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my feet, they have numbered all my bones. And this is clear and plain even to the most contentious; for we hear in the holy Gospels the Lord himself saying to his holy disciples: Behold my hands, and my feet, that it is I myself. And indeed he also showed Thomas the marks of the nails, and the wound from the spear; then they numbered all my bones; that is, they stretched him out so when nailing him, that it was easy for one who wished to discern even the number of his bones. They observed and looked upon me; which means mocking and laughing; They parted my garments among themselves, and for my clothing they cast a lot; and this the history of the holy Gospels teaches more clearly. You that fear God, praise him; all the seed of Jacob, glorify him; let all the seed of Israel fear him. The whole nation of the Jews being divided into three orders, first into the common multitude of the nation, which was called Israel; then into the priestly order, which was the house of Aaron, and third into the order that served the priests, which was the house of Levi. Another psalm, having enumerated the three, introduces a fourth order besides the aforementioned, that of those who fear the Lord. This was the order of those from the nations turning to God. For it said: House of Israel, bless the Lord; likewise also the house of Aaron, and the house of Levi; and at the end, those who fear the Lord. But in that one, those from Israel were placed before those who fear the Lord; here, however, after the resurrection of the Sav 23.212 ior, those who fear the Lord are placed before Israel. For it was necessary, as he said: I will declare your name to my brothers, in the midst of the Church I will sing praise to you; for the hymn to be delivered first to those of his Church. And these were those from the nations saved through him; whom indeed he indicates, saying: You who fear the Lord, praise him. Very precisely he promises to declare the fatherly name to his own brothers and disciples, as to those who are better and more capable; but to his Church and the multitude of the people he no longer delivers the fatherly name; for they could not contain it; but he teaches them a hymn; then he commands the seed of Jacob to glorify him, placing the Jewish order second, after the people from the nations; whom he also names not Jacob, but the seed of Jacob and Israel, very precisely on account of their descent from the patriarch. For not because of their ancestral zeal, nor because of their likeness to their father were they worthy to be called Jacob, but on account of their seed they were called in this way; Because he has not despised nor abhorred the prayer of the poor; nor has he turned his face away from me, and when I cried to him he heard me. The poor shall eat and be satisfied, and they that seek the Lord shall praise him, their hearts shall live for ever and ever. Here he says, they shall eat; but further down, all the rich of the earth have eaten and worshipped. But when they ate, they became rich; but before eating they were called poor; whom he promises will use the food supplied by him. For the poor, he says, shall eat. And these were they whom he also places before the others in the beatitudes, saying: Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven; to whom he also promised the things that follow, saying: Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled. But when the poor eat, he says, and having eaten are filled, or satisfied, according to Symmachus, then they will praise the Lord, seeking him; and having eaten the food given to them by him, and having sought him, they will have the great fruit which is declared next; For their hearts shall live for ever and ever. For the bread of life, supplied to them by him, will be the cause for them

