Fragmenta in Psalmos

 A lover of God is roused toward God both through a house and a vessel dedicated to God. This one thing therefore and only have I sought, for God to dw

 according to the difference of the manner according to what was said again by the Savior, that And there are many mansions with my Father. 15 Ps 34,6

 25 Ps 37,4a He compares his much-suffering and much-afflicted state to a body completely mistreated, such as also in Isaiah the From the feet to the

 favored and extending the good things forever. These three, he says, remain: faith, hope, love. 34 Ps 39,5 In this, he says, is man blessed: in placin

 Especially in Christ we hear of innocence, the purity from all evil, which the creator sought from men who were made for this purpose, so that they mi

 Why speaks of the passion of forgetfulness, but it indicates a voluntary forgetfulness, the lack of concern for man, the one unworthy of care from G

 once for all we boast in you through all time and to your name we give thanks by which we are saved, just as it is also said through Ezekiel, It is no

 of them not a small portion (for many also of those from the Jews have believed), he makes a kind of prelude to the mystagogy concerning these things,

 to the head, and you will be to the tail. Because indeed those who in ancient times became proselytes of the law in order to be reconciled to God, now

 78 Ps 48,4.5 I will take up, he says, a hidden wise word, mixing the riddle with a song. Why did he not say to open the mouth to a parable, but to inc

 man's sin entered into the world, and evil was rooted in the first woman and from her it passes through childbirth to those who are born. This is said

 promise brought these things. 99A Ps 70,19.20 He begins the hymn from the point where it was promised, immediately acting, loudly proclaiming the heig

 For the whole world has also blossomed with the fruit of Christ and a countless multitude of the children of Christ appearing in each city like grass

 111a Ps 73,4a The mention of the places is necessary because of the lawlessness of the people. because there was no cause for indignation against the

 that is, mountains of food. For he called food prey also in Psalm 131, saying, *Blessing I will bless her prey*, which indeed Symmachus in that place

 (not the one who leads it around in a circle) and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in (not to be rolled up as a circle) and Isaiah says that those

 master. For even if the accusations against the servants were just, but there is also a sparing concern for what is one's own when it is inhumanely ra

 The aforementioned vine covered the mountains with its shadow, because it surpassed all height and all power above the earth, and with the extensions

 he says, the reconciliation of the world, but later the acceptance is life from the dead, the perfect good will of God having been shown to men, whene

 my eyes have grown weak from poverty. Symmachus rendered it, My eye has wasted away from affliction. 146 Ps 87,13 Save, therefore, a race made by you,

 which were spoken through the prophet Nathan. But he says that he is exalted by his own mercy and by the fitting zeal for the just one, just as he als

 has happened for other kings who hoped in God, as the promise of God which says, I will be an enemy to your enemies and I will oppose those who oppos

 saying that the many islands, that is, the nations, also rejoice, then, next, that the earth travails and the mountains melt in one place he means th

 170 Ps 101,3 In power, what is said is similar to the prayer of Solomon supplicating concerning the future affliction for the people, so that indeed t

 He says it is a sign of the establishing power of God that the earth, being the heaviest element, has been fixed above the waters and remains unmoved

 is shown by God and by the wonders spoken of at each time but the power of God must be recognized, and not at all an uninterrupted history of events.

 But the end of discipline is the rectification of man towards what is right, in the leadership of the spirit, but in the obedience of the flesh. For t

 having stirred up their previously fair voyage, by which, being crested, they were carried up to a height, and flowing back, were carried down, as is

 202 Ps 110 arg. The hymn is spoken briefly in the present one, and the first sounds of the verses proceed according to the Hebrew through the twenty-t

 a living [sacrifice], truly well-pleasing to God, the multitude of which fills the altar up to the highest point which is joined to the heavenly angel

 our. Therefore, having presented himself as is fitting for one who is humble, he seeks a reward from God, a lawful conduct in life and a life accordin

