Psalm 17:9 — smoke went up in his anger; coals are the chorus of the apostles
“Smoke went up in his anger, and fire from his face set ablaze, coals were kindled from him” (Psalm 17:9).
He was angry, he says, and he cast down the fire, through which again he burned the men. Coals: the chorus of the apostles; for having partaken of this fire on the day of Pentecost, and having received fiery tongues upon their heads, they were reasonably called coals, lighting the nations together and purifying; that these things happened, learn from the things brought next:
Greek
17.9 ̓Ανέβη καπνὸς ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ, καὶ πῦρ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ κατεφλόγισεν, α νθρακες ἀνήφθησαν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ. ̓Ωργίσθη, φησὶ, καὶ κατέβαλεν τὸ πῦρ, δι' ου πάλιν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους κατέφλεγεν. Ανθρακες, ὁ τῶν ἀποστόλων χορός· τούτου γὰρ τοῦ πυρὸς κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς Πεν τηκοστῆς μεταλαβόντες, καὶ γλώσσας ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν πυρίνας δεξάμενοι, α νθρακες εἰκότως ἐχρημάτιζον, φωτίζοντες ὁμοῦ τὰ ε θνη καὶ καθάροντες· ο τι ταῦτα ἐγένετο, τοῖς ἑξῆς ἐπαγομένοις μάνθανε·
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New English from locked PG 12 / Khazarzar Greek of Fragmenta in Psalmos, Psalms 1–22.3. Earlier lemma-led SERIES-CLOSEOUT English was discarded.
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- Copy-text PG 12 Fragmenta in Psalmos (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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