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

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 137,7.8a Secondly, he introduces the part of Israel, though left behind in tribulations, yet to be restored to salvation; through which your enemies will be struck by God, but they themselves will obtain the salvation that is from God. The Lord will repay on my behalf; for He will repay on behalf of the wronged nation, so as to deliver them from the hands of those who do them violence. 283 Ps 137,8c Even if, he says, we do not produce fruits worthy of Your love, yet because we are Your works, we ask not to be overlooked.

284 Ps 138,5 Here he appears to place both soul and body into one and under

one formation he sets both, because he says that God has the knowledge of the soul’s properties from its formation, just as another has said, *He who forms the spirit of man within him*. For the creation is not in separation, but even if the creation of the soul is more beautiful than that of the body, it is not as if it were handmade according to the shaping of matter but in-breathed according to its subsistence from divine power. In general, at any rate, both are completed into one, just as they also share one name, sometimes "soul" being the name for both together, sometimes "flesh"; just as also the apostle, calling the man the image of God because of the in-breathing that happened to him from God, which did not happen for the woman, is clearly including the body with the soul, inasmuch as the male is distinguished from the female. 285 Ps 138,9.10 Such as indeed also appeared in the case of Jonah, who fled into the sea and found the power of God concerning both the movement of the waters raising up waves and concerning the nature of the animals, with a great fish both receiving him and not crushing him, and he himself being preserved in the great fish and suffering no corruption. 286 Ps 138,15.16 You know, he says, my very substance, and the composition of my bones is Your work; in the hidden place of a mother's womb, as if intricately wrought within the earth, You knew me even before I was formed; and I am written by You as in a book, and every single man who is created in a measured time of a quantity of days; which indeed is also a wonder of order and of precise proportion, that life is bestowed with not one day lacking. 287 Ps 138,17.18 And I did not think, he says, that the righteous were few because at each particular time few are found, but I looked to the whole multitude that has existed from eternity and I saw them to be many and more in number, whom the resurrection will show all at once, and especially now, having been increased to a multitude at the coming of Christ, according to that which is written, *The whole earth was filled with the knowledge of the Lord*, and, *I will give thanks to You in a great congregation; in a mighty people I will praise You*. 288 Ps 138,23.24 Since righteous men are honored by You and are laid up for eternal glory, but the wicked for destruction, I beseech to be cleansed from all wickedness by the cleansing from You, who have the power to cleanse us even in those things wherein we fall into evil unknowingly. Therefore, he says, having cleansed me from every evil that leads to destruction, may You lead me through good actions, for which eternal life is laid up.

289 Ps 139,9 What is said is worthy of God, that a mindset not be given to lawlessness

nor arrogance against righteousness, nor that what is bitter and destructive for them should come to pass and they be permitted to prevail in those things in which they have bitterness. For injustice that succeeds is much more grievous and grows into blasphemy against the God of righteousness. 290 Ps 139,11 And they will fall a fall, not such as the righteous who fall and rise again, but one that is incurable and no longer comes to a resurrection; and they will pass away into nothingness, not having been able to be established upon the earth but being cast out from it in destructive punishments.

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ταῖς εὐεργεσίαις, τουτέστιν ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐλπίδα μὴ ἔχοντας καὶ ἀθέους ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ οὓς μηδὲ ὄντας ὁ ἀπόστολος κέκληκεν. 282 Ps 137,7.8a ∆εύτερον ἐπιφέρει τὸ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ μέρος θλίψεσι μὲν ἐναποληφθέν, ἐπισκευασθησόμενον δὲ εἰς σωτηρίαν· δι' οὗ σοι πολέμιοι πλήσσονται πρὸς θεοῦ, αὐτοὶ δὲ σωτηρίας τῆς παρὰ θεοῦ τεύξονται. Κύριος ἀνταποδώσει ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ· ἀνταποδώσει γὰρ ὑπὲρ ἠδικημένου τοῦ ἔθνους ὥστε αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῶν βιαζομένων χειρῶν ἐξελέσθαι. 283 Ps 137,8c Εἰ καὶ καρπούς, φησίν, ἀξίους τῆς σῆς ἀγάπης οὐ παρεχόμεθα, ἀλλ' ὅτι γέ ἐσμεν ἔργα σά, μὴ παροφθῆναι ἀξιοῦμεν.

