The nations called; Israel given a bill of divorce
'Go, then, and read these words toward the north.' If the wording is understood, let us see what he means to make plain in these things.
The calling of the nations took its beginning from Israel's trespass. The apostles, preaching to the synagogues of the Jews, say that 'the word of salvation was sent to you first; since you judge yourselves unworthy, look — we turn to the Gentiles.' And the apostle, knowing what he knows about these things, says: 'By their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.' So the many sins of that people made him be left behind, and made us come to the hope of the promise — we who were strangers to the covenants. For how else would I, a foreigner wherever I was born, now speak of God's promises and believe in the God of the patriarchs Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, and receive by God's grace Jesus Christ, announced by the prophets? If you understand these two peoples — the one from Israel and the one from the nations — see with me Israel's removal also upon that people Israel, and understand of them: 'I have sent her away and given her a bill of divorce.' For God sent that people away and gave them a bill of divorce.
It is like this with those who marry. If a wife is displeasing to her husband, Moses' law says a 'bill of divorce' came from the husband and the wife was sent away, and it was allowed for the one who sent the first wife away — because she seemed to have acted shamefully — to marry another. In that sense see those people receiving a bill of divorce. And because they received the bill of divorce, they were left behind altogether. Where are prophets still among them? Where signs still among them? Where an appearing of God? Where the worship, the temple, the sacrifices? They have been cast out from their own place. So he gave Israel a 'bill of divorce.'
Then we are Judah — Judah because of the Savior who rose from Judah, for our Lord has risen from Judah — and we turned to the Lord. And our last things, which may they never already be, seem to become like theirs, if not worse.
Greek
«πορεύου« οὖν «καὶ ἀνάγνωθι τοὺς λόγους τούτους πρὸς βορρᾶν. Εἰ νενόηται τὸ ῥητόν, ἴδωμεν τί βούλεται ἐν τούτοις δηλοῦσθαι.
ἡ κλῆσις τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀρχὴν ἔσχεν ἐκ τοῦ παραπτώματος τοῦ Ἰσραή, | καὶ λέγουσιν οἱ ἀπόστολοι κηρύξαντες ταῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων συναγωγαῖς ὅτι >ὑμῖν ἦν ἐξαπεσταλμένος ὁ λόγος τῆς σωτηρίας· ἐπειδὴ ἀνξίους κρίνετε ἑαυτούς, ἰδοὺ στρεφόμεθα εἰς τὰ . καὶ ὁ ἀπόστολος περὶ τούτων εἰδὼς ἃ οἶδε λέγει· «τῷ αὐτῶν παραπτώματι ἡ σωτηρία τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, εἰς τὸ παραζηλῶσαι αὐτούς. οὐκοῦν αἱ πολλαὶ ἁμαρτίαι ἐκείνου τοῦ λαοῦ πεποιήκασιν αὐτὸν ἐγκατυαλειφθῆναι καὶ ἡμᾶς ἥκειν ἐπὶ τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς , ποὺς τοὺς τῶν διαθηκῶν, τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους τῶν . πόθεν γὰρ ἐμοὶ τῷ ὁπουποτοῦν γενομένῳ ξένῳ τῆς λεγομένης ἁγίας γῆς, νῦν περὶ τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν διαλέγεσθαι τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ πιστεύειν εἰς τὸν θεὸν τῶν πατριαρχῶν Ἀβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαὰκ καὶ Ἰακώβ, καὶ Ἰησοῦν Χριστὸν τὸν < ὑπὸ τῶν προφητῶν χάριτι θεοῦ παραδέχεσθαι; εἰ νοεῖς τοὺς δύο τούτους λαούς, τὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἴδε μοι τὴν μετοικίαν τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ λαοῦ ἐκείνου τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, καὶ περὶ ἐκείνου νόει μοι γεγράφθαι· «ἐξαπέσταλκα αὐτὴν καὶ ἔδωκα αὐτῇ βιβλίον ἀποστασίου«· ἐξαπέστειλε γὰρ τὸν λαὸν ἐκεῖνον ὁ θεὸς καὶ ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ βιβλίον ἀποστασίου.
ὅπερ τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῶν γεγαμηκότων· ἐὰν δυσάρεστος ᾖ ᾗ γυνὴ τῷ ἀνδρί, λέγει ὁ Μωσέως νόμος, «βιβλίον ἀποστασίου« ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἐγίνετο καὶ ἐξαπεστέλλετο ἡ γυνή, καὶ ἐξῆν τῷ ἀποστείλαντι τὴν προτέραν γυναῖκα διὰ τὸ δοκεῖν ἠσχημονηκέναι γαμεῖν ἑτέραν γυναῖκα. οὕτως τῷ λόγῳ ἴδε ἐκείνους λαμβάνοντας βιβλίον ἀποστασίου. καὶ ἐπεὶ ἔλαβον τὸ βιβλίον τοῦ ἀποστασίου, διὰ τοῦτο ἐγκατελείφθησαν πάντῃ. ποῦ γὰρ προφῆται ἔτι παρ᾿ αὐτοῖς; ποῦ σημεῖα ἔτι παρ᾿ αὐτοῖς; ποῦ ἐπιφάνεια θεοῦ; ποῦ ἡ λατρεία, ὁ ναός, αἱ θυσίαι; ἐξεβλή- θησαν ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου ἑαυτῶν· ἔδωκεν οὖν τῷ Ἰσραὴλ «βιβλίον ἀποστασίου.
Εἶτα ἡμεῖς Ἰούδα (Ἱούσας δὲ διὰ τὸν σωτῆρα ἐξ Ἰούδα ἀνατείλαντα· πρόΜον γὰρ ὅτι ἐξ Ἰούδα ἀνατέταλκεν ὁ κύριος ἡμῶν«) ἐπεστρέψαμεν πρὸς κύριον, καὶ τὰ τελευταῖα ἡμῶν, ἅπερ Με μὴ ἤδη εἴη, παραπλήσια ἔοικε γίνεσθαι τοῖς ἐκείνων τελευταίοις, εἰ μὴ ἄρα καὶ χείρονα.