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together. "They, seeing it thus, were amazed." For they ran together as if to make war; but when they saw the unconquerable nature of the one being warred against, they were astonished. "For they were troubled," he says, "they were shaken. [ζʹ, ηʹ.] Trembling took hold of them. -There were pains as of a woman in labor; with a violent wind you will shatter the ships of Tarshish." When they saw, he says, the unbreakable foundations of the Church, and understood the infallibility of the prophecy, they received fear and trembling, just as those who cross the surface of the sea and are struck by storms and expect complete destruction. For this reason, ceasing from warring and attacking, they themselves proclaim the power of the one being warred against, and they cry out: θʹ. "As we have heard, so have we seen; in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God." For not wishing to accept the prophecies concerning her, we have seen their truth through the events themselves. "God has established her forever." For His is the voice, "On this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it." Thus having shown the change of the enemies, the prophetic word then foretells what kind of words those who have obtained salvation will use, hymning the benefactor. ιʹ. We have received, O God, your mercy in the midst of your people." We await, he says, this help from you, O Master, knowing the infallibility of your promises. For you said: "I am with you 80.1216 all the days, until the end of the age." ιαʹ. "According to your name, O God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth." The falsely named gods do not have power corresponding to their name; for they are not what they are called. But to your name, Master, follow the works proclaiming the truth of the name. For this reason, rightly is the hymn offered to you from the whole inhabited world. For as he is God of all, so by all is he hymned. "Your right hand is full of righteousness." For using a just decree, you scattered the enemies who rose up against us. ιβʹ. "Let mount Zion be glad, and let the daughters of Judea rejoice, because of your judgments, O Lord." He called Mount Zion those entrusted with the height of theology; and the daughters of Judea, the churches throughout the inhabited world, as having been founded by the apostles, who derived their lineage from the Jews. And he exhorts both those who preach and those who hear to be glad and rejoice, because of the just judgments of God, by which he wrought the salvation of the inhabited world. ιγʹ, ιδʹ. "Go around Zion, and encompass her, tell of it in her towers. Set your hearts on her power, and divide her palaces." Again he calls Zion the pious commonwealth, that is, the Church throughout the inhabited world. And her towers, those who have attained extreme virtue and imitate the life of the angels on earth, who like towers surround and guard her. And her palaces again, as we have already said before, the Churches divided throughout cities, and villages, and fields; for he speaks of the same and one, and many. Therefore the prophetic word, the grace of the most holy Spirit, exhorts those entrusted with the saving proclamation, to go about and run through, and both to support the towers with teaching, and to confirm her other power, and in addition to these to divide among themselves the care of the Churches; which indeed we have also said before in the forty-fifth psalm. For this he also exhorts here: "Divide her palaces;" so that this one might care for this Church, and that one for that, 80.1217 and for a husbandman to be set over each, providing the fitting care. And this he commands to be done not once, nor twice, but in every generation. For which reason he also added: "That you may tell it to another generation. [ιεʹ] For this is our God forever, and unto the age of the age. He will shepherd us forever." For it is necessary for each generation to hand down to the one after it what we have received from the former, so that in all generations

