Psalm 2:3–5 — burst their bonds; he who dwells in the heavens will laugh
“Let us burst their bonds, and throw off their yoke from us” (Psalm 2:3). For the nations are squeezed by their own sins, not being free; therefore Christ says this, either to the angels who serve him, or to the Father and the Holy Spirit, or to the apostles the servants of the gospel, calling on them to tear their bonds apart.
The peoples, being bodily under the yoke of the law — which contains ordinances that are not good and commandments that are not good — when they are brought through Christ to the spiritual law, which has the good ordinances and commandments, put off the heavy yoke of the letter that kills, the Savior saying to the fellow-workers already named: “Let us throw off their yoke from us,” that is, let us make this from ourselves, not waiting for the request of those who are burdened. Or as he himself also came under the law (for it was written: and he was circumcised, and he followed their sabbaths), that is, from me and from those who are persuaded, or at least counting their yoke our burden because of love toward them, let us throw it off. These things, then, about men, both from the nations and from the people.
“He who dwells in the heavens will laugh at them, and the Lord will mock them” (Psalm 2:4). “He who dwells in the heavens will laugh at them” is toward the kings of the earth, whom the Lord in the heavens will laugh at, as having an earthly mind and not who have understoododod the wisdom about the Savior’s becoming-man. And he will mock the rulers also. And it was fitting for the Son of God to say: even if the nations have cried out and the peoples have meditated empty things, we will burst the bonds of the one and throw off the yoke of the other, since they no longer receive the healing easily. For they did not want to come inside the holy net, about which it is written: “The kingdom of the heavens is like a net thrown into the sea” (Matthew 13:47).
“Then he will speak to them in his anger” (Psalm 2:5). Anger of God is a toilsome chastisement for the benefit of the one who has sinned. But also in the time of the judgment they will taste the anger of God, and all the enemies of the saving Word will be troubled by his wrath. He did not say “he will chastise them,” but “he will speak to them in his anger”; for when they repent he did not chastise, as with the Ninevites. For God threatens toward salvation, he said, and to the Ninevites he sent Jonah.
Greek
2.3 ∆ιαῤῥήξωμεν τοὺς δεσμοὺς αὐτῶν, καὶ ἀποῤῥίψωμεν ἀφ' ἡμῶν τὸν ζυγὸν αὐτῶν. Τὰ γὰρ ε θνη τοῖς ἰδίοις ἁμαρτήμασι πε ρισφίγγεται οὐκ ο ντα ἐλεύθερα· διό φησιν ὁ Χριστὸς, η πρὸς τοὺς αὐτῷ διακονοῦντας ἀγγέλους, η πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα καὶ τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ α γιον, η πρὸς τοὺς ἀποστόλους τοὺς ὑπηρέτας τοῦ εὐαγγελίου, ταῦτα παρακα λῶν, αὐτῶν διασπᾶν τοὺς δεσμούς. Οἱ μὲν λαοὶ σωματικῶς τυγχάνοντες ὑπὸ τὸν τοῦ νόμου ζυγὸν, τοῦ δικαιώματα περιέχοντος οὐ καλὰ καὶ προστάγματα οὐ καλὰ, προσα γόμενοι δὲ διὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ τῷ πνευματικῷ νόμῳ, τῷ τὰ καλὰ δικαιώματα ε χοντι καὶ προστάγματα, ἀποτίθενται τὸν βαρὺν τοῦ ἀποκτείνοντος γράμματος ζυγὸν, τοῦ Σω τῆρος λέγοντος πρὸς τοὺς προειρημένους συνεργοὺς τό· ̓Αποῤῥίψωμεν ἀφ' ἡμῶν τὸν ζυγὸν αὐτῶν, η τοι ἀφ' ἑαυτῶν ποιήσωμεν τοῦτον, μὴ περιμείναντες τῶν βαρουμένων τὴν δέησιν. Η ὡς καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπὸ τὸν νό μον γενόμενος (ἐγράφη γάρ· καὶ περιε τμήθη, καὶ τοῖς σάββασιν αὐτῶν ἠκολού θησεν) τουτέστιν, ἀπ' ἐμοῦ καὶ τῶν πειθο μένων, η γουν τὸν ζυγὸν αὐτῶν ἡμέτερον βάρος ἡγούμενοι, διὰ τὴν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἀγά πην, αὐτὸν ἀποῤῥίψωμεν· ταῦτα μὲν ου ν περὶ ἀνθρώπων, τῶν τε ἀπὸ ἐθνῶν καὶ τοῦ λαοῦ. 2.4 ̔Ο κατοικῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἐκγελάσε ται αὐτοὺς, καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐκμυκτηριεῖ αὐτούς. Τὸ δέ· ̔Ο κατοικῶν ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἐκγελά σεται αὐτοὺς, πρὸς τοὺς βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, ου ς ὁ ἐν οὐρανοῖς ἐκγελάσεται Κύριος, φρό νημα γήϊνον ε χοντας, καὶ μὴ νενομηκότας τὴν περὶ ἐνανθρώπησιν τοῦ Σωτῆρος σο φίαν. ̓Εκμυκτηριεῖ δὲ καὶ τοὺς α ρχοντας. Επρεπε δὲ φῆσαι τῷ Υἱῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ· ὡς εἰ καὶ τὰ ε θνη ἐκρύαξαν, καὶ οἱ λαοὶ ἐμελέ τησαν κενὰ, ἡμεῖς δὲ τῶν μὲν τοὺς δεσμοὺς διαῤῥήξωμεν, τῶν δὲ τὸν ζυγὸν ἀποῤῥίψω μεν, ἐπεὶ μηκέτι δέχονται τὴν θεραπείαν ῥᾳδίως. Οὐ γὰρ ε θελον ει σω τῆς ἱερᾶς σα γήνης γενέσθαι, περὶ η ς γέγραπται· Ομοιός ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν τῇ σαγήνῃ βληθείσῃ εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν. 2.5 Τότε λαλήσει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ. ̓Οργή ἐστι Θεοῦ κόλασις ἐπίπονος ἐπὶ τῷ συμφέροντι τοῦ ἡμαρτηκότος. – ̓Αλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ τῆς κρίσεως καιρῷ ὀργὴν Θεοῦ πειραθήσονται, καὶ τῷ θυμῷ αὐτοῦ ταραχ θήσονται πάντες οἱ τοῦ σωτηρίου Λόγου πολέμιοι. Οὐκ ει πε δέ· κολάσει αὐτοὺς, ἀλλὰ λαλήσει πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐν ὀργῇ αὑτοῦ· μετα νοοῦντας γὰρ οὐκ ἐκόλασε, καθάπερ τοὺς Νινευΐτας. ̓Απειλεῖ γὰρ ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ Θεὸς, ε φη, καὶ τοῖς Νινευΐταις ε πεμψεν ̓Ιωνᾶν.
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