while I am with you, and I go to him that sent me. 34 You shall seek me, and shall not find me: and where I am, you cannot come. 35 The Jews therefore said among themselves: Whither will this man go, that we shall not find him? will he go unto the dispersed among the Gentiles, and teach the Gentiles? 36 What is this saying that he said: You shall seek me,

and you will not find me; and where I am, you cannot come?' ^A And you shall not find [me]; and is it permitted that you ^B should tread a path where I am going, which you desire but cannot enter? But when the final day of the festal chorus had arrived, Christ the King stood by the stone temple. He shouted to the Hebrews, pouring forth a voice that softens all things: "If anyone has a soul-corrupting thirst, let him come to me and drink of our Fountain the soul-saving water." For everyone who has faith will be safe; and as the ancient word of God declared, ever through his belly will Wisdom pour forth rivers in a living flow, again pouring out the hidden divine water. ^C He spoke, prophesying the coming late splendor of the Spirit, which every credulous generation of diverse mankind was to receive with a God-accepting mind. For not yet was Christ the King, the Son of the Father, established in human minds, having appeared seated on a throne near at hand. Many indeed of the people listening then with one accord, with faithful lips, murmured a manifold sound: "This man, whom the law described, is the true prophet." Others, however, unaware of the controversy, had a proclamation: "This is Christ the King." But with contentious speech, others, loosening the bars of the law-bearing mouths, spoke oracles inscribed in the wise book: "For is Christ the King to come from Galilee? The God-inspired utterance did not say this; but bearing the royal blood of ancient David, Christ will himself appear to the Jews, being called where the lyre-player David dwelt in the house of his fatherland, Bethlehem of the sheep-grazing fields." But the people were divided, and the contention of differing counsel was continuous. 44 But certain imprudent men, lacking foresight, attempted to seize Jesus through the unjust instinct of the elders; but no one seized him, for the final, fatal hour for him had not yet stood by to permit it. And the prudent ministers returned to the priests, who were opposed to God, being amazed; and they said to them: "Why did you not bring him?" And they replied with a prudent word, being ministers of a serious necessity, not erring: "Never did another man speak with such a voice." And the bold assembly of intractable Pharisees said: "Have you also been led astray with an erring mind, believing his words?" ^D *Text of the Evangelist.* ...and you shall not find [me]; and where I am, you cannot come? In the last day, the great [day] of the feast, Jesus stood and cried out, saying, "If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. He who believes in me, as the Scripture said, 'Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water.'" (This he said concerning the Spirit, which those who believe in him were about to receive; for not yet was the Holy Spirit [given], because Jesus was not yet glorified.) Many from the crowd, therefore, hearing the word, said, "This is truly the prophet." Others said, "This is the Christ." But others said, "For shall the Christ come from Galilee? Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?" So there was a division in the crowd because of him. Some of them wanted to seize him; but no one laid hands on him. The officers came, therefore, to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, "Why did you not bring him?" The officers answered, "Never did a man speak as this man speaks." Therefore the Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been led astray?"

with their designs? ^A Num anyone of the Rulers, or of the discerning Pharisees, believed in him? Except for this popular, wicked troop of wanderers, who in their ignorance of the law run mad, filled with execrations. ^B But Nicodemus, near at hand, pouring out a reproving voice to the abundant throng, replied, refuting them all: Does the divine law of the Jews truly know how to condemn with such hasty spirit, unless the judge, having first heard the man speaking, renders judgment with a knowing voice, acknowledging the works which he performs through the testimony of his discourse? And the chorus of the law-knowing Pharisees resounded in opposition, reproaching the blameless Nicodemus: Do you yourself also bring the blood of a Galilean? Consulting the scroll in your seat, you shall learn that no eloquent prophet is ever raised from Galilee. [The remainder is missing.]

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^C 12 Jesus then spoke, pouring out his voice to the assembled people: I am the light of the radiant world; and whoever, as a man, shall faithfully follow me with a believing mind, never treads with wandering feet through the shadowy cone of mist, but shall shine brightly, having as a companion within himself the unshakable light of never-wandering Life. But the slanderous People of the Jews clamored with raging voice: You speak your own testimony in a boastful word; your discourse is not true as a witness. 14 He said even this: As I pour forth the torrent from the eternal tongue, sent by God, even if I myself enhance my own glory with testimonies, true is my witnessing discourse; for I alone know whence I have come, and whither I go.

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48 Has any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed in him? 49 But this crowd that knows not the law, they are accursed. 50 Nicodemus says to them, he who came to him by night, being one of them: 51 Does our law judge a man, unless it first hears from him, and learns what he is doing? 52 They answered and said to him: Are you also from Galilee? Search and see that a prophet has not risen from Galilee. 53 And each went to his own house.

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1 And Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. 2 And at dawn he returned again to the temple, and all the people came to him; and he sat down and taught them. 3 And the Scribes and Pharisees bring to him a woman caught in adultery; and having placed her in the midst, 4 they say to him: Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery. 5 And in the law Moses commanded us that such should be stoned; what then do you say? 6 This they said, testing him, that they might have wherewith to accuse him. But Jesus, stooping down, wrote with his finger on the ground. 7 And as they continued asking him, he straightened up and said to them: Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone at her. 8 And again stooping down, he wrote on the ground. 9 And they, hearing this and being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the elders even unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. 10 And Jesus straightening up, and seeing no one but the woman, said to her: Woman, where are those accusers of yours? Did no one condemn you? 11 And she said: No one, Lord. And Jesus said to her: Neither do I condemn you; go, and sin no more. 12 Again therefore Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the world; he who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. 13 The Pharisees, therefore, said to him: You bear witness of yourself; your testimony is not true. 14 Jesus answered and said to them: Even if I bear witness of myself, my testimony is true; for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but you do not know whence I come, and whither I go.

^A 90 15 You, looking upon my human form, judge according to the flesh with an ignorant speech. I judge no one, relaxing the mouth of a legislator; but if I should indeed judge, discerning true justice, my judgment is infallible and blameless; for I am not alone in reproving, but I have also the Father who reigns on high, my common fellow-worker. 17 And in your law it is marked in a book sacred to the prudent: The testimony of two men sounds otherwise. 18 I myself have become a true witness to myself, and my Begetter also speaks a common testimony. 19 The Hebrews questioned with a reciprocal speech: Who is the Father who planted you? And He himself said: You do not know either, with one incredulous purpose, neither me, the Son coming, nor the Father sending. If you had recognized me and fixed it in your mind, you would have also known our Parent. The Lord spoke these divine instructions to the people, where the place called the Treasury is spoken of; where many citizens walked, carrying various gifts. And no one seized him, for the divine final sign of the hour had not yet come upon him as a death-bringing one. And to them the King said: I myself will go my way, and you, all wanderers in insensate ways, shall look upon the end after a dreadful old age, having white hairs contemporary with sin. But whither I direct the many-wound footprint of my foot, you cannot come with searching foot. ^C 22 And the bold people of the Hebrews were troubled, hearing, pouring out a foolish sound with a reviling mouth: Does he wish to die by the death of a noose? Or drawing a sword, will he fall into death by self-slaughter through his belly? But Jesus opened his God-speaking mouth, pouring out an adversarial speech to the reviling people: 92 You are the low descenders of the abyss, you are from the lowest, and I am from on high; you are of this vile and harmful world, carrying blood from the earth; but I in eternal honor am a stranger in the world, and I do not know a mortal father; I am a stranger in the world, and I am a citizen of heaven; 24 But I said to you that, by a certain fate preoccupying you, you will still, being insane, fall into the abyss, having a sin contemporary with you; for truly, unless you recognize me,

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15 You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one. 16 And yet if I judge, my judgment is true: because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me. 17 And it is written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true. 18 I am one that bear witness of myself, and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me. 19 They said therefore unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, Neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. 20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come. 21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come. 22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come? 23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.

^A If you shall not know me, who I am or of what Father, you shall die, pregnant with impiety. The noble people of the Jews broke out in a craving voice: "Who are you?" And Christ shouted back: "That which I have been telling you from the beginning; having infinite things to judge and to speak; but true is He who sent me to the human generation; and truly all things that I have heard from Him, I narrate as certain to the foolish world." The people did not understand that He told them of the Father. Jesus spoke in return, opening his divine lips: "When you have exalted in pure minds the wise Son of man, then you shall know yourselves that I weave nothing apart from God the Father; but what my Father commanded me, I still do; because the supreme Father also shines with me, and He has not left me alone, since I do all things well-pleasing to the Parent in the time of the firm cycle."

^B While he was crying these things, ranks of various men relied upon the unbreakable bonds of faith. And Jesus said a word to the newly-believing people: "If you believe in me, and remain in our word as navigator, then you shall know yourselves the way of the truth that delights in God; and the truth shall grant you a free day."

But the Hebrews echoed with a single tongue: "We are the blood of Abraham, the noble and wealthy father, bringing forth free blood, bowing the neck to no man, we have never been slaves to the lash; and how have you said to us: 'You shall be free,' and 'You shall behold the unbridled tranquility of the truth'?"

^C Jesus taught, rebuking the proud crowd: "Every man doing transgression with a foolish spirit is a slave of transgression; but in the immortal house the servant of iniquity never remains dwelling; but the blameless life-bearing Son remains, dwelling in the paternal house, until, passing beyond the temporal goal, the firm age revolves incomprehensibly. If, however, the Son, having driven out your servile necessity, crowns your hair with leaves of freedom, you shall cast off again the soluble bonds of transgression’s collar, having obtained at last the truly free day. You are the offspring of the prudent Abraham (I know it myself); but you seek to kill me with a hidden death. For my word has no place in you."

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25 Then they said to him: "Who are you?" And Jesus said to them: "Even that which I also speak to you from the beginning. 26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you; but he who sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things ^D which I have heard from him." They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

28 Then Jesus said to them: "When you have lifted up the Son of man, then you shall know that I am he, and that I do nothing of myself, but as my Father has taught me, I speak these things. 29 And he who sent me is with me; the Father has not left me alone, because I always do those things that are pleasing to him."

30 As he was speaking these things, many believed in him. 31 Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain in my word, you are truly my disciples; 32 and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free."

33 They answered him: "We are the seed of Abraham, and have never been in bondage to anyone; how do you say: 'You shall be made free'?"

34 Jesus answered them: "Amen, amen, I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And the slave does not abide in the house forever; the son abides forever. 36 If therefore the Son shall make you free, you shall be truly free. 37 I know that you are the seed of Abraham; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

And you seek to kill me with a hidden fate. For my word never enters into your mind. ^A [38] The Hebrews shouted in reply with a certain word: "Our forefather is Abraham." Jesus answered, pouring forth a resounding voice: "If Abraham the planter had begotten you as wise children, you would also have performed the pious works of your father, Abraham, the lover of strangers. You are a generation opposing God. If you stain your hands with murderous slaughter, by those manifest deeds you confirm your lineage. Abraham did not desire to subdue an innocent man; Abraham did not perform this deed hateful to God. But you desire to weave the works of a deceitful father." And the bold people of the Hebrews, hearing this, said again: "We were not born from a spurious, harlot's union, but we know God alone as the one living Father." And Jesus spoke again to the listening people: "If God were your Father, inhabiting the heavens, you all would have joined me—born of the one Father—in an indissoluble bond of firm friendship. For I came hither proceeding from God. And how is it that you do not know my divinely wise voice? You cannot hear my word. You are the hostile children of an abominable father, of the adversary daemon, and you desire to perform all the lovely cravings of that proud father. That one was always a man-slayer, from the moment the foundation of the world was first established. Nor did he remain in the law of truth, believing in God; for truth was not in him. And when, with the will of an iniquitous mind, he utters a deceitful word while coaxing with guile, he speaks from his own, ^B because he is a liar by nature, having pernicious habits, born of a lying father. I have spoken to you, and you do not believe [my] word. Which man among you will be able to convict me himself as a seeker of sin? And if I speak the truth, why do you not believe me, the prudent one? Every wise man, having his mind set on God who is self-begotten, hears with a sweet spirit the words of the living, heavenly God. But you do not hasten to hear the divine voice, [but seek to kill me]..."

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38 I speak what I have seen with my Father, and you therefore do what you have seen with your father. 39 They answered and said to him: "Our father is Abraham." Jesus saith to them: "If you were the children of Abraham, you would do the works of Abraham. 40 But now you seek to kill me, a man who has spoken the truth to you, which I have heard from God: this did not Abraham. 41 You do the works of your father." They said therefore to him: "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, God." 42 Jesus therefore said to them: "If God were your Father, you would love me; for I proceeded and came from God; for I came not of myself, but he sent me. 43 Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word. 44 You are of the father the devil, and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and he stood not in the truth; because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof. 45 But if I say the truth, you do not believe me. 46 Which of you shall convince me of sin? If I say the truth, why do you not believe me? 47 He that is of God, heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God."

^A For you are not children of the life-giving Parent. And the bold crowd of the Hebrews was seething as they heard, pouring forth mindless insults from their mouths: "Not unjustly do we judge you, knowing full well that, having become a God to the Samaritans, you bear the raging impulse of a demon’s lash." 49 But Jesus spoke again to the disobedient people: "I do not bear the sound of a dark-minded demon’s lash, but I honor God, my life-giving Generator, with pure honors; yet you, acting foolishly, reproach me with many-insulting, goading words. I do not seek my own honor; for there is One who seeks it, and who is always magnifying my glory, and who judges even more at that time. 51 Amen, amen, I say, whoever receives the sequence of my God-inspired words, and guards them within an inviolate heart, shall never behold bitter destruction so long as the revolving age endures." Then the people exclaimed: "Now, even now, we have truly learned that a wandering frenzy of an avenging demon drives you to madness. Did Abraham see such a fate, and were the prophets not able to escape the pains of unyielding ^B death? And do you, pouring forth your high-necked boasting with threats, dare to say that if a man keeps our sayings, he shall not taste of destruction? Are you, by any chance, greater than Abraham, our father, who believed in God and died by an immutable fate? And all the prophets have experienced death. Tell us, to whom of the ancients do you compare yourself?" 54 Jesus spoke, opening his lips moved by God: "If I glorify myself, and speak a boastful word, magnifying my own glory, my word will avail nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, whom you call God in your unjust discourse, who sent me to come to the human race as the guide of the world. But I know him well; for if I should say that I do not know him, I would clearly appear to you as a deceater, equal to yourselves in lying. But I know him, and I observe his commands with unshaken character. Your first-sown god-inspired forefather Abraham rejoiced in his spirit to see my day; he saw it, and entered into joy." 57 And the crowd ^C of the Jews was amazed, and roared back with a contrary sound, not yet having filled the fifty-year boundary of the revolving time.

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before Abraham was, I am. 59 Then they took up stones to cast at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

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^A Having accomplished fifty circuits of years, didst thou see the long-lived Abraham? He said also himself: Before Abraham had his being, I am. The mad, proud multitude, having heavy stones, thronged, thinking, even while he was yet speaking, to hide him with the sharp edge of the stone-cast ^B flurry. But Jesus, incomprehensible, was hidden under the folds of the temple; and walking with silent feet through the midst of them, he was borne along unseen, leaving the stoning multitude. Thus indeed he passed by.

1 And passing along the way, he perceived a man sitting, whom from his mother’s womb the hours of her delivery had seen yet palpitating, blind: who was wandering about, having his look-less face confused and indistinct, whom nature had not fashioned, and having the swollen, strange eye of one not possessing the circle, his natal darkness held; and the Guide of life, Parent of the world, never brought forth such an infant without eyes ^C into the coeval world. 2 His band of companions asked Jesus: Rabbi, tell the inquiring disciples, who sinned: did this one, sinning, trouble God, or his parents? Which from the womb of his mother the grave, dark, delivery-pains, coeval with darkness, brought forth. 3 But Jesus taught with a true, testifying voice: This one, acting wickedly, sinned not, neither his parents: but he has received this divinely-ordained affliction, so that through him the works of God, the Father who drives away evil, might be manifested. 4 It is necessary for us to accomplish the works of the Most High, the works of the living God, as long ^D as the dawn yet appears. A dark night shall come after a little while; and when it comes, no man will be able to weave his work during the night. 5 I shall act as long as the day increases. But I am the Light of the dark world, as long as I walk in the world. The King spoke, and from his divine mouth, onto the thirsty earth, he spat the white, pain-loosening foam of his teeth; and mixing the foam with the dust of the earth, by his spittle he made light-bringing clay. And, moistening the clay, having smeared it upon the light-lacking eye of the man, he fashioned the eye of the man, which nature could not provide, he fashioned the eye of the man, and upon his sightless face, having drawn double circles, he carved the middle sight, from the man-forming dust. And he said with a divine voice:

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Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you, before Abraham was made, I am. They took up stones therefore that they might cast them at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them; and so passed by.

CAPUT IX.

1 And as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? 3 Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and spread the clay upon his eyes. 7 And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe (which is interpreted, Sent). He went therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

^A Come to me, and wash your face where the water of the nearby fount of Siloam flows, common to all, water named from your mission. Christ spoke; and the blind man hastened, and at the fountain with hollowed hands he drew up the light-bearing water, washing his blind eyes with the fountain's waters. Wiping away the circle of the eye, newly pressed into shape, he suddenly had light, which nature knew not how to bestow, beholding the late splendor of an unaccustomed sun. He washed; and he returned again, and stood seeing all things. And the strangers, the travelers, looking upon him as he sent forth brightness from his face—newly recovered of sight—the neighbors and men said to the knowing people: Is not this the blind traveler in the city, who formerly begged, stretching out his habitual hand, his right hand extended to the passers-by? ^B Others, however, sounded forth with a certain answering speech: It is not, it is not he; he is only like him. That man spoke: I am he. Hearing this, the people of the Jews broke out with an inquisitive voice: How indeed were your prominent eyes opened?

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8 The neighbors therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a blind man, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? 9 Some said: This is he. But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: That I am he. 10 They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened? 11 He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe, and wash. And I went, I washed, and I see. 12 And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.

13 They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees. 14 Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. 15 Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see. 16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?

^A nor does he keep the course of the seventh dawn. But others answered from their throats with a single voice: How can a mortal man and a sinner do all these various miracles? But the contentious people were divided in two, a double sound roared, and there was much noisy debate. To the blind man everyone said: But as for you, what opinion do you have of him? What judgment will you offer? And the man who had newly received his sight, unshaken, spoke with a believing tongue, daring to say that he is a divine prophet. 107 But the people did not believe the true voice of the man who was once blind and had received light in his eyes, unless the incredulous high priests first called the parents who knew the man who had received his sight. 108 They asked both of them with a certain envious remark: Is this your son, whom the citizens said was born blind from his mother’s womb? And from where did he lately receive perfect light in his eyes? And the parents, giving birth to fear, and suppressing their own minds, hiding their speech, said: We know that this man who received the splendor of his eyes is truly our son; but we ourselves ^B also know that from his mother’s body, while yet an infant creeping into the light, he was blind, not yet tasting milk, still breathing from birth. But how his eyes were pierced and opened on both sides, and who dissipated the gloom of his darkened eyes, we, blameless, do not know: but ask the son himself, who knows of these things which the parents do not know. This is not an infant having childish immaturity: he has no need of another voice: for this young man, newly flourishing, will speak the true word, bearing the perfect measures of increasing puberty. Such things the parents said deceitfully out of fear, avoiding the terror of the Jews: for those who were mad against Christ, having zeal for his inimitable works, proclaimed a covenant to all the believing people, that whoever received him in his mind and called him Christ, should not reach the divine house in which God is invoked. ^C For which reason the parents said to the Jews: Ask the son who knows, and there is no need for the parents: but to you who are asking, he will be able to speak, having perfect measures and great maturity. And the father of the blind man mingled his voice with wonder, hiding his tongue, lest the hostile assembly might hear, seeing the new sight of his son with eyes of a beautiful face. 109 And the man who was a wandering blind traveler

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17 And there was a division among them. They say to the blind man again: What say you of him, that he hath opened your eyes? And he said: That he is a prophet. 18 The Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and had seen, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. 19 And they asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? 20 His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. 21 But how he now sees, we do not know, or who opened his eyes, we do not know: he has age, ask him: he will speak for himself. 22 These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore did his parents say: He has age, ask him. 24 They called therefore the man who had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.

^A The envious ones, having called him, addressed him: "Come, child, give thanks to the God who reigns on high, who, in saving you, took away the shadow from your eyes; but that man whom you honor, this man is a person given over to sins." The bold man said to the Hebrews: "Whether this one is a sinner I have ^B not known in truth; but I do know in my heart this one thing clearly, that I was born blind, a companion of the dawn, and I stand now seeing." 26 And the chorus of Hebrews broke out into a sorrowful voice: "Tell us, what did he do to you with his skillful clay? And how did he destroy the dark gloom?" And to them the undaunted man uttered a free voice: "I have told you once, and you did not hear my voice; why do you backward-turning men desire to hear him? Does God agitate your mind, so that you yourselves might also become bastard disciples of the divine Christ?" 28 They, however, immediately beset him with opposing words: "You are that man's disciple, the law-breaker. We are indeed companions of the ancient God-fearing man, the ministers of the law-bearing Moses; but this man we do not know." 30 The man answered with a speech: "This indeed is the greatest miracle, that to you this man is unknown, while he opened my eyes. We know that God the Father, who steers all things, does not know how to hear the voice of a sinful-minded man; but if a man is pleasing in his piety, and with pure understanding performs the commands of God, him God hears readily when he prays. Never is such a speech heard from the beginning, ever since the age that nourishes all things, that anyone gave light with ^C the allotted Oculi of a face much closed, whom the dawn had seen still blind while being brought forth through the womb. Unless this man were of the heavenly King, never could he alone have accomplished such a great miracle." And the priest-leaders pursued him with an envious voice: "You, little man, having been born entirely in sins from the midwife, do you teach these things to the wise priests, you reviler?" And having shouted at him, they drove him out from the temple. Jesus heard, having known by reputation about the blind man, that the proud priests had cast him out; and having found him, he said to him: "Do you believe in the Son, honoring the heavenly King?" The man poured forth a voice: ^D "Lord, who is he that I might believe in him?"

TEXTUS EVANGELISTÆ. 25 That man answered and said: Whether he is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see. 26 They said to him again: What did he do to you? how did he open your eyes? 27 He answered them: I told you already, and you did not hear; why do you want to hear again? do you also want to become his disciples? 28 They reviled him therefore, and said: You are his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this man, we do not know where he is from. 30 The man answered and said to them: Why, in this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not hear sinners; but if any person is God-fearing, and does his will, him he hears. 32 Since the world began it has not been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. 34 They answered and said to him: You were born entirely in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out. 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and having found him, he said to him: Do you believe in the Son of God? 36 That man answered and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?

37 Jesus said to him: Both you have seen him, and he who is speaking with you is he. 38 And he said: I believe, Lord; and he worshiped him. 39 And Jesus said: For judgment I came into this world, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind. 40 And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him: Are we also blind? 41 Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

CAPUT X.

1 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up some other way, he is a thief and a robber. 2 But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 To him the gatekeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4 And when he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. 5 Yet they will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers. 6 Jesus spoke this proverb to them, but they did not understand what things they were which he spoke to them.

^A O Ruler, who is this of whom you spoke, that I may honor him? ^B And Jesus replied: You have both seen him, and he who is speaking with you now is he. He said: Lord, I believe; and bowing his head to the earth, and bending his neck, which was curved toward his immortal feet, he embraced the shining tarsus of his sandals. Then Jesus replied, hearing his wise speech: I came into this foolish, wandering world for judgment; I came for a twofold and contrary judgment, so that both they who previously did not see the light of the invisible dawn, the blind, might recover sight, looking with their eyes; and those who appear sharply sighted might become blind. Then the crowd of his neighbors, following Christ, said to the Pharisees: Are we also blind, with wandering eyes? And Jesus discoursed, rebuking the unbelieving people: If the darkness of your eyes had obscured the light of sight, I would have said that you were ignorant of sin; but now, seeing the light, you yourselves are wanderers, and you are blind in mind even more than in eyes; for in the men in whom sins remain, they see in vain with their eyes.

CHAPTER X

1 A firm witness, I say to you, truly, truly: whoever shall creep through the door of a well-fortified sheepfold of hidden sheep, and crawls in from elsewhere, climbing up by a dark and winding path, this man is a robber with a predatory foot. 2 But he who comes straightforwardly into the fold is the shepherd, who feeds the sheep. 3 And to him who comes, the gatekeeper opens the open door of the stall. The sheep, recognizing their shepherd, leap around him, hearing his voice; and at the entrance, the shepherd calls the flocks to pasture with his accustomed voice. 4 And he leads the sheep forth, eager to be outside the fold. ^C But when he has gathered the whole order of the flock, the leader walks before the incoming sheep; and the multi-formed flock goes with a retrograding foot, following the shepherd to the dewy meadows. 5 They do not listen to a stranger, nor do they know how to hear the voice of an alien calling them—a voice not of the shepherd—but they flee from the spurious shepherd who passes by. 6 Such a proverbial word he recited; and the people hesitated over the discourse, and did not learn, though hearing Christ nearby, the obscure things which he said with a divine voice.

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Christ spoke these things with a divine voice, not obscurely. ^A 7 Jesus spoke in a clear story: I am the welcoming door of the fold that holds many sheep. 8 All those who came before me with stealthy step were deceitful thieves; and therefore the flocks did not listen to their predatory voices. 9 I am the welcoming door, the keeper of the sheep; and whoever of ours goes through me and enters the door of the fold, he walks in, and returns again, and will find pasture, and the man will live forever. 10 But the destructive robber never climbs into the fold, unless it is to steal without a witness, or to destroy, or to slaughter the sheep with an unsparing sword. But I, in order to save my sheep, came from the Father, so that they might obtain future life with an unceasing glory—which time does not know how to destroy—and have it more abundantly. ^B 11 I am the good shepherd; but the good shepherd watches over his sheep, and does not spare his own life, but will lay it down as a price of redemption for his own sheep. 12, 13 But the hireling is not the shepherd; seeing the hostile wolf, the robber of the sheep, near the path, he secretly flees and withdraws, quickly abandoning the flocks of sheep that are grazing unguarded and wandering far. He secretly flees and withdraws; he does not care about strange sheep, because he is called a hireling. And the cunning wolf comes with a predatory throat, scattering the sheep when the shepherd is not present. 14, 15 I am the good shepherd, and I pasture the good flocks. I know my sheep, and they know me, the familiar provider of sheep, by an equal and twofold law: just as the Father knows me, and as I know the Father. And I will immediately lay down our life for the sheep. 16 There are, indeed, other various flocks of the fold, not born from this one that receives God, but from outsiders; and it is necessary that I gather them, as they keenly hear our voice; and there shall be one flock from both sides, belonging to one shepherd. 17 For this reason my Father loves me, because I will lay down our life for the sheep, so that I may take it again, returning to me: 18 nor does any native law take it away from me, nor does passing time...

