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Book Ten, Part One of Eusebius' Church
History.

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Church History by Eusebius of Caesarea.

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Translated by Arthur Cushman McGiffert.

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Book Ten, Part One.

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Chapter One through Chapter Four,
Paragraph Thirty-Five.

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Book Ten.

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Chapter One.

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The Peace Granted Us by God.

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Thanks for all things be given unto God
the Omnipotent Ruler and King of the

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Universe, and the greatest thanks to Jesus
Christ the Savior and Redeemer of our

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souls, through whom we pray that peace may
be always preserved for us firm and

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undisturbed by external troubles and by
troubles of the mind.

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Since in accordance with thy wishes,
my most holy Paulinus, we have added the

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tenth book of the Church History to those
which have preceded, we will inscribe it

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to thee, proclaiming thee as the seal of
the whole work, and we will fitly add in a

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perfect number the perfect panegyric upon
the restoration of the Churches,

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obeying the divine Spirit, which exhorts
us in the following words, Sing unto the

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Lord a new song, for he hath done
marvellous things.

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His right hand and his holy arm hath saved
him.

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The Lord hath made known his salvation.

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His righteousness hath he revealed in the
presence of the nations.

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And in accordance with the utterance which
commands us to sing the new song,

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let us proceed to show that, after those
terrible and gloomy spectacles which we

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have described, we are now permitted to
see and celebrate such things as many

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truly righteous men and martyrs of God
before us desired to see upon earth and

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did not see, and to hear and did not hear.

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But they, hastening on, obtained far
better things, being carried to heaven and

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the paradise of divine pleasure.

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But acknowledging that even these things
are greater than we deserve, we have been

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astonished at the grace manifested by the
author of the great gifts.

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And rightly do we admire him, worshipping
him with the whole power of our souls,

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and testifying to the truth of those
recorded utterances, in which it is said,

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Come and see the works of the Lord,
the wonders which he hath done upon the

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earth.

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He removeth wars to the ends of the world.

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He shall break the bow and snap the spear
in sunder, and shall burn the shields with

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fire.

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Rejoicing in these things which have been
clearly fulfilled in our day, let us

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proceed with our account.

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The whole race of God's enemies was
destroyed in the manner indicated,

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and was thus suddenly swept from the sight
of men.

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So that again a divine utterance had its
fulfillment, I have seen the empius highly

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exalted and raising himself like the
cedars of Lebanon, and I have passed by,

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and behold, he was not, and I have sought
his place, and it could not be found.

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And finally, a bright and splendid day,
overshadowed by no cloud, illuminated with

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beams of heavenly light the churches of
Christ throughout the entire world.

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And not even those without our communion
were prevented from sharing in the same

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blessings, or at least from coming under
their influence and enjoying a part of the

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benefits bestowed upon us by God.

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Chapter 2.

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The Restoration of the Churches All men,
then, were freed from the oppression of

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the tyrants, and being released from the
former ills, one in one way and another in

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another, acknowledged the defender of the
pious to be the only true God.

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And we especially who placed our hopes in
the Christ of God had unspeakable

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gladness, and a certain inspired joy
bloomed for all of us, when we saw every

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place which shortly before had been
desolated by the impieties of the tyrants

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reviving as if from a long and
death-fraught pestilence, and temples

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again rising from their foundations to an
immense height, and receiving a splendor

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far greater than that of the old ones
which had been destroyed.

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But the supreme rulers also confirmed to
us still more extensively the munificence

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of God by repeated ordinances in behalf of
the Christians, and personal letters of

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the Emperor were sent to bishops with
honors and gifts of money.

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It may not be unfitting to insert these
documents, translated from the Roman into

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the Greek tongue, at the proper place in
this book, as in a sacred tablet,

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that they may remain as a memorial to all
who shall come after us.

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Chapter 3.

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The Dedications in Every Place.

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After this was seen the sight which had
been desired and prayed for by us all,

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feasts of dedication in the cities,
and consecrations of the newly built

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houses of prayer took place, bishops
assembled, foreigners came together from

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abroad, mutual love was exhibited between
people and people, the members of Christ's

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body were united in complete harmony.

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Then was fulfilled the prophetic utterance
which mystically foretold what was to take

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place, bone to bone and joint to joint,
and whatever was truly announced in

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enigmatic expressions in the inspired
passage.

