The Glory of God and the Spiritual Economy
Because poverty has pre-empted the state of having wealth in every word and in all knowledge and in good works, he having been released from these evils will not be tested by punishment. Ps 106:17: While they were still walking in the way of their lawlessness, God took hold of them, because through a multitude of impieties having been humbled, they were held by those from whom he raised them. And see if you are able to apply this to the thief who repented on the cross; for while he was in the way of lawlessness (for he was condemned by robbery) and having been humbled by punishment because of his lawlessness, he was taken hold of by the one saying to him, 'Today you shall be with me in Paradise' (Luke 23:43). Ps 106:18-19. Generally also, both upon the body and upon the soul, for what sickness of the emaciated one he abstains from all nourishment, both bodily and spiritual; but those having the health of the soul hunger and thirst for righteousness. And the gates of death are the sins toward death. These they approach before coming to him, having a life-giving breath and power, I mean indeed the thought concerning God; therefore, in their being afflicted, they cry out to the Lord, and he saves them from all the constraining necessities that hold them. And if they had not cried out to the Lord, they would have perished even until death. Ps 106:22b. And he proclaims in gladness the works of him, everyone announcing those things having happened to himself and having had experience of his goodness, not simply recounting those things having happened to others. Ps 106:26. And the saying of ascending as if to heaven and descending as if from the abyss is said by hyperbole. For indeed in such a way there are countless examples in the Scripture; for concerning the cities of Israel, the enemies, whatever they had been walled up as if to heaven because they had been walled up with high walls, and 'I shall be made white as snow' (Ps 51:7) is said in the same way. Ps 106:38b. Others say:
They are livestock that are in the so-called sheep, which possess abundance and greatness because of their perfected gentleness and learning (Ps 106:42b). But also, if she does not possess the capacity to speak of the divine economy of God, it will shut her mouth. And you will perceive the devil as lawlessness, and all that is established according to it, as those speaking lawlessly with an enclosed mouth (Ps 106:43).
Because much of them belongs to the spiritual intellect, it is for the wise and understanding to comprehend them. His glory is the practical and contemplative life, through which it is divided toward moral and intellectual virtue. Those who raised up the true light, having risen toward the Lord, walking decorously as in the day, striking the harp and striking the lyre, sing to the all-wise God, offering up their hymns rhythmically and harmoniously. And it is said in the psalm: what harp and what lyre?
His mercy is magnified as that of the heaven, beginning from the earth; for the earth is full of the mercy of the Lord (Ps 107:5). The end holds those who began to receive mercy from the earth to reach the heaven, in order to inherit the kingdom of the heavens. And his truth is also magnified in the clouds serving the spiritual, to Moses and the prophets, since their ministry begins from the shadow and ends in the truth, just as they also worship the Father in spirit and truth (John 4:24), as do the apostles and all the disciples of the Spirit.
From the first word, 'As high as the heavens is your glory' (Ps 107:6), and from the sixth verse until the end of the ninety-ninth (Ps 107:99), we are being cut off from the things set forth there. Because of the lifting up of God in those who carry the image of the heavenly, and because of this, called heavens, his glory extends over all the earth that is able.
Greek
