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Beloved, to whom it is said that a word is given from God Himself from above, and the testimony concerning our Savior is established. And in another place it is said again: And the beloved is as the son of unicorns. Let the seal of all things also be set before these, the saving Gospel in a fatherly voice showed the Beloved from above among men, crying: This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. So many things having been demonstrated concerning the Beloved, the prophecy set forth would then be clear and undisputed, saying through the title: A song for the Beloved. But that this was the Christ, being other than the Father who anointed him, the word proceeding next in the psalm itself has shown. Let these things, then, be said concerning the title; but the prophetic choir, which also went through the first things, again goes through the things that follow. Some thought that the psalm, or the song, was spoken from the person of the Father concerning the Word who was in the beginning with him, whom he brought forth, he says, from his very heart, or his own bowels; and from a good heart a good word came forth. But it seems to me that these things refer to the prophetic person; for what follows of the saying no longer similarly smoothes out for us the interpretation concerning the Father. For the Father would not have said of his own tongue that: My tongue is the pen of a swift writer. Fair in beauty beyond the sons of men. For he does not have the preeminence of beauty from a comparison with men. And going on he says: Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness; for he did not say: I, God, have anointed you, but he has anointed you; so that from this it is shown that the person speaking is another. What then is this but the prophet, who received into himself the energy of the Holy Spirit that came upon him? But instead of: My heart has uttered, Symmachus says: My heart was moved with a good word. For as if another had announced the word, he says that he himself was moved by hearing. In saying: I speak my works to the king, they signify no other king than the Beloved himself, to whom the following things have also been spoken. For to him, he says, I will declare my works; or according to Aquila and Symmachus, I will announce my righteous deeds. And the choir of the prophets, being full of much boldness for good works, has dared to say these things. And if you wish to know what the works of the prophets were, you might learn from the things before, in which they said: All these things have come upon us, and we have not forgotten you, and we have not done wickedly in your Covenant; and again: For 23.396 your sake we are killed all the day long. And it was a great work to prophesy future things by the tongue, and for the evangelical song to be ministered to the king. And instead of: The pen of a swift writer, Aquila has: The rush of a speedy writer; and Symmachus: my tongue, he says, is the stylus of a speedy writer. But very wonderfully he speaks of his own tongue, not as the hand of a skillful writer, nor as a writer, but as the pen of a swift writer; showing that the prophetic tongue was an instrument of another who used it, the Holy Spirit; which the writer is, whose stylus and pen the tongue of the prophets happened to be, so that the swift writer is one, namely the Holy Spirit, and the prophet is another, and third is the prophetic tongue, which held the place of a pen and a stylus, being an instrument of the Holy Spirit who used it. But one must know that according to the interpretation of the Seventy the thought is connected with the pen of the writer, and the whole oracle has been taken under one verse, having it thus: My tongue is the pen of a swift writer; fair in beauty beyond the sons of men. But since the Hebrew text and the other interpreters, having circumscribed the thought of the things above, made the exposition from another beginning; it is reasonable that we also from another beginning the: Fair in beauty beyond

