Psalm 8 inscription — Unto the end, over the winepresses; the winepresses are the churches
“Unto the end, over the winepresses” (Psalm 8 inscription).
Chastening and retributive. — Of Eusebius. Here “unto the end” is said because the things prophesied in the present psalm have come to pass at the completion of the ages; and “over the winepresses” because of the peoples constituted in all the earth, and the churches of God, which the word is accustomed to refer to winepresses allegoricallyallyally.
Of old, then, when the people called Israel was one, this people was styled a vineyard. And the temple among them was a tower, and the altar before the temple was a fore-vat, according to the prophecy of Isaiah (Isaiah 5:1-2). But now the word mentions not one winepress but more winepresses, because of the many altars throughout the whole earth constituted through Christ in his churches.
Therefore also in the 83rd psalm, itself inscribed “over the winepresses,” many altars and very many tabernacles and many courts are foretold (Psalm 83); through which the altars founded throughout the whole earth in the churches of God are shown outright; whence it too contains the title “over the winepresses.”
— Origen. And the eightieth is inscribed “unto the end, over the winepresses, of Asaph,” whose beginning is: “Rejoice in our helper” (Psalm 80:2). And in the 83rd psalm you will find the inscription “Over the winepresses.” Toward these let us take the things about Noah planting a vine (Genesis 9:20); and the blessing of Judah from Jacob: “Binding his foal to the vine” (Genesis 49:11); and Issachar, who, seeing that the rest was good and the land fat, put his shoulder to the work and became a farmer (Genesis 49:14-15). And Uzziah was a farmer, having vinedressers in the hill country (2 Chronicles 26:10). And the wife of every righteous man is as a vine flourishing in the sides of his house (Psalm 127:3), for whom there comes wine that gladdens a man’s heart (Psalm 103:15). And Ecclesiastes: “He planted vineyards, he dug a winepress” (Ecclesiastes 2:4). And Solomon says: “And let your winepresses overflow with wine” (Proverbs 3:10).
Greek
8.1 Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν. Κολαστικὸν καὶ τιμωρητικόν. Εὐσεβίου. ̓Ενταῦθα εἰς τὸ τέλος ει ρηται, διὰ τὸ ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ τῶν αἰώνων τετυχηκέ ναι τὰ ἐν τῷ παρόντι ψαλμῷ πεπροφητευμέ να· ὑπὲρ δὲ τῶν ληνῶν διὰ τοὺς ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ συστάντας λαοὺς, καὶ τὰς ἐκκλησίας τοῦ Θεοῦ, α σπερ ὁ λόγος ληνοὺς ἀλληγορικῶς ἀποκαλεῖν ει ωθεν· πάλαι μὲν ου ν, ὁπηνίκα ει ς η ν ὁ λαὸς ὁ καλούμενος ̓Ισραὴλ, ἀμ πελὼν ἐχρημάτιζεν ου τος. Καὶ ὁ νεὼς ὁ παρ' αὐτοῖς πύργος, προλήνιόν τε τὸ πρὸ τοῦ νεὼ θυσιαστήριον, κατὰ τὴν τοῦ ̔Ησαΐου προφη τείαν. ̓Αλλὰ νῦν οὐ μιᾶς ληνοῦ, πλειόνων δὲ ληνῶν ὁ λόγος μνημονεύει, διὰ τὰ πολλὰ θυσιαστήρια τὰ καθ' ο λης τῆς γῆς διὰ Χρισ τοῦ ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις αὐτοῦ συνεστῶτα. ∆ιὸ καὶ ἐν πγʹ ψαλμῷ, ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν ἐπι γεγραμμένῳ καὶ αὐτῷ, πολλὰ θυσιαστήρια καὶ πλεῖστα σκηνώματα καὶ αὐλαὶ πολλαὶ θεσπίζονται· δι' ω ν ἀντικρὺς τὰ καθ' ο λης τῆς γῆς ἐν ταῖς ἐκκλησίαις τοῦ Θεοῦ ἱδρυ μένα θυσιαστήρια δηλοῦται· ο θεν καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν τὴν προγραφὴν περιέχει. ̓Ωρ. Καὶ ὁ ὀγδοηκοστὸς ἐπιγέγραπται εἰς τὸ τέλος ὑπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν τῷ ̓Ασὰφ, ου ἡ ἀρχή· ̓Αγαλλιᾶσθε τῷ βοηθῷ ἡμῶν. Καὶ ἐν τῷ πγʹ ψαλμῷ τὴν ̔Υπὲρ τῶν ληνῶν εὑ ρήσεις ἐπιγραφήν· πρὸς δὲ ταῦτα λάβωμεν τὰ περὶ Νῶε φυτεύοντος α μπελον· τήν τε περὶ τοῦ ̓Ιούδα παρὰ ̓Ιακὼβ εὐλογίαν· ∆εσμεύων πρὸς α μπελον τὸν πῶλον αὐτοῦ· καὶ τὴν ̓Ισσάχαρ, ο ς ἰδὼν τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ο τι καλὴ, καὶ τὴν γῆν ο τι πίων, ὑπέθηκε τὸν ω μον εἰς τὸ ποιεῖν καὶ ἐγενήθη ἀνὴρ γεωρ γός. Καὶ μὲν ̓Οζίας γεωργὸς η ν, ἀμπελουρ γοὺς ε χων ἐν τῇ ὀρεινῇ. Καὶ ἡ γύνη δὲ παντὸς δικαίου ὡς α μπελός ἐστιν εὐθηνοῦσα ἐν τοῖς κλίτεσι τῆς οἰκίας αὐτοῦ, ῳ γίνεται οι νος εὐφραίνων καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου. Καὶ ὁ ̓Εκκλησιαστής· ̓Εφύτευσεν ἀμπελῶνας, ω ρυξε ληνόν. Καὶ ὁ Σολομῶν φησιν· Οι νον δὲ αἱ ληνοί σου ἐκβλύζωσιν.
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