Interpretation of the Psalms 67.2–67.36 (Interpretation of the Psalms)

Theodoret of Cyrus

Interpretation of the Psalms 67.2–67.36

Theodoret of Cyrus · Interpretation of the Psalms · ca. 436-448 · Cyrrhus · 32 passages

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Chapter 67

67.2PG 80 80:1375

« ᾿Αναστήτω ὁ Θεὸς, καὶ διασκορπισθήτωσαν οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτοῦ· καὶ φυγέτωσαν ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ οἱ μισοῦντες αὐτόν. » Καιρὸς, φησὶν, ἀναστῆναί σε, Δέσποτα, καὶ τὴν τῶν ἀνθρώπων πραγματεύσασθαι σωτηρίαν· παραυτίκα γὰρ ἅπαν εἰς φυγὴν τραπήσεται τῶν πολεμίων τὸ στίφος, τῇ τῆς σῆς ἐπιφανείας σκεδαννύμενον αἴγλῃ. Ἀνάστασιν δὲ, ὡς πολλάκις εἰρήκαμεν, οὐ μόνον " τὴν τῆς μακροθυμίας παῦλαν καλεῖ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀναστῆναι τὸν Σωτῆρα τοῦ κόσμου διὰ τριῶν ἡμερῶν, ὅτε τὸν ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ἑκούσιον κατεδέξατο θάνατον · · Οὕτω καὶ ἡμεῖς πολλάκις τοὺς ἐπιεικίᾳ χρωμένους δικαστὰς εἰς τὴν τῶν ἀδικουμένων ἐπικουρίαν διεγείρειν εἰώθαμεν, διαναστῆναι παρακαλοῦντες, καὶ τῶν ἀδικούντων καταπαῦσαι τὸ θράσος ·

« ᾿Anastētō ho Theos, kai diaskorpisthētōsan hoi echthroi autou; kai phygetōsan apo prosōpou autou hoi misountes auton. » Kairos, phēsin, anastēnai se, Despota, kai tēn tōn anthrōpōn pragmateusasthai sōtērian; parautika gar hapan eis phygēn trapēsetai tōn polemiōn to stiphos, tę̄ tēs sēs epiphaneias skedannymenon aiglę̄. Anastasin de, hōs pollakis eirēkamen, ou monon " tēn tēs makrothymias paulan kalei, alla kai to anastēnai ton Sōtēra tou kosmou dia triōn hēmerōn, hote ton hyper hēmōn hekousion katedexato thanaton ; ; Houtō kai hēmeis pollakis tous epieikią chrōmenous dikastas eis tēn tōn adikoumenōn epikourian diegeirein eiōthamen, dianastēnai parakalountes, kai tōn adikountōn katapausai to thrasos ;

"Let God arise, and let his enemies be scattered, and let those who hate him flee from his face." "It is time, Master," he says, "for you to arise and accomplish the salvation of men. For at once the whole throng of the enemies will be put to flight, scattered by the radiance of your appearance." By "rising," as we have often said, he means not only the end of long-suffering but also the Savior of the world rising after three days, when he accepted death willingly for us. So we too often rouse judges who are lenient to help the wronged, begging them to rise and put an end to the boldness of the wrongdoers.

Ps 68:1 (67:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:1: "Let God arise" means both the end of God's patience and Christ's resurrection, which scatters the enemies.

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Digital text corrected (stray letter (OCR)): ἀνθρώπων ὁ πραγματεύσασθαι → ἀνθρώπων πραγματεύσασθαι; ἀλλὰ ὁ καὶ τὸ ἀναστῆναι → ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ ἀναστῆναι.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.2 (PG 80 80:1375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-2). (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.

67.3PG 80 80:1375

« Ὡς ἐκλείπει καπνὸς, ἐκλειπέτωσαν· ὡς τήκεται κηρὸς ἀπὸ προσώπου πυρὸς, οὕτως ἀπολοῦνται οἱ ἁμαρτωλοὶ ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ. » Καθάπερ γὰρ τὸν μὲν καπνὸν σκεδάννυσι τῶν ἀνέμων ἡ προσβολή ", ὁ δὲ κηρὸς λύεται τῷ πυρὶ προσπελάζων, οὕτω, Δέσποτα, τῇ σῇ παρουσίᾳ φρούδοι γενήσονται παντελῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων οἱ δυσμενεῖς. Οὓς γὰρ ἁμαρτωλοὺς οἱ Ἑβδομήκοντα εἰρήκασιν, ἀσεβεῖς ὠνόμασαν οἱ ἄλλοι πάντες ἑρμηνευταί · οὕτω δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ ὁ Ἑβραῖος, καὶ ὁ Σύρος καλεῖ ".