 The formations now spoken of must be referred to, such as, 'Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you' just as Job also says, 'You formed me from c

 in irritation towards those who plotted against him, just as the plot of Saul did not lead David astray from defending himself as was fitting. 237 Ps

 redeeming the dying through death to which is also consequently added, My soul shall live, and the rest.

 of the most God-fearing, through whom the kingdom of David is restored by the grace of Christ who gave to the twelve apostles to judge Israel, sitting

 brings the greatest preservation of all those things. For from the beginning he gave an abundance of food which he calls Thera, but another interprets

 the clear refutation that such images are not gods. For the image of God is divine wherefore also the divine man is an icon, not he who has been depr

 for the release of Israel, being brought forward to authority, as the things prophesied through Isaiah have it but the blessing will fall to those wh

 with benefits, that is, upon those who have no hope and are without God in the world, whom the apostle has called things that are not. 282 Ps 137,7.

 291 Ps 140,2 If in the morning we understand the life to come, the one in rest and glory

 300 Ps 143,4.5 But all human things are alike, and are indications of a divine operation, fearful, strong, and destructive of men. 301 Ps 144,1 In the

 having power and wisdom that fill him, but a fullness that has come forth from himself, just as Solomon also calls wisdom an offspring and presents wi

according to the difference of the manner according to what was said again by the Savior, that And there are many mansions with my Father. 15 Ps 34,6 The ways, he says, of the impious are dark, they do not know how they are proceeding. And he deems it worthy for this to be accomplished, praying for the action of the unjust to be seized by darkness, since it is indeed fitting to darkness, and for them to fall down slipping, because they travel a slippery road (for nothing in injustice has any stability), and for them to be made to disappear by angels who pursue them, the very thing they do against the righteous. 16 Ps 34,13 To his own strength, he says, he takes refuge, which is God. For one seeks God with fasts and humiliations, turning the whole soul to invocations of God during the leisure from bodily pleasures, when they are occupied in the mind against prayer and slip into the bosom of the soul.

17 Ps 35,6 For the things ordained by God are firm and unshaken, such as what was said to Noah, to no longer bring a flood for the destruction of living creatures, which is consistent with the principle of God’s long-suffering. For the firmness of the word has been established for all time, being something great and manifest. And so, whatever else has been ordained and established according to the righteousness and goodness of God, has a solid and unshaken permanence forever; such as is also the saying, Once I have sworn by my Holy one, if I should lie to David. To this also tends the saying, For the gifts of God are irrevocable. 18 Ps 35,7a Again he compares the height of righteousness to mountains. And this holds a threat of retribution, because it is impossible, since righteousness is the overseer of events, for anything to happen contrary to justice, so that even those now escaping punitive retributions or not receiving retributions will by all means receive them later; and this is unchangeable with God, as Paul said with confidence that God, the righteous judge, will award him the crown of righteousness on that day. 19 Ps 35,10a For the things for life are supplied abundantly by God, without the supply of which life would be destroyed. 20 Ps 35,10b He is illuminated, he says, by the light from heaven by the one who set the sun for the light of day; but these things are common to the righteous and the unjust, at which he also marveled at the philanthropy, that the ungrateful are not separated from the enjoyment of the things from God, but the excellent is already also the peculiar possession of God's own people.

21 Ps 36,7 He exhorts them to wait for God in stillness, not being troubled by present things but hoping for future things according to the apostolic word, Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, and that of Jeremiah, It is good for a man when he bears a yoke in his youth. He will sit alone and be silent, he will give his cheek to the one who strikes him, he will be filled with reproaches. 22 Ps 36,9 He commands to look far ahead and not be dismayed by present things, and to foresee the destruction of the wicked, but the victory of the good; and these things will happen at the end, that is, also in another age, since the present one does not have these outcomes, but rather the things on earth are dominated by the wicked. Wherefore also, he says, The whole world lies in the wicked one. 23 Ps 36,14ab He says that the wicked set in motion against themselves the things they prepare against the righteous, just as if someone having drawn a sword should be slain by it, and the plot will be in vain like a bow being broken in the hand of the archer. And in the case of David this was also physically fulfilled, that he would strike with his own sword the one whom they had drawn against David. 24 Ps 36,27 An exhortation from the prophecy is again of this sort: to flee from evil, and to practice the doing of good in hope of eternal rest, and a reflection on the matter that the overseer is just and does not overlook his own.

