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Wrath is the passion of those who are sent away; for it has its being only in the spirited power of the soul, outside of which it does not exist at all; for it is one of those things which have their being in others. 33Ps 6,3-4a But the healing of the soul's weakness is the power from God, so that the one who has obtained it says, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. That where the scripture says 'Bones,' the meaning is not always about the perceptible ones, one must pay attention to All my bones shall say, "Lord, Lord, who is like you?" and to Our bones are scattered beside Hades. 34 Ps 6,5a 'Return' is understood in two ways. For sometimes a meaning such as this is indicated: since you turned your face from me, for what is useful to me I beseech you, that you might return and show it to me. But at other times a contemplation such as this is presented: since my soul, in sinning, has turned away to its own harm, turn it back to yourself, calling it according to Return, you apostate sons, to redeem it from the sins that have distanced it and from the evil powers that work them. 35Ps 6,6-7 Those who suppose the preceding things were spoken about the common death are mistaken, or rather, are impious. For holy men not only have memory of God when they have the common life, but much more so when they are separated from the corruptible body. What then does it say? Since no one remembering you is in the death which sin brings forth (and this is what separates the sinning soul from a virtuous life), but I long to have memory of you; for this very reason, inclining your goodness: save me, lest, when the present weakness and confusion prevail against me, I be swallowed up by death. For it is not said, 'He who is in death does not remember God,' but, 'He who remembers him is not in death,' concerning which the Savior says, 'He who hears my word will not see death forever.' 36Ps 6,8b See if 'I have grown old among all my enemies' can also have another meaning. When I was living with righteousness, I was always young, living according to the newness of the spirit and the new covenant; but since, through our carelessness, I departed from living commendably, coming to be among my enemies, I have grown old according to the oldness of that man, whom Paul exhorts us to put off (and this is a wicked life), so that 'we may put on the new man who was created according to God in holiness and knowledge of the truth,' and this is the unspotted life. 37 Ps 6,9 But you will understand these things to be said also to the invisible enemies and evil powers who contrived the plot against him, who are jealous of his progress according to God and who after the sin maliciously say, 'There is no salvation for him in his God.' 38 Ps 6,11 With a good intention he prays for his enemies; for he wishes them to be ashamed of what they were doing, on account of which they were enemies of the righteous and of God. And this will be beneficial to them; for he who is ashamed out of awareness and is troubled by the evil worked by him, having condemned it, will cease to act so any longer. The interpretation is confirmed by the following verse which is as follows: 'Let the enemies, being troubled, turn back,' no longer being driven forward by wickedness but turning back to the virtuous way of life they had abandoned. And let this very thing, which is for their good, happen not with a temporal delay or slackly, but 'Exceedingly, with speed.'

39 Ps 7,1 Son of Jemeni he was called from the people, from where Saul and Shimei were

and the one who brought the news of Saul, but son of Arachi from his father, and 'chief companion' means the leader of the friends and old in friendship. He sings the psalm practically, bringing it forth at the same time also theoretically. And in the inscription of the fourth it is said that the psalm denotes practice, but the ode denotes theory; and since there are inscriptions having 'A Psalm of an ode' or 'An Ode of a psalm,' it must be said concerning them, that of a psalm

