Interpretation of the Psalms 60.1–63.11
Greek text: PG 80.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 60
60.1PG 80 80:1323
« Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ἐν ὕμνοις τῷ Δαβίδ. » Τῷ τέλει τοῦ προγεγραμμένου ψαλμοῦ ἀκολουθεῖ τοῦδε τοῦ ψαλμοῦ τὸ προοίμιον. Εἰρηκὼς γὰρ, « Ἐν τῷ Θεῷ ποιήσομεν δύναμιν, καὶ αὐτὸς ἐξουδενώσει τοὺς θλίβοντας ἡμᾶς, » διδάσκει τὸν ἐν τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ λαὸν, ὁποίαν προσήκει προσενεγκεῖν τῷ Θεῷ προσευχήν. [Προλέγει δὲ καὶ τοῦ Δεσπότου Χριστοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἡμῶν τὴν δι᾽ ἡμᾶς οἰκονομίαν καὶ τὴν ἐπιστροφὴν τοῦ ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαοῦ.]
« Eis to telos, en hymnois tǭ Dabid. » Tǭ telei tou progegrammenou psalmou akolouthei toude tou psalmou to prooimion. Eirēkōs gar, « En tǭ Theǭ poiēsomen dynamin, kai autos exoudenōsei tous thlibontas hēmas, » didaskei ton en tę̄ aichmalōsią laon, hopoian prosēkei prosenenkein tǭ Theǭ proseuchēn. [Prolegei de kai tou Despotou Christou tou Theou hēmōn tēn di᾽ hēmas oikonomian kai tēn epistrophēn tou ex ethnōn laou.]
"To the end; in hymns; for David." The opening of this psalm follows on the end of the psalm written before it. For having said, "In God we shall do valiantly, and he will set at nought those who afflict us," he teaches the people in captivity what prayer they ought to offer to God. [He also foretells the dispensation for our sake of Christ the Lord our God and the conversion of the people from the nations.]
Ps 61:1 (60:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 60:12 (59:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 61, title: the psalm continues the previous one, teaching the captives how to pray.
- The bracketed sentence closes with a bracket in Migne; the opening bracket is supplied. It is probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray letters (OCR)): προγεγραμμένου σε ψαλμοῦ στ ἀκολουθεῖ → προγεγραμμένου ψαλμοῦ ἀκολουθεῖ; Προλέγει δὲ καὶ τοῦ Δεσπότου → [Προλέγει δὲ καὶ τοῦ Δεσπότου.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 60.1 (PG 80 80:1323; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/60-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.2PG 80 80:1323
« Εἰσάκουσον, ὁ Θεὸς, τῆς δεήσεώς μου· πρόσχες τῇ προσευχῇ μου. » Δέξαι μου, φησὶν, τὴν ἱκετείαν, ὦ Δέσποτα, καὶ εὐμενῶς ἄκουσον τῶν τῆς προσευχῆς μου ῥημάτων. [Ταῦτα δὲ δικαίως εἴποι καὶ πᾶς ὅστις ἂν τῶν ἀνθρώπων περιστάσει περιπέσοι · διὰ τούτων ἀντιβολῶν δεκτὴν γενέσθαι τὴν ἱκετείαν καὶ τῆς ἐκεῖθεν προμηθείας ἀξιοῦσθαι.] Εἶτα διδάσκει τίνες οἱ εὐχόμενοι.
« Eisakouson, ho Theos, tēs deēseōs mou; prosches tę̄ proseuchę̄ mou. » Dexai mou, phēsin, tēn hiketeian, ō Despota, kai eumenōs akouson tōn tēs proseuchēs mou rhēmatōn. [Tauta de dikaiōs eipoi kai pas hostis an tōn anthrōpōn peristasei peripesoi ; dia toutōn antibolōn dektēn genesthai tēn hiketeian kai tēs ekeithen promētheias axiousthai.] Eita didaskei tines hoi euchomenoi.
"Hear, O God, my supplication; attend to my prayer." "Receive my supplication, Master," he says, "and listen kindly to the words of my prayer." [Anyone among people who falls into hardship might justly say these words too, imploring by them that his supplication be accepted and that he be counted worthy of providence from there.] Then he teaches who those praying are.
Ps 61:1 (60:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 61:1: the captives ask God to hear their prayer, words fit for anyone in trouble.
- The bracketed passage closes with a bracket in Migne; the opening bracket is supplied. It is probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letters; opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray letter (OCR)): ὦ Δέποστα → ὦ Δέσποτα; ῥημάτων. Ταῦτα δὲ δικαίως → ῥημάτων. [Ταῦτα δὲ δικαίως; ἀξιοῦσθαι.] Ο Εἶτα → ἀξιοῦσθαι.] Εἶτα.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 60.2 (PG 80 80:1323; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/60-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 80 (Bavarian State Library OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
60.3PG 80 80:1323
« ᾿Ἀπὸ τῶν περάτων τῆς γῆς πρὸς σὲ ἐκέκραξα. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ πολλοῖς σταθμοῖς ἡ Βαβυλὼν τῆς Παλαιστίνης ἀφέστηκε, τὰς ἐσχατιὰς ὑπελάμβανον τῆς οἰκουμένης οἰκεῖν οἱ ἐξανδραποδισθέντες, κἀκείνην ἠναγκασμένοι τὴν γῆν οἰκεῖν. • Ἐν τῷ ἀκηδιάσαι τὴν καρδίαν μου ἐν πέτρᾳ ὕψωσὰς με. » Ἵκετεύω δέ σε τῆς παρὰ σοῦ ψυχαγωγίας τυχεῖν. Ὀδυνώμενος γὰρ, καὶ τὰς ἐπικειμένας ὀλοφυρόμενος συμφορὰς, τῆς σῆς ἐπικουρίας ἀπήλαυσα, καὶ τῶν πολεμίων ὑπέρτερος ἐγενόμην. [ Εἴρηται δὲ τοῦτο ἐκ προσώπου μὲν τῶν ἀνδραποδισθέντων ἀπὸ τῆς Ἱερουσαλήμ ἐν τῇ Βαβυλῶνι καὶ τυχόντων τῆς ἀνακλήσεως · ἁρμόττει δὲ καὶ ἑκάστῳ τῷ διὰ μετανοίας τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πραγματευομένῳ σωτηρίαν, καὶ μηκέτι περὶ τῆς ἀτραποῦ βαδίζοντι, ἀλλὰ τὴν μόνην καὶ ἀκλινῆ βαδίζοντι ὁδόν · καὶ δῆλον διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς.] « Ωδήγησάς με. Ὅτι ἐγενήθης ἐλπίς μου· πύργος ἰσχύος, ἀπὸ προσώπου ἐχθροῦ. » Τῆς σῆς προνοίας μετασχεῖν ἐλπίσας, οὐ διήμαρτον τῆς ἐλπίδος· ἐγένου γάρ μου καὶ ποδηγὸς, καὶ πύργος ἰσχυρός. Διὰ γὰρ τῆς σῆς κηδεμονίας τὰς τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἐπιβουλὰς διαδρὰς, τεύξομαι τῆς ἐπανόδου.
« ᾿Apo tōn peratōn tēs gēs pros se ekekraxa. Epeidē gar pollois stathmois hē Babylōn tēs Palaistinēs aphestēke, tas eschatias hypelambanon tēs oikoumenēs oikein hoi exandrapodisthentes, kakeinēn ēnankasmenoi tēn gēn oikein. • En tǭ akēdiasai tēn kardian mou en petrą hypsōsas me. » Hiketeuō de se tēs para sou psychagōgias tychein. Odynōmenos gar, kai tas epikeimenas olophyromenos symphoras, tēs sēs epikourias apēlausa, kai tōn polemiōn hyperteros egenomēn. [ Eirētai de touto ek prosōpou men tōn andrapodisthentōn apo tēs Hierousalēm en tę̄ Babylōni kai tychontōn tēs anaklēseōs ; harmottei de kai hekastǭ tǭ dia metanoias tēn heautou pragmateuomenǭ sōtērian, kai mēketi peri tēs atrapou badizonti, alla tēn monēn kai aklinē badizonti hodon ; kai dēlon dia tōn hexēs.] « Ōdēgēsas me. Hoti egenēthēs elpis mou; pyrgos ischyos, apo prosōpou echthrou. » Tēs sēs pronoias metaschein elpisas, ou diēmarton tēs elpidos; egenou gar mou kai podēgos, kai pyrgos ischyros. Dia gar tēs sēs kēdemonias tas tōn echthrōn epiboulas diadras, teuxomai tēs epanodou.
"From the ends of the earth I cried to you." Since Babylon is many stages distant from Palestine, those enslaved supposed they lived at the extremities of the world, being forced to live in that land. "When my heart was despondent, you lifted me up on a rock." "I entreat you to obtain comfort from you. For grieving and lamenting the misfortunes pressing on me, I enjoyed your help and became superior to my enemies." [This is said in the person of those enslaved from Jerusalem in Babylon who obtained their recall; but it fits also each one who works out his own salvation through repentance and no longer walks on byways but on the one unswerving road; and this is plain from what follows.] "You guided me. For you became my hope, a tower of strength from the face of the enemy." "Having hoped to share in your providence, I was not cheated of my hope; for you became both my guide and a strong tower. For through your care I escaped the plots of my enemies and will obtain the return."
Ps 61:2 (60:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 61:3 (60:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 61:2–3: the exiles, as at the ends of the earth, cried to God, who became their rock and tower and will bring them home.
- The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne; it is probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): πολλοῖς σε σταθμοῖς → πολλοῖς σταθμοῖς; ἐγένου γάρ μου το καὶ → ἐγένου γάρ μου καὶ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 60.3 (PG 80 80:1323; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/60-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 80 (Bavarian State Library OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
60.5PG 80 80:1325
« Παροικήσω ἐν τῷ σκηνώματί σου εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας · σκεπασθήσομαι ἐν τῇ σκέπῃ τῶν πτερύγων σου. • Σκήνωμα τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ ὀνομάζει. Ἐν ἐκείνῃ γὰρ ἐποιεῖτο τὴν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐπιφάνειαν. Λέγει τοίνυν, ὅτι Τῆς ἐπανόδου τετυχηκώς, ἐνδελεχῶς τῷ σῷ προσεδρεύσω νεῷ, καὶ τῆς παρὰ σοῦ προνοίας ἀπολαύσω. Πτέρυγας γὰρ τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ κηδεμονίαν καλεῖ. Τὸ δὲ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀντὶ τοῦ διηνεκῶς τέθεικεν».
« Paroikēsō en tǭ skēnōmati sou eis tous aiōnas ; skepasthēsomai en tę̄ skepę̄ tōn pterygōn sou. • Skēnōma tou Theou tēn Hierousalēm onomazei. En ekeinę̄ gar epoieito tēn pros autous epiphaneian. Legei toinyn, hoti Tēs epanodou tetychēkōs, endelechōs tǭ sǭ prosedreusō neǭ, kai tēs para sou pronoias apolausō. Pterygas gar tēn tou Theou kēdemonian kalei. To de eis tous aiōnas, anti tou diēnekōs tetheiken».
"I will sojourn in your tent forever; I will be sheltered in the shelter of your wings." He names Jerusalem the tent of God; for in it he made his appearing to them. He says, then: "Having obtained the return, I will attend your temple continually and enjoy your providence." For he calls God's care wings. He put "forever" for "continually."
Ps 61:4 (60:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 61:4: returned to Jerusalem, God's tent, the people will attend his temple continually.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): ἐνδελεχῶς Τ' τῷ σῷ → ἐνδελεχῶς τῷ σῷ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 60.5 (PG 80 80:1325; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/60-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.6PG 80 80:1325
«Ὅτι σὺ, ὁ Θεὸς, εἰσήκουσας τῶν εὐχῶν μου· ἔδωκας κληρονομίαν τοῖς φοβουμένοις τὸ ὄνομά σου.» Ὑμνῶ δὲ σε διαπαντὸς, ἐπειδὴ τὰς ἐμὰς δεξάμενος ἱκετείας, τὴν ἐπαγγελθεῖσαν τοῖς προγόνοις ἡμῶν κληρονομίαν ἡμῖν τοῖς ἐκείνων ἐκγόνοις ἀπέδωκας. Ταῦτα δὲ λέγουσιν εὐθὺς ἁψάμενοι τῆς ὁδοῦ. Ἰστέον μέντοι, ὅτι καὶ τῆς ἀληθοῦς κληρονομίας αἰνίγματα ἔχει τὰ προκείμενα ῥήματα κληρονομία δὲ ἀληθὴς, ἡ αἰώνιος ζωή, περὶ ἧς ἔφη ὁ Δεσπότης Χριστὸς τοῖς ἐκ δεξιῶν ἀμνοῖς· « Δεῦτε οἱ εὐλογημένοι τοῦ Πατρός μου· κληρονομήσατε τὴν ἡτοιμασμένην ὑμῖν βασιλείαν πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου. » Ταύτην τὴν κληρονομίαν τοῖς φοβουμένοις αὐτὸν δώσειν ὁ Δεσπότης ὑπέσχετο· καὶ τούτοις δὲ ὡς ἐν τύπῳ τὴν ἐπηγγελμένην ἀπέδωκε γῆν.
«Hoti sy, ho Theos, eisēkousas tōn euchōn mou; edōkas klēronomian tois phoboumenois to onoma sou.» Hymnō de se diapantos, epeidē tas emas dexamenos hiketeias, tēn epangeltheisan tois progonois hēmōn klēronomian hēmin tois ekeinōn ekgonois apedōkas. Tauta de legousin euthys hapsamenoi tēs hodou. Isteon mentoi, hoti kai tēs alēthous klēronomias ainigmata echei ta prokeimena rhēmata klēronomia de alēthēs, hē aiōnios zōē, peri hēs ephē ho Despotēs Christos tois ek dexiōn amnois; « Deute hoi eulogēmenoi tou Patros mou; klēronomēsate tēn hētoimasmenēn hymin basileian pro katabolēs kosmou. » Tautēn tēn klēronomian tois phoboumenois auton dōsein ho Despotēs hypescheto; kai toutois de hōs en typǭ tēn epēngelmenēn apedōke gēn.
