The Power of the Word and the Trumpet of Resurrection
And also reproaches will be active among the nations, since the vengeance upon the nations is a greater evil than the reproaches of the people, but the reproaches are against the better peoples. For it is said: Reprove the wise, and he will love you; make known to the righteous, and he will add to the receiving. For the peoples will not hate those reproving them because they do not happen to be evil, even if they sin through inadvertence, as opposed to those having a hateful disposition toward those reproving them because of perfected wickedness. If it is therefore said, Do not reprove the evil, lest they hate you.
You will find this same interpretation also in the Gospel, understanding the word of the Savior as saying: If your brother sins against you, go and reprove him between you and him alone; and if he listens to you, you have gained your brother; but if he does not listen to you, take one or two, and if he listens to them, announce it to the church; but if he even despises even the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector (Matt 18:15-17). This one, having become evil, having despised through all, is not to be reproved; for he will hate everyone who reproves, if he happens to be unholy.
For they will not put their hands in iron shackles those who seem glorious among them, being unable to act before being bound wickedly and acting toward the harm of many (Ps 149:8-9). But the righteous do not perform the vengeance and the reproaches or the making of the enclosure of bonds in an imprecise way, but with written judgment, bringing about the construction of true dogmas from the written oracles and the overthrow of pseudonymous knowledge. And I do not ignore that some of those who have explained this historically have taken the interpretation for the sake of a victory and trophies and hymns of praise to themselves against certain sensual enemies.
But also the comprehension of God through the divine Scriptures is a stronghold of the power of God, but it is not the power of God itself that exists. And you will perceive also this: whether the power of God is in men, or whether one partakes of the Holy Spirit: For you shall receive power of the Holy Spirit coming upon you, to the apostles (Acts 1:8).
Words are spoken by the Savior, and 'You indeed shall sit in the city,' as if you would not put on power from the height. Therefore, if anyone firmly preserves this power given to him, watching over it with care, becoming in its stability a part of it, he praises God, from whom this divine power is, and he says, 'I am able to do all things in Christ who strengthens me' (Phil 4:13). Since they are ruled by the Savior of power, and in the stability they praise him, understanding that the all-ruling powers—through which he royally creates, provides, benefits, and corrects—they praise him upon his powers.
He who is the unsearchable judgments of God and the unsearchable ways of him, the wise man, knowing according to the multitude of the unsearchable judgments, will praise him (Ps 150:2b); not because of the incomprehensibility of the judgments and the ways, as it says, 'O depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God, and your wisdom was wondered at by me' (Rom 11:33); I was strengthened, yet I am not able toward it. For I cannot contemplate the multitude of it; it becomes stronger than me, as if I were not able to assist it, being infinite and incomprehensible.
He who is not ashamed of Jesus and his words, clearly and loudly bringing forth the things of theology with boldness, praises him and his Father in a trumpet; for even the heralds of the truth have the command to proclaim the teaching more boldly and clearly, having as a trumpet to lift up their voice. For words are indeed spoken to them, 'Sound the trumpet in the trumpet, proclaim in Zion in my holy mountain' (Ps 150:3). But also the resurrection of the dead, which becomes fearful to all those rising, is signaled by a trumpet, for he says, 'The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible' (1 Cor 15:52), and in another epistle, 'With the voice of an archangel and in the trumpet of God he shall descend from heaven' (1 Thess 4:16), in order to raise those who have slept in Christ. As the command of the resurrection being revealed to all, in order to raise the righteous and the unrighteous, is made known by the loud voice of the instruments.
