Divine Justice and the Perfection of Truth
The history was preserved, not because the fiftieth was arranged with them. But what analogy the number has to a lion, the Savior, teaching about forgiveness, took fifty debtors and with five hundred denarii of forgiveness, and to each side it had happened through the fifty and the related number to owe; but the five hundredth is not. Regardless, the Passover of the slaughter of the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, having risen from the dead, who has made the forgiveness, the people for fifty days pass through rejoicing the fiftieth day of the outpouring of the Spirit, being worthy.
And called by the Hebrews Jubilee, the year through fifty years is a feast in which the cutting of debts and the restoration of the properties of the Hebrews' freedom are confirmed; therefore it is also following the psalm of David concerning repentance to be placed as fiftieth. And it is composed also of seven weeks and a unit, as if it were a week of weeks in number. It is necessary for there to be in weeks one who casts away the filth and the work of sin.
He who intensely repents and loves the fruits fitting for repentance asks for the great mercy from God to come to him (Ps 50,3a), for repentance is not sufficient without the mercy of God, nor the mercy of God without the recognition from us toward salvation. Just as the hard-to-wash dyes are removed not by one washing but by many, so also the great things of the lawless acts are erased by many mercies of God (Ps 50,3b).
The same energy calls lawlessness and sin, differing by the intention: the one consisting as lawlessness without law, the other consisting as sin according to the transgression of law (Ps 50,4); however, each is worthy to be washed and to be cleansed by God who is able to wash and cleanse it from the aforementioned defilement. But he who the...
Having committed a sin before Him, he would not take up another to do; for forgetting the former ones, we perform another. As for being a king, he was not subject to human law, but to God; nor did any of the lawgivers or a witness testify that he did evil before any of them; but since he wishes to be a king and God-fearing, he was subject to the law of God; therefore he did evil before God alone, and the witness is to God alone.
And again: since you are God, and the mind of men leans more toward evil things (Ps 50:6), and there is no man who will not sin, God is justified in His own words, in which He says that all who have strayed ought to sin; by this also He conquers when being judged against men, proving them to be sinners. Accompanying this, if we say 'We have not sinned' (Ps 50:7), we make Him a liar; for if it had been declared that all lean toward sin, he who claims sinlessness proves God to be a liar.
He who has been trained in the skill of sophistry upon the prey of truth, having known its greatness, possessed a perfect love toward it. For those not having been trained in falsehoods, having become more discerning, see the priceless beauty of the truth, namely Moses and Daniel. For after having been tested by the sophistical arguments, having ascended to the true wisdom, they received testimony from God as being perfect wise men, God having made known to them the unmanifest and the hidden things of His wisdom, so that nothing was unclear to them or overshadowed. David, by chance having this skill, spoke the coming verse.
He who has truly approached the typical Passover by the blood of the lamb in us is purified, being led in with hyssop as it is written in Exodus (Ex 12:22); but he who takes the lamb of God who takes away the...
