Sacrifice And Salvation

Ego autem in voce laudis immolabo tibi: quaecumque vovi reddam pro salute Domino. LXX: Ego autem cum voce laudis et confessionis immolabo tibi, quaecumquae vovi reddam tibi salutare Domino. Qui custodiunt vanitates, suam misericordiam reliquerunt: ego autem qui pro multorum salute devoratus sum, in voce laudis et confessionis immolabo tibi, mesipsum offerens: quia Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus. Et quasi verus pontifex et ovis seipsum pro nobis obtulit. Et confitebor, iniquit, tibi ut ante confessus sum, dicens: Confiteor tibi, Pater Domine coeli et terrae; et reddam vota, quae feci pro salute omnium Domino, ut omne quod dedisti mihi non pereat in aeternum. Cernimus quid in sua passione Salvator pro nostra salute promiserit: non faciamus mendacem Jesum: ergo mundi simus, et ab universis peccatorum sordibus separati, ut nos Deo Patri offerat victimas quas voverat. Et dixit Dominus pisci: et evomuit Jonam in aridam. LXX: Et praecepit ceto, et ejecit Jonam super siccum. Haec quae supra legimus sub persona Jonae Dominus deprecatus est in ventre ceti, de quo et Job mystice loquitur: Maledicat ei qui maledixit diei, ille qui magnum cetum capturus est. Praecipitur ergo huic magno ceto, et abyssis et inferno, ut terris restituant Salvatorem: et qui mortuus fuerat, ut liberaret eos qui mortis vinculis tenebantur, secum plurimos educat ad vitam. Quod autem scribitur evomuit, ἐμφατικώτερον debemus accipere: quod ex imis vitalibus mortis, victrix vita processerit Sanctus Hieronimus, Commentarius In Jonam Prophetem Source: Migne PL 25 1138

'I shall sacrifice to you in a voice of praise, whatever I have vowed I shall return with thanks to the Lord.' The Septuagint reads: 'I shall sacrifice to you in a voice of praise and confession, whatever I have vowed I shall return with thanks to the Lord'. 1 Those who cling to vanities have forsaken mercy; I ,however, who am devoured for the salvation of many, in a voice of praise and confession shall sacrifice to you, offering myself, because our Paschal lamb sacrificed for us is Christ. 2 And as a true priest and sheep He offers himself for us. And I shall confess to you, He says, what I have confessed before, saying, I confess to you, Father, Lord and heaven and earth, 3 and I shall return my vow, which I made for the salvation of all in the Lord, that all you have given me not perish forever. We see in His passion that the Saviour makes the promise for our salvation; let us not make Jesus a lie; though we are in the world, let us separate from all filth of sin that we offer to God the Father the sacrifices which He has vowed. 'And the Lord spoke to the fish and He vomited Jonah onto dry land.' The Septuagint reads, 'And He commanded the fish and it cast up Jonah onto dry land.' The things which we read above under the person of Jonah the Lord entreated in the belly on the whale, concerning which Job speaks mystically saying, 'Let him curse him has cursed the day, that one who shall seize the great whale.' 4 Command is given, therefore, to the great whale, the abyss and hell, that they restore the Saviour to the land, He who had died, that He liberate those who were held in the chains of death, with Himself leading many to life. And when it is written 'he vomited' we should understand that from the depths of death life victorious proceeded. Saint Jerome, from the Commentary on Jonah 1 Jonah 2.10 2 1 Cor 5 3 Mt 11.25 4 Job 3.8