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δὲ καὶ ἐλεγμοὺς ἐν τοῖς λαοῖς ἐνεργήσουσιν, ἐπείπερ τὰ ε θνη χείρονα τῶν λαῶν τὸ μεῖζον τῶν ἐλέγχων ἡ ἐκδίκησις ἐπὶ τὰ ε θνη γίνεται, οἱ δὲ ε λεγχοι ἐπὶ τοὺς κρείττονας λαούς· Ελεγχε γὰρ σοφόν, καὶ ἀγαπήσει σε· Γνώριζε δικαίῳ, καὶ προσθήσει τοῦ δέχεσθαι. οὐ γὰρ μισήσουσιν οἱ λαοὶ τοὺς ἐλέγχοντας τῷ μὴ τυγχάνειν κακοί, εἰ καὶ ἐξ ἀπροσεξίας ἁμαρτάνουσι, τῶν πεποιωμένων κατὰ τελείαν κακίαν πρὸς τοὺς ἐλέγχοντας ἀπεχθῶς ἐχόντων. ει ρηται γοῦν Μὴ ε λεγχε κακούς, ι να μή σε μισήσωσιν. ταύτην τὴν ἑρμηνείαν εὑρήσεις καὶ ἐν τῷ Εὐαγγελίῳ, ἐπιστήσας τῇ λέξει τοῦ σωτῆρος φασκούσῃ ̓Εὰν ἁμάρτῃ εἰς σὲ ὁ ἀδελφός σου, υ παγε καὶ ε λεγξον αὐτὸν μεταξὺ σοῦ καὶ αὐτοῦ μόνου· καὶ ἐάν σου ἀκούσῃ, ἐκέρδησας τὸν ἀδελφόν σου, ἐὰν δὲ μὴ ἀκούσῃ σου, παράλαβε ε να ε τερον η δύο, καὶ ἐὰν παρακούσῃ, ἀνάγγειλον τῇ ἐκκλησίᾳ· εἰ δὲ καὶ αὐτῆς περιφρονήσει, ε στω σοι ὡς ὁ ἐθνικὸς καὶ ὁ τελώνης. τοῦτον * κακὸν γεγενημένον διὰ τοῦ πάντων καταπεφρονηκέναι οὐκ ἐλεγκτέον ἐστί· μισήσει γὰρ πάντα τὸν ἐλέγχοντα, κα ν α γιος τυγχάνῃ. 1286 Ps 149,8.9 ∆ήσουσι γὰρ ου τοι, φησίν, τὰς χεῖρας ἐν χειροπέδαις σιδηραῖς τῶν δοκούντων ἐνδόξων ει ναι παρ' αὐτοῖς, πράττειν αὐτοὺς οὐκ ἐῶντες α πρὸ τοῦ δεθῆναι κακῶς καὶ ἐπὶ βλάβῃ πολλῶν ε πραττον. οὐκ ἀκρίτως δὲ τὴν ἐκδίκησιν καὶ τοὺς ἐλεγμοὺς η τὴν περιβολὴν τῶν δεσμῶν ποιοῦνται οἱ ο σιοι ἀλλ' η ἐγγράπτῳ κρίματι, ἐκ τῶν γεγραμμένων λογίων τὴν κατασκευὴν τῶν ἀληθῶν δογμάτων καὶ ἀνατροπὴν τῆς ψευδωνύμου γνώσεως ἐπιφέροντες. Οὐκ ἀγνοῶ δὲ ω ς τινες τῶν ἐξηγησαμένων ἱστορικῶς ε λαβον τὴν ἑρμηνείαν, κατὰ πολεμίων τινῶν αἰσθητῶν νίκην καὶ τρόπαια καὶ ὑμνολογίας ἑαυτοῖς ἀναπλάσαντες. 1287 Ps 150,1c.2a ̓Αλλὰ καὶ ἡ διὰ τῶν θείων γραφῶν τοῦ θεοῦ κατάληψις στερέωμα δυνάμεως θεοῦ, ἀλλ' οὐκ αὐτὴ ἡ δύναμις θεοῦ ὑπάρχει. Νοήσεις δὲ καὶ ου τως· ἡ θεοῦ δύναμις εἰς ἀνθρώπους η κεν, ο τε τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος μετέσχον· 276 Λήψεσθε γὰρ δύναμιν τοῦ ἁγίου πνεύματος ἐπελθόντος ἐφ' ὑμᾶς, τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος ει ρηται, καὶ τὸ ̔Υμεῖς δὲ καθήσεσθε ἐν τῇ πόλει, ε ως ου ἐνδύσησθε δύναμιν ἐξ υ ψους. ο ταν τοίνυν βεβαίως τις ταύτην τὴν δοθεῖσαν αὐτῷ δύναμιν φυλάξῃ ἐν προσοχῇ περιέπων