The Divine Justice and the Song of the Son
Others have said that the will of God and the mysteries are hidden (Ps 82:4).
Regarding Psalm 83, some take the psalm as having been spoken to those in Babylon who long to behold Jerusalem, the temple in it, and the altar (Ps 83). The rest, according to history, take the temple in Jerusalem in a sensible way (Ps 83:5).
God leads the favor and the obedience to prayers which remains always, concerning which it is said in the prophecy of Isaiah: 'While they are still speaking, I will say, Behold, I am here' (Isa 65:9), so that when we shall enjoy the honor through Christ, the Father thus turns toward us as toward the face of the Son, because Christ shall be in us (Ps 83:10).
Mercy and truth have met (Ps 84:11), when through mercy the nations are called together and through truth Israel shall be restored; for the nations are called through mercy, as the apostle says, but Israel is for the truth of God so that the promises of the fathers might be made firm. Now, indeed, their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, but later the reception is life from the dead, when the perfection of God's favor is revealed to men, when the fulfillment of the promises to the fathers occurs, the race from among them being brought in, not because of their own merit but because of truth itself. For first, those called through truth resisted and did not obey the call, but those called through mercy arrived; then both mercy and truth run together, and then injustice shall fall away completely and the unrighteous shall be driven out from the power over the righteous, so that the righteous may enjoy peace and such as are of one will may be united to one another in both righteousness and peace (Ps 84:11).
To make truth rise up from the earth, justice shall appear from heaven and all good things from God, and all things from the earth shall be good (Ps 84:12-13). Because the will of God...
And the Lord brought about justice on behalf of men, not otherwise than the heavenly judgment which is about to judge according to men and to dispose things well, unless Christ was born according to men for the sake of the validation of the facts and received the whole matter of human nature into himself.
Regarding Ps 85:11–13, he says that another spoke the psalm from the person of the Son; for he asks for the exceptional and divine virtue into us from the Father, saying these things from himself which he wills to happen to us, so that the one leading us might be God, according to what is said by Paul: 'Those who are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God' (Rom 8:14), and that we might walk in the truth of God, the true and real worship, worshiping in the Spirit and having only the divine fear, the heart undivided toward any other care, entirely toward the seeking of the true good.
Then he brings to God the hymn concerning the resurrection and the thanksgiving, the Lord himself, since he descended to the lowest parts of the earth, as it is written, and from there he ascended by the will of the Father and by the authority of divinity, and we follow, finding the ascent through the grace from him.
Regarding Ps 87: arg: It is foretold to us that Aimán, descendant of Kore, and Kore, son of Kaath, son of the most honorable of the sons of Levi, the leader of the rank of the Levites, sang a most lordly song. For he dances for Christ, just as it is also inscribed, 'A song upon a dance'; and he sings the sufferings of the Savior, the world-saving ones, presenting the person of the Lord in the word, as it becomes clear from the things having been said.
Regarding Ps 87:2: And writing down a heavenly citizenship for the salvation of men, he teaches that, when evils surround us, God alone is to be considered the refuge, just as we also were taught from the Gospels, when the passion was already approaching, making continuous supplications and prayers to him.
Regarding Ps 87:6: Persisting in the things of the likeness...