« Hōs ekleipei kapnos, ekleipetōsan; hōs tēketai kēros apo prosōpou pyros, houtōs apolountai hoi hamartōloi apo prosōpou tou Theou. » Kathaper gar ton men kapnon skedannysi tōn anemōn hē prosbolē ", ho de kēros lyetai tǭ pyri prospelazōn, houtō, Despota, tę̄ sę̄ parousią phroudoi genēsontai pantelōs tōn anthrōpōn hoi dysmeneis. Hous gar hamartōlous hoi Hebdomēkonta eirēkasin, asebeis ōnomasan hoi alloi pantes hermēneutai ; houtō de autous kai ho Hebraios, kai ho Syros kalei ".

"As smoke vanishes, let them vanish; as wax melts before fire, so let the sinners perish before God." "For just as the blast of the winds scatters smoke, and wax dissolves when it comes near fire, so, Master, at your coming the enemies of men will utterly vanish." Those whom the Seventy called "sinners" all the other translators named "impious"; so too the Hebrew and the Syriac call them.

Ps 68:2 (67:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:2: at God's coming the enemies of mankind will vanish like smoke and melt like wax.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.3 (PG 80 80:1375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-3). (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.

67.4PG 80 80:1375

« Καὶ οἱ δίκαιοι εὐφρανθήτωσαν. » Τούτου δὲ, φησὶ, γινομένου, θυμηδίας ἐμφορηθήσεται ἅπας ὁ τῶν δικαίων χορός. « Αγαλλιάσθωσαν ἐνώπιον τοῦ Θεοῦ · τερφθήτωσαν ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ. › Ἔδειξε διὰ τούτων, ὡς οὐ κατὰ ἀνθρώπων ἐκείνην τὴν ἱκετείαν προσήνεγκεν, ἀλλὰ κατὰ τῶν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους πολεμούντων δαιμόνων. Ὧν σκεδαννυμένων καὶ φρούδων γενομένων, ἀγάλλεται τὰ ἔθνη, καὶ τὸν σεσωκότα Θεὸν ἀνυμνεῖ.

« Kai hoi dikaioi euphranthētōsan. » Toutou de, phēsi, ginomenou, thymēdias emphorēthēsetai hapas ho tōn dikaiōn choros. « Agalliasthōsan enōpion tou Theou ; terphthētōsan en euphrosynę̄. › Edeixe dia toutōn, hōs ou kata anthrōpōn ekeinēn tēn hiketeian prosēnenken, alla kata tōn tous anthrōpous polemountōn daimonōn. Hōn skedannymenōn kai phroudōn genomenōn, agalletai ta ethnē, kai ton sesōkota Theon anymnei.

"And let the righteous be glad." "When this happens," he says, "the whole chorus of the righteous will be filled with gladness." "Let them rejoice before God; let them delight in gladness." By these words he showed that he offered that supplication not against men but against the demons who make war on men. When they are scattered and vanish, the nations rejoice and hymn the God who saved them.

Ps 68:3 (67:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:3: the righteous rejoice when the demons who war against mankind are routed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word with stray letter (OCR)): ποΗ λεμούντων → πολεμούντων.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.4 (PG 80 80:1375; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-4). (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.