284 Ps 138,5 Ἐνταῦθα δὲ φαίνεται καὶ ψυχὴν καὶ σῶμα εἰς ἓν τιθεὶς καὶ ὑπὸ

μίαν πλάσιν ἑκάτερα τάττων, ὅτι δὴ τῶν ψυχικῶν ἰδιωμάτων τὴν γνῶσιν ἀπὸ τῆς διαπλάσεως ἔχειν φησὶ τὸν θεόν, καθὰ καὶ ἕτερος εἴρηκεν Ὁ πλάσας πνεῦμα ἀνθρώπου ἐν αὐτῷ. οὐ γὰρ ἐν διαστάσει τὸ ποίημα, ἀλλ' εἰ καὶ καλλίων ἡ τῆς ψυχῆς ποίησις παρὰ τὴν τοῦ σώματος, οὐχ οἱονεὶ χειροποιητὸς οὖσα κατὰ τὴν τῆς ὕλης μόρφωσιν ἀλλ' ἐμπνευστὴ κατὰ τὴν ἐκ θείας δυνάμεως ὑπόστασιν. ὅλως γοῦν εἰς ἓν ἑκάτερα συντελεῖ, καθὰ καὶ ὀνόματος ἑνὸς κοινωνεῖ ποτε μὲν ψυχὴ τὸ συναμφότερον, ποτὲ δὲ σὰρξ ὀνομαζόμενον· καθὰ καὶ εἰκόνα θεοῦ τὸν ἄνδρα λέγων ὁ ἀπόστολος τῆς ἐμπνεύσεως ἕνεκα τῆς εἰς αὐτὸν γεγονυίας παρὰ θεοῦ ἣ μὴ γέγονεν ἐπὶ γυναικός, δῆλός ἐστι συμπεριλαμβάνων τῇ ψυχῇ καὶ τὸ σῶμα καθὸ διακρίνεται τὸ ἄρσεν τοῦ θήλεος. 285 Ps 138,9.10 Οἷον δὴ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ πέφηνεν εἰς θάλασσαν ἀποφυγόντος καὶ ὡς τὴν δύναμιν εὑρόντος τοῦ θεοῦ περί τε τὴν ὑδάτων κίνησιν κλύδωνας ἐγειρόντων καὶ περὶ τὴν τῶν ζῴων φύσιν, κήτους τε αὐτὸν ὑποδεχομένου καὶ μὴ συντρίβοντος, αὐτοῦ τε ἐν κήτει φυλαττομένου καὶ μηδεμίαν φθορὰν ὑπομένοντος. 286 Ps 138,15.16 Αὐτήν, φησί, τὴν ὑπόστασίν μου γινώσκεις, καὶ σὸν ἔργον ἡ τῶν ἐμῶν ὀστῶν σύνθεσις· ἐν ἀποκρύφῳ μητρώας γαστρὸς ὥσπερ εἴσω γῆς διαπεποικιλμένον ἔγνως με καὶ πρὶν ἢ μορφωθῆναι· καὶ γέγραμμαι παρὰ σοὶ καθάπερ ἐν βιβλίῳ, καὶ πᾶς ὅλως ἄνθρωπος ὁ δημιουργούμενος χρόνῳ μεμετρημένῳ ἡμερῶν ποσότησιν· ὃ δὴ καὶ θαυμάσιον τῆς τάξεως καὶ τῆς ἀκριβοῦς συμμετρίας τὸ μηδεμιᾶς ἐνδεούσης ἡμέρας τὴν ζωογονίαν ἀποδίδοσθαι. 287 Ps 138,17.18 Καὶ οὐδὲ βραχεῖς ᾠήθην, φησίν, εἶναι τοὺς δικαίους διὰ τὸ καθ' ἕκαστον καιρὸν ὀλίγους εὑρίσκεσθαι, ἀλλ' εἰς τὸ πᾶν πλῆθος ἀπεῖδον τὸ ἐξ αἰῶνος ὑπάρξαν πολλούς τε εἶδον αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀριθμῷ πλείονας, οὓς ἡ ἀνάστασις ἀθρόους ἐπιδείξει καὶ μάλιστά γε νῦν εἰς πλῆθος αὐξηθέντας ἐπὶ τῆς Χριστοῦ παρουσίας κατὰ τὸ Ἐπλήσθη ἡ γῆ σύμπασα τοῦ γνῶναι τὸν κύριον, καὶ τὸ Ἐξομολογήσομαί σοι ἐν ἐκκλησίᾳ πολλῇ, ἐν λαῷ βαρεῖ αἰνέσω σε. 288 Ps 138,23.24 Τιμίων ὄντων παρὰ σοὶ τῶν δικαίων ἀνδρῶν καὶ εἰς δόξαν αἰωνίαν κειμένων, εἰς ἀπώλειαν δὲ τῶν πονηρῶν, ἱκετεύω καθαρθῆναι πονηρίας ἁπάσης τῇ παρὰ σοῦ καθάρσει, ὃς καὶ ἐν οἷς ἀγνοοῦμεν κακίᾳ περιπίπτοντες καθαίρειν ἡμᾶς δυνατῶς ἔχεις. παντὸς οὖν με κακοῦ, φησί, καθήρας τοῦ πρὸς ὄλεθρον ἄγοντος δι' ἀγαθῶν ἄγοις πράξεων ἐφ' αἷς αἰώνιος ἀποκείσεται ζωή.

289 Ps 139,9 Ἄξιον θεοῦ τὸ λεγόμενον τὸ μὴ δοθῆναι τῇ παρανομίᾳ φρόνημα

μηδ' ἔπαρσιν κατὰ τῆς δικαιοσύνης μηδὲ τὸ πικρὸν καὶ ὀλέθριον αὐτοῖς εἰς πέρας ἐκβῆναι καὶ συγχωρηθῆναι κρατῆσαι τούτων ἐφ' οἷς τὴν πικρίαν ἔχουσιν. ἐπιτυγχάνουσα γὰρ ἀδικία πολὺ χαλεπωτέρα καὶ εἰς βλασφημίαν αὔξεται τὴν κατὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τῆς δικαιοσύνης. 290 Ps 139,11 Καὶ πεσοῦνται πτῶσιν, οὐχ οἵαν οἱ δίκαιοι πίπτοντες καὶ ἀνιστάμενοι ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀνίατον καὶ μηκέτι εἰς ἀνάστασιν ἐρχομένην· οἰχήσονταί τε εἰς ἀφανές, οὐ δυνηθέντες ἐπὶ γῆς ἑδραῖοι γενέσθαι ἀλλ' ἐξωθέντες ἀπ' αὐτῆς ἐν ταῖς φθοροποιαῖς τιμωρίαις.

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