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τῆς ἱστορίας ἐσῴζετο, οὐκ α ν ου τε πεντηκοστὸς η ν μετ' ἐκείνους ταττόμενος. ο τι δὲ ἀναλογίαν ε χει πρὸς ε λεον ὁ ἀριθμός, ὁ σωτὴρ περὶ ἀφέσεως διδάσκων χρεώστας παρέλαβεν ὑπευθύνους πεντήκοντα καὶ πεντακοσίοις δηναρίοις ἀφέσεως καὶ ἑκατέροις γεγενημένης διὰ τὸ πεντήκοντα καὶ τὸν συγγενῆ ἀριθμὸν χρεωστεῖν· ου τος δὲ ὁ πεντακοσιοστός ἐστιν. ἀμέλει τὸ πάσχα σφαγέντος τοῦ ἀμνοῦ τοῦ θεοῦ τοῦ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου αι ροντος, ἀναστάντος ἐκ νεκρῶν τοῦ τὴν α φεσιν πεποιηκότος, ὁ λαὸς ἐπὶ πεντήκοντα ἡμέρας διάγομεν εὐφραινόμενοι τὴν πεντηκοστὴν ἡμέραν τῆς ἐκχύσεως τοῦ πνεύματος ἀξιούμενοι. Καλούμενος δὲ παρ' ̔Εβραίοις ̓Ιωβηλαῖος ὁ διὰ πεντήκοντα ἐτῶν ἐνιαυτός ἐστιν ἑορτάσιμος ἐν ῳ χρεῶν ἀποκοπαὶ καὶ τῶν ̔Εβραίων ἐλευθερίαι κτήσεων ἀποκαταστάσεις βεβαιοῦνται· ο θεν ἀκόλουθον καὶ τὸν περὶ μετανοίας τοῦ ∆αυὶδ ψαλμὸν πεντηκοστὸν τετάχθαι. ε στιν δὲ συγκείμενος καὶ ἐξ ἑβδομάδων ἑπτὰ καὶ μονάδος, ὡς ει ναι ἑβδομάδα ἑβδομάδων ἀριθμόν. ε δει ου ν ἐν ἑβδομάδων γενέσθαι τὸν ἀποβάλλοντα τὸ α χθος καὶ τὸ ε ργον τῆς ἁμαρτίας. 534 Ps 50,3a ̔Ο σφοδρῶς μετανοῶν καὶ τοὺς προσήκοντας τῇ μετανοίᾳ καρποὺς ἀγαπῶν αἰτεῖ καὶ τὸν παρὰ θεοῦ μέγαν ε λεον εἰς αὐτὸν γενέσθαι, οὐκ ἐπαρκούσης τῆς μετανοίας α νευ ἐλέου θεοῦ οὐδὲ τοῦ ἐλέου τοῦ θεοῦ α νευ τῆς ἐκ τοῦ ἐφ' ἡμῖν μεταγνώσεως πρὸς σωτηρίαν. 535 Ps 50,3b Ωσπερ αἱ δυσέκπλυτοι βαφαὶ οὐ μιᾷ πλύσει ἀλλὰ πολλαῖς ἐξίτηλοι γίνονται, ου τω καὶ τὰ μεγάλα τῶν ἀνομημάτων πολλοῖς οἰκτιρμοῖς θεοῦ ἀπαλείφεται. 536 Ps 50,4 Τὴν αὐτὴν ἐνέργειαν ἀνομίαν καὶ ἁμαρτίαν καλεῖ τῷ κατὰ τὴν ἐπίνοιαν διαφέρειν, τῷ α νευ μὲν νόμου 101 συνίστασθαι ἀνομίαν, τῷ δὲ κατὰ παράβασιν νόμου συνίστασθαι ἁμαρτίαν· πλὴν ἑκατέρως αὐτὴν ἐκπλυθῆναι καὶ καθαρισθῆναι ἀξιοῖ θεὸν τὸν ἐκπλύναι αὐτὴν καὶ καθαρίσαι δυνάμενον ἀπὸ τῆς προειρημένης ε ξεως. 537 Ps 50,5 ̔Ο δὲ τὴν α παξ πραχθεῖσαν ἁμαρτίαν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ε χων οὐκ ἀνάσχοιτο ἑτέραν ποιῆσαι· τῶν γὰρ προτέρων ἐπιλανθανόμενοι ἑτέρας ἐνεργοῦμεν ἡμεῖς. 538 Ps 50,6ab Οσον ἐπὶ τῷ ει ναι βασιλεὺς οὐχ ὑπέκειτο ἀνθρωπίνῳ νόμῳ, ο θεν οὐδέ τινι τῶν νομοθετῶν η μαρτεν οὐδ' ἐνώπιόν τινος αὐτῶν τὸ πονηρὸν ἐποίησεν· ἐπειδὴ δὲ πρὸς τῷ βασιλεὺς καὶ θεοσεβὴς ει ναι βούλεται, ὑπέκειτο τῷ τοῦ θεοῦ νόμῳ· διὸ καὶ η μαρτεν μόνῳ θεῷ, καὶ τὸ πονηρὸν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐποίησεν. 539 Ps 50,6cδ Καὶ πάλιν· ἐπεὶ θεὸς ει πεν ἐπιρρεπεστέραν ει ναι τὴν διάνοιαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐπὶ τὰ πονηρὰ καὶ τὸ Οὐκ ε στιν α νθρωπος ο ς οὐχ ἁμαρτήσεται ἁμαρτανόντων καὶ αὐτῶν τῶν τελείων, δικαιοῦται ὁ θεὸς ἐν τοῖς λόγοις ἑαυτοῦ ἐν οι ς ει πεν πάντας ἐκκεκλικότας α μα ἠχρεῶσθαι· ταύτῃ δὲ καὶ νικᾷ κρινόμενος πρὸς τοὺς ἀνθρώπους ἀποδεικνὺς αὐτοὺς ἁμαρτωλούς. συνῳδὸν τούτοις τὸ ̓Εὰν ει πωμεν Οὐχ ἡμαρτήκαμεν, ψεύστην ποιοῦμεν αὐτόν· εἰ γὰρ ἀπεφήνατο κατὰ πάντων ἐπιρρεπῶς ἐχόντων πρὸς ἁμαρτίαν, ὁ ἀναμαρτησίαν αὐχῶν ο σον εἰς αὐτὸν ψεύστην ἀποφαίνει τὸν θεόν. 540 Ps 50,8 ̔Ο τῇ σοφιστικῇ ε ξει ἐγγεγυμνασμένος ἐπὶ θήρᾳ τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ μέγεθος αὐτῆς γνοὺς ἀγάπην πρὸς αὐτὴν ε σχεν τελείαν. οἱ μὴ γὰρ τοῖς ψεύδεσιν ἐγγυμνασάμενοι διορατικώτεροι γεγενημένοι καθορῶσι τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ ἀξιάγαστον κάλλος, οι ός ἐστι Μωυσὴς καὶ ∆ανιήλ. μετὰ γὰρ τὸ πειραθῆναι σοφιστικῶν λόγων ἐπ' αὐτὴν τὴν ἀληθῆ σοφίαν ἀναβάντες ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ μαρτυρίαν ε σχον ὡς ο ντες τέλειοι σοφοί, δηλώσαντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ θεοῦ τὰ α δηλα καὶ τὰ κρύφια τῆς σοφίας αὐτοῦ ὡς μηδὲν αὐτοῖς ε τι ἀσαφὲς η ἐπεσκιασμένον ει ναι. ταύτης τῆς ε ξεως καὶ ὁ ∆αυὶδ τυγχάνων ἀνεφθέγξατο τὸν προκείμενον στίχον. 541 Ps 50,9 ̔Ο γνησίως τῷ τυπικῷ πάσχα προσεληλυθὼς ὑπὸ τοῦ αι ματος τοῦ ἐν ἡμῖν προβάτου καθαίρεται, προσαγομένου ὑσσώπου ὡς ἐν ̓Εξόδῳ γέγραπται· ὁ δὲ τὸν ἀμνὸν τοῦ θεοῦ τὸν αι ροντα τὴν
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