67.5PG 80 80:1377

« ῎Ασατε γὰρ, φησὶ, τῷ Θεῷ· ψάλατε τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ· ὁδοποιήσατε τῷ ἐπιβεβηκότι ἐπὶ δυσμῶν. Κύριος ὄνομα αὐτῷ, καὶ ἀγαλλιᾶσθε ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ. · Ἐνταῦθα ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος τοῖς ἱεροῖς ἀποστόλοις παρεγγυᾷ μετὰ χορείας καὶ ὑμνῳδίας εἰς τὰ ἔθνη δραμεῖν, καὶ τὴν ὁδὸν εὐτρεπίσαι τῷ τῶν ὅλων παμβασιλεί. "Εοικε δὲ ταῦτα τοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ « Κυρίου πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰρημένοις· « Πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, βαπτίζοντες αὐτοὺς εἰς τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Πατρὸς, καὶ τοῦ Υἱοῦ, καὶ τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος. » Διὰ δὲ τῆς τοιαύτης μαθητείας, καὶ τῆς τοῦ βαπτίσματος παλιγγενεσίας, λεῖα ἐγένετο ἡ τραχεῖα ὁδὸς, καὶ εὐτρεπίζετο τῷ ἐνοικῆσαι ἐν αὐτοῖς, καὶ ἐμπεριπατῆσαι κατὰ τὸν Προφήτην, βουλομένῳ Θεῷ . Ἐπὶ δυσμῶν δὲ αὐτὸν ἐπιβεβηκέναι φησὶ, τὸ κατακεχυμένον τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων ψυχῶν σκότος τηνικαῦτα παραδηλῶν. Τοῦτο μέντοι ὁ Σύμμαχος ἡρμήνευσε, Καταστρώσατε ὁδὸν τῷ ἐποχουμένῳ ἐν γῇ ἀοικήτῳ. ᾿Αοίκητος δὲ ἐστιν ἡ ἔρημος, ἔρημον δὲ τὰ ἔθνη πολλάκις ἡ θεία Γραφή προσηγόρευσεν • • Εὐφράνθητε γὰρ, φησὶν, ἔρημος διψῶσα. » Καὶ πάλιν · ὅτι « Πολλὰ τὰ τέκνα τῆς ἐρήμου μᾶλλον, ἢ τῆς ἐχούσης τὸν ἄνδρα. » Ταύτης τῆς ἐρήμου, καὶ ἀοικήτου, καὶ τοῦ φωτὸς ἐστερημένης, καὶ τούτου χάριν δύσεως ὠνομασμένης, ἐπἐβη τῆς δικαιοσύνης ὁ Ἥλιος, καὶ τὸν ζόφον ἐξήλασε, καὶ ναὸν οἰκεῖον εἰργάσατο τὴν ἀοίκητον. « Ταραχθήτωσαν ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ. Τοῦ πατρὸς τῶν ὀρφανῶν, καὶ κριτοῦ τῶν χηρῶν. • Οὐ φέρουσι γὰρ αὐτοῦ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν, δίκαιον αὐτὸν κριτὴν ἐπιστάμενοι. Διὰ γὰρ τῆς τῶν χηρῶν κηδεμονίας, καὶ τῆς τῶν ὀρφανῶν ἐπιμελείας, τὸ δίκαιον αὐτοῦ τῆς προνοίας ἐδήλωσε. Ταύτην τῶν δαιμόνων τὴν ταραχὴν καὶ τὸ δέος, καὶ τῶν θείων Εὐαγγελίων ἡμᾶς ἡ ἱστορία διδάσκει · ᾿Ακούομεν γὰρ αὐτῶν λεγόντων· « Τί ἡμῖν καὶ σοὶ, υἱὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ; ἦλθες πρὸ καιροῦ βασανίσαι ἡμᾶς, -Ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τόπῳ ἁγίῳ αὐτοῦ. Ἐπειδὴ εἶπεν· « ᾿Αναστήτω ὁ Θεὸς, » καί· · Ὁδοποιήσατε τῷ ἐπιβεβηκότι ἐπὶ δυσμῶν, » εἰκότως τοῦτο προστέθεικε, μονονουχί λέγων, Μηδεὶς ἡγείσθω τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεὸν μεταβάσει χρώμενον τὰς οἰκονομίας ποιεῖσθαι. Τοιοῦτόν ἐστι τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ Κυρίου εἰρημένον· « Οὐδεὶς ἀναβέβηκεν εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν, εἰ μὴ ὁ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβὰς, ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, ὁ ὧν ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ.» Καὶ διὰ τούτων γὰρ τὸ τῆς θείας φύσεως ἀπερίγραφον ἔδειξε· καὶ ἐδίδαξεν, ὡς κατελήλυθε, καὶ κάτω διάγων, καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις συμπολιτευόμενος, καὶ ἐν οὐρανῷ ἦν, καὶ τοῦ Πατρὸς οὐκ ἐκεχώριστο.

