The Kingship of God and the Justice of His Son
It is. Therefore, those who have been instructed in the holiness of God and also in his glory, they are transformed and they hymn him magnificently, not by bare speech, but before this by works and right disposition, thinking, acting, and speaking holily, gloriously, and magnificently.
The glory of the holiness of God is able to be: 'He will glorify' (that is, the Paraclete), what he will take from me and declare to you. Therefore, also those who hear him declaring, in giving the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge, they speak of this holiness. And toward this they will recount his wonders, not merely what the holiness is, but penetrating the mystical word of his wonders, which occur at various times and are occurring, with precision and keen contemplation.
It is fearful to fall into the hands of the living God (Hebrews 10:31), and 'Shout to God with a voice of joy' (Ps 144:6), what the Lord is most high and awesome; they will say this in practice and through right understanding (for through this fear of God and exceeding reverence, they will say to him the power of his awesome things). And if they have been benefited, they will fear his greatness with virtue and sinlessness, and they will not say 'the power of your awesome things' but they will recount it after having known what is without experience and without limit; for they do not recount it as having described and limited it to the intellect, but as surpassing every human apprehension.
For only the Son knows who the Father is, and the Father who the Son is; but even if the Son reveals the Father as he wills, not as it is possible for humans to see according to analogy, anyone who has it before preparation will make him manifest. Since a perceptible trembling becomes a fullness (for having been filled with food, he sends out spirits bringing breath, according to the quality of the things eaten), it follows that one must say that he who has eaten the words concerning the goodness of God, having been filled from these spiritual foods, intensely stirs up the memory of the goodness of God, of the goodness capable of being good. But since it is advantageous toward knowing God for the good, also his justice...
And the mind judges them, so that the memory of your goodness shall be searched out, and they shall rejoice in your justice. The justice of God can be the only-begotten offspring of Him, upon which those having obtained the Wisdom born to us from God—justice and sanctification and redemption—rejoice.
For what was sent to proclaim to the captives the goodness of God has become redemption for those being set free from captivity, who, remembering the goodness of God that happened to them, search out its memory; but also having perceived how they were justified, it having become for them the work of the one redeeming and of the justice from God, they rejoice in this justice of God. And those who are to receive both all practical virtue and the justice having come through the faith of Jesus into all those believing are made manifest in the present word. Ps 144:13 All those whom God has made through his word and his wisdom, God holds and reigns; therefore God is almighty.
Since, therefore, even the ages, being part of all things, have come to be through God by means of the Savior according to the Scripture saying, 'Through whom also he made the ages, and over all of them he reigns,' and since the thing theologized by Paul agrees with these things: 'To the King of the ages, the incorruptible, invisible, only wise God' 1 Tim 1:17. For to reign over all the ages and to be the King of the ages is the same thing.
Consider if it is said of the Son, 'Your kingdom is the kingdom of all the ages,' reigning over Jacob, that his kingdom has no end; for reigning over all those having come through him, he holds and reigns for the ages. Therefore, just as the others who belong to the Father, so also the Almighty shares in the approachability. If not the Father is the King of the ages and the Son's kingdom is the kingdom of all the ages, it is fitting that his kingdom is also without beginning and without end, both before the ages and while reigning with them; for 'the Lord reigns for an age and for ever and ever' Ps 10:16, and 'our God is King before an age,' that is, before every age. Accordingly, his lordship also extends to the kingship...