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And there was one energy of the divine
spirit pervading all the members,

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and one soul in all, and the same
eagerness of faith, and one hymn from all

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in praise of the deity.

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Yea, and perfect services were conducted
by the prelates, the sacred rites being

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solemnized, and the majestic institutions
of the church observed, here with the

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singing of psalms, and with the reading of
the words committed to us by God,

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and there with the performance of divine
and mystic services, and the mysterious

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symbols of the Savior's passion were
dispensed.

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At the same time, people of every age,
both male and female, with all the power

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of the mind gave honor unto God,
the author of their benefits, in prayers

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and thanksgiving, with a joyful mind and
soul, and every one of the bishops

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present, each to the best of his ability,
delivered panegyric orations, adding

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luster to the assembly.

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Chapter 4.

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Panegyric on the Splendor of Affairs.

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A certain one of those of moderate talent,
who had composed a discourse, stepped

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forward in the presence of many pastors
who were assembled as if for a church

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gathering, and while they attended quietly
and decently, he addressed himself as

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follows to one who was in all things a
most excellent bishop and beloved of God,

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through whose zeal the temple entire,
which was the most splendid in Phoenicia,

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had been erected.

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Panegyric upon the building of the
churches, addressed to Paulinus,

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bishop of Tyre.

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Friends and priests of God who are clothed
in the sacred gown and adorned with the

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heavenly crown of glory, the inspired
unction and the sacerdotal garment of the

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Holy Spirit, and thou, O pride of God's
new holy temple, endowed by him with the

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wisdom of age, and yet exhibiting costly
works and deeds of youthful and

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flourishing virtue, to whom God himself,
who embraces the entire world,

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has granted the distinguished honor of
building and renewing this earthly house

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to Christ, his only begotten and firstborn
word, and to his holy and divine bride,

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one might call thee a new Bezalel,
the architect of a divine tabernacle,

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or Solomon, king of a new and much better
Jerusalem, or also a new Zerubbabel,

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who added a much greater glory than the
former to the temple of God, and you also,

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O nurslings of the sacred flock of Christ,
habitation of good works, school of

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wisdom, and august and pious auditory of
religion, it was long ago permitted us to

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raise hymns and songs to God, when we
learned from hearing the divine scriptures

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read the marvelous signs of God and the
benefits conferred upon men by the Lord's

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wondrous deeds, being taught to say,
O God, we have heard with our ears,

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our fathers have told us the work which
thou didst in their days, in days of old.

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But now, as we no longer perceive the
lofty arm and the celestial right hand of

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our all-gracious God and universal King,
by hearsay merely or report, but observe

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so to speak in very deed and with our own
eyes that the declarations recorded long

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ago are faithful and true, it is permitted
us to raise a second hymn of triumph and

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to sing with loud voice and say,
as we have heard, so have we seen,

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in the city of the Lord of hosts,
in the city of our God.

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And in what city but in this newly built
and God-constructed one, which is a church

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of the living God, a pillar and foundation
of the truth, concerning which also

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another divine oracle thus proclaims,
glorious things have been spoken of thee,

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O city of God, since the all-gracious God
has brought us together to it through the

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grace of his only begotten, let every one
of those who have been summoned sing with

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loud voice and say, I was glad when they
said unto me, we shall go unto the house

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of the Lord.

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And, Lord, I have loved the beauty of thy
house and the place where thy glory

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dwelleth.

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And let us not only one by one,
but altogether, with one spirit and one

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soul, honor him and cry aloud,
saying, Great is the Lord, and greatly to

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be praised in the city of our God,
in his holy mountain.

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For he is truly great, and great is his
house, lofty and spacious and comely in

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beauty above the sons of men.

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Great is the Lord, who alone doeth
wonderful things.

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Great is he who doeth great things and
things past finding out, glorious and

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marvelous things which cannot be numbered.

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Great is he who changeth times and
seasons, who exalteth and debaseth kings,

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who raiseth up the poor from the earth and
lifteth up the needy from the dunghill.

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He hath put down princes from their
thrones and hath exalted them of low

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degree from the earth.

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The hungry he hath filled with good
things, and the arms of the proud he hath

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broken, not only to the faithful,
but also to unbelievers, as he confirmed

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the record of ancient events.

