Divine Grace and the Hope of Resurrection
He brings up those who have been brought down. He says that the perfect heavenly generations will sing praises to God's righteousness (Ps 49:6), possessing with perfect words the most righteous and most discerning thing: to rejoice in God not through sacrifices, but through judgment, and to hold this judgment for the eternal covenant.
He says that God is not bound by fetters, nor does He drink (Ps 49:13), so that He might attend to meat as if it were food or drink of blood. Then, opposing the true honor of God to the name of sacrifice, he adds the following.
He says that this true sacrifice is the perception of benefits, the confession from the heart, and the fulfillment of vows, which is a debt owed to God by men (Ps 49:14). Doing these things, he says, one is hopeful to succeed with God helping in tribulations (Ps 49:15), so that you may also glorify Him by doing good, being constantly lifted up in thanksgiving.
This is a paralysis of the law (Ps 49:17): to not steal, to not commit adultery, to love your neighbor as yourself, and not to speak deceitfully or harmfully among your people, nor to accuse or plot schemes against your neighbor.
But judgment will demonstrate the knowledge that I will also make you be seen by yourself (Ps 49:21). For each person will see himself as he is, from the hearts being uncovered, just as he was stamped from the heart. Theodotion, interpreting the series of actions, showed through collections that it happens before the eyes of the one who acts.
This was the accusation of the Righteous regarding himself (Ps 50:5). For I do not wait, he says, for the rebuke of another, even if the prophet rebuked. He indeed rebuked once, but I see the falling through all things, yet I do not recognize the healing because of mercy.
The request for forgiveness is because sin has become inherent to us according to the first generation (Ps 50:7), being passed down from the mothers who carry us. Because through one man sin entered into the world, and evil is rooted in the first woman, and from her, through those who give birth, it passes on to those being born. It is more appropriate to say this regarding the mother, even though the father also participates in sin; for we are indeed produced spermatically from the father, but entirely from mothers when we are being born, and through the...
Bringing forth into light. Ps 50:8a: 'We indeed,' he says, 'were rooted in iniquities and are born in sins, but to you it is pleasing, the truly good and never deviating.' How then is it possible for men to be glorified by such a judge rather than to have brought forth shame, being condemned?
Ps 50:8b.9: He deserves from pre-existence the grace that is to become present and is sparing. For regarding the beginnings, God brings the possible things toward Himself on account of His own purpose and stability, even if the things from us might not at all be worthy, just as on account of the covenant, He pities the race of Abraham which is suffering evil, bringing forward the possible things from the beginning and guarding the certainty of the promise more than the equality of the authority. Since, therefore, one who has known wisdom from God and has been honored by this, as to understanding the hidden things about which the Revelation said, 'Open my eyes, and I will perceive the wonders of your law' (Rev 43:18), because of this, he confesses grace regarding the gift of wisdom, and deserves to have the defilement that has happened removed from him, added to it, and this by grace.
Ps 50:10: The Savior said that Abraham was expecting his day to rejoice and to see it arriving and to rejoice, Abraham saying, 'Your father rejoiced so that he might see my day, and he saw and rejoiced' (John 8:56); but David, instead of sight, speaks of hearing, saying that the cause of great joy is being signified to him in Hades by the presence of the Spirit, and that he shall be gladdened in Hades by the Spirit, and his inner parts, the bones of monuments humbled by sin and death, shall be gathered together with the body which is the cause of the resurrection.
Ps 70:7: Sin is weak and a cause of weakness, but righteousness is strong and its defender is God; such also is the expectation of God, and especially the continuous one; and just as, being understood from the first creation, it would not have existed without God, it is rather being trained in opposition to sorrows.
Ps 70:9: Since I have taken up your help in the season of the vigor of age, not the strength of the body, but power; therefore, let this strength remain to me while youth is speaking, and after all human strength has passed, let that which is from you be present, such as...