αὐτήν, ἐν στερεώματι αὐτῆς γινόμενος αἰνεῖ τὸν θεόν, ἀφ' ου τὴν θείαν ταύτην ε σχε δύναμιν, καὶ ἐρεῖ Πάντα ἰσχύσω ἐν τῷ ἐνδυναμοῦντί με Χριστῷ. Ει τ' ἐπεὶ βασιλεύονται ὑπὸ τοῦ σωτῆρος τῆς δυνάμεως η ς ἐν τῷ στερεώματι αἰνοῦσιν αὐτόν, νοοῦντες τὰς παντοκρατορικὰς δυναστείας καθ' α ς βασιλικῶς δημιουργεῖ προνοεῖται εὐεργετεῖ κολάζει, αἰνοῦσιν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ ταῖς δυναστείαις αὐτοῦ. 1288 Ps 150,2b Οι όν ἐστι τὸ ἀνεξερεύνητα τὰ κρίματα τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ ἀνεξιχνιάστους τὰς ὁδοὺς αὐτοῦ ὁ σοφὸς ἐπιστάμενος κατὰ τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ἀνεξιχνιάστων κριμάτων αἰνέσει τὸν ου ἡ ἀκαταληψία τῶν κριμάτων καὶ τῶν ὁδῶν, ὡς λέγει Ω βάθος πλούτου καὶ σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως θεοῦ, καὶ τὸ ̓Εθαυμαστώθη ἡ γνῶσίς σου ἐξ ἐμοῦ· ἐκραταιώθη, οὐ μὴ δύνωμαι πρὸς αὐτήν. ο σον γὰρ α ν αὐτῆς περινοήσω πλῆθος, κραταιουμένη ὑπὲρ ἐμὲ γίνεται, ὡς μὴ δυνηθῆναι ε τι συνδραμεῖν αὐτῇ ἀπείρῳ ου σῃ καὶ ἀκαταλήπτῳ. 1289 Ps 150,3 ̔Ο μὴ ἐπαισχυνόμενος ̓Ιησοῦν καὶ τοὺς λόγους αὐτοῦ μετὰ παρρησίας σαφῶς καὶ μεγαλοφώνως τὰ τῆς θεολογίας προφέρων αἰνεῖ αὐτὸν καὶ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ ἐν η χῳ σάλπιγγος· ο θεν καὶ οἱ τῆς ἀληθείας κήρυκες ἐπὶ τῷ παρρησιέστερον καὶ σαφῶς ἀπαγγέλλειν τὴν διδασκαλίαν ἐντολὴν ε χουσιν ὡς σάλπιγγι ἑαυτῶν ὑψοῦν τὴν φωνήν. ει ρηται γοῦν πρὸς αὐτοὺς Σαλπίσατε ἐν σάλπιγγι, ἐν Σιὼν κηρύξατε ἐν ο ρει ἁγίῳ μου. ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡ τῶν νεκρῶν ἀνάστασις, ο πως πᾶσι τοῖς ἀνισταμένοις φοβερὰ καταστῇ, διὰ σάλπιγγος σημαίνεται, ῃ φησι Σαλπίσει γάρ, καὶ οἱ νεκροὶ ἐγερθήσονται α φθαρτοι, καὶ ἐν ἑτέρᾳ ἐπιστολῇ ̓Εν φωνῇ ἀρχαγγέλου καὶ ἐν σάλπιγγι θεοῦ καταβήσεται ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ, ἐπὶ τῷ τοὺς κεκοιμημένους ἐν Χριστῷ ἀναστῆναι. ὡς ου ν τὸ πρόσταγμα τῆς ἀναστάσεως φανερούμενον πᾶσιν ἐπὶ τῷ δικαίους καὶ ἀδίκους ἀναστῆναι τῷ μεγαλοφώνῳ τῶν ὀργάνων γνωρίζεται,
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Discover how early Christians interpreted the Psalms as divine messages and prophecies about salvation and judgment.
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