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He that worketh miracles, he that doeth
great things, the master of all,

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the creator of the whole world,
the omnipotent, the all-merciful,

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the one and only God, to him let us sing
the new song, supplying in thought,

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to him who alone doeth great wonders,
for his mercy endureth forever,

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to him which smote great kings and slew
famous kings, for his mercy endureth

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forever, for the Lord remembered us in our
lowest state and delivered us from our

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adversaries.

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And let us never cease to cry aloud in
these words to the Father of the universe,

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and let us always honor him with our
mouth, who is the second cause of our

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benefits, the instructor in divine
knowledge, the teacher of the true

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religion, the destroyer of the impious,
the slayer of tyrants, the reformer of

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life, Jesus, the Savior of us who were in
despair.

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For he alone, as the only all-gracious Son
of an all-gracious Father, in accordance

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with the purpose of his Father's
benevolence, has willingly put on the

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nature of us who lay prostrate in
corruption.

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And like some excellent physician,
who for the sake of saving them that are

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ill, examines their sufferings,
handles their foul sores, and reaps pain

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for himself from the miseries of another,
so us who were not only diseased and

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afflicted with terrible ulcers and wounds
already mortified, but were even lying

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among the dead, he hath saved for himself
from the very jaws of death.

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For none other of those in heaven had such
a power as without harm to minister to the

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salvation of so many.

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But he alone, having reached our deep
corruption, he alone, having taken upon

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himself our labors, he alone, having
suffered the punishments due for our

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impieties, having recovered us who were
not half dead merely, but were already in

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tombs and sepulchres, and altogether foul
and offensive, saves us, both anciently

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and now, by his beneficent zeal,
beyond the expectation of anyone,

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even of ourselves, and imparts liberally
of the Father's benefits.

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He who is the giver of life and light,
our great physician and King and Lord,

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the Christ of God.

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For then, when the whole human race lay
buried in gloomy night and in depths of

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darkness through the deceitful arts of
guilty demons and the power of God-hating

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spirits, by his simple appearing,
he loosed once for all the fast-bound

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cords of our impieties by the rays of his
light, even as wax is melted.

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But when malignant envy and the evil
loving demon well-nigh burst with anger at

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such grace and kindness, and turned
against us all his death-dealing forces,

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and when, at first, like a dog gone mad
which gnashes his teeth at the stones

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thrown at him, and pours out his rage
against his assailants upon the inanimate

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missiles, he levelled his ferocious
madness at the stones of the sanctuaries

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and at the lifeless material of the
houses, and desolated the churches,

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at least as he supposed, and then emitted
terrible hissings and snake-like sounds,

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now by the threats of impious tyrants,
and again by the blasphemous edicts of

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profane rulers, vomiting forth death
moreover, and infecting with his

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deleterious and soul-destroying poisons
the souls captured by him, and almost

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slaying them by his death-fraught
sacrifices of dead idols, and causing

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every beast in the form of man and every
kind of savage to assault us, then indeed

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the angel of the great council,
the great captain of God after the

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mightiest soldiers of his kingdom had
displayed sufficient exercise through

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patience and endurance in everything,
suddenly appeared anew, and blotted out

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and annihilated his enemies and foes,
so that they seemed never to have had even

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a name.

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But his friends and relatives he raised to
the highest glory, in the presence not

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only of all men, but also of celestial
powers, of sun and moon and stars,

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and of the whole heaven and earth,
so that now, as has never happened before,

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the supreme rulers, conscious of the honor
which they have received from him,

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spit upon the faces of dead idols,
trample upon the unhallowed rites of

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demons, make sport of the ancient delusion
handed down from their fathers,

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and acknowledge only one God, the common
benefactor of all, themselves included.

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And they confess Christ, the Son of God,
universal King of all, and proclaim him

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Savior on monuments, imperishably
recording in imperial letters,

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in the midst of the city which rules over
the earth, his righteous deeds and his

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victories over the impious.

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Thus Jesus Christ our Savior is the only
one from all eternity who has been

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acknowledged, even by those highest in the
earth, not as a common King among men,

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but as a trite son of the universal God,
and who has been worshipped as very God,

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and that rightly.

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For what King that ever lived attained
such virtue as to fill the ears and

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tongues of all men upon earth with his own
name?

