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rightly proclaims the theology in the Psalms, among other things, also this: "How great are your works, O Lord, in wisdom you have made them all." As also David, the father of Solomon, who was at once king and prophet, knows a certain beloved of God, and this one, after the most high God, he proclaims as king and christ and second god at once in the 44th Psalm, holding the same opinions as we do concerning the Christ. Of the 44th Psalm. "To the end, for those who shall be changed, for understanding, a song for the beloved." Note first, that he knows a beloved of God; second, that he urges the hearer "for understanding" of the things that will be said; third, "for those who shall be changed" is said for many reasons, both because of the change of the beloved who is indicated from God to men, and because of his restoration after this from his transformation among men back to God, yes, and also because of those who through his teaching are about to be changed from error to the way of piety. And who would one say is the "beloved" of the God over all other than the one much greater than angels and spirits and every rational being, the only-begotten and "firstborn of all creation," whom we have just learned according to the previous sayings is the wisdom of God and the offspring begotten before every age. For a voice that spoke, according to what is written in the gospels, clearly proclaimed our savior and lord as the beloved of the Father: "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased." This very one, then, the present Psalm also indicates, having the inscription "for the beloved," after which it adds: "My heart has brought forth a good word, I speak my works to the king; my tongue is the pen of a swift writer. Fair in beauty beyond the sons of men." These things, then, the prophet at the beginning, or rather the divine Spirit in him, went through as in a preface, and next he exclaims to the person of the very beloved of God mentioned in the inscription, saying: "Grace is poured forth on your lips; for this reason God has blessed you forever. Gird your sword upon your thigh, O mighty one, in your comeliness and in your beauty, and bend your bow, and prosper and reign, for the sake of truth and meekness and righteousness, and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully. Your arrows are sharpened, O mighty one; peoples shall fall under you in the heart of the king's enemies." Having said so much about the divine and royal dignity and virtue of the beloved, but not yet having revealed the one being signified, he finally proclaims openly that this beloved of God indicated by the inscription of the Psalm is someone wonderful and greater than human. Distinguished, then, by divinity and a certain kingship, and by a special anointing, he says that he has been honored not by men, but by the God over all himself, through these words: "Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever, a scepter of uprightness is the scepter of your kingdom. You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; for this reason God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions." Here you will observe that in the first verse he proclaims him God, 5.2.1 and in the second he honors him with a royal scepter, and in the third he testifies to his perfection in virtue, then on top of this he teaches that this very God and king has been anointed by the most high God, and in this way has become Christ. For what else would one call him who has been anointed not by men but by the God over all himself? On this account, then, he says, addressing the anointed one, "O God," "you have loved righteousness and hated iniquity; for this reason God, your God, has anointed you," 5.2.2 as if he said, the God over all has anointed you "with the oil of gladness beyond your companions," so that this anointing indicated was not common and earthly, nor like the one legislated by Moses, made from perishable matter, with which it was customary for the ancient Hebrew priests and kings to be anointed. 5.2.3 From this, with good reason, he has been proclaimed to us as both God and Christ at once,