"For you, O God, have heard my vows; you have given an inheritance to those who fear your name." "I hymn you continually, since, having received my supplications, you gave back to us, the descendants of our forefathers, the inheritance promised to them." They say this as soon as they have set out on the road. One should know, however, that the present words also contain riddles of the true inheritance. The true inheritance is eternal life, of which Christ the Lord spoke to the lambs on the right: "Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world." This inheritance the Master promised to give to those who fear him; and to these he gave back the promised land as in a type.
Ps 61:5 (60:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 25:34 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 61:5: the restored land given to the returning exiles is a type of the true inheritance, eternal life.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): περὶ ἧς ἔφη το ὁ Δεσπότης → περὶ ἧς ἔφη ὁ Δεσπότης.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 60.6 (PG 80 80:1325; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/60-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.7PG 80 80:1325
« Ἡμέρας ἐφ' ἡμέρας τοῦ βασιλέως προσθήσεις · τὰ ἔτη αὐτοῦ ἕως ἡμέρας γενεᾶς καὶ γενεᾶς. Διαμενεῖ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ. » Οὕτως ἱκετεύσαντες, καὶ τὰς αἰτήσεις δεξάμενοι, καὶ χάριν ὑπὲρ τούτων ὁμολογήσαντες, ἀντιβολοῦσι τὸν Θεὸν, τὸν δοθέντα αὐτοῖς ἐπὶ πλεῖστον διαφυλάξαι βασιλέα. Τηνικαῦτα δὲ αὐτῶν ἐβασίλευε Ζοροβάβελ· ἀλλ' οὐχ ἁρμόττει αὐτῷ πάντα τὰ τῆς προφητείας ῥητά. Τὸ μὲν γὰρ, « Ἡμέρας ἐφ᾽ ἡμέρας τοῦ βασιλέως προσθήσεις, » ἁρμόττει κάκείνῳ· τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ, οὐκ ἔτι· ἀλλὰ τῷ ἐξ ἐκείνου κατὰ σάρκα διὰ πολλὴν φιλανθρωπίαν γενομένῳ, ὡς οἶδεν αὐτός. Ἐπ' ἐκείνου γὰρ ἀληθεύει τῆς προφητείας τὰ ῥήματα· « Τὰ ἔτη αὐτοῦ ἕως ἡμέρας γενεᾶς καὶ γενεᾶς· διαμενεῖ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ. » Οὐδὲ γὰρ ἀρχὴν ἡμερῶν ἐδέξατο, οὐδὲ τέλος ὑπομενεῖ. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἄνθρωπος γενόμενος ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν κατεδέξατο θάνατον, ἀλλὰ τὰ ἔτη αὐτοῦ ἕως ἡμέρας γενεᾶς καὶ γενεᾶς. Ἐν ἀρχῇ γὰρ ἦν, καὶ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἦν, καὶ Θεὸς ἦν. [Τὸ δὲ ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἀντὶ τοῦ, σὺν Πατρὶ ἀεὶ συνυπάρχων. ] Πρὸς ἐκεῖνον γὰρ ὁ αὐτὸς προφήτης ἐν τῷ ἑκατοστῷ καὶ πρώτῳ ψαλμῷ ἔφη • Σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ, καὶ τὰ ἔτη σου οὐκ ἐκλείψουσιν. » [ Ὁρᾷς, ὅτι ὡς συνυπάρχων ἔχει καὶ ἀτελεύτητον τὴν βασιλείαν ὁ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν σταυρὸν καὶ θάνατον καταδεξάμενος. Τύπος μέντοι καὶ Ζοροβάβελ τοῦ Δεσπότου Χριστοῦ . Ὥσπερ γὰρ ἐκεῖνος τὴν ἀπὸ Βαβυλῶνος αἰχμαλωσίαν εἰς τὴν πατρώαν ἐπανήγαγε γῆν· οὕτως ὁ Δεσπότης Χριστὸς ἅπασαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων φύσιν γεγενημένην αἰχμάλωτον [διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως τοῦ πρώτου ἀνθρώπου] εἰς τὴν προτέραν εὐγένειαν ἐπανήγαγε [ καταργήσας γὰρ ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ τὸν τὸ κράτος ἔχοντα τοῦ θανάτου, τουτέστι τὸν διάβολον], καὶ καταλύσας τοῦ θανάτου τὸ κράτος, τοῖς ὑπ᾿ ἐκείνῳ τελοῦσι τὴν ζωὴν ἀπέδωκεν. [ Αὐτοῦ γάρ ἐστι φωνή· « Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ζωὴ καὶ ἡ ἀνάστασις καὶ ὁ τρώγων με ζήσεται ἐν ἐμοί. » ] « Ἔλεος καὶ ἀλήθειαν αὐτοῦ τίς ἐκζητήσει; » Τις γὰρ, φησὶν, ἱκανὸς τὸν κεκριμένον · καὶ δίκαιον τοῦ Θεοῦ ἔλεον καταμαθεῖν ἀκριβῶς; τὰ γὰρ κρίματα αὐτοῦ ἄβυσσος πολλή.
« Hēmeras eph' hēmeras tou basileōs prosthēseis ; ta etē autou heōs hēmeras geneas kai geneas. Diamenei eis ton aiōna enōpion tou Theou. » Houtōs hiketeusantes, kai tas aitēseis dexamenoi, kai charin hyper toutōn homologēsantes, antibolousi ton Theon, ton dothenta autois epi pleiston diaphylaxai basilea. Tēnikauta de autōn ebasileue Zorobabel; all' ouch harmottei autǭ panta ta tēs prophēteias rhēta. To men gar, « Hēmeras eph᾽ hēmeras tou basileōs prosthēseis, » harmottei kakeinǭ; ta de loipa, ouk eti; alla tǭ ex ekeinou kata sarka dia pollēn philanthrōpian genomenǭ, hōs oiden autos. Ep' ekeinou gar alētheuei tēs prophēteias ta rhēmata; « Ta etē autou heōs hēmeras geneas kai geneas; diamenei eis ton aiōna enōpion tou Theou. » Oude gar archēn hēmerōn edexato, oude telos hypomenei. Ei gar kai anthrōpos genomenos hyper hēmōn katedexato thanaton, alla ta etē autou heōs hēmeras geneas kai geneas. En archę̄ gar ēn, kai pros ton Theon ēn, kai Theos ēn. [To de enōpion tou Theou, anti tou, syn Patri aei synyparchōn. ] Pros ekeinon gar ho autos prophētēs en tǭ hekatostǭ kai prōtǭ psalmǭ ephē • Sy de ho autos ei, kai ta etē sou ouk ekleipsousin. » [ Horąs, hoti hōs synyparchōn echei kai ateleutēton tēn basileian ho hyper hēmōn stauron kai thanaton katadexamenos. Typos mentoi kai Zorobabel tou Despotou Christou . Hōsper gar ekeinos tēn apo Babylōnos aichmalōsian eis tēn patrōan epanēgage gēn; houtōs ho Despotēs Christos hapasan tōn anthrōpōn physin gegenēmenēn aichmalōton [dia tēs parabaseōs tou prōtou anthrōpou] eis tēn proteran eugeneian epanēgage [ katargēsas gar epi tou staurou ton to kratos echonta tou thanatou, toutesti ton diabolon], kai katalysas tou thanatou to kratos, tois hyp᾿ ekeinǭ telousi tēn zōēn apedōken. [ Autou gar esti phōnē; « Egō eimi hē zōē kai hē anastasis kai ho trōgōn me zēsetai en emoi. » ] « Eleos kai alētheian autou tis ekzētēsei? » Tis gar, phēsin, hikanos ton kekrimenon ; kai dikaion tou Theou eleon katamathein akribōs? ta gar krimata autou abyssos pollē.
"You will add days upon days to the king; his years to the day of generation and generation. He will remain forever before God." Having so entreated, received their requests, and confessed thanks for them, they implore God to preserve for a very long time the king given them. At that time Zerubbabel was reigning over them; but not all the words of the prophecy fit him. "You will add days upon days to the king" fits him too; but the rest no longer, but rather the one who came from him according to the flesh through great love for humankind, as he himself knows. For in him the words of the prophecy are true: "His years to the day of generation and generation; he will remain forever before God." For he received no beginning of days nor will he undergo an end. For even if, having become man for us, he accepted death, yet his years are to the day of generation and generation. For in the beginning he was, and he was with God, and he was God. ["Before God" means "always coexisting with the Father."] For to him the same prophet said in the hundred and first psalm, "But you are the same, and your years will not fail." [You see that, as coexisting, the one who accepted cross and death for us has an endless kingdom too. Zerubbabel, however, is a type of Christ the Lord. For as he brought back the captivity from Babylon to their ancestral land, so Christ the Lord brought back the whole of human nature, which had become captive (through the transgression of the first man), to its former nobility (for on the cross he abolished the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil); and having destroyed the power of death, he gave back life to those who were under it. (For his is the voice, "I am the life and the resurrection, and the one who eats me will live in me.")] "His mercy and truth, who will search them out?" "For who," he says, "is able to understand exactly God's discerning and just mercy? For his judgments are a great deep."
Ps 61:6 (60:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 61:7 (60:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · John 1:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:27 (101:28 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 2:14 (quotation, high confidence) · John 11:25 (quotation, medium confidence) · John 6:57 (quotation, medium confidence) · Ps 36:6 (35:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 61:6–7: the prayer for the king fits Zerubbabel only in part and truly Christ, his descendant, whose years are eternal; Zerubbabel's return from exile is a type of Christ's restoration of captive human nature.
- The bracketed passages are bracketed in Migne (one opening bracket supplied; the parentheses render brackets nested inside a longer bracketed passage); they are probably additions from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter; opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray letter (OCR)): Θεὸς ἦν. Τὸ δὲ ἐνώπιον → Θεὸς ἦν. [Τὸ δὲ ἐνώπιον; φύσεν γεγενημένην → φύσιν γεγενημένην; [ε διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως → [διὰ τῆς παραβάσεως.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 60.7 (PG 80 80:1325; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/60-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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60.9PG 80 80:1327
« Οὕτως ψαλῶ τῷ ὀνόματί σου εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, τοῦ ἀποδοῦναί με τὰς εὐχάς μου ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρας. » ᾿Αεί σε γὰρ ὑμνήσω· καθ' ἑκάστην τὰς σὰς διηγήσομαι χάριτας · καὶ τὰς ὑποσχέσεις οὐ ψεύσομαι· εὐχὰς γὰρ τὰς ὑποσχέσεις καλεῖ.
« Houtōs psalō tǭ onomati sou eis tous aiōnas, tou apodounai me tas euchas mou hēmeran ex hēmeras. » ᾿Aei se gar hymnēsō; kath' hekastēn tas sas diēgēsomai charitas ; kai tas hyposcheseis ou pseusomai; euchas gar tas hyposcheseis kalei.
"So I will sing psalms to your name forever, that I may pay my vows day by day." "For I will always hymn you; each day I will recount your favors and will not prove false to my promises"; for he calls promises vows.
Ps 61:8 (60:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 61:8: the psalmist will praise God daily and keep his vows.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin letters and marks in the text (OCR); stray letters and mark (OCR)): ἐξ be--ἡμέρας → ἐξ ἡμέρας; ἑκάστηνὰ τὰς – σὰς → ἑκάστην τὰς σὰς.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 60.9 (PG 80 80:1327; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/60-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 61
61.1PG 80 80:1329
« Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ὑπὲρ Ἰδιθούμ, ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαβίδ. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως ἡρμήνευσεν· Ἐπινίκιος διὰ Ἰδιθοὺμ, ᾠδὴ εἰς Δαβίδ. Δηλοῖ τοίνυν, ὡς τοῦ μακαρίου μὲν Δαβὶδ ὁ ψαλμὸς, ᾔδετο δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Ἰδιθούμ. Ὡς γὰρ χοροῦ προστατῶν ἐν τῷ θείῳ ναῷ ὕμνει τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεὸν, φησι τῶν Παραλειπομένων ἡ βίβλος. Προθεσπίζει δὲ ὁ ψαλμὸς τὰς Μακεδονικὰς ἐπαναστάσεις, καὶ τὰς Αντιόχου τοῦ Ἐπιφανοῦς κατὰ τῶν Μακκαβαίων ἐπιβουλάς· καὶ διδάσκει τοὺς εὐσεβείας ἀθλητὰς, ὁποίοις προσήκει χρήσασθαι λογισμοῖς ἐν τῷ τῶν ἐναντίων καιρῷ.
« Eis to telos, hyper Idithoum, psalmos tǭ Dabid. » Ho de Symmachos houtōs hērmēneusen; Epinikios dia Idithoum, ǭdē eis Dabid. Dēloi toinyn, hōs tou makariou men Dabid ho psalmos, ę̄deto de hypo tou Idithoum. Hōs gar chorou prostatōn en tǭ theiǭ naǭ hymnei ton tōn holōn Theon, phēsi tōn Paraleipomenōn hē biblos. Prothespizei de ho psalmos tas Makedonikas epanastaseis, kai tas Antiochou tou Epiphanous kata tōn Makkabaiōn epiboulas; kai didaskei tous eusebeias athlētas, hopoiois prosēkei chrēsasthai logismois en tǭ tōn enantiōn kairǭ.
"To the end; for Jeduthun; a psalm of David." Symmachus rendered it this way: "A victory song through Jeduthun, an ode for David." It shows, then, that the psalm belongs to the blessed David but was sung by Jeduthun. For the book of Chronicles says that he, as leader of a choir, hymned the God of all in the divine temple. The psalm foretells the Macedonian uprisings and the plots of Antiochus Epiphanes against the Maccabees, and it teaches the athletes of piety what reasoning they ought to use in a time of adversity.
