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Ezekiel 6:1–2. And the word of the Lord came to me, saying: Son of man, set thy face against the mountains of Israel, and the prophets unto them, Mountains are not endowed with intelligence and are inanimate, but on the contrary, they are insensitive; but in rebuking those gifted with reason, speech is addressed to the inanimate. So under Jeroboam the man of God cried out to the altar (1 Kings 13:2). Ezek.6:3. And you said: Mountains of Israel, hear the word of Adonai the Lord: This saith Adonai the Lord to the mountains and the hills, and the stones and the wilds: Behold, I will bring a sword against you, and your high places will be consumed, and your churches will be destroyed, and your idols will be broken in pieces, and I will cast down your plagued ones before your idols: Since altars to idols were erected in all these places, it is necessary to predict a future invasion of enemies and murders being committed everywhere, and the destruction of idol churches. Ezek.6:5. And I will give the carcases of the children of Israel before their graven images, and I will scatter your bones round about your churches. Ezek.6:6. Throughout your entire village From inanimate things he turns his speech to those gifted with reason, and threatens that he will fill the idols' gruel with the dead, and the demonic altars with human bones, with this punishment making it known that they have not received any benefit from serving the demons and have not received any help from them in the disasters that have befallen them. the cities will be desolate, and the high places will perish, for your brethren will be consumed and despised, and broken down, Symmachus translated the words “they will be despised” as “they will be desolate.” and your idols will cease, and your idols will be rejected, and your works will be consumed. God indicated the reasons for the punishment, because the humane Master punishes with the intention of healing and stopping the flow of wickedness. I will do all this, He says, and bring it into desolation, in order to extinguish the insane and frantic devotion to idols. Ezek.6:7. And your plagues will fall in your midst, and you will know that I am the Lord. Therefore, punishment is a teacher of the knowledge of God. Therefore, blessed David said: “It is good for me, for you have humbled me, so that I may learn through your justification” (Psalm 119:71). Ezek.6:8. And I will leave you to escape from the sword among the nations, and to be scattered throughout your lands. Since he said: “You will know that I am the Lord,” then, of necessity, he indicates those who will take advantage of this, because those who were scattered as a result of captivity will benefit from this punishment. Therefore he adds: Ezek.6:9. And those who escaped from you will remember Me among the nations, even if they were taken into captivity: Therefore the punishment God inflicts is beneficial; it is the mother of repentance. for they have sworn to their heart that has gone astray and fallen behind Me, and we have combed them as if they had gone astray in the wake of their undertakings, as if they were weeping 11 in their faces for the wickedness that they had committed in all their abominations. Ezekiel 6:10. And they will know that the Lord did not say to create all this evil for them. They will unquestioningly repent of the fact that they left Me and loved the service of idols (for here they called it fornication), and they will learn by experience that it was not contrary to justice and not without benefit that I subjected them to these punishments, for justice proves wickedness, and repentance proves benefit. Ezekiel 6:11. Thus says the Lord Adonai: clasp your hands and lift up your feet and hands, good, good for all the abominations of wickedness to the house of Israel; They will fall by sword and famine and death. When I, says God, determine and pronounce judgment on punishments of all kinds, you applaud and marvel at the veracity of this verdict. Then, again foreshadowing the same thing, namely, that they will be given over to hunger, death, murder from enemies, and captivity, and that they will be killed around the idol altars and in the groves revered by them, he says again: Ezekiel 6:13. And under the hay oak tree I smelled the fragrance of all my idols. It also shows the limits of desolation. For he says: Ezekiel 6:14. I will put the land into destruction and the consumption of the desert of Devlath from all their villages, and you will know that I am the Lord. Instead of: κὀφονται, as in seventy, in the blessed one. Theodoret reads: κλαὐσωνται.