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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.