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

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. He does not say that the frogs simply came upon the land, but into the houses and the most prominent of the houses and the innermost parts of these, so that their attack might be unhindered and most violent, with no one, not even the most powerful, able to prevent it. And it was also a marvel that the gnat and the dog-fly were poured out over the whole land and stopped at the borders, not going further, so that the punishment might then be seen to be at work against Egypt alone. For this reason also the turning of the river to blood happened to stop at the borders, and into the neighboring land the outflows were no longer of this kind, because the punishment was against the Egyptians, taking away the abundance of the river. 188 Ps 104,37 In addition to the salvation that was given, he speaks of the abundance from the power of God, which led the Egyptians to provide many and costly things to those asking who were about to go out of the country. And it was a great thing also that they departed unharmed to a man from a land that had suffered the worst things.

189 Ps 105,14-18 When they tempted God in the waterless place, He, being untemptable and

not mindful of evils, not repaying them, Gave them their request, but also when They rebelled as they were going up at the Red Sea, even then He made known to them His dominion; but when they provoked Moses and Aaron in the camp, then The earth opened and swallowed them up. For it was necessary that the servants not be despised. But since there is both kindness and severity with Him, according to the verse, Behold then the kindness and severity of God, He first provided them with the things of kindness; but when they did not profit from it, He consequently pursues them with a suitable medicine, that of chastisement. Now, those with Dathan and Abiram provoked Moses, saying, Has God spoken to Moses alone? Has He not also to us? And Aaron, Korah and his congregation provoked, having dared to offer strange fire and sacrifices to God in the place of the priests. But those who spoke against Moses, Dathan with his whole family, the earth opened up and swallowed, and it covered over the congregation of Abiram, and Korah and those with him who were about to offer their incense, a flame coming forth from the tabernacle consumed. 190 Ps 105,23 According to justice, the sentence of destruction; but according to philanthropy, the pardon to be saved. And intercession has given place to the pardon, both because of the holiness of the one interceding and the providence for the world according to which the intercessor was supplicating, so that the grace of God toward Israel might not be thought incomplete, and because of the memory of the fathers and the promise to them which Moses called to mind while supplicating, since according to their impiety and the foreknowledge of their whole wickedness, they would have perished. 191 Ps 105,24-27 And the dispute concerning the land was older than the rebellion of Korah and Dathan, but greater and more impious, fighting against the promise of God and not being zealous about the service of God, it is therefore reasonably connected with the aforementioned impiety toward God, having come about through cowardice just as that one came about through faintheartedness, cowardice bringing on despair of success just as faintheartedness, because of the separation of Moses, caused despair of Moses' return. For not only desires but also cowardice and faintheartedness take away the fulfillment of what is owed to God and to men, hindering steadfastness in obedience to God and good order in honors from men, the nature according to the flesh corrupting that according to the spirit and with its own pleasure and lack of toil effacing the good in that one. But God brings on events in ways of instruction; of the

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θεοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἑκάστοτε λεγομένων τεράτων δείκνυται· δεῖ δὲ θεοῦ γνωρίζεσθαι δύναμιν καὶ οὐχ ἱστορίαν πραγμάτων ἀπαράλειπτον πάντως γίνεσθαι. οὐκ εἰς γῆν δὲ ἁπλῶς τοὺς βατράχους γεγενῆσθαί φησιν ἀλλ' εἰς τοὺς οἴκους καὶ τῶν οἴκων τοὺς ἐπιφανεστάτους καὶ τὰ τούτων ἐνδοτάτω, ὡς ἂν ἀκωλύτου τῆς ἐπιφορᾶς αὐτῶν γινομένης καὶ βιαιοτάτης καὶ μηδενὸς ἀποκωλῦσαι δυναμένου μηδὲ τῶν δυνατωτάτων. παράδοξον δὲ καὶ τὸ καθ' ὅλης τῆς γῆς χυθῆναι τὸν σκνῖπα καὶ τὴν κυνόμυιαν καὶ μέχρι τῶν ὅρων ἵστασθαι μὴ περαιτέρω χωροῦντας, ὡς ἂν κατὰ μόνης Αἰγύπτου τὴν δίκην ἐνεργεῖσθαι τότε φαίνοιτο. διὸ καὶ τὴν ἐξαιμάτωσιν τοῦ ποταμοῦ μέχρι τῶν ὁρίων συνέβαινεν ἵστασθαι, εἰς δὲ τὴν πλησιόχωρον μηκέτι τὰς ἐκροὰς εἶναι τοιαύτας, ὅτι κατ' Αἰγυπτίων ἡ κόλασις ἦν τὴν εὐπορίαν ἀφαιρουμένη τοῦ ποταμοῦ. 188 Ps 104,37 Πρὸς τῇ σωτηρίᾳ τῇ δοθείσῃ καὶ τὴν εὐπορίαν λέγει τὴν ἐκ θεοῦ δυνάμεως ἣ τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους ἀπηγάγετο παρασχεῖν αἰτοῦσι τοῖς ἐξιέναι τῆς χώρας μέλλουσι πολλά τε καὶ πολυτελῆ. μέγα δὲ καὶ τὸ ἐκ χώρας τὰ χείριστα παθούσης ἀπαθεῖς ἀπαλλάττεσθαι μέχρις ἑνός.