Ps 62:1 (61:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Chr 16:41 (allusion, medium confidence) · 1 Chr 25:1 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62, title: David's psalm, sung by Jeduthun, foretells the Maccabees' trials under Antiochus Epiphanes.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark (OCR)): Ὡς γὰρ ' χοροῦ → Ὡς γὰρ χοροῦ.
Extrabiblical texts: 1 Macc 1:41-64 (1 Maccabees [in RC, EO canons]; allusion)
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.1 (PG 80 80:1329; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.2PG 80 80:1329
« Οὐχὶ τῷ Θεῷ ὑποταγήσεται ἡ ψυχή μου;» Τὸν θεῖον παραβαίνειν καταναγκαζόμενοι νόμον, καὶ θύειν μὲν εἰδώλοις, ὑείων δὲ μεταλαμβάνειν κρεῶν, τὸν οἰκεῖον εἰς εὐσέβειαν διεγείρουσι λογισμὸν, καὶ πρὸς τὸν ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐσεβείας παραθήγουσι ζῆλον. Οὐ προτιμᾶς, φησὶν, ἁπάντων, ὦ ψυχὴ, τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν δουλείαν; Εἶτα τὸ ἐντεῦθεν διδάσκουσι κέρδος. • Παρ᾿ αὐτῷ γὰρ τὸ σωτήριόν μου. Καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸς Θεός μου, καὶ σωτήρ μου· ἀντιλήπτωρ μου, οὐ μὴ σαλευθῶ ἐπὶ πλεῖον. » Αὕτη σοι, ὦ ψυχὴ, ἡ δουλεία παρέχει τὴν σωτηρίαν. Αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστι Θεὸς καὶ τῶν ἀγαθῶν χορηγὸς, καὶ τοὺς κλονουμένους ἐρεῖσαι δυνάμενος. Τὴν αὐτοῦ τοίνυν ἐπικουρίαν καλέσας, τῶν καταβαλεῖν πειρωμένων ἀπαλλαγήσομαι. Οὕτω τοὺς οἰκείους εἰς εὐσέβειαν πυρεύσαντες λογισμοὺς, μεταφέρουσι πρὸς τοὺς ἐναντίους τὴν γλῶτταν.
« Ouchi tǭ Theǭ hypotagēsetai hē psychē mou?» Ton theion parabainein katanankazomenoi nomon, kai thyein men eidōlois, hyeiōn de metalambanein kreōn, ton oikeion eis eusebeian diegeirousi logismon, kai pros ton hyper tēs eusebeias parathēgousi zēlon. Ou protimas, phēsin, hapantōn, ō psychē, tou Theou tēn douleian? Eita to enteuthen didaskousi kerdos. • Par᾿ autǭ gar to sōtērion mou. Kai gar autos Theos mou, kai sōtēr mou; antilēptōr mou, ou mē saleuthō epi pleion. » Hautē soi, ō psychē, hē douleia parechei tēn sōtērian. Autos gar esti Theos kai tōn agathōn chorēgos, kai tous klonoumenous ereisai dynamenos. Tēn autou toinyn epikourian kalesas, tōn katabalein peirōmenōn apallagēsomai. Houtō tous oikeious eis eusebeian pyreusantes logismous, metapherousi pros tous enantious tēn glōttan.
"Shall not my soul be subject to God?" Being forced to transgress the divine law, to sacrifice to idols and to partake of swine's flesh, they rouse their own reasoning to piety and sharpen it to zeal on piety's behalf. "Do you not prefer the service of God to everything, my soul?" he says. Then they teach the gain that comes from it: "For from him is my salvation. For he is my God and my savior; my helper; I shall not be shaken any more." "This service, my soul, gives you salvation. For he is God and the giver of good things, and he is able to prop up those who totter. So, having called upon his help, I shall be rid of those who are trying to throw me down." Having thus fired their own thoughts with zeal for piety, they turn their tongue against their adversaries.
Ps 62:1 (61:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 62:2 (61:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:1-2: the faithful under Antiochus, forced to sacrifice to idols and eat pork, urge their souls to serve God, who alone saves.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; split word (OCR)): εἰ; εὐσέβειαν → εἰς εὐσέβειαν; λοι γισμὸν → λογισμὸν; ἐναν τίους → ἐναντίους.
Extrabiblical texts: 2 Macc 6:18 (2 Maccabees [in RC, EO canons]; allusion)
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.2 (PG 80 80:1329; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.4PG 80 80:1329
«Ἕως πότε ἐπιτίθεσθε ἐπ᾿ ἄνθρωπον; φονεύετε πάντες ὑμεῖς, ὡς τοίχῳ κεκλιμένῳ καὶ φραγμῷ ὠσμένῳ; » Μεθυπέρβατος δὲ ἡ τοῦ στίχου διάνοια. Ἔστι δὲ αὕτη · Μέχρι τίνος ὠμότητι καθ' ἡμῶν κέχρησθε, τὸ κοινὸν τῆς φύσεως οὐ σκοπούμενοι, ἀλλὰ καθάπερ τοῖχόν τινα κεκλιμένον, καὶ φραγμὸν ὑπ' ἀνέμου πεσεῖν κινδυνεύοντα, ὦσαι καὶ καταβαλεῖν ἐπείγεσθε, μιαιφόνον ἔχοντες γνώμην; ᾿Αντὶ τοῦ, Μὴ σφόδρα ἡμῶν, ὡς ἀσθενῶν, κατεπαίρεσθε. Ἔχομεν γὰρ ἐπίκουρον τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεόν.
«Heōs pote epitithesthe ep᾿ anthrōpon? phoneuete pantes hymeis, hōs toichǭ keklimenǭ kai phragmǭ ōsmenǭ? » Methyperbatos de hē tou stichou dianoia. Esti de hautē ; Mechri tinos ōmotēti kath' hēmōn kechrēsthe, to koinon tēs physeōs ou skopoumenoi, alla kathaper toichon tina keklimenon, kai phragmon hyp' anemou pesein kindyneuonta, ōsai kai katabalein epeigesthe, miaiphonon echontes gnōmēn? ᾿Anti tou, Mē sphodra hēmōn, hōs asthenōn, katepairesthe. Echomen gar epikouron ton tōn holōn Theon.
"How long will you set upon a man? You murder, all of you, as at a leaning wall and a tottering fence." The sense of the verse is transposed. It is this: "How long will you treat us with cruelty, paying no regard to our common nature, but, as though we were some leaning wall and a fence in danger of falling in the wind, press on to push us and throw us down, with a bloodthirsty mind?" That is, "Do not exult too much over us as though we were weak; for we have the God of all as our helper."
Ps 62:3 (61:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:3: the persecutors attack the faithful as if pushing over a leaning wall, but God is their helper.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR accent slip): τοϊχόν → τοῖχόν.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.4 (PG 80 80:1329; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.5PG 80 80:1329
« Πλὴν τὴν τιμήν μου ἐβουλεύσαντο ἀπώσασθαι. » Ἕνα, φησὶ, σκοπὸν ἔχουσι, τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ με γυμνῶσαι” προνοίας, ἀφ᾿ ἧς πᾶσαν ἔχω τιμήν τε καὶ εὔκλειαν. Τιμὴ γὰρ τῶν εὐσεβῶν, τὸ δουλεύειν Θεῷ· διόπερ καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος Παῦλος πανταχοῦ δοῦλον ἑαυτὸν ὀνομάζει Χριστοῦ. « Ἔδραμον ἐν δίψῃ. » Οὐ πάρεργον δὲ ταύτην ἔχουσι τὴν ἐπιβουλήν · ἀλλὰ σὺν πάσῃ προθυμίᾳ τοῦτο ποιοῦσιν, εἰς τὸν τῆς ἀσεβείας με βόθρον καταβαλεῖν διψῶντες. Ποίαις δὲ κέχρηνται μηχαναῖς λέγει · « Τῷ στόματι αὐτῶν εὐλόγουν, καὶ καρδίᾳ αὐτῶν κατηρῶντο.» Κωτίλοις μὲν κέχρηνται λόγοις, φενακῖσαι πειρώμενοι· ἀλλ᾽ ὅλεθρον ἔνδον ἔχουσι κεκρυμμένον. Οὕτως τὰς ἐκείνων δείξαντες ἐπιβουλὰς», πάλιν ἑαυτοῖς ἐγκελεύονται καρτερεῖν, καὶ τὴν θείαν ἀναμένειν ῥοπήν.
« Plēn tēn timēn mou ebouleusanto apōsasthai. » Hena, phēsi, skopon echousi, tēs tou Theou me gymnōsai” pronoias, aph᾿ hēs pasan echō timēn te kai eukleian. Timē gar tōn eusebōn, to douleuein Theǭ; dioper kai ho thespesios Paulos pantachou doulon heauton onomazei Christou. « Edramon en dipsę̄. » Ou parergon de tautēn echousi tēn epiboulēn ; alla syn pasę̄ prothymią touto poiousin, eis ton tēs asebeias me bothron katabalein dipsōntes. Poiais de kechrēntai mēchanais legei ; « Tǭ stomati autōn eulogoun, kai kardią autōn katērōnto.» Kōtilois men kechrēntai logois, phenakisai peirōmenoi; all᾽ holethron endon echousi kekrymmenon. Houtōs tas ekeinōn deixantes epiboulas», palin heautois enkeleuontai karterein, kai tēn theian anamenein rhopēn.
"But they took counsel to thrust away my honor." "They have one aim," he says, "to strip me of God's providence, from which I have all honor and good repute." For the honor of the pious is to serve God; this is why the inspired Paul everywhere calls himself a slave of Christ. "I ran in thirst." "They do not carry on this plot as a side matter, but do it with all eagerness, thirsting to throw me down into the pit of impiety." He tells what devices they use: "With their mouth they blessed, and with their heart they cursed." "They use wheedling words, trying to cheat; but they have destruction hidden within." Having thus shown their plots, they again urge themselves to endure and to wait for God's turning of the scale.
Ps 62:4 (61:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 1:1 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:4: the enemies seek to strip the faithful of God's providence, the honor of the pious, by flattering words that hide destruction.
- "I ran in thirst" is the Septuagint reading Theodoret comments on.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): Τῷ στό ματι → Τῷ στόματι.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.5 (PG 80 80:1329; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.6PG 80 80:1331
« Πλὴν τῷ Θεῷ ὑποτάγηθι, ἡ ψυχή μου • ὅτι παρ' αὐτοῦ ἡ ὑπομονή μου. » Μή" καταλίπης, ὦ ψυχή σο, τοῦ Θεοῦ δι τὴν δουλείαν, ἀλλὰ τῇ παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ χορηγουμένῃ ῥωσθεῖσα ῥοπῇ, φέρε τὰς τῶν δεινῶν προσβολάς.
« Plēn tǭ Theǭ hypotagēthi, hē psychē mou • hoti par' autou hē hypomonē mou. » Mē" katalipēs, ō psychē so, tou Theou di tēn douleian, alla tę̄ par᾿ autou chorēgoumenę̄ rhōstheisa rhopę̄, phere tas tōn deinōn prosbolas.
"But be subject to God, my soul, for from him is my patience." "Do not abandon the service of God, my soul, but, strengthened by the help he supplies, bear the assaults of terrible things."
Ps 62:5 (61:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 62:5: the soul is urged to stay in God's service and endure by his help.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.6 (PG 80 80:1331; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.7PG 80 80:1331
«Ὅτι αὐτὸς Θεός μου, καὶ σωτήρ μου, ἀντιλήπτωρ μου, οὐ μὴ μεταναστεύσω. » Αὐτὸν γὰρ εἰδὼς καὶ ἀληθινὸν Θεὸν, καὶ σωτηρίας πηγὴν, οὐκ ἀνέξομαι τὴν δουλείαν ἀμεῖψαι, καὶ πρὸς ἑτέραν δεσποτείαν ἀναδραμεῖν. Τὸ γὰρ, μεταναστεύσω, ἀντὶ τοῦ μεταθήσομαι τέθεικεν. Οὐ γενήσομαι, φησὶ, μετανάστης, καὶ δοῦλος τῆς ἀσεβείας .
«Hoti autos Theos mou, kai sōtēr mou, antilēptōr mou, ou mē metanasteusō. » Auton gar eidōs kai alēthinon Theon, kai sōtērias pēgēn, ouk anexomai tēn douleian ameipsai, kai pros heteran despoteian anadramein. To gar, metanasteusō, anti tou metathēsomai tetheiken. Ou genēsomai, phēsi, metanastēs, kai doulos tēs asebeias .
"For he is my God and my savior, my helper; I shall not emigrate." "For knowing him to be both true God and the spring of salvation, I will not consent to exchange his service and run off to another lordship." He put "I shall emigrate" for "I shall change sides." "I shall not become an emigrant," he says, "and a slave of impiety."
Ps 62:6 (61:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:6: knowing God as true God and savior, the faithful will not desert his service for impiety.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.7 (PG 80 80:1331; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.8PG 80 80:1331
«Ἐπὶ τῷ Θεῷ τὸ σωτήριόν μου, καὶ ἡ δόξα μου· ὁ Θεὸς τῆς βοηθείας μου, καὶ ἡ ἐλπίς μου ἐπὶ τῷ Θεῷ. » [Ἰδοὺ πάλιν ὁ προφητικὸς νοῦς τῆς ἀδιαιρέτου καὶ φωτοφόρου καὶ ἀεὶ οὔσης Τριάδος σαφέστερον ἡμῖν ὑπέδειξε τὰς ὑποστάσεις· οὐ τρεῖς θεοὺς λέγων, ἄπαγε· τὸ γὰρ Θεὸς, ὡς πολλάκις ἡμῖν εἴρηται, καὶ τὸ Κύριος καὶ Βασιλεὺς καὶ Δημιουργὸς καὶ Παντοκράτωρ ἐπὶ τῶν ὑποστάσεων κεῖται.] Διὸ δὴ τοῖς αὐτοῖς πολλάκις κέχρηνται δε λόγοις, Θεὸν καὶ σωτῆρα, καὶ δόξαν, καὶ βοηθὸν, τὸν τῶν ὅλων καλοῦντες Θεόν· ἵνα τῆς δυσσεβείας τὰς προσβολὰς ἀποκρούσωνται. Οὗ δὴ χάριν καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους ἅπαντας ὁμοφύλους εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν εὐσέβειαν διεγείρουσιν, οὐκ ἀνεχόμενοι μόνοι νικηφόροι καλεῖσθαι.
