Psalm 22:3 — he turned back my soul; paths of righteousness as habit and as the virtues
“He turned back my soul; he guided me upon paths of righteousness, for the sake of his name” (Psalm 22:3).
For he mounted as the shepherd, and wore paths beforehand, so that his own sheep might follow in the tracks. Righteousness then is the practical habit of the just, whose paths are according to the activity. And if someone should call righteousness the generic virtue, he will say that its paths are the virtues according to species, upon which he guides the one who inscribes his appellation.
“He turned back my soul,” he says, that had wandered from its own or had fallen down; or the Lord turns back the soul that has fallen out, and restores it after the shepherding, and it is encamped into a place of green grass; then having turned it back he guides upon paths of righteousness and virtue.
Greek
22.3 Τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐπέστρεψεν, ὡδή γησέ με ἐπὶ τρίβους δικαιοσύνης, ε νεκεν τοῦ ὀνόματος αὐτοῦ. ̓Επέβη γὰρ ω σπερ ὁ ποιμὴν, καὶ προέ τριψε τρίβους, ὡς ἰδίου αὐτοῦ προβάτου τοῖς ι χνεσιν ἐπακολουθεῖν. ∆ικαιοσύνη μὲν ου ν ἡ πρακτικὴ τῶν δικαίων ε ξις, η ς αἱ κατὰ τὴν ἐνέργειαν τρίβοι. Εἰ δὲ δικαιοσύνην ει ποι τις τὴν γενικὴν ἀρετὴν, τρίβους ἐρεῖ ταύ της τὰς κατ' ει δος ἀρετὰς, ἐφ' α ς ὁδηγεῖ τὸν τὴν αὐτοῦ προσηγορίαν ἐπιγραφόμενον. Τὴν ψυχήν μου, φησὶν, ἐπέστρεψε, πλανη θεῖσαν ἐκ τῶν οἰκείων η καταπεσοῦσαν· η ἐκπεσοῦσαν τὴν ψυχὴν ἐπιστρέφει ὁ Κύριος, καὶ ἀποκαθίστησι μετὰ τὸ ποιμᾶναι, καὶ εἰς τόπον χλόης κατασκηνεῖται· ει τα ἐπισ τρέψας ὁδηγεῖ ἐπὶ τρίβους δικαιοσύνης καὶ ἀρετῆς.
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New English from locked PG 12 / Khazarzar Greek of Fragmenta in Psalmos, Psalms 1–22.3. Earlier lemma-led SERIES-CLOSEOUT English was discarded.
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