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of corporeal and incorporeal things. And now Moses transforms creation, now others other elements; but he commanded us to build ourselves as a temple for him. Therefore, even if you do not create a heaven, yet you do create a temple of God. For heaven is glorious for this reason, because it has God dwelling in it; or rather, through Christ, also us. For, he says, he raised us up together, and made us sit together at the right hand in the heavenly places; and he gave us to do greater things than he himself did. For the signs, he says, that I do, he will do also, and greater than these he will do. And in the Old Testament, one changed the sea, another reined in the sun, another commanded the moon to stay, another turned back its rays; the children in the furnace bound the energy of the element, and the raging flame fell silent, and being bound, it hissed. Even beasts know to reverence the friends of God; even if famine compels them, they become more philosophical. Let the gluttonous be ashamed of the continence of the beasts. Lions saw Daniel, and acted philosophically; we, seeing the Son of God coming to us, do not act philosophically. They chose to perish with hunger, and not to touch the holy body; we, seeing Christ wandering naked and wasting 55.149 away with hunger, do not even give away our surplus, but living in abundance, we neglect the saints. The earth again brought forth for another friend of God so many gifts from its own bosom, such an abundance as never before. And why do you wonder, if they themselves were venerable, when even their garments, and their shadows were terrible to demons, and to death, and to disease? And angels revered men, and honored them exceedingly. For how could they not, whom their Master honored? And in the Old and in the New this is to be seen. For this reason he says: According to your height, you have made much of the sons of men. Therefore, considering the greatness of the honor, let us offer a worthy return for it, so that the excess of honor may not become for us a provision for punishment; from which may we all be delivered, both those who teach these things and those who learn them, in Christ Jesus our Lord, to whom is due all glory, honor and worship for ever and ever. Amen. ON THE 8TH PSALM. For the end, for the winepresses. Another, A song of victory for the winepresses. Another, To the victor, for the Gittith. But the Hebrew, Lamenasseh, al hagethith. O Lord, our Lord, how wonderful is your name in all the earth! Another, How great is your name! 1. In the psalm before this he said: I will give praise to the Lord according to his righteousness, and I will sing to the name of the Lord most high; here he fulfills his promise, offering a hymn to him. And in that one, what is said is as from one person; for, O Lord my God, he says, in you I have hoped, save me. But here, as from many. For, O Lord, he says, our Lord, how wonderful is your name. But be silent, and listen with precision. For if in the theater, when satanic choirs are singing, there is much silence, so that one may receive those deadly songs; and this when the choir is composed of male mimes and dancers, with some profane citharist leading them, and the song is satanic and deadly, and a defiled and wicked demon is being sung to; here, where the choir is of holy men, and the choir-leader is the Prophet, and the song is not from satanic energy, but from spiritual grace. and the one being sung to, not a demon, but God; how is it not necessary