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^C 7 Then Jesus said to them again: Amen, amen I say to you, that I am the door of the sheep. 8 All those who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them. 9 I am the door; by me if any man enters, he shall be saved: and he shall go in and go out, and shall find pasture. 10 The thief does not come except to steal and to kill and to destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly. 11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. 12 But the hireling, and he who is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees: and the wolf snatches them, and scatters the sheep. 13 And the hireling flees, because he is a hireling, and ^D he does not care about the sheep. 14 I am the good shepherd, and I know my own, and am known by my own. 15 As the Father knows me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16 And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice: and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17 Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18 No man takes it away from me: but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it up again. This commandment I have received from my Father.

^A All-subduing, untamable, or the steadfast necessity; but I will offer it, self-bidden, willing that it be offered, so that I may receive it back after a little while, having the power gathered within myself. This command I have from the Father who rules on high, to lay it down, and by a twofold law to take it up again. And again the people of the Hebrews were divided in their hearing: and many spoke with a clamorous sort of speech, saying, "Leave this man to speak with swift winds; he possesses a demon, and he is mad; leave this foolish man; why do you hasten to hear the speech of a madman?" But others answered in turn with harmony from their throats, "These are not the wise flows of words of one who is mad; these things are not of a fool. Can a darkened demon ever be able itself to open the eyes of a blind man?" ^B And again it was a public day, on which the people were celebrating an annual memorial, from the time when Solomon, building the supports of the temple, with divine art restored the ancient custom of the feast. And then the frosty season of winter was at hand; but Jesus was walking inside the holy temple, pacing upon the wondrous, intricately wrought floor of the portico, named after the ancient Solomon. But the envious Hebrews, joined in a circle in one place, surrounded Christ and said with foolish speech, "How long do you deceive our mind with your words? If you have truly come as the Christ, tell us openly; why do you hide your name?" But Jesus answered all of them at once: "Often I have told you, and you do not believe my word; the works which I do, calling upon the paternal might, these are witness, and they speak in prudent silence, a visible pattern speaking to men; but you see with your eyes, and do not believe with your minds. For you are not of the credulous generation of my sheep; ^C because you are delighted with the ears of the flocks of my sheep that hear my voice, and follow their leader. But I know my sheep, and to all alike I will give the life that is to come, eternal. Never will these flocks of the sheep perish, as long as the age remains, circling in spontaneous and arched revolutions. Nor shall anyone snatch my prudent flock from my hand; my Father, who gave the flocks to me to feed, is greater than all. I myself, and my ruling Father, are one."

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^A a race we are, ingrafted, rooted of itself, from whence are the infinite plants of the world. 31 The King spoke; but the people flowed together, and from the ground took up stones, that with the rage of stones seized, they might pelt Christ with missiles from the broken ground. 32 But Jesus answered, pouring forth an expostulatory voice: Many good works from my most high Father I have shown you, which I learned: yet for this divine work you pay a murderous retribution, and against me are you armed with stony missiles? 33 The people answered in turn: Not by reason of a Good work are the citizens gathered, having rage, that they may envelope you in a stony tunic; but for your blasphemous mouth, which, having the germ of earthly generation, being mortal, you say that you are God. 34 But Christ spoke an indisputable word to the opposing people: Does not your law bring forth these set marks? I said: Ye are gods? And if to earthly men, to whom then only the word of God came like a dream, the song of your law called them gods, 35 and the divine voice cannot be rescinded by the written book: concerning the Word whom the High-ruler gave to the world, and whom he sealed with the holy law of a pure hand, you have spoken an insensate word, being mad, because I am the Son of the living God. ^B 37 If I do not perform the works of my life-starting Father, never believe me: 38 and if as the giver of life by word, I do things worthy of our eternal Father, which the sight of witnesses has seen, that you may know by a certain God-inspired word, that my Father is in me; and that he himself, appearing near, is indivisible, I am equal to the Father. 39 But certain imprudent men tried to seize the incomprehensible Jesus: but he, escaping on swift foot from the hands of the impious, departed to the region opposite the Jordan river; and a vast gathering of men followed him as he went. 40 And one said to another, pouring forth a trustworthy opinion: John indeed showed no miracle to the people looking on; but concerning this man, with unerring eyes I see everything is true which he said. 41 And many men there believed in the Son of God, because of his inimitable works. ^C

TEXT OF THE EVANGELIST. 31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him. 32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me? 33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest thyself God. 34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? 35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God? 37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand, 40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode. 41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle: but all things that John spake of this man were true. 42 And many believed on him there. ^D

CAP. XI.

^A 1 Now there was a certain Lazarus, a man infirm with a morbid fire, within Bethany, the famous village of Martha and Mary. 2 But that Mary was called the beautiful-haired receiver of God of Christ: who anointed both his feet with the dew of fragrant ointment, and wiped them with her hair; and striving through the heights from the divine feet, she watered the hair made wet with moisture, the beautiful-haired receiver of God of Christ, whose brother was then being tormented by a hot, morbid fever, having heavy knees. 3 But the sisters, when they both saw the infirm brother wasted away by a limb-eating plague, near to death, had sent a common word to the King who drives away evil: Lazarus whom you love is being tormented by a black disease; visit him whom you love. 4 And Christ the king, hearing the voice, sounded: This harm of the feverish hour has not brought the men to eternal morbid death, but this is the sublime glory of God, so that through him the dear Son of Man, the king, may be exalted with immortal honors. 5 But Jesus loved the hospitable women, Martha and Mary and Lazarus, by a certain friendly law. 6 But when he heard the message in the place that Lazarus was lying, tending toward death, bound by a morbid bond in his limbs, he passed over the double course of the death-bringing dawn.

122 7 And after the second day he said to his disciples: Let us go again to the clear soil of the Jewish men. 8 And the disciples, restraining him, addressed him: Master, the raging citizens of Judea were just now seeking to throw stones at you with arrows, and you wish to come where the hostile citizens are?

9 But Jesus answered, consoling the complaining mind of his common household companions with a certain speech: Are there not twelve circular hours of the day? A traveler at the rising of the day does not bend his foot, stumbling with slippery shoes; ^C 10 But he who walks as a companion of blind darkness with indulgent feet, he walks an erroneous path.

11 Thus he said; and then, having turned, he said to the disciples: Lazarus, our dearest host, sleeps a necessary and blameless sleep; but I will go over so that I may rouse him from his sleep in return.

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1 Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus from Bethany, from the village of Mary and Martha her sister. 2 (Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair; whose brother Lazarus was ill.) 3 The sisters therefore sent to him, saying: Lord, behold, he whom you love is ill. 4 But Jesus, hearing, said: This illness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it. 5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. 6 When therefore he heard that he was ill, then indeed he remained in the place where he was for two days. 7 Then after this he says to the disciples: Let us go into Judea again. 8 The disciples say to him: Rabbi, just now the Jews were seeking to stone you, and are you going there again? 9 Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble; because he sees the light of this world; 10 But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles; because the light is not in him. 11 He said these things; and after this he says to them: Lazarus our friend has fallen asleep; but I am going so that I may wake him up.

αὐτόν. ^A And the disciples, not understanding the saying, said: If Lazarus sleeps, he will be safe. For Jesus spoke of the newly dead as sleeping in a tearful tomb, dead, mute, and in the irrevocable sleep of destruction: but they hoped in vain that the dear dead man was sleeping a sweet, changeable sleep in his bed. ^B But the King openly said in a merciful discourse: Death, equal to all, has put Lazarus to sleep, bringing a different, cruel sleep; but I rejoice for your sakes, that I was not in that place when he was conversing with approaching death, so that you might have faith, seeing the traveler dead after his fate, living again and touching the table of Christ, his guest for a second time; but let us go to him. And Thomas, who is called Didymus, hearing this, spoke; and when the disciples were gathered, he gave vent to a mournful voice, weeping and grieving: Let us go where that lovely man is, so that we may die with him in love, in one common fate. And the King, coming late to the familiar village, found Lazarus dead, lying on the sepulchral dust, having been for the fourth day in the mournful tomb. Now Bethany was a distance of fifteen stadia from the city of Jerusalem. And a great crowd of Jews followed into the neighboring village, and there they approached the hospitable house of Martha and Mary, into the sleeping-chamber of their brother’s death, comforting them together, because with his accustomed word he shook off the bitter stings of their stifled care, resolving their wakeful mourning. And Martha, hearing the report spread abroad that the Lord had arrived, ran to meet him with hurried feet; but Mary was kept shut up in the house in sorrowful silence. And Martha, approaching Christ, said with much groaning: O Blessed One, if you had been here when Lazarus was suffering with sickness, my brother surely would not have died; but I know in my heart even now that the Father will grant you all things whatsoever you ask of him. ^C And the King answered with a word: Your brother shall rise again. And Martha, hearing the immortal voice, spoke again: I know, and the resurrection does not escape me, that he shall be raised up in the end, when the last course of the dawn shall arrive. And Christ said to her, a life-giving divine utterance:

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and the life. He that believeth in me, although he be dead, shall live. 26 And every one that liveth and believeth in me, shall not die for ever. Believest thou this? 27 She saith to him: Yea, Lord, I have believed that thou art Christ the Son of the living God, who art come into this world. 28 And when she had said these things, she went, and called her sister Mary secretly, saying: The teacher is come, and calleth for thee. 29 She, as soon as she heard this, riseth quickly, and cometh to him. (30 For Jesus was not yet come into the town: but he was still in that place where Martha had met him.) Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary that she rose up speedily and went out, followed her, saying: That she goeth to the grave to weep there. Mary therefore, when she was come where Jesus was, seeing him, fell down at his feet, saying to him: Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died. Jesus therefore, when he saw her weeping, and the Jews that were come with her, groaning in the spirit, and troubled himself, and said: Where have you laid him? They say to him: Lord, come and see. Jesus wept. ^A

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I have become the life and the resurrection; and whoever among men ^B shall believe in me, even if he were a breathless corpse, shall live again; and whoever cherishes faith in his heart, this mortal shall not die, as long as time endures. Do you believe that this word is true? She herself answered: Lord, I know and I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who wards off evil, who comes into the world. Having spoken such a word, she departed with swift foot and called Mary, her sister in blood; and she whispered secretly in her ears: The Savior Teacher has come, and he calls you. And she was swifter than the word when she heard it; she hastened with quickened step, freed from mourning and filled with joy; and with impetuous speed she made her way to Christ who was near by. 30 The people who were within the mourning house, and were comforting her with some word that soothes pain—vigilant comforters in her grief—when they suddenly saw how Mary rose quickly and went out in silence, followed her with retreating feet, thinking that the tearful Mary, because she ran suddenly, intended to go to the familiar tomb, so that she might weep again beside the dead. For the King of the region had not yet entered the village, but remaining unmoved, he still kept the firm footprint of his foot in the sacred place where he had previously met Martha. And when the heavy-tearing Mary came near the place where Jesus remained with his unshaken footprint, as soon as she caught sight of him, with her mind struck by a goad, casting herself down, she fell upon the ground and leaned against his immortal feet; and weeping, she wetted his divine feet with mournful moisture, bringing forth a forced speech; but from her throat, overcome by tears, her voice barely made its way: O blessed one, if you had been here, Lazarus would not have yielded to fate. And seeing Mary lamenting, and the companions with her, the sons of the Jews who were lately mourning, whose cheeks were being rained upon by a great shower of tears, stirred by his Father’s Spirit, he uttered a voice: Show me where you have laid him. And they said to him: Come and see. And Jesus himself groaned, shedding unaccustomed tears from eyes that do not weep.

^A And some of the people observing him said immediately: Look how he loved even him who is not present; others cried out in reply: Could he who opened the eyes of blind men by casting away their darkness with a little clay, not perform an equal work, so that this man might not meet a mortal end? Thus each one spoke. But Jesus moved onward with haste, drawing pity from his sorrowing heart, and had come near the tomb; and there was a subterranean cave within a hollowed house, and a stone, providing an imitation of a door, solid and of equal measure, leaned against the chasm of the grave. And Jesus, the King, commanded the believing people: Remove the stone from the household sepulcher. But Martha, sister of the dead man, cried out in a mourning voice: The one lying within is without a stone for a door. For when the earthly chasm is opened, a foul odor comes forth, because the dead man has been four days in the tomb. But Jesus answered and said to the mourning Martha: Did I not tell you this before? If you keep on your lips the wise seal of silence, having true faith and not being of double mind, will you not see the life-giving honor of the heavenly God? They took away the stone; but the King lifted up his eyes toward the stars and cried out to his Father: To you, Father, ^B be thanks, for you have heard me. I know in my mind that you always hear me, your Son, crying out; but I speak for the sake of the people standing around, that they may have a better faith to hear that you have sent me, looking with their eyes at the dead man quickly coming forth from the sepulcher, bound in grave-clothes, and not falling into dust. He spoke; and he resounded with a piercing voice: Come forth, Lazarus, outside. And the voice that revives the dead gave life to the breathless body of the dead man who was bereft of speech. He called the breathless man, and the dead man ran as a traveler, walking with his foot entangled, moving himself toward the earth; he called the breathless man, and hearing among the dead, ^C the dead man returned as a fugitive from Hades, seeing after the end of life another wonderful and newly-regained beginning. But Pluto, who tames all things, sought in vain near neighboring Lethe for the untamable wandering dead man. And dragging his unbending knees with his foot straightened, having a blind and forward-tending impulse, the dead man was shouting, and from foot even to head ^D bound with wrappings, he had his whole body tight.

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36 The Jews therefore said: Behold how he loved him. 37 But some of them said: Could not this man, who opened the eyes of the blind, have made it so that this man should not die? 38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself comes to the sepulcher. Now it was a cave, and a stone was laid upon it. 39 Jesus says: Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of the dead man, says to him: Lord, he now stinks: for he is four days dead. 40 Jesus says to her: Did I not say to you that if you believe, you shall see the glory of God? 41 They took therefore the stone where the dead man was laid. And Jesus lifting up his eyes, said: Father, I give you thanks that you have heard me. 42 And I knew that you always hear me; but because of the multitude who stand about I said it, that they may believe that you have sent me. 43 And when he had said these things, he cried with a loud voice: Lazarus, come forth. 44 And the dead man came forth, bound feet and hands with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus says to them: Loose him, and let him go.

^A He had his whole body constrained with funerary bands, having the warm sweat of a covered face: and he was fortified with a linen veil about his circled head, a Sudarium, which the mouth of the Syrians calls out. But to the astonished people present like a cloud, the King gave orders: "Loose him for me and allow the light dead man to walk." As the King spoke, the companions immediately, [and] the people, broke the again-tied bonds of the wretched man and stripped away the heavy covering of the limbs’ chains; and the dead man came into the house a second time with accustomed foot, seeing the light on the fifth day. Many of the Jews, indeed, going to the mourning house of Martha and Mary, believed in the Son of God, beholding with their eyes the incredible work which the Lord did, raising the dead Lazarus, leaping forth from the dark abyss, returned from the dead with swift foot. And some of them turned their tracks into the city to the eminent priests, preaching to the multitude of the incredulous Pharisees the works of God the Christ. And the imprudent high priests were gathering into the multisonous forum, where the council of the elders of the primary seat was sitting, gathered together into one. And one said to another: "What shall we do? For this man, an adversary, shows sublime signs by appearing in various ways. But if we allow him to do similar signs, the people will no longer follow us, but the citizens, believing, will adhere to one man alone; all will follow him, and the Roman men will come and take away our whole nation, nation and place alike." Now there was a man among them, Caiaphas, nefarious, ^B versatile, who at that time was the High Priest of that year, the leader of the feast. He sounded a guileful word to the Jews: "You know nothing with an inexperienced, prudent mind, nor do you consider in your spirit what is more advantageous: that it is good for one citizen to die for the people, lest on his account our whole nation falls to ruin; with one man dying, the whole city shall be tranquil." But the man did not say this prophesying from himself; but set apart for sacrifice, as the priest of that year, he prophesied with the customary voice, that Christ was about to die, willing it by a life-bearing death, for the nation of the Jews: and not for the Nation alone, but that He might gather into one the sons of God scattered in the world. ^C But by the author of evils, in that hour, the impudent high priests wove a council, and the versatile assembly of the incredulous Pharisees, ^D while the High Priest of the year was the leader of the feast.

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45 Many therefore of the Jews who had come to Mary, and had seen what Jesus did, believed in Him. 46 But some of them went to the Pharisees, and told them what Jesus had done. 47 The chief priests and the Pharisees therefore gathered a council, and said: What are we doing? For this man does many signs. 48 If we let him alone, all will believe in him; and the Romans will come and take away both our place and the nation. 49 But one of them, Caiaphas, being the high priest of that year, said to them: You know nothing. 50 Nor do you consider that it is expedient for us that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation should not perish. 51 And this he did not say of himself; but being the high priest of that year, he prophesied that Jesus should die for the nation; 52 And not only for the nation, but that He should also gather together in one the children of God that were dispersed. 53 From that day therefore they devised that they might put him to death.

to the slaughter, that all might kill Jesus with one destruction. 54 No longer did Christ have an open way for saving the people among the Hebrews; but with silent foot, He crossed the holy bosom of the Judean land: He came to a place near the mountain, near the desert, to a city where He stayed with His divine disciples, which they call Ephraim. 55 And the feast of the Passover was near, much celebrated; and from the wide land, many Judean men from the desert of the holy ones were ascending to the seats of Jerusalem, that they might first purify their bodies with divine purifications before the celebrated day of the feast appeared. 56 And many in the fragrant temple were seeking the absent Jesus, the speaker of divine things; and standing, they were speaking among themselves. And the people said: "To you who are considering, what does it seem, that this man is not able to come to the recently celebrated feast?" 57 And the unbelieving chief priests and the crafty chorus of the haughty Pharisees had given orders to the inhabitants that whoever should see Him through the city, or hear of Him, should announce it to the multitude of the deceitful Pharisees, so that the hostile crowd might arrest and kill Him.

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TEXT OF THE EVANGELIST 54 Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the desert, to a city called Ephraim; and there He stayed with His disciples. 55 And the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the region before the Passover, to purify themselves. 56 Therefore they were seeking Jesus, and were saying to one another as they stood in the temple: "What do you think, that He will by no means come to the feast?" 57 Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone knew where He was, he should report it, so that they might arrest Him.

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^A For the needy poor, and not to the swirling dust? But he, the deceitful one, said this, not because he, unmerciful, cared for needy men, but only because he was a thief, overcome by wealth; he had a purse in which the money lay; and whatever was collected, he, the wicked guardian, would take for himself. But Jesus restrained him with a word, and said to the murderer: Leave the gift of the blameless woman, so that she may guard the memorial of our Body, until the lethal, funereal hour of our burial comes. For the poor are always present, ever ready for you to seek; but you will not always find me present to see. ^B And the credulous people of the Jews, living near the city, heard the report with delighted ears, that Jesus had come back, having his divine footsteps in the familiar village, where the house of Martha was, and a vast crowd of travelers ran, one companion after another, not only that they might see Jesus, the giver of light, but also Lazarus himself, whom he had raised, bringing him back from the dead, breathing and alive, pouring forth a lifegiving sound. And the envious, shameless high priests were raging, and the whole furious gathering of the Pharisees, so that they might send Lazarus back into the dark abyss, killing him—returned from the dead—with a second slaughter, still breathing his former death, so that one might say: Lazarus escaped death, but did not escape the high priests. They plotted to kill this innocent man, because for his sake the people of the Jews, tending toward the walls of the village, believed in the Son of God, the King who wards off evil. ^C When the dawn, rising high, had parted the shadowless night, the people who had approached for the festive solemnities, hearing rumors that Jesus was coming from the holy village to the abode of Jerusalem, went to meet him in a crowd; and from the tree-planted garden they stripped the palm trees of their high-growing clusters. And the people, waving green branches in the air, shouted with praising mouths an echoing sound: May the King of Israel be praised in blessings, he who comes in the name of the immortal Creator. And Jesus moved along, having a two-fold procession here and there of the branch-bearing path, and a following crowd of travelers, carried through the middle of the men, guiding an unbridled ass, a hardworking traveler, sitting upon the back of an inexperienced bearer, just as Isaiah had said it would be fulfilled.

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6 He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and had the money box, and used to take what was put into it. 7 Then Jesus said: Let her be; she has kept it for the day of my burial. 8 For you always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me. 9 A great crowd of the Jews therefore knew that He was there, and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests plotted to kill Lazarus also; 11 Because on account of him many of the Jews were going away and believing in Jesus. 12 On the next day a great multitude that had come to the feast, having heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem, 13 Took the branches of the palm trees and went out to meet Him, and were crying out: Hosanna, blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, the King of Israel. 14 And Jesus, having found a young donkey, sat upon it, as it is written:

^A Daughter of the sublime mother, fear not, O Sion; Already the King, endowed with varied gifts, shall pass unto you, Having the swift foal following its mother. And these things the disciples did not consider beforehand; But when Christ the King reassumed his all-ruling form, Then all the disciples remembered That these things were all inscribed in the wise book, And they themselves had accomplished these things. It was the voice of the mingled multitude that bore witness, When Jesus called Lazarus from the tomb, And raised the four-day-dead from the dead, Pouring forth a sound that brings souls back. For whose sake a great throng of travelers came streaming, Celebrating Christ who saves the dead, the Son of David. ^B But the Pharisees, like-minded, argued among themselves: "What profit waxes for us? For the whole varied World is walking behind one man, And our murderous deceit shall aid us in nothing." And there were certain men of the Greeks, who at that time Were many of those ascending as spectators of the divine feast. Hearing of Jesus from the celebrated report, While approaching near, they spoke to Philip: "We have come, desiring to see Christ." Then Philip, the fellow-townsman, hastened And spoke to Andrew; and the sweet-speaking Andrew, Companion of the hastening Philip, Spoke the word to Christ. The King answered with a word: "The hour is now come, though late, when the time stands near, That the wise Son of Man might be exalted." Let the Amen, Amen, be a word as a witness of truth: "When a grain of wheat is fallen upon the thirsty earth, If it does not die, then it remains there alone, useless, Unsown, unprofitable, unploughed, without a sickle; But if it should die, it brings forth life-giving, abundant fruit. He who loves his fleeting soul loses it, Pursuing the deceptive hope of the pleasure-loving world; But he who hates his soul preserves it Unto the life of the unending age, firm and unblemished. Whoever might obey me, weaving the work of a servant, Him my Father, seated on high, knows how to honor; Whoever should serve, having trusted in my laws, He shall accompany me and shall be a fellow-traveler, That he may remain with me as a servant wherever I stay."

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15 Fear not, daughter of Sion; behold, your King comes, sitting on a donkey's colt. 16 These things his disciples did not understand at the first; but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things were written concerning him, and that they did these things to him. 17 The crowd therefore that was with him testified, when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead. 18 For this reason also the crowd met him, when they heard that he had performed this miracle. 19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves: See that you gain nothing? Behold, the world has gone after him. 20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the feast. 21 These therefore came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida of Galilee, and asked him, saying: Lord, we desire to see Jesus. 22 Philip comes and tells Andrew; and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus. 23 And Jesus answered them, saying: The hour has come that the Son of man should be glorified. 24 Amen, amen, I say to you, unless the grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit. 25 He who loves his life will lose it; and he who hates his life in this world, shall keep it unto life eternal. 26 If any man serves me, let him follow me; and where I am, there also shall my servant be; and if any man serves me, the Father will honor him.

^A Now my heart is agitated; but what shall I say? My soul troubles me; Father, save me from this hour of unwavering mind; yet it was for this, not forced but willing, that I came to this dreadful hour; glorify thy Son. ^B And there was a voice from heaven, And I have glorified thee before, and will glorify thee again. And the great crowd standing here and there and hearing the heavenly storm of the voice in trembling ears, the people clamored, because from divine coffers the thunderous, heavy-sounding, ethereal echo struck. Others, however, answered that an angel had spoken to him nearby with a wise muttering of voice. But Jesus spoke to the whole wonder-stricken people: This din does not strike on my account: but from heaven, like thunder, the voice has come for you. ^B 31 Now there is a judgment of the divine world; now also the Prince of sin is cast out of the world. 32 And when I shall be lifted up from the expanse of the earth, I will draw you all to me into the wide heaven. He said this, signifying by what life-giving death Jesus was about to die, saving the peoples. ^C The people in turn answered him with a concordant speech: We have heard from the written signs many times, that Christ, the ruler of all, remains forever. And why did you say to us in your obscure speech: From the earthly depths, when I am lifted up and come into heaven, I myself will draw you all from the earth, when the famous Son of Man shall have been lifted up? Tell us, indeed, who is this whom, by some unknown law, you have called the wise Son of Man with your voice? But Jesus answered them all at once: For a little time still the heavenly light will be among you. Do not wander, but walk in the light along the straight path, confident, as long as the light still shines, before darkness seizes you in a gloomy whirlwind. For he who walks as a traveler at night with an erring foot, goes astray, not knowing the twisted path on which he walks. As long as you see the light, believe in the wise word of the Light, that you may become sons of the light-bearing splendor. The Life-giver, the Son of Man, having cried out all these things, hid himself, leaving behind the crafty crowd of the Jews. And though he had performed so many various remedies for their diseases, while they watched, he was no longer heard, ^D *Now my soul is troubled. And what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour; but for this cause I came to this hour. Father, glorify thy name. There came therefore a voice from heaven: I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again. The crowd therefore that stood by and heard it, said that it had thundered. Others said: An angel has spoken to him. Jesus answered and said: This voice has not come for my sake, but for your sakes. Now is the judgment of this world; now will the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself. 33 (But he said this, signifying by what death he was about to die.) The crowd answered him: We have heard out of the law that the Christ remains forever; and how do you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man? Jesus therefore said to them: Yet a little while the light is with you; walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. And he who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going. While you have the light, believe in the light, that you may become sons of light. These things Jesus spoke, and departing, he was hidden from them. And though he had performed so many signs before them, they did not believe in him.