189 Ps 105,14-18 Ὅτε μὲν τὸν θεὸν ἐπείρασαν ἐν ἀνύδρῳ, ἀπείραστος ὢν καὶ

ἀμνησίκακος οὐκ ἀμειψάμενος αὐτοὺς Ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς τὸ αἴτημα αὐτῶν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὅτε Παρεπίκραναν ἀναβαίνοντες ἐν τῇ ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ, καὶ τότε ἐγνώρισεν αὐτοῖς τὴν δυναστείαν αὐτοῦ· ὅτε δὲ παρώργισαν τὸν Μωυσῆν καὶ τὸν Ἀαρὼν ἐν τῇ παρεμβολῇ, τὸ τηνικαῦτα Ἠνοίχθη ἡ γῆ καὶ κατέπιεν αὐτούς. ἔδει γὰρ μὴ καταφρονηθῆναι τοὺς θεράποντας. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπείπερ χρηστότης ἐστὶ καὶ ἀποτομία παρ' αὐτῷ κατὰ τὸ Ἴδε οὖν χρηστότητα καὶ ἀποτομίαν θεοῦ, πρῶτα τὰ τῆς χρηστότητος αὐτοῖς παρέσχετο· ὡς δ' οὐκ ὤναντο δι' αὐτῆς, ἀκολούθως καταλλήλῳ μετέρχεται αὐτοὺς φαρμάκῳ τῷ κολαστηρίῳ. Μωυσῆν μὲν οὖν παρώργισαν οἱ περὶ ∆αθὰν καὶ Ἀβειρὼν εἰπόντες Μὴ Μωυσῇ μόνῳ ἐλάλησεν ὁ θεός; οὐχὶ καὶ ἡμῖν; τὸν δὲ Ἀαρὼν Κορὲ καὶ ἡ συναγωγὴ αὐτοῦ πῦρ ἀλλότριον προσαγαγεῖν καὶ θυσίας τῷ θεῷ ἐν χώρᾳ τῶν ἱερέων τολμήσαντες. ἀλλὰ τοὺς μὲν καταλαλήσαντες τοῦ Μωυσέως, τὸν ∆αθὰν παγγενεί, διανοιχθεῖσα ἡ γῆ κατέπιε καὶ συνεκάλυψεν ἐπὶ τὴν συναγωγὴν Ἀβειρών, τὸν δὲ Κορὲ καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ μέλλοντας προσφέρειν τὰ θυμιατήρια αὐτῶν φλὸξ ἀπὸ τῆς σκηνῆς προελθοῦσα κατέφλεξεν. 190 Ps 105,23 Κατὰ μὲν τὸ δίκαιον ὁ τῆς ἀπωλείας ὅρος, κατὰ δὲ τὸ φιλανθρώπινον ἡ τοῦ σῴζεσθαι συγχώρησις. τῇ δὲ συγχωρήσει χώραν ἡ πρεσβεία δέδωκε διά τε τὴν ὁσιότητα τοῦ πρεσβεύοντος καὶ τὴν ὑπὲρ κόσμου πρόνοιαν καθ' ἣν ὁ πρεσβευτὴς ἱκέτευεν, ἵνα μὴ ἀτελὴς ἡ χάρις τοῦ θεοῦ νομισθείη περὶ τὸν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ διὰ τὴν μνήμην τῶν πατέρων καὶ τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν τὴν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἧς ὁ Μωυσῆς ἀπεμνημόνευσεν ἱκετεύων, ἐπεὶ κατά γε τὴν ἀσέβειαν καὶ τὴν πρόγνωσιν τῆς ὅλης κακίας αὐτῶν ἀπώλοντο ἄν. 191 Ps 105,24-27 Καὶ ἡ περὶ τῆς γῆς ἀντιλογία πρεσβυτέρα τῆς Κορὲ καὶ ∆αθὰν στάσεως ἀλλὰ μείζων καὶ δυσσεβεστέρα πρὸς ἐπαγγελίαν θεοῦ διαμαχομένη καὶ οὐ περὶ θεραπείας θεοῦ φιλοτιμουμένη, εἰκότως οὖν τῇ εἰς θεὸν ἀσεβείᾳ τῇ προειρημένῃ συντέτακται διὰ δειλίαν γεγονυῖα καθάπερ ἐκείνη διὰ μικροψυχίαν, δυσελπιστίαν τοῦ κατορθώματος τῆς δειλίας ἐπαγούσης ὥσπερ ἡ μικροψυχία διὰ τὸν Μωυσέως χωρισμὸν δυσελπιστίαν ἐποίει τῆς ἐπανόδου Μωυσέως. οὐ γὰρ ἐπιθυμίαι μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ δειλίαι καὶ μικροψυχίαι τῶν πρὸς θεὸν ὀφειλομένων καὶ τῶν πρὸς ἀνθρώπους τὴν πλήρωσιν ἀφαιροῦνται, τὸ καρτερικὸν ἐν ὑπακοῇ θεοῦ καὶ τὸ εὔτακτον ἐν ἀνθρώπων τιμαῖς ἐμποδίζουσαι, τῆς κατὰ σάρκα φύσεως τὴν κατὰ πνεῦμα λυμαινομένης καὶ τῷ ἰδίῳ τερπνῷ καὶ ἀπόνῳ τὸ παρ' ἐκείνῃ καλὸν ἐξαφανιζούσης. θεὸς δὲ παιδεύσεως τρόποις ἐπάγει τὰ πράγματα· τῆς

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