The Palm and the Rivers of Truth
Those who interpret his palm as being divine teachings receive it as a fertile and protective thing for the fruits. And the bride who says these things, not being like the flowering of the righteous according to the palm, says, 'I will be made like the palm.' From this palm, one takes ornaments made from the branches of palms when celebrating the feast of the Tabernacles, and the victors carry from this the symbols of victory.
Those who imitate the rivers lift up the river that gladdens the city of God (Ps 92:3–4b), first by raising their mind, if they use the voices that interpret the things understood by them, so that from the waters of these many rivers they may become wonderful and worthy of acceptance through repentance and the taking up of virtue, whereas formerly, through arrogance, wealth, self-will, and vainglory, they were tossed about like the waves of the sea of human life. And it is possible also for these words of the divinely inspired writings of both the New and Old Testaments to be rivers, because they are drinkable and life-giving and cause fruitfulness. Indeed, the rivers lift up and toss about those who drink from them through the contemplation of the truth, making the tossings of the sea wonderful, as they are ready to be awakened, lifting up their voices from the voices of the rivers by thinking things in a God-befitting and sublime way. Regarding the tossings of the sea, according to the present thought, the so-called temptations will also be wonderful causes of salvation, appearing from the voices of the many drinkable waters; for it is indeed possible to see upon...
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ἐπὶ τῷ κρατῆσαι κατά τινα τῶν ἑρμηνευσάντων τῶν ἐλάτων αὐτοῦ τοῦ φοίνικος οι θεῖαι διδασκαλίαι τυγχάνουσαι τὸ γόνιμον καὶ φυλακτικὸν τῶν καρπῶν λαμβάνουσιν· ο θεν καὶ ἡ νύμφη ἡ ταῦτα λέγουσα, οὐκ α λλη τοῦ ἀνθοῦντος κατὰ τὸν φοίνικα δικαίου τυγχάνουσα, φησὶν ̔Ομοιωθήσομαι τῷ φοίνικι. ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ φοίνικος κάλλυνθρα κοσμητήρια τὰ ἀπὸ τῶν κλάδων τῶν φοινίκων γινόμενα λαμβάνων τις α γει τὴν τῆς σκηνοπηγίας ἑορτήν, καὶ τὰ σύμβολα δὲ τῆς νίκης ἐκ τούτου οἱ νικηταὶ φέρονται. 914 Ps 92,3–4b Οἱ μιμούμενοι ποταμοὶ τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν εὐφραίνοντα τὴν πόλιν τοῦ θεοῦ ἐπαίρουσι πρότερον τὴν σφῶν νόησιν, ει τα τὰς φωνὰς τὰς ἑρμηνευούσας τὰ νοηθέντα αὐτοῖς, ὡς ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν πολλῶν τούτων ποταμῶν ὑδάτων φωνῆς θαυμαστοὺς καὶ ἀποδοχῆς ἀξίους γενέσθαι διὰ μετανοίας καὶ ἀναλήψεως ἀρετῆς τοὺς πάλαι δι' ἀλαζονείας καὶ πλούτου καὶ αὐθαδείας καὶ δοξαρίων μετεωρισμοὺς ο ντας τῆς τοῦ βίου τῶν ἀνθρώπων θαλάττης. ∆υνατὸν δὲ καὶ τοὺς λόγους αὐτοὺς τῶν θεοπνεύστων γραφῶν καινῆς τε καὶ παλαιᾶς διαθήκης ποταμοὺς ει ναι διὰ τὸ πότιμον καὶ ζωτικὸν καὶ καρποφορίας αι τιον. ου τοι δὲ οἱ ποταμοὶ τὸν πίνοντα ἀπ' αὐτῶν ἐπαίρουσι καὶ μετεωρίζουσι θεωρίᾳ τῆς ἀληθείας ου ς α ν ευ ρωσιν ἑτοίμους, ἐπαίροντες καὶ τὰς φωνὰς αὐτῶν ἀφ' ω ν φωνῶν θεοπρεπῶς καὶ ὑψηλοφυῶς νοουμένων θαυμαστοὶ γίνονται οἱ τῆς θαλάσσης μετεωρισμοί. μετεωρισμῶν θαλάττης κατὰ τὴν παροῦσαν διάνοιαν ο ντων τῶν καλουμένων πειρασμῶν οι καὶ θαυμαστοὶ γενήσονται σωτηρίας αι τιοι ἀναφαινόμενοι ἀπὸ τῶν φωνῶν τῶν ποτίμων ὑδάτων πολλῶν, ε στι γοῦν ἰδεῖν ἐπὶ
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Discover how early Christians interpreted the Psalms as divine messages and prophecies about salvation and judgment.
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