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ὀργὴ τὸ πάθος τῶν ἐξαποστελλομένων ἐστίν· εχει γὰρ τὸ ειναι ἐν μόνῃ τῇ θυμικῇ τῆς ψυχῆς δυνάμει, ης εξω γενομένη οὐδ' ολως ὑφίσταται· εστι γὰρ τῶν ἐν αλλοις τὸ ειναι ἐχόντων. 33Ps 6,3-4a Ιασις δὲ ἀσθενείας ψυχῆς ἡ ἐκ θεοῦ δύναμις, ὡς λέγειν τὸν ταύτης τυχόντα Πάντα ἰσχύω ἐν τῷ ἐνδυναμοῦντι με Χριστῷ. Οτι δὲ οὐκ ειπου τῆς γραφῆς ειρηται ̓Οστᾶ, οὐ πάντως περὶ τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἐστιν τὸ δηλούμενον, ἐπιστατέον τῷ Πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου ἐροῦσιν Κύριε κύριε, τίς ομοιός σοι; καὶ τῷ ∆ιεσκορπίσθη τὰ ὀστᾶ ἡμῶν παρὰ τὸν ᾳδην. 34 Ps 6,5a Τὸ ̓Επίστρεψον διττῶς νοεῖται. δηλοῦται γὰρ ὁτὲ μὲν νόησις τοιαύτη· ἐπεὶ ἀπέστρεψας τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπ' ἐμοῦ, διὰ τί μοι χρήσιμον παρακαλῶ, οπως ἐπιστρέψῃς καὶ ἐπιφάνῃς μοι αὐτό. ὁτὲ δὲ παρίσταται θεωρία τοιαύτη· ἐπεὶ ἡ ψυχή μου ἁμαρτάνουσα ἀπεστράφησεν ἐπὶ κακῷ τῷ ἑαυτῆς, ἐπιστρέψας αὐτὴν πρὸς ἑαυτὸν ἀνακαλούμενος κατὰ τὸ Ἐπιστράφητε, υἱοὶ ἀφεστηκότες, λυτρῶσαι αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τῶν μακρυνάντων ἁμαρτημάτων καὶ τῶν ἐνεργουσῶν αὐτὰ πονηρῶν δυνάμεων. 35Ps 6,6-7 Οἱ περὶ τοῦ κοινοῦ θανάτου ὑπονοοῦντες εἰρῆσθαι τὰ προκείμενα σφάλλονται, μᾶλλον δὲ ἀσεβοῦσιν. οἱ γὰρ αγιοι ανδρες οὐ τότε μόνον μνήμην εχουσι θεοῦ, οτε τὴν κοινὴν ζωὴν εχουσιν, ἀλλὰ πολλῷ μᾶλλον, οτε χωρίζονται τοῦ φθαρτοῦ σώματος. τί ουν φησιν; ἐπεὶ οὐδεὶς μεμνημένος σου ἐν θανάτῳ γίνεται ον ἡ ἁμαρτία ἀποτίκτει (ουτος δέ ἐστιν ὁ χωρίζων ἐναρέτου ζωῆς τὴν ἁμαρτάνουσαν ψυχήν), ποθῶ δὲ μνήμην σου εχειν· εἰς τοῦτ' αὐτὸ ῥέψας τὴν ἀγαθότητά σου· σῶσόν με, ινα μὴ ἰσχυσάσης κατ' ἐμοῦ τῆς προσούσης ἀσθενείας καὶ ταραχῆς καταποθῶ ὑπὸ τοῦ θανάτου. οὐ γὰρ ειρηται Οὐ μέμνηται θεοῦ ὁ ἐν θανάτῳ, ἀλλ' ̔Ο μνημονεύων αὐτοῦ οὐκ εστιν ἐν θανάτῳ, περὶ ου φησιν ὁ σωτὴρ ̔Ο τὸν λόγον μου ἀκούων θάνατον οὐ θεωρεῖ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. 36Ps 6,8b Ορα εἰ δύναται τὸ ̓Επαλαιώθην ἐν πᾶσι τοῖς ἐχθροῖς μου καὶ ἑτέραν νόησιν εχειν. οτε σὺν δικαιοσύνῃ εζων, ἐνέαζον ἀεὶ ζῶν κατὰ τὴν καινότητα τοῦ πνεύματος καὶ τὴν καινὴν διαθήκην· ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐξ ἀπροσεξίας ἡμετέρας μετέστην τοῦ ἐπαινετῶς ζῆν παρὰ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς γενάμενος, πεπαλαίωμαι κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἐκείνου παλαιότητα, ον ἐκδύσασθαι Παῦλος παραινεῖ (φαῦλος δὲ βίος ουτος), ιν' ̓Ενδυσώμεθα τὸν νέον ανθρωπον τὸν κατὰ θεὸν κτισθέντα ἐν ὁσιότητι καὶ γνώσει τῆς ἀληθείας, ουτος δέ ἐστιν ὁ βίος ὁ ἀκηλίδωτος. 37 Ps 6,9 Νοήσεις δὲ ταῦτα λέγεσθαι καὶ πρὸς τοὺς τὴν συσκευὴν αὐτῷ κατεργασαμένους ἀοράτους ἐχθροὺς καὶ πονηρὰς δυνάμεις τὰς διαφθονουμένας τῇ κατὰ θεὸν αὐτοῦ προκοπῇ καὶ μετὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἐπιχαιρησικάκως λεγούσας Οὐκ εστιν σωτηρία αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ θεῷ αὐτοῦ. 38 Ps 6,11 ̓Αγαθῆ προθέσει ευχεται ὑπὲρ τῶν ἐχθρῶν· θέλει γὰρ αὐτοὺς αἰσχυνθῆναι ἐφ' οις επραττον, δι' α καὶ ἐχθροὶ τῶν δικαίων καὶ τοῦ θεοῦ ησαν. εσται δὲ τοῦτ' αὐτοῖς ἐπωφελές· ὁ γὰρ ἐξ αἰσθήσεως αἰσχυνθεὶς καὶ ταραχθεὶς ἐπὶ τῇ ἐνεργουμένῃ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ κακίᾳ, καταγνοὺς αὐτῆς, πεπαύσεται τοῦ ἐνεργεῖν ετι ουτως. Βεβαιοῦται ἡ ἐξήγησις ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιφερομένου στίχου ουτως εχοντος· ̓Επιστραφείησαν ταραχθέντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ, εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω μηκέτι τῆς κακίας εμπροσθεν ἐλαύνοντες ἀλλ' ἀνακάμπτοντες εἰς ην κατέλειπον ἐνάρετον πολιτείαν. τοῦτο δὲ αὐτὸ πρὸς ἀγαθοῦ γινόμενον αὐτοῖς μὴ ἐν ὑπερθέσει χρονικῇ η ἀνειμένως ἀλλὰ Σφόδρα διὰ τάχους γενέσθω.

39 Ps 7,1 Υἱὸς ̓Ιεμενεὶ ἐκλήθη ἀπὸ τοῦ δήμου, οθεν ην ὁ Σαοὺλ καὶ ὁ Σεμεεὶ

καὶ ὁ τὴν ἀγγελίαν καταμηνύσας τοῦ Σαούλ, υἱὸς δὲ ̓Αραχὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρός, ἀρχιεταῖρος δὲ ὁ αρχων τῶν φίλων καὶ παλαιὸς κατὰ τὴν φιλίαν. Αιδει δὲ τὸν ψαλμὸν πρακτικῶς, αμα καὶ θεωρητικῶς αὐτὸν προφέρων. ειρηται δὲ ἐν τῇ ἐπιγραφῇ τοῦ τετάρτου ὡς πρᾶξιν ὁ ψαλμός, θεωρίαν δὲ ἡ ᾠδὴ δηλοῖ· καὶ ἐπεί εἰσιν ἐπιγραφαὶ εχουσαι Ψαλμὸν ᾠδῆς η ̓Ωιδὴν ψαλμοῦ, ῥητέον περὶ αὐτῶν, ὡς ψαλμοῦ