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κατὰ τὸ διαλλάττον τοῦ τρόπου κατὰ τὸ ῥηθὲν καὶ πάλιν παρὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος ὅτι Καὶ πολλαὶ μοναὶ παρὰ τῷ πατρί μου. 15 Ps 34,6 Αἱ ὁδοί, φησίν, τῶν ἀσεβῶν σκοτειναί, οὐκ οἴδασι πῶς προκόπτουσιν. τοῦτο δὲ ἐπιτελεσθῆναι ἀξιοῖ, σκότῳ κατασχεθῆναι τὴν πρᾶξιν τῶν ἀδίκων εὐχόμενος, ἅτε δὴ καὶ σκότῳ προσήκουσαν, καὶ καταπεσεῖν αὐτοὺς ὀλισθόντας, ὅτι καὶ ὀλισθηρὰν ὁδὸν πορεύονται (οὐδὲν γὰρ ἐν ἀδικίᾳ στηριγμοῦ ἐχόμενον), ἀφανεῖς δὲ αὐτοὺς ὑπ' ἀγγέλων γενέσθαι διωκομένους ὅπερ αὐτοὶ κατὰ τῶν δικαίων ποιοῦσιν. 16 Ps 34,13 Ἐπὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἰσχύν, φησίν, καταφεύγει, ἥτις ἐστὶ θεός. θεὸν γάρ τις ἐκζητεῖ νηστείαις καὶ ταπεινώσεσιν, ἐπιστρέφων τὴν ὅλην ψυχὴν εἰς ἐπικλήσεις θεοῦ κατὰ τὴν ἀπὸ σωματικῶν ἡδονῶν εὐσχολίαν, ὅτε ἐνσχολάζουσι τῇ διανοίᾳ κατὰ τῆς εὐχῆς καὶ ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ τῆς ψυχῆς παρεισδύονται.

17 Ps 35,6 Βέβαια γὰρ καὶ ἀσάλευτα τὰ παρὰ θεοῦ τεταγμένα οἷον τὸ πρὸς

Νῶε ῥηθὲν τὸ μηκέτι κατακλυσμὸν ἐπάξαι εἰς διαφθορὰν ζῴων ὃ συμβαίνει τῷ περὶ ἀνεξικακίας θεοῦ λόγῳ. ὥρισται γὰρ καὶ ἡ βεβαιότης τοῦ λόγου διὰ παντός, μεγάλη τις οὖσα καὶ ἐπιφανής. οὕτω δὲ καὶ ὅσα ἄλλα τέτακται καὶ ὥρισται κατὰ δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἀγαθότητα θεοῦ, στερρὸν καὶ ἀσάλευτον ἔχει τὸ διαμένειν εἰς ἀεί· οἷόν ἐστιν καὶ τὸ Ἅπαξ ὤμοσα ἐν τῶν ἁγίῳ μου εἰ τῷ ∆αυὶδ ψεύσομαι. εἰς τοῦτο καὶ τὸ Ἀμεταμέλητα γὰρ τὰ χαρίσματα τοῦ θεοῦ τείνει. 18 Ps 35,7a Πάλιν τὸ τῆς δικαιοσύνης ὑψηλὸν ὄρεσι παραβάλλει. τοῦτο δὲ ἀπειλὴν ἔχει τῶν ἀνταποδόσεων, ὅτι ἀδύνατον δικαιοσύνης οὔσης ἐφόρου τῶν γινομένων γενέσθαι τι παρὰ τὸ δίκαιον, ὥστε καὶ οἱ νῦν διαφεύγοντες τὰς κολαστικὰς ἀνταποδόσεις ἢ τῶν ἀνταποδόσεων οὐ τυγχάνοντες πάντως εἰς ὕστερον κομιοῦνται· καὶ τοῦτο ἄτρεπτον παρὰ θεῷ, ὡς θαρρῶν ὁ Παῦλος ἔλεγεν ὅτι αὐτῷ τὸν στεφανὸν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἀποδώσει θεὸς ἐν ἐκείνῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ, ὁ δίκαιος κριτής. 19 Ps 35,10a Τὰ γὰρ εἰς ζωὴν ἄφθονα χορηγεῖται παρὰ θεοῦ, ὧν μὴ χορηγουμένων διαφθείροιτο ἡ ζωή. 20 Ps 35,10b Καταλάμπεται, φησίν, τῷ ἐξ οὐρανῶν φωτὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεμένου τὸν ἥλιον εἰς φῶς ἡμέρας· ἀλλὰ ταῦτα μὲν εἰς κοινὸν δικαίοις τε καὶ ἀδίκοις ἐφ' οἷς καὶ τὸ τῆς φιλανθρωπίας ἐθαύμαζεν μὴ χωριζομένων τῶν ἀχαρίστων τῆς ἀπολαύσεως τῶν παρὰ θεοῦ, τὸ δὲ ἐξαίρετον ἤδη καὶ ἴδιον τῶν οἰκείων θεοῦ.