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σωματικῶν καὶ ἀσωμάτων. Καὶ νῦν μὲν τὴν κτίσιν ὁ Μωϋσῆς μεταβάλλει, νῦν δὲ ἕτεροι ἕτερα στοιχεῖα· ἡμῖν δὲ ἐπέταξε ναὸν αὐτῷ κτίζειν ἡμᾶς αὐτούς. Κἂν τοίνυν οὐ δημιουργῇς οὐρανὸν, ἀλλὰ δημιουργεῖς ναὸν Θεοῦ. Ἐπεὶ καὶ οὐρανὸς διὰ τοῦτο λαμπρὸς, ἐπειδὴ Θεὸν ἔχει κατοικοῦντα ἐν αὐτῷ· μᾶλλον δὲ διὰ Χριστοῦ καὶ ἡμᾶς. Συνήγειρε γὰρ, φησὶ, καὶ συνεκάθισεν ἡμᾶς ἐν δεξιᾷ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς· καὶ μείζονα ἔδωκε ποιεῖν ὧν αὐτὸς ἐποίησε. Τὰ γὰρ σημεῖα, φησὶν, ἃ ἐγὼ ποιῶ, κἀκεῖνος ποιήσει, καὶ μείζονα τούτων ποιήσει. Καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς Παλαιᾶς ὁ μὲν τὴν θάλασσαν μετέβαλεν, ὁ δὲ τὸν ἥλιον ἐχαλίνου, ὁ δὲ τὴν σελήνην μένειν ἐκέλευσεν, ὁ δὲ πάλιν εἰς ἑαυτὸν τὰς ἀκτῖνας ἀπέστρεφεν· οἱ δὲ παῖδες ἐν τῇ καμίνῳ τοῦ στοιχείου τὴν ἐνέργειαν ἐπέδησαν, καὶ μαινομένη ἡ φλὸξ ἐσίγα, καὶ δεδεμένη ἐσύριζεν. Οἶδε καὶ θηρία αἰδεῖσθαι Θεοῦ φίλους· κἂν λιμὸς ἀναγκάζῃ, φιλοσοφώτερα γίνεται. Αἰδείσθωσαν οἱ γαστρίμαργοι τὴν ἐγκράτειαν τῶν θηρίων. Λέοντες εἶδον τὸν ∆ανιὴλ, καὶ ἐφιλοσόφησαν· ἡμεῖς τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ βλέποντες ἐρχόμενον πρὸς ἡμᾶς, οὐ φιλοσοφοῦμεν. Εἵλοντο ἐκεῖνοι διαφθαρῆναι λιμῷ, καὶ μὴ ἅψασθαι τοῦ σώματος τοῦ ἁγίου· ἡμεῖς ὁρῶντες γυμνὸν τὸν Χριστὸν περιερχόμενον καὶ λιμῷ τηκόμε 55.149 νον, οὐδὲ τὰ περιττὰ προϊέμεθα, ἀλλ' ἐν περιουσίᾳ ζῶντες, περιορῶμεν τοὺς ἁγίους. Ἡ γῆ πάλιν ἑτέρῳ Θεοῦ φίλῳ τοσαῦτα προσήνεγκε δῶρα ἐκ τῶν οἰκείων κόλπων, τοσαύτην φορὰν, ὅσην οὐδέποτε ἔμπροσθεν. Καὶ τί θαυμάζεις, εἰ αὐτοὶ αἰδέσιμοι ἦσαν, ὅπου γε καὶ τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτῶν, καὶ αἱ σκιαὶ δαίμοσιν ἦσαν φοβεραὶ, καὶ θανάτῳ, καὶ νοσήματι; Καὶ ἄγγελοι ᾐδέσθησαν ἀνθρώπους, καὶ ἐτίμησαν μεθ' ὑπερβολῆς. Πῶς γὰρ οὐκ ἔμελλον, οὓς ὁ ∆εσπότης αὐτῶν ἐτίμα; Καὶ ἐν τῇ Παλαιᾷ καὶ ἐν τῇ Καινῇ τοῦτο ἔστιν ἰδεῖν. ∆ιὰ τοῦτο λέγει· Κατὰ τὸ ὕψος σου ἐπολυώρησας τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Ἐννοήσαντες τοίνυν τὸ μέγεθος τῆς τιμῆς, ἀξίαν παράσχωμεν τὴν ὑπὲρ ταύτης ἀμοιβὴν, ἵνα μὴ τῆς τιμῆς ἡ ὑπερβολὴ ἐφόδιον ἡμῖν τιμωρίας γένηται· ἧς ῥυσθείημεν ἅπαντες οἵ τε διδάσκοντες ταῦτα καὶ οἱ μανθάνοντες, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἡμῶν, ᾧ πρέπει πᾶσα δόξα, τιμὴ καὶ προσκύνησις εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων. Ἀμήν. ΕΙΣ ΤΟΝ Ηʹ ΨΑΛΜΟΝ. Εἰς τὸ τέλος ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν. Ἄλλος, Ἐπινίκιον ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν. Ἄλλος, Τῷ νικοποιῷ, ὑπὲρ τῆς Γετθίτιδος. Ὁ δὲ Ἑβραῖος, Λαμανασσὴ, ἂλ ἁγεθθίθ. Κύριε, ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν, ὡς θαυμαστὸν τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ! Ἄλλος, Τί μέγα τὸ ὄνομά σου! αʹ. Ἐν τῷ πρὸ τούτου ψαλμῷ ἔλεγεν· Ἐξομολογήσομαι τῷ Κυρίῳ κατὰ τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ, καὶ ψαλῶ τῷ ὀνόματι Κυρίου τοῦ ὑψίστου· ἐνταῦθα τὴν ὑπόσχεσιν πληροῖ, ὕμνον ἀναφέρων αὐτῷ. Καὶ ἐν ἐκείνῳ μὲν, ὡς ἐξ ἑνός ἐστι προσώπου τὰ λεγόμενα· Κύριε γὰρ ὁ Θεός μου, φησὶν, ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισα, σῶσόν με. Ἐνταῦθα δὲ, ὡς ἐκ πολλῶν. Κύριε γὰρ, φησὶν, ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν, ὡς θαυμαστὸν τὸ ὄνομά σου. Ἀλλὰ παρέχετε σιγὴν, καὶ μετὰ ἀκριβείας ἀκούετε. Εἰ γὰρ ἐν θεάτρῳ χορῶν ᾀδόντων σατανικῶν, πολλὴ γίνεται ἡσυχία, ὥστε τὰ ὀλέθρια ἐκεῖνα δέξασθαι μέλη· καὶ ταῦτα τοῦ μὲν χοροῦ ἐκ μίμων καὶ ὀρχηστῶν συνισταμένου ἀνδρῶν, χοροστατοῦντος δὲ παρ' αὐτοῖς βεβήλου τινὸς καὶ κιθαρῳδοῦ, τοῦ δὲ μέλους σατανικοῦ καὶ ὀλεθρίου τυγχάνοντος, ᾀδομένου δὲ μιαροῦ καὶ πονηροῦ δαίμονος· ἐνταῦθα, ἔνθα ὁ μὲν χορὸς ἐξ ἁγίων ἀνδρῶν, ὁ δὲ χοροστάτης ἐστὶν ὁ Προφήτης, τὸ δὲ μέλος οὐχὶ ἐκ σατανικῆς ἐνεργείας, ἀλλ' ἐκ πνευματικῆς χάριτος. ὁ δὲ ᾀδόμενος, οὐχὶ δαίμων, ἀλλὰ Θεός· πῶς οὐ πολλὴν δεῖ