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135 Ps 82,4 [Ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπόκρυφον ἔφασαν εἶναι τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ γνώμην καὶ τὰ μυστήρια.] 136 Ps 83 arg. [Ἰστέον δὲ ὥς τινες ἐκ προσώπου τῶν ἐν Βαβυλῶνι λελέχθαι τὸν ψαλμὸν ἐξειλήφασιν ἐπιποθούντων τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ καὶ τὸν ἐν αὐτῇ νεὼν καὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον θεάσασθαι.] 137 Ps 83,5 [Οἱ δὲ λοιποὶ κατὰ τὴν ἱστορίαν αἰσθητῶς τὸν ἐν Ἱερουσαλὴμ νεὼν ἐξειλήφασιν.] 138 Ps 83,10 Τὴν εὐμένειαν ἄγει τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ τὴν διὰ παντὸς ἐσομένην ἐπακοὴν τῶν προσευχῶν περὶ ἧς ἐν προφητείᾳ Ἡσαΐου λέγεται τὸ Ἔτι λαλούντων αὐτῶν ἐρῶ Ἰδοὺ πάρειμι, ὅτε τῆς διὰ Χριστὸν ἀπολαύσομεν τιμῆς οὕτως ἀφορῶντος εἰς ἡμᾶς τοῦ πατρὸς ὡς εἰς τὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ πρόσωπον, διότι ἔσται Χριστὸς ἐν ἡμῖν. 139 Ps 84,11 Ἔλεος καὶ ἀλήθεια συνήντησαν, ἐπειδὰν τῷ ἐλέῳ δι' οὗ τὰ ἔθνη κέκληται συνέλθῃ καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια δι' ἧς ὁ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπαναχθήσεται· Ὑπὲρ ἐλέους μὲν γὰρ τὰ ἔθνη κέκληται, καθά φησιν ὁ ἀπόστολος, ὑπὲρ ἀληθείας δὲ θεοῦ ὁ Ἰσραὴλ εἰς τὸ βεβαιωθῆναι τὰς ἐπαγγελίας τῶν πατέρων. νῦν μὲν οὖν ἡ ἀποβολὴ αὐτῶν 19 καταλλαγή φησι κόσμου, ὕστερον δὲ ἡ πρόσληψις ζωὴ ἐκ νεκρῶν, τελείας τῆς εὐμενείας τοῦ θεοῦ φανείσης ἀνθρώποις, ἐπειδὰν τῶν ἐπαγγελιῶν πληροῖ τῶν πρὸς τοὺς πατέρας, τὸ γένος τὸ ἐξ αὐτῶν προσαγόμενοι οὐ διὰ τὴν ἐκείνων ἀξίαν ἀλλὰ διὰ τὴν ἰδίαν ἀλήθειαν. τέως μὲν γὰρ οἱ δι' ἀλήθειαν κληθέντες ἀντεῖπον καὶ πρὸς τὴν κλῆσιν οὐχ ὑπήκουσαν ἀλλ' ἔφθασαν οἱ δι' ἐλέου κλητοί, τότε δὲ ἀμφότερα συνδραμεῖται καὶ ὁ ἔλεος καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια, καὶ τότε ἡ ἀδικία πεσεῖται παντελῶς καὶ οἱ ἄδικοι τῆς κατὰ τῶν δικαίων ἰσχύος ἐξωσθήσονται ὥστε εἰρήνης ἀπολαύειν τὸν δίκαιον καὶ οἱονεὶ φιλήματι πρὸς ἀλλήλας ἑνωθῆναι δικαιοσύνην τε καὶ εἰρήνην. 140 Ps 84,12.13 Τῷ ἀνατεῖλαι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἐπιφανεῖται τὸ δίκαιον ἐξ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τὰ χρηστὰ πάντα παρὰ θεοῦ, καὶ τὰ ἐκ γῆς ὑπάρξει πάντα ἀγαθά. διότι τὴν τοῦ θεοῦ δικαιοσύνην ὁ κύριος ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπων ἐπηγάγετο, οὐκ ἄλλως τῆς οὐρανίου κρίσεως μελλούσης τὰ κατ' ἀνθρώπους δικάζειν καὶ διατιθέναι καλῶς εἰ μὴ Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν πραγμάτων κατορθώσεως ἐγεννήθη κατ' ἀνθρώπους καὶ τὸ ὅλον πρᾶγμα τῆς ἀνθρωπείας φύσεως εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀνεδέξατο. 141 Ps 85,11–13 Ἄλλος ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ υἱοῦ τὸν ψαλμὸν εἰρῆσθαι εἰπών φησιν· τὴν ἐξαίρετον γὰρ καὶ θείαν ἀρετὴν εἰς ἡμᾶς αἰτεῖ παρὰ τοῦ πατρὸς ἀφ' ἑαυτοῦ ταῦτα λέγων ἅπερ ἡμῖν γενέσθαι βούλεται, ὥστε θεὸν εἶναι τὸν ἄγοντα ἡμᾶς κατὰ τὸ λεγόμενον ὑπὸ τοῦ Παύλου Ὅσοι πνεύματι θεοῦ ἄγονται οὗτοι υἱοί εἰσι θεοῦ, καὶ πορεύεσθαι ἡμᾶς ἐν ἀληθείᾳ θεοῦ τὴν ἀληθῆ καὶ ὄντως λατρείαν τὴν τοῦ πνεύματος λατρεύοντας καὶ περὶ μόνον τὸν θεῖον φόβον ἔχοντας τὴν καρδίαν ἀμέριστον εἰς ἑτέραν φροντίδα, ὁλόκληρον εἰς τὴν ζήτησιν τοῦ ἀληθοῦς ἀγαθοῦ. εἶτα τὸν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἀναστάσεως ὕμνον καὶ τὴν εὐχαριστίαν ἀναφέρει θεῷ αὐτός τε ὁ κύριος, ἐπεὶ κατῆλθεν εἰς τὰ κατώτατα τῆς γῆς, ὡς γέγραπται, κἀκεῖθεν ἀνῆλθεν βουλήσει πατρὸς καὶ τῇ τῆς θεότητος ἐξουσίᾳ, ἡμεῖς τε ἀκολούθως χάριτι τῇ παρ' αὐτοῦ τὴν ἄνοδον εὑρισκόμενοι. 142 Ps 87 arg. Προείρηται μὲν ἡμῖν ὅτι τοῦ Κορὲ ἀπόγονος Αἰμᾶν, ὁ δὲ Κορὲ τοῦ Καὰθ υἱωνὸς τοῦ τιμιωτάτου τῶν Λευὶ παίδων, ἐξάρχου δὲ τοῦ τάγματος τῶν Λευιτῶν, ᾠδὴν ᾄδει κυριωτάτην. χορεύει γὰρ τῷ Χριστῷ καθὰ καὶ ἐπιγέγραπται ἡ ᾠδὴ Ἐπὶ χορείᾳ· ᾄδει δὲ τὰ πάθη τοῦ σωτῆρος τὰ κοσμοσωτήρια, παράγων αὐτὸ τὸ τοῦ κυρίου πρόσωπον ἐν τῷ λόγῳ, ὡς ἐκ τῶν εἰρημένων δῆλον γίνεται. 143 Ps 87,2 Καὶ πολιτείαν ἐπουράνιον ὑπογράφοντος πρὸς τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων σωτηρίαν διδάσκοντός τε, ἐπειδὰν ἡμᾶς περιστῇ τὰ κακά, μόνην καταφυγὴν ἡγεῖσθαι θεόν, ὥσπερ καὶ ἐκ τῶν Εὐαγγελίων ἐδιδάχθημεν ἡνίκα ἤδη προσήει τὸ πάθος, συνεχεῖς δεήσεις αὐτὸν καὶ προσευχὰς ποιούμενον. 144 Ps 87,6 Ἐπιμένων τοῖς τῆς ὁμοιώσεως
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Apollinaris of Laodicea on the Psalms (catena fragments).
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