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asking from God, and he contributes his own part, saying: Because I have chosen your commandments. For what was in my power, this has been fulfilled by me. I have chosen your commandments, having loved them according to what was said before. I have longed for your Salvation, and your law is my meditation. Many men long for salvation, but not that of God, but the salvation of the flesh which is in the world. But it is a task to long for the Salvation of God, so as to be saved in God, to rest in him, to inherit the holy things; for the Salvation of God is this: eternal life. If you wish to ascend by the word, the Salvation of God is Christ; for Jesus is interpreted, God's salvation. He was sent to us. The way for one who longs for the Salvation of God is for the law to be a meditation for the one who longs, proclaiming beforehand his coming hither. And here he calls the law all the old and divine Scripture. My soul shall live, and shall praise you, and your judgments shall help me. He has enclosed the life of the soul in the time to come. For our life is hidden with Christ in God. Then he will properly praise God. And your judgments will help me. The judgments of God are for the help of those who are judged. But there is one confidence of the help of judgments 23.1396 for the just man, that which is without torments and pains; another way of the help of judgments for the one who will be led through pains and torments. I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek your servant, because I have not forgotten your commandments.

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αἰτῶν παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ τὸ παρ' ἑαυτοῦ συνεισφέρει λέγων· Ὅτι τὰς ἐντολάς σου ᾑρετισάμην. Ὅπερ γὰρ ἦν ἐπὶ τῇ ἐμῇ ἐξουσίᾳ, τοῦτ' ἐξ ἐμοῦ πεπλήρωται. Τὰς ἐντολάς σου ᾑρετισάμην, ἀγαπήσας αὐτὰς κατὰ τὰ πρόσθεν εἰρημένα. Ἐπεπόθησα τὸ Σωτήριόν σου, καὶ ὁ νόμος σου μελέτη μου ἐστί. Οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπιποθοῦσι σωτηρίαν, ἀλλ' οὐ τὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀλλὰ τὸ σαρκὸς σωτήριον τὸ ἐν κόσμῳ. Ἔργον δέ ἐστιν ἐπιποθῆσαι τὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ Σωτήριον, ὥστε ἐν Θεῷ σωθῆναι, ἐν αὐτῷ ἀναπαύεσθαι, κληρονομῆσαι τὰ ἅγια· τὸ γὰρ Σωτήριον τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦτό ἐστιν ἡ αἰώνιος ζωή. Ἐὰν θέλῃς ἐπαναβῆναι τῷ λόγῳ, τὸ Σωτήριον τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ Χριστός ἐστιν· Ἰησοῦς γὰρ ἑρμηνεύεται, Θεοῦ σωτηρία. Οὗτος ἡμῖν ἐπέμφθη. Ὁδὸς τοῦ ἐπιποθοῦντος τὸ Σωτήριον τοῦ Θεοῦ, τὸ τὸν νόμον εἶναι μελέτην τῷ ἐπιποθοῦντι, προαναφωνοῦντα τὴν δεῦρο αὐτοῦ ἄφιξιν. Νόμον δὲ ἐνταῦθα καλεῖ πᾶσαν τὴν παλαιὰν καὶ θείαν Γραφήν. Ζήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου, καὶ αἰνέσει σε, καὶ τὰ κρίματά σου βοηθήσει μοι. Εἰς τὸν μέλλοντα χρόνον ἐνέκλειεν τὴν ζωὴν τῆς ψυχῆς. Ἡ γὰρ ζωὴ ἡμῶν κέκρυπται σὺν Χριστῷ ἐν τῷ Θεῷ. Τότε ὑμνήσει κυρίως τὸν Θεόν. Καὶ τὰ κρίματά σου βοηθήσει μοι. Ἐπὶ βοηθείᾳ τῶν κρινομένων τὰ κρίματα τοῦ Θεοῦ γίνεται. Ἀλλὰ ἄλλη παῤῥησία βοηθείας κριμάτων 23.1396 πρὸς τὸν δίκαιον, ἡ χωρὶς βασάνων καὶ πόνων· ἄλλη ὁδὸς βοηθείας κριμάτων πρὸς τὸν διὰ πόνων καὶ βασάνων ἀχθησόμενον. Ἐπλανήθην ὡς πρόβατον ἀπολωλός· ζήτησον τὸν δοῦλόν σου, ὅτι τὰς ἐντολάς σου οὐκ ἐπελαθόμην.