Читать толкование: Книга пророка Иеремии, Глава 3, стих 7. Толкователь — Иоанн Златоуст святитель

И рекох, повнегда прелюбодействовати ей (αὐτήν) * во всех сих: ко мне обратися, и не обратися. Объясняет пророку то, что наказание справедливо: пойде (ἐπορεύθη) на всяку гору высоку. Затем показывает Свою благость и человеколюбие. И рекох повнегда прелюбодействовати. Таким образом сама навлекла на себя гибель, не устроив с самого начала жизни по закону и после нечестия не желая обратиться. Поэтому (Он) увеличит наказание Иудина колена. И виде преступление. Видя, говорит, развращение сестры своей и наказание, какому она за это подверглась, (Иудея) не избегла подражания нечестию, а пошла по следам той. *Αὑτὴν читается и в древн. списках перев. 70-ти.

CHRIST’S MINISTRY. CHRYSOSTOM: He directs his speech to the city, in this way, too, being minded to correct his hearers, and said, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem!” What is meant by this repetition? This is the manner of one pitying her and gently loving her. She is like a woman who is beloved. He always loved her indeed, yet she has despised him who loved her. Therefore at the point of being punished, he pleads, being now about to inflict the punishment. This he does also in the prophets, using these words, “I said, ‘she will return to me,’ but she did not return.” HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 74.3.

 

CALLED TO CONTINUAL REPENTANCE. CHRYSOSTOM: These two indeed are chief sins, engendered by violent lusts, the one of sexual desire, the other of the desire of money. Hear what God said to Jerusalem, “I said, after she had committed all these prostitutions, she will return to me, and she did not return.” When we have come back to the earnest love of God, he remembers not the former things. God is not as people. He reproaches us not with the past, neither does he say, when we repent, “Why were you absent for so long a time?” Only let us approach him as we ought. Let us cleave to him earnestly and rivet our hearts to his fear. . . .

How many other such changes would you see, both to have taken place back then and now taking place every day? For this reason I say, “Neither let him on the cross despair, nor let him in the church be confident.” For to this last it is said, “Let him that thinks he stands take heed lest he fall.” And to the other, “Shall not he that falls arise?” And, “Lift up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees.” Again, to these he said, “Watch”; but to those, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead.” These need to preserve what they have, and those to become what they are not. These need to preserve their health, those to be delivered from their infirmity, for they are sick. But many even of the sick become healthy, and of the healthy many, in being remiss, get sick. HOMILIES ON THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW 67.3-4.

 

THE CALL TO RETURN. CHRYSOSTOM: For the evils we have once perpetrated cannot provoke God so much as our being unwilling to make any change in the future. To sin may be a merely human failing, but to continue in the same sin ceases to be human and becomes altogether devilish. For observe how God by the mouth of his prophet blames this more than the other. “For,” we read, “I said unto her after she had done all these deeds of fornication, return to me, and yet she returned not.” . . . “Declare you first your iniquities that you may be justified.” Now this he demands from us in order to intensify our love toward him. LETTER TO THE FALLEN THEODORE 1.15.