«Epi tǭ Theǭ to sōtērion mou, kai hē doxa mou; ho Theos tēs boētheias mou, kai hē elpis mou epi tǭ Theǭ. » [Idou palin ho prophētikos nous tēs adiairetou kai phōtophorou kai aei ousēs Triados saphesteron hēmin hypedeixe tas hypostaseis; ou treis theous legōn, apage; to gar Theos, hōs pollakis hēmin eirētai, kai to Kyrios kai Basileus kai Dēmiourgos kai Pantokratōr epi tōn hypostaseōn keitai.] Dio dē tois autois pollakis kechrēntai de logois, Theon kai sōtēra, kai doxan, kai boēthon, ton tōn holōn kalountes Theon; hina tēs dyssebeias tas prosbolas apokrousōntai. Hou dē charin kai tous allous hapantas homophylous eis tēn autēn eusebeian diegeirousin, ouk anechomenoi monoi nikēphoroi kaleisthai.
"In God is my salvation and my glory; the God of my help, and my hope is in God." [See, once again the prophetic mind has shown us more clearly the hypostases of the indivisible, light-bearing, and ever-existing Trinity; not speaking of three gods, far from it; for "God," as we have often said, and "Lord" and "King" and "Creator" and "Almighty" are applied to the hypostases.] So they often use the same words, calling the God of all God and savior and glory and helper, in order to beat off the assaults of impiety. For this reason they also rouse all their other kinsmen to the same piety, not content to be called victors alone.
Ps 62:7 (61:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:7: the repeated names of God are taken (in a bracketed addition) to point to the three hypostases of the Trinity; the faithful call God their helper against impiety.
- The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena; the misplaced closing bracket has been moved and the opening bracket supplied.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (closing bracket misplaced (OCR); opening bracket lost in the OCR): Ἰδοὺ πάλιν ὁ προφητικὸς → [Ἰδοὺ πάλιν ὁ προφητικὸς; κεῖται. Διὸ δὴ ] → κεῖται.] Διὸ δὴ.
Topics: Trinity
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.8 (PG 80 80:1331; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.9PG 80 80:1331
« Ἐλπίσατε ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν, πᾶσα συναγωγή λαῶν, ἐκχέατε ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, ὅτι ὁ Θεὸς βοηθὸς ἡμῶν. » Πάντων, ὦ ὁμόφυλοι, τῶν ἀνθρώπων καταφρονήσαντες, τὴν εἰς αὐτὸν ἐλπίδα βεβαίαν ἐργάσασθε· καὶ πᾶσαν αὐτῷ ἀνάθεσθε τὴν διάνοιαν, ἀναμφιβόλως τὴν παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ βοήθειαν ἀναμένοντες. Τὸ γὰρ, « Ἐκχέατε ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, τοῦτο δηλοῖ, ἀντὶ τοῦ, Πάντας αὐτῷ τοὺς λογισμοὺς ἀφιερώσατε, καὶ μηδεμίαν διχόνοιαν εἰσδέξησθε. [Εὖ μάλα ἐπιστάμενοι, ὡς ἄνθρωπος δίψυχος, ἀκατάστατος ἐν πάσαις ταῖς ὁδοῖς αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ, δυσὶ κυρίοις οὐδεὶς δύναται δουλεύειν.]
« Elpisate ep᾿ auton, pasa synagōgē laōn, ekcheate enōpion autou tas kardias hymōn, hoti ho Theos boēthos hēmōn. » Pantōn, ō homophyloi, tōn anthrōpōn kataphronēsantes, tēn eis auton elpida bebaian ergasasthe; kai pasan autǭ anathesthe tēn dianoian, anamphibolōs tēn par᾿ autou boētheian anamenontes. To gar, « Ekcheate enōpion autou tas kardias hymōn, touto dēloi, anti tou, Pantas autǭ tous logismous aphierōsate, kai mēdemian dichonoian eisdexēsthe. [Eu mala epistamenoi, hōs anthrōpos dipsychos, akatastatos en pasais tais hodois autou, kai to, dysi kyriois oudeis dynatai douleuein.]
"Hope in him, all you assembly of peoples; pour out your hearts before him, for God is our helper." "Despise all human beings, my kinsmen, and make your hope in him firm; dedicate your whole mind to him, awaiting his help without doubting." For this is what "pour out your hearts before him" means: "Consecrate all your thoughts to him, and admit no division of mind." [Knowing full well that "a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways," and that "no one can serve two masters."]
Ps 62:8 (61:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jas 1:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 6:24 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:8: the faithful urge their kinsmen to trust God alone with undivided hearts.
- The closing words are bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misread of the opening quotation mark; opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray letters (OCR)): σ Ἐλπίσατε → « Ἐλπίσατε; πᾶσα σε συναγωγή → πᾶσα συναγωγή; εἰσδέξησθε. Εὖ μάλα → εἰσδέξησθε. [Εὖ μάλα.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.9 (PG 80 80:1331; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.10PG 80 80:1333
« Πλὴν μάταιοι οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων · ψευδεῖς οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἐν ζυγοῖς τοῦ ἀδικῆσαι. » Τοῦτο σαφέστερον ὁ Θεοδοτίων ἡρμήνευσε· « Πλὴν ἀτμὶς υἱοὶ τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ψευδεῖς υἱοὶ ἀνδρὸς, ὡς ῥοπὴ ζυγοῦ. » Οὐδὲν, φησὶ, μόνιμον τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων, ἀλλ᾿ ἀτμῷ ἔοικεν ἀναπεμπομένῳ, παραυτίκα σκεδαννυμένῳ, καὶ ῥοπῇ ζυγοῦ, ποτὲ μὲν καθιεμένῃ, ποτὲ δὲ ἀνανευούσῃ, καὶ σταθηρὸν οὐδὲν ἐχούσῃ καὶ μόνιμον. Καὶ τῶν Ἑβδομήκοντα τὴν ἑρμηνείαν οὕτω νοητέον· Μάταια μὲν τὰ ἀνθρώπινα πάντα· ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως οἱ πλεῖστοι θαῤῥοῦσιν, ὡς διαρκέσι, τοῖς ῥέουσι· καὶ ἰσότητος ἀμελοῦσιν, ἀνίσως δὲ κατἐχουσι τὰ τῆς διανοίας ζυγά· καὶ τοῦ μὲν δικαίου καταφρονοῦσιν, ἀδικίᾳ δὲ χαίρουσιν. « Αὐτοὶ ἐκ ματαιότητος ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό. » Ἀλλ᾿ ὅμως οὐδὲν ἐντεῦθεν ἀποφέρονται κέρδος· μάταια γὰρ ἅπαντα, καὶ μεταβολὴν ὀξεῖαν δεχόμενα. Οὕτω γὰρ ὁ Σύμμαχος ἡρμήνευσεν • « Αὐτοὶ ματαιοῦνται ὁμοῦ. » Ἐντεῦθεν παραίνεσιν τοῖς ἐναντίοις ἐπὶ πλούτῳ γαυριῶσι προσφέρουσιν.
« Plēn mataioi hoi huioi tōn anthrōpōn ; pseudeis hoi huioi tōn anthrōpōn en zygois tou adikēsai. » Touto saphesteron ho Theodotiōn hērmēneuse; « Plēn atmis huioi tōn anthrōpōn; pseudeis huioi andros, hōs rhopē zygou. » Ouden, phēsi, monimon tōn anthrōpinōn, all᾿ atmǭ eoiken anapempomenǭ, parautika skedannymenǭ, kai rhopę̄ zygou, pote men kathiemenę̄, pote de ananeuousę̄, kai stathēron ouden echousę̄ kai monimon. Kai tōn Hebdomēkonta tēn hermēneian houtō noēteon; Mataia men ta anthrōpina panta; all᾽ homōs hoi pleistoi tharrhousin, hōs diarkesi, tois rheousi; kai isotētos amelousin, anisōs de katechousi ta tēs dianoias zyga; kai tou men dikaiou kataphronousin, adikią de chairousin. « Autoi ek mataiotētos epi to auto. » All᾿ homōs ouden enteuthen apopherontai kerdos; mataia gar hapanta, kai metabolēn oxeian dechomena. Houtō gar ho Symmachos hērmēneusen • « Autoi mataiountai homou. » Enteuthen parainesin tois enantiois epi ploutǭ gauriōsi prospherousin.
"But the sons of men are vain; the sons of men are false in the scales, so as to do wrong." Theodotion rendered this more clearly: "But the sons of men are vapor; the sons of man are false, like the tilt of a scale." "Nothing human is lasting," he says, "but it is like vapor sent up and at once scattered, and like the tilt of a scale, now sinking, now rising again, and having nothing steady and lasting." The rendering of the Seventy must be understood in the same way: "All human things are vain; yet most people trust in things that flow away as though they were lasting; they neglect fairness and hold the scales of their mind unevenly; they despise justice and delight in injustice." "They themselves are from vanity, together." "Yet they carry off no gain from it; for everything is vain and liable to swift change." So Symmachus rendered: "They are made vain together." From this they offer advice to their adversaries who pride themselves on wealth.
Ps 62:9 (61:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:9: human things are as fleeting as vapor and a tilting scale, yet people trust in them and love injustice.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): Θεοδοτίων τι ἡρμήνευσε → Θεοδοτίων ἡρμήνευσε; ζυγοῦτα. → ζυγοῦ.; ἐντεῦθεν τ' ἀποφέρονται → ἐντεῦθεν ἀποφέρονται.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.10 (PG 80 80:1333; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.11PG 80 80:1333
« Μὴ ἐλπίζετε ἐπ᾿ ἀδικίαν, καὶ ἐπὶ ἅρπαγμα μὴ ἐπιποθεῖτε. » Μὴ ἀξιέραστον, φησὶν, ἡγεῖσθε τὴν ἀνθρωπίνην ἐφημερίαν, ἐξ ἀδικίας συνισταμένην. « Πλοῦτος ἐὰν ῥέῃ, μὴ προστίθεσθε καρδίαν.» Ποταμοῦ δὲ δίκην ὁρῶντες τὸν πλοῦτον εἰς τὰς ὑμετέρας φερόμενον οἰκίας, μὴ καταδουλώσητε τούτῳ τὸν ὑμέτερον λογισμόν. Καὶ τί δήποτε ταῦτα συμβουλεύεις καὶ παραινεῖς;
« Mē elpizete ep᾿ adikian, kai epi harpagma mē epipotheite. » Mē axieraston, phēsin, hēgeisthe tēn anthrōpinēn ephēmerian, ex adikias synistamenēn. « Ploutos ean rheę̄, mē prostithesthe kardian.» Potamou de dikēn horōntes ton plouton eis tas hymeteras pheromenon oikias, mē katadoulōsēte toutǭ ton hymeteron logismon. Kai ti dēpote tauta symbouleueis kai paraineis?
"Do not hope in injustice, and do not long for robbery." "Do not think worth loving," he says, "a day-to-day human prosperity made up of injustice." "If wealth flows in, do not set your heart on it." "When you see wealth carried into your houses like a river, do not enslave your reasoning to it." And why do you counsel and advise these things?
Ps 62:10 (61:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:10: do not trust in injustice or set the heart on wealth that flows in like a river.
- ἐφημερίαν ("day-to-day [prosperity]") is uncertain; the sense may be "ephemeral" good fortune.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (repeated syllable (OCR)): Ποταμοῦ δὲ δε δίκην → Ποταμοῦ δὲ δίκην.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.11 (PG 80 80:1333; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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61.12PG 80 80:1333
• "Απαξ ἐλάλησεν ὁ Θεός · δύο ταῦτα ἤκουσα, ὅτι τὸ κράτος τοῦ Θεοῦ. Καὶ σοῦ, Κύριε, τὸ ἔλεος· ὅτι σὺ ἀποδώσεις ἑκάστῳ κατὰ τὰ ἔργα αὐτοῦ. » Ἥκουσα, φησὶν, ἀποφηναμένου τοῦ Θεοῦ τῶν ὅλων, ὅτι κρίσις ἔσται, καὶ ἀνταπόδοσις ἀγαθῶν καὶ κακῶν. Τὸ δὲ ἅπαξ, οὐκ ἐπ᾿ ἀριθμοῦ τέθεικεν, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τοῦ πάντως ἐσομένου. 'Απεφήνατο, φησὶν, ἅπαξ ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ τοῦτο μὴ γενέσθαι τῶν ἀδυνάτων. Δύο δὲ λέγει· τὴν κατὰ τῶν παρανόμων τιμωρίαν, καὶ τὴν τοῖς εὐσεβέσι χορηγουμένην φιλανθρωπίαν. Ταῦτα μὲν τοι νομοθε τῶν ὁ Θεὸς ἐπηγγείλατο. « Ἐγὼ γὰρ εἰμι, φησί, Κύριος ὁ Θεός σου, Θεὸς ζηλωτής, ἀποδιδοὺς ἁμαρτίαν πατέρων ἐπὶ τέκναι ἐπὶ τρίτην καὶ τετάρτην γενεὰν τοῖς μισοῦσί με· καὶ ποιῶν ἔλεος εἰς χιλιάδας καὶ μυριάδας τοῖς ἀγαπῶσί με, καὶ φυλάσσουσι τὰ προστάγματά μου. [Ταὐτὰ δὲ τούτοις καὶ ἐν Εὐαγγελίοις ἀκούομεν, πῶς ὁ Κύριος τῆς δόξης ἐν τῇ δευτέρᾳ αὐτοῦ ἐξ οὐρανῶν παρουσίᾳ ἀφοριεῖ ὥσπερ ὁ ποιμὴν, καὶ τὰ πρόβατα μὲν στήσει ἐκ δεξιῶν, τοὺς δὲ ἐρίφους ἐξ εὐωνύμων. Τότε ἐρεῖ τοῖς ἐκ δεξιῶν, « Δεῦτε οἱ εὐλογημένοι τοῦ Πατρός μου, κληρονομήσατε τὴν ἡτοιμασμένην ὑμῖν βασιλείαν πρὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου · · εἶτα τοῖς ἐξ εὐωνύμων· « Ὑπάγετε εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον ὅπου ὁ βρυγμὸς καὶ ὁ ὀλολυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων. » Διὰ δὴ τὴν ἀπόφασιν ταύτην σπουδασάτω ἕκαστος διὰ βίου και θαρότητος καὶ τῆς μόνης ἀληθοῦς πίστεως, καὶ διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν πέλας ἀγάπησιν ἀπολαβεῖν ἐκεῖνα, ἃ ὀφθαλμὸς οὐκ εἶδε καὶ οὖς οὐκ ἤκουσε, καὶ ἐπὶ καρδίαν ἀνθρώπου οὐκ ἀνέβη, ἃ ἡτοίμασεν ὁ Θεὸς τοῖς ἀγαπῶσιν αὐτόν.]
