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He claims that they have a certain untreatable and incurable disease, for he says, Every head has become troubled, and every heart has become sad. From the feet to the head—there is no health in it. Then the Word even despairs of their remedy, saying, There is no emollient to put on, nor oil nor bandages. Lest anyone think that he would have any standing, even after the time when one may take hold of the saving advent of Christ, the prophet then says: “God’s wrath has come upon them at last!” Although the reader might not arrive at the truth from what we have said over the last little while—since at times and in each generation there were men loved by God among them, and even during the captivity in Babylon—we reasonably deduce from the aforementioned evidences the final deposition of the Jewish people. This happened because they did not understand the Christ of God who dwelt among them. Besieged by the Romans, they were no longer the head people. And so they were alienated at any rate, in what came after, and every head of theirs (this clearly refers to the ruling authorities) has become humbled in sickness, every heart has become sad; as (from the feet to the head) there is no health in it (the author is clearly speaking here from the lesser to the greater), and no one could come up with any saving medicine for them. For so it was that when they found wine or another efficacious medicine of health and salvation, they would deny the Lord, neither acknowledging him nor understanding that the only physician of their souls had lived among them and that he was able to cure every disease and every infirmity of their souls and bodies. But rather than salvation, there is no health in it, whether a sore or a bruise, and so on. Symmachus renders this verse this way: There is nothing healthy in him, but only bruises and sores and stroke marks, and they have not been closed up or bound up or softened with oil.

For this reason, I exhort you to be courageous, because I will be with you through everything, and the offspring that you engendered throughout the whole world and the many children to whom you gave birth according to God I will gather into “my heavenly city.” I will raise them up high in the air so that they will soar like winged birds on the winds, that is, like the angelic hosts. 

бить... язвы. Народ был не в состоянии оправиться после Божиего наказания. Страдания народа находят выражение в страданиях Слуги Божия (Ис. 53:4, 5), Который по собственной воле отдал Себя на суд Божий, понеся осуждение за других.

Since, having offered every kind of therapy, they sin, "Why will you be struck anymore," he says? For to those who have transgressed in a curable way, the word says, threatening: "I will visit their iniquities with a rod." But to those who are incurably sick: "Why are you still struck?" as if one were at a loss and despairing of correction. Of the providential allowances, some are for sins; some for the betterment of those being tested; some for the manifestation of a hidden virtue, as in the case of Job; and some for the destruction of the despaired, as those now being threatened, like those of Pharaoh. These it is possible to understand only after the saving passion, when the nation was delivered over. For the Jews could not have sinned more greatly than by saying: "Away with him, away with him, crucify him." "We have no king but Caesar." Therefore the disciples of Christ testify to them as having been the first to begin, and when they were not accepted, they turned to the Gentiles, all but saying: "We would have healed Babylon, but she was not healed. Let us forsake her." For they are likened to Babylon, as impious. For the sins before the coming of the Savior were not incurable. For they also had prophets in Babylon. And having returned again, they engaged in worship according to the law, but after the Romans, no longer, since their temple was destroyed and all were scattered. The prophet, then, presents Christ as Lord and the Holy One of Israel, whom they abandoned, at which time also their every head was in pain, clearly their ruling authority having been humbled.

  He calls the kings and rulers the head, and the priests and teachers the heart. For what the heart is to the body, this the priests and teachers are to the people; and what the head is to the body, this the kings and rulers are to their subjects. He therefore laments their insensibility; for what punishment, he says, shall I yet bring? I have brought many of all kinds, and you have remained incurably sick...