Anger and the End of the Sinner
Those imprisoned in the body will be released there, and if something like that. He says not where, but in the future life, for all those working in lawlessness have fallen. For even if they seemed to stand and act in lawlessness, they no longer fall there, no longer permitted to act as they previously acted.
One should not be surprised if he speaks of what will be as if it has already happened; for many such things are spoken, such as 'They stretched out my hands and my feet, and they divided my garments' (Ps 35:13b); because the one prophetically foreseeing what is to come does not see the things to come as if they were certainly happening, but for this reason, he speaks of them as if they had already happened.
They were driven out, that is, they were forced to become outcasts, or they became outcasts through their own actions; because they can no longer stand, having been actively hindered, but not having had their practical powers destroyed.
Surely goodness will bring you to dwell upon the holy land, to be a shepherd upon its wealth (Ps 36:3), for you will find the true Shepherd leading you to a divine pasture, which is named the wealth of that land. And the others are likewise to what preceded it.
The Lord, providing himself for us in all things, is found to be both food and drink for us (Ps 36:4). We do not feed him, finding him to be the bread of life, and let us be filled with his flesh and his blood, being true food and drink; Having feasted upon him, we will find him satisfying all the longings of the heart, that is, of the mind, not the sensible things but the spiritual and intelligible ones.
Feast upon the Lord, and having attained the things spoken, make your way, which you practically walk, manifest (Ps 36:4–7a). But what are you doing? For those things which you do, God looks upon. For the one sinning hides God, hastening to cover his way. But making your way manifest to God, place hope in Him, and He will do the things hoped for you and expected for you, so that your righteousness, which was worked in secret, may emerge as light, like that of Job and Joseph. For the likeness of their light, having shone forth, was distributed throughout the whole inhabited world to all generations, but also your judgment. For the same one judged concerning you, as you judged and...
You have tested in yourself that at noon, having a bright and sharp light, it will be equal to the same. For all those revealed in you will become as a star in the world. But now the end is: 'Submit to the Lord' (Ps 37:7). How will this happen? Through guarding the divine commands, entreating Him, asking Him for the forgiveness of sins already committed, and through obtaining the things spoken.
Anger is a destructive passion, even as it destroys the wise (Ps 37:8). For anger destroys the wise, and it is also an obstacle to the activity of virtue; for the anger of a man does not work the righteousness of God. Therefore, stop from anger and leave behind wrath, becoming a zealot of meekness and gentleness. For someone is able to stop from the anger of God and leave behind his own wrath, abstaining from those who follow anger and fall by wrath.
Since the things of wickedness will be done away with after a short passing of time (Ps 37:10), the sinner will not exist, for in the time when such a thing is not found, he will not be. Therefore, even having searched for his place, you will not find it. But a place is to be heard of as being in a certain order, where a difference exists between teacher and student. There is a place for the teacher and a place for the student; if the student should be filled with knowledge, just as the teacher having become so will leave the place of the student as if it were no longer there. Since even among logical things there has been a difference by its own nature, such as the place of the righteous exceeding that of the sinners, when wickedness is vanishing, there will not be a place for the sinner. But those the gentle ones having made steadfast, heirs of the earth, we ask for another from whom we shall be shown, as they shall be shown to enjoy an abundance of peace upon it, if all the enemies against whom we have war should be dissolved.
It is possible for the devil to raise these things up with a breath, the one called a sinner (Ps 37:14). And the sinners themselves break the sword and bend the bow, so that with bows they may strike the poor and needy, and with the sword they may slaughter those who are upright in heart; for they do not wound their friends who are prospering in evil, nor do they slaughter their companions who are crooked in heart. But their bows being stretched...