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ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό. Αὐτοὶ ἰδόντες οὕτως ἐθαύμασαν." Συνέδραμον μὲν γὰρ ὡς πολεμήσον τες· θεασάμενοι δὲ τῆς πολεμουμένης τὸ ἄμαχον κατεπλάγησαν. "Ἐταράχθησαν γὰρ, φησὶν, ἐσαλεύθησαν. [ζʹ, ηʹ.] Τρόμος ἐπελάβετο αὐτῶν. -Ἐκεῖ ὠδῖνες ὡς τικτούσης· ἐν πνεύματι βιαίῳ συντρίψεις πλοῖα Θαρσεῖς" Θεασάμενοι, φησὶ, τὰ ἀῤῥαγῆ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας θεμέλια, καὶ καταμαθόντες τὸ τῆς προῤ ῥήσεως ἀψευδὲς, δέος καὶ φρίκην ἐδέξαντο, καθάπερ οἱ τὰ τῆς θαλάσσης διαπεραιούμενοι νῶτα, καὶ καται γῖσι βαλλόμενοι, καὶ πανωλεθρίαν προσμένοντες. Οὗ δὴ χάριν τοῦ πολεμεῖν καὶ βάλλειν παυσάμε νοι, αὐτοὶ κηρύττουσι τῆς πολεμουμένης τὴν δύ ναμιν, καὶ βοῶσι· θʹ. "Καθάπερ ἠκούσαμεν, οὕτως καὶ εἴδομεν· ἐν πόλει Κυρίου τῶν δυνάμεων, ἐν πόλει τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν." Τὰς γὰρ περὶ αὐτῆς προῤῥήσεις οὐ βου λόμενοι δέχεσθαι, δι' αὐτῶν ἐθεασάμεθα τῶν πραγμάτων τὴν ἐκείνων ἀλήθειαν. "Ὁ Θεὸς ἐθεμελίωσεν αὐτὴν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα." Αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐστι φωνὴ, "Ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω τὴν Ἐκκλη- σίαν, καὶ πύλαι ᾅδου οὐ κατισχύσουσιν αὐτῆς." Οὕτω δείξας ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος τὴν τῶν πολεμίων μεταβολὴν, προλέγει λοιπὸν ὁποίοις οἱ τῆς σωτηρίας τετυχηκότες χρήσονται λόγοις, τὸν εὐεργέτην ὑμνοῦν τες. ιʹ. Ὑπελάβομεν, ὁ Θεὸς, τὸ ἔλεός σου ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου." Προσδεχόμεθα, φησὶ, ταύτην σου τὴν ἐπικουρίαν, ὦ ∆έσποτα, τῶν σῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν εἰδότες τὸ ἀψευδές. Σὺ γὰρ εἶπας· "Μεθ' ὑμῶν 80.1216 εἰμι πάσας τὰς ἡμέρας, ἕως τῆς συντελείας τοῦ αἰῶνος." ιαʹ. "Κατὰ τὸ ὄνομά σου, ὁ Θεὸς, οὕτως καὶ ἡ αἴνεσίς σου ἐπὶ τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς." Οἱ ψευδώνυ μοι θεοὶ οὐκ ἔχουσι συμβαίνουσαν τῇ προσηγορίᾳ τὴν δύναμιν· οὐ γάρ εἰσιν ὃ καλοῦνται. Τῷ δὲ σῷ ὀνόματι, ∆έσποτα, ἕπεται τὰ ἔργα κηρύττοντα τὴν τῆς προσηγορίας ἀλήθειαν. Οὗ δὴ χάριν δικαίως σοι παρὰ πάσης τῆς οἰκουμένης ὁ ὕμνος προσφέρε ται. Ὡς γὰρ ἁπάντων Θεὸς, οὕτω παρὰ πάντων ὑμνεῖται. "∆ικαιοσύνης πλήρης ἡ δεξιά σου." ∆ικαίᾳ γὰρ ψήφῳ χρησάμενος, τοὺς καθ' ἡμῶν ἐπαναστάντας πολεμίους ἐσκέδασας. ιβʹ. "Εὐφρανθήτω ὄρος Σιὼν, καὶ ἀγαλλιάσθωσαν αἱ θυγατέρες τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ἕνεκα τῶν κριμάτων σου, Κύριε." Ὄρος Σιὼν τοὺς τὸ ὕψος τῆς θεολογίας πεπιστευμένους ἐκάλεσε· θυγατέρας δὲ τῆς Ἰου δαίας, τὰς κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐκκλησίας, ὡς ἀπὸ τῶν ἀποστόλων παγείσας, οἳ ἐξ Ἰουδαίων κατῆγον τὸ γένος. Παρεγγυᾷ δὲ καὶ τοῖς κηρύτ τουσι, καὶ τοῖς ἀκούουσιν, εὐφραίνεσθαι καὶ γανύε σθαι, ἕνεκα τῶν δικαίων τοῦ Θεοῦ κριμάτων, οἷς χρησάμενος τὴν τῆς οἰκουμένης ἐπραγματεύσατο σωτηρίαν. ιγʹ, ιδʹ. "Κυκλώσατε Σιὼν, καὶ περιλάβετε αὐτὴν, διηγήσασθε ἐν τοῖς πύργοις αὐτῆς. Θέσθε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν εἰς τὴν δύναμιν αὐτῆς, καὶ κατα διέλεσθε τὰς βάρεις αὐτῆς." Σιὼν πάλιν καλεῖ τὸ εὐσεβὲς πολίτευμα, τουτέστι τὴν κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην Ἐκκλησίαν. Πύργους δὲ αὐτῆς, τοὺς τῆς ἄκρας ἀρετῆς ἐπειλημμένους, καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀγγέλων πολιτείαν ἐπὶ γῆς μιμουμένους, οἳ πύρ γων δίκην κυκλοῦσιν αὐτὴν καὶ φυλάττουσι. Βάρεις δὲ πάλιν, ὡς καὶ ἤδη προειρήκαμεν, τὰς κατὰ πόλεις, καὶ κώμας, καὶ ἀγροὺς διῃρημένας Ἐκκλησίας· τὴν γὰρ αὐτὴν καὶ μίαν λέγει, καὶ πολλάς. Παρεγ γυᾷ τοίνυν ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος, ἡ τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος χάρις, τοῖς τὸ σωτήριον κήρυγμα πιστευ θεῖσι, περινοστεῖν καὶ διατρέχειν, καὶ τούς τε πύργους στηρίζειν τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ, τήν τε ἄλλην αὐτῆς δύναμιν βεβαιοῦν, πρὸς δὲ τούτοις καὶ διανεί μασθαι τὴν τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν ἐπιμέλειαν· ὃ δὴ καὶ ἐν τῷ τεσσαρακοστῷ πέμπτῳ ψαλμῷ προειρήκαμεν. Τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ ἐνταῦθα παρεγγυᾷ· "Καταδιέλεσθε τὰς βάρεις αὐτῆς·" ὥστε τοῦτον μὲν ταύτης, ἐκεῖνον δὲ ἐκείνης προμηθεῖσθαι τῆς Ἐκκλησίας, 80.1217 καὶ ἑκάστῃ ἐπιστῆναι τὸν γεωργοῦντα καὶ τὴν προσήκουσαν ποιούμενον ἐπιμέλειαν. Καὶ τοῦτο οὐχ ἅπαξ, οὐδὲ δὶς, ἀλλὰ καθ' ἑκάστην γενεὰν ἐπιτελεῖ σθαι κελεύει. ∆ιὸ δὴ καὶ ἐπήγαγεν· "Ὅπως ἂν διηγήσησθε εἰς γενεὰν ἑτέραν. [ιεʹ] Ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος. Αὐτὸς ποιμανεῖ ἡμᾶς εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας." Χρὴ γὰρ γενεὰν ἑκάστην τῇ μετ' αὐτὴν παραδιδόναι, ἃ παρὰ τῆς προτέρας παρειλήφαμεν, ὥστε ἐν ἁπάσαις ταῖς γενεαῖς δια