The Victory of the Poor and the Sacrifice of Praise
Suffering on our behalf (Ps 68:28). By their own desires and by being handed over to passions, they are the cause of enduring these things, not having God as the cause, since they are handed over to those whom they loved. For He sent them away according to the desires of their hearts, so that they might walk in their own desires, an addition of lawlessness upon their lawlessness.
Since, therefore, they did not receive the truth when it came, but wished to live lawlessly within the shadow of the law, they were also driven out from the place of typical worship, so that I might add to the former lawlessness another, by wanting to keep this outside of Judea. Therefore they do not enter into the righteousness which is through the faith of Jesus Christ, concerning which it is written: 'But now the righteousness of God without law has been revealed, being witnessed by the law and the prophets' (Rom 3:21). For how could those who were always about external things and possessing the shadow, enter into the righteousness which they did not know as God, in order to establish their own? For he says that, not knowing the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to the righteousness of God; to submit to righteousness and to enter into it are the same thing.
For those having virtue and faith and knowledge of God live: 'Hear, O my life, your life and the length of your days, to love you, Lord your God, with all your heart and with all your soul' (Deut 6:5); but also, 'he who believes in me has eternal life' (John 3:36). It is a book in which those living thus are written: it is the knowledge of God, of him who knows those who are His, to whom it is promised that those not falling under the remembrance of God shall be blotted out.
Rich and being outside of wounds, I have become poor, so that the poor might become rich through my poverty, and having grieved, having been wounded on behalf of wounds made by the burning arrows of the evil one (Ps 69:29). If my being indifferent...
A poor and suffering one, as if a reproach were added to my wounds, and I am by nature a poor man, but salvation from the face of God has taken hold of me (Ps 68:34). For having risen from the dead and having been taken up, he cast away the wounds and the poverty which he had on behalf of men. And when the enemies had been destroyed, and especially the devil, it followed that a triumphal song should be shouted by him, having conquered in the name of Christ.
I came in the name of my Father, and having surpassed by thought him who does not magnify the name, in praise saying great things, not only praising and glorifying him but also contemplating highly the things concerning him; for those who do not magnify God in this way do not find all perceptible magnitude to be far from him being incorporeal. And since to praise God is a sacrifice, according to 'Sacrifice of praise, you will glorify him' (Ps 68:31), having praised the name of God with song and having magnified him in praise, he is encouraged as 'It pleases God that one brings a young bull with horns and weapons, being brought for a sacrifice.' Therefore also, to those who do not sacrifice thus, he says, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice, a knowledge of God or burnt offerings' (Ps 50:8).
Let these things be seen by the poor in spirit, whom Jesus strengthened against every evil phalanx; for seeing such courage in them, to be rejoiced eternally according to 'Eternal joy shall take hold of them.' For he is not the one loosing those who are fallen and bringing out from bonds those who are bound and from the prison (Ps 68:35-36). Those formerly called prophets and God-beloved men, and after these, servants and ministers of the gospel (Ps 68:37).
It is fitting that the psalm gives remembrance concerning salvation to all those who are repenting, remembering and recognizing the good and the truth, and coming upon them; for he says, 'They shall remember and shall turn to the Lord all the ends of the earth' (Ps 68:37). And since the end of...
