Thus saith the Lord of hosts, until people come, and dwell in many cities,21 And the inhabitants go one to another, saying: Let us go, and entreat the face of the Lord, and let us seek the Lord of hosts: I also will go.22 And many peoples, and strong nations shall come to seek the Lord of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the face of the Lord.23 Thus saith the Lord of hosts: In those days, wherein ten men of all languages of the Gentiles shall take hold, and shall hold fast the shirt of one that is a Jew, saying: We will go with you: for we have heard that God is with you.
For the sons of Core, a psalm of a canticle. The foundations thereof are in the holy mountains:2 The Lord loveth the gates of Sion above all the tabernacles of Jacob.3 Glorious things are said of thee, O city of God.4 I will be mindful of Rahab and of Babylon knowing me. Behold the foreigners, and Tyre, and the people of the Ethiopians, these were there.5 Shall not Sion say: This man and that man is born in her? and the Highest himself hath founded her.6 The Lord shall tell in his writings of peoples and of princes, of them that have been in her.7 The dwelling in thee is as it were of all rejoicing.
Pass now, pray, to the others who were saved by repentance. Perhaps even among the women someone will say, "I have committed fornication and adultery. I have defiled my body with every excess. Can there be salvation for me?" Fix your eyes, woman, on Rahab, and look for salvation for yourself too. For if she who openly and publicly practiced fornication was saved through repentance, will not she whose fornication preceded the gift of grace be saved by repentance and fasting? For observe how she was saved. She said only this: "Since the Lord, your God, is God in heaven above and on earth below." "Your God," she said, for she did not dare call him her God, because of her wantonness. If you want scriptural testimony of her salvation, you have it recorded in the Psalms: "I will think of Rahab and Babylon among those who know me." O the great loving-kindness of God, which is mindful even of harlots in Scripture. He did not say merely, "I shall think of Rahab and Babylon," but added, "among those who know me." The salvation procured by repentance is open to men and women alike.
And it came to pass, when the days of his assumption were accomplishing, that he steadfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.52 And he sent messengers before his face; and going, they entered into a city of the Samaritans, to prepare for him.53 And they received him not, because his face was of one going to Jerusalem.54 And when his disciples James and John had seen this, they said: Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them?55 And turning, he rebuked them, saying: You know not of what spirit you are.56 The Son of man came not to destroy souls, but to save. And they went into another town.
Because it was necessary that the true Lamb should there be offered, where the typical lamb was sacrificed; but it is said, he stedfastly set his face, that is, He went not here and there traversing the villages and towns, but kept on His way straight towards Jerusalem.
(v. Theophyl. in loc.) They thought it much juster that the Samaritans should perish for not admitting our Lord, than the fifty soldiers who tried to thrust down Elijah.
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