The term ἀπεπήδηαν as used in the LXX indicates their departure, and thus they face destruction for having turned their backs on Me. In Hebrew, instead of stating that ruin will befall them, it uses the phrase sod laem, which implies ruin by their own actions. Simmachus rendered this as ruin, while Theodotion interpreted it as trouble. The common translation offers two interpretations: some render it as being open, while others as fearful or wretched. Indeed, they will be both ruined and suffering, engulfed in fear because they have abandoned God, turning to worship golden calves, forgetting Him who liberated them from Egyptian bondage and raised them with His mighty arm. They lied against the Lord by attributing their deliverance to idols, declaring, ‘These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you out of the land of Egypt’ (Exodus 32:4), and failed to seek the Lord earnestly, instead indulging in the immoral practices of idolatry. Consequently, those who serve false gods are consumed by desires and debauchery, drowning as swine in their own filth. Thus, the songs of idolaters are not worthy of being called praises to God, but merely cries of despair.
This can easily be related to heretics who live in sorrow due to their self-imposed estrangement from God, lamenting their misery for abandoning their Creator, who has redeemed them through His blood. They propagate falsehoods about Him and devise heretical teachings, failing to cry out sincerely in their hearts, yet raising loud voices in their gatherings, aptly described as dens and hideouts of beasts. Such individuals cannot rightly say, “I will wash my bed each night; I shall soak my couch with my tears” (Psalm 6:7), for they are instead entrenched in moral filth, indulging in unchaste behaviors. Their expressions, which they claim are for the glory of God, resonate instead as howls from wolves and the raucous clamor of intoxicated revelers. Rarely does a heretic embrace purity, and those who feign chastity, like Manichaeus, Marcion, Aërius, Tatian, and the revivers of former heresies, promise sweetness with lips that harbor poison. Yet, what they engage in privately, as noted by the Apostle (Ephesians 5), is shameful to even mention.
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