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it is ordered that sins should subsist, and when these are destroyed and have vanished, it also departs with them. but if those who serve wrath appear, being called vessels of wrath, addressed by the same name as it, anger and wrath, you will examine better. 851 Ps 84,5-7 Since you are the God of the salvation which you give to us, turn us, providing us with occasions for repentance and receiving us as we return to you. For it will follow that your anger will also be turned away from us. For since we kindled it through the ways we have sinned, when we have repented and turned back, it will no longer be active against us, being made to disappear. For just as fire, when the combustible material by which it is active fails, is no more, so when our sins have vanished, your anger will no longer subsist against us. God gives life, providing life to those, who were turning back to him, having fallen away from him and turned away from him; or he himself, having turned his face which he had turned away from them on account of the evil they were doing. For it is possible to understand "Having turned" in either way, as it is said indefinitely. For it does not indicate whether he turned to them or they turned to him. Life having been given to those made alive, the people of God rejoiced in God himself who had given life. 852 Ps 84,8 Since they demand salvation not from works but by the grace and mercy of God, they say, O Lord, show us by what means you have mercy on and pity your people; for thus also your salvation, that is, the salvation from you, might be given to us. It is possible to call mercy and salvation Jesus, the cause of mercy and salvation. For he himself is the mercy and the salvation of God inasmuch as he has mercy and saves. 853 Ps 84,9 God speaks not by striking the hearing of the listeners from without, but by depositing in the mind itself what he wishes to declare to the intellect without utterance, whence it is said, "I will hear what he will speak in me." The saying of Habakkuk also agrees with this, which has it thus: "And I will watch to see what the Lord God will speak in me." According to these things Paul also says, "If you seek proof of Christ speaking in me;" for Christ spoke in him, and not simply to him. for he speaks in the one to whom he speaks, but one does not in every case also speak in him to whom he speaks, when only the hearing is struck from without. But interpreting what the Lord God will speak in him, he said it is peace upon the people of God himself, all the enemies against the people being clearly overthrown, or the people having the peace which surpasses all understanding, by which they would be free from all disturbance and tumult, their thoughts keeping calm. this peace is given from God the Father and the Lord Jesus along with grace, as the Savior said concerning it, "My peace I give to you." but this peace is given also to those who render to God the things of God, keeping justice towards him, who are properly called his holy ones. and he gives it to those who through repentance turn their heart to him, making their return to him not crooked nor feigned, but from the very depth of the mind. 854 Ps 84,10 Then indeed glory also dwelt in the land, the Savior wondrously accomplishing many and great things: raisings of the dead, givings of sight to the blind, cleansings of lepers, and as many other things as he did marvelously. But as for a more mystical interpretation, for those who fear God, being without want (for there is no want for those who fear him), the salvation of God has drawn near, being partaken of by them through the salvific things they do. For just as salvation is far from sinners who work the things of destruction, so, on the contrary, the salvation of God is near to those who fear him. Therefore he also makes glory to dwell in the land of those who say these things. and you will say their land is their good heart, which bore fruit a hundredfold from the seed cast upon it. But that the glory of God dwells in the heart, is shown by the passage that says, "The God who said, 'Let light shine out of darkness,' who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of