• "Apax elalēsen ho Theos ; dyo tauta ēkousa, hoti to kratos tou Theou. Kai sou, Kyrie, to eleos; hoti sy apodōseis hekastǭ kata ta erga autou. » Hēkousa, phēsin, apophēnamenou tou Theou tōn holōn, hoti krisis estai, kai antapodosis agathōn kai kakōn. To de hapax, ouk ep᾿ arithmou tetheiken, all᾽ epi tou pantōs esomenou. 'Apephēnato, phēsin, hapax ho Theos, kai touto mē genesthai tōn adynatōn. Dyo de legei; tēn kata tōn paranomōn timōrian, kai tēn tois eusebesi chorēgoumenēn philanthrōpian. Tauta men toi nomothe tōn ho Theos epēngeilato. « Egō gar eimi, phēsi, Kyrios ho Theos sou, Theos zēlōtēs, apodidous hamartian paterōn epi teknai epi tritēn kai tetartēn genean tois misousi me; kai poiōn eleos eis chiliadas kai myriadas tois agapōsi me, kai phylassousi ta prostagmata mou. [Tauta de toutois kai en Euangeliois akouomen, pōs ho Kyrios tēs doxēs en tę̄ deuterą autou ex ouranōn parousią aphoriei hōsper ho poimēn, kai ta probata men stēsei ek dexiōn, tous de eriphous ex euōnymōn. Tote erei tois ek dexiōn, « Deute hoi eulogēmenoi tou Patros mou, klēronomēsate tēn hētoimasmenēn hymin basileian pro katabolēs kosmou ; ; eita tois ex euōnymōn; « Hypagete eis to skotos to exōteron hopou ho brygmos kai ho ololygmos tōn odontōn. » Dia dē tēn apophasin tautēn spoudasatō hekastos dia biou kai tharotētos kai tēs monēs alēthous pisteōs, kai dia tēn pros ton pelas agapēsin apolabein ekeina, ha ophthalmos ouk eide kai ous ouk ēkouse, kai epi kardian anthrōpou ouk anebē, ha hētoimasen ho Theos tois agapōsin auton.]
"God has spoken once; these two things I heard: that power belongs to God; and to you, Lord, mercy; for you will repay each according to his works." "I heard," he says, "the God of all declare that there will be a judgment and a repayment of good and evil." He did not put "once" for a number but for what will certainly come to be: "God declared it once, and it is impossible that it should not happen." He says "two": the punishment of the lawless and the love for humankind granted to the pious. God promised these things when he gave the law: "For I am," he says, "the Lord your God, a jealous God, repaying the sin of fathers upon children to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me, and showing mercy to thousands and tens of thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments." [We hear the same things in the Gospels too: how the Lord of glory, at his second coming from heaven, will separate like a shepherd, and will set the sheep at his right and the goats at his left. Then he will say to those on the right, "Come, you blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you before the foundation of the world"; and then to those on the left, "Go into the outer darkness, where there is gnashing and wailing of teeth." Because of this declaration, let each one strive, through a life of purity, through the one true faith, and through love of his neighbor, to receive those things "which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man, which God has prepared for those who love him."]
Ps 62:11 (61:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 62:12 (61:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 20:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 20:6 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 25:32 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 25:33 (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 25:34 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 25:41 (allusion, medium confidence) · Matt 8:12 (quotation, medium confidence) · 1 Cor 2:9 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 62:11-12: God has declared the certain judgment, punishing the wicked and showing mercy to the pious, as in the law and (in an addition) the Gospel's last judgment.
- The closing passage is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied where the Gospel section begins), probably an addition from the catena; the exact start of the addition is uncertain.
- "Thousands and tens of thousands" is the wording given here for Exod 20:6.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter slip; OCR noise; opening bracket lost; joined words (OCR)): Ταὐτὰ δε & τούτοις → [Ταὐτὰ δὲ τούτοις; Δεῦτεοἱ → Δεῦτε οἱ; βατιλείαν → βασιλείαν.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 61.12 (PG 80 80:1333; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/61-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 62
62.1PG 80 80:1335
« Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαβίδ, ἐν τῷ εἶναι αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ τῆς Ἰουδαίας. » Φυγὼν τὸν Σαούλ ὁ θεῖος Δαβίδ, ἦλθε πρὸς τὸν ᾿Αβιμέλεχ κἀκεῖθεν πρὸς τὸν ᾿Αγχοῦς, ὃς τῆς Γὲθ ἐβασίλευεν. Εἶτα πάλιν κινδύνῳ περιπεσών, καὶ τοῦτον διαφυγών, καταλαμβάνει τὴν ἔρημον. Ἐν ᾗ τόνδε συνέγραψε τὸν ψαλμόν · καὶ ὃν εἶχε περὶ τὸν Θεὸν ἐκκαλύπτων ἔρωτα, καὶ τοῦ Σαούλ προαγορεύων τὸν ὅλεθρον. [Καὶ πᾶσι δὲ ἀνθρώποις δέδωκε ἀφορμὴν, δι' ὧν ὀφείλουσιν ἐκλιπαρεῖν τὸν Θεὸν καὶ τὴν παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἀναμένειν βοήθειαν.]
« Psalmos tǭ Dabid, en tǭ einai auton en tę̄ erēmǭ tēs Ioudaias. » Phygōn ton Saoul ho theios Dabid, ēlthe pros ton ᾿Abimelech kakeithen pros ton ᾿Anchous, hos tēs Geth ebasileuen. Eita palin kindynǭ peripesōn, kai touton diaphygōn, katalambanei tēn erēmon. En hę̄ tonde synegrapse ton psalmon ; kai hon eiche peri ton Theon ekkalyptōn erōta, kai tou Saoul proagoreuōn ton holethron. [Kai pasi de anthrōpois dedōke aphormēn, di' hōn opheilousin ekliparein ton Theon kai tēn par᾿ autou anamenein boētheian.]
"A psalm of David, when he was in the desert of Judea." Fleeing from Saul, the divine David came to Abimelech, and from there to Achish, who was king of Gath. Then, falling into danger again and escaping this man too, he reached the desert. There he wrote this psalm, revealing the love he had for God and foretelling the destruction of Saul. [He has also given all people an occasion, through which they ought to entreat God earnestly and await his help.]
Ps 63:1 (62:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Sam 21:1 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Sam 21:10 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Sam 23:14 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63, title: David wrote the psalm in the desert after fleeing Saul, Ahimelech, and Achish.
- The final sentence is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena. Abimelech is the name of the priest Ahimelech of 1 Sam 21 in the Greek form used here.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR): Καὶ πᾶσι δὲ ἀνθρώποις → [Καὶ πᾶσι δὲ ἀνθρώποις.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.1 (PG 80 80:1335; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.2PG 80 80:1335
« Ὁ Θεὸς, ὁ Θεός μου, πρὸς σὲ ὀρθρίζω • ἐδίψησε σε ἡ ψυχή μου. · Ἐξελαύνει, φησὶ, καὶ τὸν ὕπνον ὁ περὶ σὲ, Δέσποτα, πόθος, καὶ εἰς τὴν σὴν με διεγείρει προσκύνησιν. «Ποσαπλῶς σοι ἡ σάρξ μου.» Ὁ Θεοδοτίων, ποσαχῶς ἐξέδωκεν· ὁ δὲ ᾿Ακύλας, ἐπετάθη · ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος, ἱμείρεται. Πάσας δὲ τέθεικα τὰς ἑρμηνείας, διδάσκων ὡς οὐ δύο μέρη ἐστὶ τὸ ποσαπλῶς · διαιρουμένου τοῦ πῶς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἁπλῶς· ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι ἕν ἐστι μέρος λόγου, τὴν ἐπίτασιν τοῦ πόθου σημαίνον . Συμφωνεῖ γὰρ, φησὶ, τῷ ἔρωτι τῆς ψυχῆς καὶ ἡ σὰρξ, καὶ τοῖς ἐκείνης οὐκ ἀντιτείνει βουλεύμασιν. Βούλεται δὲ εἰπεῖν, ὅτι Καὶ ἡ ψυχή μου", καὶ τὸ σῶμά μου, ἱμείρεταί σου καὶ ποθεῖ σε, καθάπερ ὁ διψῶν ὕδωρ ἤδιστόν τε καὶ διειδέστατον. • Ἐν γῇ ἐρήμῳ, καὶ ἀβάτῳ, καὶ ἀνύδρῳ. Οὕτως ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ ὤφθην σοι. » Οὐδεμίαν ἀπὸ τῆς ἐρημίας βλάβην' εἰσεδεξάμην· ἀλλ᾿ ὡς παρ᾿ αὐτὴν ἑστηκὼς τὴν ἱεράν σου σκηνὴν, οὕτως σοι τὴν ὑμνῳδίαν προσφέρω. Τὸ γὰρ ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ τὴν σκηνὴν λέγει. Οὐδέπω γὰρ ὁ θεῖος νεὼς ᾠκοδόμητο. « Τοῦ ἰδεῖν τὴν δύναμίν σου, καὶ τὴν δόξαν σου. » Παρίσταμαι δὲ σοι, τὴν ἄῤῥητον φανταζόμενος δύναμιν. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἡ σὴ φύσις ἀνέφικτος, ἀπὸ τῶν ὑπὸ σοῦ γινομένων λαμβάνω· τῆς δοξολογίας τὰς ἀφορμάς. [ Ὁ δὲ ἐξ ἐθνῶν πεπιστευκὼς λαὸς διηνεκῶς ἂν εἴποι· Οὕτως ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ ὤφθην σοι· τουτέστιν ἐν τῷ ναῷ· ἐν ᾧ θύῃ ἀθύτως καὶ μερίζῃ ἀμερίστως καὶ ἐκδαπανᾷ μένων ἀδαπάνητος".]
« Ho Theos, ho Theos mou, pros se orthrizō • edipsēse se hē psychē mou. ; Exelaunei, phēsi, kai ton hypnon ho peri se, Despota, pothos, kai eis tēn sēn me diegeirei proskynēsin. «Posaplōs soi hē sarx mou.» Ho Theodotiōn, posachōs exedōken; ho de ᾿Akylas, epetathē ; ho de Symmachos, himeiretai. Pasas de tetheika tas hermēneias, didaskōn hōs ou dyo merē esti to posaplōs ; diairoumenou tou pōs apo tou haplōs; all᾽ hoti hen esti meros logou, tēn epitasin tou pothou sēmainon . Symphōnei gar, phēsi, tǭ erōti tēs psychēs kai hē sarx, kai tois ekeinēs ouk antiteinei bouleumasin. Bouletai de eipein, hoti Kai hē psychē mou", kai to sōma mou, himeiretai sou kai pothei se, kathaper ho dipsōn hydōr ēdiston te kai dieidestaton. • En gę̄ erēmǭ, kai abatǭ, kai anydrǭ. Houtōs en tǭ hagiǭ ōphthēn soi. » Oudemian apo tēs erēmias blabēn' eisedexamēn; all᾿ hōs par᾿ autēn hestēkōs tēn hieran sou skēnēn, houtōs soi tēn hymnǭdian prospherō. To gar en tǭ hagiǭ tēn skēnēn legei. Oudepō gar ho theios neōs ǭkodomēto. « Tou idein tēn dynamin sou, kai tēn doxan sou. » Paristamai de soi, tēn arrhēton phantazomenos dynamin. Epeidē gar hē sē physis anephiktos, apo tōn hypo sou ginomenōn lambanō; tēs doxologias tas aphormas. [ Ho de ex ethnōn pepisteukōs laos diēnekōs an eipoi; Houtōs en tǭ hagiǭ ōphthēn soi; toutestin en tǭ naǭ; en hǭ thyę̄ athytōs kai merizę̄ ameristōs kai ekdapaną menōn adapanētos".]