προκαταλαβούσης πτωχείας ἐναντίως ἐχούσης τοῦ πλουτεῖν ἐν παντὶ λόγῳ καὶ πάσῃ γνώσει καὶ ἐν ε ργοις ἀγαθοῖς, ὁ τούτων τῶν κακιῶν ἀφεθεὶς οὐδὲ κολάσεις πειρασθήσεται. 1019 Ps 106,17 Ετι βαδιζόντων τῆς ἀνομίας αὐτῶν ὁδόν, ἀντελάβετο αὐτῶν ὁ ι λεω θεός, ἐπείπερ διὰ πλῆθος ω ν ει χον ἀσεβειῶν ταπεινωθέντες ἐνείχοντο τοῖς ἀφ' ω ν αὐτοὺς ἐξήγειρε. καὶ ο ρα εἰ δύνασαι ἐφαρμόσαι τούτοις τὸ περὶ τοῦ ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ μετανοήσαντος λῃστοῦ· ε τι γὰρ ἐν ὁδῷ ἀνομίας ο ντος αὐτοῦ (διὰ λῃστείαν γὰρ κατεκέκριτο) καὶ ταπεινωθέντος κολάσει διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας α ς ει χεν, ἀντελάβετο αὐτοῦ ὁ εἰπὼν πρὸς αὐτὸν Σήμερον μετ' ἐμοῦ ε σῃ ἐν τῷ παραδείσῳ. 1020 Ps 106,18.19 Καθόλου δὲ καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦ σώματος καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς ψυχῆς ὁ διά τι νόσημα καχεκτῶν πρὸς πᾶσαν τροφὴν ἀπεχθάνεται σωματικήν τε καὶ ψυχικήν, οἱ δὲ τὴν ὑγείαν τῆς ψυχῆς ε χοντες πεινῶσι καὶ διψῶσι τὴν δικαιοσύνην. Πύλαι δὲ θανάτου αἱ πρὸς θάνατον ἁμαρτίαι. ταύταις ἐγγίζουσιν οἱ πρὶν ἐλθεῖν πρὸς αὐτὸν ε τι ζωτικὴν ε χοντες πνοήν τε καὶ δύναμιν, λέγω δὴ τὴν περὶ θεοῦ ε ννοιαν· διὸ ἐν τῷ θλίβεσθαι αὐτοὺς βοῶσι πρὸς κύριον, καὶ σῴζει αὐτοὺς ἐκ πασῶν τῶν κατεχουσῶν ἀναγκῶν. καὶ εἰ μὴ πρὸς κύριον ἐκέκραξαν, ε φθανον α ν καὶ μέχρις αὐτοῦ τοῦ θανάτου. 1021 Ps 106,22b ̓Εξαγγέλλει δὲ ἐν ἀγαλλιάσει τὰ ε ργα αὐτοῦ πᾶς ὁ τὰ εἰς ἑαυτὸν γενόμενα ἐξαγγέλλων καὶ πεῖραν ἐσχηκὼς τῆς αὐτοῦ εὐεργεσίας, οὐχ ὁ ἁπλῶς τὰ ἑτέρων γενόμενα διηγούμενος. 1022 Ps 106,26 Τὸ δὲ ἀναβαίνειν λέγεσθαι τὰ υ δατα ε ως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ καταβαίνειν ε ως τῆς ἀβύσσου καθ' ὑπερβολὴν ει ρηται. καὶ γὰρ τοῦ τοιούτου τρόπου ευ ροις α ν μυρία παραδείγματα ἐν τῇ γραφῇ· περὶ γὰρ τῶν πόλεων τῶν τοῦ ̓Ισραὴλ ἐχθρῶν ο τι τετειχισμέναι η σαν ε ως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ διὰ τὸ ἐν ὑψηλοῖς τετειχίσθαι τείχεσι, καὶ τὸ ̔Υπὲρ χιόνα δὲ λευκανθήσομαι τῷ αὐτῷ ει ρηται τρόπῳ. 1023 Ps 106,38b Αλλοι φασί· κτήνη α ν ει εν τὰ καλούμενα πρόβατα, οι τινες ε ξουσι πλῆθος καὶ μέγεθος διὰ τὸ κατωρθωκέναι πραΰτητα καὶ εὐμάθειαν. 1024 Ps 106,42b ̓Αλλὰ καὶ μὴ ε χουσα κατειπεῖν τῆς περὶ τὰ ε θνη οἰκονομίας τοῦ θεοῦ ἐμφράξει τὸ στόμα αὐτῆς. ἀνομίαν δὲ νοήσεις τὸν διάβολον καὶ πάντα τὸν κατ' αὐτὴν πεποιωμένον κατὰ τὸ ̓Ενεφράγη στόμα λαλούντων α νομα. 1025 Ps 106,43 ̓Επειδὴ τὸ πολὺ αὐτῶν ἀνάκειται τῇ πνευματικῇ διανοίᾳ, σοφῶν καὶ συνετῶν ε στι τὸ συνιέναι αὐτά. 217 1026 Ps 107,2b ∆όξα αὐτοῦ ἡ πρακτικὴ καὶ θεωρητικὴ ε ξις καθ' η ν διάκειται πρὸς τὴν ἠθικὴν καὶ διανοητικὴν ἀρετήν. 1027 Ps 107,3 Οι ς ἀνέτειλε τὸ φῶς τὸ ἀληθινόν, πρὸς κύριον ὀρθρίσαντες ὡς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ εὐσχημόνως περιπατοῦντες, πλήττοντες τὸ ψαλτήριον καὶ κρούοντες τὴν κιθάραν μελῳδοῦσι τῷ πανσόφῳ θεῷ, εὐρύθμως καὶ ἐναρμονίως τοὺς υ μνους ἀναπέμποντες. ει ρηται δὲ ἐν τῷ ψαλμῷ τί ψαλτήριον καὶ τί κιθάρα. 1028 Ps 107,5 Μεγαλύνεται ε ως τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὸ ε λεος, ἀρχόμενον ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς· Τοῦ γὰρ ἐλέους κυρίου πλήρης ἡ γῆ. τὸ τέλος ε χει τοὺς ἀρξαμένους ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς ἐλεεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν φθάσαι ἐπὶ τῷ τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν κληρονομῆσαι. μεγαλύνεται δὲ καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια αὐτοῦ ἐν ταῖς τὸν πνευματικὸν διακονουμέναις ὑετὸν νεφέλαις Μωυσῇ καὶ τοῖς προφήταις, ἐπείπερ ἡ διακονία αὐτῶν ἀπὸ τῆς σκιᾶς ἀρξαμένη εἰς τὴν ἀλήθειαν καταλήγει, ὡς καὶ αὐτοὺς πνεύματι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ προσκυνῆσαι τῷ πατρὶ ὡσαύτως τοῖς ἀποστόλοις καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς τοῦ πνεύματος μαθηταῖς. 1029 Ps 107,6 ̓Απὸ τῆς πρώτης λέξεως ε ως τοῦ ̓Επὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἡ δόξα σου ὁ αὐτός ἐστι τῶν Ν , ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ ἑξῆς στίχου μέχρι τελευτῆς τῶν ΝΘ· ο θεν ε καστα τῶν προκειμένων ἐκεῖ εἰρηκότες νῦν ἐπιτεμνόμεθα. 1030 Ps 107,6 ̔Υψουμένου τοῦ θεοῦ ἐν τοῖς τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου φοροῦσι καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὐρανοῖς καλουμένοις, ἡ δόξα αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ἐκτείνεται τὴν γῆν τὴν δυναμένην
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