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ἐπανάγει τοὺς καταχθέντας. 83 Ps 49,6 Ἐφυμνήσει δέ, φησίν, τῇ τοῦ θεοῦ δικαιοσύνῃ τὰ τέλεια γένη τὰ οὐράνια, τοῖς τελείοις ἐπευφημοῦντα λόγοις τοῖς τὸ δικαιότατον ἔχουσιν καὶ κριτικώτατον, τῷ μὴ θύμασιν ἀλλὰ κρίσει θεὸν εὐφραίνεσθαι καὶ ταύτην ἔχειν τὴν εἰς ἀεὶ διαθήκην. 84 Ps 49,13 Μὴ γὰρ ἐνδεὴς ἐδεσμάτων, φησίν, ὁ θεὸς καὶ ποτῶν, ἵνα προσέχῃ κρέασιν ὡς ἐδέσμασι καὶ ὡς ποτῷ αἵματι. εἶτα ἀντεισάγων τὴν ἀληθῆ θεοῦ τιμὴν τῷ τῆς θυσίας ὀνόματι τὰ ἐχόμενα προστίθησι. 85 Ps 49,14 Ταύτην, φησίν, ἡγοῦ θυσίαν τὴν τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν αἴσθησιν καὶ τὴν ἐκ καρδίας ὁμολογίαν καὶ τὴν τῶν εὐχῶν πλήρωσιν χρέος ὀφειλόμενον παρὰ ἀνθρώπων θεῷ. 86 Ps 49,15 Καὶ ταῦτα ποιῶν, φησίν, εὔελπις ἔσο τεύξεσθαι θεοῦ βοηθοῦντος ἐν θλίψεσιν, ἵνα καὶ δοξάσῃς αὐτὸν εὐεργετούμενος, ἀπαύστως ἀνάγων εὐχαριστίας. 87 Ps 49,17®19 Παράλυσις ταῦτα τοῦ νόμου, τοῦ μὲν Οὐ κλέψεις τὸ κλέπτῃ συντρέχειν, τοῦ δὲ Οὐ μοιχεύσεις τὸ μετὰ μοιχῶν συντετάχθαι, τοῦ δὲ Ἀγαπήσεις τὸν πλησίον σου ὡς σαυτὸν καὶ Οὐ πορεύσει δόλῳ ἐν τῷ ἔθνει σου τὸ λαλεῖν ἐπιβουλευτικὰ καὶ δολερὰ καὶ κατηγορεῖν καὶ μηχανᾶσθαι τῷ πλησίον προσπταίσματα. 88 Ps 49,21c Ἀλλ' ἡ κρίσις ἐπιδείξει τὴν γνῶσιν ὅτι καὶ αὐτόν σε ποιήσω σεαυτῷ θεωρεῖσθαι. τοιοῦτον γὰρ ἑαυτὸν ἕκαστος ὄψεται τῶν καρδιῶν ἀπο καλυπτομένων, οἷος ἐκ τῆς καρδίας ἐτυπώθη. Τὸ δὲ Προσθήσω Στοιβάσω Θεοδοτίων ἑρμηνεύσας τὴν ἀθρόαν τῶν πράξεων ἐδήλωσεν ἄθροισιν ὑπ' ὀφθαλμοὺς τῷ πράξαντι γινομένην. 89 Ps 50,5 Τοῦτο ἦν τὸ ∆ίκαιος ἑαυτοῦ κατήγορος. οὐ γὰρ ἀναμένω, φησίν, τὸν παρ' ἑτέρου ἔλεγχον, εἰ καὶ ὁ προφήτης ἤλεγξεν. ἐκεῖνος μέν γε εἰς ἅπαξ, ἐγὼ δὲ διὰ παντὸς ὁρῶ τὸ πταισθέν, ἀλλ' οὐκ ἀπογινώσκω τὴν ἴασιν διὰ τὸν ἔλεον. 90 Ps 50,7 Συγγνώμης αἴτησις ὅτι συμπέφυκεν ἡμῖν ἡ ἁμαρτία κατὰ τὴν πρώτην γένεσιν ἐκ μητέρων τῶν κυουσῶν ἐφ' ἡμᾶς παραπεμπομένη. ὅτι ∆ι' ἑνὸς 11 ἀνθρώπου ἡ ἁμαρτία εἰς τὸν κόσμον εἰσῆλθεν, καὶ ἐρρίζωται τὸ κακὸν ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ γυναικὶ καὶ ἐξ ἐκείνης διὰ τῶν τοκετῶν ἐπὶ τὰ τικτόμενα διαβαίνει. οἰκειότερον δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς μητρὸς τοῦτο λέγεται, καίτοι καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ πατρὸς διηκούσης τῆς ἁμαρτίας, ὅτι σπερματικῶς μὲν ἐκ πατρός, ἐντελῶς δὲ ἐκ μητέρων ἐσμὲν ἀποκυούμενοι καὶ διὰ τῶν τοκετῶν εἰς φῶς προϊόντες. 