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ἀλγεῖν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν. 720a Ps 68,28 Ταῖς αὐτῶν ἐπιθυμίαις καὶ αι ς ει λαντο ε χειν πάθεσιν παραδιδόμενοι, ἑαυτοῖς εἰσιν αι τιοι τοῦ ὑπομένειν ταῦτα, τοῦ θεοῦ αἰτίαν οὐκ ε χοντος, εἰ οι ς ἐπόθησαν παραδέδονται· ̓Εξαπέστειλε γοῦν αὐτοὺς κατὰ τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα τῶν καρδιῶν αὐτῶν, πορεύσονται ἐν τοῖς ἐπιτηδεύμασιν αὐτῶν, προσθήκης γενομένης ἀνομίας ἐπὶ τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτῶν. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν οὐχ ει λαντο τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐλθοῦσαν ἀλλ' ἐν τῇ σκιᾷ τοῦ νόμου παρανόμως διαβιῶναι ἠθέλησαν, ἐξώσθησαν καὶ τοῦ τόπου τῆς τυπικῆς λατρείας, ι να προσθῶσι τῇ προτέρᾳ ἀνομίᾳ καὶ α λλην τῷ ε ξωθεν τῆς ̓Ιουδαίας βούλεσθαι ταύτην φυλάττειν. διὸ οὐκ εἰσέρχονται ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ τῇ διὰ πίστεως ̓Ιησοῦ Χριστοῦ, περὶ η ς γράφεται Νυνὶ δὲ χωρὶς νόμου δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ πεφανέρωται, μαρτυρομένη ὑπὸ τοῦ νόμου καὶ τῶν προφητῶν. πῶς γὰρ οι όν τε η ν ἀεὶ περὶ τὰ ε ξω καὶ τὴν σκιὰν ε χοντας εἰσελθεῖν ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ, η ν ἠγνόησαν θεοῦ ου σαν, ι να στήσωσι τὴν ἰδίαν; ̓Αγνοοῦντες γάρ φησι τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν δικαιοσύνην καὶ τὴν ἰδίαν ζητοῦντες στῆσαι, τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ τοῦ θεοῦ 136 οὐχ ὑπετάγησαν· ταὐτὸν τὸ ὑποταγῆναι δικαιοσύνῃ καὶ τὸ εἰσελθεῖν ἐν αὐτῇ. 721a Ps 68,29 Οτι γὰρ οἱ ἀρετὴν καὶ πίστιν καὶ γνῶσιν θεοῦ ε χοντες ζῶσιν, ἀκουστέον τοῦ Αυ τη ἡ ζωή σου καὶ ἡ μακρότης τῶν ἡμερῶν σου, ἀγαπᾶν σε κύριον τὸν θεόν σου ἐξ ο λης καρδίας καὶ ἐξ ο λης ψυχῆς σου· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ̔Ο πιστεύων εἰς ἐμὲ ε χει ζωὴν αἰώνιον. βίβλος ἐν ῃ οἱ ου τως ζῶντες γράφονται ἡ θεοῦ γνῶσίς ἐστιν γινώσκοντος τοὺς ο ντας αὐτοῦ, ῳ ε πεται ἐξαλείφεσθαι τοὺς μὴ ὑποπίπτοντας τῷ μνημονεύεσθαι ὑπὸ θεοῦ. 722a Ps 68,30–33a Πλούσιος καὶ ἐκτὸς τραυμάτων ὑπάρχων πτωχὸς γέγονα, ι να οἱ πτωχοὶ πλουτήσωσιν τῇ ἐμῇ πτωχείᾳ, καὶ η λγησα τραυματισθεὶς ὑπὲρ τραυματιῶν γενομένων ὑπὸ τῶν πεπυρωμένων βελῶν τοῦ πονηροῦ. κα ν ου τω μου ο ντος ἀναισθητῶσί τινες τῶν ὑπὲρ ω ν γέγονα πτωχὸς καὶ ἀλγῶν, ὡς προστιθέναι α λγος ἐπὶ τὰ τραύματά μου καὶ οι εσθαί με κατὰ φύσιν πτωχὸν ει ναι, ἀλλ' ου ν ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ προσώπου τοῦ θεοῦ ἀντελάβετό μου. ̓Αναστὰς γὰρ ἐκ νεκρῶν καὶ ἀναληφθεὶς ἀπέβαλεν τὰ τραύματα καὶ τὴν πτωχείαν η ν ει χεν ὑπὲρ ἀνθρώπων. Καταλυθέντων δὲ τῶν ἐχθρῶν καὶ μάλιστα τοῦ διαβόλου, ἀκόλουθον η ν ᾠδὴν ἐπινίκιον ἀνακρουθῆναι ὑπ' αὐτοῦ νικήσαντος τῷ ὀνόματι περὶ ου ει πεν ̓Εγὼ ἐλήλυθα ἐν τῷ ὀνόματι τοῦ πατρός μου, καὶ ε τι ὑπερβάντα τῇ νοήσει αὐτὸν τὸν ου τὸ ο νομα μεγαλύναι ἐν αἰνέσει μεγάλα λέγοντα ἐν τῷ αἰνεῖν καὶ δοξολογεῖν αὐτὸν ἀλλὰ καὶ θεωροῦντα ὑψηλῶς τὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ· οὐ γὰρ οι όν τε ἑτέρως η ου τως μεγαλύνεσθαι τὸν θεὸν τῷ πᾶν αἰσθητὸν μέγεθος μακρὰν αὐτοῦ τυγχάνειν ἀσωμάτου ο ντος. Καὶ ἐπεὶ τὸ αἰνεῖν τὸν θεόν ἐστι θυσία κατὰ τὸ Θυσία αἰνέσεως δοξάσει σε, αἰνέσας τὸ ο νομα τοῦ θεοῦ μετ' ᾠδῆς καὶ μεγαλύνας αὐτὸν ἐν αἰνέσει θαρρεῖ ὡς ̓Αρέσει τῷ θεῷ ὑπὲρ μόσχον νέον κέρατα ἐκφέροντα καὶ ὁπλάς, προσαγόμενον εἰς θυσίαν. διὸ καὶ τοῖς ου τω θύουσιν ἀρεσκόμενός φησιν Ελεος θέλω η θυσίαν, ἐπίγνωσιν θεοῦ η ὁλοκαυτώματα. Ταῦτα ἰδέτωσαν οἱ πτωχοὶ τῷ πνεύματι α κατώρθωσεν ̓Ιησοῦς κατὰ πάσης πονηρὰς φάλαγγος· ε ψεται γὰρ τῷ ἰδεῖν αὐτοὺς τὴν τοσαύτην ἀνδραγαθίαν τὸ εὐφρανθῆναι αἰωνίως κατὰ τὸ Εὐφροσύνη αἰώνιος καταλήψεται αὐτούς. 723a Ps 68,34a Ου τος γάρ ἐστιν ὁ λύων τοὺς πεπεδημένους καὶ ἐξάγων ἐκ δεσμῶν δεδεμένους καὶ ἐξ οι κου φυλακῆς. 724a Ps 68,37 Οι τε πάλαι λεγόμενοι προφῆται καὶ θεοφιλεῖς α νδρες καὶ οἱ μετὰ ταῦτα ὑπηρέται καὶ διάκονοι τοῦ εὐαγγελίου. 725 Ps 69 αργ Εἰκότως εἰς ἀνάμνησιν περὶ σωτηρίας ὁ ψαλμὸς ᾳ δεται, πάντων τῶν μετανοούντων ἀναμιμνῃσκομένων καὶ ἀναγνωριζόντων τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν καὶ ἐρχομένων ἐπ' αὐτά· Μνησθήσονται γάρ φησιν καὶ ἐπιστραφήσονται πρὸς κύριον πάντα τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς. καὶ ἐπεὶ τέλος τῆς
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