^A For no man believed, that there might be fulfilled what Isaiah said, pouring forth a prophetic voice: "Lord, who after so many things has believed your report? Or to whom has the arm of the God of all been bared?" 39 For this reason they could not increase their religious faith; 40 because Isaiah also said again in a prophetic voice: "He has blinded the eyes of the witnesses of my works, 145 and has made the upright mind blind and errant; so that they may not understand with the heart and see with their eyes, and turn to me, that I may save men suffering in their minds—men sinning—by my healing word, as a physician sprinkling fitting medicines without iron." Isaiah wrote all these things in a fatidic voice, because he saw the glory of God the Christ anticipating the time, with the eye of the heart seeing all things, and for that very reason he prophesied the divine voice hastening toward the future. 42 Yet certain firm men, in wise silence, of the principate of the Jews—the proud eye of the council—believed in the Son of God on account of his divine works; but avoiding the fear and zeal of the Pharisees, no one openly manifested his mind; but the faith at that time lying latent within the breast of each man's light, unseen and silent, was hidden in a sheltered silence. 43 For every man preferred the favor of earth-born men, ^B rather than the much-splendid honor of the great God alone. 44 Jesus, however, spoke aloud in the fragrant temple: "Whoever receives the orders of my divinely-spoken words, in believing in me, does not trust in me, but in the Father who sent me. 45 And every man seeing me with human eyes, sees also my Father. I, the light, have come from heaven into this darkened world; I have come as light from heaven, so that the man who honors me, having immovable faith, may never remain in darkness. 47 Whoever receives the streams of my words sent by God, and keeps the seal of an inviolate mind, I never judge this man; for I have not come to judge the world that is much errant, but to save it. 48 Whoever rejects me and, being a daring man, does not receive the living streams of my voice that preserve life, this man has a judge who judges him; for the word which I speak, this will rebuke this unbeliever." 147

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38 "That the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he said: Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?" ^D 43 "For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God." 39 For this reason they were not able to believe, because Isaiah said again: 44 Jesus cried out and said: "He who believes in me, does not believe in me, but in him who sent me. 40 'He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart: that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.' 45 And he who sees me, sees him who sent me. 41 These things said Isaiah when he saw his glory and spoke of him. 46 I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness. 42 Nevertheless, even from the rulers many believed in him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, lest they should be put out of the synagogue: 47 And if any man hears my words and does not believe, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 He who rejects me and does not receive my words, has one who judges him; the word which I have spoken, that will judge him in the last day."

^A Judging, when the final course of the dawn is finished, when there is judgment for all who are awakened. For I have never learned from my own initiative to utter a speech, but I have a life-giving commandment from God the Father as to what I should speak or what I should cry out to the gathered men. And I know the injunction of the all-ruling Begetter, that everlasting life, which the running age has been allotted, is present with the eternal whirling; and whatever I teach you, as my Father has recounted to me, so I say.

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^B And before the Passover came upon the citizens, before the altars were scorched, Jesus, knowing that the timely hour had come, that having turned back from the world and ascending to the heaven, he might shine forth again together with the All-Ruling Father, having loved his own friends who were always present from the beginning, he loved them even unto the end. And when the evening meal of the kindly table was taking place, he performed a servile task, weaving it for his friends (for the antagonistic demon, having goaded Judas into a human madness with a certain greedy sting, so that that bold man might betray Christ, his own nurturer, to the Jews, having already received the price of his destruction). He himself, knowing in his heart that the All-Ruling God had given all things into his hand to distribute, and that he had come from the heavens and was returning to God by a double law and from God beforehand; and then, Jesus, weaving the servant's task for his guests, rose up in haste, leaving the supper, and laid aside his glorious tunics from his body, and girded his loins with a linen cloth—tightening the hard fabric, which the sepulchral voice called a towel, a defense for men against humid feet. And pouring underground water into a hollow basin, Christ began to wash the dear feet of his friends, moving from the first to one after another, beginning from Simon, even to his own murderer. ^C And he stood over the senior Simon, and both of his feet he took hold of; but Simon drew back quickly, and checked Jesus, showing his dear reverence with his eyes; and holding him back, he mollified him with a strong voice: "Dost thou, King, ruling over all, wash my feet with thine own hands, O minister?" ^D But the sweet-voiced one to the sitting Simon

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"For I have not spoken from myself, but the Father who sent me, he has given me a commandment what I should say and what I should speak. And I know that his commandment is life eternal; therefore whatever I speak, just as the Father has said to me, so I speak."

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Before the feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that his hour had come that he should pass out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them unto the end. And when supper was made (the devil having already cast into the heart of Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, that he might betray him), Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he came from God and is going to God, he rose from supper, and lays aside his garments; and having taken a towel, he girded himself. Then he pours water into a basin, and began to wash the feet of the disciples, and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. He comes therefore to Simon Peter; and that one says to him, "Lord, dost thou wash my feet?" Jesus answered and said to him, "What I do, thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter."

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To Simon who was asking, the God-inspired Jesus said: For now, as I weave this servile task being fulfilled, Thou canst not understand, but hereafter thou shalt know this. And Peter said to Him, pouring out sweet threats: Thou shalt never cleanse my feet, as long as the Much-revolving Age crawls along. The King answered with speech: Never shalt thou have a portion kept with Me, Unless I wash thee, pouring the ministering water. And Simon said to Him with a credulous mind: Yes, I beseech Thee, wash, O King, not only my feet, But both my hands, and my circular head ^A Again, if Thou willest, even my whole body. 10 Jesus said: A man who has been washed has no need of fresh water, Except for his feet alone with a pure bath for a wayfaring Journey; for the whole body is pure. As for you, being Free from human error, you are pure in mind yourselves; But not all at once. For before, He knew in His spirit Which man was to betray Him to the Jews As a thing for sale; which one was a merchant of destruction. On account of which, the King said to His god-near disciples: You know yourselves to be pure in mind, free from error, But not all at once. And according to the servile law, When He was passing through the circle of the twelve guests, The holy Jesus washed the pure feet of His companions ^B Who were reclining, and in turn He put on His tunics; And having braced His hands for the task again Around the final circle of the table joined in love, He said to His companions: Do you yourselves know What I have done for you, weaving a messenger’s work? You rightly call Me with a double clever word Lord, and your Teacher; and you, being wise, Speak this well, for I am both As you call Me. And with a kindly intent, If I, your Leader and skillful King, Have cleansed your feet with a pure bath, but also it is right For you, having learned my example, To wash one another's feet with water in turn. ^C For this became a lesson of a teacher, so that you also Might perform the wise work that I have done, All among yourselves by a certain reciprocal law, A peer-like imitation of a wise commander. A servant is not greater than his King, nor is any man Greater than the leader who sends him as an apostle. If, however, you have understood all these things by reason, And if the mind has contended with the work, You are truly the more blessed. 18 I have not spoken of all ^D

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8 Peter says to Him: Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him: If I do not wash thee, thou hast no part with Me. 9 Simon Peter says to Him: Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. 10 Jesus says to Him: He who is bathed has no need except to wash his feet, but is clean all over; and you are clean, but not all. 11 For He knew him who was betraying Him; therefore He said: You are not all clean. 12 So when He had washed their feet, and received His garments, and reclined again, He said to them: Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me the Teacher and the Lord; and you say well, for I am. 14 If then I, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that as I have done to you, you also should do. 16 Amen, amen I say to you, a slave is not greater than his lord, nor an apostle greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 18 I do not speak of you all; I know whom I have ch-

chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, he who eats bread with me has lifted his heel against me. 19 Now I tell you before it comes to pass, that when it comes to pass, you may believe that I am he. 20 Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives anyone I send receives me; and he who receives me receives him who sent me.

When Jesus had said these things, he was troubled in spirit, and testified and said, Truly, truly, I say to you that one of you will betray me. 22 The disciples looked at one another, being at a loss as to whom he spoke. 23 Now there was leaning on the bosom of Jesus one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved. 24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him to ask who it was of whom he spoke. 25 Then he, leaning back on Jesus' breast, says to him, Lord, who is it? 26 Jesus answers, It is he to whom I shall give the piece of bread when I have dipped it. And having dipped the piece of bread, he gives it to Judas the son of Simon Iscariot. 27 And after the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Jesus says therefore to him, What you do, do quickly. 28 But no one of those reclining knew for what purpose he said to him: 29 For some thought, since Judas had the money box, that Jesus said to him, Buy those things we need for the feast, or that he should give something to the poor.

^A Having told you of the washing of the indigent; but the discourse is for the sake of one; I myself also know what kind of most faithful and blameless men I have chosen; but that the divine song which spoke may be fulfilled: An ungentle man, mad for gold, eating my bread, having raised his treacherous heel against me, an insolent guest, has insulted our table. With a pre-running tongue, I now predict what is to be, so that if the revolving time, creeping near, should bring it to pass, you may remember the ancient word, which my prophetic voice foretold to you would come to pass. Let the firm-speaking "Amen, Amen" be the witness, that whoever should receive my minister, whomsoever I send, bearing a gentle eye, receives me; and he who receives him who was sent by God, embracing me, receives my eternal Father who sent me.

^B The King said to his companions, and opening his prophetic mouth, Christ, stirred by the intelligent vibration of the heavenly Spirit, was disturbed by the flame of his unsilent mind. Bringing forth his own testimony, he belched out his voice: One man among you, dear companions, will betray me; one fickle friend and table-mate will overcome me. Jesus indeed said this. But the gathered disciples looked at one another with sad faces, all equally perplexed; and they were troubled in silence as to whom he spoke. ^C But a certain man, who was reclining next to the bosom of the benevolent King: Peter beckoned to him; and he asked in speaking silence, for whose sake he had spoken. And he, the beloved man, falling with bold and sharp vibration upon the undefiled chest of the feasting King, whispered into his ear: Who is it? And Christ said: To whom, dipping in a wine-colored drop by hand, I shall offer prepared bread, he himself betrays me. And dipping the final bread into a cup full of wine, he gave it to the shameless Judas, the bread as a herald of his own greedy murderer. And after the divine bread, the leader of iniquity, sowing under the desire of riches, a demon entered into the whole man. And Christ said to him, sending signs to the knowing one: Do what you are doing more quickly. And none of the guests knew, hearing the hidden word in their ears; ^D for some thought, through a certain obscure word, because Judas carried the wooden chest, that the Lord said to his treasurer in a word, [to buy what was needed for the feast].

'Οφρα κεν ἐντύνειεν ὅσον χρέος εἶχεν ἑορτή, ^A Ἢ ἵνα τι πτωχοῖσι βιοπλανέεσσιν ὀπάσσῃ. Καὶ μεθύων μετὰ δόρπον ἀνὴρ φιλοκερδέϊ λύσσῃ Ἓνθεον ἄρτον ἔχων, ἀνεχάζετο νυκτὸς ὁδίτης. 'Αλλ' ὅτε νόσφι βέβηκε δυωδεκάριθμος Ἰούδας, 154 Ἕνδεκα δαιτυμόνεσσι θεηγόρος εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς· Νῦν Παῖς ἀνθρώπου φαεσίμβροτον ἔλλαχε τιμήν, Καὶ Θεὸς αὐτογένεθλος ἐδέξατο κῦδος ἐν αὐτῷ. Εἰ δὲ Θεὸς Γενέτης ὑψούμενος ἐστι δι’ αὐτοῦ, Καὶ Θεὸς ὑψώσει Πατὴρ Υἱέα γεραίρων. 33 Τέκνα, μεθ’ ὑμείων ὀλίγον χρόνον εἰσέτι μίμνω. Καὶ λόγον Ἑβραίοισιν ἂν ἔννεπον, ἄρτι καὶ ὑμῖν Φθέγγομαι ἡμετέρῃ παλινάγρετον ἠθάδι φωνῇ· Πολλά με μαστεύσητε παλίνδρομον ὀψὲ νοῆσαι· Ὑμέας δ’ οὐ θέμις ἐστὶ συνήλυδας ὁππόθι βαίνω Ἡμετέρης ἀκίχητον ἔχειν δρόμον ἀτραπιτοῖο. 34 Ὁπλοτέρην ἐν ἅπασιν ἐφημοσύνην ἐπιτέλλω, Ὑμέας ὡς ἀγάπαζον ἴσῳ καὶ ἀμεμφέϊ θεσμῷ, Ἀλλήλων φιλίην ὁσίῳ σφρηγίσατε θεσμῷ, Ἀρθμὸν ὁμοφροσύνης ἀλύτῳ δήσαντες ὀχῆϊ· 35 Ὑμέας εἰν ἑνὶ πάντες ἵνα γνώωσιν ἰδόντες Ἀλλήλους φιλέοντας, ὅτι ζαθέῳ τινὶ θυμῷ Παμφαέος Χριστοῖο θεουδέες ἐστὲ μαθηταί. 36 Χριστοῦ δ’ ὡς κλύε μῦθον ἐκὰς μέλλοντος ὁδεύειν, Μειλιχίοις δάροισι φιλήκοος ἔννεπε Σίμων· Κοίρανε, πῆ σπεύδεις; τίνα μοι τίνα χῶρον ἱκάνεις; Ἰησοῦς δ’ ἀπάμειπτο καὶ εἰρομένῳ φάτο Πέτρῳ· Οὐ δύνασαι προθέοντος ὅπη ποδὸς ἴχνος ἐπείγω Ξυνὸς ὀπισθοκέλευθος ἐμὴν ὁδὸν ἄρτι περῆσαι· Ἀλλὰ παλινδίνητος ὅτε χρόνος ὥριος ἔλθῃ, Αὐτὸς ὁμαρτήσειας ὑστερον. 37 Εἶπε δὲ Σίμων· Οὐ δύναμαι ταχύγουνος ὀπισθοπόρῳ ποδὶ βαίνων Ὑμετέρης ἀβάτοιο ταμεῖν κενεῶνα κελεύθου; Καὶ ψυχὴν ἐθέλουσαν ὑπὲρ σέθεν ἐγγυαλίξω. 38 Ἰησοῦς δ’ ἀδόκητον ἔπος μυθήσατο Πέτρῳ· Ψυχὴν ὑμετέρην ἐμέθεν χάριν αὐτίκα θήσεις; Τρὶς δὲ μόνης δασπλῆτι μιῆς ἐνὶ νυκτὸς ἀνάγκῃ Χριστὸν ἀπαρνήσαιο, πρὶν αὐχένα κυρτὸν ἀείρας Ὀξὺ μέλος κλάγξειεν ἐγερσιβόητος ἀλέκτωρ.

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πιστεύετε. ^A In the house of the Father there are mansions equal in order; and if my hospitable hall were not endowed with a spacious courtyard, I would surely have told you that I was going as a forerunner, to prepare a dwelling in a roomier hall, weaving a place newly made and worthy of you; and after the divine floor of the most ready house, I shall return, bringing you to myself forever, that you may remain, as immortal inhabitants, where I remain: you know my way, and yourselves. He spoke. And hearing him, twin-named Thomas resounded, whom his parents called Didymus, from the time when the eighth day of the eager circumcision course of his childhood dawned: "Not yet, O King, do we know whither your foot urges its trace; from where can we learn the dimensions of an untraceable path?" But Jesus resounded, teaching the man eager to hear: "I am life, and truth, and the straight path: I am life, and the way of life; and no man of earth can come to God the Father, unless someone, through me, urges on the God-sent trace, traveling the straight path through the Son to the Father. But if you had known me with a god-spoken wise discourse, out of me you would have known even the Father who rules on high; but now you have known him, and have been taught the ruler on high." And Philip soothed Jesus with his word: "O King, show your Father to your disciples; show your Parent, and it suffices for us." But Jesus spoke, having the divine form ^B related to the invisible Father behind a human appearance: "For so long a time, Philip, have I been here, remaining as your companion, and have you not seen my face? Every man who has known me has also seen the eternal Father. ^C Do you not yet have faith that I am the peer of the Father, and that the Father contains me in one harmonious form? And whence do you ask of me, by some divided law, 'Show me the Father'? Whom you have seen, looking at me, from the heart when I belch forth the word. Remaining in me, my Father, as my helper, has woven the work for me as I speak. Not yet have you confirmed in your mind the word that testifies; and my Father is with me, because I myself am engrafted into the Father; I, speaking, but He, acting. If you do not believe me, believe solely in our works, that you may also know the undivided fellowship joined by one bolt; the Son in the Father.

TEXTUS EVANGELISTÆ. 2 In the house of my Father are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know. 5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? 6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me. 7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him. ^D 8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, shew us the Father, and it sufficeth us. 9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father? 10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.

^A of him who abides in the Father, and of the Father who exists in the Son.

12 Let the word "Amen, amen" be a firm witness. Every man who increases our unshakable faith shall himself accomplish the works that I perform, and shall perform miracles much greater than these, because I am hastening to come to the Father. 13 And whatsoever you ask of the supreme Father, invoking my name, I will perform all, that the pure Father may be glorious in the Son. 14 If you ask anything of the high-ruling Father, invoking my name, I will perform all. 15 If, however, you have bound yourselves to me by the law of most faithful friendship, keep every one of our commandments in your hearts; 16 and I will pray to God my Father, that he may send to you from heaven a Paraclete, a stranger, another con-genital to Christ, similar, a firm guide of Truth forever; ^B whom the multiform world cannot ever receive, because man shall never see with human eyes such a primal light, the Spirit of God the Father; but you alone shall behold the divine appearance of the invisible countenance. For he shall abide with you, and shall be a companion to you, possessing a spiritual home for all. I will not truly leave you as orphans, deprived of heavenly aid; but I come to you again swiftly. A little time yet remains, when the world, being faithless, shall no longer behold my divine form; but you alone shall see me, and because I abide living forever after the earth, you also shall all live through me. 20 That I am in the Father, you shall know in that [day], and that you are with me, and I am intertwined with you. 21 Whoever, having my commandments in his breast, shall fulfill them, this man loves me; and being a pure lover, he shall be a man beloved by my God the Father. Him I also shall embrace with a bond of equal affection, and I will immediately show him the divine appearance of my body. 22 Jesus was answered, and another Judas, the son of James, and not the bold Iscariot, said: Lord, how is it that you show your appearance only to your companions, and not to the world that does not look upon you? 23 Jesus, however, said, teaching the concordant light:

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12 "Amen, amen, I say to you, he that believeth in me, the works that I do, he also shall do; and greater than these shall he do: because I go to the Father. 13 And whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, that will I do: that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 If you shall ask me anything in my name, that I will do. 15 If you love me, keep my commandments. 16 And I will ask the Father, and he shall give you another Paraclete, that he may abide with you for ever. 17 The Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, nor knoweth him: but you shall know him; because he shall abide with you, and shall be in you. 18 I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you. 19 Yet a little while: and the world seeth me no more. But you see me: because I live, and you shall live. 20 In that day you shall know, that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. 21 He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them: he it is that loveth me. And he that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father: and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. 22 Judas saith to him, not the Iscariot: Lord, how is it, that thou wilt manifest thyself to us, and not to the world? 23 Jesus answered, and said to him: If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and will make our abode with him."

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He will grant my unshakable peace as a companion. ^B Whatever man, honoring me, loves me more, and guards my word within his inviolable heart, the Father of mine will love this wise man; and both of us, the Father and I, having come to one man, will erect a dwelling built within himself, remaining in a human, vocal home. But he who does not love me will vainly leave my word, neglected, to be carried away by winds of forgetfulness. And this word which I spoke is not mine, but the Father's, who sent me from heaven as a helper of the world. While I, your companion, still remain upon the earth, I have said all these things; but when the Paraclete shall come, He will teach you all things by his governing word; He Himself shall bring back to your memory all things that I said among you. I shall leave you peace that preserves life; I shall provide my own unmoved peace as a companion. Not as the wandering world gives a common gift to you, so will I guarantee you to have it. Let not turmoil shake your heart, nor fear disturb it. Now you have heard my voice when I cried out, that I, being returned to my Father who calls me, shall go to the celestial high-halls, the dwelling of the stars. But if you had applied the laws of unswerving friendship to me, you would have leaped with the sole of a joyous foot, bearing a common joy, that, having left the soil of the earth, I shall go, a late traveler, to the Father who sent me; because the Father, governor of all, is greater than I. But I have already told you this divine word beforehand, so that if the turning, unstable time of life should accomplish it, you might remember the word spoken long ago, which I prophesied to you, opening my lips to foretell it. ^C But to you I shall speak no more at length; for the arrogant prince of this world will appear unexpectedly. He comes, having nothing in me, but only that the world may know, through my prudent speech, that I love the Father, and that I do all things whatsoever the Father commanded by his governing word. Arise, and let us go hence.

CAP. XV.

I am the true vine of life in the world, and my Father is the husbandman. Every branch in me not bearing fruit, He takes it away; and every one that bears fruit, He cleanses it, that it may bear more fruit.

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24 He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words. And the word which you have heard, is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me. 29 And now I have told you before it come to pass: that when it shall come to pass, you may believe. 30 I will not now speak many things with you. For the prince of this world cometh, and in me he hath not any thing. 31 But that the world may know, that I love the Father: and as the Father hath given me commandment, so do I: Arise, let us go hence.

CAP. XV.

1 I am the true vine; and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me, that beareth not fruit, he will take away: and every one that beareth fruit, he will purge it, that it may bring forth more fruit.

φέρῃ.

PARAPHRASE ON JOHN. – CHAPTER XV.

My Father, the tiller of life, knows how to prune with newly-grown leaves, so that he may gather a more abundant fruit. ^A Now you are clean because of the word which I have spoken to you. And you yourselves, remain grafted into my regrowing shrub; remain grafted into me, you sprouts of the world. As a branch of the vine can never bring forth fruit, unless it be grafted into the vine-plant and grow into a tree—an imitation of the clustered, multi-branched shoot—unless you remain similarly grafted into me, you cannot bring forth pious fruit. I am the speaking vine, and you are the vocal branches, weighed down with wise fruit. Every man of firm purpose who remains in me, he increases for God with greater measure fruit that is always flourishing, and not a temporary work. ^B But if anyone among our lambs no longer remains, he is cast out like a vine-branch upon the poured-out earth; like a branch of the vine he lies extended over the earth and dries up, parched like a cluster; and the heavenly ministers, gathering him up, cast him into the furnace; and he is burned by the flaming heat of fire, leaving my vine-bearing branches. But if you remain in me, and the stream of our voice irrigating you remains firm, entering the heart, whatever you desire to receive and ask the Father, all things will be fulfilled for you in one. ^C And in this our Father has obtained high-reaching honor, so that you may bear the prudent fruit of faith by the life-giving word of God; and you shall be my disciples, true in immutable character. But as the sublime Father loved me by a certain unending law, so I have loved you. Remain in the affection of my love, if indeed my law, entering into your watchful ears, shall always be kept in your hearts, always increasing the bond of my friendship in your mind; just as I, keeping the irreprehensible laws of the Father, remain yet inclined toward the Father’s love. And I say these things, thinking friendly thoughts, to you, so that there may be joy for you, and my joy, well-sealed, may be perfect in all of you. ^D This is the wise limit of my command: that you all should always love one another, keeping the bond of unbreakable friendship among yourselves, just as I have loved you. But I, for a greater one than this—

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3 Now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. 5 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. 8 Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples. 9 As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love. 10 If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love. 11 These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full. 12 This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you. 13 Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

^A I know no other love than this, that one should offer his own life, dear to all, as a savior for the life of his companions. 14 You are all my friends, if you perform our commands, which I, who hold command, enjoin upon you. 15 No longer will I call you all my servants; for a servant knows not what work the master weaves, a servant knows not; but I have called you my companions; for whatsoever things I myself heard from the heavenly voice of our benevolent Father, these I have manifested to you all. And it is not by human will that you chose me; but discerning you, the disciples, from among many with an intelligent mind, I received you all as more faithful and made you my companions, so that, coming, you might accumulate fruit, and your seed might be ^B fruitful forever; and by a certain supplicatory speech, "Whatever you ask from the most high King, calling upon my Name, I will perform it all." Proclaiming these things, I command you in a wise discourse to guard the bond of indissoluble friendship between you. If the proud world hates you with an erring mind, know this as witnesses of the works of the earth-born, that because it assailed you all the more with reproaches, it first hated me. And if you had held the form and customs of earthly men of the world that works sin, the wandering world would have associated with you as its own. But since you do not know the error of the human generation, and the twisted cares ^C of the world, I myself, understanding you, received you from the unwise world, so that because you are not of the bastard and illegitimate blood of man’s generation, the world hates you. In an unchanging mind, remember still the wise discourse of ours, which I told you before in assembly: A servant is not better than his king; nor is an envoy greater than the one who sent him. If the threatening human generation persecuted me, it will drive you out as well; but if it hides within it the discourse guarded in the depths of my heart, it will also guard your word within its heart. For the sake of my faithful Name, these men, sinners ^D and jealous, will do these things to you; for they know neither me nor the Father who sent me. If I had not come by the life-giving guidance of the Father, and declared to all the way of godliness, they would not have had a sin to be punished; but now, having learned, they have no excuse for their foolish ruin.

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14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you. 15 I no longer call you servants, because the servant knows not what his master does; but I have called you friends, because all things that I heard from my Father, I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give you. 17 These things I command you, that you love one another. 18 If the world hates you, know that it hated me before you. 19 If you were of the world, the world would love its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. 20 Remember the word that I spoke to you: The servant is not greater than his master. If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they kept my word, they will keep yours also. 21 But all these things they will do to you for my name’s sake, because they do not know Him who sent me. 22 If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

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Whoever hates me and our Parent, ^A This one, acting unjustly, full of wicked execration, hates the ruler of all, God, the artificer of the world. 24 If I had not done works which no other has learned to accomplish, while they themselves were spectators being eye-witnesses, they would not indeed have had the punishments that avenge impiety; but now they both see, and by one law they hate both me myself and the Father who rules on high. 25 But that the word written in their law might be fulfilled, which the divine voice said of the Man who has a beautiful lyre, that it might be fulfilled: They have hated me gratuitously. 26 But after the Spirit having been sent from God the Mind, proceeding from the Father, the Spirit whom I myself will send to you from the Father, comes, He will preach much of me among men. Much also will you speak of me with a prudent, testifying discourse. For truly, being present with me, you are harmonious disciples, having been from the beginning observers of all works.

CAP. XVI

1 To you, however, I say these things, predicting them firmly, lest a bold, faithless stimulus enter your mind. 2 They will drive you from the divine temple; but a swift time shall be when every mortal man, having killed you with a pernicious sword, shall hope to perform a service to God the beloved, sacrificing a man as if for the bovine kind, equating to the sacrifices of oxen a death-dealing libation for men. 3 And these things the Impious, incited by a certain senseless madness, will perform against you; for neither do they themselves know the Son and the Father who reigns on high. 4 But indeed I have predicted all these things, so that when the late, imminent, opportune time arrives, you may remember the prophetic, fateful proclamations of our words. These things, however, I did not declare from the beginning, while they were covered in the silence of my fertile heart, while I was still remaining your companion upon the earth: but now I, the Son, am going away toward the sky, having left the earth. ^C Nor does any one of you who sits by me ask: Master, whither are you hastening? into what place are you going for me? 6 But because I have related these things to you, behold, a great, sorrowful distress has filled your entire mind. 7 But I have told the truth, which is beyond reproach; but it is better for you that I should depart into the sky. For unless I return, having gone back into the sky, the Spirit of the living God will never come to you.

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23 He who hates me hates my Father also. 24 If I had not done among them the works which no one else has done, they would not have sin; but now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father. 25 But that the word which is written in their law might be fulfilled: ^D That they hated me without a cause. 26 But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will testify of me. 27 And you also will testify, because you have been with me from the beginning.

CHAPTER XVI

1 These things I have spoken to you, that you should not be offended. 2 They will put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think that he offers a service to God. 3 And these things they will do to you, because they have not known the Father, nor me. 4 But these things I have told you, that when the hour comes, you may remember them, that I told you. And these things I did not say to you from the beginning, because I was with you. 5 But now I go away to Him who sent me, and none of you asks me: Where are you going? 6 But because I have said these things to you, sorrow has filled your heart. 7 Nevertheless I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send Him to you.