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ἐστιν. ο σοι τοίνυν μετειλήφασι τῆς ἁγιότητος τοῦ θεοῦ ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς δόξης αὐτοῦ, μεταποιοῦνται καὶ μεγαλοπρεπῶς ὑμνοῦσι τὸν ου ἡ ἁγιότης καὶ ἡ μεγαλοπρεπὴς δόξα αὐτῆς, οὐ ψιλῇ δὲ προφορᾷ ἀλλὰ πρὸ ταύτης ε ργοις καὶ ὀρθῇ διαθέσει ἁγίως καὶ ἐπιδόξως ἀλλὰ καὶ μεγαλοπρεπῶς νοοῦντες καὶ ἐνεργοῦντες καὶ λέγοντες. ∆ύναται δόξα τῆς ἁγιότητος τοῦ θεοῦ τὸ ̓Εκεῖνός με δοξάσει (τουτέστιν ὁ παράκλητος), ο τι ἐκ τοῦ ἐμοῦ λήψεται καὶ ἀναγγελεῖ ὑμῖν. διὸ καὶ ο σοι η κουσαν αὐτοῦ ἀναγγέλλοντος ἐν τῷ διδόναι λόγον σοφίας καὶ λόγον γνώσεως, τῆς τούτου ἁγιωσύνης λαλήσουσι. Καὶ πρὸς τοῦτο διηγήσονται τὰ θαυμάσια αὐτοῦ, ου περ ἡ ἁγιότης ἐστί, μετ' ἐπιστασιότητος καὶ θεωρίας ἀκραιφνοῦς διεξιόντες τὸν μυστικὸν λόγον τῶν θαυμασίων αὐτοῦ τῶν κατὰ διαφόρους καιροὺς γενομένων τε καὶ 267 γινομένων. 1254 Ps 144,6 Οι Οι όν ἐστι φοβερὸν τὸ ἐμπεσεῖν εἰς χεῖρας θεοῦ ζῶντος καὶ τὸ ̓Αλαλάξατε τῷ θεῷ ἐν φωνῇ ἀγαλλιάσεως, ο τι κύριος υ ψιστος φοβερός, πρακτικῶς καὶ διὰ φρονήματος ὀρθοῦ ἐροῦσι (δι' αὐτοῦ γὰρ τοῦ φοβεῖσθαι θεὸν καὶ σέβας ὑπερβάλλον ε χειν), πρὸς αὐτὸν ἐροῦσι τὴν δύναμιν τῶν φοβερῶν αὐτοῦ. ει τ' ὠφεληθέντες τὴν μετ' ἀρετῆς ἀναμαρτησίαν τὴν μεγαλωσύνην αὐτοῦ φοβοῦνται καὶ οὐ Τὴν δύναμιν τῶν φοβερῶν σου ἐροῦσι διηγήσονται μετὰ τοῦ εἰδέναι ο τι α πειρος αυ τη καὶ πέρας οὐκ ε χουσα· οὐ γὰρ ὡς περιγράψαντες καὶ περιορίσαντες αὐτὴν τῇ διανοίᾳ διηγοῦνται αὐτὴν ἀλλ' ὡς ὑπερβάλλουσαν πᾶσαν γενητοῦ κατάληψιν. μόνος γὰρ ὁ υἱὸς γινώσκει τίς ἐστιν ὁ πατήρ, καὶ ὁ πατὴρ τίς ἐστιν ὁ υἱός· ἀλλ' εἰ καὶ ἀποκαλύπτει τὸν πατέρα ὁ υἱὸς οι ς α ν βούληται, ἀλλ' ου ν ὡς ἐφικτὸν γενητοῖς ἰδεῖν κατὰ ἀναλογίαν η ς τις ε χει πρὸ παρασκευῆς φανεροῖ αὐτόν. 1255 Ps 144,7 ̓Επεὶ ἡ αἰσθητῶς ἐρυγὴ γινομένη πλήρωσιν αἰτίαν ε χει (πληρωθεὶς γὰρ τῆς τροφῆς ἐκπέμπει πνεύματα τὴν πνοὴν ἐπιφερόμενα τῆς ποιότητος τῶν βεβρωμένων), ἀκόλουθον α ν ει η φάναι ο τι ὁ τραφεὶς τοὺς λόγους τοὺς περὶ τῆς τοῦ θεοῦ χρηστότητος πληρωθεὶς ἀπὸ τούτων τῶν πνευματικῶν τροφῶν ἐπιτεταμένως ἐρεύγεται τὴν μνήμην τῆς θεοῦ χρηστότητος τῆς ι σον ἀγαθότητι δυναμένης. ἀλλ' ἐπεὶ πρὸς τὸ ἀγαθὸν εἰδέναι τὸν θεὸν συμφέρει καὶ δικαιοσύνης αὐτοῦ καθ' η ν κρίνει ε ννοιαν ε χειν, ἑξῆς τῷ Μνήμην τῆς χρηστότητός σου ἐξερεύξονται ἐπήγαγε τὸ Καὶ τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ σου ἀγαλλιάσονται. ∆ύναται