« ᾿Asate gar, phēsi, tǭ Theǭ; psalate tǭ onomati autou; hodopoiēsate tǭ epibebēkoti epi dysmōn. Kyrios onoma autǭ, kai agalliasthe enōpion autou. ; Entautha ho prophētikos logos tois hierois apostolois parengyą meta choreias kai hymnǭdias eis ta ethnē dramein, kai tēn hodon eutrepisai tǭ tōn holōn pambasilei. "Eoike de tauta tois hypo tou « Kyriou pros autous eirēmenois; « Poreuthentes mathēteusate panta ta ethnē, baptizontes autous eis to onoma tou Patros, kai tou Huiou, kai tou hagiou Pneumatos. » Dia de tēs toiautēs mathēteias, kai tēs tou baptismatos palingenesias, leia egeneto hē tracheia hodos, kai eutrepizeto tǭ enoikēsai en autois, kai emperipatēsai kata ton Prophētēn, boulomenǭ Theǭ . Epi dysmōn de auton epibebēkenai phēsi, to katakechymenon tōn anthrōpinōn psychōn skotos tēnikauta paradēlōn. Touto mentoi ho Symmachos hērmēneuse, Katastrōsate hodon tǭ epochoumenǭ en gę̄ aoikētǭ. ᾿Aoikētos de estin hē erēmos, erēmon de ta ethnē pollakis hē theia Graphē prosēgoreusen • • Euphranthēte gar, phēsin, erēmos dipsōsa. » Kai palin ; hoti « Polla ta tekna tēs erēmou mallon, ē tēs echousēs ton andra. » Tautēs tēs erēmou, kai aoikētou, kai tou phōtos esterēmenēs, kai toutou charin dyseōs ōnomasmenēs, epebē tēs dikaiosynēs ho Hēlios, kai ton zophon exēlase, kai naon oikeion eirgasato tēn aoikēton. « Tarachthētōsan apo prosōpou autou. Tou patros tōn orphanōn, kai kritou tōn chērōn. • Ou pherousi gar autou tēn epiphaneian, dikaion auton kritēn epistamenoi. Dia gar tēs tōn chērōn kēdemonias, kai tēs tōn orphanōn epimeleias, to dikaion autou tēs pronoias edēlōse. Tautēn tōn daimonōn tēn tarachēn kai to deos, kai tōn theiōn Euangeliōn hēmas hē historia didaskei ; ᾿Akouomen gar autōn legontōn; « Ti hēmin kai soi, huie tou Theou? ēlthes pro kairou basanisai hēmas, -Ho Theos en topǭ hagiǭ autou. Epeidē eipen; « ᾿Anastētō ho Theos, » kai; ; Hodopoiēsate tǭ epibebēkoti epi dysmōn, » eikotōs touto prostetheike, mononouchi legōn, Mēdeis hēgeisthō ton tōn holōn Theon metabasei chrōmenon tas oikonomias poieisthai. Toiouton esti to hypo tou Kyriou eirēmenon; « Oudeis anabebēken eis ton ouranon, ei mē ho ek tou ouranou katabas, ho Huios tou anthrōpou, ho hōn en tǭ ouranǭ.» Kai dia toutōn gar to tēs theias physeōs aperigraphon edeixe; kai edidaxen, hōs katelēlythe, kai katō diagōn, kai tois anthrōpois sympoliteuomenos, kai en ouranǭ ēn, kai tou Patros ouk ekechōristo.