91 Ps 50,8a Ἡμεῖς μέν, φησίν, ἐν ἀνομίαις ἐρριζώθημεν καὶ ἐν ἁμαρτίαις γεννώμεθα, σοὶ δὲ ἀρέσκει τὸ ἀληθῶς καλὸν καὶ μηδαμῶς παρατετραμμένον. πῶς οὖν ἔστιν ἀνθρώπους παρὰ τῷ τοιούτῳ κριτῇ δοξασθῆναι ἀλλ' οὐκ αἰσχύνην ἀπενέγκασθαι κατακρινομένους; 92 Ps 50,8b.9 Ἐκ τῆς προϋπαρξάσης εἰς αὐτὸν χάριτος ἀξιοῖ καὶ τὴν νῦν γενέσθαι φείδω. ταῖς γὰρ ἀρχαῖς ταῖς παρ' ἑαυτοῦ θεὸς ἐπάγει τὰ ἐφεξῆς ἕνεκα τῆς ἰδίας προθέσεως καὶ βεβαιότητος, εἰ καὶ τὰ παρ' ἡμῶν μὴ παντάπασιν ἄξια εἴη, ὥσπερ καὶ τῆς διαθήκης ἕνεκα τῆς πρὸς Ἀβραὰμ οἰκτείρει τὸ ἐξ αὐτοῦ γένος κακούμενον, τῇ ἀρχῇ τὰ ἐφεξῆς ἐπιφέρων καὶ τὸ τῆς ἐπαγγελίας βέβαιον ὑπὲρ τὸ τῆς ἐξουσίας ἴσον φυλάττων. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν σοφίας οἶδεν παρὰ θεοῦ τετυχηκὼς καὶ ταύτῃ τετιμημένος ὡς καὶ τὰ κεκρυμμένα συνιέναι περὶ ὧν ηὔχεται Ἀποκάλυψον τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς μου, καὶ κατανοήσω τὰ θαυμάσιά σου ἐκ τοῦ νόμου σου, διὰ τοῦτο χάριτας μὲν ὁμολογεῖ τῇ τῆς σοφίας δωρεᾷ, ἀξιοῖ δὲ τὸν ἐπιγεγονότα ῥύπον ἀφελεῖν αὐτοῦ προστιθέντα, καὶ τοῦτο τῇ χάριτι. 93 Ps 50,10 Ὁ μὲν σωτὴρ τὸν Ἀβραὰμ ἔφη προσδοκῶντά τε τὴν ἡμέραν αὐτοῦ προ ηγαλλιᾶσθαι καὶ παραγενομένης αὐτῆς ἰδεῖν καὶ χαίρειν Ἀβραάμ, λέγων, ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ἠγαλλιάσατο ἵνα ἴδῃ τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν ἐμήν, καὶ εἶδεν καὶ ἐχάρη· ὁ δὲ ∆αυὶδ ἀντὶ τῆς ὄψεως ἀκοὴν λέγει, ἀκούσεσθαι λέγων ἐν ᾅδου τὴν αἰτίαν εὐφροσύνης μεγάλης τὴν τῆς παρουσίας ὑπὸ τοῦ πνεύματος αὐτῷ σημαινομένην καὶ εὐφρανθήσεσθαι μὲν ἐν ᾅδου τῷ πνεύματι, συναγάλλεσθαι δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ εἴσω μνημάτων ὀστέα τῇ ἁμαρτίᾳ καὶ τῷ θανάτῳ τεταπεινωμένα, συνταφέντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ τῆς ἀναστάσεως αἰτίου σώματος. 94a Ps 70,7 Ἀσθενὲς ἡ ἁμαρτία καὶ ἀσθενείας αἴτιον, ἰσχυρὸν δὲ δικαιοσύνη καὶ ὁ ταύτης προστάτης θεός· τοιαύτη καὶ ἡ θεοῦ προσδοκία καὶ μάλιστα ἡ διηνεκής· καὶ ὥσπερ ἐκ πρώτης γενέσεως νοουμένης ὡς οὐκ ἂν ὑπῆρξεν ἄνευ θεοῦ, ἀνθισταμένη δὲ πρὸς λυπηρῶν ἐναντιότητα μᾶλλον γυμνάζεται. 95a Ps 70,9 Ἐπείπερ ἐν τῷ νέῳ τῆς ἡλικίας καιρῷ τὴν σὴν βοήθειαν, οὐ τὴν σώματος ῥώμην, ἰσχὺν ὑπέλαβον, διὰ τοῦτό μοι καὶ ληγούσης τῆς νεότητος ἡ ἰσχὺς αὕτη παραμεινάτω καὶ παρελθούσης παντάπασι τῆς ἀνθρωπίνης ἰσχύος τὸ παρὰ σοὶ δυνατὸν παρέστω, οἷόν
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Apollinaris of Laodicea on the Psalms (catena fragments).
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