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πόδας μου, ἐξηρίθμησαν πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου. Καὶ τοῦτο δὲ δῆλόν ἐστι καὶ σαφὲς καὶ τοῖς λίαν φιλονεικοῦσιν· ἀκούομεν γὰρ ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς Εὐαγγελίοις αὑτοῦ τοῦ Κυρίου πρὸς τοὺς ἁγίους αὑτοῦ λέγοντος μαθητάς· Βλέπετε τὰς χεῖράς μου, καὶ τοὺς πόδας, ὅτι αὐτὸς ἐγώ εἰμι. Καὶ μέντοι καὶ τῷ Θωμᾷ τῶν ἥλων τοὺς τύπους ὑπέδειξε, καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ τῆς λόγχης πληγήν· τότε δὲ ἐξηρίθμησαν πάντα τὰ ὀστᾶ μου· τουτέστιν, οὕτω διέτειναν προσηλοῦντες, ὥστε ῥᾴδιον εἶναι τῷ βουλομένῳ καὶ τὸν τῶν ὀστῶν ἀριθμὸν διαγνῶναι. Αὐτοὶ δὲ κατενόησαν καὶ ἐπεῖδόν με· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπιτωθάζοντες καὶ γελῶντες· ∆ιεμέρισαν τὰ ἱμάτιά μου ἑαυτοῖς, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν ἱματισμὸν ἔβαλον κλῆρον· καὶ τοῦτο δὲ σαφέστερον ἡ τῶν ἱερῶν Εὐαγγελίων ἱστορία διδάσκει. Οἱ φοβούμενοι τὸν Θεὸν, αἰνέσατε αὐτόν· ἅπαν τὸ σπέρμα Ἰακὼβ, δοξάσατε αὐτόν· φοβηθήτωσαν αὐτὸν ἅπαν τὸ σπέρμα Ἰσραήλ. Τοῦ παντὸς Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους εἰς τρία τάγματα διῃρημένου, πρῶτον μὲν εἰς τὸ κοινὸν πλῆθος τοῦ ἔθνους, ὅπερ ἐκαλεῖτο Ἰσραήλ· ἔπειτα εἰς τὸ ἱερατικὸν, ὅπερ ἦν οἶκος Ἀαρὼν, καὶ τρίτον εἰς τὸ τῶν ἱερέων ὑπηρετικὸν, ὅπερ ἦν οἶκος Λευΐ. Τὰ τρία καταριθμησάμενος ἕτερος ψαλμὸς, ἕτερον τάγμα τέταρτον παρὰ τὰ προειρημένα εἰσάγει, τὸ τῶν φοβουμένων τὸν Κύριον. Τοῦτο δὲ ἦν τὸ ἐξ ἐθνῶν ἐπὶ τὸν Θεὸν ἐπιστρεφόντων. Ἔφη γάρ· Οἶκος Ἰσραὴλ, εὐλογήσατε τὸν Κύριον· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ οἶκος Ἀαρὼν, καὶ οἶκος Λευΐ· ἐπὶ τέλει δὲ οἱ φοβούμενοι τὸν Κύριον. Ἀλλ' ἐν τούτῳ μὲν προετάττοντο τῶν φοβουμένων τὸν Κύριον οἱ ἐκ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ· ἐνταῦθα δὲ μετὰ τὴν ἀνάστασιν τοῦ Σω 23.212 τῆρος προτάττονται τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ οἱ φοβούμενοι τὸν Κύριον. Ἔδει γὰρ, εἰρηκότος αὐτοῦ· ∆ιηγήσομαι τὸ ὄνομά σου τοῖς ἀδελφοῖς μου, ἐν μέσῳ Ἐκκλησίας ὑμνήσω σε· τὸν ὕμνον πρώτοις παραδοθῆναι τοῖς τῆς Ἐκκλησίας αὐτοῦ. Οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν οἱ ἐξ ἐθνῶν δι' αὐτὸν σεσωσμένοι· οὓς δὴ σημαίνει λέγων· Οἱ φοβούμενοι τὸν Κύριον, αἰνέσατε αὐτόν. Σφόδρα ἀκριβῶς τοῖς μὲν ἑαυτοῦ ἀδελφοῖς καὶ μαθηταῖς τὸ ὄνομα διηγεῖσθαι τὸ πατρικὸν, ὡς ἂν κρείττοσι καὶ δυνατωτέροις, ἐπαγγέλλεται· ἐπὶ δὲ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ πλήθους τοῦ λαοῦ οὐκέτι τὸ πατρικὸν ὄνομα παραδίδωσιν· οὐ γὰρ ἐχώρουν οὗτοι· ὕμνον δὲ αὐτοὺς διδάσκει· ἔπειτα τῷ σπέρματι Ἰακὼβ προστάττει δοξάζειν αὐτὸν, δεύτερον τάγμα τιθεὶς τὸ Ἰουδαϊκὸν, μετὰ τὸν ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαόν· οὓς καὶ ὀνομάζει οὐκ Ἰακὼβ, ἀλλὰ σπέρμα Ἰακὼβ καὶ Ἰσραὴλ,σφόδρα ἀκριβῶς διὰ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ πατριάρχου γένεσιν. Οὐ γὰρ διὰ τὸν ζῆλον τὸν πατρικὸν, οὐδὲ διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν πατέρα ὁμοίωσιν ἄξιοι ἦσαν κεκλῆσθαι Ἰακὼβ, ἀλλὰ τοῦ σπέρματος ἕνεκεν τοῦτον ἐχρημάτιζον τὸν τρόπον· Ὅτι οὐκ ἐξουδένωσεν οὐδὲ προσώχθισε τῇ δεήσει τοῦ πτωχοῦ· οὐδὲ ἀπέστρεψε τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀπ' ἐμοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ κεκραγέναι με πρὸς αὐτὸν εἰσήκουσέ μου. Φάγονται πένητες καὶ ἐμπλησθήσονται, καὶ αἰνέσουσι Κύριον οἱ ἐκζητοῦντες αὐτὸν, ζήσονται αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος. Ἐνταῦθα μέν φησι φάγονται· ὑποκαταβὰς δὲ, ἔφαγον, καὶ προσεκύνησαν πάντες οἱ πίονες τῆς γῆς. Ἀλλ' ὅτε μὲν ἔφαγον, πίονες ἐγένοντο· πρὸ δὲ τοῦ φαγεῖν πένητες ὠνομάζοντο· οὓς ἐπαγγέλλεται βρώσει χρήσασθαι τῇ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ χορηγηθησομένῃ. Φάγονται γὰρ, φησὶ, πένητες. Οὗτοι δὲ ἦσαν οὓς καὶ ἐν τοῖς μακαρισμοῖς προτάττει τῶν λοιπῶν φάσκων· Μακάριοι οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι, ὅτι αὐτῶν ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν· οἷς καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς ἐπηγγείλατο λέγων· Μακάριοι οἱ πεινῶντες καὶ διψῶντες τὴν δικαιοσύνην, ὅτι αὐτοὶ χορτασθήσονται. Ἐπειδὰν δὲ φάγωσι, φησὶν, οἱ πένητες, καὶ φαγόντες ἐμπλησθῶσιν, ἢ κορεσθῶσιν, κατὰ τὸν Σύμμαχον, τότε αἰνέσουσι Κύριον ἐκζητοῦντες αὐτόν· φαγόντες δὲ τὴν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ δοθεῖσαν αὐτοῖς βρῶσιν, καὶ ζητήσαντες αὐτὸν, μέγαν ἕξουσι καρπὸν τὸν ἑξῆς δηλούμενον· Ζήσονται γὰρ αἱ καρδίαι αὐτῶν εἰς αἰῶνα αἰῶνος. Ὁ γὰρ ἄρτος ζωῆς, ὁ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ χορηγηθεὶς αὐτοῖς, αἴτιος αὐτοῖς ἔσται