"O God, my God, I rise early to you; my soul has thirsted for you." "Longing for you, Master," he says, "drives away even sleep and rouses me to worship you." "How many ways my flesh for you." Theodotion rendered "in how many ways"; Aquila, "was strained"; Symmachus, "yearns." I have set out all the renderings to teach that posaplōs is not two parts, with pōs divided from haplōs, but is one part of speech, signifying the intensity of longing. "For the flesh too," he says, "agrees with the love of the soul and does not resist its counsels." He means: "Both my soul and my body yearn for you and long for you, like one who thirsts for the sweetest and clearest water." "In a land desert, pathless, and waterless. So in the holy place I appeared to you." "I received no harm from the desert, but I offer you my hymn as though standing beside your sacred tabernacle." For by "in the holy place" he means the tabernacle; the divine temple had not yet been built. "To see your power and your glory." "I stand before you, picturing your inexpressible power. Since your nature is beyond reach, I take the occasions for praise from the things you do." [But the people that believed from the nations could constantly say, "So in the holy place I appeared to you," that is, in the temple, in which you are sacrificed without being sacrificed, divided without being divided, and consumed while remaining unconsumed.]
Ps 63:1 (62:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 63:2 (62:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:1-2: David longs for God in body and soul in the desert and worships as if at the tabernacle; an addition applies the verse to the church's sacrifice.
- Theodoret explains the Septuagint ποσαπλῶς ("how many ways") as one word, not πῶς + ἁπλῶς.
- The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena; it uses the language of the eucharistic liturgy (the Lamb "divided and not divided, eaten and never consumed").
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR accent slip; stray letter (OCR)): ὅτιὰ ἕν → ὅτι ἕν; Οὔτῶς ἐν → Οὕτως ἐν.
Topics: Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.2 (PG 80 80:1335; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.4PG 80 80:1337
« Ὅτι κρεῖσσον τὸ ἔλεός σου ὑπὲρ ζωὰς, τὰ χείλη μου ἐπαινέσουσί σε. » Πάσης τῆς ζωῆς τῆς τῶν πλουτούντων, καὶ τῆς τῶν δυναστευόντων, καὶ ἀφρόντιδος, καὶ πολυφρόντιδος, καὶ ἁβροδιαίτου, καὶ ἀνειμένης, τὸν σὸν ἔλεον προαιροῦμαι , καὶ εἰς τὴν σὴν ὑμνῳδίαν τὰ χείλη κινῶ.
« Hoti kreisson to eleos sou hyper zōas, ta cheilē mou epainesousi se. » Pasēs tēs zōēs tēs tōn ploutountōn, kai tēs tōn dynasteuontōn, kai aphrontidos, kai polyphrontidos, kai habrodiaitou, kai aneimenēs, ton son eleon proairoumai , kai eis tēn sēn hymnǭdian ta cheilē kinō.
"For your mercy is better than lives; my lips will praise you." "Above every life, of the rich and of the powerful, carefree or full of cares, luxurious or relaxed, I choose your mercy, and I move my lips to hymn you."
Ps 63:3 (62:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:3: God's mercy is better than any kind of life.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.4 (PG 80 80:1337; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.5PG 80 80:1337
« Οὕτως εὐλογήσω σε ἐν τῇ ζωῇ μου· ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί σου ἀρῶ τὰς χεῖράς μου. » Τοῦτο δὲ παρά πάντα μου τὸν βίον διατελέσω ποιῶν · ὑμνῶν μὲν τῇ γλώττῃ, τὰς δὲ χεῖρας ἐκτείνων, καὶ τὴν σὴν φιλανθρωπίαν αἰτῶν.
« Houtōs eulogēsō se en tę̄ zōę̄ mou; en tǭ onomati sou arō tas cheiras mou. » Touto de para panta mou ton bion diatelesō poiōn ; hymnōn men tę̄ glōttę̄, tas de cheiras ekteinōn, kai tēn sēn philanthrōpian aitōn.
"So I will bless you in my life; in your name I will lift up my hands." "I will go on doing this throughout my whole life, hymning you with my tongue, stretching out my hands, and asking for your love for humankind."
Ps 63:4 (62:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:4: David will bless God and lift his hands in prayer all his life.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.5 (PG 80 80:1337; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.6PG 80 80:1337
« Ὡς ἐκ στέατος καὶ πιότητος, ἐμπλησθείη ἡ ψυχή μου. » Τὴν δὲ σὴν ὑμνῳδίαν πιότητα ὑπολαμβάνω ψυχῆς · καὶ πιμελῆ καὶ εὐτραφῆ ταύτην οἶμαι γίνεσθαι . Χλιδὴ γὰρ μόνιμος, καὶ τρυφὴ, τῶν σῶν λογίων ἡ μελέτη. « Καὶ χείλη ἀγαλλιάσεως αἰνέσει τὸ στόμα μου . » Οὗ δὴ χάριν μετὰ πάσης σοι προθυμίας προσοίσω τὸν ὕμνον, τὸ ἐντεῦθεν ἐπιστάμενος κέρδος.
« Hōs ek steatos kai piotētos, emplēstheiē hē psychē mou. » Tēn de sēn hymnǭdian piotēta hypolambanō psychēs ; kai pimelē kai eutraphē tautēn oimai ginesthai . Chlidē gar monimos, kai tryphē, tōn sōn logiōn hē meletē. « Kai cheilē agalliaseōs ainesei to stoma mou . » Hou dē charin meta pasēs soi prothymias prosoisō ton hymnon, to enteuthen epistamenos kerdos.
"May my soul be filled as with fat and fatness." "I take your hymnody to be the fatness of the soul, and I think it makes the soul rich and well fed. For the study of your oracles is lasting delight and luxury." "And my mouth will praise with lips of rejoicing." "For this reason I will offer you the hymn with all eagerness, knowing the gain that comes from it."
Ps 63:5 (62:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:5: praising God and studying his words feed the soul like rich food.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.6 (PG 80 80:1337; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.7PG 80 80:1337
« Εἰ ἐμνημόνευόν σου ἐπὶ τῆς στρωμνῆς μου, ἐν τοῖς ὄρθροις ἐμελέτων εἰς σε. Ὅτι ἐγενήθης βοηθός μου, καὶ ἐν τῇ σκέπῃ τῶν πτερύγων σου ἀγαλλιάσομαι.» Τοῦτο δὲ ὁ Σύμμαχος οὕτως ἡρμήνευσεν· ᾿Αναμιμνήσκομαί σου ἐπὶ τῆς στρωμνῆς μου· καθ' ἑκάστην φυλακὴν ἐμελέτων σε· καὶ σκεπόμενος ἐν ταῖς πτέρυξί σου, εὐφήμουν ". Φυλακὰς δὲ λέγει τὰς νυκτερινάς· διαιρούμενοι γὰρ τὸν νυκτερινὸν καιρὸν οἱ φυλάττειν πεπιστευμένοι, τοῦτο δρῶσι σφᾶς αὐτοὺς διαδεχόμενοι. Καὶ οἱ μὲν τριχῆ διαιροῦσιν, οἱ δὲ τετραχῆ. Καὶ ὁ Κύριος τετάρτη φυλακῇ τῆς νυκτὸς πρὸς τοὺς ἱεροὺς ἀποστόλους ἐλήλυθε. Λέγει τοίνυν ὁ θεῖος Δαβὶδ, ὅτι Καὶ ἐπὶ στρωμνῆς κατακείμενος, τὸν ἥδιστον ὕπνον ἀνεβαλλόμην, καθ' ἑκάστην φυλακὴν τὴν σὴν ἔχων μελέτην· καὶ ὕμνοις τὰς εἰς ἐμὲ γεγενημένας ἡμειβόμην εὐεργεσίας. Οἷον γάρ τινι πτερύγων σκέπῃ, τῇ ἀμάχῳ με προμηθείᾳ φυλάττεις. [ Καὶ τοῦτο δὲ αὐτὸ ὁ ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸς πεπιστευχώς μνημονεύει πάντως ἐπὶ τῆς στρωμνῆς, ἐν τῷ ὄρθρῳ ἀνυμνῶν τὸν τῶν ὅλων Σωτῆρα. « Ὅτι ἐγενήθης αὐτὸς βοηθὸς, καὶ ἐν τῇ σκέπῃ τῶν πτερύγων σου ἀγαλλιάσομαι. » Πτέρυγας δὲ δικαίως ἂν εἴποι ὁ αὐτὸς παλαιάν τε καὶ νέαν διαθήκην, δι' ἧς σκεπόμενος καὶ τρεφόμενος καὶ ἀγαλλιώμενος διὰ τῆς τοῦ λουτροῦ παλιγγενεσίας προήχθη εἰς ἄνδρα τέλειον, εἰς μέτρον ἡλικίας τοῦ πληρώματος τοῦ Χριστοῦ.]
« Ei emnēmoneuon sou epi tēs strōmnēs mou, en tois orthrois emeletōn eis se. Hoti egenēthēs boēthos mou, kai en tę̄ skepę̄ tōn pterygōn sou agalliasomai.» Touto de ho Symmachos houtōs hērmēneusen; ᾿Anamimnēskomai sou epi tēs strōmnēs mou; kath' hekastēn phylakēn emeletōn se; kai skepomenos en tais pteryxi sou, euphēmoun ". Phylakas de legei tas nykterinas; diairoumenoi gar ton nykterinon kairon hoi phylattein pepisteumenoi, touto drōsi sphas autous diadechomenoi. Kai hoi men trichē diairousin, hoi de tetrachē. Kai ho Kyrios tetartē phylakę̄ tēs nyktos pros tous hierous apostolous elēlythe. Legei toinyn ho theios Dabid, hoti Kai epi strōmnēs katakeimenos, ton hēdiston hypnon aneballomēn, kath' hekastēn phylakēn tēn sēn echōn meletēn; kai hymnois tas eis eme gegenēmenas hēmeibomēn euergesias. Hoion gar tini pterygōn skepę̄, tę̄ amachǭ me promētheią phylatteis. [ Kai touto de auto ho ex ethnōn laos pepisteuchōs mnēmoneuei pantōs epi tēs strōmnēs, en tǭ orthrǭ anymnōn ton tōn holōn Sōtēra. « Hoti egenēthēs autos boēthos, kai en tę̄ skepę̄ tōn pterygōn sou agalliasomai. » Pterygas de dikaiōs an eipoi ho autos palaian te kai nean diathēkēn, di' hēs skepomenos kai trephomenos kai agalliōmenos dia tēs tou loutrou palingenesias proēchthē eis andra teleion, eis metron hēlikias tou plērōmatos tou Christou.]
"If I remembered you on my bed, at the dawns I meditated on you. For you became my helper, and in the shelter of your wings I will rejoice." Symmachus rendered this as follows: "I remember you on my bed; in each watch I meditated on you; and sheltered in your wings I sang praise." By "watches" he means those of the night; those entrusted with guarding divide the night-time and do this by relieving one another. Some divide it into three, others into four. And the Lord came to the holy apostles in the fourth watch of the night. The divine David says, then: "Even lying on my bed I put off the sweetest sleep, meditating on you in each watch, and I repaid with hymns the benefits done to me. For you guard me with invincible providence as with the shelter of wings." [And the people that believed from the nations certainly remembers this very thing on its bed, hymning the Savior of all at dawn. "For you became its helper, and in the shelter of your wings I will rejoice." The same people could rightly call the wings the Old and New Testaments, sheltered, fed, and rejoicing under which, through the washing of rebirth, it was brought forward "to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ."]
Ps 63:6 (62:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 63:7 (62:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 14:25 (allusion, high confidence) · Titus 3:5 (allusion, medium confidence) · Eph 4:13 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:6-7: David meditates on God through the night watches under the shelter of his wings; an addition makes the wings the two Testaments.
- The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Latin letters in a Greek word (OCR)): κal σκεπόμενος → καὶ σκεπόμενος.
Topics: Baptism, Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.7 (PG 80 80:1337; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.9PG 80 80:1339
« Ἐκολλήθη ἡ ψυχή μου ὀπίσω σου. » Οὐδὲ πρὸς βραχύ, φησὶ, τὸν ἐμὸν λογισμὸν τῆς σῆς ἀποστῆσαι δύναμαι μνήμης· ἀλλὰ φίλτρῳ θερμῷ πυρευόμενος, οἷόν τινι κόλλῃ τῇ μνήμῃ τῷ σῷ πόθῳ προσδέδεμαι. Εἶτα δείκνυσι τὸν τοῦ πόθου καρπόν. « Ἐμοῦ δὲ ἀντελάβετο ἡ δεξιά σου. » Οὕτω γάρ με διακείμενον ὁρῶν, τῆς σῆς ἀξιοῖς προμηθείας.
« Ekollēthē hē psychē mou opisō sou. » Oude pros brachy, phēsi, ton emon logismon tēs sēs apostēsai dynamai mnēmēs; alla philtrǭ thermǭ pyreuomenos, hoion tini kollę̄ tę̄ mnēmę̄ tǭ sǭ pothǭ prosdedemai. Eita deiknysi ton tou pothou karpon. « Emou de antelabeto hē dexia sou. » Houtō gar me diakeimenon horōn, tēs sēs axiois promētheias.
"My soul clung after you." "Not even for a moment," he says, "can I draw my reasoning away from remembering you; but, fired with a warm love, I am bound to longing for you by memory as by a kind of glue." Then he shows the fruit of the longing: "But your right hand upheld me." "For seeing me so disposed, you count me worthy of your care."
Ps 63:8 (62:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:8: David's soul clings to God, and God's right hand upholds him.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.9 (PG 80 80:1339; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.10PG 80 80:1339
« Αὐτοὶ δὲ εἰς μάτην ἐζήτησαν τὴν ψυχήν μου. • Οὐδὲν ἡδικηκότα με σπουδάζουσιν ἀνελεῖν. • Εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὰ ᾿κατώτατα τῆς γῆς. ᾿Αλλ' οἶδα ὡς θανάτῳ παραδοθήσονται. Εἶτα καὶ τὸν τρόπον προθεσπίζει τῆς τελευτῆς ".