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ἁμαρτήματα ὑποστῆναι οἰκονομεῖται ων καταλυθέντων καὶ ἠφανισμένων καὶ αὐτὴ αὐτοῖς συναπέρχεται. εἰ δὲ φαίνονται οἱ τῇ ὀργῇ ὑπηρετούμενοι σκεύη ὀργῆς καλούμενοι ὁμωνύμως αὐτῇ θυμὸς καὶ ὀργὴ προσαγορευόμενα, βέλτιον ἐπισκέψῃ. 851 Ps 84,5-7 ̓Επεὶ τῶν σωτηρίων ων δίδως ἡμῖν θεὸς ὑπάρχεις, ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, ἀφορμὰς μετανοίας ἡμῖν παρασχὼν καὶ δεχόμενος ἡμᾶς ἀνακάμπτοντας πρὸς σέ. εψεται γὰρ τὸ καὶ τὸν θυμόν σου ἀποστραφῆναι ἀφ' ἡμῶν. ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἡμεῖς ἐξήψαμεν αὐτὸν δι' ων ἡμαρτήκαμεν, μεταγνόντων καὶ ἐπιστρεψάντων ἡμῶν, οὐκέτ' ἐνεργήσει καθ' ἡμῶν ἀφανιζόμενος. ὡς γὰρ πῦρ, ἐπιλειπούσης τῆς καυστῆς υλης καθ' ην ἐνεργεῖ, οὐκέτ' ἐστιν, ουτως ἠφανισμένων τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἡμῶν οὐκέτι ὑποστήσεται θυμός σου καθ' ἡμῶν. Ζωοῖ ὁ θεὸς ζωὴν παρέχων τούτοις, οι πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπέστρεφον ἀποστάντες αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀποστραφέντες αὐτόν· η αὐτὸς ἐπιστρέψας τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ο ἀπέστρεψεν ἀπ' αὐτῶν δι' ην επραττον κακίαν. ἑκατέρως γὰρ τὸ ̓Επιστρέψας νοεῖν δυνατὸν ἀπαρεμφάτως εἰρημένον. οὐ γὰρ ἐμφαίνει τὸ πότερον αὐτὸς ἐπ' αὐτοὺς η αὐτοὶ πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐπέστρεψαν. ζωῆς ἐνδοθείσης τοῖς ζωωθεῖσιν, εὐφράνθη ὁ λαὸς τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπ' αὐτῷ τῷ τὴν ζωὴν δεδωκότι θεῷ. 852 Ps 84,8 ̓Επεὶ οὐκ ἐξ εργων ἀλλὰ χάριτι καὶ ἐλέῳ θεοῦ ἀπαιτοῦσι τὴν σωτηρίαν, φασὶν Ω κύριε, δεῖξον ἡμῖν δι' ων ἐλεεῖς καὶ οἰκτείρεις τὸν λαόν σου· ουτω γὰρ καὶ τὸ σωτήριόν σου, τουτέστιν ἡ παρὰ σοῦ σωτηρία, δοθείη ἡμῖν. ∆υνατὸν ελεος καὶ σωτήριον εἰπεῖν τὸν αιτιον τῆς ἐλεημοσύνης καὶ σωτηρίας ̓Ιησοῦν. αὐτὸς γὰρ τὸ ελεος καὶ τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ θεοῦ ἐστι καθὸ ἐλεεῖ καὶ σῴζει. 853 Ps 84,9 Οὐκ εξωθεν κρούων τὴν ἀκοὴν τῶν ἀκουόντων λαλεῖ θεὸς ἀλλ' ἐν αὐτῇ τῇ διανοίᾳ ἐναποτιθέμενος απερ βούλεται δηλῶσαι τῷ νῷ ανευ προφορᾶς, οθεν ειρηται τὸ ̓Ακούσομαι τί λαλήσει ἐν ἐμοί. συνᾴδει τούτῳ καὶ τὸ τοῦ ̓Αμβακοὺμ εχον ουτως· Καὶ ἀποσκοπεύσω τοῦ ἰδεῖν τί λαλήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ κύριος ὁ θεός. κατὰ ταῦτα καὶ ὁ Παῦλός φησιν Εἰ δοκιμὴν ζητεῖτε τοῦ ἐν ἐμοὶ λαλοῦντος Χριστοῦ· ἐν αὐτῷ γὰρ ἀλλ' οὐχ ἁπλῶς αὐτῷ ἐλάλει Χριστός. λαλεῖ γὰρ ἐκείνῳ ἐν ῳ λαλεῖ, οὐ πάντως δὲ ῳ λαλεῖ τις καὶ ἐκείνῳ λαλεῖ, οταν εξωθεν μόνον πλήττηται ἡ ἀκοή. πλὴν ο λαλήσει ἐν αὐτῷ κύριος ὁ θεὸς ἑρμηνεύων, ειπεν εἰρήνην ειναι ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ πάντων πολεμίων τῶν κατὰ τοῦ λαοῦ δηλονότι ἀνατρεπόντων, η εἰρήνην τὴν ὑπερέχουσαν πάντα νοῦν ἐσχηκότος τοῦ λαοῦ δι' ης πάσης ταραχῆς καὶ θορύβου ἐκτὸς ειη γαλήνην ἀγόντων τῶν λογισμῶν. αυτη ἡ εἰρήνη ἀπὸ θεοῦ καὶ πατρὸς καὶ κυρίου ̓Ιησοῦ αμα χάριτι δίδοται, ὡς τὸν σωτῆρα περὶ αὐτῆς φάναι Εἰρήνην τὴν ἐμὴν δίδωμι ὑμῖν. δίδοται δὲ ἡ εἰρήνη αυτη καὶ τοῖς ἀποδιδοῦσι τὰ τοῦ θεοῦ τῷ θεῷ φυλάττουσι τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν δικαιοσύνην, οιτινες κυρίως οἱ οσιοι αὐτοῦ καλοῦνται. δίδωσι δὲ αὐτὴν καὶ τοῖς διὰ μετανοίας ἐπιστρέφουσι καρδίαν πρὸς αὐτόν, τὴν ἐπιστροφὴν οὐ σκολιὰν πρὸς αὐτὸν οὐδὲ ἐπίπλαστον ἀλλ' ἀπ' αὐτοῦ τοῦ βάθους τῆς διανοίας ποιουμένοις. 854 Ps 84,10 Τότε δὲ καὶ ἀληθῶς κατεσκήνωσεν καὶ δόξαν ἐν τῇ γῇ, πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα παραδόξως ἐπιτελοῦντος τοῦ σωτῆρος νεκρῶν ἀναστάσεις τυφλῶν ἀναβλέψεις λεπρῶν καθαρισμοὺς καὶ οσα αλλα θαυμαστῶς ἐποίει. ὡς δὲ πρὸς μυστικώτερον λόγον τοῖς θεὸν φοβουμένοις ἀνελλιπέσιν ουσιν (Οὐκ εστι γὰρ ὑστέρημα τοῖς φοβουμένοις αὐτόν) ηγγισεν τὸ θεοῦ σωτήριον μετεχόμενον ὑπ' αὐτῶν δι' ων πράττουσι σωτηριωδῶς. ὡς γὰρ μακρὰν ἀπὸ ἁμαρτωλῶν σωτηρία ἐνεργούντων τὰ τῆς ἀπωλείας, ουτως ἐκ τοῦ ἐναντίου ἐγγὺς τὸ σωτήριον τοῦ θεοῦ τῶν φοβουμένων αὐτὸν ὑπάρχει. διὸ καὶ κατασκηνοῖ δόξαν ἐν τῇ γῇ τῶν ταῦτα λεγόντων. γῆν δὲ αὐτῶν ἐρεῖς τὴν ἀγαθὴν αὐτῶν καρδίαν τὴν ἑκατονταπλασίως καρποφορήσασαν τὸν ἐπ' αὐτῇ βληθέντα σπόρον. οτι δὲ κατασκηνοῖ ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ δόξα θεοῦ, παρίστησιν ἡ λέξις ἡ φάσκουσα ̔Ο θεὸς ὁ εἰπὼν ἐκ σκότους φῶς λάμψαι ος ελαμψεν ἐν ταῖς καρδίαις ἡμῶν πρὸς φωτισμὸν τῆς γνώσεως τῆς δόξης τοῦ