^A And when He has come, He will convince the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and judgment—concerning sin, because they do not believe in me; but concerning righteousness, because I go to the Father, and you will no longer see me; and concerning judgment, because the proud and deceitful prince of the eternal world has been judged. Although I have many things to say, I refuse, for you are not yet able to hear more. But when the Helper, the Comforter, has come, He will govern all things; and He will lead you in all truth into the way. For He will say nothing of His own authority, nor will He be deaf to the voice, but whatever He hears, that He will speak; and He will predict to you all the end of future deeds. This One, going forth from the Father, will exalt me, honoring me; for receiving from the Father that which is ours, He will show you the preordained oracles through the intermingling of time, regarding all things that shall be for you. And by a certain original sanction, my lot is all that my Father possesses. For which reason I said to you that, receiving from the divine Father what is ours, He will announce the end of ^B works. A little time still remains, during which you will no longer see me as a companion of the world; but a near, little, fleeting time still remains, from which you will see me again alone, and I shall come through the celestial bosoms to the Father. And the disciples spoke, hiding the saying within their mind—a promisor of the voice, near to the tongue, an emulator of silence: "What is this word which He said, that a little time remains, and a little time remains, from which you will no longer see me as a companion of the world; but from which a near, little, fleeting time still remains, from which you will see me again alone, and I shall come to the Father?" ^C Jesus, truly perceiving the shifting heart of his companions, that they had conferred among themselves and wished to ask, anticipating them, said in discourse to his intelligent disciples: "Why do you inquire among yourselves with neighborly tongue, that which after a little...

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8 And when He has come, He will convince the world concerning sin, and concerning righteousness, and concerning judgment. 9 Concerning sin, indeed, because they do not believe in me; 10 Concerning righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more; 11 And concerning judgment, because the ruler of this world has been judged. 12 I still have many things to say to you, but you are not able to bear them now. 13 But when He, the Spirit of truth, has come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will not speak on His own authority, but whatever He hears, He will speak; and He will tell you things to come. 14 He will glorify me, because He will take of what is mine and declare it to you. 15 All things that the Father has are mine. Therefore I said that He will take of mine and declare it to you. 16 A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me, because I go to the Father." 17 Then some of His disciples said among themselves, "What is this that He says to us, 'A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me'; and, 'because I go to the Father'?" 18 They said therefore, "What is this that He says, 'a little while'? We do not know what He is saying." 19 Jesus knew that they desired to ask Him, and He said to them, "Are you inquiring among yourselves concerning this, that I said, 'A little while, and you will not see me; and again a little while, and you will see me'?

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^A I said "after a little while I move away from your eyes; And again after a little while you shall look upon me as I appear." 174 20 "I declare with a firm oath, Amen, amen: You shall weep and raise up laments; and the frenzied World shall rejoice in things not holy; but again the Sorrowful stimulus of your sadness shall pass away; Just as a woman big with child turns sadness in her mind, afflicted by the sharp arrows of birth: for she dreads the hour of grievous labor; but if she has brought forth, she casts off the sharp burden of the consumed sorrow, and does not remember the former pain, because another man has recently appeared and sprouted for the regrowing world. 22 Even like a woman near birth, you too shall first pierce your soul with wakeful sorrows; But I shall see you again; and your heart shall rejoice as it is gathered back; and no one shall take from you the sublime Joy that is forever unchangeable; and, as before, on that day you shall no longer ask me about anything by a previous wise word. For whatever you seek with a voice invoking God, all these shall be firm from the benevolent Father. 24 Up until now you have not yet asked for the dear gift to complete the vital work from the Father; but seek to complete it now again, and whatever delights you, you shall receive everything from my high-king Father, that your sweet Joy may be perfect. 25 Now I speak in curved words through a parable; but soon the perfect divine hour shall come, when hearing everything from God the Father I shall come, announcing the straight ways of ^C words with an open voice, and no longer an oblique utterance. 26 And on that day you shall pray to God as one to be invoked with many holy prayers; and I shall no longer call this a habitual speech as before; I shall soothe my living Father for your sake. For the High-ruler, keeping the exact holy desire of my love, loves you of his own accord, my Father: Because you have joined the Divine love in me to the Word of God the Son with a wise and concordant bond, and you too by ways that do not err; and you have known by my word that I come from God the Father bringing life. 28 I came from the Father, and have conversed in the world; And again I leave the world filled with sin; And [I go to the Father]."

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20 Amen, amen I say to you, that you will weep and lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into joy. 21 A woman when she is in labor has sorrow, because her hour has come; but when she has given birth to the child, she no longer remembers the tribulation, for the joy that a man has been born into the world. 22 Therefore you now also have sorrow; but I will see you again, and your heart will rejoice, and your joy no one will take from you. 23 And in that day you will ask me nothing. Amen, amen I say to you, that whatever you ask the Father in my name, He will give to you. 24 Until now you have asked nothing in my name; ask, and you shall receive, that your joy may be full. 25 These things I have spoken to you in proverbs; but the hour is coming when I will no longer speak to you in proverbs, but I will announce to you openly about the Father. 26 In that day you will ask in my name; and I do not say to you that I shall ask the Father concerning you; 27 For the Father Himself loves you, because you have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from God. 28 I came forth from the Father, and have come into the world; again I leave the world, and go to the Father.

^A And soon I shall return to my Father who sent me. 29 And the disciples, having learned all things, replied: Now you speak openly, and you do not speak the mysteries of words perverting them with bends, needing a different voice. Now, therefore, we know that you have no need of human voice, that anyone should forestall you and ask. On account of which we know for certain that you come into the world as Christ, the Son of God from heaven. 31 Jesus answered, pre-announcing the end of his works: Do you now, being converted, believe my word? 32 The time is near when you shall be scattered, fleeing each to his own house, departing one from another, leaving me alone; but when a hostile crowd comes, I am not alone, even if the disciples flee; 33 but my Father never ceases to remain with me. But all these things I have related to you, that you may hasten to keep peace unshaken for me into an endingless time. But in the loud-sounding world you are afflicted and tormented by cares; but, being patient, take courage, because I shall do greater things for people; I have conquered the world.

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1 And straightway having spoken these things, he directed his eyes to heaven, and sounded to his Father: Glorify thy Son again, Father, that thy Son may honor thee, the celestial Father, just as thou hast given him to govern the reins of all human flesh. I wish that all whom thou hast previously granted me may together embrace divine eternal life, 3 (which is) that they may know thee, the only God, the hope of the world, and thy Christ Jesus whom thou didst send into the earth. 4 I myself have honored thee upon the earth, finishing the work which thou didst grant me to perform. 5 And do thou now glorify me, Father, with the accustomed honor which I had with thee before the foundations of the world were yet fastened by thy divine Word. 6 I have proclaimed thy name among the men whom thou didst give to the Son out of the world, blind eyes of the world; they are thine, but thou dost rule them: thou hast given them to me, and they have kept thy word with a certain faithful and immutable law: and they have known by the word that all things which thou hast granted me are from thee. 8 Because I have delivered to them thy vital words;

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29 His disciples say to him: Lo, now you speak openly, and you speak no proverb. 30 Now we know that you know all things, and have no need that anyone should ask you; by this we believe that you came forth from God. 31 Jesus answered them: Do you now believe? 32 Behold, the hour comes, and has now come, that you shall be scattered, each to his own, and shall leave me alone; and I am not alone, because the Father is with me. 33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you shall have tribulation; but take courage, I have overcome the world.

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1 These things Jesus spoke, and lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said: Father, the hour has come; glorify thy Son, that thy Son may glorify thee; 2 as thou hast given him power over all flesh, that he may give eternal life to all that thou hast given him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know thee, the only true God, and whom thou hast sent, Jesus Christ. 4 I have glorified thee upon the earth; I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self with the glory which I had with thee before the world was, with thee. 6 I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou hast given me out of the world; thine they were, and thou hast given them to me, and they have kept thy word. 7 Now they have known that all things whatsoever thou hast given me are from thee; 8 For the words which thou hast given me, have I given to them;

are those who have received your words with a governing mind, and they have learned that I proceeded from you, and they have fixed your Word in their firm hearts, that you sent me forth into the earth. Now, for the sake of those not wandering, not for the sake of the whole wandering world, ^A O Father, I ask and entreat you: but for these whom you gave to your Son; they are yours. Both, however, whatever you have are all mine: and again, whatever I bring, are all yours; and I, among my companions on earth, possess all increasing glory. In the world they indeed are; but I, having left the earth, shall return to you, O Father: but guard our disciples concordant from the very scourge of the Demon, the adversary and defender. Holy Father, guard them concordant from it, that all may be one, ^B even as we are. When I was near, conversing with them in the world, I myself kept them all unharmed: nor did any of these, whom you gave (to me) to your Son, Savior of the human race, Perish, agitated by the deceitful gadfly of impiety, Unless the son of the destructive, pestilential demon; that the word of the written law might be fulfilled. Now, however, Father, having returned from earth, I shall pass to you. And I have run through all these things to you, that they may always bring commune joy to my completed works. And to them I have furnished your divine word; ^C but the envious world hates them, because they are children of the divine heavenly Parent, though spurious citizens of the world, just as I am a stranger in the world; for I am not of the earthly marriage-completing human race. Not by word, O Father, do I ask you to remove the company of companions far from the infinite world; But that you may guard them with vigilant eyes against the laws to be shunned of the Demon, the author of evils. 16. . . With your divine words sanctify my disciples, cleansing all with the intellectual rays of truth. Truth is your word. 18. . . . 19 . . . And for their sake I sanctify myself, ^D that they also may be cleansed by the sanctification of truth.

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And they received, and knew truly that I came forth from you, and they believed that you sent me. 9 I pray for them: I do not pray for the world, but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. 10 And all mine are yours, and yours are mine; and I am glorified in them. 11 And I am no longer in the world, and they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given me, that they may be one, even as we are. 12 When I was with them in the world, I kept them in your name; those whom you gave me I have guarded, and none of them is lost except the son of perdition, that the Scripture might be fulfilled. 13 But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves. 14 I have given them your word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 15 I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one. 16 They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. 17 Sanctify them in your truth; your word is truth. 18 As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And for their sake I sanctify myself, that they also may be sanctified in truth.

with the vital Word, and may they be pure by the sanctification of the truth, having washed their limbs in the spiritual fire. Not for them alone do I seek thy grace, but for all who, casting the rabid incredulity to the winds, hold the right faith because of the speech of my associates: ^A that all may be one, joined as we are; as thou art in me, and I, Father, am in thee, joined as equals together, so that they too may all be joined and born with us: that the cunning world may understand that thou hast sent me as the Redeemer of the whole human generation to the world. And to them I have granted the glory which thou gavest to me, that in us all may be joined and perfected, even as we are one, existing in one another; that they may become our born associates: that thou indeed mayest be in me, Father, and I may be brought as one common to all my associates. That the senseless world may know by the word of knowledge that thou didst send me as a defender to a world bearing witness, as the deliverer of human life: that thou hast loved them even as thou lovedst thy Son, ^B loving my associates. I will that those whom thou hast given me, Father, should also remain where I am, that all may behold with mortal eyes my sublime principality, which thou thyself gavest me, because thou, Father, didst love me before the deep foundations of the murky world were made. Human, just Father, savior of life, the world hath not known thee; but I, co-eternal, have known thee, and this wise assembly of my associates has learned thee through pious morals. Because I have manifested unto them the mysteries of thy words; and I will show them yet more fully, that they may know thee much more; that the bond of my love may be in them, and I may be brought [to them]. ^C

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Having spoken all these things, he crossed with prudent foot to the land situated in the region; where, by the cedars of beautiful branches, a wandering rain rolls with rabid heat, stirring up the impetuous flow of a torrential river; where a green garden is near: into which he entered.

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20 I pray not for these only, but also for them that believe on me through their word; 21 that they all may be one; even as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou didst send me. 22 And the glory which thou hast given me I have given unto them; that they may be one, even as we are one. 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be perfected into one; and that the world may know that thou didst send me, and lovedst them, even as thou lovedst me. 24 Father, I desire that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. 25 O righteous Father, the world knew thee not, but I knew thee; and these knew that thou didst send me. 26 And I made known unto them thy name, and ^D will make it known; that the love wherewith thou lovedst me may be in them, and I in them.

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1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Kidron, where was a garden, into which he himself and his disciples entered.

^A The Lord went in, as one accustomed to go into the fragrant garden of an ever-flourishing paradise. And that bold man, another Judas, knew that place planted with trees; for Christ, traversing the shadowed and deserted region, had often entered into that place; there, too, the band of his fellow-collectors—his group of companions—remained. 2 And having taken the shielded army of the high priests, and that much-raging crowd, running together from the authors of evil, the Pharisees, having another club-bearing troop of travelers, 3 Judas came, changeable, into the accustomed garden, having weapons and torches; and at the same time a man, having been sent with hands filled with many scattered things, lifted high one over another the lamps held within, raising up the wind-sheltered grove—a grove which, connecting with alternating reeds, ^B a builder, an old man, had encircled, divided frequently; like a star, and similar to the revolving world. In the middle appearing, where the lamp, joined through a fold, sending out sharp, multi-faced light through a multi-holed lid, appearing at the top, a variously divided, leaping light shone. 4 But Jesus, not taught by another, seeing the coming necessity, fearless and self-impelled, ran forward, leaving the garden. And he asked the shield-shaking army with a sharp word: "What manner of man do you come seeking to seize?" And the army of sword-bearing men answered Jesus: "We all seek Jesus, the inhabitant of Nazareth." And the bold guide Judas stood by his enemies, he who for the sake of the vilest temporal gain betrayed the Son of God, the hope of the infinite world, betrayed the Son of God. And when, clothed in soft garments and lacking iron, the King replied with a warlike voice, all the fighting warriors fell spontaneously one upon another, and were cast down into the dust, prone, ^C stimulated by the unarmed storm of his voice. 5 Jesus, however, asked a second time with a prudent word: "What manner of man do you, having gathered together, seek to seize?" And the enemies shouted with a responding word: "We seek Jesus the Nazarene, Christ." Jesus then spoke with a fearless voice: "I am Jesus, the inhabitant of Nazareth, the Galilean; I am Jesus the Galilean. But if you have come only seeking me, allow this people of my companions to go back home unharmed, so that the word might be fulfilled, unchanging, which Christ previously spoke to his living Father: 'Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none.'" ^D Now Simon Peter having a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus.

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1 Judas also, who betrayed him, knew the place: for Jesus had often gathered there with his disciples. 2 Judas therefore, having taken the band and the servants from the high priests and the Pharisees, comes there with lanterns and torches and weapons. 3 Jesus therefore knowing all the things that were coming upon him, went forth and said to them: "Whom seek you?" 4 They answered him: "Jesus the Nazarene." Jesus says to them: "I am he." And Judas also, who betrayed him, stood with them. 5 As therefore he said to them: "I am he," they went backward, and fell to the ground. 6 He asked them again: "Whom seek you?" And they said: "Jesus the Nazarene." 7 Jesus answered: "I told you that I am he. If therefore you seek me, let these go their way." 8 That the word might be fulfilled which he said: "Of those whom you have given me, I have lost none of them." 9 Simon Peter therefore having a sword, drew it, and struck the servant of the high priest, and cut off his right ear. And the name of the servant was Malchus.

11 Jesus therefore said to Peter: Put up thy sword into the scabbard. The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? 12 The band and the tribune and the servants of the Jews took Jesus, and bound him: 13 And they led him away to Annas first, for he was father in law to Caiphas, who was the high priest of that year. 14 Now Caiphas was he who had given the counsel to the Jews: that it was expedient that one man should die for the people. ^A And Simon Peter followed Jesus, and another disciple. And that disciple was known to the high priest, and went in with Jesus into the court. But Peter stood at the door without. The other disciple therefore, who was known to the high priest, went out, and spoke to the portress, and brought in Peter. The maid therefore that was portress saith to Peter: Art not thou also one of this man's disciples? He saith: I am not. Now the servants and ministers stood at a fire of coals, because it was cold, and warmed themselves. And with them was Peter also standing, and warming himself. The high priest therefore asked Jesus concerning his disciples, and concerning his doctrine.

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To the companions whom the Lord had as disciples, and concerning His holy doctrine. But Jesus, unmoved, replied with a bold word: "I have spoken openly to the inquiring world, in pure houses, in the very intersections of the roads, and in the temple where God is invoked, where the generations of various peoples dwell; I speak nothing hidden with a timid and predatory speech. 21 Why do you ask me these things? Behold, all those who are around are witnesses of my voice: they all know the varied thoughts of my words, whatever I have said among the Jews to the people who believe in God." As He said these things, a rustic minister struck the divine cheek with a bold hand, saying: "Is this how you answer the great high priest?" But Jesus, rebuking the insolent servant, said: "If I have spoken boldly with a mad and foolish word, be a witness of the evil with your own condemning voice; but if I have spoken well, why do you smite me with blows?" ^B 19024 Annas, indeed, having kept Jesus bound with the murderous cord of a snare, His hands drawn behind His back in a double bond, sent Him to his own rabid son-in-law, the high priest, brought by a fellow priest.

But Simon, standing and mourning by the fire, was warming his chilled body with the fire made of coals. And as he was being warmed, the ministers of the high priest questioned the stranger Simon who had recently arrived: "Are you yourself also one of the companions of Christ?" And Peter, called by name, denied with a responding voice to the servants who were questioning him: "I am not Christ's," he said with a lying speech. And the servant of the priest answered, rebuking Peter, the kinsman of that night-wandering minister whose right ear Simon had cut off, striking with a sword, [saying]: "Are you not a minister of Christ? Did I not see you with Him in the garden planted with trees?" And for the third time, Peter, in his accustomed reciprocal voice, denied Jesus, and immediately the cock crowed. ^C But Caiaphas, leaving the house of the accusing throng, approached the house of the haughty governor, dragging Jesus, who was willing and bringing life, to death. Then indeed the immense Light dissipated the shadowy mist of the divine night with the rosy arms of the endowed dawn: He did not indeed enter the resounding house with cautious feet, lest He defile His limbs, wishing to eat the Pascha with a pure body; but far away stood the... ^D

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20 Jesus answered him: "I have spoken openly to the world; I have always taught in the synagogue and in the temple, where all the Jews gather, and I have said nothing in secret. 21 Why do you ask me? Ask those who have heard what I spoke to them: behold, they know what I said." 22 When He had said these things, one of the servants standing by gave Jesus a blow, saying: "Is this how you answer the high priest?" 23 Jesus answered him: "If I have spoken evil, bear witness of the evil; but if well, why do you beat me?" 24 Annas then sent Him bound to Caiaphas the high priest. 25 And Simon Peter was standing and warming himself. They said therefore to him: "Are you also one of His disciples?" He denied it, and said: "I am not." One of the servants of the high priest, a kinsman of him whose ear Peter had cut off, said: "Did I not see you in the garden with Him?" 26 Peter again denied it; and immediately the cock crowed. 28 Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium. And it was morning: and they themselves did not enter the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the Pascha.

^A Thinking that he had thus quickly warded off some great slaughter, and had kept pure the house of the law-givers. 29 And Pilate, prompt to act, led them out of his hall: but he questioned the priests by a due law, seeking a token of the murderous charge, asking: "What word do you speak in accusation against this man? What is the cause of death? What so great wrong has the man committed? What word do you speak, accusing the man of being worthy of death?" 30 And with envious mouth the high priests answered: "If he had not done an unspeakable evil, surely we would not have dragged him to you with violence, bringing an innocent man to be subdued, handing him over to your hand." 31 But he, quickly perceiving their envy, refused to judge Christ, saying: "Take him yourselves; and judge him by the books of the law of your fathers, and by the accustomed penalty." And the bold assembly said: "It is not lawful for us to put any man to death; so that the word might be firm which Christ said, prophesying by what death he was to die." 33 And Pilate, having left the crafty crowd at the doors, returned and entered the accustomed hall, and called Jesus, and asked with testing voice: "Art thou the King of the Jews?" 34 But to him who questioned, Jesus, speaking divinely as if to one who did not know, asked, knowing with a divine mind: "Sayest thou this of thyself, calling me the scepter-bearer of the Jews; or has another told it thee?" 35 And the chief man sounded out: "Am I a Jew? Thy own nation, and the high priests, gave thee to me in their shamelessness; tell me thyself, what work hast thou done?" 36 The King answered with words: "No earthly hall is my royal seat. I am not of the temporal world; for if my empire were of earth, if it were mundane, my ministers would surely have waged an armed struggle, that I might not be handed over, to be handled by Jewish hands. But now my royal empire is not from hence." 37 And Pilate again said with a responsive voice: "Therefore art thou a king?" And Jesus answered: "And to this end was I born, and to this end came I into the world, that I might always be a witness of the truth, which softens all men; and everyone who prefers to draw the yoke of truth, hears the true word of my tongue."

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29 Pilate went out therefore unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man? 30 They answered and said unto him, If he were not a malefactor, we would not have delivered him up unto thee. 31 Pilate said therefore unto them, Take him yourselves, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death: 32 That the saying of Jesus might be fulfilled, which he spake, signifying what manner of death he should die. 33 Then Pilate entered into the judgment hall again, and called Jesus, and said unto him, Art thou the King of the Jews? 34 Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? 35 Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? 36 Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence. 37 Pilate therefore said unto him, Art thou a king then? Jesus answered, Thou sayest that I am a king. To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

38 And Pilate wondered, and asked again ^A with the word: What is truth? And quickly leaving his throne, he went outside the house, and spoke to the senseless people, and rebuked the priests with his manifold discourse: Judging, I see no cause in this man, I have found no certain ground. 39 But it is your ancient yearly ancestral custom that I should release to you one bound man calling from prison; do you wish, therefore, that I again offer to you, released, the King of the Jews bound in chains? 40 But the Jews shouted with an infinite, harmonious sound, crying: Not this man whom you have mentioned, but Barabbas: who was a death-dealing robber.

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1 Hearing the mad roar of the senseless mouths, the Prince delivered the robber to the people, not scourged, not bound, and not marked by rods; but with alternating blows, the shuddering body of Christ he had reddened with the scourge, and the hostile army, rejoicing in insults, held Jesus: and winding the branch of sharp-cutting thorn, they imposed a spurious crown of a King upon his head. And they clothed him, wrapping his body in a cloak, shining with the wise sparkle of the Sidonian sea: a mark of royalty even in sorrows. ^B And bending their solid knees to the ground with curved neck, they saluted the King with a lying name, with the herald of supplication: and one went after another, striking the top of the cheek with alternating hands. 4 ^C And Pilate of quick counsel ran outside the house with hasty feet, and sounded to the senseless people: Outside I now lead this man to you. But so that you may know, I have found no error of mind in him, judging with blameless heart. 5 And he walked outside the house with undefiled feet, and he had a crown of thorn, having sharp points woven, and a purple garment, flowing with the blood of the murex, and Pilate said again to the envious people: Behold, the sinless man stands with his back marked. 6 And looking upon him, the wicked high priests and cruel ministers roared an immense sound: May this man, hung on a cross, be raised up high, bearing iron goads on his feet and hands. And Pilate ^D laid them upon his head, and put a purple garment about him.

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38 Pilate says to him: What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says to them: I find no fault in him. 39 But it is a custom for you that I should release one to you at the Passover; do you wish, therefore, that I release to you the King of the Jews? 40 They cried out, therefore, all again, saying: Not this man, but Barabbas; and Barabbas was a robber.

CAP. XIX.

1 Then therefore Pilate took Jesus, and scourged him. 2 And they said: Hail, King of the Jews, and they gave him blows. 3 Pilate went out again therefore outside, and says to them: Behold, I bring him out to you, that you may know that I find no fault in him. 5 Jesus therefore went out, wearing the crown of thorns, and the purple garment. And he says to them: Behold the man. 6 When therefore the high priests and the ministers saw him, they cried out, saying: Crucify, crucify. Pilate says to them: Take him yourselves, and crucify; for I find no fault in him.

^A And Pilate uttered a prudent voice to the people: "Do you scourge this man with a fourfold destruction, for I have found no cause of death in him." And the maddened high priests spoke out to Pilate: "A hereditary law is current among the Hebrews, which the Lawgivers once wrote in a book; and as the sanction commands, this man ought to die by a retributive fate, because of his impiety, in that he has called himself the divine Son of the ever-living God the Father." And the wise judge, when he heard this, trembled: with hurrying feet he entered the capacious hall, and questioned Jesus again with his accustomed speech: "Who are you? Whence are you?" But the gentle Lord fixed his eyes upon the ground, and not opening his mouth to Pilate, he gave no answering voice to alternate with his words. And Pilate emitted a voice with a menacing sound: "Do you not answer me with your words? Do you not yet know that I carry a twofold power over you? For I have both, I can subdue you with the cross, and if I wish, I can release you." And Christ said to him, refuting his proud arrogance: "You would have no power gathered over me at all, if it were not given from above. For this reason the man who took and handed me over keeps a greater sin." Then, deciding, Pilate thought to release Jesus unharmed and sent away from destruction. But the people cried out against him with the noise of unceasing sound from ^B infinite mouths: "Leaving this man unharmed, you are not a friend of Caesar, the sole scepter-bearing king. For everyone saying he is himself king in lying speech, contends with Caesar Tiberius by this false name." And Pilate, hearing the speech with trembling ears, brought Jesus out of the high-roofed halls. He sat in a place made of a newly constructed lithostrotos—a name this bears, spoken in the Greek tongue, as one crafted of paved stones; but in the noisy Syriac dialect it is called Gabbatha. And the sixth hour, which they call the beginning of the Sabbath, was dawn: and the third death-dealing hour was stretched out. And Pilate, prompt from the stone seat, shouted to the Jews: "Behold, the man stands near, your Lord, wearing the royal garment." But the people answered with a consenting throat: ^C "Take this one and crucify him with some most ignominious death: let him perish raised up by iron-bearing nails."