« Autoi de eis matēn ezētēsan tēn psychēn mou. • Ouden hēdikēkota me spoudazousin anelein. • Eiseleusontai eis ta ᾿katōtata tēs gēs. ᾿All' oida hōs thanatǭ paradothēsontai. Eita kai ton tropon prothespizei tēs teleutēs ".
"But they sought my soul in vain." "They are eager to kill me, though I have done no wrong." "They will go into the lowest parts of the earth." "But I know that they will be handed over to death." Then he foretells the manner of their end too.
Ps 63:9 (62:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:9: those who seek David's life without cause will go down to death.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.10 (PG 80 80:1339; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.11PG 80 80:1339
« Παραδοθήσονται εἰς χεῖρας ῥομφαίας. » Ὑπὸ πολεμικῆς τοῦτο πείσονται δεξιᾶς. « Μερίδες ἀλωπέκων ἔσονται. » Καὶ τοῦτο, φησὶν, οὐχ ὑπὸ δυνατῶν τινων ὑποστήσονται πολεμίων· ἀλλ᾽ ὑπὸ τῶν προσοίκων ἀλλοφύλων · οἳ δίκην ἀλωπέκων, ποτὲ μὲν ἐπίασι, θαμὰ δὲ καὶ συνεχῶς ἐξελαυνόμενοι φεύγουσιν. Αἰνίττεται δὲ τὸ πρόχειρον νόημα, ὡς τῶν ἐν τῷ πολέμῳ πεσόντων οἱ πλείους οὐδὲ ταφῆς ἀξιωθήσονται, ἀλλὰ προκείσονται τοῖς θηρίοις βορά.
« Paradothēsontai eis cheiras rhomphaias. » Hypo polemikēs touto peisontai dexias. « Merides alōpekōn esontai. » Kai touto, phēsin, ouch hypo dynatōn tinōn hypostēsontai polemiōn; all᾽ hypo tōn prosoikōn allophylōn ; hoi dikēn alōpekōn, pote men epiasi, thama de kai synechōs exelaunomenoi pheugousin. Ainittetai de to procheiron noēma, hōs tōn en tǭ polemǭ pesontōn hoi pleious oude taphēs axiōthēsontai, alla prokeisontai tois thēriois bora.
"They will be handed over to the power of the sword." "They will suffer this at a warlike hand." "They will be portions for foxes." "And this," he says, "they will undergo not at the hands of any powerful enemies, but at the hands of the neighboring foreigners, who like foxes sometimes attack but often and constantly are driven out and flee." He also hints at the obvious sense, that most of those who fall in the war will not even be counted worthy of burial but will lie exposed as food for wild beasts.
Ps 63:10 (62:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:10: David's enemies will fall by the sword of the neighboring foreigners and lie unburied.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): ἀξιωθήσον ται → ἀξιωθήσονται.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.11 (PG 80 80:1339; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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62.12PG 80 80:1339
« Ὁ δὲ βασιλεὺς εὐφρανθήσεται ἐπὶ τῷ Θεῷ. Ἐγὼ δὲ, φησὶ, παρὰ σοῦ τὴν βασιλείαν δεξάμενος, οὐκ ἐπὶ τῷ ἐκείνων ἡσθήσομαι θανάτῳ, ἀλλ᾽ ἐπὶ τῇ σῇ προμηθείᾳ, δι᾿ ἧς ἐξέφυγον τὰς παντοδαπὰς τῶν πολεμίων ἐπιβουλάς. • Ἑπαινεθήσεται πᾶς ὁ ὀμνύων ἐν αὐτῷ · ὅτι ἐνεφράγη στόμα λαλούντων ἄδικα. » Μετὰ παῤῥησίας δὲ λοιπὸν ἅπαντες καὶ ὀνομάσουσι βασιλέα, καὶ κατὰ τῆς τούτου σωτηρίας ὁμοῦνται· οὐκ ἔτι δεδιότες τοὺς συκοφάντας, ὧν ἐνεφράγη τῷ θανάτῳ τὸ στόμα. Τοῦ μὲν γὰρ " Σαούλ περιόντος, ἐδεδίεισαν τὴν πρὸς τὸν Δαβίδ διάλεξιν• τούτου δὲ τελευτήσαντος, ἀδεῶς λοιπὸν ἅπαντες καὶ τῷ βασιλεῖ τὸ πρέπον ἀπένεμον γέρας, καὶ ὅρκον ἐποιοῦντο τοῦ βασιλέως τὴν σωτηρίαν, φιλοτιμίαν τοῦτο καὶ πρόφασιν εὐνοίας ποιούμενοι.
« Ho de basileus euphranthēsetai epi tǭ Theǭ. Egō de, phēsi, para sou tēn basileian dexamenos, ouk epi tǭ ekeinōn hēsthēsomai thanatǭ, all᾽ epi tę̄ sę̄ promētheią, di᾿ hēs exephygon tas pantodapas tōn polemiōn epiboulas. • Hepainethēsetai pas ho omnyōn en autǭ ; hoti enephragē stoma lalountōn adika. » Meta parrhēsias de loipon hapantes kai onomasousi basilea, kai kata tēs toutou sōtērias homountai; ouk eti dediotes tous sykophantas, hōn enephragē tǭ thanatǭ to stoma. Tou men gar " Saoul periontos, ededieisan tēn pros ton Dabid dialexin• toutou de teleutēsantos, adeōs loipon hapantes kai tǭ basilei to prepon apenemon geras, kai horkon epoiounto tou basileōs tēn sōtērian, philotimian touto kai prophasin eunoias poioumenoi.
"But the king will rejoice in God." "But I," he says, "having received the kingdom from you, will take pleasure not in their death but in your providence, through which I escaped the enemies' plots of every kind." "Everyone who swears by him will be praised, for the mouth of those who speak unjust things has been stopped." "From now on all will name me king with boldness and will swear by his safety, no longer fearing the slanderers, whose mouth has been stopped by death." For while Saul was alive they were afraid to talk with David; but when he had died, all thereafter without fear gave the king the honor due to him and made the king's safety their oath, making this a point of honor and a pretext of goodwill.
Ps 63:11 (62:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 63:11: David as king will rejoice in God's providence, and after Saul's death people will freely honor him.
- Theodoret takes "by him" to mean by the king.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 62.12 (PG 80 80:1339; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/62-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 63
63.1PG 80 80:1341
« Εἰς τὸ τέλος, ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαβίδ. » Καὶ οὗτος ὁ ψαλμὸς τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπόθεσιν ἔχει. Διηγεῖται δὲ τὰς ὑπὸ Σαούλ γεγενημένας ἐπιβουλάς · καὶ προλέγει τὴν τούτων ἀπαλλαγήν. [ Προλέγει δὲ δι' ὧν ὀφείλει προσευχῶν ὁ ἐξ ἐθνῶν λαὸς ἐπιστρέφων δυσωπεῖν τὸν Σωτῆρα.]
« Eis to telos, psalmos tǭ Dabid. » Kai houtos ho psalmos tēn autēn hypothesin echei. Diēgeitai de tas hypo Saoul gegenēmenas epiboulas ; kai prolegei tēn toutōn apallagēn. [ Prolegei de di' hōn opheilei proseuchōn ho ex ethnōn laos epistrephōn dysōpein ton Sōtēra.]
"To the end; a psalm of David." This psalm too has the same subject. It recounts the plots made by Saul and foretells deliverance from them. [It foretells too the prayers with which the people from the nations, in turning, ought to entreat the Savior.]
Ps 64:1 (63:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64, title: the psalm recounts Saul's plots and foretells deliverance.
- The final sentence is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.1 (PG 80 80:1341; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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63.2PG 80 80:1341
« Εἰσάκουσον, ὁ Θεὸς, φωνῆς μου, ἐν τῷ δέεσθαί με πρὸς σὲ· ἀπὸ φόβου ἐχθροῦ ἐξελοῦ τὴν ψυχήν μου. • Δέξαι μου, φησὶ, Δέσποτα, τὴν ἱκετείαν· καὶ ῥῶσόν μου τὴν διάνοιαν· ὥστε μὴ δεδιέναι τῶν πολεμίων τὰς προσβολάς.
« Eisakouson, ho Theos, phōnēs mou, en tǭ deesthai me pros se; apo phobou echthrou exelou tēn psychēn mou. • Dexai mou, phēsi, Despota, tēn hiketeian; kai rhōson mou tēn dianoian; hōste mē dedienai tōn polemiōn tas prosbolas.
"Hear my voice, O God, when I make petition to you; from fear of the enemy deliver my soul." "Accept my supplication, Master," he says, "and strengthen my mind, so that I do not fear the attacks of the enemies."
Ps 64:1 (63:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:1: David asks God to hear him and free him from fear of the enemy.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): φωνῆς μου δε, ἐν → φωνῆς μου, ἐν.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.2 (PG 80 80:1341; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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63.3PG 80 80:1341
« Σκέπασόν με ἀπὸ συστροφῆς πονηρευομένων, ἀπὸ πλήθους ἐργαζομένων ἀδικίαν. » Συστροφὴν καλεῖ τὴν ὁμόνοιαν, καὶ τὴν ἐν κακῷ συμφωνίαν, ἧς ἀντιβολεῖ κρείττων ἀποφανθῆναι, οἷόν τινι τειχίῳ τῇ θείᾳ κηδεμονίᾳ περιφραττόμενος. Εἶτα διηγεῖται αὐτῶν τὰ παντοδαπὰ μηχανήματα.
« Skepason me apo systrophēs ponēreuomenōn, apo plēthous ergazomenōn adikian. » Systrophēn kalei tēn homonoian, kai tēn en kakǭ symphōnian, hēs antibolei kreittōn apophanthēnai, hoion tini teichiǭ tę̄ theią kēdemonią periphrattomenos. Eita diēgeitai autōn ta pantodapa mēchanēmata.
"Shelter me from the conspiracy of evildoers, from the multitude of those who work injustice." He calls their concord and agreement in evil a "conspiracy"; he begs to be shown stronger than it, fenced about by God's care as by a wall. Then he recounts their devices of every kind.
Ps 64:2 (63:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:2: David asks to be sheltered from the wicked who conspire together.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): Συ στροφὴν → Συστροφὴν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.3 (PG 80 80:1341; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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63.4PG 80 80:1341
« Οἱ τινες ἠκόνησαν ὡς ῥομφαίαν τὰς γλώσσας αὐτῶν· ἐνέτειναν τόξον αὐτῶν, πρᾶγμα πικρόν. Τοῦ κατατοξεῦσαι ἐν ἀποκρύφοις ἄμωμον. » Συκοφαντίας, φησὶ, ῥάπτουσιν εἰς τὸν κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ τυρευόμενον πόλεμον· καὶ ταῦτα μηδεμίαν ἐμοῦ παρεσχηκότος αἰτίαν. Ἄμωμον γὰρ ἐντεῦθεν τὸν ἀναίτιον λέγει. Τὸ δὲ πρᾶγμα πικρὸν, ὁ ᾿Ακύλας ῥῆμα πικρὸν εἴρηκε· καὶ ὁ Θεοδοτίων, λόγον πικρόν· καὶ ὁ Σύμμαχος, Ἐπλήρωσαν τόξον ἑαυτῶν, λόγον πικρόν. Τὸ δὲ ἐν ἀποκρύφοις, κρυψῇ ὁ Σύμμαχος εἴρηκεν. τουτέστιν, ἐνέδραις καὶ λόχοις κεχρημένοι. Τοῦτο δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐπαγόμενα διδάσκει.
« Hoi tines ēkonēsan hōs rhomphaian tas glōssas autōn; eneteinan toxon autōn, pragma pikron. Tou katatoxeusai en apokryphois amōmon. » Sykophantias, phēsi, rhaptousin eis ton kat᾿ emou tyreuomenon polemon; kai tauta mēdemian emou pareschēkotos aitian. Amōmon gar enteuthen ton anaition legei. To de pragma pikron, ho ᾿Akylas rhēma pikron eirēke; kai ho Theodotiōn, logon pikron; kai ho Symmachos, Eplērōsan toxon heautōn, logon pikron. To de en apokryphois, krypsę̄ ho Symmachos eirēken. toutestin, enedrais kai lochois kechrēmenoi. Touto de kai ta epagomena didaskei.
"They sharpened their tongues like a sword; they bent their bow, a bitter thing, to shoot in secret at the blameless." "They stitch together slanders," he says, "for the war being cooked up against me, and this when I have given no cause." For here he calls the one without fault "blameless." For "a bitter thing" Aquila said "a bitter word"; Theodotion, "a bitter speech"; and Symmachus, "They filled their bow, a bitter speech." For "in secret" Symmachus said "secretly," that is, using ambushes and traps. What follows teaches this too.
Ps 64:3 (63:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 64:4 (63:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:3-4: David's enemies aim slanders at him like arrows from ambush, though he is blameless.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): ἐντεῦθεν δι, τὸν → ἐντεῦθεν τὸν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.4 (PG 80 80:1341; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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63.6PG 80 80:1341
· Ἐξάπινα κατατοξεύσουσιν αὐτὸν, καὶ οὐ φοβηθήσονται. » Λοχῶντες, φησὶν, ἐξαίφνης ἐπίασιν, οὐ δειμαίνοντες τὸν ἐφορῶντα Θεόν. « Ἐκραταίωσαν ἑαυτοῖς λόγον πονηρόν · διηγήσαντο τοῦ κρύψαι παγίδας. » Τοῦτο σαφέστερον ὁ Σύμμαχος εἴρηκεν· Ἑκράτυναν λόγον πονηρόν, εἰσηγήσαντο κρύψαι παγίδας. Τὸν γὰρ ἐμὸν καττύοντες θάνατον, εἰσηγήσαντο καὶ συνεβουλεύσαντο, ποίαις δεῖ χρήσασθαι κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ μηχαναῖς, καὶ τῷ ἔργῳ τοὺς λόγους ἐκράτυναν · ταῦτα δὲ τολμῶσιν, οὐδένα προμηθεῖσθαι τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ἡγούμενοι. Τοῦτο γὰρ δηλοῖ τὰ ἐπαγόμενα· « Εἶπαν · Τίς ὄψεται αὐτούς; » Ἡγοῦνται, φησὶ, μηδένα εἶναι τῶν γινομένων κριτήν. [Τοῦτο μὲν οἱ περὶ τὸν ᾿Αβεσσαλώμ καὶ τὸν Σαούλ καὶ τοὺς λοιπούς · τοῦτο δὲ καὶ οἱ παράνομοι οἱ κατὰ καιρὸν μηχανὰς καὶ πάγας κατὰ τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ συστησάμενοι. Καὶ ὅρα τί φησι διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς.]
