The Beauty of the Savior and the Fulfillment of Prayer
If the words exist from you, then the words of my mouth are for acceptance; for I have previously prayed to you, praising you and thanking you; and the words of acceptance are worthy. The study of my intellect, occurring in thoughts and notions, is found always before you, free from all reproach. However, the praiseworthy study is not from another but has risen from you, having cleansed me from my secret faults. With you helping, O Lord, I fall not to any who fight against me spiritually. But if, through my inattention, I should be seized by the adversaries, you redeem me from those who have seized me, as you are found to be my helper and redeemer.
The one who is afflicted, making him joyful, is the word that exists in the soul, or the Holy Spirit who awakens him, he says (Ps 19:2–4): 'The Lord will hear you in a day of affliction.' Through progress, the afflicted learns not to be meager nor to cast down hopes, but to pour out himself to God through prayers; for prayer leads to hearing God. He does not urge the afflicted to pray in order to appear pious; 'The Lord will hear you in a day of affliction, and the name of the God of Jacob will protect you' (Ps 91:15). The presence of God, which has been made to dwell in Jacob, being a shield, is from you. One should seek why, God having enriched Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, the name of the God of Jacob, and not the God of Abraham and Isaac, protects the afflicted. Perhaps it is because, since Jacob has become in many sufferings and hardships as if his life were a symbol of the athletic life, the afflicted, practicing to endure tribulations and contending against them, is protected by the presence of God, which is that of Jacob, so that he, having become a wing-beater because of that, may flutter and strike down the afflictions and the evil spirits working them.
And from a holy place the help is sent, that of the heavenly temple (for the temple is called holy among the Hebrews), which is from the holy of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, it is said concerning: 'God from the heights and the Holy One from the strong Pharaoh shall overshadow like a dense cloud' (Ps 89:10). But the explanation will be mastered from the approaching verse. 'For from Zion shall He take hold of you, from there...'
The splendor of the Savior's beauty shines upon the race of men according to 'Out of Zion'. The first reading is understood as 'Out of the heavenly Zion of God'. 'May all your sacrifice be remembered', he prays, signifying this for the one being afflicted: that he will be released from this affliction as if he had offered a sacrifice thankfully, so that God may remember all your sacrifice, which is not such a sacrifice as is being approached, but a spiritual one. 'But also accepting your burnt offering, let it ascend'; it should be noted that a burnt offering differs from a sacrifice. For perhaps the name of sacrifice is laid upon the soulless things brought to the altar, whereas a burnt offering is a living victim.
Ps 19:5: God gives according to the heart of the one praying, whatever such things he requests; and it is proper to give to God, and it is beneficial to the receiver. For the prayer concerning these things, being done rightly, satisfies God. And 'to fulfill all your counsel'; counsel, that is, to fulfill the counsel being done rightly. And a counsel is fulfilled if it does not fail in its intentions, but meets those things about which it was pre-counseled.
Ps 19:6: And this is what is said concerning it: 'Behold, a Savior was born to us, who is Christ the Lord.' It is said that to speak of salvation is to speak of the salvation which is being saved, to whom God hearkens in a day of affliction, in which salvation there will be rejoicing. And 'we shall be magnified in the name of the Lord our God'. Unlike those being magnified in worldly things, we 'shall be magnified in the name of the Lord our God'. 'We shall be magnified' signifies progress in such goodness. For it does not say: 'We are great'. In this way, Isaac, as he went forward, became greater, as he became very great. And someone is magnified in the name of the Lord by performing the work of a genuine and perfect servant. A great encomium regarding that about which the word is: 'all his requests shall be fulfilled by the Lord, asking nothing which God does not provide'. And the fulfillment of requests is to emerge and come into abundance regarding those things for which someone was worthy.
Ps 19:7: The voice of Christ, sometimes upon the priest, sometimes upon the king, and sometimes upon the economy of the Word of God according to the flesh; one will say it was spoken upon David, and another upon Ezekiel regarding...