δικαιοσύνη θεοῦ τὸ μονογενὲς γέννημα αὐτοῦ τυγχάνειν, ἐφ' ῃ ἀγαλλιῶνται τυχόντες τοῦ Ος ἐγενήθη ἡμῖν σοφία ἀπὸ θεοῦ δικαιοσύνη τε καὶ ἁγιασμὸς καὶ ἀπολύτρωσις. ο τι γὰρ χρηστότητι τοῦ θεοῦ ἀπεστάλη κηρῦξαι αἰχμαλώτοις α φεσιν, γέγονεν ἀπολύτρωσις τοῖς ἀπὸ τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας ἐλευθερωμένοις, οι καὶ μνημονεύοντες τῆς ἐπ' αὐτοὺς γενομένης τοῦ θεοῦ χρηστότητος ἐξερεύγονται τὴν μνήμην αὐτῆς· ἀλλὰ καὶ αἰσθηθέντες ὡς ἐδικαιώθησαν, γενομένου αὐτοῖς τοῦ ἀπολυτρωσαμένου καὶ δικαιοσύνης ἐκ θεοῦ, ἀγαλλιῶνται τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ ταύτῃ ου σῃ θεοῦ. οι όν τε δὲ καὶ πᾶσαν πρακτικὴν ἀρετὴν ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν διὰ πίστεως ̓Ιησοῦ γενομένην δικαιοσύνην εἰς πάντας τοὺς πιστεύοντας ὑπολαβεῖν δηλοῦσθαι ἐν τῇ προκειμένῃ λέξει. 1256 Ps 144,13 Πάντων τῶν διὰ τοῦ θεοῦ λόγου καὶ τῆς σοφίας αὐτοῦ ω ν ὁ θεὸς πεποίηκε κρατεῖ καὶ βασιλεύει, ο θεν καὶ παντοκράτωρ ἐστίν. ἐπεὶ τοίνυν καὶ οἱ αἰῶνες μέρος τῶν πάντων ο ντες ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος γεγένηνται κατὰ τὴν γραφὴν τὴν λέγουσαν ∆ι' ου καὶ ἐποίησε τοὺς αἰῶνας, καὶ αὐτῶν ἁπάντων βασιλεύει. καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ Παύλου δὲ θεολογούμενον συνᾴδει τοῖς προκειμένοις ου τως ε χον· Τῷ δὲ βασιλεῖ τῶν αἰώνων, ἀφθάρτῳ ἀοράτῳ μόνῳ σοφῷ θεῷ. ταὐτὸν γάρ ἐστι τὸ βασιλεύειν πάντων τῶν αἰώνων καὶ τὸ βασιλέα ει ναι τῶν αἰώνων. ̓Επίστησον εἰ ἐπὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ λέγεται τὸ ̔Η βασιλεία σου βασιλεία πάντων τῶν αἰώνων, βασιλεύοντος ἐπὶ τὸν οι κον ̓Ιακώβ, πέρας οὐκ ἐχούσης τῆς βασιλείας αὐτοῦ· πάντων γὰρ τῶν δι' αὐτοῦ γεγονότων κρατῶν καὶ βασιλεύων βασιλεύει εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας. ο θεν ὡς τῶν α λλων τῶν προσόντων τῷ πατρί, ου τως καὶ τῆς παντοκράτωρ κοινωνεῖ προσηγορίας. εἰ ου ν ὁ πατὴρ βασιλεὺς τῶν αἰώνων καὶ τοῦ υἱοῦ ἡ βασιλεία βασιλεία ἐστὶ πάντων τῶν αἰώνων, εἰκότως δὲ καὶ α ναρχος καὶ ἀτελεύτητος ὑπάρχει ἡ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ, καὶ πρὸ τῶν αἰώνων καὶ μετ' αὐτοὺς βασιλεύοντος αὐτοῦ· Κύριος γὰρ βασιλεύων τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ ἐπ' αἰῶνα καὶ ε τι, καὶ ̔Ο θεὸς ἡμῶν βασιλεὺς πρὸ αἰῶνος, τουτέστι πρὸ παντὸς αἰῶνος. ̓Ακολούθως τῇ βασιλείᾳ καὶ ἡ δεσποτεία αὐτοῦ παρατείνει εἰς
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