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εἰκότως τὴν ἐν ψαλμοῖς θεολογίαν ἀναφωνεῖν τά τε ἄλλα καὶ τὸ «ὡς ἐμεγαλύνθη τὰ ἔργα σου, Κύριε, πάντα ἐν σοφίᾳ ἐποίησας». ὡς καὶ ∆αβίδ, ὁ τοῦ Σολομῶντος πατήρ, βασιλεὺς ἅμα γεγονὼς καὶ προφήτης, οἶδέ τινα ἀγαπητὸν τοῦ θεοῦ, καὶ τοῦτον μετὰ τὸν ἀνωτάτω θεὸν βασιλέα ὁμοῦ καὶ χριστὸν καὶ θεὸν δεύτερον ἀναγορεύει ἐν μδʹ ψαλμῷ, τὰ ὅμοια ἡμῖν περὶ τοῦ Χριστοῦ δοξάζων. Ψαλμοῦ μδʹ. «Εἰς τέλος, ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀλλοιωθησομένων, εἰς σύνεσιν, ᾠδὴ ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ». Σημείωσαι πρῶτον, ὡς ἀγαπητὸν οἶδε τοῦ θεοῦ, δεύτερον ὡς «εἰς σύνεσιν» τῶν λεχθησομένων τὸν ἀκροατὴν παρορμᾷ, τρίτον «ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀλλοιωθησομένων» εἴρηται διὰ πλείστας αἰτίας, διά τε τὴν ἐκ θεοῦ εἰς ἀνθρώπους τοῦ δηλουμένου ἀγαπητοῦ ἀλλοίωσιν καὶ διὰ τὴν ἐκ τῆς ἐν ἀνθρώποις αὐτοῦ μεταβολῆς μετὰ ταῦτα εἰς θεὸν ἀποκατάστασιν, ναὶ μὴν καὶ διὰ τοὺς ἐκ πλάνης εἰς τὸν κατὰ εὐσέβειαν τρόπον διὰ τῆς αὐτοῦ διδασκαλίας ὅσον οὔπω μεταβληθησομένους. «ἀγαπητὸν» δὲ τίνα ἂν εἴποι τις τοῦ ἐπὶ πάντων θεοῦ ἢ τὸν ἀγγέλων καὶ πνευμάτων καὶ πάσης λογικῆς οὐσίας πολὺ κρείττονα, τὸν μονογενῆ καὶ «πρωτότοκον πάσης κτίσεως», ὃν ἀρτίως σοφίαν θεοῦ καὶ γέννημα πρὸ παντὸς αἰῶνος οὐσιωμένον κατὰ τὰ προηγορευμένα μεμαθήκαμεν. σαφῶς γὰρ τὸν σωτῆρα καὶ κύριον ἡμῶν ἀγαπητὸν τοῦ πατρὸς ἀνηγόρευσε φωνὴ φωνήσασα κατὰ τὰ ἐν εὐαγγελίοις γεγραμμένα· «οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα». τοῦτον δὴ οὖν αὐτὸν καὶ ὁ παρὼν ὑποσημαίνει ψαλμός, «ὑπὲρ τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ» τὴν προγραφὴν ἔχων, μεθ' ἣν ἐπιλέγει· «ἐξηρεύξατο ἡ καρδία μου λόγον ἀγαθόν, λέγω ἐγὼ τὰ ἔργα μου τῷ βασιλεῖ· ἡ γλῶσσά μου κάλαμος γραμματέως ὀξυγράφου. ὡραῖος κάλλει παρὰ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων». ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἀρχόμενος ὁ προφήτης, μᾶλλον δὲ τὸ θεῖον ἐν αὐτῷ πνεῦμα, ὡς ἐν προοιμίῳ διεξῆλθεν, ἑξῆς δὲ εἰς πρόσωπον αὐτῷ δὴ τῷ προαναγραφέντι ἀγαπητῷ τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπιφωνεῖ λέγων· «ἐξεχύθη χάρις ἐν χείλεσί σου· διὰ τοῦτο ἔχρισέ σε ὁ θεὸς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. περιζώσαι τὴν ῥομφαίαν σου ἐπὶ τὸν μηρόν σου, δυνατέ, τῇ ὡραιότητί σου καὶ τῷ κάλλει σου, καὶ ἔντεινον, καὶ κατευοδοῦ καὶ βασίλευε ἕνεκεν ἀληθείας καὶ πραότητος καὶ δικαιοσύνης, καὶ ὁδηγήσει σε θαυμαστῶς ἡ δεξιά σου. τὰ βέλη σου ἠκονημένα, δυνατέ· λαοὶ ὑποκάτω σου πεσοῦνται ἐν καρδίᾳ τῶν ἐχθρῶν τοῦ βασιλέως». τοσαῦτα εἰπὼν περὶ τῆς ἐνθέου καὶ βασιλικῆς ἀξίας τε καὶ ἀρετῆς τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ, μηδέπω δ' ἐκφήνας τὸν δηλούμενον, ἤδη λοιπὸν ἀποκηρύττει ἀναφανδόν, ὡς ἄρα θαυμάσιός τις εἴη καὶ κρείττων ἢ κατὰ ἄνθρωπον οὗτος ὁ διὰ τῆς προγραφῆς τοῦ ψαλμοῦ δηλούμενος ἀγαπητὸς τοῦ θεοῦ· θεότητι γοῦν καὶ βασιλείᾳ τινὶ διαφέροντα καὶ ἐξαιρέτῳ χρίσματι οὐ πρὸς ἀνθρώπων, πρὸς αὐτοῦ δὲ τοῦ ἐπὶ πάντων θεοῦ τετιμῆσθαι αὐτόν φησι διὰ τούτων· «ὁ θρόνος σου ὁ θεὸς εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος, ῥάβδος εὐθύτητος ἡ ῥάβδος τῆς βασιλείας σου. ἠγάπησας δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἐμίσησας ἀδικίαν· διὰ τοῦτο ἔχρισέ σε ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός σου ἔλαιον χαρᾶς ἀπὸ ἑταίρων σου». ἔνθα ἐπιστήσεις, ὡς ἐν μὲν τῷ προτέρῳ στίχῳ θεὸν αὐτὸν ἀναγορεύει, 5.2.1 ἐν δὲ τῷ δευτέρῳ σκήπτρῳ βασιλικῷ τιμᾷ, ἐν δὲ τῷ τρίτῳ τὴν κατ' ἀρετὴν αὐτῷ τελείωσιν μαρτυρεῖ, εἶτ' ἐπὶ τούτοις αὐτὸν δὴ τοῦτον τὸν θεὸν καὶ βασιλέα κεχρῖσθαι πρὸς τοῦ ἀνωτάτου διδάσκει θεοῦ, καὶ ταύτῃ γε Χριστὸν γεγονέναι. τί γὰρ ἂν καὶ ὀνομάσαιτό τις τὸν μὴ ὑπ' ἀνθρώπων μὲν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ δὲ τοῦ ἐπὶ πάντων θεοῦ κεχρισμένον; ἐπὶ τούτῳ γοῦν φησίν· ὦ θεέ πρὸς τὸν χρισθέντα ἀποτεινόμενος «ἠγάπησας δικαιοσύνην καὶ ἐμίσησας ἀδικίαν· διὰ τοῦτο γὰρ ἔχρισέν σε ὁ θεὸς ὁ θεός σου», 5.2.2 ὡσεὶ ἔλεγεν, ὁ ἐπὶ πάντων θεὸς ἔχρισέν σε «ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως παρὰ τοὺς μετόχους σου», ὥστε οὐδὲ κοινὸν καὶ γεῶδες τὸ δηλούμενον τοῦτο χρῖσμα ἦν οὐδ' ὅμοιον τῷ παρὰ Μωσεῖ νενομοθετημένῳ, φθαρτῆς ἐξ ὕλης κατεσκευασμένῳ, ᾧ φίλον· ἦν τοὺς παλαιοὺς ἑβραίους ἱερέας καὶ βασιλέας χρίεσθαι. 5.2.3 ἔνθεν ἡμῖν εἰκότως καὶ θεὸς ὁμοῦ καὶ Χριστὸς ἀνηγόρευται,