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Turn us, and show your face, and we shall be saved, making the word common on behalf of those who have not yet turned, nor recognized his epiphany, and for this reason have not yet obtained the salvation that is from God. TO THE END, FOR THE WINEPRESSES. OF ASAPH. 80. Rejoice in God our helper, shout aloud to the God of Jacob. The psalms inscribed for the winepresses happen to be three in number: one of David, the eighth; one of Asaph, the one at hand; and of the sons of Korah, the 83rd. The 8th, then, clearly prophesied the calling of the nations, which the prophets of God, foreseeing by the divine Spirit, were utterly astonished at; wherefore they also cried out in amazement: O Lord our God, how wonderful is your name in all the earth! And the 83rd foresaw many tabernacles and many altars and many courts; namely the Churches of 23.969 God throughout the whole world, and the many altars in them; which indeed he presented, saying: How beloved are your tabernacles, O Lord of hosts! and again: My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord; and next: Your altars, O Lord of hosts. But the one at hand exhorts others to rejoice and shout aloud and sing psalms, but presents the rejection of the nation of the Jews and its cause, and this very consistently with the preceding prophecies. For since in the one before this he asked, saying: Why have you broken down her hedge, so that all who pass by the way pluck her? he resolves the difficulty, saying through the one at hand: If my people had heard me, if Israel had walked in my ways, I would have humbled their enemies to nothing; and he adds: And my people did not hear my voice, and Israel did not heed me. And I sent them away according to the desires of their hearts; they will walk in their own desires. Since, therefore, he presents their disobedience and unbelief, he reasonably changes the subject, and the Holy Spirit proclaims the good news of the calling of the nations, addressing all men and saying: Rejoice in God our helper. And he says these things from the person of the prophetic choir. For as in the 8th he said: O Lord our Lord, those saying these things appropriating God to themselves, because God had first become theirs; so also here the same ones, calling back those who were estranged and aliens, say: O you, leaving the gods erroneously believed in by you, come hastening to our God, and rejoice in him who has always become the helper of us who are dedicated to him. And who this was, they present next, saying: Shout aloud to the God of Jacob; for coming to the God who long ago appeared to our forefather, shout aloud, according to what was said also in the 65th: Shout aloud to God, all the earth. And who "all the earth" was, he clarifies who said: All you nations, clap your hands, shout aloud to God with a voice of rejoicing. Therefore, to the same people the choir of the prophets also speaks through the present text, saying: Rejoice in God our helper, shout aloud to the God of Jacob. And by 'God of Jacob' he means the Savior who appeared to Jacob in the form of a man; at which time Jacob also called the name of the place where God appeared to him, 'Form of God,' having said: For I have seen God face to face, and my soul was saved. To him therefore, as being our very king, he commands to shout aloud, sending up a victory hymn to him. And how he is established as king by the Father, he himself teaches, saying: But I was established as king by him on Zion his holy mountain. And he wants the called not only to shout aloud to the God of Jacob, but also to take up a psalm and give a timbrel, and a psaltery

