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they were not subjected; to be subjected to righteousness is the same as to enter into it. 721a Ps 68,29 For those who have virtue and faith and knowledge of God live, one must listen to This is your life and the length of your days, to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul; but also from He who believes in me has eternal life. A book in which those who live thus are written is the knowledge of God, who knows those who are his, from which it follows that those are blotted out who do not fall under being remembered by God. 722a Ps 68,30-33a Though I was rich and without wounds I became poor, so that the poor might become rich by my poverty, and I suffered, being wounded on behalf of the wounded who were struck by the fiery darts of the evil one. And even if, while I was so, some of those for whom I became poor and suffered were unfeeling, so as to add pain to my wounds and suppose me to be poor by nature, nevertheless the salvation from the face of God took hold of me. For having risen from the dead and having been taken up, he cast off the wounds and the poverty he had on behalf of men. And when the enemies were destroyed, and especially the devil, it was fitting that a victory ode be struck up by him who conquered in the name about which he said, I have come in my Father's name, and furthermore, transcending him in thought, to magnify the name of him in praise, saying great things in praising and glorifying him, but also contemplating loftily the things concerning him; for it is not possible for God to be magnified otherwise than thus, since all perceptible magnitude is far from him, as he is incorporeal. And since praising God is a sacrifice according to A sacrifice of praise will glorify you, having praised the name of God with an ode and having magnified him in praise, he is confident that it will Please God more than a young bull putting forth horns and hoofs, being offered for sacrifice. Therefore, being pleased with those who sacrifice thus, he says, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings. Let the poor in spirit see these things that Jesus accomplished against every wicked phalanx; for their seeing such valor will be followed by their rejoicing eternally according to Everlasting joy shall overtake them. 723a Ps 68,34a For this is he who loosens the fettered and leads out from bonds the bound and from the house of confinement. 724a Ps 68,37 Both the prophets of old and the men beloved of God, and after them the ministers and deacons of the gospel.

725 Ps 69 arg Fittingly the psalm is sung for a remembrance concerning salvation,

all those who repent remembering and recognizing the good and the truth and coming to them; for it says, All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord. And since the end of remembrance is to recall those things that were previously forgotten so as to have precise and perfect knowledge, accordingly he said, To the end, for a remembrance, for the Lord to save me, since everyone is saved who casts off the forgetting of good things so as to have use and knowledge of them. For all who have been made in the image and likeness of God and upright have sown within them the concepts concerning God. If at any time, then, sin finds entry through carelessness, if it happens that after its commission one repents, he remembers the good, the concept of which he had by nature, being rational and made in the image of God. 726 Ps 69,3.4 Since insensibility and ignorance of good things leads sin, so that for this reason one commits them with pleasure and boldness, it has been said, at any rate, concerning some that they have glory in things for which they ought to be ashamed; for of them it says, Their glory is in their shame; to whom also the prophecy says, Be ashamed of your boasting; for it brings blame and destruction. Those who thus run insensibly to evil, if they were to receive a perception and concept of it, would wish to cease from doing it; by which