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The Jews answered him: "We have a law, and according to our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God." When therefore Pilate heard this saying, he was the more afraid. And he entered into the praetorium again, and said to Jesus: "Whence are you?" But Jesus gave him no answer. Pilate therefore says to him: "Do you not speak to me? Do you not know that I have power to crucify you, and power to release you?" Jesus answered: "You would have no power against me, unless it were given you from above: therefore he who delivered me to you has the greater sin." Upon this Pilate sought to release him: but the Jews cried out, saying: "If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself king speaks against Caesar." Pilate therefore, when he heard this saying, brought Jesus out, and sat down on the judgment seat in a place called the Lithostrotos, but in Hebrew, Gabbatha. And it was the Preparation of the Passover, and it was about the sixth hour; and he says to the Jews: "Behold your King!" But they cried out: "Away with him, away with him, crucify him." Pilate says to them: "Shall I crucify your King?" The high priests answered: "We have no king but Caesar."

extending him on the wood ^A in a death made by a four-yoked bond. And Pilate said again to the whole gazing people: "Shall I, having driven a nail into your King, who was bound by nails, destroy him with a retributive death?" And with deceitful mouths the high priests shouted: "We know no other, unaccustomed king, a king not commanded, whom Rome did not crown, except Caesar alone, the infinite shepherd of the world." And Pilate, hearing the inextinguishable cry of the people, willing or unwilling, handed Christ over to an unjust destruction. And in his death the shameless high priests rejoiced, having received Jesus readily; and quickly bringing destruction upon the Immortal Christ, all together they became mortal murderers. 17 And Jesus himself, bearing his cross, had an undaunted way toward voluntary death, until he came to the place named Skull, bearing the name of the first-born ^B Adam in the circumference of its head: the mouth of the Syrians called it Golgotha. 18 There the murderers, onto a four-sided wood raised high above the earth, stretched him upright, fastening with constraint his hands spread out on either side with a certain iron bond; and with a single nail driven through, piercing both together in one impulse, with feet tangled in an inflexible bond of destruction. And with retaliatory stings they joined two night-roaming thieves to the cross in death as his neighbors; but in the middle they placed Jesus. 19 And Pilate wrote an inscription for a witness with a noticeable nail ^C, which they call in the Latin tongue a title. It was expressed with a wise pen: "This is Jesus, this is the King of the Jews, Jesus the Galilean." 20 And a great crowd of the Jews, who were visiting, read the title, seeing that the place was a hill near to the city, where they had closed him off with the barrier of the cross. And it was marked with the stroke of one hand, knowing the Roman, Syriac, and Achaian tongue. 21 And the high priests, coming together, entreated Pilate: "Do not write, do not write this, 'King of the Jews,' but what he himself said with a lying voice: 'I am the King of the Jews, the scepter-bearer Jesus'." 22 And Pilate spoke a word, rebuking the cruel men: "What I have written, I have written." 23 And the ministers of death, having raised up Jesus on high, immovable ^D, having stretched him out and bound him to the cross, standing, divided the divine garment of the God-begotten King, and his shining tunic, which was whole...

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^A It was woven whole, both from above and below, seamless, ending from the neck to the ankles. They spoke among themselves with a harmonious word: "Let us not tear this true, purple tunic, which possesses a divine and foreign form; but for it, casting the fingers of our hands, let us all, by an undisputed lot, see whose it shall be—that that word may come true, the late word which the divine-voiced song, singing to the cithara, spoke: *My terrible slayers among themselves, common adversaries, divided my garments, and cast lots for the cloak by a covetous lot*, until they became the wearers of my clothing." And these deeds the army of wicked men performed. ^B Near the cross, however, there were companions and associates, and Mary the Mother of God, Christ’s parent; with whom also was that kin of hers, Mary of the same name; and there was also she herself, Mary Magdalene, gladly weeping. Now when Christ saw the mother who brought forth God and the disciple whom he loved, he spoke a word to the mother: "Woman, O mother rejoicing in virginity, behold the virgin-born son." And again he said to the disciple: "Behold the virgin, eager for virginity, your mother without delivery." And after the running of the swift hour, the disciple had the virgin, happy in her birth-giving, dwelling within his own house; and the Son who was born of the mother, the man not begotten, was not sated, the King who experienced no pain from birth. ^C But Jesus, understanding that all things had passed by, and that the end of what was beginning was quickly to be perfected, said to the people: "I thirst." And there was prepared in a nearby place a vessel full of vinegar; but a certain man, quickly hearing, having filled a sponge—the offspring of the sea’s submerged depths—with most sharp drink and thirst-inducing brine, fixing it to the lowest end of a straight-moving reed, offered the vinegar of destruction mixed with hyssop, as a compensation to the King for the honey-dropping snow of the divine Bread, lifting high through the air the tip of the raised reed and the roving sponge. But when he received the bitter drink and the thirsty brine, near to death, he said in his final speech: "It is finished"; and he bowed his head, and yielded to a willing death. ^D And the raging priests, since around the evening hour the day that was the harbinger of the lamb-eating feast was approaching, flowed into the house of the haughty governor.

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28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saith: I thirst. 24 Then they said to one another: Let us not tear it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be; that the Scripture might be fulfilled, saying: They divided my garments among themselves, and for my vesture they cast lots. And the soldiers indeed did these things. 25 And there stood by the cross of Jesus his mother and his mother's sister, Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalene. 26 Jesus therefore, when he had seen his mother and the disciple standing near whom he loved, saith to his mother: Woman, behold thy son. 27 After that, he saith to the disciple: Behold thy mother. And from that hour the disciple took her to his own. 29 There was a vessel set there, full of vinegar: and they, filling a sponge with vinegar, and putting it about hyssop, put it to his mouth. 30 Jesus therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: It is finished; and bowing his head, he gave up the ghost. 31 The Jews therefore, that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath day, because it was the Parasceve (for that was a great sabbath day), besought Pilate that their legs might be broken, and that they might be taken away.

^A And the gathered multitude came to Pilate, that the legs of them, of the divine Christ, and of the two men dying late, the three, might be cut with the many-toothed iron; that the bodies fixed to the cross might not remain when the seventh light should come; for it was that holy and lawful day for all the Jews until the light of the seventh day, which they have learned to honor. And the bloodthirsty army drew near; and one, raised on high, cut with penetrating iron the twofold feet of the gentle one; but of the other, the nocturnal robber bound to the cross, striking his twin feet with the sword, he cast down the slanderer to a swift death. But when they saw Jesus dead, as one who had already passed away, they did not strike his joined feet with the accustomed iron; but a man, swift and invisible, pierced with a light spear the side that was precious to all, sparing no sword. And from the stricken side, there flowed first blood, and afterward divine water. And the man who saw it confirmed with his word an unshakeable testimony; and we know that the voice of him who was endowed with an excellent mind is divine and true. ^B And all these things came to pass, that the saying might be firm which the melody, breathing sweetly on the divine lyre, spoke as a harbinger of the irreproachable body: "Not a bone of his distinct members shall be broken." And another saying is told, which the divine man spoke: "They shall look on him whom they pierced," who shall provide a late-perfected penalty as compensation for the goading spear.

And afterward Joseph, cautious through fear of the Jews—who was himself, in truth, an unexpected disciple, eager to hear Christ, milking the wise and faithful milk from the divine mouth—secretly besought Pilate. ^C This one went and prayed, bending his household knee, asking of the prince for the divine dead; but he, rejoicing, gave the ever-living dead to the religious bearer. And Joseph went, moving with silent foot, to take up the dead. And placing his support near the footprint fixed to the cross, he loosed the twofold iron held fast by the sharp bond, and the man, arriving in the evening, took down the dead man, lightening the burden resting upon his shoulder, receiving God. And Nicodemus also came, he who had come as a traveler by night into the house of Christ, walking with cautious foot, bringing fragrant myrrh, and the shoots of Indian aloes from the ruddy garden, growing in the reeds of the earth, in the weight which they call by a certain name up to the hundredth number. ^D With the fruit of these...

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32 The soldiers therefore came, and broke the legs of the first, and of the other that was crucified with him. 33 But after they were come to Jesus, when they saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. 34 But one of the soldiers with a spear opened his side, and immediately there came out blood and water. 35 And he that saw it hath given testimony, and his testimony is true. And he knoweth that he saith true; that you also may believe. 36 For these things were done, that the Scripture might be fulfilled: You shall not break a bone of him. 37 And again another Scripture saith: They shall look on him whom they pierced. 38 And after these things, Joseph of Arimathea (because he was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews) besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus. And Pilate gave leave. He came therefore, and took the body of Jesus. 39 And Nicodemus also came (he who at the first came to Jesus by night), bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an hundred pound weight. 40 They took therefore the body of Jesus, and bound it

^A in fine linen with sweet-smelling binding of many folds, as is the custom for the Jews to observe the rites of the tomb. 41 And there was a tomb there by the high crest of the hill, where the cruel, hostile crowd had enclosed Christ with the barrier of the cross; and in a neighboring garden was a tomb, entirely hewn and newly built from the deep-cutting stone. In the stony tomb no dead body had yet lain, having reached the burial earth; but the pure breeze of the garden’s plants blew through the place where the industrious Joseph carried Jesus, borne upon his shoulder. 42 And he did not place the dead body, which would not remain, upon a stony bed—the dead who is ever living, during his three days ^B in the tomb—weaving a work not testified to by the tomb resting on its own roots; for, as the course of the hour expected by the Jews was kept, the dawn ran bringing the neighboring night, the beginning of the Sabbath; and Joseph, invisible, went home again.

CAP. XX.

1 But at the dawn, anticipating the day after the Sabbath, Mary Magdalene with tearful eyes turned her step near the tomb, when on the shadowed earth the night-appearing, unmarked morning star had gone; and seeing the great stone moved from the threshold, rolled upon the floor, a burden of the earth, she saw the tomb naked, where the heavily-burdened ^C Joseph had placed Jesus upon the small, sandy, humble bed. There the woman laid down her nocturnal feet for rest; and in her bosom she held the mournful ointment; and she touched the desolate bed, seeking to anoint the fugitive dead. But she did not find him. 2 Departing with hastening foot, she came back to the house, and with a quiet voice communicated to Peter and the other disciple dwelling with him—whom the Lord loved—the news about the empty tomb. 3 And when Peter heard it, breathing with the swift-searching sole of his feet, he rushed out of the house; and the other disciple followed ^D likewise to the tomb; and both ran for the course. 4 And, getting ahead of Simon, the disciple went swift-footed, quicker than the hastening Peter. And standing close by, he leaned over and looked inside the tomb, and with searching eyes quickly beheld the empty monument, and the white linen cloths lying upon the ground. He did not indeed go inside, although he had arrived walking quickly. 6 But following after on foot, Simon came later; and he quickly came inside;

αὐτῷ καὶ ταχὺς ἔνδον ἔκανεν. Ὑπὲρ δαπέδοιο δὲ γυμνοῦ ^A συζύγους ἀλλήλοις λινέους ἐνόησε χιτῶνας· καὶ κεφαλῆς ζωστῆρα παλίλλυτον ἄμματι χαίτης, σουδάριον τόπερ εἶπε Σύρων ἐπιδήμιος αὐδή, οὐ ταφίαις ὀθόναις παρακείμενον, ἀμφιλαφῆ δὲ μουναδὸν αὐτοέλικτον, ὁμόπλοκον ἐν ἑνὶ χώρῳ.

8 Ἦλθε καὶ ὁ πρώτιστος ἰὼν ἐπὶ σῆμα μαθητὴς, καὶ βραδὺς ἔνδον ἔκανε λιθογλυφέος κενεῶνος· καὶ λίθον εὐδίνητον ἐοικότα χάσματι τύμβου, ἀντίτυπον στήριγμα χαραδραίου πυλεῶνος, καὶ πλοκάμων τελαμῶνα, καὶ εἵματα κείμενα γαίῃ εἶδε· καὶ πίστευεν ὅτι χθονίων ἀπὸ κόλπων οὐρανίην ἐπὶ πέζαν ὑπηνέμιος νέκυς ἔπτη. 9 Οὐ γάρ πω δεδάασι δύω Χριστοῖο μαθηταὶ ὅτι ταχὺς μετὰ πότμον ἀνόστιμον οὗδας ἐάσας, εἰς τρία φάεα μοῦνον ἐγέρσιμον ὕπνον ἰαύων, νόστιμος ἐκ νεκύων ἀναβήσεται εἰς πόλον ἄστρων, ἀκλινέος θανάτοιο παλίλλυτα δεσμὰ πατήσας.

10 Πυκνὰ δὲ θαμβήσαντες ἐπιπευτῆρες ἑταῖροι, ἀσταθέες σφετέροισιν ἐναυλίζοντο μελάθροις, ^B ἄψορα καλλείψαντες ἀπενθέος ἄντυγα τύμβου. 11 Μαγδαλινὴ δ' ἐλέλειπτο γυνὴ παρὰ σήματι μούνη, θερμὸν ἀναβλύζουσα γεήμονος ὄμβρον ἐπωπῆς, μυρομένη ζώοντα. Δι' εὐφαέος δὲ θυρέτρου ὡς ἔτι δακρυχέεσκε λάλον νέκυν ἐγγὺς ἐόντα, ἀγγελικὴν ἐνόησε συνωρίδα· τὸν μὲν, ἐπ' ἄκρου δεξιὸν ἀντικέλευθον ὑπὲρ Χριστοῖο καρήνου, μαρμαρυγὴν πέμποντα θεογλήνοιο προσώπου· τὸν δὲ, ποδῶν παρὰ πέζαν, ὅπη νέκυς ἔεν ἑχέφρων, χιονέους σπινθῆρας ἀκοντίζοντα χιτῶνος.

13 Ἀμφότεροι δ' ἐρέεινον ἔσω τύμβοιο γυναῖκα· Τίπτε, γύναι, στενάχεις; Μαρίη δ' ἠμείβετο μύθῳ· Ὡς τινὲς ἄρπαγες ἄνδρες ἐμὸν Βασιλῆα λαθόντες ἐννύχιοι σύλησαν· ἐγὼ δ' οὐκ οἶδα νοῆσαι ὁππόθι μιν μετέθηκαν. 14 Ὑποστρεφθεῖσα δ' ἐκείνη Ἰησοῦν ἐνόησεν ἐπ' ἔστενεν· ἱστάμενον δὲ εἶδε, καὶ οὐ γίνωσκεν, ὅτι ζαθέῳ παρὰ τύμβῳ Χριστὸς ἦεν. Καὶ ξεῖνος ἀνὴρ ἅτε κῆπον ὁδεύων, ^C Τίπτε, γύναι, στενάχεις; κινυρὴν ἐρέεινε γυναῖκα· Εἰπὲ, τί μαστεύεις; Μαρίη δ' ἐφθέγξατο φωνὴν, ἐλπομένη κήποιο φυτηκόμον ἄνδρα νοῆσαι· Εἰ σὺ νέκυν ζοφόεντος ἐκούφισας ἔνδοθι τύμβου, ἔννεπε ποῦ μετέθηκας· ἐγὼ δέ μιν ἔνθεν ἀείρω. Ἰησοῦς δ' ἀπάμειπτο, χέων ἀρίδηλον ἰωήν.

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καὶ εἰσῆλθεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ θεωρεῖ τὰ ὀθόνια κείμενα. 7 Καὶ τὸ σουδάριον ὅ ἦν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς αὐτοῦ, οὐ μετὰ τῶν ὀθονίων κείμενον, ἀλλὰ χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον εἰς ἕνα τόπον. 8 Τότε οὖν εἰσῆλθε καὶ ὁ ἄλλος μαθητὴς ὁ ἐλθὼν πρῶτος εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, καὶ εἶδε, καὶ ἐπίστευσεν· 9 Οὐδέπω γὰρ ᾔδεισαν τὴν Γραφήν, ὅτι δεῖ αὐτὸν ἐκ νεκρῶν ἀναστῆναι. 10 Ἀπῆλθον οὖν πάλιν πρὸς ἑαυτοὺς οἱ μαθηταί.

11 Μαρία δὲ εἱστήκει πρὸς τὸ μνημεῖον κλαίουσα ἔξω. Ὡς οὖν ἔκλαιε, παρέκυψεν εἰς τὸ μνημεῖον, 12 Καὶ θεωρεῖ δύο ἀγγέλους ἐν λευκοῖς, καθεζομένους, ἕνα πρὸς τῇ κεφαλῇ, καὶ ἕνα πρὸς τοῖς ποσὶν, ὅπου ἔκειτο τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ. 13 Καὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῇ ἐκεῖνοι· Γύναι, τί κλαίεις; Λέγει αὐτοῖς· Ὅτι ἦραν τὸν Κύριόν μου, καὶ οὐκ οἶδα ποῦ ἔθηκαν αὐτόν. ^D 14 Καὶ ταῦτα εἰποῦσα, ἐστράφη εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω, καὶ θεωρεῖ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἑστῶτα· καὶ οὐκ ᾔδει ὅτι ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐστι. 15 Λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· Γύναι, τί κλαίεις; τίνα ζητεῖς; Ἐκείνη, δοκοῦσα ὅτι ὁ κηπουρός ἐστι, λέγει αὐτῷ· Κύριε, εἰ σὺ ἐβάστασας αὐτὸν, εἰπέ μοι ποῦ αὐτὸν ἔθηκας· κἀγὼ αὐτὸν ἀρῶ. 16 Λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· Μαρία. Στραφεῖσα ἐκείνη λέγει αὐτῷ· Ῥαββουνί, ὃ λέγεται διδάσκαλε.

διδάσκαλε. ^A And Mary cried out loud with a very manifest voice, and she called out: Mary. But she, having turned, said to him: Rabboni. But God restrained the woman, who was willing to touch his immortal garment; and he spake a word to her: Do not touch my tunic. For not yet after death have I returned to my Father: but go, tell my brothers, the disciples, I am going to my Father, and your Father, and your God, and my God, and I shall come again. And Mary flew, and with a testimony-bearing voice she communicated the word to all the disciples, her companions, that she had seen Christ, stripped of the tunic of terrestrial limbs, shining in a garment fashioned by God. And she told him all these things, shedding a light that was before her. And when thick darkness had blackened the whole shadowy earth, and the bars had closed the immovable doors, where the disciples were lurking and staying, like a wing or a thought, he stood sublime in their midst, encompassed by his companions, and said: Peace be with you. And having shouted this short, unhoped-for word, he showed his feet and hands to the assembled disciples, pierced by the nail, and his side recently wounded; but seeing the Lord appearing late, his companions rejoiced again. ^B

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And the King said to them again with swift speech: Peace again be with you: and just as my Father sent me into the four-yoked world, I myself also send you. He spoke, and extending the breath of his immortal mouth, opening his life-giving lips, he said to the disciples: Receive the Holy Spirit: and of those men whose impiety you shall remit on earth—the wandering burden of necessity—once the sin is forgotten, there shall be a heavenly release. But of those whom you shall again hold, the sinful harm remains bound by the bond of a wandering life. Thomas was absent, left alone from the companions hiding within, when Jesus came to all, walking through the air, ^C as Lord, moving through the breezes, not alternating a path that was testified: 25 And the disciples, the spectators, said to him what they had seen of the Lord; but he, opening his bold lip, spoke an incredulous word, because he was seeking a greater persuasion for the word of testimony that was unyielding to slow movement: Unless I see his hands, and fix the tip of my finger into the depth of the iron, into the mark of the sharply-pointed nails, and apply my hand to his hollow side. ^D

17 Jesus says to her, Do not hold me; for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brothers, and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and my God and your God. 18 Mary Magdalene comes, reporting to the disciples that she has seen the Lord, and that he said these things to her. 19 When therefore it was evening on that day, the first of the week, and the doors having been shut where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and says to them, Peace be with you. 20 And having said this, he showed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore rejoiced, having seen the Lord. 21 Jesus therefore said to them again, Peace be with you; as the Father has sent me, I also send you. 22 And having said this, he breathed on them, and says to them, Receive the Holy Spirit. 23 If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain those of any, they are retained. 24 But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. 25 The other disciples therefore said to him, We have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see in his hands the mark of the nails, and put my finger into the mark of the nails, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe. 26 And after eight days his disciples were again inside, and Thomas with them; Jesus comes, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be with you.

I will not believe. ^A And the God-fearing disciples, on the eighth day after the light of the dawning day had come, were all together in order within the secret house, avoiding the terrible arrogance of the Jews’ threats. When they were gathered, Thomas, whom they called Didymus, the man of two names, was sitting among his companions. But Christ, unexpected, rushing into the house with swift foot without wings, appeared as divine in the midst of the disciples; and for the third time, he returned and sounded with his accustomed voice: Peace be to you again. And leaving all others in one place, he addressed the nearby Thomas with a testifying speech: Give me hither, friend, your finger, that I may attach an indubitable witness to the form of the sharp-pointed nails; and look upon my hands on both sides: and extend your right hand into the side, the spontaneous messenger of my scar; and renounce your incredulous character; but be more believing in me doubly, both seeing and touching. Thomas, wise too late, broke forth with a responsive voice: My Lord and my God. Jesus himself also spoke, rebuking the doubting mind of Didymus: Do you believe having seen me, and have you grasped persuasion with your eyes? Those are more blessed who, not seeing, have greater faith and do not stand in need of sight. ^B Other miracles, indeed, many Jesus performed before the wise companions, showing manifold signs; as a witness of truth which were not written in the divine book, he who signed all these things passed over others in silent will. But all these things are expressed in the testifying book, that you may have faith which saves your life, that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the ever-living God the Father; and to you who believe, may the gift of the heavenly kingdom be an eternal reward of divine life.

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^C For the third time, Christ revealed his immortal form to his disciples, resounding beyond the salt Tiberias sea. And thus he showed the form: inside the secret house was Peter, previously called by the name Simon; and wise Andrew, who was the brother of Peter by the same womb; and the swift two sons of Zebedee, who lives by the sea, and Thomas with them, the man of two names: and there was also Nathanael himself, and other two men believing in God. And to them as they were gathering, Simon, folding his nets, said: I go to fish.

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^D believing, may have life in his name.

CAPUT XXI.

1 After these things, Jesus showed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias; and he showed himself in this way: 2 There were together Simon Peter, and Thomas who is called Didymus, and Nathanael from Cana of Galilee, and the sons of Zebedee, and two others of his disciples. 3 Simon Peter says to them: I go to fish. They say to him: We also are coming with you. They went out, and immediately they climbed into the boat, and in that night they caught nothing.

^A I go to the fish-filled, habitual catch of the sea. And to him the companions of the fishing craft said in discourse: Together with you we also go to the fish-filled works of the salt-sea, being all companions. And from the house they rushed out in a throng, and toward the mouth of the near-reaching lake, climbing into the ship, they sailed; and in the night-time, no school at all could the toilers press into their hands; and often, repeatedly, Simon was distressed, pulling with both hands the light net against the wind. ^B And when the dawn with rosy rays had cleft the gloom, Christ stood by the fair-stoned shore of the sea, bringing an early footstep to the habitual lake, as one in need of food, one who rolls upon the sea; nor did the disciples, seeing him, know that Jesus was near. And he asked the water-dwelling, habituated fishers: "Do you bring, as a feast, the swimming gifts of the deep, O boys, ministers of the salt-sea?" And the disciples, answering, denied that they had anything. ^C But the King answered with a word: "Let down, for the fish-catcher, the far-flung nets into the deep, cast them along the right side of the ready ship." And having curved the lines into the falling nets, they hauled up an immense, self-rolling school of the sea, fish lurking within, dancers of the bright brine. But they no longer had the strength to drag the submerged net, with the deep-sea cargo of the multitude of the spawn. And to wet Simon, the deep-searcher of the sea, the disciple whom the Lord loved said: "This himself is the King." And he, leaping near by, girt his loins with a variegated garment, ^D and was covered with a many-holed linen robe, rolling the sea-covering around his buttocks skin, which fishers wear, hanging down to the hollows of the thighs, a protection for the hidden private parts. For he had his body naked, while dragging the net to the shore; and quick he leapt into the current, and crossing the habitual sea, rowing with his hands, lifting his head on high, with alternating feet he thrust the water behind him. And he came near to the shore, climbing the shore that received God, where Jesus remained waiting. But the others—all the companions were together in one boat—followed, dragging the net of the catch in the waters. For the voyage of the salt-sea was not far from the land, but at two hundred cubits, they were casting foam with the drag of the wave toward the shore, the raging winds, and the neighboring sea-coast that was sprinkled with dew. And when they had stepped onto the shore of the thirsty land, they saw a bonfire withering with flaming heat; and upon the coals, upon the brows, lay a fish,

GOSPEL TEXT

^A And the King commanded the disciples: "Bring now the diverse catch of the deep-sea fish, which you have taken from the inlets of the teeming sea." ^B And Simon rushing with wet feet, with arms equally robust, dragged the net onto the land, filled with the agile vibration of oblong leaping fish, and Simon was afflicted with a curved back, dragging from every side a hundred-count of the damp flock; and to these were entwined as many other fish as, with three and fifty, made the net in the sea not tear, burdened by the haul of so many fish. 12, 13 Not then did any man, a companion among his fellows, dare, with eyes squarely upon him, to look at God appearing present. "Who are you?" he inquired; yet Simon did not daringly ask, knowing close at hand that the Sovereign was Jesus. And the King set before them, bringing an elongated fish, the fish and fresh bread; and he commanded his disciples: "Come, feast again under the circle of one table, having taken this unexpected shared meal of the sea." 14 This, again, was the third time that Jesus was manifested to all the disciples after his divine, wakeful sleep of death, returning from those who are dead, having left the subterranean depths, having crossed the fish-bearing ford of the Tiberian salt-water, he touched the feast; and leaving all together after the meal of the undivided table, he sounded a divine voice to the nearby Simon: "Simon, legitimate branch of father John, do you love me more than all your fellows?" And Peter said to him: "Yes, Sovereign; and you know in your heart how much I love you, and you are not in need of words." And with divine lips the King gave orders to Peter: "Feed for me with your staff the prudent lambs, never silent." 16 Jesus questioned Peter in turn with a shared word: "Simon, of the seed of the glorious-childed John, do you alone love me more than the joined companions?" And opening his mouth to the King for the second time, Simon, the fisherman of the human flock, answered: "Yes, King; and you are the witness of my mind, you know yourself how much sweet, unutterable* love I bear toward you." And in prudent response the King said to Peter: "Feed the intelligent flocks of our sheep." 17 And Jesus spoke again his accustomed voice: "Simon, child of pious father John, ^C

THE EVANGELIST’S TEXT.