21 Ps 36,7 Ἡσυχάζοντας ἐκδέχεσθαι θεὸν παρακελεύεται μὴ ταραττομένους

τοῖς παροῦσιν ἀλλ' ἐλπίζοντας τοῖς μέλλουσι κατὰ τὸ ἀποστολικὸν Τῇ ἐλπίδι χαίροντες, τῇ θλίψει ὑπομένοντες, καὶ τοῦ Ἱερεμίου τὸ Ἀγαθὸν ἀνδρὶ ὅταν ἄρῃ ζυγὸν ἐν νεότητι αὐτοῦ. καθήσεται κατὰ μόνας καὶ σιωπήσεται, δώσει τῷ πταίοντι αὐτὸν σιαγόνα, ἐμπλησθήσεται ὀνειδισμῶν. 22 Ps 36,9 Μακρὰν ἀφορᾶν κελεύει καὶ μὴ τοῖς παροῦσιν ἐκπλήττεσθαι, καὶ ἀπώλειαν μὲν προορᾶν τῶν πονηρῶν, κράτησιν δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν· ταῦτα δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τέλους δηλαδὴ καὶ ἐν ἑτέτῳ αἰῶνι, ὡς ὅ γε παρὼν οὐκ ἔχει τὰς τούτων ἐκβάσεις, ἀλλ' ἐπικρατεῖται μᾶλλον τοῖς πονηροῖς τὰ ἐν τῇ γῇ. διὸ καὶ Ὅλος, φησίν, ὁ κόσμος ἐν τῷ πονηρῷ κεῖται. 23 Ps 36,14ab Αὐτούς φησι καθ' ἑαυτῶν κινεῖν τοὺς πονηροὺς ἃ κατὰ τῶν δικαίων παρασκευάζονται, ὡσεὶ ξίφος τις σπασάμενος τούτῳ σφαγείη, μάταιόν τε ἔσεσθαι τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν ὥσπερ τόξον χειρὶ τοξότου συντριβόμενον. ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ ∆αυὶδ καὶ σωματικῶς τοῦτο πεπλήρωται τὸ τῇ ἰδίᾳ μαχαίρᾳ παίσειν τὸν ∆αυὶδ ἣν κατὰ τοῦ ∆αυὶδ ἐσπάσαντο. 24 Ps 36,27 Παραίνεσις ἐκ τῆς προρρήσεως ἡ τοιαύτη πάλιν τὸ φεύγειν μὲν ἀπὸ κακοῦ, ἀσκεῖν δὲ πρᾶξιν τὴν τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ἐπ' ἐλπίδι τῆς αἰωνίου ἡσυχίας, καὶ λογισμὸς ἐπὶ τῷ πράγματι ὅτι δίκαιος ὁ ἐπόπτης καὶ τοὺς οἰκείους οὐχ ὑπερορῶν.

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