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What King, after ordaining such pious and
wise laws, has extended them from one end

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of the earth to the other, so that they
are perpetually read in the hearing of all

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men?

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Who has abrogated barbarous and savage
customs of uncivilized nations by his

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gentle and most philanthropic laws?

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Who, being attacked for entire ages by
all, has shown such superhuman virtue as

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to flourish daily and remain young
throughout his life?

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Who has founded a nation which of old was
not even heard of, but which now is not

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concealed in some corner of the earth,
but is spread abroad everywhere under the

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sun?

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Who has so fortified his soldiers with the
arms of piety that their souls,

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being firmer than adamant, shine
brilliantly in the contests with their

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opponents?

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What King prevails to such an extent,
and even after death leads on his soldiers

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and sets up trophies over his enemies,
and fills every place, country and city,

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Greek and barbarian, with his royal
dwellings, even divine temples with their

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consecrated oblations, like this very
temple with its superb adornments and

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votive offerings, which are themselves so
truly great and majestic, worthy of wonder

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and admiration, and clear signs of the
sovereignty of our Savior?

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For now, too, he spake, and they were
made, he commanded, and they were created.

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For what was there to resist the nod of
the universal King and Governor and Word

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of God himself?

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A special discourse would be needed
accurately to survey and explain all this,

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and also to describe how great the zeal of
the laborers is regarded by him who is

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celebrated as divine, who looks upon the
living temple which we all constitute,

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and surveys the house, composed of living
and moving stones, which is well and

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surely built upon the foundation of the
apostles and prophets, the chief

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cornerstone being Jesus Christ himself,
who has been rejected not only by the

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builders of that ancient building which no
longer stands, but also by the builders,

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evil architects of evil works,
of the structure which is composed of the

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mass of men and still endures.

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But the Father has approved him both then
and now, and has made him the head of the

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corner of this, our common church.

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Who that beholds this living temple of the
living God formed of ourselves,

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this greatest and truly divine sanctuary,
I say, whose inmost shrines are invisible

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to the multitude and are truly holy and a
holy of holies, would venture to declare

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it.

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Who is able even to look within the sacred
enclosure, except the great High Priest of

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all, to whom alone it is permitted to
fathom the mysteries of every rational

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soul?

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But perhaps it is granted to another,
to one only, to be second after him in the

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same work, namely to the commander of this
army whom the first and great High Priest

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himself has honored with the second place
in this sanctuary, the shepherd of your

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divine flock, who has obtained your people
by the allotment and the judgment of the

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Father, as if he had appointed him his own
servant and interpreter, a new Aaron or

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Melchizedek, made like the Son of God,
remaining and continually preserved by him

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in accordance with the united prayers of
all of you.

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To him, therefore, alone let it be
granted, if not in the first place,

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at least in the second after the first and
greatest High Priest, to observe and

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supervise the inmost state of your souls,
to him who by experience and length of

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time has accurately proved each one,
and who by his zeal and care has disposed

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you all in pious conduct and doctrine,
and is better able than anyone else to

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give an account, adequate to the facts,
of those things which he himself has

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accomplished with the divine assistance.

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As to our first and great High Priest,
it is said, Whatsoever he seeth the Father

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doing, those things likewise the Son also
doeth.

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So also this one, looking up to him as to
the first teacher, with pure eyes of the

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mind, using as archetypes whatsoever
things he seeth him doing, produceth

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images of them, making them so far as is
possible in the same likeness,

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in nothing inferior to that Bezalel,
whom God himself filled with the spirit of

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wisdom and understanding, and with other
technical and scientific knowledge,

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and called to be the maker of the temple
constructed after heavenly types given in

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symbols.

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Thus this one also bearing in his own soul
the image of the whole Christ,

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the word, the wisdom, the light,
has formed this magnificent temple of the

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highest God, corresponding to the pattern
of the greater, as a visible to an

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invisible, it is impossible to say with
what greatness of soul, with what wealth

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and liberality of mind, and with what
emulation on the part of all of you,

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shown in the magnanimity of the
contributors who have ambitiously striven

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in no way to be left behind by him in the
execution of the same purpose.