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μοι ὑπαρχθῇ παρὰ σοῦ, τότε εἰς εὐδοκίαν ἐστὶν τὰ λόγια τοῦ στόματός μου, α προήνεγκα εὐχόμενός σοι, ὑμνῶν σε, εὐχαριστῶν σοι· εἰς εὐδοκίαν δ' ἐστὶν τὰ λόγια τὰ ἀποδοχῆς α ξια. ̔Η μελέτη τοῦ διανοητικοῦ μου γινομένη ἐν λογισμοῖς καὶ νοήσεσιν, ἐκτὸς ου σα παντὸς μώμου, ἐνώπιόν σου τυγχάνει διαπαντός. τὸ μέντοι τῆς μελέτης α μεμπτον οὐκ α λλοθεν η ἐκ σοῦ ὑπῆρκται καθαρίσαντός με ἀπὸ τῶν κρυφίων μου. Σοῦ βοηθοῦντος, ω δέσποτα, οὐδενὶ ὑποπίπτω τῶν πνευματικῶς προσπολεμούντων. εἰ δὲ καὶ παρ' ἐμὴν ἀπροσεξίαν ἁλῶναι τοῖς ἐναντίοις συμβῇ, σύ με ἐκ τῶν κρατησάντων λύτρωσαι, α μα βοηθὸς καὶ λυτρωτής μου εὑρισκόμενος. 160 Ps 19,2–4 Τὸν θλιβόμενον εὐθυμοποιῶν η τοι ὁ ἐνυπάρχων τῇ ψυχῇ λόγος η τὸ α γιον πνεῦμα διεγεῖρον αὐτόν φησιν· ̓Επακούσαι σου κύριος ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως. διὰ τῆς προκοπῆς μανθάνει ὁ θλιβόμενος μὴ ὀλιγωρεῖν μηδὲ τὰς ἐλπίδας καταβάλλειν ἀλλ' ἐξέχεσθαι τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ προσευχῶν· τοῦ γὰρ ἐπακούειν θεὸν ἡγεῖται εὐχή. εἰς προσευχὰς ου ν παρακαλεῖ τὸν θλιβόμενον διὰ τοῦ φάναι· ̓Επακούσαι σου κύριος ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως, ὑπερασπίσαι σου τὸ ο νομα τοῦ θεοῦ ̓Ιακώβ. ἡ προσηγορία τοῦ θεοῦ ἡ προσοικειωθεῖσα τῷ ̓Ιακὼβ ἀσπὶς ὑπάρχουσα σοῦ ἐστιν. ζητητέον δὲ διὰ τί, θεοῦ χρηματίσαντος τοῦ ̓Αβραὰμ καὶ τοῦ ̓Ισαὰκ καὶ τοῦ ̓Ιακώβ, τὸ ο νομα τοῦ θεοῦ ̓Ιακώβ, οὐχὶ τοῦ θεοῦ ̓Αβραὰμ η ̓Ισαάκ, ὑπερασπίζει τοῦ θλιβομένου. μήποτε ου ν, ἐπεὶ ἐν πολλαῖς κακοπαθείαις καὶ ἐπιπόνοις ὁ ̓Ιακὼβ 43 γεγένηται ὡς τὸν βίον αὐτοῦ σύμβολον τῆς ἀθλητικῆς πολιτείας ει ναι, ὁ θλιβόμενος ἀσκούμενος ἐγκαρτερεῖν ταῖς θλίψεσιν καὶ ἀγωνίζεσθαι πρὸς αὐτὰς ὑπερασπίζεται ὑπὸ τῆς θεοῦ προσηγορίας, η τοῦ ̓Ιακώβ ἐστιν, ι να πτερνιστὴς κατ' ἐκεῖνον γεγενημένος πτερνίσῃ καὶ καταπαλαίσῃ τὰ θλιβερὰ καὶ τὰ ἐνεργοῦντα αὐτὰ πνεύματα πονηρά. ̓Εξ ἁγίου δὲ καταπέμπει βοήθειαν η τοῦ οὐρανίου ναοῦ (ὁ γὰρ ναὸς παρ' ̔Εβραίοις α γιον ὀνομάζεται) η ἐξ ἁγίου τοῦ κυρίου καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ̓Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ περὶ ου λέγεται· ̔Ο θεὸς ἐκ Θεμᾶν η ξει καὶ ὁ α γιος ἐξ ο ρους Φαρᾶν κατασκίου δασέος. αυ τη δὲ ἡ ἐξήγησις κυριωθήσεται ἐκ τοῦ ἐπιφερομένου στίχου. ̓Εκ Σιὼν γὰρ ἀντιλάβοιτό σου, τῷ ἐκεῖθεν τὸν σωτῆρα τῷ γένει τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπιλάμπειν κατὰ τὸ ̓Εκ Σιὼν ἡ εὐπρέπεια τῆς ὡραιότητος αὐτοῦ. μαρτυρηθείη δὲ καὶ ἡ πρώτη ἐκδοχή, ἐκ Σιὼν τῆς ἐπουρανίου ἀντιλαμβανομένου θεοῦ. Μνησθείη