Commentary on Leviticus 6.0
Latin text: PG 93.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 6
6.0PG 93:1019
Quanta bona ad me lilationem legis et. interpreisonem mentem — trausferentes, lucremur, quid opus est dicere? Neque enim solum virtutes consequimur, sed et mala renuimus, ex hujus studio,. necnon amorem acquirimus Dei, pulchritudinem sapientiae ejus discentes, simulque a seculari. futno oculum anima liberamus, et corruptionis humane sustinere cessamus imperii, et excedimus. deinceps homines, carne hae, quie est ex terrena materia, viventes sublimius, vel magis eflicimur homines, Hoininis enim est rationale contemplativumque proprium, unde et ad imaginem Dei ercatus dicilur. Hec autem nobis per studium et oceupationem circa verbum Dei proveniunt. Propter quod ( Lositici libri sequentia pereurramus, multum juvamen legentibusconferentia. Dei enin sunt mandata, adumbrata quidem in pluribus propter infirmitatem populi Iudaeorum in littera :: perfectionem. autem secandum litteram. intuenti prostant, et consona inveniuntur ea, qu: per Moysen dicta sunt, si interpretentur, Evangelio.
How many goods we gain by carrying our mind over to meditation on the law and its interpretation, what need is there to say? For from this study we not only attain the virtues but also refuse evils; we also acquire the love of God, learning the beauty of his wisdom; and at the same time we free the eye of the soul from the smoke of the world, and cease to endure the rule of human corruption, and thenceforth we surpass men, living in this flesh, which is of earthly matter, more loftily; or rather we become more truly men. For what is rational and contemplative is proper to man; that is why he is said to have been created after the image of God. And these things come to us through study and occupation with the word of God. Therefore let us run through what follows in the book of Leviticus, which brings great help to its readers. For they are the commandments of God, overshadowed in most things in the letter because of the weakness of the Jewish people, but they present perfection to one who looks beyond the letter; and the things spoken through Moses are found, if they are interpreted, to be in harmony with the Gospel.
Gen 1:27 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: In the short preface to Book 6 Hesychius praises meditation on the law, which makes us more truly human, and says that Moses' commandments, rightly interpreted, agree with the Gospel.
- The "Moses' commandments, overshadowed in the letter because of the weakness of the Jewish people" is Hesychius's recurring view of the law's figurative character.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Hesychius of Jerusalem, Comm. Lev. 6.0 (PG 93:1019; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/hesychius-jerusalem-commentarius-leviticum/6-0). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Latin version (the Greek is lost) as printed in Migne PG 93 (Tesseract OCR of the page images); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Latin.