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To those who are completely desperate, and unrepentant, and who have acquired the irreplaceable skin of an Ethiopian and the motley color of a lynx, let the sentence be pronounced on another fig tree: let there be no more fruit from you forever (Matthew 21:19): which is why it immediately withered. What is said by Ecclesiastes is also fulfilled on them: what is corrupt cannot be adorned, and deprivation cannot be counted (Eccl. 1:15). For it is not possible for a corrupt person to beautify unless it is first corrected, and it is not possible to count deprivations unless it is first replenished. Why will what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah finally happen to them: and they will see the corpses of the people who transgressed me. For their worm will not end, and their fire will not be quenched: and they will be a disgrace to all flesh (Isa. 66:24). For, as it was also foretold from him: the unrighteous will become so agitated that they will not be able to do anything. The wicked shall not rejoice, says God (Isa. 57:20, 21).
(Ap. 62; I Universe 10; Ankyr. 9; Gregory of Nyssa. 2; Basil the Great. 84, 85).
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