πάσης θυσίας σου, ἐπεύχεται, τῷ θλιβομένῳ τοῦτο σημαίνων· ε σται τὸ ῥυσθῆναί σε ἐκ τῆς θλίψεως ω στε εὐχαριστητικῶς θυσίαν προσενεγκεῖν, ι να πάσης τῆς ου τως προσαγομένης θυσίας σου μνησθείη ὁ θεὸς ου σης πνευματικῆς. ̓Αλλὰ καὶ τὸ ὁλοκαύτωμά σου ἀποδεχόμενος πιανάτω· σημειωτέον διαφέρειν θυσίαν ὁλοκαυτώματος. τάχα γὰρ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀψύχων προσαγομένων ἐπὶ τὸν βωμὸν κεῖται τὸ θυσίας ο νομα, τοῦ ὁλοκαυτώματος ἐμψύχου θύματος ο ντος. 161 Ps 19,5 ∆ίδωσι θεὸς κατὰ τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ εὐχομένου, ο τ' α ν τοιαῦτα αἰτῆται, α καὶ θεῷ πρέπει διδόναι καὶ τῷ λαμβάνοντι συμφέρει. ἡ γὰρ περὶ τούτων αι τησις ὀρθῶς γινομένη ε ξει τὸν θεὸν παρέχοντα. Καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν βουλήν σου πληρώσαι· βουλὴν τουτέστιν τὴν βούλησιν ὀρθῶς γινομένην πληρώσαι. πληροῦται δὲ βούλησις, ο τ' α ν μὴ διαμάρτῃ ἐν ταῖς σκέψεσιν, ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνα ἀπαντήσῃ περὶ ω ν προεβουλεύσατο. 162 Ps 19,6 Εστιν δὲ τοῦτο περὶ ου ει ρηται· ̓Ιδοὺ ἐτέχθη ἡμῖν σήμερον σωτήρ, ο ς ἐστιν Χριστὸς κύριος. λέγεται σωτήριον λέγειν τὴν σωτηρίαν η ν σῴζεται, ῳ ἐπακούει θεὸς ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεως, ἐφ' ῃ σωτηρίᾳ ἀγαλλίασις ε σται. Καὶ ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν μεγαλυνθησόμεθα. α λλων ἐπὶ κοσμικοῖς πράγμασιν μεγαλυνομένων, ἡμεῖς ̓Εν ὀνόματι κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν μεγαλυνθησόμεθα. σημαίνει δὲ τὴν ἐν τῷ ο ντως ἀγαθῷ προκοπὴν τὸ Μεγαλυνόμεθα. οὐ γὰρ ει πεν· μεγάλοι ἐσμέν. ταύτῃ τοι καὶ ὁ ̓Ισαὰκ προβαίνων μείζων ἐγίνετο, ε ως μέγας ἐγένετο σφόδρα. μεγαλύνεται δέ τις ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τὰ γνησίου καὶ τελείου δούλου ἐπιτελῶν. ̓Εγκώμιον μέγα τοῦ περὶ ου ὁ λόγος τὸ πληρωθήσεσθαι ὑπὸ κυρίου πάντα τὰ αἰτήματα αὐτοῦ οὐδὲν αἰτουμένου, ω ν μὴ παρέχει ὁ θεός. πλήρωσις δὲ αἰτήσεων τὸ ἐκβῆναι καὶ εἰς υ παρξιν ἐλθεῖν ἐκεῖνα, ὑπὲρ ω ν τις ἠξίωσεν. 163 Ps 19,7 Τῆς χριστοῦ φωνῆς ὁτὲ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῦ ἱερέως, ὁτὲ δ' ἐπὶ τοῦ βασιλέως, ὁτὲ δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς κατὰ σάρκα τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου οἰκονομίας· ὁ μέν τις φήσει ἐπὶ τοῦ ∆αυὶδ εἰρῆσθαι, ὁ δὲ ἐπὶ ̓Εζεκίου περὶ ου καὶ τὴν
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Discover how early Christians interpreted the Psalms as divine messages and prophecies about salvation and judgment.
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