"Sing to God; sing psalms to his name; make a way for him who rides upon the west. The Lord is his name; and rejoice before him." Here the prophetic word charges the holy apostles to run to the nations with dancing and hymnody and to prepare the road for the King of all. This is like what the Lord said to them: "Go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Through such discipleship and the rebirth of baptism the rough road became smooth and was made ready for God, who wished to dwell in them and walk among them, according to the prophet. He says that he "rides upon the west," indicating the darkness then poured over human souls. Symmachus rendered this: "Pave a road for him who rides in the uninhabited land." The uninhabited land is the desert, and the divine Scripture has often called the nations a desert: "Be glad," it says, "thirsty desert"; and again, "Many are the children of the desolate, more than of her who has a husband." Upon this desert, uninhabited and deprived of light, and for this reason named "west," the Sun of righteousness mounted, drove out the gloom, and made the uninhabited land his own temple. "Let them be troubled before his face, the father of orphans and judge of widows." "For they cannot bear his appearance, knowing him to be a just judge." By his care for widows and attention to orphans he showed the justice of his providence. The history of the divine Gospels too teaches us this trouble and fear of the demons; for we hear them saying, "What have we to do with you, Son of God? Have you come to torment us before the time?" "God in his holy place." Since he said, "Let God arise" and "Make a way for him who rides upon the west," he rightly added this, as if saying, "Let no one think that the God of all carries out his dispensations by moving from place to place." Such is what the Lord said: "No one has gone up into heaven except the one who came down from heaven, the Son of Man, who is in heaven." By these words he showed that the divine nature is uncircumscribed, and taught that he had come down, and while living below and sharing the life of men he was also in heaven and was not separated from the Father.

Ps 68:4 (67:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 68:5 (67:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 28:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 40:4 (allusion, medium confidence) · 2 Cor 6:16 (allusion, medium confidence) · Isa 35:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 54:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Mal 4:2 (3:20 LXX) (allusion, high confidence) · Matt 8:29 (quotation, high confidence) · John 3:13 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:4-5: the apostles prepare the way for Christ among the nations, the "west" darkened by error; God's coming does not mean he changes place, for the divine nature is uncircumscribed.

"Who rides upon the west" is the Septuagint reading (ἐπὶ δυσμῶν).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin letter in a Greek word (OCR); OCR slip; split word (OCR)): τοῖς ἱsροῖς ἀποστόλοις → τοῖς ἱεροῖς ἀποστόλοις; Διὰ γὰρ τῆ, τῶν χηρῶν → Διὰ γὰρ τῆς τῶν χηρῶν; συμπολιτευό μενος → συμπολιτευόμενος.

Topics: Christology, Baptism

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.5 (PG 80 80:1377; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-5). (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.

67.7PG 80 80:1379

« Ὁ Θεὸς κατοικίζει μονοτρόπους ἐν οἴκῳ· ἐξάγων πεπεδημένους ἐν ἀνδρείᾳ· ὁμοίως τοὺς παραπικραίνοντας, τοὺς κατοικοῦντας ἐν τάφοις. » Μονοτρόπους καλεῖ, τοὺς ἕνα σκοπὸν ἔχοντας, καὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς μόνης ἐπιμελεῖσθαι προαιρουμένους, καὶ μὴ νῦν μὲν ταῦτα, νῦν δὲ ἐκεῖνα προαιρουμένους. Τούτους ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τῷ θείῳ κατοικίζεσθαι λέγει. Πεπεδημένους δὲ, τοὺς τὰ τῆς ἁμαρτίας περικειμένους δεσμά· οὓς λυομένους ἀνδρείους ἀποτελεῖσθαι προείρηκε. Τοιοῦτος ἦν ὁ Ματθαῖος, τοιοῦτος ὁ Ἰάκωβος ὁ ᾿Αλφαίου, τοιοῦτος ὁ Ζακχαῖος · οἱ τῶν τῆς ἀδικίας ἀπαλλαγέντες δεσμῶν, ἀνδρικῶς μάλα τὸν κατὰ τοῦ πεδήσαντος ἀνεδέξαντο πόλεμον. Οὐ μόνον δὲ, φησὶ, τοὺς πεπεδημένους ἀνδρείους ἐργάζεται · ἀλλὰ καὶ τοὺς εἰς ἄκρον δυσσεβείας ἐληλακότας, καὶ ὡς ἐν τάφοις δυσώδεσι, τοῖς οἰκείοις σώμασι κατοικοῦντας. Καὶ τούτους γὰρ μετ᾿ ἐκείνων ἀξιώσει τῆς σωτηρίας.