10 Jesus says to them: "Bring of the fish which you have now caught." 11 Simon Peter went up, and dragged the net onto the land, full of great fish, one hundred and fifty-three; and being so many, the net was not broken. 12 Jesus says to them: "Come, breakfast." And none of the disciples dared to examine him, saying, "Who are you?" knowing that it is the Lord. 13 Jesus then comes, and takes the bread, and gives to them, and the fish likewise. 14 This is already the third time that Jesus was manifested to his disciples, having been raised from the dead. 15 When therefore they had breakfasted, Jesus says to Simon Peter: "Simon, son of Jona, do you love me more than these?" He says to him: "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He says to him: "Feed my lambs." 16 He says to him again a second time: "Simon, son of Jona, do you love me?" He says to him: "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." He says to him: "Shepherd my sheep." 17 He says to him the third time: "Simon, son of Jona, do you love me?" Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time: "Do you love me?" and said to him: "Lord, you know all things; you know that I love you." Jesus says to him: "Feed my sheep." ^D

^A Are you surely seeking me much more than the others?” And bold Peter was grieved because Jesus said for the third time: “Do you love me more than my companions with a benevolent spirit?” But Peter answered Jesus with a sad voice: “You, prince of the world, know all things that I think, and you understand the immovable barrier of my love, in what manner I, having it, love you.” But God answered in speech: “With a heavenly pastoral staff feed the sheep and the lambs. While you were still young, Peter, you were girded with your sash, and you used to bend the trace of your foot wherever you desired to go; but late in life, growing old, you will stretch out your hands by compulsion: and other pitiless men will encircle you tightly, leading you into a certain place which your soul does not command.” He spoke, prophesying the end of death with a knowing voice, in which Peter was about to honor the King by dying. And God spoke again to Peter, full of wisdom: “Feed my sheep, prudent in the flowers of books.” And Christ said to him: “Follow.” ^B And then walking, Simon of shifting counsel directed the circle of his eyes backward; but the Lord saw the disciple following on foot, whom he loved, who even while the God-begotten King was dining, falling askew upon his breast, with a questioning speech had asked the knowing Jesus: “Who is the man who will betray you to the God-hated Jews?” Seeing him then, Peter asked: “And what will this fellow-soldier of mine do?” But the King reproved him with a speech: “If I desire him to remain here until I come, what does this signify to you? You follow me.” And this speech was proclaimed with a hidden voice to the kinsmen from the companions, glorious, because that insuperable disciple will not see the end of a common death. ^C Not indeed did Jesus say, “He will not be deprived of life”; but only this: “If I wish him to remain here until I come, what does this signify to you? Why do you ask?” This man, looking with his eyes, the companion outside the wandering rumor, is the disciple testifying to divine works; and understanding all these things, he wrote them in a divine book. But many other miracles, the witness of the truth, which Jesus himself performed, he has sealed with wise silence, which if a mortal man were to record in order, piece by piece, I do not believe the round world of splendid form could contain the such newly-made books.

THE TEXT OF THE EVANGELIST

18 “Amen, amen, I say to you, when you were younger, you used to gird yourself, and walk where you wished; but when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you, and will carry you where you do not wish.” 19 This he said, signifying by what death he will glorify God. And having said this, he says to him: “Follow me.” 20 Peter having turned about, sees the disciple whom Jesus loved, following, who also had leaned back at the supper upon his breast, and said: “Lord, who is it that is betraying you?” 21 Peter seeing him, says to Jesus: “Lord, and what of this man?” 22 Jesus says to him: “If I wish him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow me.” 23 This word went out therefore to the brethren, that that disciple does not die; and Jesus did not say to him that he does not die; but: “If I wish him to remain until I come, what is that to you?” 24 This is the disciple who is testifying about these things, and who wrote these things; and we know that his testimony is true. 25 There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they were to be written one by one, I do not think that even the world itself could contain the written books. Amen.

915 αμπαύσατο μόχθου 32. ἀμφαδὰ νῦν λαλέεις 176. ἀμφαδίην ἀγγέλλων 174. ἀμφαδίην…

INDEX TO THE PARAPHRASE OF NONNUS

^A ἀβακχεύτοιο (un-Bacchic) table 14. ἀδίαστος (indivisible) I came 140. ἀβόητον (noiseless) journey 186. ἀβόητος (noiseless) faith 144. ἀδρέκτοις (un-spun/un-pliable) hands 16. ἀγαπάζει (he loves) me 100. ἀγαπάζει (he loves) you 176. ἀγάπαζε (love) with a loving ordinance 120. ἀγαπάζων (loving) companions 182. ἀγγύθι (near) for ἐγγύθι, ms. P. 28, 82. ἀγέροντο (they gathered) to the assembly 150. ἀγκυλόμητις (crooked-counseling) wolf 114. ἀγκυλόμητις (crooked-counseling) dance 132, 154. ἀγλαόκαρπον (bright-fruited) harvest 40. ἀγλαόμορφον (bright-formed) world 224. ἀγλαόπαιδος (bright-childed) birth 220. ἀερσιλόφῳ (high-crested) place 206. ἀερσινόου (high-minded) father 10. ἀερτιπόθητον (newly-desired) foam 48. ἀερτάζοντα (lifting up) bed 50. ἀεσίφρονι (fickle-minded) spirit 94. ἄζυγι (unyoked) bolt 200. ἀήθεα (unwonted) knees shaking 18. ἀθέσμιοι (lawless) high priests 196. ἀθεσμοδίων (lawless) men 202. ἀθηήτου (unlooked-at) cloak of modesty 218. ἀθηήτου (unlooked-at) matter 24. ἀθηήτοιο (unlooked-at) face 158. ἀθηήτοιο (unlooked-at) Son 156. ἀθηήτῳ (unlooked-at) mist 70. ἀθηήτων (unlooked-at) hollows 14. αἰγλήεντα (gleaming) garment 200. ἄΐδης (Hades), mors (death) 130. αἰδοῦς (of shame/modesty) for αἰδοίου, ms. 78. αἰδοῦς (of shame) unlooked-at cloak 218. ἀγνώστων (of the unknown) where he goes 142; ordinance 84. ἀγλήνοιο (eyeless/dim) face 102. ἀγνώστῳ (to the unknown) where he is 104. ἀγνώσσοντος (ignorant) 58. ἀγνώστοντες (ignorant) word 192. ἀγνώσσοντας (ignorant) he shall teach 38. ἄγναμπτον (unbending) persuasion 214. ἀγρομένου (gathered) people 76. ἀγρύπνοισιν (sleepless) distresses 174. ἀγχιθέοις (near-godlike) companions 64. ἀγχιθέοισι (near-godlike) disciples 148. ἀγρύπνοιο (sleepless) mourning 126; mourning 124. ἀγχιθέων (near-godlike) companions 214. ἀγχίθρονος (near-throned) seat 84. ἀγχικέλευθος (near-roaming) tongue 172. ἀγχικέλευθον (near-roaming) people 58. ἀγχικέλευθον (near-roaming) sea 62. ἀγχιπόρου (near-roaming) salt sea 60. ἀγχιπόρου (near-roaming) lake 216. ἀγχιπόροιο (near-roaming) spring 102. ἀγχιπόροιο (near-roaming) city 44. ἀγχίπτολις (near-city) spring 32. ἀγχίπτολις (near-city) people 150. ἀγχιτέλεστος (near-completed) time 170. ἀγχιτέλεστος (near-completed) hour 174. ἀγχιτόκου (near-child) mother in labor 174. ἀγχιφανής (near-appearing) seat of salt sea 62. ἀγχιφανῆ (near-appearing) boy 100. ἀγχιφανῆ (near-appearing) you look at me 58. ἀδαιτρεύτοιο (undivided) table 220. Ἀδὰμ (Adam) first-born 198. ἀδειμάντῳ (fearless) voice 50, 76. ἀδέσμιος (not bound, non ligatus) 194. ἀδόνητος (unmoving) man 104. ἀδουπήτῳ (noiseless) sandal 152. ἀδρανέοντος (weak, agrot.) 120. ἀδωμήτοιο (unbuilt) rock 200. ἀειδομένης (being sung) from report 158. ἀείδουσιν (they sing), from product (a producto) 60. ἀειζώοντος (ever-living) God 4. ἀειζώοντα (ever-living) dead 200. ἀειζώοιο (ever-living) God 14, 196; Son 8. ἀειλισέος (ever-rolling) stream of utterance 30. ἀεισέος (immortal) shall be the man 112. ἀελλήεντι (stormy) sandal 6. ἀελλήεσσα (stormy) journey 40. ἀελλοπὸν (storm-footed) he had a journey 126. ἀέξει (he increases) faith in heart 124. ἀεξήσητε (you may increase) fruit 166. ἀεξιφύτου (blessed) Galilee 14. ἀεργηλοῖσιν (idle) thorns 50. αἰεί (always) my voice 116. ἀίδεσκε (he regarded) the blind one 110. αἴθετο (he was kindled) with disease 124. αἰθομένου (kindled) fever 14. αἴθοπι (fiery) famine 66. αἴθοπι (fiery) disease 120. αἰθέριος (heavenly) one 140. αἴχε (if) he guards 98, 128; he carves 224. αἷχεν (if) you trust me 92. αἷμα (blood) bringing, born (orti) 92. αἱμύλα (wily) chatting 96. αἰνομανής (terribly-mad) people 100. αιολόμορφος (variously-formed) flock 112. αΐουσι (they hear) the stranger 112. αἰτίζεις (you beg) me 158. αἰτίζεσκε (he was begging, mendic.) 102. αἰτίζητε (you may beg) the Son 164. αἰτίζητε (you may beg) from the Son 158. ἀκαμπέα (unbending) knees 10. ἀκαμπέα (unbending) faith 30. ἀκερσεκόμων (unshorn) Galileans 70; P. ms. ἀκαχμένον (sharpened) with bronze 200. ἀκερσεκόμων (unshorn) Gal. Not. 18. ἀκερσικόμων (unshorn). ἀκετσιπόνῳ (healing-pain) story 120. ἀκηλήτων (unappeasable) Pharisees 84. ἀκίχητα (unreachable) measures 150. ἀκλαύτοις (tearless) eyes 198. ἀκλινέος (unbending) death 210. ἀκλινέες (unbending) ships 212. ἀκλινέας (unbending) ordinances 162. ἀκοιμήτοις (sleepless) eyelids 180. ἀκοιμήτοισι (sleepless) minds 104. ἀκοίτης (consort) not legitimate 50. ἀκοίτην (consort) base-born 36. ἀκουαῖς (to the hearing) unwavering 56, 58. ἀκούεις (you hear) from the child 128. ἀκούσας (having heard) hold 208. ἀκροπαγή (high-fixed) knees 58. ἀκροφανής (high-appearing) 150. ἀκροφανής (high-appearing) daybreak 62. ἀκροφανές (high-appearing) light 184. ἀκτεάνων (propertyless) men 136. ἀλάλαζον (they wailed) trembling 62. ἀλαλητὸν (cry) terribly-mad 194. ἀλαώπιδι (blind) darkness 100. ἀλαωπὸς (blind) traveler 108. ἁλαωπὸν (blind) mist 104. ἀλάωσεν (he blinded) the eye 144. ἀλέγει (he cares for) of the other’s sheep 114. ἀλέγιζεν (he cared for) of properties 136. ἀλεξήτειραν (warding off) he may grant 106. ἀλεξιμέρῳ (grief-warding) king/queen 156. ἀλήμονας (wandering) men 32. ἀλήτης (wandering) swarm 84. ἀλήτης (wandering) rain 182. ἀλήτης (wandering) world 162; accus. casu, 42, 74. ἀλήτης (wandering) world 166; accus. 110. ἀλήτην (wandering) mind they had 72. ἀλήτην (wandering) blind man 144. ἁλιδινέος (sea-tossed) food 210. ἁλικρήπιδα (sea-founded) earth 74. ἁλιπλανέεσσιν (sea-wandering) tempests 72. ἀλιτήριον (sinful) ruin 212. ἀλιτρονόοιο (sin-minded) man 108. ἀλιτρύτῃσι (sinning) hands 216. ἀλιτροβίοιο (sin-living) world 166. ἀλκτήριον (warding) of a stormy foot 146. ἀλκτήρια (warding off) of diseases 20. ἄλλος (other) for ἕτερος, alter 160. ἀλλότρια (alien) to the ordinance 76. ἀλλοφανῆ (strange-appearing) newcomer 190. ἀλλοφανῆ (strange-appearing) signs 152. ἀλοιητῆρι (pestle/crusher) with iron 80, 170, 204. ἀλόχευτος (unwedded) man 202. ἄλσος (grove), laterna spec. 184. ἄλτο (he leaped), saliebat 218. ἄλυξεν (he escaped) or fled, idem 136. ἀλυσκάζων (shrinking) he descends 114. ἀλυσκάζων (shrinking) fear 144. ἁλωεύς (threshing-floor worker) P. ms. 42, 162, et tamen. ἀλωαῖς (on the threshing-floors) tenui spir. p. 40 et 42. ἀλωομένοις (wandering) with feet 88. ἀλωφήτοιο (unceasing) eternity 140. ἀλωφήτῳ (unceasing) with some honor 112. ἅμα (together) with them he is a guest 214. ἀμαιμακέτοιο (irresistible) high priest 186. ἁμαρτάδα (sin) he ferments 190. ἁμαρτινόοισι (sin-minded) disciples 72. ἁμάρτυρον (unwitnessed) work weaving 200. ἁμάρτυρον (unwitnessed) path 214. ἀμείβεαί (you answer) me with your words 190. ἀμειδέῖ (unsmiling) countenance 152. ἀμεμφέϊ (blameless) ordinance 154. ἀμεμφέας (blameless) men 150. ἀμέρσει (he shall deprive) for ἀφαιρήσει 174. ἀμερσινόῳ (grief-minded) in some madness 72, 170. ἀμετάτροπον (unchanging) joy 174. ἀμετρήτῳ (immeasurable) people 60. ἀμηχανέεσκε (he was helpless) 112. ἁμιλλητήρι (rival) people 104. ἁμιλλητῆρι (rival) story 84. ἀμιλλητῆρα (rival) of silence 172. ἀμιμήτων (inimitable) works 106, 120. ἄμνηστος (unremembering) of sin 212. ἀμοιβάδα (alternate) book rolling 86. ἀμοιβάδα (alternate) she broke out a voice 214. ἀμοιβάδι (alternate) them 220. ἀμοιβάδι (alternate) voice 190. ἀμοιβαδὶς (alternately) they rang back 118. ἀμοιβαίῃ (alternate) he gave the tablet 56. ἀμοιβαίην (alternate) he gave a voice 196. ἀμοιβαίῳ (alternate) to some ordinance 150. ἀμοιβαίῳ (alternate) in some story 90. ἀμοιβαίοις (alternate) reeds 184. ἀμοιβαίοισι (alternate) with feet 218. ἀμοιβὴ (reward) eternal 216. ἀμοιβὴν (reward) murderous paying back 118.

^A ἀμπαύσατο μόχθου 32. ἀμφαδὰ νῦν λαλέεις 176. ἀμφαδίην ἀγγέλλων 174. ἀμφαδίην ἀγόρευεν 122. ἀμφαδίην ἐρεύγεται 80. ἀμφαδὸν ἀγόρευε 116. ἀμφαδὸν ἔφηνε 144. ἀμφαφόων ἄκρον ὑπήνης 188. ἀμφήριστος κλόνος 104. ἀμφὶ πάντων εἰ ὑπὲρ πάντων, eadem signific. 180. ἀμφ' ἐμέθεν φθέγξεσθε, de me 168. ἀμφὶ τίνος κατέλεξε 152. ἀμφὶ τούτου, de hoc 120. ἀμφὶ τούτῳ, in hoc 164. ἀμφὶ μύθῳ ἀμηχανέεσκε 112. ἀμφίβλημα πόντιον 218. ἀμφιλαφὴς ἔρις 84. ἀμφιλαφὴς κόσμος 138. ἀμφιλαφὴς ζωστήρα 208. ἀμφιπαγὴς λίθος 128. ἀμφιλαφεῖς ῥώοντο 216. ἀμφιπαγῆ γούνατα 194. ἀμφιπολεύειν ζωὴν αἰώνιον 176. ἀμφιτρῆτες ὀπωπαὶ 100. ἀμωμήτοις πραπίδεσσι 194. ἀναβλύζουσα δάκρυ 210. ἀναδύομαι, detrecto 170. ἀνάειρεν ὀφθαλμούς 128. ἀναιδέες ἀρχιερῆες 198. ἀναίνεο τεὸν ἦθος 214. ἀναλδαίνει καρπόν 164. ἀναμφήριστον ἔπος 118. ἀναμφήριστον μάρτυρα 214. ἄναπτον πυρσόν 188. ἀναυδέϊ ῥινὶ 38. ἀναυδέες νεκροὶ 52. Ἀνδρέας οἱ Ἀνδρείας 140. ἀνδρογόνοιο χοὸς 102. ἀνδρομέης κραδίης 28. ἀνδρομέην γενέθλην 26. ἀνέγγυα δεσμὰ 80. ἀνέγνων, agnovi, cogn. 108. ἀνείρετό μιν 104, 222. ἀνειρομένοισι μαθηταῖς 100. ἀνείρυον ἄσπετον ἐσμόν 218. ἀνέμβατον ἄντυγα 26. ἀνέμβατον οἶμον 82. ἀνεμοσκεπὲς ἄλσος 184. ἀνέμπλοος νηῦς 62. ἀνεμώδεϊ λόγχῃ 204; ταρσῷ 214. ἀνένευον ἔχειν οὐδὲν 218. ἀνέπαλτο, ἀνεπάλλετο 48. ἀνεξικάκοισι πεδίλοις 74. ἀνεπάλλετο ταρσῷ 126. ἀνεῤῥίπιζον ἀῆται 188. ἀνευάζων με 160; Χριστόν 138. ἀνευάζοντες ἰωῇ μυστ. 38. ἀνεχλαίνωσαν μιν 194. ἀνήγρετον ὕπνον 122. ἀνηέρταζον λάας 118. ἀνήροτα τέκνα 4. ἀνήρυγε πενθάδα φωνὴν 122. ἀνήρυγε χείλεσι φωνὴν 66. ἀνθερεῶνι χέων ἔπεα 96, 190. ἄνθεσι βίβλων ποίμαινε 222. ἄνθορεν ἐκ μεγάροιο 208. ἀνθρακόεντι πυρσῷ 190. ἀνίαχεν ἠθάδι φωνὴ 214, 188. ἀνίαχε πᾶσιν 116; Πέτρῳ 188. ἀνίμαστος, non caesus loris 194. ἀνοιστρήσαντος Ἰούδαν 146. ἀνόμματον βρέφος 100. ἀνοστήτοιο βερέθρου 20. ἀνοστήτων ἀπὸ κόλπων 52. ἀνοστήτων ἀπὸ τύμβων 54. ἀνόστιμον οἶδας 210.

INDEX AD NONNI PARAPHRASIN

INDEX TO THE PARAPHRASE OF NONNUS

^A αὐτοκύλιστον (self-rolling) swarming crowd 218. αὐτομάτη (self-acting) ship 62. αὐτόπρεμνον (rooted-itself) race 118. αὐτόρριζον (self-rooted) sign 200. αὐτόσσυτον (self-moved) voice 78. αὐτοφόνῳ (self-slaying) destruction 90. αὐτοφύτοιο (self-grown) of God 2. αὐτοχύτῳ (self-poured) stream 82. αὐχήεντες (proud-necked) attendants 40. ἀράστων (unprayable) 214. ἄρατον (unprayed-for) evil 192. ἀφειδέϊ (unsparing) of the feast 66. ἀφειδεῖ (unsparing) hand 82. ἀφειδέσιν (unsparing) hands 80. ἀφροκόμοισιν (foam-maned) oars 64. ἀφωτίστοιο (unlighted) face 100. Ἀχαιίδι (Achaean) voice 200. ἀχάλινον (unbridled) life 82. ἀχάρακτος (unmarked) star 208. ἀχάρακτος (unmarked) by clubs 194. ἀχάρακτον (unmarked) appearance 100. ἀχλύσεις (darkening) spirit 116. ἄχνυτο (was grieving) 216, 222. ἀχνυμένη (grieving) heavily 128. ἀχρήστος (useless) grain 140. ἀψευδές (true) voice 50.

^B βαθυχρήπιδι (deep-founded) earth 72. βαθυνομέης (deep-seated) rock 206. βαιός (small) still time 160, 172. βαλίησιν (variegated) with others 114. βαπτίζετο (he was baptized), act. signif. 28. βαρυγλώσσοιο (heavy-tongued) throat 118. βαρύδρακος (heavy-eyed) Mary 126. βαρύδεσμον (heavy-bound) veil 130. βαρυζήλων (heavy-jealous) Pharisees 52. βαρυκάρδιος (heavy-hearted) world 182; swarm 52. βαρύμηνιν (heavy-wrathful) life 196. βαρύμηνιν (heavy-wrathful) boast 80. βαρύνουσαν (burdening) body 58. βαρύφορτος (heavy-laden) woman 174. βαρύφορτος (heavy-laden) Joseph 208. βαρύφορτον (heavy-laden) shoulder-cape 48. βαρυώδινον (heavy-laboring) hour 174, per iota etiam P. ms. βασιλῆος (king's) beginning 192. βασιλῆος (king's) court 192. βατὴν (passable) earth 10. βατῆς (passable) sea 62. βεβαρηότες (weighted) with goad 20. βεβαρημένον (weighted) heavy 220. βεβιημένον (forced) by winds 62. βεβιημένον (forced) water 36. βερέθρου (of the pit) 66. βητάρμονας (dancing) of the brine 218. βητάρμονας (dancing) fish 218. βιαρχέας (life-ruling) commands 166. βιαρχέας (life-ruling) words 178. βιαρκέος (life-sustaining) father 96. βίβλῳ (in the book) divine 224. βίβλων (of books) tended with flowers 222. βιοδώτορι (life-giving) word 118. βιοπλανὲς (life-wandering) burden of necessity 212; character 166. βιοπλανέεσσι (life-wandering) to the poor 152. βιοσσόον (life-saving) breath 52. βιοσσόον (life-saving) peace 162. βιοσσόον (life-saving) faith 216. βιοσσόος (life-saving) king 50. βιοσσόος (life-saving) hour 40. βιοσσόος (life-saving) Christ 124. βιοτῆς (of life) manifold-wandering 54. βιοτήσιον (of life/living) peace 46. βιοτήσιον (of life/living) feast 40. βιοτήσιον (of life/living) work 174; water 56; lip 214.

^C βλύσσουσιν (gush forth) water 82. βοέης (of the ox) birth 170. βοηθόον (helper) gave to the world 70. βοηθόος (helper) of life 22. βοογλήνοιο (ox-eyed) face 108. βορῆς (of food) needing 216. βοτρυός (cluster’s), image 164. βοώμενος (cried out) by name Simon 216. βοώμενον (cried out) in Greek voice 198. βραδυδινέϊ (slow-whirling) word 214. βραδυπευθεῖ (slow-inquiring) voice 48. βριμηδὸν (heavily) grieving 128. βρονταίη (thundering) echo 140. βροτοειδέα (human-shaped) form 90, et dativo 183. βρόχιον (noose) fate 156.

Γ γαζοφύλαξ (treasury) place 90. γαιήϊος (earth-born) man 50, 150. γαιήϊος (earth-born) lordship 192. γάλα (milk) faithful milking 206. γαληναίῳ (serene) face 10. γαμίης (nuptial) table 14. γειοπόνος (earth-laboring), agricola 162. γένεθλα (births/races), progenies 94; battle-defying is the birth 25. γενέθλης (of birth) bright-childed 220. γενέθλια (birthday) sufferings 92. γενεθλιὰς (birth) mist 100. γῆρυν (my voice) I sing 116. γιγνώσκεις (you know) me Not. 12. γίγνωσκε (know), cognoscebat 46. γιγνώσκητε (you may know) P. quoque 194. γίγνωσκον (I was knowing) 216; P. ginosko my fruits, and so, these things know me 114. γινώσκω (I know) you as a God-spoken prophet 36. γινώσκων (knowing) 72. περὶ γλουτοῖσιν (around the buttocks) having wrapped 218. γνωταί (sisters), sorores 120. γνωτὸς (known) being archpriest, notus et famil. 186. γνωτὸς (known) yours, your brother 124. γνωτῶν (of known) from companions 221. γοήμονος (lamenting) inner tomb 124. γοήμονος (lamenting) appearance 210. γόμφος (fastening), stilus script. 200. γομφωτὸν (nailed) with timbers nail-cut 198. γοοπλανέων (lament-wandering) Pharisees 22. γραφίδεσσι (with pens), scripturis 56, 58. γραφικῆς (of writing) book 118. γραφικοῖο (of writing) law 168, 180. γραφικοῖσι (of writing) characters 142. γυιοβόρῳ (limb-eating) scourge 120.

Δ δαήμονι (knowing) in hearing 110. δαιτυμονῆς (of the guest) unsparing 66. δαιτυμονῆς (of the guest) son 40. δακρυχέεσκε (was shedding tears) 210, composite P. quoque. δαμάζεις (you subdue) me with blows 188. δασπλῆτος (terrible) necessity 84. Δαυΐδ (David) per au P. ms. 84, itemque Suidae Lexicon. οἱ δὲ δὴ ἄλλοι (the others indeed) 218. δέγμενος (receiving) of the father 172. δέγνυμαι (I take/receive), accipio, accepto, P. 54, 56, sed priore in loco superscriptum χ. δεδάασι (they know), norunt 80, 106, 188, 210. δεδάασιν (they know) to hear, norunt 112. δεδάηκα (I have known), novi 98. δεδάηκε (has known) letters, novit litt. 78. δεδέξομαι (I shall receive) with joyful mind 66. δεῖγμα (example) teacher 150. δείελον (evening) hour 204. δείελος (evening) man 206. δενδρώεντος (tree-filled) garden 190. δέξαιτο (may he receive) with mind 106. δέξαο (receive) persuasion 214. δερκόμενοι (beholding) your works 76. δευομένοις (to those lacking), indigentibus 156. δηλήμονα (harmful) of men, the serpent 26. δήμιος (public) swarm, populus caterv. 84. δημογερόντων (of village elders), Not. ad 84. διάβροχος (drenched) with tears 44. διακτορίην (service) table had 154. διάκτορος (messenger/servant) swarm of companions 60. διάκτορος (messenger), minister 150. διάκτορος (messenger) of Christ 190. διάκτορον (messenger) work weaving 140, 146, 150. διάκτορον (messenger) light, id est, deacon 48; archpriest 186. διάκτοροι (messengers) of archpriest 188. διαπλήσας (having completed) fifty years 100. διαπρυσίῃ (shrill) with a voice 150. διαστείχων (traversing) the land of Gal. 74. διαστείχοντα (traversing) of the pit 128; of the sea 62. διατμήγει (cuts through) a branch 102. διδάγματα (teachings) divine 90. διδάσκαλον (teacher) example 150. διδυμάονι (twin) with law 114. διδυμάονας (twin) fish 60. διδυμόθρους (twin-voiced) echo 104. διείρομαί (I inquire) of you asking 178. διείρεαι (you inquire) of me these things, interrogs, 188. διεπέφραδόν (I have told) to you, dixi 128. διζήμεθα (we seek) Christ 184. διζήμονι (seeking) with basket 90. δίζομαι (I seek) honor 98. δίζυγι (two-yoked) in bond 190. δίζυγι (two-yoked) in law 146. δίζυγος (two-yoked) of yours 42. δίζυγα (two-yoked) messenger 138. δίζυγα (two-yoked) bronze 206. δίζυγον (two-yoked) day 122. διήϊον (these things) 176, 180. διήϊον (these things) 170. διίξομαι (I shall reach) you many things 169. δικασπόλος (law-giver), judex 86, 144, 196. δίκτυα (nets) distant-striking 218. διορνύμενον (lifting up) of the father 168. διπλόος (double) 214. διπλόον (double) day 42. διφήτορι (double-seeking) basket 208. διφήτορι (double-seeking) of the sea 218. διχθαδίης (double-natured) yours 120. διχθαδίῳ (double-natured) with word 150. διχόμητις (double-minded) being 128. διχόμητις (double-minded) strife 84. διχόμητιν (double-minded) new 214. διψάδι (parched) earth 140. διψαλέοντι (parched), sitienti 52. δίψιος (thirsty) hour 32. δίψιον (thirsty) brine 202. διψώω (I thirst), sitis 202. διώνυμος (double-named) Thomas 122, 156. δμωῖς (to the servants) speaking 188. δμῶες (servants) and laborers 188. δμῶσις (servant) to speak 150. δοκέεσκον (they were thinking), putabant 152. δοκεύω (I think), puto 120. δοκεύω (I look for), video 194. δοκεύει (he looks for) 144. δοκεύων (looking for), videns 104, 108. δολοπλόκος (guile-weaving) duplici accentu, P. ms. 136.