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οὐχ ὑπετάγησαν· ταὐτὸν τὸ ὑποταγῆναι δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ τὸ εἰσελθεῖν ἐν αὐτῇ. 721a Ps 68,29 Οτι γὰρ οἱ ἀρετὴν καὶ πίστιν καὶ γνῶσιν θεοῦ εχοντες ζῶσιν, ἀκουστέον τοῦ Αυτη ἡ ζωή σου καὶ ἡ μακρότης τῶν ἡμερῶν σου, ἀγαπᾶν σε κύριον τὸν θεόν σου ἐξ ολης καρδίας καὶ ἐξ ολης ψυχῆς σου· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ̔Ο πιστεύων εἰς ἐμὲ εχει ζωὴν αἰώνιον. βίβλος ἐν ῃ οἱ ουτως ζῶντες γράφονται ἡ θεοῦ γνῶσίς ἐστιν γινώσκοντος τοὺς οντας αὐτοῦ, ῳ επεται ἐξαλείφεσθαι τοὺς μὴ ὑποπίπτοντας τῷ μνημονεύεσθαι ὑπὸ θεοῦ. 722a Ps 68,30-33a Πλούσιος καὶ ἐκτὸς τραυμάτων ὑπάρχων πτωχὸς γέγονα, ινα οἱ πτωχοὶ πλουτήσωσιν τῇ ἐμῇ πτωχείᾳ, καὶ ηλγησα τραυματισθεὶς ὑπὲρ τραυματιῶν γενομένων ὑπὸ τῶν πεπυρωμένων βελῶν τοῦ πονηροῦ. καν ουτω μου οντος ἀναισθητῶσί τινες τῶν ὑπὲρ ων γέγονα πτωχὸς καὶ ἀλγῶν, ὡς προστιθέναι αλγος ἐπὶ τὰ τραύματά μου καὶ οιεσθαί με κατὰ φύσιν πτωχὸν ειναι, ἀλλ' ουν ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ θεοῦ ἀντελάβετό μου. ̓Αναστὰς γὰρ ἐκ νεκρῶν καὶ ἀναληφθεὶς ἀπέβαλεν τὰ τραύματα καὶ τὴν πτωχείαν ην ειχεν ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπων. Καταλυθέντων δὲ τῶν ἐχθρῶν καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ διαβόλου, ἀκόλουθον ην ᾠδὴν ἐπινίκιον ἀνακρουθῆναι ὑπ' αὐτοῦ νικήσαντος τῷ ὀνόματι περὶ ου ειπεν ̓Εγὼ ἐλήλυθα ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ πατρός μου, καὶ ετι ὑπερβάντα τῇ νοήσει αὐτὸν τὸν ου τὸ ονομα μεγαλύναι ἐν αἰνέσει μεγάλα λέγοντα ἐν τῷ αἰνεῖν καὶ δοξολογεῖν αὐτὸν ἀλλὰ καὶ θεωροῦντα ὑψηλῶς τὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ· οὐ γὰρ οιόν τε ἑτέρως η ουτως μεγαλύνεσθαι τὸν θεὸν τῷ πᾶν αἰσθητὸν μέγεθος μακρὰν αὐτοῦ τυγχάνειν ἀσωμάτου οντος. Καὶ ἐπεὶ τὸ αἰνεῖν τὸν θεόν ἐστι θυσία κατὰ τὸ Θυσία αἰνέσεως δοξάσει σε, αἰνέσας τὸ ονομα τοῦ θεοῦ μετ' ᾠδῆς καὶ μεγαλύνας αὐτὸν ἐν αἰνέσει θαρρεῖ ὡς ̓Αρέσει τῷ θεῷ ὑπὲρ μόσχον νέον κέρατα ἐκφέροντα καὶ ὁπλάς, προσαγόμενον εἰς θυσίαν. διὸ καὶ τοῖς ουτω θύουσιν ἀρεσκόμενός φησιν Ελεος θέλω η θυσίαν, ἐπίγνωσιν θεοῦ η ὁλοκαυτώματα. Ταῦτα ἰδέτωσαν οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι α κατώρθωσεν ̓Ιησοῦς κατὰ πάσης πονηρὰς φάλαγγος· εψεται γὰρ τῷ ἰδεῖν αὐτοὺς τὴν τοσαύτην ἀνδραγαθίαν τὸ εὐφρανθῆναι αἰωνίως κατὰ τὸ Εὐφροσύνη αἰώνιος καταλήψεται αὐτούς. 723a Ps 68,34a Ουτος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ λύων τοὺς πεπεδημένους καὶ ἐξάγων ἐκ δεσμῶν δεδεμένους καὶ ἐξ οικου φυλακῆς. 724a Ps 68,37 Οι τε πάλαι λεγόμενοι προφῆται καὶ θεοφιλεῖς ανδρες καὶ οἱ μετὰ ταῦτα ὑπηρέται καὶ διάκονοι τοῦ εὐαγγελίου.

725 Ps 69 αργ Εἰκότως εἰς ἀνάμνησιν περὶ σωτηρίας ὁ ψαλμὸς ᾳδεται,

πάντων τῶν μετανοούντων ἀναμιμνῃσκομένων καὶ ἀναγνωριζόντων τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ἐρχομένων ἐπ' αὐτά· Μνησθήσονται γάρ φησιν καὶ ἐπιστραφήσονται πρὸς κύριον πάντα τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς. καὶ ἐπεὶ τέλος τῆς ἀναμνήσεως ἀναπολῆσαί ἐστιν ἐκεῖνα α πρότερον ἐπιλέλῃστο ὡς ἀκριβῆ καὶ τελείαν γνῶσιν εχειν, ἀκολούθως Εἰς τὸ τέλος εἰς ἀνάμνησιν εἰς τὸ σῶσαί με κύριον ειπεν, σῳζομένου παντὸς τοῦ τὴν λήθην τῶν καλῶν ἀποβαλόντος ὡς χρῆσιν καὶ γνῶσιν αὐτῶν εχειν. πάντες γὰρ κατ' εἰκόνα καὶ ὁμοίωσιν θεοῦ καὶ εὐθεῖς γεγενημένοι ἐσπαρμένας εχουσι τὰς περὶ θεοῦ ἐννοίας. καν ποτε γοῦν ἐξ ἀμελείας ἡ ἁμαρτία παρείσδυσιν λάβῃ, εἰ συμβαίνει μετὰ τὴν πρᾶξιν αὐτῆς μετανοῆσαι, ἀναμιμνῄσκεται τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ ου κατὰ φύσιν τὴν εννοιαν ειχε λογικὸς καὶ κατ' εἰκόνα θεοῦ γεγονώς. 726 Ps 69,3.4 ̓Επεὶ ἡγεῖται τῆς ἁμαρτίας ἀναισθησίᾳ καὶ ἀγνοίᾳ τῶν καλῶν ὡς διὰ τοῦτο σὺν ἡδονῇ καὶ παρρησίᾳ πράττειν αὐτά, ειρηται γοῦν περί τινων ὡς δόξαν εχουσιν ἐφ' οις αἰσχύνεσθαι εδει· ων γάρ φησιν ̔Η δόξα ἐν τῇ αἰσχύνῃ αὐτῶν· πρὸς ους καὶ ἡ προφητεία φησὶν Αἰσχύνθητε ἀπὸ καυχήσεως ὑμῶν· ψόγον γὰρ καὶ ἀπώλειαν φέρει. οἱ ουτως ἀναισθήτως ἐπὶ τὸ κακὸν τρέχοντες, εἰ αισθησιν καὶ εννοιαν αὐτοῦ λάβοιεν, πεπαύσεσθαι τοῦ ποιεῖν αὐτὸ θελήσαιεν· ῳ