« Ho Theos katoikizei monotropous en oikǭ; exagōn pepedēmenous en andreią; homoiōs tous parapikrainontas, tous katoikountas en taphois. » Monotropous kalei, tous hena skopon echontas, kai tēs aretēs monēs epimeleisthai proairoumenous, kai mē nyn men tauta, nyn de ekeina proairoumenous. Toutous en tǭ oikǭ tǭ theiǭ katoikizesthai legei. Pepedēmenous de, tous ta tēs hamartias perikeimenous desma; hous lyomenous andreious apoteleisthai proeirēke. Toioutos ēn ho Matthaios, toioutos ho Iakōbos ho ᾿Alphaiou, toioutos ho Zakchaios ; hoi tōn tēs adikias apallagentes desmōn, andrikōs mala ton kata tou pedēsantos anedexanto polemon. Ou monon de, phēsi, tous pepedēmenous andreious ergazetai ; alla kai tous eis akron dyssebeias elēlakotas, kai hōs en taphois dysōdesi, tois oikeiois sōmasi katoikountas. Kai toutous gar met᾿ ekeinōn axiōsei tēs sōtērias.

"God settles the single-minded in a house, leading out with courage those who are fettered, likewise those who embitter, those who dwell in tombs." He calls "single-minded" those who have one aim and choose to care for virtue alone, not choosing now this, now that. These, he says, are settled in the divine house. The "fettered" are those who wear the chains of sin; he foretold that when they are set free they are made courageous. Such was Matthew, such was James the son of Alphaeus, such was Zacchaeus: freed from the chains of injustice, they very manfully took up the war against the one who had fettered them. "Not only," he says, "does he make the fettered courageous, but also those who have gone to the extreme of impiety and who live in their own bodies as in foul-smelling tombs. For he will count these too, with the others, worthy of salvation."

Ps 68:6 (67:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 9:9 (allusion, high confidence) · Mark 2:14 (allusion, medium confidence) · Luke 19:8 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:6: God houses the single-minded and frees sinners bound by sin, like Matthew and Zacchaeus, even the most impious.

Theodoret lists James son of Alphaeus among converted wrongdoers, apparently thinking of Levi son of Alphaeus the tax collector (Mark 2:14).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR letter slip; repeated syllable (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): ἐν ἀνδρείᾳ - ὁἱ ὁμοίως → ἐν ἀνδρείᾳ· ὁμοίως; Μονοτρέπους → Μονοτρόπους; τοιοῦτος Βὁ Ἰάκωβος ὁ δος ὁ ᾿Αλφαίου → τοιοῦτος ὁ Ἰάκωβος ὁ ᾿Αλφαίου; ὁ Ζακχαῖος αῖος → ὁ Ζακχαῖος.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.7 (PG 80 80:1379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-7). (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.

67.8PG 80 80:1379

Ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τῷ ἐκπορεύεσθαί σε ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ λαοῦ σου, ἐν τῷ διαβαίνειν σε ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ", γῆ ἐσείσθη, καὶ γὰρ οἱ οὐρανοὶ ἔσταξαν. » Τοῦτο ὁ Σύμμαχος οὕτως ἡρμήνευσεν· Ὁ Θεὸς, προερχομένου σου πρὸ τοῦ λαοῦ σου, βαίνοντος διὰ τῆς ἀοικήτου ", γῆ ἐσείσθη, οὐρανὸς δὲ ἔσταξε. Μέλλων, φησὶ, διαβαίνειν δὲ εἰς τὴν ἔρημον ἐκείνην καὶ ἀοίκητον, καὶ μηδέπω δεξαμένην τοῦ φωτὸς τὴν ἀκτῖνα, ἐκλόνησας μὲν τὴν γῆν, καὶ συνέσεισας · οὐρανόθεν δὲ τὰς τῆς χάριτος ψεκάδας ἐπέσταξας δε · Γέγονε δὲ τὸ μὲν ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ · [τότε γὰρ ἡ γῆ ἐσείσθη, καὶ αἱ πέτραι ἐῤῥάγησαν · καὶ τὸ πᾶν τῆς γῆς ἐκλονεῖτο, τὸν Δημιουργὸν τοῦ παντὸς αἰσθήσει τινὶ θεώμενον, ἐπὶ σταυροῦ κρεμάμενον·] τὸ δὲ μετὰ τὴν εἰς οὐρανοὺς ἄνοδον. Τηνικαῦτα γὰρ ἐπεφοίτησεν ἡ τοῦ Πνεύματος χάρις, οἷόν τινας δρόσου ψεκάδας μιμουμένη, τοῖς ἀποστόλοις. Εἶτα σαφέστερον Ἰουδαίους διδάσκων τὸν πάντα ταῦτα δρῶντα, ἐπήγαγεν. • Ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ Σινᾶ· ἀπὸ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἰσραήλ. » Ὁ γὰρ ἐν τῷ Σινᾶ ὅρει, φησὶ, τοῖς ἡμετέροις προγόνοις φανεὶς, οὗτος καὶ τὴν γῆν ἔσεισε παρὰ τὸν τοῦ πάθους καιρὸν, τὴν ὑμετέραν διελέγχων μανίαν, καὶ τὴν τοῦ Πνεύματος ἐδωρήσατο χάριν.