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ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, καὶ ἐπίφανον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ σωθησόμεθα, κοινοποιοῦντες τὸν λόγον ὑπὲρ τῶν μηδέπω ἐπιστρεψάντων, μηδὲ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν ἐπεγνωκότων αὐτοῦ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μηδέπω τῆς παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ σωτηρίας τετυχηκότων. ΕΙΣ ΤΟ ΤΕΛΟΣ, ΥΠΕΡ ΤΩΝ ΛΗΝΩΝ ΤΩ ἈΣΑΦ. Πʹ Ἀγαλλιᾶσθε τῷ Θεῷ τῷ βοηθῷ ἡμῶν, ἀλαλάξατε τῷ Θεῷ Ἰακώβ. Οἱ ἐπιγεγραμμένοι τῶν ληνῶν ψαλμοὶ τρεῖς τὸν ἀριθμὸν τυγχάνουσιν· εἷς μὲν τοῦ ∆αυῒδ, ὁ ὄγδοος, εἷς δὲ τοῦ Ἀσὰφ, ὁ μετὰ χεῖρας, καὶ τῶν υἱῶν Κορὲ ὁ πʹ καὶ γʹ. Ὁ μὲν οὖν ηʹ σαφῶς τῶν ἐθνῶν τὴν κλῆσιν ἐθέσπιζεν, ἣν τῷ Πνεύματι τῷ θείῳ προθεωροῦντες οἱ τοῦ Θεοῦ προφῆται, ὑπερεξεπλήττοντο· διὸ καὶ ἀποθαυμαστικῶς ἀνεφώνουν τό· Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, ὡς θαυμαστὸν τὸ ὄνομά σου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ! Καὶ ὁ γʹ δὲ καὶ πʹ πολλὰ σκηνώματα καὶ πολλὰ θυσιαστήρια καὶ πολλὰς αὐλὰς προεώρα· δηλαδὴ τὰς καθ' ὅλης τῆς οἰκουμένης Ἐκκλησίας τοῦ 23.969 Θεοῦ, καὶ τὰ ἐν αὐταῖς πολλὰ θυσιαστήρια· ἃ δὴ παρίστη λέγων· Ὡς ἀγαπητὰ τὰ σκηνώματά σου, Κύριε τῶν δυνάμεων! καὶ αὖθις· Ἐπιποθεῖ καὶ ἐκλείπει ἡ ψυχή μου εἰς τὰς αὐλὰς τοῦ Κυρίου· καὶ ἑξῆς· Τὰ θυσιαστήριά σου, Κύριε τῶν δυνάμεων. Ὁ δὲ μετὰ χεῖρας ἑτέροις μὲν ἀγαλλιᾷν καὶ ἀλαλάζειν καὶ ψάλλειν παρακελεύεται, τοῦ δὲ Ἰουδαίων ἔθνους τὴν ἀποβολὴν καὶ τὴν ταύτης αἰτίαν παρίστησι, καὶ σφόδρ' ἀκολούθως ταῖς διὰ τῶν ἔμπροσθεν προφητείαις. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐν τῷ πρὸ τούτου ἠρώτα λέγων· Ἵνα τί καθεῖλες τὸν φραγμὸν αὐτῆς, καὶ τρυγῶσιν αὐτὴν πάντες οἱ παραπορευόμενοι τὴν ὁδόν; ἐπιλύεται τὴν ἐπαπόρησιν, διὰ τοῦ μετὰ χεῖρας φάσκων· Εἰ ὁ λαός μου ἤκουσέ μου, Ἰσραὴλ εἰ ταῖς ὁδοῖς μου ἐπορεύθη· ἐν τῷ μηδενὶ τοὺς ἐχθροὺς αὐτῶν ἐταπείνωσα· καὶ ἐπιλέγει· Καὶ οὐκ ἤκουσεν ὁ λαός μου τῆς φωνῆς μου, καὶ Ἰσραὴλ οὐ προσέσχε μοι. Καὶ ἐξαπέστειλα αὐτοὺς κατὰ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν, πορεύσονται ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν αὐτῶν. Ἐπεὶ τοίνυν τὸ ἀνήκοον καὶ τὸ ἀπειθὲς αὐτῶν παρίστησι, μεταβάλλει τὸν λόγον εἰκότως, καὶ τὴν τῶν ἐθνῶν κλῆσιν εὐαγγελίζεται τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον, πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις προσφωνοῦν καὶ λέγον· Ἀγαλλιᾶσθε τῷ Θεῷ τῷ βοηθῷ ἡμῶν. Λέγει δὲ ταῦτα ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ χοροῦ τοῦ προφητικοῦ. Ὡς γὰρ ἐν τῷ ηʹ ἔλεγε· Κύριε ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν, ἰδιοποιουμένων τὸν Θεὸν τῶν ταῦτα λεγόντων, διὰ τὸ πρώτων αὐτῶν γεγονέναι τὸν Θεόν· οὕτω καὶ ἐνταῦθα οἱ αὐτοὶ, τοὺς ἀπεξενωμένους καὶ ἀλλοτρίους ἀνακαλούμενοι, φασίν· Ὦ οὗτοι, καταλείποντες τοὺς πεπλανημένως νομιζομένους ὑμῖν θεοὺς, ἥκετε σπεύδοντες πρὸς τὸν ἡμέτερον Θεὸν, καὶ τούτῳ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε τῷ πάντοτε ἡμῶν τῶν αὐτῷ ἀνακειμένων βοηθῷ γενομένῳ. Τίς δ' ἦν οὗτος, ἑξῆς παριστῶσι λέγοντες· Ἀλαλάξατε τῷ Θεῷ Ἰακώβ· τῷ γὰρ πάλαι ὀφθέντι τῷ ἡμετέρῳ προπάτορι Θεῷ ἐλθόντες, ἀλαλάξατε, κατὰ τὸ εἰρημένον καὶ ἐν ξεʹ· Ἀλαλάξατε τῷ Θεῷ, πᾶσα ἡ γῆ. Τίς δὲ ἦν ἡ πᾶσα γῆ διασαφεῖ ὁ εἰπών· Πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, κροτήσατε χεῖρας, ἀλαλάξατε τῷ Θεῷ ἐν φωνῇ ἀγαλλιάσεως. Τοῖς οὖν αὐτοῖς καὶ διὰ τῶν μετὰ χεῖρας προσφωνεῖ λέγων ὁ χορὸς τῶν προφητῶν· Ἀγαλλιᾶσθε τῷ Θεῷ τῷ βοηθῷ ἡμῶν, ἀλαλάξατε τῷ Θεῷ Ἰακώβ. Θεὸν δὲ Ἰακὼβ τὸν Σωτῆρα σημαίνει τὸν ἐν ἀνθρώπου σχήματι ὀφθέντα τῷ Ἰακώβ· ὅτε καὶ ἐκάλεσε Ἰακὼβ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐν ᾧ ὤφθη αὐτῷ ὁ Θεὸς, Εἶδος Θεοῦ, ἐπειπών· Εἶδον γὰρ Θεὸν πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον, καὶ ἐσώθη μου ἡ ψυχή. Τούτῳ οὖν, ὡς ἂν αὐτῷ ὄντι τῷ βασιλεῖ ἡμῶν, ἀλαλάζειν προστάττει, νικητήριον ὕμνον ἀναπέμποντας αὐτῷ. Ὅπως δὲ βασιλεὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ Πατρὸς καθίσταται, αὐτὸς διδάσκει λέγων· Ἐγὼ δὲ κατεστάθην βασιλεὺς ὑπ' αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ Σιὼν ὄρος τὸ ἅγιον αὐτοῦ. Οὐ μόνον δὲ ἀλαλάζειν τῷ Θεῷ Ἰακὼβ βούλεται τοὺς κεκλημένους, ἀλλὰ καὶ λαμβάνειν ψαλμὸν καὶ διδόναι τύμπανον, καὶ ψαλτήριον