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And this place, for this deserves to be
mentioned first of all, which had been

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covered with all sorts of rubbish by the
artifices of our enemies, he did not

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overlook, nor did he yield to the
wickedness of those who had brought about

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that condition of things, although he
might have chosen some other place,

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for many other sites were available in the
city, where he would have had less labor

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and been free from trouble.

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But having first aroused himself to the
work, and then strengthened the whole

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people with zeal, and formed them all into
one great body, he fought the first

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contest, for he thought that this church,
which had been especially besieged by the

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enemy, which had first suffered and
endured the same persecutions with us and

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for us, like a mother bereft of her
children, should rejoice with us in the

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signal favor of the all-merciful God.

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For when the great shepherd had driven
away the wild animals and wolves and every

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cruel and savage beast, and, as the divine
oracles say, had broken the jaws of the

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lions, he thought good to collect again
her children in the same place,

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and in the most righteous manner he set up
the fold of her flock, to put to shame the

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enemy and avenger, and to refute the
impious daring of the enemies of God.

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And now they are not the haters of God,
for they never were.

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After they had troubled and been troubled
for a little time, they suffered the

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fitting punishment, and brought themselves
and their friends and their relatives to

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total destruction, so that the
declarations inscribed of old in sacred

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records have been proved true by facts.

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In these declarations the divine word
truly says, among other things,

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the following concerning them.

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The wicked have drawn out the sword,
they have bent their bow, to slay the

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righteous in heart.

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Let their sword enter into their own
heart, and their bows be broken.

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And again, their memorial is perished with
a sound, and their name hast thou blotted

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out forever and ever.

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For when they also were in trouble,
they cried out, and there was none to

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save, unto the Lord, and he heard them
not.

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But their feet were bound together,
and they fell, but we have arisen and

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stand upright.

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And that which was announced beforehand in
these words, O Lord, in thy city thou

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shalt set at nought their image,
has been shown to be true to the eyes of

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all.

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But having waged war like the giants
against God, they died in this way.

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But she that was desolate and rejected by
men received the consummation which we

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behold in consequence of her patience
toward God, so that the prophecy of Isaiah

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was spoken of her.

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Rejoice, thirsty desert, let the desert
rejoice and blossom as the lily,

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and the desert places shall blossom and be
glad.

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Be strengthened, ye weak hands and feeble
knees.

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Be of good courage, ye feeble-hearted,
in your minds.

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Be strong, fear not.

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Behold, our God recompenseth judgment and
will recompense.

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He will come and save us.

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For, he says, in the wilderness water has
broken out, and a pool in thirsty ground.

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And the dry land shall be watered meadows.

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And in the thirsty ground there shall be
springs of water.

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These things which were prophesied long
ago have been recorded in sacred books,

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but no longer are they transmitted to us
by hearsay merely, but in facts.

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This desert, this dry land, this widowed
and deserted one, whose gates they cut

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down with axes like wood in a forest,
whom they broke down with hatchet and

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hammer, whose books also they destroyed,
burning with fire the sanctuary of God,

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and profaning unto the ground the
habitation of his name, whom all that

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passed by upon the way plucked,
and whose fences they broke down,

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whom the boar out of the wood ravaged,
and on which the savage wild beast fed,

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now by the wonderful power of Christ,
when he wills it, has become like a lily.

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For at that time also she was chastened at
his nod as by a careful father,

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for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth,
and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

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Then after being chastened in a measure,
according to the necessities of the case,

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she is commanded to rejoice anew,
and she blossoms as a lily and exhales her

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divine odor among all men.

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For, it is said, water hath broken out in
the wilderness, the fountain of the saving

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bath of divine regeneration.

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And now she, who a little before was a
desert, has become watered meadows,

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and springs of water have gushed forth in
a thirsty land.

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The hands which before were weak have
become truly strong, and these works are

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great and convincing proofs of strong
hands.

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The knees also, which before were feeble
and infirm, recovering their wanted

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strength, are moving straight forward in
the path of divine knowledge, and

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hastening to the kindred flock of the
all-gracious shepherd.

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And if there are any whose souls have been
stupefied by the threats of the tyrants,

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not even they are passed by as incurable
by the saving word.

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But he heals them also, and urges them on
to receive divine comfort, saying,

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Be ye comforted, ye who are faint-hearted,
be ye strengthened, fear not.

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End of Book 10, Part 1