Ho Theos en tǭ ekporeuesthai se en mesǭ tou laou sou, en tǭ diabainein se en tę̄ erēmǭ ", gē eseisthē, kai gar hoi ouranoi estaxan. » Touto ho Symmachos houtōs hērmēneusen; Ho Theos, proerchomenou sou pro tou laou sou, bainontos dia tēs aoikētou ", gē eseisthē, ouranos de estaxe. Mellōn, phēsi, diabainein de eis tēn erēmon ekeinēn kai aoikēton, kai mēdepō dexamenēn tou phōtos tēn aktina, eklonēsas men tēn gēn, kai syneseisas ; ouranothen de tas tēs charitos psekadas epestaxas de ; Gegone de to men epi tou staurou ; [tote gar hē gē eseisthē, kai hai petrai errhagēsan ; kai to pan tēs gēs ekloneito, ton Dēmiourgon tou pantos aisthēsei tini theōmenon, epi staurou kremamenon;] to de meta tēn eis ouranous anodon. Tēnikauta gar epephoitēsen hē tou Pneumatos charis, hoion tinas drosou psekadas mimoumenē, tois apostolois. Eita saphesteron Ioudaious didaskōn ton panta tauta drōnta, epēgagen. • Apo prosōpou tou Theou tou Sina; apo prosōpou tou Theou Israēl. » Ho gar en tǭ Sina horei, phēsi, tois hēmeterois progonois phaneis, houtos kai tēn gēn eseise para ton tou pathous kairon, tēn hymeteran dielenchōn manian, kai tēn tou Pneumatos edōrēsato charin.

"O God, when you went out before your people, when you passed through the desert, the earth shook, for the heavens dripped." Symmachus rendered this as follows: "O God, when you went before your people, walking through the uninhabited land, the earth shook, and heaven dripped." "When you were about to pass into that desert and uninhabited land, which had not yet received the ray of light, you shook and rocked the earth, and from heaven you let fall the drops of grace." The first happened at the cross, [for then the earth shook and the rocks were split, and the whole earth was shaken, beholding by some sense the Creator of all hanging on a cross;] the second after the ascension into heaven. For then the grace of the Spirit came upon the apostles, like drops of dew. Then, teaching the Jews more clearly who it was that did all these things, he added: "From the face of the God of Sinai, from the face of the God of Israel." "For he who appeared to our forefathers on Mount Sinai," he says, "is the one who also shook the earth at the time of the passion, refuting your madness, and who bestowed the grace of the Spirit."

Ps 68:7 (67:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 68:8 (67:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 27:51 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 2:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Exod 19:18 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:7-8: the earth shook at the crucifixion and heaven dripped grace at Pentecost; the God of Sinai is the one who did these things.

The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena.
The words addressed to "your madness" are spoken to the Jews of the time of the passion; translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR; split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): τότε γὰρ ἡ γῆ ἐσείσθη → [τότε γὰρ ἡ γῆ ἐσείσθη; ἐσείσθη σο, οὐρανὸς δὲ ἔσταξε δι. → ἐσείσθη, οὐρανὸς δὲ ἔσταξε.; Εί τα σαφέστερον → Εἶτα σαφέστερον; φησὶ δι, τοῖς → φησὶ, τοῖς.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.8 (PG 80 80:1379; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.10PG 80 80:1381