^A δολοπλόκος Ἰούδας (guile-weaving Judas), also P. ms. 134. δολοπλόκον ἐσμόν (guile-weaving swarm) 192; also P. δολοπλόκον φωνήν (guile-weaving voice) 132; P. δολόπλοκον. δολοῤῥαφέας πατρός (guile-stitching father) 94. δολογραφέων Φαρισαίων (guile-writing Pharisees) 154. δονακοτρεφὴς ἔρνος (reed-nourished sprout) 200. δούλειον ἀνάγκην (servile necessity) 94. δουλοσύνην Θεῷ τελέσται (to perform servitude to God) 170. δουρατίης ἀκάνθης (of wooden thorn) 26. δουρατέην χηλόν (wooden chest) 152. δόχμιον ὀμφήν (oblique oracle) 174. δοχμώσαντες γούνατα (having bent the knees) 194. δρηστήρες, ministratores (ministers) 192. δρηστήρες αιθέριοι (ethereal ministers) 164. δρηστήρες ἁλός (ministers of the sea) 218. δρηστήρες βλοσυροί (grim ministers) 196. δρηστήρες οινοχόοι (cupbearing ministers) 14. δρηστήριον ἔργον ὑφαίνων (weaving a ministerial work) 148. δύνων αἰθέρα (entering the ether) 146. δυσαλθήτῳ νούσῳ (with a malady hard to heal) 48. δυσήνεμος οδμή (ill-windy scent) 128. δύσματα οὔατα (ill-hearing ears) 24. δυσπειθέϊ βουλῇ (to disobedient counsel) 90. δυσπειθεῖ λαῷ (to disobedient people) 56. δυώδεκα κύκλα (twelve cycles/circles) 60. δυωδεκάριθμος ἐσμός (twelve-numbered swarm) 18. δυωδεκάριθμος Ἰούδας (twelve-numbered Judas) 152. δωμήσας, ædific. (having built) 116. ἑαδότα τοχῆα (pleasing parent) 92. ^B ἑάσας γαῖαν (having left the land) 170, 178; δεῖπνον (supper) 146; ἐὸν θρόνον (his throne) 194; πέδον Καν. (soil of Cana) 44. ἑάσατε τάρβος ἀήταις (leave fear to the winds) 62. ἑβδομάτοιο φέγγεος (of the seventh light) 204. ἔβλυεν ὕδωρ (poured forth water) 16. ἔγγραφον αὐδήν (written voice) 78. ἐγγύθι νηοῦ (near the temple) 82. ἐγγύθι πέτρης (near the rock) 66. ἔγγυον αὐλῆς μῦθον (a pledge of the discourse of the court) 172. ἐγερσιβόητος ἀλέκτωρ (awakening-cry cock) 154. ἐγέρσιμον ὕπνον ταύων (spending wakening sleep) 210, 220. ἐγερσινόοιο γυναικός (of the woman who awakens the mind) 42. ἐγκύμονα ἀμπλακίης (pregnant with sin) 76, 176. ἐγκύμονα γαστέρα (pregnant womb) 22. ἐγκύμονες δυσσεβίης (pregnant with impiety) 92. ἔγκυον νεπόδων (pregnant with offspring) 220. ἔγκυος ὀμφῆς θεοδ. (pregnant with the oracle) 6, 21, 51. ἐγουνάζοντο Χριστόν (they knelt before Christ) 42. ἔγρεται ἐψιτέλεστος (he awakes thoroughly completed) 104. ἐγχθονίων ἀνδρῶν (of earth-born men) 160. ἐδέγμην Γ. (I received) 150. ἐδέγμην πάντας (I received all) 166. ἔδεύλον ἁγνόν (they enslaved the pure one) 76. ἔδεθλον Προσολύμων (seat of Jerusalem) 156. ἐδέπλιον Καναναῖον (Cana-dwelling) 44. ἐδίῃνεν ἱκμάδι (he moistened with moisture) 120. ἔδρακεν ἑώς (the dawn saw) 110. ἔδρακες αὐτὸν ὀπωπῇ (you saw him with the eye) 110. ἔδρανα νηοῦ (seats of the temple) 116. Είπας, Not. ad 94. ἔειπες (you said) 142. ἐθήμονος τους (of the familiar one) 80. ἐθήμονι κείμενον εὐνῇ (lying on a familiar bed) 48. ἐθήμονι λαίλαπι (in a familiar storm) 76. ἐθήμονα δαῖτα (familiar feast) 220. ἐθήμονα κώμην (familiar village) 124. εἴ συ, es tu (if you are) 196. εἰ μὴ ἐμοὶ μίμνητε (if you do not remain with me) 164. εἰ μίμνητε (if you remain) 164. εἶδαρ ἄφθιτον (imperishable food) 66. εἴκαθε πότμῳ (he yielded to fate) 126, 204. εἰλαπινάζειν μελιῤῥ. ἄρτον (to feast on honey-flowing bread) 66. εἰλαπινάζων ἐμὸν δέμας (feasting my body) 70. εἰν ἀγάπῃ (in love) 124. εἰν ἑνί, uno ore (in one, with one mouth) 46. εἰν ἑνί, uno verbo, id est, ut uno verbo dicam (in one, with one word, that is, that I may speak in one word) 52, 54, 116, 164, 166, 172. εἰν ἑνὶ πάντας, uno v. seu unum omnes (in one all, or one all) 176, 214, 218. ad εἶν ἑνὶ χώρῳ (at the one place) 208. εἵνεκα pro ούνεκα, eo quod (because for, for the reason that) 176. εἰνοδίης πορείης (of the wayfaring journey) 148. εἴρεον, interrogabant (they asked) 50. εἴρετο, interrogabat (he asked) 40; P. ms. εἴρετο, itemque (and likewise) 50. εἴρετο 192, 194, 220. εἰρόμενος, interrogans (asking) 64. εἰρομένοισιν ἐνίψαι (to say to those asking) 106. εἴροντο ἀμφοτέρους (they asked both) 100. εἰς subaudita (understood) 48, 154. εἰς γενετῆρος, sc. δῶμα (to the father’s [house]) 158. εἰς ἐμὲ βαίνων, ad me (entering into me, to me) 82. εἰς ἐμὲ μίμνων, pro ἐν ἐμοί (remaining into me, for in me) 164. εἰσαίειν θέσκελον ὀμφήν (to hear the divine oracle) 90. εἰσαῖοντα φθογγῆς (hearing of the voice) 112. εἰσαφικάνει κοίρανος (the ruler arrives) 224. εἰσόκεν ἔλθῃ, donec ven. (until he comes) 153. εἰσόκε, dum (until) 100, 102, 192. εἰσορόωντες (looking upon) 90. εἶχον σθένος, poterant (they had strength, they were able) 218. ἐκαίνισε θεσμὸν ἑορτῆς (he renewed the ordinance of the feast) 116. ἑκὰς ὁδεύειν (to travel far) 154. ἑκατοντάδος ζαθέης (of the holy hundred) 206. ἐκεύθετο σιγῇ (it was hidden in silence) 144. ἑκηβόλος ἑώς (far-darting dawn) 8. ἑκηβόλα δίκτυα (far-darting nets) 218. ἔκλυε φήμης (he heard the report) 136. ἐκταδίη ἀπεμάξατο (stretched out she wiped away) 134. ἐκταδὸν κείμενος (lying stretched out) 104. ἐκταδὲν ὀρθώσαντες (having raised up stretched out) 200. ἔκτοθι γαίης (outside the land) 218. ἔκτοθι κόσμου διώκεται (is driven outside the world) 142. ἔκτοθι νηοῦ (outside the temple) 20; they drove away 110; et al. ἐκτὸς ἔλασσαν (drove out). ἔκτοθι σταθμοῖο (outside the dwelling) 112. ἐκώμασεν εἰς δόμον ἀρχ. (he revelled to the ruler's house) 190. ἑκὼν ἀέκων ἔδωκε (he gave willingly unwillingly) 198. ἐλατῆρες νηός (oarsmen of the ship) 62. ἐλαφρίζεσκον μιν μύθῳ (they were lightening him with speech) 126. ἐλεγχίστῳ τινὶ πότμῳ (by some most disgraceful fate) 198. ἑλεῖν ἐς τὴν ὁλκάδα (to take into the ship) 62. ἐλελίζεται νούσῳ (he is whirled by disease) 120. ἐλεύθερον ἄτης πρόφασιν (freeing the pretext of ruin) 168. ἐλεύθερον ἴαχε φωνήν (he shouted a free voice) 108. ἕλιξ χρόνος (coiling time) 102, 172. ἕλιξι κυκλούμενος ἁψῖσι (being circled by coiling loops) 116. ἑλίσσεται αἰών (the age is coiled) 26, 94. ἑλίσσων βίβλον (coiling the book) 86. ἑλκυστῆρα κάδον (drawing vessel/bucket) 54. ἑλλήνια τέκνα (Hellenic children) 82. ἕλπομαι, opinor (I hope, I suppose) 224. ἑλπομένη, putans (hoping, thinking) 210. ἐμαιώσαντό μιν λοχεῖαι (the childbirth pangs delivered him) 100. ἐμὰς τελέσειεν ἐφετμάς (may he perform my commands) 160. ἐμέθυσσε δόμον ὀδμῇ (he intoxicated the house with scent) 134. ἐμιτρώσαντο ὀθόνῃσι (they bound with linens) 200. ἐμπεδόκυκλον χρόνον (steadfastly-circling time) 92. ἐμπεδόμητις ἀνάγκη (steadfast-counselled necessity) 114. ἐμπεδόμητις βροτός (steadfast-counselled mortal) 104. ἐμπεδόμυθον ὅρκιον (steadfast-worded oath) 174. ἔμπλεος ἀρῆς (full of curse) 84. ἔμπλεον ὄξεος (full of vinegar) 202. ἔμπορον ἕδρην (merchant seat) 18. ἐν pleonast (pleonastic) 32. ἔν subaudita (understood) 186, 206, 208. ἐναυλίζοντο μελάθροις (they were lodging in halls) 210, 212. ἐναύλιον ὀθνεῖον (strange lodging) 28. ἐνδαπίῳ μύθῳ (in a native discourse) 198. ἔνδιον ἄστρων (midday of stars) 162. ἔνδιον αὐλῆς (midday of the court) 156. ἔνδον αὐτοῦ ἔμεθλον (I was about to be within him) 160. ^C ἔνδια κώμης (dwellings of the village) 136. ἔνδοθι νηοῦ (within the temple) 134; P. ms. ἔνδοθε. ἔνδοθι τύμβου (within the tomb) 128. ἐνδόμυχος πίστις (inmost faith) 144. ἐνδόμυχον ὕδωρ (inmost water) 82. ἐνδομύχων λύχνων (of inmost lamps) 184. ἐνδομύχων προβάτων (of inmost sheep) 110. ἐνδομύχους ἰχθύας (inmost fish) 218. ἐνένιπεν, increpuit (he rebuked) 44. ἔνερθε φορῆος (beneath the bearer) 200. ἐνερρίζωτο μενοιναῖς (it was rooted in intentions) 84. ἔνθεος ὀδμή (divine scent) 134. ἔνθεον αἴγλην (divine radiance) 22. ἔνθεον ἴχνος (divine footprint) 76. ᾧ ἔνι, in quo (in which) 146. τῇ ἔνι, in qua (in which) 104, 136. ἐνίαχον αὐτίκα λαοί (the people shouted immediately) 128. ἐνίαχε θαῦμα νοήσας (he shouted having perceived a wonder) 60. ἐνίψαι, dicere (to say) 106; μῦθον (word) 146. ἐνίψω μαρτυρίην ἰδίην, dicam (I will declare my own testimony) 54. ἐνίψει (he will declare) 100. ἐνίψῃ μιν Χριστόν, appellarit (he may call him Christ) 100. ἔννεπεν (he said) 224. ἐννύχιον οὐδὲν πιέζειν (to press nothing nocturnal) 216. ἐννύχιοι σύλησαν (nightly they plundered) 210. ἐντροπαλιζομένης ὀπωπῆς (of the glance turning back) 222. ἐντύνεις, pararet (you prepare) 152. ἐξότε seu ἐξ ὅτε (from when or from the time when) 108, 116, 150. ἐπαείσετε θρήνους (you will sing laments) 174. ἐπάρκιος μάρτυς (sufficient witness) 54. ἐπάρουρος ἀνήρ (earth-bound man) 72. ἐπασσυτέροισι κυπέλλοις (with successive cups) 52. ἐπεδήσατο εὐφροσύνης (he bound himself with joy) 100. ἐπεβήσατο κώμης (he ascended to the village) 126. ἐπέσρεψεν ἄσπετον ἠχώ (he turned back a boundless echo) 196. ἐπεθάμβεεν αὐτόν (he was amazed at him) 78. ἐπειρήσαντο πιέζειν (they tried to press) 84, 118. ἐπειρήτιζε γυναῖκα (he tested the woman) 36; νόον ἀγνῶσσοντος (the mind of the unknown one) 58. ἐπεμβαίνοντες νηός (stepping into the ship) 216. ἐπεπάφλασε λαός (the people boiled over) 96. ἐπεπείθετο μύθῳ (he was persuaded by the word) 46. ἐπεσβόλος δμωῖς (mocking slave) 188. ἐπεσβόλε σύ (you mocking one) 110. ἐπεσβολίῃσιν ἐλέγχων (with mockings of reproaches) 166. ἐπεσμαράγησε λαός (the people thundered) 140. ἐπεστόρνυντο κονίη (dust was spread over) 184. ἐπέτελλε πατήρ (the father commanded) 92. ἐπέτελλε τελέσσαι (he commanded to perform) 98. ἐπέφραδον, ἐπεφθέγξ. (they declared) 108. ἐπεφράσσασθε μύθῳ, consider. (take thought with discourse) 176, 178. ἐπεφράσσαντο (they took thought) 138. ἐπεψιθύριζεν ἀκουῇ (he whispered to the ear) 152. ἐπήβολον πρόφασιν (hitting the pretext) 194. ἐπήλυδα λαόν (incoming people) 58. ἐπήλυδες ἄνδρες (incoming men) 102. ἐπηλυσίη, aditus (approach) 112. ἐπῄορος ὄρθιος ἔστω (let him be upright and lofty) 196. ἐπήτριμα κύματα (successive waves) 80. ᾧ ἐπι (on which) 78. ἐπιάσσατε, cepistis (you took) 220. ἐπιβήτορι παλμῷ (with climbing throbbing) 220. ἐπιβήτορα θώκων (climber of seats) 72. ἐπιδευέα φωνῆς ἑτέρ. (lacking a voice of another) 44, 176. ἐπιδήμιος αὐδή (sojourning voice) 208. ἐπιδήμιος ἐσμός (sojourning swarm) 200. ἐπίηρα ἀμπλακίης (pleasing things of sin) 96. οὐκ ἐπίθησαν (they did not add) 106. ἐπικήπιος αὔρη (garden-breeze) 206. ἐπίκλοπος ἀνὴρ (thievish man) 132. ἐπίκυρτος ρόος ἁλμῆς (arched flow of salt water) 62. ἐπιμάρτυρος αὐτὸς ἑαυτῷ (witness of himself to himself) 18; ἐμαυτῷ (to myself) 90, 224. ἐπιμάρτυρα φωνῆς μῦθον (word of the voice as witness) 190. ἐπιμάρτυρες αὐτῆς (witnesses of her) 188. ἐπιμάρτυρας ἔργων (witnesses of works) 144.

^A ἐπιμάρτυρον ἔστω (let it be confirmed by witness) 52. ἐπιμίμνετε ἐμῷ φίλτρῳ (remain at my love) 164. ἐπισφίγξαντες ἀνάγκῃ (having bound fast by necessity) 200. ἐπιτύμβιος ὥρη (sepulchral hour) 136. ἐπιτύμβια θεσμά (sepulchral ordinances) 206. ἐπιχρίσας πηλόν (having anointed with clay) 102. ἐπιψύχοντες γαῖαν (cooling the earth) 188. ἐπουρανίη λύσις (heavenly release) 212. ἐπουρανίοιο θεοῦ (of God heavenly) 176. ἐπυργώθη ῥόος ἅλμης (the stream of brine was piled like a tower) 62. ἐπωμίδα βαρύφορτον (heavily-laden shoulder-piece) 48. ἐργατίνης πόντοιο (worker of the sea) 12. ἐρέεινε, interrogabat (he asked) 46. ἐρέπτων ἄρτον (eating bread) 72, 150. ἔρεσθε, interrogate (ask) 106. ἐρέσσω τὸν πόδα, moveo (I move my foot) 48. ἐρετμώσας χεῖρας (having made oars of hands) 218. ἐρεύγεται ἔμπεδον αὐδήν (it pours forth a steady voice) 56; ἠθάδε φωνήν (customary voice) 80. ἐρευθιόωντι δεέθρῳ (in the reddening stream) 46. ἐρευνητῆρα θαλάσσης (searcher of the sea) 10. ἐρημάδος ἐγγύθι πέτρης (near the desert rock) 66. ἐρημάδα πέτρην (desert rock) 62. ἐρημαίῃ παρὰ πέτρῃ (by the lonely rock) 66. ἐρημαίῃ παρὰ λόχμῃ (in the lonely thicket) 70. ἒρνος γνήσιον (genuine scion) 220. ἔρξον, seu ῥέξον, facito (do) 152. ἐρωτοτόκοιο σαρκός (of flesh begetting desire) 4. ἐς οἰκίον ἀρχιερέως (to the house of the high priest) 186. ἐς ὑμέας ἐνθάδε βαίνω (I come here to you) 80. ἐσέδρακον νεκρόν (they looked upon the dead) 204. ἔσθενον φυγεῖν (they were able to flee) 98. ἐσίδητε θαύματα (look upon wonders) 44. ἐσίδοιτο βιοσσόον (he might look upon the life-bestower) 136. ἐσπερίην πορείην (evening journey) 186. ἔσσαν, ἦσαν (they were) 16. ἔσσο, es (be) 188. ἔσσο, sis (be) 214. ἔστιχεν ἁγνὸν ἔδεθλον (he walked to the holy abode) 76. ἔστιχε πάνδοκον οἶκον (he went to the house of entertainment) 48. ἔστυγεν αὐτοὺς κόσμος (the world hated them) 180. ἔστυγεν ὑμᾶς κόσμος (the world hated you) 160. ἐσύστερον seu εἰς ὕστερον (afterwards) 154. ἐσχαρεῶνι παριστάμενος (standing by the hearth) 190. ἐταρίζετο ὑμᾶς κόσμος (the world was salted/preserved for you) 100. ἑτερόθρους μαρτυρία (various-sounding testimony) 90. ἑτερότροπον κρίμα (strange judgment) 110. ἑτερόχροον ἄγρην (diverse-colored catch) 218, αἴγλην (gleam) 46. ἑτερόφρονι λύσσῃ (with strange-minded madness) 54. ἐτήσιος ἑορτή (annual festival) 74. ἐτήσιον μνημοσύνην (annual commemoration) 116. ἐτήτυμος ὀμφή (true voice/oracle) 72. ἐτήτυμος προφήτης (true prophet) 84. ἐτητυμίη, veritas (truth) 96. ἐτητυμίης μάρτυς (witness of truth) 140, 224. ἐτητυμίης οἶμον (path of truth) 78. ἐτητυμίης πανθελγέος (of all-beguiling truth) 192. ἐτύπωσεν ὀπωπήν (he formed the countenance) 100. εὐάγγελον ἴαχε φωνήν (he cried out an evangelical voice) 58. εὐαγέεσσι μενοιναῖς (with holy purposes) 92. εὐαγέως ἀγαπάζων με (loving me holily) 160. εὐάζων ἔτι πάσχα (still celebrating the Passover) 204. εὔνασε κεῖθι πόδας (he laid his feet to rest there) 208. εὔνασε πότμος Λάζαρον (fate laid Lazarus to sleep) 122. εὐγλώσσοιο θερισμοῦ (of the eloquent harvest) 40. εὐδένδροιο λόχμης (of the well-wooded thicket) 58. εὔδιος πόλις, tranquilla (serene city) 152. εὐκελάδοιο ἑορτῆς (of the well-sounding festival) 76. εὐχεράους βόας (well-handed/ready-handed oxen) 18. εὐκίονι τέχνῃ (with well-columned art/skill) 116. ἐϋκροκάλοιο ἅλμης (of the well-fringed/surging brine) 62. ἐϋκροκάλοισι παρ' ᾐόσιν (by the well-fringed shores) 216. εὐλαῖγγος νηοῖο (of the well-rowed/ship-related temple) 72. εὐλαίγγι θοώνῳ (in a swift temple) 198. εὐλαίγγι νηῷ (in a well-rowed temple) 48, 78; τύμβῳ (tomb) 206. εὐπετάλοιο τραπέζης (of the well-spread table) 60. εὐπόδος ὥρης (of the fair-footed hour) 202. ζωαρκέϊ μύθῳ (with life-sustaining word) 180; πομπῇ (procession) 168; πότμῳ (fate) 142. ζωαρχέα τιμήν (life-ruling honor) 128. ζωοδότης γόνος (life-giving offspring) 142. ζωστήρα κεφαλῆς (girdle of the head) 208.

[H] ἠγάλλετο ἰδεῖν (he rejoiced to see) 100. ἡγητὴρ περιδέξιος (a very clever leader) 130. ἡγεμονῆες ἄστεος (leaders of the city) 80. ἡδέϊ θυμῷ (with sweet spirit) 96. ἦεν, ἦν, erat (was) 128. ἠερόφοιτο δαίμονος (of the air-wandering demon) 78. ἠεροφοίτην διάκτορον (air-wandering messenger) 14. ἠερόφοιτος οἶστρος (air-wandering gadfly) 98. ἠθάδος ἰχθυβότοιο (of the customary fish-fed [sea]) 220. ἠθάδι κώμῃ (in a customary village) 156; ταρσῷ (in the customary tarsus/sole) 150; χαλκῷ (brass) 80. ἠθάδα ἄγρην (customary catch) 216; μῦθον (word) 174; φωνήν (voice) 80. ἤνδε θυμῷ, sciebat (he knew in his spirit) 148. ἠκάχε Θεόν, offendit (he offended God) 100. ἠλοτύπους χεῖρας (malleus-striking hands) 212. ^B ἤμασιν ἐν τρισσοῖσι (in three days) 20. ἠμείβετο μύθῳ (he answered with a word) 64. ἡμερίδων κλῆμα (vine-shoot) 162. ἠνεμόφοιτος Κύριος (wind-wandering Lord) 214. ἣν τελέσειεν (which he would accomplish) 162. ἡνίδε, ecce (behold) 8. ἡνίδε πῶς, ecce ut (behold how) 80, 128. ἡνίοχος βιότοιο (charioteer of life) 100. ἠνίπαπε μύθῳ (he rebuked with a word) 222. ἤντεον, Ion. ab ἀντάω (they met) 46. ἐς ὄνα ἕλκων (drawing to the edge) 218. ἠπεροπῆϊ δόλῳ (with beguiling guile) 74. ἤρετο N. ad 40. ἠρεύγετο φωνήν (he vomited forth a voice) 78, 110, 152. ἠριγενείης μυστιπόλοιο (of the early-born mystery-celebrant) 50. ἠριγενείης ὑστατίης (of the last early-born) 68. ἤφυσεν ὕδωρ (he drew water) 102. ᾖχι πέλω, ubi sum (where I am) 182. ἠχὼ ἔνθεον (divine sound) 54. ἠχὼ πολύστομον, etiam P. ms. (many-mouthed sound) 84. ἠχὼ P. ms. 136. ἠχὼ ψυχοστόλον, etiam P. (soul-fashioning sound) 154.

Θ θαλύσια πατρὶ τελέσσῃ (may he offer first-fruits to the Father) 42. θάμβος ἔχοιτε, miremini (may you have wonder) 54. θαμβαλέος ἔβρεμε (frightened he roared) 100. θανατηφόρος δόλος (death-bearing guile) 138. θανατηφόρος ληϊστήρ (death-bearing robber) 194. θάρσυνεν ἐῇ φωνῇ (he emboldened with his voice) 48. Θεὸς ἀνήρ (God man) 10. θεηγενέος βασιλήος (of the God-born king) 200, 212. θεηγενέων ἔργων (of God-born works) 144. θεηγόρος μολπή (divine-inspired song) 202. θεηγόρον ἄνδρα (divine-inspired man) 6. θεηγόρον ἀνθερεῶνα (divine-inspired throat) 66, 90. θεηγόρον φωνήν (divine-inspired voice) 220. θεηγόρα χείλεα (divine-inspired lips) 92. θεηδόκος (God-receiving) 120. θεηδόχου μίνα (of the God-receiving [woman]) 218. θεήλατον πῆμα (divine-sent suffering) 100. θεημάχος γενέθλη (God-fighting birth/race) 94. θεημάχον ἀνθερεῶνα (God-fighting throat) 26. θεημάχον ἴαχε φωνήν (he cried out a God-fighting voice) 180. θεηπόλος ὥρη (divine-serving hour) 58. θεητόκος Χρ. μήτηρ (God-bearing Mother of Christ) 14, 18. θελήμονι σιγῇ (with willing silence) 210. θελήμονες εἰς ἐμὲ βαίνειν (willing to come unto me) 6. θεμείλιον κόσμου (foundation of the world) 40. θεμιστοπόλοιο βίβλου (of the law-ministering book) 192. θεμιστοπόλον στόμα (law-ministering mouth) 90. θεμιστοπόλων Φαρισαίων (of the law-ministering Pharisees) 86. θεογλήνοιο προσώπου (of the divine-viewing face) 210. Θεογλώσσοιο βίβλου (of the divine-tongued book) 20. Θεογλώσσων μερόπων (of divine-tongued mortals) 80. Θεογλώσσων διὰ φωτῶν (through divine-tongued lights) 56. Θεοδέγμονος αὐλῆς (of the God-receiving court) 114. θεοδέγμονος ὀμφῆς (of the God-receiving voice) 54. Θεοδέγμονι θυμῷ (with God-receiving spirit) 82; λαῷ (people) 2. θεοδινές παλμῷ (with divine-whirling pulsing) 62. θεοδινεῖ ῥιπῇ (with divine-whirling darting) 56. Θεοκλήτοιο μελάθρου (of the God-called hall) 106, 17. Θεοκλήτῳ ἑνὶ νηῷ (in the one God-called temple) 188. θεοκλήτῳ τινὶ φωνῇ (with a certain God-called voice) 174. θεοκμήτῳ πέπλῳ (with God-wrought garment) 212. θεόμητιν φωνήν (divine-counseling voice) 96. θεόπαιδα τεκοῦσαν (having borne the divine-child) 202. θεοπειθέος ἀληθείης (of God-persuaded truth) 90. θεοπειθέϊ μύθῳ (with God-persuaded word) 50. θεοπειθέα λαόν (God-persuaded people) 28. θεοπροπέων ἐπιτέλλομαι (divine-proclaiming I command) 166. θεοπνεύστῳ τινὶ μύθῳ (with a certain God-breathed word) 118. θεοπρόπος ἀνήρ (prophetic man) 132. θεοπρόπον ἄνδρα (prophetic man) 40. θεοῤῥήτῳ μύθῳ (with God-spoken word) 156. θεορρήτων βίβλων (of God-spoken books) 56.

