Fragments on the Psalms · §78

The Thirst of the Soul and the Divine Springs

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Having come to be. Ps 40:14 Blessed indeed is the one whom the Lord blesses, and blessed means that which is worthy of being blessed eternally. Since the one is being blessed by the God of Israel, the 'may it become' prays 'may it become'; not that the prayer makes God blessed, just as neither the name of God is sanctified by the prayer of those saying, 'Hallowed be thy name.' This was said concerning these things in the previous parts.

Ps 41:1 But the three sons of Kore were arranged with others to sing the awesome psalms, which the Scripture also calls hymns, in which also the names are carried in Chronicles. So not the three, being equipped with the same mind and the same judgment, having been united in that which agrees concerning all things, in a unified way pronounce all things in the present psalm.

Ps 41:2a The deer, a creature warring against the eyes and eating them, if ever, having eaten, were to burn from the approaching venom of the serpent, seeks with haste the springs of water to quench the thirst. But those saying that she who wishes to see herself in the waters traces the springs, so that she might know the pollution having happened to her from the blood of the eyes, so that she might cleanse it; for in the scattering of the eyes, they sprinkle the divine blood into it. And the holy one, not lifting up the eyes against serpents and scorpions by which he received authority from Jesus, but also avenging every disobedience, being a spiritual deer, hastens to track out divine springs of water, since the God says, 'You abandoned me, a spring of living water' (Jer 2:13), and concerning the savior it is said to someone, 'You abandoned the spring of wisdom' (Prov 5:2), and the Holy Spirit concerning whom the Word announced, 'I will cause him to drink from the water, I will give to him; there shall be made in him a spring of water springing up unto eternal life' (John 4:14). Perhaps also every inspired Scripture proves to be a saving spring.

Ps 41:3 The intention of the diligent toward God is like that of the deer toward the springs of water with longing. And since they, in the present life, through a mirror, present him to God, having the face to face set aside for the things after this, pray that a time may be established through which, having come, he might appear before the face of God. And it is: since a shadow...