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Ἀγαπητὸν, οἷς δίδοσθαι ῥῆμα ἐξ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἄνωθεν λέλεκται, καὶ ἡ περὶ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν συνίσταται μαρτυρία. Καὶ ἐν ἑτέρῳ δὲ αὖθις εἴρηται· Καὶ ὁ ἠγαπημένος ὡς υἱὸς μονοκερώτων. Προκείσθω τούτοις καὶ τὸ ἐπισφράγισμα τῶν ὅλων, τὸ σωτήριον Εὐαγγέλιον ἐν φωνῇ πατρικῇ τὸν Ἀγαπητὸν ἄνωθεν παρ' ἀνθρώποις ἐδείκνυ, βοώσῃ· Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητὸς, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα. Τοσούτων ἀποδεδειγμένων περὶ τοῦ Ἀγαπητοῦ, σαφὴς ἂν εἴη λοιπὸν καὶ ἀναμφίλεκτος ἡ προκειμένη προφητεία διὰ τῆς προγραφῆς φήσασα· Ὠδὴ ὑπὲρ τοῦ Ἀγαπητοῦ. Ὅτι δὲ ὁ Χριστὸς ἦν οὗτος, ἕτερος ὢν παρὰ τὸν χρίσαντα αὐτὸν Πατέρα, προϊὼν ἑξῆς ὁ λόγος ἐν αὐτῷ τῷ ψαλμῷ παρέστησε. Ταῦτα μὲν οὖν εἰς τὴν προγραφὴν εἰρήσθω· τὰ δ' ἑξῆς πάλιν ὁ χορὸς ὁ προφητικὸς διεξέρχεται, ὁ καὶ τὰ πρῶτα διεξελθών. Τινὲς ᾠήθησαν, ὡς ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ Πατρὸς λέγεσθαι τὸν ψαλμὸν ἤτοι τὴν ᾠδὴν περὶ τοῦ ἐν ἀρχῇ ὄντος πρὸς αὐτὸν Λόγου, ὃν ἐκ τῆς οἱονεὶ καρδίας, ἢ αὐτῶν τῶν σπλάγχνων, φησὶ, προήγαγε· καὶ ἀπὸ ἀγαθῆς καρδίας ἀγαθὸς λόγος προῆλθεν. Ἐμοὶ δὲ δοκεῖ ταῦτα ἐπὶ τὸ προφητικὸν ἀναφέρεσθαι πρόσωπον· τὰ γὰρ ἐφ' ἑξῆς τοῦ ῥητοῦ οὐκέτι ὁμοίως ἐξομαλίζει ἡμῖν τὴν περὶ τοῦ Πατρὸς ἐξήγησιν. Οὔτε γὰρ ἂν περὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ γλώσσης ὁ Πατὴρ εἶπεν, ὅτι· Ἡ γλῶσσά μου κάλαμος γραμματέως ὀξυγράφου. Ὡραῖος κάλλει παρὰ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Οὐ γὰρ ἐκ τῆς πρὸς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους συγκρίσεως τὴν ὑπεροχὴν τοῦ κάλλους ἔχει. Καὶ προϊὼν δέ φησι· ∆ιὰ τοῦτο ἔχρισέ σε ὁ Θεὸς ὁ Θεός σου ἔλαιον ἀγαλλιάσεως· οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν· Ἔχρισά σε ἐγὼ ὁ Θεὸς, ἀλλ' ἔχρισέ σε· ὥστε ἐκ τούτου παρίστασθαι ἕτερον εἶναι τὸ διαλεγόμενον πρόσωπον. Ποῖον οὖν ἐστι τοῦτο ἢ ὁ προφήτης, ὁ χωρήσας τὴν τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος εἰς ἑαυτὸν γενομένην ἐνέργειαν; Ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ· Ἐξηρεύξατο ἡ καρδία μου, ὁ Σύμμαχος· Ἐκινήθη, φησὶν, ἡ καρδία μου λόγῳ ἀγαθῷ. Ὡς γὰρ ἑτέρου ἀπαγγείλαντος τὸν λόγον, αὐτὸς κεκινῆσθαί φησι διὰ τῆς ἀκοῆς. Ἐν τῷ φάσκειν· Λέγω ἐγὼ τὰ ἔργα μου τῷ βασιλεῖ, οὐδέτερον δηλοῦσι βασιλέα, ἢ τὸν Ἀγαπητὸν αὐτὸν, ᾧ καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς πεφώνηται. Τούτῳ γὰρ, φησὶ, τὰ ἔργα μου διηγήσομαι· ἢ κατὰ τὸν Ἀκύλαν καὶ τὸν Σύμμαχον, τὰ δικαιώματά μου ἐξαγγελῶ. Πολλῆς δὲ γέμων παῤῥησίας ἐπ' ἀγαθοῖς ἔργοις ὁ τῶν προφητῶν χορὸς, ταῦτα λέγειν τεθάρσηκεν. Εἰ δὲ καὶ γνῶναι ποθεῖς τίνα ἦν τῶν προφητῶν τὰ ἔργα, μάθοις ἂν διὰ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν, ἐν οἷς ἔφασκον· Ταῦτα πάντα ἦλθεν ἐφ' ἡμᾶς, καὶ οὐκ ἐπελαθόμεθά σου, καὶ οὐκ ἠδικήσαμεν ἐν ∆ιαθήκῃ σου· καὶ πάλιν· Ὅτι 23.396 ἕνεκά σου θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν. Μέγα δὲ ἦν ἔργον καὶ τὸ διὰ γλώττης τὰ μέλλοντα προφητεύειν, καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ διακονεῖσθαι τὴν εὐαγγελικὴν ᾠδήν. Ἀντὶ δὲ τοῦ· Κάλαμος γραμματέως ὀξυγράφου, ὁ μὲν Ἀκύλας· Σχοῖνος γραμματέως ταχινοῦ· ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος· ἡ γλῶσσά μου, φησὶ, γραφεῖον γραφέως ταχινοῦ. Σφόδρα δὲ θαυμαστῶς τὴν ἑαυτοῦ γλῶσσαν, οὐ χεῖρα γραμματέως ἐπιστήμονος, οὐδὲ γραμματέα φησὶν, ἀλλὰ κάλαμον γραμματέως ὀξυγράφου· δηλῶν, ὅτι ὄργανον ἦν ἡ προφητικὴ γλῶσσα ἑτέρου τοῦ χρωμένου αὐτῇ, ἁγίου Πνεύματος· ὅπερ ὁ γραμματεὺς, οὗ γραφεῖον καὶ κάλαμος ἐτύγχανεν ἡ τῶν προφητῶν γλῶσσα, ὥσθ' ἕτερον εἶναι τὸν ὀξυγράφον γραμματέα, δηλαδὴ τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, καὶ ἕτερον τὸν προφήτην, καὶ τρίτον τὴν γλῶσσαν τὴν προφητικὴν, ἣ καλάμου καὶ γραφείου χώραν ἐπεῖχεν, ὄργανον τυγχάνουσα τοῦ χρωμένου αὐτῇ ἁγίου Πνεύματος. Εἰδέναι δὲ δεῖ, ὡς κατὰ τὴν τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα ἑρμηνείαν συνῆπται ἡ διάνοια τῷ καλάμῳ τοῦ γραμματέως, ὑφ' ἕνα τε στίχον τὸ ὅλον ἀπείληπται λόγιον, οὕτως ἔχον· Ἡ γλῶσσά μου κάλαμος γραμματέως ὀξυγράφου· ὡραῖος κάλλει παρὰ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων. Ἐπεὶ δὲ ἡ Ἑβραϊκὴ λέξις καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ ἑρμηνευταὶ, τὴν τῶν ἀνωτέρω διάνοιαν περιγράψαντες, ἀπὸ ἑτέρας ἀρχῆς τὴν ἔκθεσιν ἐποιήσαντο· εἰκότως καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐξ ἑτέρας ἀρχῆς τό· Ὡραῖος κάλλει παρὰ