; Exapina katatoxeusousin auton, kai ou phobēthēsontai. » Lochōntes, phēsin, exaiphnēs epiasin, ou deimainontes ton ephorōnta Theon. « Ekrataiōsan heautois logon ponēron ; diēgēsanto tou krypsai pagidas. » Touto saphesteron ho Symmachos eirēken; Hekratynan logon ponēron, eisēgēsanto krypsai pagidas. Ton gar emon kattyontes thanaton, eisēgēsanto kai synebouleusanto, poiais dei chrēsasthai kat᾿ emou mēchanais, kai tǭ ergǭ tous logous ekratynan ; tauta de tolmōsin, oudena promētheisthai tōn anthrōpinōn hēgoumenoi. Touto gar dēloi ta epagomena; « Eipan ; Tis opsetai autous? » Hēgountai, phēsi, mēdena einai tōn ginomenōn kritēn. [Touto men hoi peri ton ᾿Abessalōm kai ton Saoul kai tous loipous ; touto de kai hoi paranomoi hoi kata kairon mēchanas kai pagas kata tōn Ekklēsiōn tou Theou systēsamenoi. Kai hora ti phēsi dia tōn hexēs.]
"Suddenly they will shoot at him, and they will not be afraid." "Lying in ambush," he says, "they attack suddenly, not dreading God who watches over all." "They strengthened for themselves an evil word; they talked of hiding snares." Symmachus said this more clearly: "They made an evil word strong; they proposed to hide snares." "For, stitching together my death, they proposed and took counsel what devices they must use against me, and they made their words strong by deed. They dare these things thinking that no one takes care of human affairs." This is what the next words show: "They said, 'Who will see them?'" "They think," he says, "that there is no judge of what happens." [This the followers of Absalom and Saul and the rest thought; and so too did the lawless who at various times set devices and snares against the churches of God. And see what he says in what follows.]
Ps 64:4 (63:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 64:5 (63:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Sam 15:12 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:4-5: the plotters ambush the righteous, thinking no one sees or judges them.
- The final passage is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket misread (OCR)): (το Τοῦτο μὲν → [Τοῦτο μὲν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.6 (PG 80 80:1341; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 80 (Bavarian State Library OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
63.7PG 80 80:1343
« Ἐξηρεύνησαν ἀνομίαν ἐξέλιπον ἐξσαν λογισμόν· πᾶσαν ἐπενόησαν κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ μηχανήν· οὐδὲν ἐπιβουλῆς καταλελοίπασιν εἶδος, προφανῶς ἐπιόντες, κρύβδην λοχῶντες, κατασκόποις χρώμενοι, τὰς ἐρήμους περινοστοῦντες, τὰ πετρώδη χωρία διερευνώμενοι [ ἐν ὄρεσι καὶ σπηλαίοις καὶ ταῖς ὀπαῖς τῆς γῆς ἀναζητοῦντες τοὺς ἀθλητὰς τῆς εὐσεβείας, περὶ ὧν φάσκει ὁ θεῖος Παῦλος, ὧν οὐκ ἦν ἄξιος ὁ κόσμος]. - ερευνῶντες ἐξερευνήσεις. » Πάντα, φησὶν, ἐκίνη• Προσελεύσεται ἄνθρωπος", καὶ καρδία βαθεία.
« Exēreunēsan anomian exelipon exsan logismon; pasan epenoēsan kat᾿ emou mēchanēn; ouden epiboulēs kataleloipasin eidos, prophanōs epiontes, krybdēn lochōntes, kataskopois chrōmenoi, tas erēmous perinostountes, ta petrōdē chōria diereunōmenoi [ en oresi kai spēlaiois kai tais opais tēs gēs anazētountes tous athlētas tēs eusebeias, peri hōn phaskei ho theios Paulos, hōn ouk ēn axios ho kosmos]. - ereunōntes exereunēseis. » Panta, phēsin, ekinē• Proseleusetai anthrōpos", kai kardia batheia.
"They searched out iniquity; they failed, searching with searchings." "They set every reasoning in motion," he says; "they devised every contrivance against me; they left out no kind of plot, attacking openly, lying in wait secretly, using spies, roaming the deserts, searching the rocky places" [in mountains and caves and holes of the earth seeking out the athletes of piety, of whom the divine Paul says, "of whom the world was not worthy"]. "A man will draw near, and a deep heart."
Ps 64:6 (63:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 11:38 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:6: David's enemies search out every scheme against him; an addition applies the verse to persecuted saints hiding in caves.
- The OCR has scrambled this section: part of the verse ("searching with searchings") and the opening of the comment ("he says, they set every reasoning in motion") are displaced and broken. The translation follows the evident order. The bracketed words are bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (page number inside a word (OCR)): μη-406χανήν → μηχανήν.
Topics: Persecution
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.7 (PG 80 80:1343; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 80 (Bavarian State Library OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
63.8PG 80 80:1343
« Καὶ ὑψωθήσεται ὁ Θεός. • Τοῦτο σαφέστερον ὁ Θεοδοτίων ἡρμήνευσε· λέγει δὲ οὕτως · Καὶ διάνοιαν ἀνδρὸς, καὶ καρδίαν βαθεῖαν κατατοξεύσει ὁ Θεός. Κἂν γὰρ μυριάκις αὐτῶν κατακρύψωσι τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα, δῆλα ταῦτά ἐστι τῷ πάντ᾽ ἐφορῶντι Θεῷ · ὃς τὸ οἰκεῖον ὑποδείκνυσιν ὕψος, δίκας τοὺς τοιούτους εἰσπραττόμενος. « Βέλος νηπίων ἐγενήθησαν αἱ πληγαὶ αὐτῶν. Καὶ ἐξησθένησαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτοὺς δὲ αἱ γλῶσσαι αὐτῶν. » ᾿Αλλ᾽ ὅμως καὶ τοσαύτῃ δεινότητι χρώμενοι, διήμαρτον τοῦ σκοποῦ. Καθάπερ γὰρ τὰ παρὰ τῶν κομιδῆ νέων ἀφιέμενα βέλη βλάβην οὐδεμίαν ἐπιφέρει τοῖς δεχομένοις, οὕτως αἱ τούτων γλῶσσαι, τοὺς μὲν βληθέντας οὐκ ἔβλαψαν· κατὰ δὲ τῶν τιναξάντων ἡ λώβη κεχώρηκεν. « Εταράχθησαν πάντες οἱ θεωροῦντες αὐτούς.» Οἱ δὲ θεασάμενοι αὐτοὺς τῶν ἐγχειρημάτων διαμαρτόντας, θορύβου καὶ δέους πλησθήσονται, ἢ ἐπλήσθησαν, καὶ τὴν θείαν ἐθαύμασαν πρόνοιαν. Τοῦτο γὰρ τὰ μετὰ ταῦτα δηλοῖ.
« Kai hypsōthēsetai ho Theos. • Touto saphesteron ho Theodotiōn hērmēneuse; legei de houtōs ; Kai dianoian andros, kai kardian batheian katatoxeusei ho Theos. Kan gar myriakis autōn katakrypsōsi ta epitēdeumata, dēla tauta esti tǭ pant᾽ ephorōnti Theǭ ; hos to oikeion hypodeiknysin hypsos, dikas tous toioutous eisprattomenos. « Belos nēpiōn egenēthēsan hai plēgai autōn. Kai exēsthenēsan ep᾿ autous de hai glōssai autōn. » ᾿All᾽ homōs kai tosautę̄ deinotēti chrōmenoi, diēmarton tou skopou. Kathaper gar ta para tōn komidē neōn aphiemena belē blabēn oudemian epipherei tois dechomenois, houtōs hai toutōn glōssai, tous men blēthentas ouk eblapsan; kata de tōn tinaxantōn hē lōbē kechōrēken. « Etarachthēsan pantes hoi theōrountes autous.» Hoi de theasamenoi autous tōn encheirēmatōn diamartontas, thorybou kai deous plēsthēsontai, ē eplēsthēsan, kai tēn theian ethaumasan pronoian. Touto gar ta meta tauta dēloi.
"And God will be exalted." Theodotion rendered this more clearly; he speaks thus: "And God will shoot at the mind of man and the deep heart." "For even if they hide their practices ten thousand times, these are plain to God who watches over all, and he shows his own height by exacting punishment from such people." "Their blows became the arrow of infants, and their tongues grew weak against them." "Yet though they used so much cunning, they missed the mark. For just as arrows shot by very young boys do no harm to those they strike, so their tongues did not harm those at whom they were aimed, but the damage recoiled on those who launched them." "All who saw them were troubled." "Those who saw them fail in their attempts will be filled," or "were filled," "with confusion and fear, and marveled at God's providence." This is what the following words show.
Ps 64:7 (63:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 64:8 (63:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:7-8: God sees the hidden schemes and turns the plotters' weapons back on them like children's arrows.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening quotation mark misread as a bracket (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): ] Καὶ ὑψωθήσεται → « Καὶ ὑψωθήσεται; πάντ᾽ ( ἐφορῶντι → πάντ᾽ ἐφορῶντι.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.8 (PG 80 80:1343; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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63.10PG 80 80:1343
« Καὶ ἐφοβήθη πᾶς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ἀνήγγειλαν τὰ ἔργα τοῦ Θεοῦ· καὶ τὰ ποιήματα αὐτοῦ συνῆκαν. » Ἐν περινοίᾳ γὰρ οἱ τῆς τοῦ Θεοῦ κηδεμονίας γενόμενοι, τὸ θεῖον κριτήριον ἔδεισαν.
« Kai ephobēthē pas anthrōpos, kai anēngeilan ta erga tou Theou; kai ta poiēmata autou synēkan. » En perinoią gar hoi tēs tou Theou kēdemonias genomenoi, to theion kritērion edeisan.
"And every man was afraid, and they proclaimed the works of God, and understood his deeds." For those who came to perceive God's care feared the divine judgment.
Ps 64:9 (63:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:9: seeing God's care, people fear and proclaim his works.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): ἀνήγγει λαν → ἀνήγγειλαν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.10 (PG 80 80:1343; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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63.11PG 80 80:1345
« Εὐφρανθήσεται δίκαιος ἐν τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ ἐλπιεῖ ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν. » Διαφερόντως δὲ οἱ τῶν θείων νόμων [ παλαιᾶς τε καὶ νέας διαθήκης ] ἐπιμελούμενοι, θυμηδίας ἐμφορηθέντες, τὴν εἰς τὸν Θεὸν ἐλπίδα βεβαίαν ἐργάσονται. « Καὶ ἐπαινεθήσονται πάντες οἱ εὐθεῖς τῇ καρδίᾳ. » Καὶ τὴν παρὰ ἀνθρώπων δὲ καρπώσονται εὔκλειαν οἱ τὸν λογισμὸν πρὸς Θεὸν διευθύνοντες, καὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς εὐθείας ἔξω βαδίζειν οὐκ ἀνεχόμενοι. [Τοῦτο δὲ εὕροι ἄν τις κατωρθωκότας τὸν Δαβὶδ καὶ τοὺς κατ᾿ αὐτὸν καὶ τοὺς μετ᾿ ἐκείνους· λέγω δὴ τοὺς ἀθλοφόρους μάρτυρας καὶ τοὺς ἀθλητὰς τῆς εὐσεβείας. ]
« Euphranthēsetai dikaios en tǭ Kyriǭ, kai elpiei ep᾿ auton. » Diapherontōs de hoi tōn theiōn nomōn [ palaias te kai neas diathēkēs ] epimeloumenoi, thymēdias emphorēthentes, tēn eis ton Theon elpida bebaian ergasontai. « Kai epainethēsontai pantes hoi eutheis tę̄ kardią. » Kai tēn para anthrōpōn de karpōsontai eukleian hoi ton logismon pros Theon dieuthynontes, kai tēs hodou tēs eutheias exō badizein ouk anechomenoi. [Touto de heuroi an tis katōrthōkotas ton Dabid kai tous kat᾿ auton kai tous met᾿ ekeinous; legō dē tous athlophorous martyras kai tous athlētas tēs eusebeias. ]
"The righteous will be glad in the Lord and will hope in him." "Especially those who care for the divine laws [of the Old and New Testaments], filled with gladness, will make their hope in God firm." "And all the upright in heart will be praised." "Those who direct their reasoning toward God and will not walk outside the straight road will also reap good repute among men." [One would find that David and those of his time and those after them achieved this; I mean the prize-bearing martyrs and the athletes of piety.]
Ps 64:10 (63:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 64:10: those who keep God's laws will rejoice and be honored; an addition names the martyrs.
- The bracketed words are bracketed in Migne (the opening of the second bracket supplied), probably additions from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR): εὔκλειαν οἱ τὸν λογισμὸν πρὸς Θεὸν διευθύνοντες, καὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς εὐθείας ἔξω βαδίζειν οὐκ ἀνεχόμενοι. Τοῦτο δὲ → εὔκλειαν οἱ τὸν λογισμὸν πρὸς Θεὸν διευθύνοντες, καὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ τῆς εὐθείας ἔξω βαδίζειν οὐκ ἀνεχόμενοι. [Τοῦτο δὲ.
Topics: Martyrdom
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 63.11 (PG 80 80:1345; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/63-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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