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πολλοὶ ἀσθενεῖς καὶ α ρρωστοι) καὶ ταύτην μεταβάλλει τὴν ἀρρωστίαν. καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ δὲ πάντα παρέξει ὁ κύριος τῷ συνιέντι ἐπὶ πτωχὸν καὶ πένητα. 417 Ps 40,5b ̓Εκ τούτων μανθάνομεν ο τι νόσος καὶ τρῶσις ψυχῆς ἁμαρτία. 418 Ps 40,7–9 Τούτους τοὺς στίχους περὶ ̓Ιούδα ἑρμηνεύουσιν. ου τος γὰρ ε ξω τοῦ σωτῆρος καὶ τῆς τῶν ἀποστόλων καταστάσεως η δη γενόμενος. ὁ ̓Ιούδας ἀφ' ου προέθετο προδοῦναι τὸν διδάσκαλον εἰσιὼν προσποιητῶς ὡς α ν ε τι ἀπόστολος μάτην ἐλάλει ̔Ραββί, καὶ διδάσκαλον προσαγορεύων ̓Ιησοῦν, τῆς καρδίας ἑαυτοῦ ἀνομίαν ἑαυτῷ συναγαγούσης. βαλόντος γὰρ τοῦ διαβόλου εἰς τὴν καρδίαν αὐτοῦ φιλοχρηματίαν, ἐπισυνήγαγε καὶ τὸ προδοῦναι τὸν ̓Ιησοῦν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀπάγξασθαι. ου τος δὲ καὶ ἐκπορευόμενος, τουτέστιν ε ξω γινόμενος τῆς ̓Ιησοῦ μαθητείας, ἐλάλει ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ τοῖς Φαρισαίοις κατὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος. καὶ ἐπεὶ λάθρα συνετίθεντο περὶ τῆς δόσεως τῶν τριάκοντα ἀργυρίων, κατ' αὐτοῦ ἐψιθύριζον πάντες οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ· τὸ γὰρ ψιθυρίζειν ἀπαρρησίαστον φθέγμα. αὐτοὶ ου ν ου τοι οἱ προθέμενοι ψιθυρίζειν κατὰ τοῦ ̓Ιησοῦ λόγον παράνομον κατέθεντο κατ' αὐτοῦ· τὸ γὰρ ἀγοράζειν καὶ πιπράσκειν αι μα ἀθῷον παρανόμου συνθήκης ε ργον. πρὸς τούτους δὲ ματαιουργοῦντας Τί μάταια σπουδάζετε ει πεν, Η δοκεῖτε ο τι ο ν περιβάλλετε θανάτῳ οὐκ ἀνίσταται; ι στε ο τι ὁ κοιμώμενος Προσθήσει τοῦ ἀναστῆναι. προσθήκη γὰρ ἀναιρετικὴ τοῦ θανάτου ἀνάστασις. 419 Ps 40,10 Θαυμαστὸν οὐδέν, ἐρεῖ ὁ σωτήρ, εἰ οἱ ἐχθροί μου κατ' ἐμοῦ κατέθεντο τοιαῦτα· καὶ γὰρ ὁ α νθρωπος τῆς εἰρήνης ὁ εἰρηνεύων μοι καὶ τὴν ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ εἰρήνην σπουδάζων, ἐφ' ῳ καὶ θαρσῆσαι ἐλπίσαντα ἐπ' αὐτὸν συνέβαινεν, συνέρχεται τοῖς κατ' ἐμοῦ. ὁμοδίαιτός μοι γὰρ τυγχάνων καὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἁλῶν μεταλαμβάνων, μᾶλλον δὲ τοὺς ἐμοὺς α ρτους ἐσθίων ἐπ' ἐμὲ τὴν πτέρναν πολεμίως ἐπῆρεν φάσκων δολερῶς Χαῖρε ῥαββί, καὶ ει τι α λλο πανουργευόμενος ει πεν. σαφῶς τοίνυν ἐνταῦθα περὶ τοῦ ̓Ιούδα φησὶν ἐν τοῖς πρὸ τούτου ἐπικεκαλυμμένως περὶ αὐτοῦ διηγούμενος. 420 Ps 40,11 ∆ιὰ τοῦ ἀντεισᾶξαί μοι ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀποβληθέντος ε τερον λαὸν καὶ ἀντὶ ̓Ιούδα Ματθίαν· ἀλλὰ καὶ ̓Ανάστησόν με ο πως ἀνταποδώσω αὐτοῖς, τῆς ἀνταποδόσεως πρὸς καλοῦ αὐτοῖς γενησομένης. 421 Ps 40,14 Εὐλογημένος μέν ἐστιν ο ταν ω σιν οἱ εὐλογοῦντες, εὐλογητὸς δὲ τουτέστιν α ξιον τοῦ εὐλογηθῆναι αἰωνίως. εὐλογητοῦ δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ ̓Ισραὴλ ο ντος, ἐπεύχεται τὸ Γένοιτο γένοιτο, οὐχ ο τι ἡ εὐχὴ εὐλογητὸν ποιεῖ τὸν θεόν, ω σπερ οὐδὲ τὸ ο νομα τοῦ θεοῦ ἁγιάζει ἡ εὐχὴ τῶν λεγόντων ̔Αγιασθήτω τὸ ο νομά σου. ει ρηται δὲ περὶ τούτων ἐν τοῖς ἀνωτέροις. 422 Ps 41,1 Τρεῖς δὲ η σαν οἱ υἱοὶ Κορὲ τεταγμένοι μετὰ α λλων εἰς τὸ ᾳ δειν τοὺς θείους ψαλμούς, ου ς καὶ ᾠδοὺς ἡ γραφὴ καλεῖ, ω ν καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα φέρεται ἐν Παραλειπομέναις. ου τοι ου ν οἱ τρεῖς τῷ αὐτῷ νοῒ καὶ τῇ αὐτῇ γνώμῃ κατηρτισμένοι, ἑνωθέντες τῷ περὶ πάντα συμφώνως ε χειν, ἑνικῶς τὰ ἐν τῷ προκειμένῳ ψαλμῷ προφέρονται πάντα. 423 Ps 41,2a ̔Η ε λαφος τὸ ζῷον πολεμίως ε χουσα πρὸς τοὺς ο φεις καὶ ἐσθίουσα αὐτούς, ει ποτε φαγοῦσα ὑπὸ τοῦ δίψους φλέγοιτο τοῦ ἐγγινομένου ἀπὸ τοῦ ἰοῦ ω ν ε φαγεν ἑρπετῶν, ζητεῖ διὰ σπουδῆς πηγὰς ὑδάτων ἐπὶ τῷ ἀκέσασθαι τὸ δίψος. εἰσὶ δὲ οἱ λέγοντες ο τι καὶ ἐσοπτρίσασθαι θέλουσα ἐν τοῖς υ δασιν ἰχνεύει τὰς πηγάς, ο πως ι δῃ τὸν περὶ αὐτὴν γενόμενον μολυσμὸν ἐκ τοῦ αι ματος τῶν ο φεων, ι ν' ἀπονίψηται αὐτόν· ἐν γὰρ τῷ σπαράττεσθαι τοὺς ο φεις ἀποσειόμενοι ῥαντίζουσιν εἰς αὐτὴν τὸ ι διον αι μα. Καὶ ὁ 85 α γιος ου ν ἀναιρῶν ο φεις καὶ σκορπίους καθ' η ν ει ληφεν ὑπὸ ̓Ιησοῦ ἐξουσίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκδικῶν πᾶσαν παρακοήν, πνευματικὸς ω ν ε λαφος, σπεύδει ἀνιχνεύειν θείας πηγὰς ὑδάτων, οι ον τὸν θεὸν λέγοντα ̓Εμὲ ἐγκατέλιπον πηγὴν υ δατος ζῶντος, καὶ τὸν σωτῆρα περὶ ου ει ρηται πρός τινα ̓Εγκατέλιπες τὴν πηγὴν σοφίας, καὶ τὸ α γιον πνεῦμα ὑπὲρ ου ἀπήγγελται τὸ Ος δ' α ν πίῃ ἐκ τοῦ υ δατος ου ἐγὼ δώσω αὐτῷ γενήσεται ἐν αὐτῷ πηγὴ υ δατος ἀλλομένου εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον. τάχα δὲ καὶ πᾶσα θεόπνευστος γραφὴ πηγαὶ σωτήριοι τυγχάνουσιν. 424 Ps 41,3 ̔Ομοιοῦται ου ν ἡ πρόθεσις τοῦ σπουδαίου πρὸς τὸν θεὸν τῷ πρὸς τὰς πηγὰς τῶν ὑδάτων πόθῳ τῆς ἐλάφου. καὶ ἐπεὶ οι δεν ἐν τῷ παρόντι βίῳ δι' ἐσόπτρου προσβάλλοντα αὐτὸν τῷ θεῷ, τοῦ Πρόσωπον πρὸς πρόσωπον ἀποκειμένου εἰς τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα, ευ χεται ἐνστῆναι καιρὸν καθ' ο ν ἐλθὼν ὀφθείη τῷ προσώπῳ τοῦ θεοῦ. καὶ ε τι· ἐπεὶ σκιὰν

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