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ἀνεπαύσαντο κατάκοποι τῷ σώματι, καὶ τὸ Γυμνὸς ἀπελεύσομαι ἐκεῖ, καὶ ει τι τοιοῦτον. λέγει ου ν ο τι ̓Εκεῖ, τουτέστιν ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι βίῳ, ε πεσαν πάντες οἱ ἐργαζόμενοι τὴν ἀνομίαν. εἰ γὰρ καὶ ω δε ε δοξαν ἑστάναι καὶ ἐνεργεῖν τὰ τῆς ἀνομίας, ἀλλ' ου ν γε ἐκεῖ ε πεσον οὐκέτι ἐπιτρεπόμενοι ἐνεργεῖν, ὡς πρότερον ἐνήργουν. οὐ δεῖ δὲ ξενίζεσθαι, εἰ τὸ μέλλον ὡς η δη γεγονὸς λέγει· πολλὰ γὰρ τοιαῦτα ῥηθείη, ὡς τὸ Ωρυξαν χεῖράς μου καὶ πόδας μου, καὶ ∆ιεμερίσαντο τὰ ἱμάτιά μου· ἐπεὶ γὰρ ὁ προφητικῶς προορῶν τὰ ἐσόμενα ου τως αὐτὰ βλέπει ὡς πάντως γενησόμενα, τούτου χάριν ὡς η δη γενόμενα αὐτὰ διορίζεται. 354 Ps 35,13b ̓Εξώσθησαν δέ, η τοι τῆς ε ξεως ε ξω η ς ει χον γενέσθαι ἐβιάσθησαν, η ε ξω τῆς αὐτοπραγίας γεγένηνται· διότι οὐκέτι στῆναι δύνανται, ἐνεργητικῶς ἐμποδισθεισῶν ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀναιρεθεισῶν τῶν πρακτικῶν δυνάμεων αὐτῶν. 355 Ps 36,3 Αυ τη ἡ χρηστότης προξενήσει σοι τὸ κατασκηνῶσαι ἐπὶ τῆς ἁγίας γῆς, ὡς ποιμαίνεσθαι ἐπὶ τῷ πλούτῳ αὐτῆς· ε ξεις γὰρ ποιμένα τὸν ἀληθινὸν α γοντά σε ἐπὶ θείαν νομήν, η τις πλοῦτος τῆς γῆς ἐκείνης ὠνόμασται. Τὰ δ' α λλα ὁμοίως τῷ πρὸ αὐτοῦ. 356 Ps 36,4 ∆ιὰ πάντων ὠφέλιμον ἡμῖν ἑαυτὸν παρέχων ὁ κύριος καὶ τροφὴ ἡμῖν καὶ ποτὸν εὑρίσκεται. ο ταν ου ν τροφῶμεν αὐτὸν τυγχάνοντα α ρτον ζωῆς καὶ ἐμφορηθῶμεν τῶν σαρκῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ τοῦ αι ματος, ο ντων βρώσεως καὶ πόσεως ἀληθινῆς, κατατρυφήσαντες αὐτοῦ, ε ξομεν αὐτὸν ὀρέγοντα α παντα τὰ αἰτήματα τῆς καρδίας, τουτέστιν τοῦ νοῦ, οὐ τὰ αἰσθητὰ ἀλλὰ τὰ πνευματικὰ καὶ νοητά. 357 Ps 36,4–7a Κατατρύφησον τοῦ κυρίου, καὶ τυχὼν τῶν προλεχθέντων τὴν σαυτοῦ ὁδὸν η ν πρακτικῶς ὁδεύεις κατάστησον φανεράν. πότε δὲ ταῦτα ποιεῖς; ο τ' α ν ἐνεργῇς ἐκεῖνα οι ς ἐφορᾷ ὁ θεός. ὁ γὰρ ἁμαρτάνων κρύπτεται θεόν, καλύπτειν αὐτοῦ τὴν ὁδὸν σπεύδων. φανερῶν δέ σου τὴν ὁδὸν τῷ θεῷ Ελπισον ἐπ' αὐτόν, καὶ αὐτὸς ποιήσει τὰ ἐλπισθέντα σοι καὶ προσδοκηθέντα σοι, ω στε τὴν ἐν κρυπτῷ ἐνεργηθεῖσαν δικαιοσύνην σου ἐξοῖσαι ὡς φῶς, ὡς τὴν τοῦ ̓Ιὼβ καὶ ̓Ιωσήφ. ἡ γὰρ τούτων φωτὸς δίκην ἀναλάμψασα ἐν ο λῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ ἐπὶ πάσας γενεὰς διεδόθη, ἀλλὰ Καὶ τὸ κρίμα σου. η τοι ὁ αὐτὸς ε κρινεν περὶ σοῦ, η ο σὺ ε κρινας καὶ ἐδοκίμασας ἐν σεαυτῷ ἐξοίσει κατὰ τὰ αὐτὰ τῇ μεσημβρίᾳ τῇ ἀκμαῖον καὶ ἀκραιφνὲς φῶς ἐχούσῃ. ου τω γὰρ πάντων τῶν κατὰ σὲ φανερωθέντων ὡς φωστὴρ ἐν κόσμῳ γενήσῃ. τέως δὲ νῦν ̔Υποτάγηθι τῷ κυρίῳ. πῶς δὲ τοῦτο γενήσεται; διὰ τοῦ φυλάττειν τὰ θεῖα προστάγματα, ἱκετεύειν αὐτόν, τῶν προπεπραγμένων 76 ἁμαρτημάτων συγχώρησιν αὐτὸν ἀπαιτῶν, καὶ τοῦ τυχεῖν τῶν εἰρημένων. 