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'Nation' and 'people' are often said yoked together, as in, "In a multitude of a nation is a king's glory, but in the affliction of a people is the ruin of a potentate." And, "Why did the nations rage, and the peoples?" But now, beginning from being a sinful nation, advancing towards wickedness, they become a people full of iniquities; and from being an evil seed, they also become lawless sons; for growth in virtue and vice is from lesser things. And consequently after the seed, a son, and analogously for the soul. For the seed of teaching is the implanting of lessons. And a son is everyone who has become similar to his teacher, whether in virtue or in vice. But one is called a son of the kingdom, the other of Gehenna. And he reproaches the Jews as being worse than the other nations. For neither adoption nor the height of glory made them better. Nor the various scourgings of him who scourges every son whom he receives. And since they boasted of physical noble birth, as being from Abraham, he calls them an evil seed and lawless sons, just as he also calls them rulers of Sodom and people of Gomorrah, showing that choice and life produce noble birth and the opposite. These had illustrious ancestors, the patriarchs; but from evil fathers who came after, they became evil, not by nature, but by imitating their choice. It is a great accusation, to call a whole nation sinful, as if almost no one in it acts rightly. But 'full of sins' indicated every form of wickedness. Such as, "being filled with all unrighteousness." And, "For the sins of the Amorites are not yet full." And the Savior also says, "Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers." An evil seed, 1833 which an enemy man sowed as a tare among the wheat, which, when fully grown, became a lawless son, instead of a Son of the Most High. Wherefore he mourns for him, saying something like: "From where have you fallen away?" The first accusation, then, is wickedness; a second and greater one is the abandonment of the good, which is followed by the provoking of the One who is good and gentle; for these, according to their proportion, wrath is treasured up. But just as the one being perfected strains toward what is ahead, so the sinner steps back toward what is behind. About whom he says: "Behold, those who remove themselves far from you shall perish.