^A God-poured rain 88. God-sent track 156. God-sent footprint 90. God-sent work 64. God-sent lips 98. God-loving Galileans 44. God-hated Jews 222. God-pleasing truth 92. God-pleasing law 64. God-fearing Moses 108. God-fearing fruit 164. God-fearing crop 42. God-fearing faith 142. God-fearing voice 76. God-fearing person 206. God-fearing disciples 154. they told of the way of God-fear 168. concerned with God-fear 108. he keeps all things by God-fear 28. God-wise rod 42. God-wise disciples 214. of God-wise words 98. wondrous utterance 24. lawful court 192. Moses of the Theotokos 108. Law-bearing fathers 38. in the divinely-inspired book 216, 224. by a divine impulse 14. by a divine voice 50, 112. they spoke divine decrees 84. behold the wonders 60. to the wondering world 160. to the wondering people 80, 120, 198. wonders of works 168. female voice 30. servants and slaves 188. Bacchic hours 4. to the feasting people 14, 60. the nourisher 146. with a heavy-scented offering 198. the man of sacrifices 170. of the maenad spring 48. with a raging voice 88. breezes of a maenad 218. Bacchic feast 20. Bacchic utterance 14. the spirit commands 222. spirit-destroying thirst 82. of fragrant myrrh 120. fragrant myrrh 206. door-frames 212. ^B I send, for the same 212. I send, to send 170. sending rain, divine 89. sending forth intellectual sparks 54. to break sleep, re-collected 122. sudden voice 58, 220. shouted of exhaustion 176. shouted in the temple 80. they shouted the same court 74. they shouted one voice 40. See, behold 198. with skillful counsel 96. with skillful silence 144. with skillful art 78. with skillful voice 222. skillful hours 28. we have placed 210. un-iron [invulnerable] hunter 144. healer of disease 50. straight-way impulse 130. straight-way youth 144. they received [him] with a straight-thinking mind 178. guide of the world 60, 98. of the way of the spirit 142. you reach the place, or "to" 154. he reached the place, instead of "to" 198. to bow a suppliant knee 38. of the moist flock 220. of the moist shore 92. carrying a wandering eye 150. bound in chains 130. he was lashed with vapor 120. the lashed child 44. the body of lashed men 58. the lashed mind with a prick [goad] 126. of the lashed [woman] near the shore 92. of Indian aloes 206. we go from there 162. to the streams of the Jordan 120. of the Jordan river 8. by will 52. having traveled from Judea 46. of Jerusalem 18. equaling, equalizing 52. people equal to the sands 58. equal-yoked without assistance 160. equal-yoked to his begetter 52. equal-yoked to the law 54, 70. equal-natured imitation 150. fishermen 218. of the water-traveling fisherman 60. water-living fishermen 216. of the accustomed fish-giver 220. they track to subdue 80. he turned his track/footprint 76. God-sent footprint 90. kenotaph, empty tomb 208. of the empty tomb 208. with a sting, a lance 204. with a stinging word 98. ^C heavy-straining offering 38. with twisted threads [of a] sphinx 130. joy-giving chorus 18. be hidden in silence 80. subterranean depths 220. favored, gifted 196. he called your husband 56. and the moving hand 40. mourning woman 210. of the mourning house 126. snowy radiance 46. cista, money-chest 156. fragments of the table 60. gates of Jerusalem 56. with thief-minded words 76. of the nursing bed 50. bed, *lectum* 48, 150. hear the word 154; this 196. I care for a love-token for you 222. of the peak-bearing way 158. peak-bearing swarm 184. peak of an acanthus 194. still wandering 222. he was holding his feet 148. wheat-like loaves 60. judgment, *corr.* 110. my judgment, *i curr.* 90. of the judgment to come 54; and shortly 16, my judgment, *i curr.* 32 corrected. of funeral hours 156. in the vaulting movement [dancing] 18. he gladdens the Word, the Son 52. under the wheels [circles] of the table 220. with the circular [revolving] disease 80. circular hours 122, 134. circular temple [or: of the circular girl] 150, 148. waves of peoples 40. the people was surging 90. having bent his curved neck 110. feast-commotion 74. secret life 72. with a storm of voice 140, 184. stony in the empty-waisted [one] 16. with stone-like missiles 118, 122. talking lamb 10. with a talking trumpet 56. with a talking silence 152. talking sickle 42. talking image 116. having lanterns 184. people-leading king 82. people-leading voice 88. Latin-wise, *voce* 200. portion, allotment 202. with a white voice 174. white hair 22, 90. nature of a woman in childbed 4. of the woman in childbed, near-child-bearing 174. women in childbed hours 100. with forgetful [lethaean] breezes 160. wondrous crop 42. robber, un-animated 194. robber, unseen 112. robber, death-bringing 194. to the robber word 188; tarsin 119, voice 112. of the stone-thrown snowstorm 100. of the stone-carving empty-waisted [one] 210, stone-carving swarm 100. ^D (Note: The index continues.)

^A paved site, near a place 198. Of linen capture 74. Linen-weaver Simon 215. Linen cloth, 146; in the manuscript, *legōtion* [shroud], as also in Suidas. Of shining-light world 88. May they become shining-light 110. Of the missing-eyelash [blind] circle 100. Leaving light on the world 144. Leaving light on the face 102. Leaving light on the darkness 122. Leaving light on the eyes 128. Of the voice-losing dead man 150. Night leaving shadow 136. Shadows leaving lights 102. Pleading, *precamini* [pray ye] 174. They supplicated Pilate 200. Pleading neck 38. I plead, *precor* [I pray] 148. Destructive hour 84. Final hour 54. Of the ambushing sound 108. Of the year, years 152. Lyre-striking David 84. Disciple of the law-loosening [Christ] 108. In the toil-loosening tale 50. Toil-loosening foam 102. Toil-loosening mouths 82. Furious world 174. To a furious bridegroom 190. Savior of birth, man 182. Solutions of grief 124. Lamp of piety 54. To the prayer-bearing people 90.

M Magdalene Mary 202, 208, 210; in the manuscript, written above throughout as *Magdalēnē*. Seeking, *quaerentes* [seeking] 82. Furious rushing 96. Furious Jews 50. In a prophetic voice 38. Wasting fire 218. Mary 212. Mary of... 16, 120. Witness of truth 140, 224. Witness to life 158. Witness of face 118. Witness [to the] voice 8. Witness [in the] tablet 216. Witness [in the] tale 38. Witness [in the] voice 219. Witnesses [of the] faces 168. Witness of a steady word 54. Witness of escaping evil 188. Let there be a witness 110. A true witness 88. Let it be a witness of a steady word 14, 24, 52. Witness of suppliant neck 56. These things are a witness 116. He seeks his own glory 78. They were seeking to kill 50. Seek ye to kill me 78. Seek ye the oracles 56; the honor of God 56; to kill 94; to press upon lights 184. Warlike shield-bearers 184. Of lustful bed 46. Lustful hair 154. Managing the dance 14. Of wine-stumbling weddings 18. Black-veiled mist 62. Of the black-minded demon 98. Honey-breathing song 204. Honey-flowing bread 60. Honey-dripping snowfall 202. Cared for in transgressions, *studens* [studying/caring] 108. Cared for in the service of God 132; in prayers 108. But, indeed, however, *tamen* [yet] 190, 208. They were eager to seize 62, 136; to destroy 74. You were eager to travel 222. He was eager to tame 94. He will remain in me, *manebit* [will remain] 70. They were contending with him in stories 108. Lowest, extreme 202. Returning, brought back 118. Sowing seed in a furrow 42. Death-bearing sound 130. Death-bearing hour 52. Death-bearing Christ 138. Death-bearing Joseph 206. In an indignant tale 44. In an indignant voice 188. Indignant at transgression 168. Indignant in voice 84. Of the newly-bright face 102. Newly-persuaded men 60. Nothing newly-wandering 194. Newly-wrought books 224. Newly-wrought eyes 102. Newly-grieving sons 126. Newly-fixed banquet-halls 76. Newly-built tomb 206. Of leaping grandsons/descendants 220. Of the nether pit 92. Will of the parent, *voluntas* [will] 66. Sending signs to the knowing/wise 152. In a sailing tale 90. New-come, foreign-looking 190. Temple-serving, priests 194. Asking the temple-servants 190. Numberless people 64. In numberless mouths 196. Nodding toward Hades 120. Like clouds they hasten 30. Nicodemus, 1st corr. [correction] 84, 86. Being conquered by possessions 136. Moving the stone from the door-frame, for *from* the door-frame 208. The moved [removed] stone 208. Sheep and lambs 222. Sheep-rearing shepherd 112. Of the apple-eating festival 204. Of long-limbed descendants 220. You have [a] purpose, *sentis* [you feel/think] 104. Mixed rows 60. Mimicking image 38. Vine-like imitation 164. Starry imitation 184. Cluster-like imitation 164. Diminishing life 56. From short-lived food 61. Short-living water 34. He girded himself with a linen girdle 146. Girded with companions 212. He girded his loins with a garment 218. Suitor of a feast 64. He thinks of pain, *meminit* [remembers] 174. They were toiling in the furrow 42. Of the single-sceptered king 198. Uniquely, self-rolling 208. He told the people 96. As you speak to me 150. Myth-bearing heart 170. With a story seeking friendship 222. With the sound of the voice 140. Mourning the living one 210. Mournful ointment 208. In mystic art 38. Was performing mystic rites 20. Of the mystic festival 78. To the mystics 28. To the mystic voice 38. Of mystic men 54. Of mystic Jerusalem 134. Of Moses 78, 80.

N Many dwellers 43. Mixed dwellers 80. Dwelling 94. And I plead 148. In the hollow basin 146. Of stone-thrown snowfall 100. You perceive me, *nosti me* [you know me] 12. He perceives me, *novit me* [he knows me], and immediately, *noēō* [I perceive] the Father 114. In thoughts, *sententia* [opinion/thought] 84. Varied thoughts of stories 188. Purposeful flock of sheep 222. He knew/perceived me, *novit me* [he knows me] 158. False shepherd 112. False crown 194. My mind, my warnings 164, v. 16, flow of our speech. Mind-harmed men 144. Mind-erring eye 26. He came home safe 208. Safe/returned from the dead 130, 220. He is cut off from life 224. Diseased, *aegrotus* [sick] 48. Diseased woe 120. In a diseased bond 120. Wonders of the diseased 64. Of the sick-bed 50. Of the affectionate nurse 48. Now, still now 98. Of the night-roaming robber 204. Night-roaming lights 200. Of the night-roaming servant 190. Night-shining star 208. Night-shining Nicodemus 22. He changes the goal/turning point 60. In a long-standing goal/turning point 94. Night-time woman 208.

Stranger to the world 180. Host of our people 122. Guest-gift water 32. Host of Christ 122. Being helpless together 152. In a shared law 34, in a shared story 80, in a shared fate 124. Companion of yours 156.

^A Joint prize of mine 90. Fused with the disciples 72. Fused with the disciples a tale 212. 0 § pro ὅς, is 46, 206. Converse with one another 82, 134, 158, 200. Converse pro said 62, 63, 98, 110. Converse to the world 188. With gentle words 154. Far from one’s own 78. Eighth circles 48. Eighth hour 156. Bulk of a threat 214. Wayfarer flock 138. Pain-assuaging water 48. Pain-assuaging hour 46. Such a disciple, perhaps saw 222. With a surging swell 182. Way of truth 92. Wine-colored fruit 162. Wine-colored robe, purple 200. Wine-pouring voice 16. Wine-faced 6, Nonnus to line 24. With a goaded foot 208. Goaded into anger 72. For the sheep, pro ovibus 114. With the draw of a wave 218. Rather than all companions, magis omnibus 220. Accompanied from afar 186. Gathered, you seek 184. In the assembly of disciples 212. Of like age, hair 90. Fellow members, high priests 200. Fellow members, fishing nets 210. Fellow members to her 196. Fellow members, peoples 62. Might associate with destruction 90. Might associate with a pit 92. Mist, ten. sp. p. ms. 408. Eye of the world, lux m. 178. Eyes of counsel, lumina cons. 144. Of the same womb as Peter 216. With a common-tongued tale 92. With common-tongued throats 76. Customs of like-born men 44. Of the same family, sister 128. Of the same family, brother 190. Of the same family, brother 120. Of common board, flock 60. With equal zeal, intention 50. With equal-zealed throats 116. With equal-zealed disciples 60. Yoke-fellow to him 70. I am a yoke-fellow, child 118. Yoke-fellows, disciples 152. May they be yoke-fellows 182. Yoke-fellow peoples 150. Yoke-fellow dwellings 156. Yoke-fellow cargo ships 62. Of yoke-fellow companions 220. Yoke-fellow ranks of lights 78. Gathering to her 74. They were lying down together 14. Ran upon common-woven nets 220. With a common-woven net 130. Common-woven girdle 208. Common-rowed chorus of men 120. Common-woven crown 194. Common-polity 140. With a common-spoken tale 12. With equal-strung hands 220. Fellow-traveler man 184. Fellow-traveler flock 100. Fellow-traveler shall be to you 160. With equal-affectionate bond 160. ^B Common-bordered land 74. With a common-drilled pit 200. With a common-sounding tale 200. From common-sounding throats 104, 198. Common-goer 140, 224. Common-goer peace 162. Common-goer of companions 220. Common-goer of yours 170. Like-minded came 42. Like-minded Pharisees 158. Of like-minded peoples 84. Grain seed 42. Having loosed the voice-filled mouth 152. Under the same roof, friend 152. Under the same roof, companions 122. Likewise, simul, 208. With a sharp tale 212. Sharp-flowered crown 194. Having heard sharply, that is, quickly 202. Having let go sharply, pro quickly 194. Of a sharp-cutting thorn 194. Of sharp-piercing nails 214. Sharp-lighted if bright-eyed 110. Attendants of the high priest 190. Coming to the net 229. Watchers 214. Watchers of the feast 138. Watchers, companions 210. Following behind accompanied 180. With a backward-stretching bond 190. With a backward-going foot 112. Walking with a backward-going foot 154. With backward-going sandals 126. Where, ubi 84, 90. Roasted feast 220. Of a mountain-dwelling desert 132. Mountain-dwelling descent 34. Upright journey 156. Defining straight justice 50. Mountain-wandering migrants 72. Let him leave the orphans 130. Leader 192, 222. That, pronom. relat. 92. That, quoniam 108, 133. Thou art not, thou not 190. Strength is not to increase 104. Of the earth-spring 30. Of the earthy chasm 128. Mountain-roaming people 54. Of the worthless world 92. In order that, while, quum 48. Fish lying on the brows 218. Aqueduct of the feast 132. Aqueduct of yours 172. Having bound with indissoluble fetters 154. In a fetter they shut up 200. Fetters of unshaken friendship 222. Having opened the mouth-gates 84. Late-coming having arrived 124. Late-coming light 82, 102. Of late-coming men 204. Late towards repentance 28. Late-appearing he was ascending 78. ^C Π All-begetter God 8, 56, 142. Childlike already 106. With a healing tale 22. Back-loosened voice 118. Back-loosened girdle 208. Back-loosened 194. Back-loosened bonds 94, 130. Back-fallen, rursus 210. Back-fallen 82, 108. Back-grown water 82. Back-retaken desire 64. Back-retaken bodies 52. Back-returning journey 14. On back-returning paths 44; in cups 16; with feet 194. Back-turned body 52. All-white foam 102. For the all-ruling begetter 64. For the all-ruling son 52. All-ruling form 158. All-mother life 52. Of all-shining Christ 154. With all-seeing eye 144. Public feast 74. Public day 116. Public water 102. All-receiving court 156, 196. All-receiving door 112. All-receiving house 48. Lines of all the Greeks 82. All-true 96. All-charming voice 82. Of the all-charming truth 192. All-merciful eye 68. From everywhere 220. All-nourishing age 108. You gaze upon the near-appearing 58, 144. Gazing upon a man 50; wonders 58. By the feet 126. Sideways 174. Might cross me out, rejec. 14. Remained, praeteriit 100. Diverts the mind 76. Stepping beside the path 100. Diverting crookedly 176. Diverting word 112. Of him who sits beside, inquires 170. He was measuring beside, praeteribat 152. Passing by with clusters 34. You were passed by in mind 84. Consoling ones for grief 126. Striking the tip of the cheek 114. Virgin son 202. Virgin-loving virgin 202. Having ridden beside N. 48, 202. All-appearing banquet-giver 154. Fatherly house 94. Fatherly might 116. Blowing with the spirit 13. With bubbling tale 198. Frosty hour 116. Of those digging the earth, hollows 52. Earth-nourishing water 34; or earth-trodden? 210. Edge of the feet 210. To the edge on the other side 190. On the edge he alighted 210. Beside the edge 210. Foot traveler 10. With obedient law 52; people 106; tale 104; voice 36. He was, pro he became 204. They might send into the pit 136. Grief-filled grief 170. Grief-filled of one loaf 60. Grief-filled at Martha 128; in silence 124. Grief-filled voice 122. With grief-filled moisture 196. Grief-filled myrrh 208. It was full of grace 4. Robes pro garments 194. It had been covered with a robe 218. Across the salt sea 62, river 28; Tiberis 220.

^A Perimeter of a voyage 218. Very long 106, 220. Watching over the sheep 134. They wander in a pasture 112. Of a table filled to excess 60. With an excessive story 80. To the excessive disciples 172. A wanderer 100, 105; he walks to the stars 82. Is sold 134. Crown heads with leaves 94. Of an unbuilt stone 206. In a stony tunic 118. Hearing that, audiens 124. Of the inquiring servants 190. Borne upon the winds, the year 160. Borne on the shoulder 206. Where do you dwell at times 10. Why do you hasten? quo fest. 170. Fat moisture 134. To grasp, prehendere 80, 82, 118, 184, 216. Having grasped him, preh. 134. Pilate, ι and α shortened 190, and elsewhere. Selling doves 20. A life-bestowing faith 216. Of faithful nard 134. I declare, I say 128, 192. Of the pierced side 204. Full of wisdom 222. Still breathing the pain of childbirth 106. Holy Spirit 212. Wind-footed 46: he came 208. Where do I walk, Not. ad 88. Passion-stricken cares 90. Created God 96. Varied-gifted king 138. Varying age 108. Variegated man 196. Variegated tunic 62. Of the punishing judgment 170; to the punishing Paphos 196, punisher of disease 50, punisher of lights 18, they held punishing exchanges 168. Many, mul. 76, 80, 134. Of the many-tongued people 82. In a diverse story 194. To the many-wondering people 140. About the much-lamented dead 126. Very skillful teaching 78. Many-curved turning-post 100. Much-desired day 100. Closed 108; Pascha 132. Much-prayed-to God 174. Much-blaming voice 118. A much-wandering world 144. Much-wandering of life 54. Much-wandering remains 60; flocks 114. Much-wandering in the winds 64. Of the many-branched cluster 104. Of the many-stitched sandals 110. Of the many-dispersed men 92. Much-mouthed echo 84. Of the many-turned table 18. Much-signed joy 164. In many-bored robe 218. Many-turned miracles 104. Many-turned flocks 114, signs 216, drugs 142. Much-shining honor 144. Of the much-echoing house 190: table 60; in a much-echoing world 176. In some much-echoing story 114. Wide-reaching hall 112. ^B Wide-reaching table 154. Herald of sin 152. Guide of the way 30. By the guides of God 22. Deep-sea hunt 10, 216. Neighboring the purple rock 62. When he walks 21. Expecting from one another 56. Many-coiled age 98. Many-coiled track 90. Much-housed courtyard 156. Many-toothed iron 204. Prone, leaning 38. We shall cut, fut. temp. 58. Fore-announcing song 204. Fore-announcing the day of the feast 204. Fore-announcing oracles 170. Fore-announcing, opening the lips 162. Protecting the antagonist 178. In the sheep-pasture watered 40, 83, he prefers 144. Projecting, right-hand 102. Projecting eyes 102. They sent me to reach 80. Fore-telling, praedixi 170. Prophesying, prædicens 82. Driving forth, emittebant 82. Free, gratis 168. He challenges to shepherd 112. A forerunner walks 112. Forerunner of light 2. A preceding voice 144. Leading man of the army 186, 206. Before the companions, coram 216. Day before the Sabbath 198. I shall embrace this one with kinship of like-love 160. You will embrace me with a word 174. Having taken me, he is embraced 150. Toward you, why does this happen 224. He spoke beforehand 172. A pre-empting tongue 150. May they purify the body 154; P. ms. may they enlighten, Ion. more. Pre-named from 102. Judging ahead of time 26. Preceding honor 144. He reveals pre-destined oracles 172. First step of sacred 216. First-angel man 4. First-throned council 152. First-throned oracle 142, 150. First-throned herald 28. First-sown Abram 94, 98. Winged army, ang. 24. Folds of the temple 100. Bottom of a fig tree 14. Gatekeeper opens 112. To the gatekeeping attendant 186. They built high with foundations 49. Pyre 218. Fire-eyed seasons 120. Wise flocks of sheep 229. Flocks of the herd 116. P enclitic P. ms. 80, 90; al non item 74. Rod, 21, 22; rod 212. Rod of the King 64; Rabbi 212. With a silent rod, redo 220. Of the begetter 94. With a man-breaking voice 184. ^C Salem of the deep-waves 28. Showing in appearances, venerationem 148. His works 76. It shone with rays 2, it shone starry 62; it shone with light 184. With a signaling voice 8, 16, 50, 188. Signs, miracula 132, 216. They had strength, poterant 218. Strength exists to cross 82; strength exists, possibile est, 90. He was weak to accomplish 128. With a silent foot 206. With silent feet 100. From iron-bearing nails 198. Of iron-bearing men 184. With iron bond 200. Siloam spring 102, P. ms. later in the place Siloam. Covering of hidden shame 218. Scepter-bearing Jesus 200. Shadow-like to the earth 208. With a crooked-minded counsel 96. Watch, speculare 12, temp. imperf. 62. They were watching one another 152. Of a desolate height 26. Wiping away the filth of the heart 28. Having mixed pro wiping, P. ms. 102. Handkerchief, Syr. ex Latin. 150, 208. Casting sparks 54. Standing track 126. To groan or to sigh 210. They circled in a crown 18. Spread out in a crown 14. Crown-bearing fisherman 42. Spotted doves on the limbs 16. Row of fruits 42. Rows of men 92. Ships standing in rows 62. In rows 224. Leaning 60. Mouth of the lake 216. He loathed me 166, 16'. They shook with a blow 110. In an immortal whirl 146; of dust 130, of time 54. Kin by transgressions 110. He found his kin 10. I am a yoke-fellow 158. Yoke-fellow to the people 60. Yoke-fellow for one another the tunics 208. Symbols of lordship 194. Symbols of victory 202. They stood mixed 188. Mixed dwelling-dwellers 80. Of mixed peoples 138. Growing together with me 102, 164. Of a joined hand 60. Joined swarm 60. Joined to the cross 196. I am of joint nature 858. To the gathered disciples 122. Fellow-worker is God 22, 222. My fellow-work, Not. ad 90. Joined together in one form 158. Shining together with 72. Together it will shine 146. Fellow-diner at the table 150. They locked together the gate 206. They locked together the tracks 212. Fellow-traveler 218, to a companion 10, with the student 188. Fellow-traveler of the world 172. Being a fellow-traveler to the student 208. Fellow-dweller of the lights 170. Joined companions 18; companions 202; to us 183. Joined knees 58. Synthesis, pactum 106.

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INDEX TO NONNUS' PARAPHRASE

of the table, unsated 220. With trembling ears 198. Rolling children 216. Rolling point 100. Round circle 102. Wasting away with cares 176. Tomb from the rock 206. Tomb of the tear-loving 208. Strange type 200.

Y Water-living, fish-catching 216. Water-faring, fish-catching 60. Son 44. Son 46, 52. Aged son 154. Dinner-bearing life 58. Life-bearing son 64, 94. Life-bearing fate 190. Shield-bearing men 196. Life-carrying of Tochas 52. Better hope 14. Having reached Simon 208. Treading with reaching foot 120. Pestilent demon 180. Of our voice 114. In the table-loving bedchamber 14. Of table-loving weddings 46. He loved the world 26. The student loved 202. Merchant-loving swarm 18. Student who loves to hear 206. Lover of the student 186. Tear-loving Mary 126, 202, 208. Mocking army 194. Fond orgies 20. Treasure-loving sting 146. Hospitality-loving women 120. Virgin-loving mother 202. Father-loving King 40. Inquiry-loving for the world 188; for the ^B story 222. Inquiry-loving voice 64, 92, 102, 103. Wealth-loving table 18. Wrath-loving feast 58. Affectionate King 152. Affectionate of the table 146. Affectionate in law 120. Much-cut of the [...-cut] 156. Cloak-loving woolen garment 202. Christ-loving Galileans 44. I bring love to you 222. In my love, amori erga me 16. In the fiery vapor of fire 184. He reddened with a lash 194. Bloody hour 80. Wandering silence 126. Wandering of a ship 218. Of pasture brine 220. Carrier, gestatoris 138. Living bearer 206. Bearer of a bed 50. Bearers of a garment 202. Carried on the shoulder 206. Consider, cogitatis 132. Of mind-spinning hour 140. Walking with a guarding foot 206. Escape for the corpse 208. Water-producing 34, and superscript in P. water-producing ^C (Nature-producing sound, the same in P. 136). Fragrant plantation 182. Tending for a man 210. Plantation of that 182. Seed-bearing Abraham 94. Seed-bearing age 100. In a den of silence, note 144. He broke forth a voice 64. Deceitful thieves 112.

X You need of the story 220. Of earth-born birth 118; of the river 34; of men 144; of works 106. On a stony bed 206; stone-like 200. Of the torrent gate 210. Of the torrent river 182. With torrent-like missiles 118. Grace to the Begetter giving 64; stretching 60. Paying grace, mortals 80. He rejoices in joy 50. Loosed in joy 195. ^D