§27.15(61) Στίχ. ιε΄.
(61) Verse 15.
Καὶ θήσει αὐτὸ ἐν ἀποκρύφῳ. Ἐπειδὴ εἰκὸς ἦν, τινὰς φόβῳ τῆς τιμωρίας σπουδάζειν λανθάνειν, καὶ ἐν παραβύστῳ καὶ λανθανόντως τὴν ἀσέβειαν ἐπιτηδεύειτ· πρὸς μείζονα φόβον καὶ ἀπειλὴν τῶν ταῦτα ποιούντων, καὶ ἀραῖς ὑποβάλλει τοὺς ἀμάρτυρον τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἐργαζομένους.
"And he shall put it in a secret place." Since it was likely that some, through fear of punishment, would strive to escape notice and practice impiety in a corner and secretly, for the greater fear and threat of those who do these things, [the law] also subjects to curses those who commit sin without witnesses.
Τοιοῦτοί εἰσιν οἱ εὐλάβειαν ἐπίπλαστον ὑποκρινόμενοι, ἔνδον δὲ τὰ πάθη κατορύττοντες, καὶ ἐν τῷ τῆς διανοίας κινήματι πρὸς πᾶν εἶδος ἀτοπίας ἐκβακχευόμενοι.
Such are those who pretend to a fabricated piety, but bury their passions within, and are driven to madness toward every kind of absurdity in the movement of their mind.
Οὗτοί εἰσιν οἱ ἐν ἀποκρύφῳ τιθέντες τὰ εἴδωλα.
These are they who put idols in a secret place.
§27.17(62) Στίχ. ιζ΄.
(62) Verse 17.
Ἐπικαταάρατος ὁ μετατιθεὶς ὅρια τοῦ πλησίον. Ὅρια τοῦ πλησίον μετατίθησι καὶ ὁ ἀπὸ τῆς ἀληθοῦς θεογνωσίας, καὶ τῆς ἐνθέου πολιτείας παρασαλεύων τὸν ἐντὸς εὑρισκόμενον.
"Cursed is he who removes the landmarks of his neighbor." He also removes the landmarks of his neighbor, who shakes the one who is within away from the true knowledge of God and from the godly citizenship.
Καὶ δηλοῖ τὰ ἐπαγόμενα(63).
And the subsequent words show [this].
§27.18(64) Στίχ. ιη΄.
(64) Verse 18.
Ἐπικατάρατος ὁ πλανῶν τυφλὸν ἐν ὀδῷ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ.
"Cursed is he who misleads a blind man on the road." By the same [author].
Τοιοῦτοί εἰσι καὶ οἱ ἀπὸ εἰδωλολατρείας καὶ τοὺς ἐκ περιτομῆς ἐπὶ μυσαρὰς αἱρέσεις ἐφελκόμενοι.
Such are also those who drag [people] from idolatry and those of the circumcision to abominable heresies.
Τυφλοὺς γὰρ ὄντας αὐτοὺς καὶ μήπω τὸ φῶς τῆς ἀληθείας ἐσχηκότας καὶ θεογνωσίας, ἀπατῶσι δὲ καὶ πλανῶσιν, ἑτέραν ἀντὶ τῆς ἀποστολικῆς παραδεικνύντες ὁδόν.
For being blind and not yet having the light of truth and of the knowledge of God, they deceive and mislead them, showing another road instead of the apostolic one.
§27.19(65) Στίχ. ιθ΄.
(65) Verse 19.
Ἐπικατάρατος ὅς ἃν ἐκκλίνῃ κρίσιν προσηλύτου καὶ ὀρφανοῦ καὶ χήρας. Ὑπὸ τὴν αὐτὴν ἀρὰν τίθησι τοὺς ὡσαύτως ἐκκλίνοντας κρίσιν προσηλύτου καὶ ὀρφανοῦ καὶ χήρας, ἄλλως πως πάλιν τὸ αὐτὸ εἰπών.
"Cursed is he who perverts the judgment of the proselyte, the orphan, and the widow." He places under the same curse those who likewise pervert the judgment of the proselyte, the orphan, and the widow, having said the same thing again in another way.
Εἰ γὰρ τὸ ῥητὸν ἔχει τὸ ὀφέλειμον (66), ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ θεωρία τὸ ὑψηλότερον.
For even if the literal sense has its usefulness, yet the spiritual contemplation (theoria) has what is higher.
Προσήλυτοι γάρ εἰσιν οἱ ἐξ ἐθνῶν εἰσιόντες τῇ ἁγίᾳ τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἐκκλησίᾳ.
For proselytes are those who enter the holy Church of God from among the nations.
Οἱ δὲ ὀρφανοὶ κυρίως εἰσὶν οἱ ἀποταξάμενοι μὲν τῷ ἑαυτῶν πατρὶ τῷ Σατανᾷ, μηδέπω δὲ τὸν Ἰησοῦν ἐνδυσάμενοι, ἀλλʼ ἔτι καὶ κατηχουμένοις ἐνάριθμοι.
And orphans are properly those who have renounced their own father Satan, but have not yet put on Jesus, but are still numbered among the catechumens.
Ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ οὗτοι χῆραί εἰσιν, ἀποστραφεῖσαι μὲν τὸν ἐγκατασπείροντα αὐτοῖς τὰ τῆς ἀπωλείας σπέρματα·
And likewise, these also are widows, who have turned away from the one who sowed in them the seeds of destruction, but have not yet been betrothed to Christ as a pure virgin, according to the divine Apostle.
οὕπω δὲ τῷ Χριστῷ ἁρμοσθέντες, ὡς ἁγνὴ παρθένος, κατὰ τὸν θείον Ἀπόστολον, Οἱ οὖν ἐκκλίνοντες τὴν κρίσιν τούτων, καὶ μὴ παραδιδόντες αὐτοῖς ἀνόθευτον τὸ τῆς εὐσεβείας μυστήριον, ὑπὸ κατάραν εἰσίν.
Those, therefore, who pervert the judgment of these, and do not hand down to them the unadulterated mystery of piety, are under a curse.
Καὶ τὰ ἄλλα δέ τις φιλοπόνως ἐπεξιὼν, δυνήσεται πνευματικῶς θεωρεῖν, σωζομένης τῆς ἑρμηνείας.
And anyone who industriously goes through the rest will be able to contemplate them spiritually, while the literal interpretation is preserved.
§27.26(67) Στίχ. κς΄.
(67) Verse 26.
Ἐπικατάρατος πᾶς ἄνθρωπος, ὃς οὐκ ἐμμένει ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς λόγοις τοῦ νόμου. Τὸ, ἐν πᾶσι, κείμενον παρὰ τοῖς Ἑβδομήκοντα, κυροῦται ἀπὸ τοῦ Σαμαρειτικοῦ ἀντιγράφου, ἐν ᾧ τὸ χὸλ, ὅπερ ἐστὶ πᾶσιν ἢ πάντα, φερόμενον εὕρομεν.
"Cursed is every man who does not abide by all the words of the law." The phrase "in all", which lies in the Septuagint, is confirmed by the Samaritan copy, in which we found written "chol", which is "to all" or "all things".
Οἷς συνᾴδει καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος λέγων· Ὅσοι γὰρ ἐξ ἔργων νόμου εἰσὶν, ὑπὸ κατάραν εἰσίν. Ὅθεν οἱ ἐκ περιτομῆς ἐλέγχονται ὑπὸ κατάραν ὄντες, τὸ (68) μὴ πάντα ποιεῖν.
With which also the Apostle agrees, saying: "For as many as are of the works of the law are under a curse." Whence those of the circumcision are convicted of being under a curse, by not doing all things.