Didascalia Apostolorum

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DIDASCALIA. 1 05 of us the Apostles, and He hath removed and forsaken the Nation, (S. + as it is written in Isaiah, that He hath forsaken the people of the house is. ii. 6 of Jacob), and Jerusalem is forsaken ; and Judah is fallen, and their tongues are in iniquity, and they have obeyed not the Lord, (S. + and He hath abandoned the vineyard), and behold, your house is left unto you desolate. 33 CHAPTER XXIV. That God hath left the Synagogue of the Nation, and hath come to the Church of the Gentiles ; and that Satan also hath removed from the people of the Jews, and doth not tempt them any more ; and he hath also come against the Church, that he may make in it sects and divisions ; and first he raised up in it Simon Magus, afterwards the false Apostles, those from among the Jews who obliged the Christians to act as Jews. God therefore hath left the Nation, and hath rilled the Church, and hath considered her the mount of [His] habitation, and the throne of glory, and the house of exaltation ; and as David said, "The mountain of God **• lxvlii' is a mountain of fat, a mountain of arches. What think ye, ye arched 16 mountains ; this is the mountain which God hath chosen to dwell in ; the Lord will tabernacle in it for ever." (S. + Ye see therefore how He speaketh to others, "What think ye?" to those who erroneously suppose that there are other Churches), for one only is the Church which is the mountain of the Sanctuary of God. Isaiah also hath said, " There shall be in the latter is. ii. 2 days (S. + He shall establish) the mountain of the House of the Lord God of Jacob (S. + in the top of the mountains and higher than the heights), and all nations shall flow unto it, and many peoples shall go and say, Come, 3 let us go up to the mountain of the Lord; let us learn His way and walk in it"; (S. + and again he hath said, "There shall be signs and wonders IB. viii. is. in the midst of the people from the Lord of Sabaoth, and Him that dwelleth in Mount Zion," and in Jeremiah also He hath said, "A high throne Jer.xvii.i2 is the house of our Sanctuary"). Because therefore the Lord hath forsaken the nation of Israel, He hath also abandoned the temple (S. -f He hath made them desolate, and cloven the veil of the door), and taken away from it the Holy Spirit (S. 4- and cast it on those who believe from among the Gentiles, as He hath said by means of Joel, "I will pour out of My joeiii. 28 Spirit upon all flesh,") and the power of His Word, and He hath taken away all service from the Nation, and hath established it in the Church f. 68 a of the Gentiles. In like manner also, Satan the Tempter hath gone away D. o