358 Ps 36,8a ̓Ολέθριον πάθος τυγχάνει ἡ ὀργή, ὡς καὶ τοὺς φρονίμους ἀναιρεῖν· ̓Οργὴ γὰρ ἀπόλλυσι καὶ φρονίμους, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἐνεργείας τῆς ἀρετῆς ἐστιν ἐμποδιστική· ̓Οργὴ γὰρ ἀνδρὸς δικαιοσύνην θεοῦ οὐκ ἐργάζεται. διὸ Παῦσαι ἀπὸ ὀργῆς καὶ ἐγκατάλειπε θυμόν, ζηλωτὴς πραΰτητος καὶ ἡμερότητος γινόμενος. δύναται δέ τις παύεσθαι ἀπὸ ὀργῆς τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἐγκαταλείπειν τὸν θυμὸν αὐτοῦ ἀπεχόμενος ἐκείνων οι ς ἀκολουθεῖ τὸ ὀργῇ καὶ θυμῷ ὑποπεσεῖν. 359 Ps 36,10.11 ̓Επεὶ καταργηθήσεται τὰ τῆς κακίας ε τι ὀλίγου παραδραμόντος χρόνου, οὐχ ὑπάρξεται ὁ ἁμαρτωλός, τῆς ε ξεως καθ' η ν ἐστιν τοιοῦτος οὐχ εὑρισκομένης. διὸ καὶ ζητήσας τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ οὐχ εὑρήσεις. τόπον δὲ ἀκουστέον τὸν ὡς ε ν τινι τάξει, οι ον διαφορᾶς ἐνούσης διδασκάλου καὶ μαθητοῦ. ε στιν τόπος διδασκάλου καὶ τόπος μαθητοῦ, ο τ' α ν ὁ μαθητὴς πληρωθῇ τῆς ἐπιστήμης, ὡς ὁ διδάσκαλος γεγενημένος ἀπολείψει τὸν μαθητοῦ τόπον ὡς μηκέτι ει ναι τοῦτον. ἐπεὶ ου ν καὶ τῶν λογικῶν ἐξ ἰδίας αἱρέσεως γέγονε διαφορὰ ὡς τοὺς μὲν δικαίων τοὺς δὲ ἁμαρτωλῶν ἐπέχειν τόπον, ἀφανιζομένης τῆς κακίας οὐκ ε τ' ε σται τοῦ ἁμαρτωλοῦ τόπος. οἱ δὲ πραεῖς εὐστάθειαν κατορθώσαντες κληρονόμοι γῆς ἑτέρας παρ' η ς πατοῦμεν ἀποδειχθήσονται, ὡς καὶ κατατρυφᾶν ἐπ' αὐτῆς πλήθους εἰρήνης ἐσομένου, ο τ' α ν πάντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ πρὸς ου ς ε χομεν τὸν πόλεμον καταλυθῶσιν. 360 Ps 36,14 ∆υνατὸν ἐπὶ τὸν διάβολον ἀνάγειν ταῦτα μετὰ α ρθρου ἁμαρτωλὸν ὀνομαζόμενον. σπῶνται δὲ καὶ οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ῥομφαίαν καὶ ἐντείνουσι τόξον, ο πως τοῖς μὲν τόξοις βάλωσι τὸν πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα, τῇ δὲ ῥομφαίᾳ σφάξωσι τοὺς εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ· οὐ γὰρ τοὺς ἐν κακοῖς πλουτοῦντας τιτρώσκουσι φίλους αὐτῶν ο ντας, οὐδὲ τοὺς σκολιοὺς τῇ καρδίᾳ σφάττουσιν ἑταιρίαν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ε χοντες. τόξα δὲ αὐτῶν ἐντεταμένα οἱ
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