Letter 701

To the same person. Not in vain do the prophets cry aloud throughout the churches, but so that, taking heed of the divine wrath, we may cease from sinning. "For since," it says, "you resisted the Lord and did not repent, he has opened his treasury and brought out all the vessels of wrath, to destroy utterly all those who despise the holy oracles." [echoing Jeremiah 50:25 LXX: the Lord opening his treasury and bringing out the vessels of his wrath]

Οὐκ εἰκῇ βοῶσι κατὰ τὰς ἐκκλησίας οἱ προφῆται, ἀλλ' ἵνα εὐλαβηθέντες τὴν θείαν ὀργὴν τοῦ ἁμαρτά- νειν παυσώμεθα. « Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ, φησί, τῷ Κυρίῳ ἀντέστης, καὶ οὐ μετενόησας, ἤνοιξε τὸν θησαυρὸν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξήνεγκε πάντα τὰ σκεύη τῆς ὀργῆς, τοῦ ἐξολοθρεῦσαι πάντας τοὺς περιφρονοῦντας τὰ ἅγια λόγια.