« Βροχὴν ἑκούσιον ἀφοριεῖς, ὁ Θεὸς, τῇ κληρονομίᾳ σου. » "Ασπερ ἄνω ψεκάδας ἐκάλεσεν, ἐνταῦθα ὑετὸν προσηγόρευσε. Πρὸς γὰρ τὴν χρείαν τῶν μανθανόντων ἐχορηγεῖτο τοῖς διδασκάλοις ἡ χάρις. Ὑετὸν γὰρ τῆς διδασκαλίας τὴν ἀρδείαν καλεῖ· ἑκούσιον δὲ αὐτὴν προσηγόρευσε, διὰ τὸ τῆς γνώμης αὐθαίρετον. Οὐ γὰρ ἀνάγκῃ τις ἄρδεται, ἀλλὰ τῇ διδασκαλίᾳ πειθόμενος, ἀπολαύει τῆς χάριτος. • Καὶ ἠσθένησε· σὺ δὲ κατηρτίσω αὐτήν. » Ἠσθενηκέναι οὐ βροχήν, ἀλλὰ τὴν κληρονομίαν ἔφη ἀσθένειαν δὲ τὰς τῶν δυσσεβῶν ἐπαναστάσεις ἐκάλεσεν. Οὕτως καὶ ὁ Κύριος πρὸς τὸν Παῦλον ἔφη · « ᾿Αρκεῖ σοι ἡ χάρις μου· ἡ γὰρ δύναμίς μου ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ τελειοῦται. Ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ τῆς ἐπαναστάσεως καιρῷ, σὺ βεβαιοῖς καὶ στηρίζεις τοὺς ἀθλητάς. Τούτους γὰρ ἔχεις κληρονομίαν, κατὰ τὴν προφητείαν τὴν λέγουσαν· « Αἴτησαι παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ, καὶ δώσω σοι ἔθνη τὴν κληρονομίαν σου, καὶ τὴν κατάσχεσίν σου, τὰ πέρατα τῆς γῆς. » Οὕτω δὲ καὶ ὁ Σύμμαχος ἡρμήνευσεν· "ὧν ἐξεποίησας καὶ ἥδρασας· Ὁ δὲ ᾿Ακύλας σαφέστερον, Καὶ μεμοχθηκυῖαν σὺ ἤδρασας. Καμοῦσαν γὰρ ἐν τοῖς διωγμοῖς ἀτρεμῆ διεφύλαξας.

« Brochēn hekousion aphorieis, ho Theos, tę̄ klēronomią sou. » "Asper anō psekadas ekalesen, entautha hyeton prosēgoreuse. Pros gar tēn chreian tōn manthanontōn echorēgeito tois didaskalois hē charis. Hyeton gar tēs didaskalias tēn ardeian kalei; hekousion de autēn prosēgoreuse, dia to tēs gnōmēs authaireton. Ou gar anankę̄ tis ardetai, alla tę̄ didaskalią peithomenos, apolauei tēs charitos. • Kai ēsthenēse; sy de katērtisō autēn. » Ēsthenēkenai ou brochēn, alla tēn klēronomian ephē astheneian de tas tōn dyssebōn epanastaseis ekalesen. Houtōs kai ho Kyrios pros ton Paulon ephē ; « ᾿Arkei soi hē charis mou; hē gar dynamis mou en astheneią teleioutai. Alla kai en tǭ tēs epanastaseōs kairǭ, sy bebaiois kai stērizeis tous athlētas. Toutous gar echeis klēronomian, kata tēn prophēteian tēn legousan; « Aitēsai par᾿ emou, kai dōsō soi ethnē tēn klēronomian sou, kai tēn kataschesin sou, ta perata tēs gēs. » Houtō de kai ho Symmachos hērmēneusen; "hōn exepoiēsas kai hēdrasas; Ho de ᾿Akylas saphesteron, Kai memochthēkuian sy ēdrasas. Kamousan gar en tois diōgmois atremē diephylaxas.

"A voluntary rain you will set apart, O God, for your inheritance." What above he called drops, here he named rain. For grace was supplied to the teachers according to the need of the learners. He calls the watering of teaching "rain," and named it "voluntary" because of the free choice of the will. For no one is watered by compulsion, but he enjoys grace by being persuaded by the teaching. "And it grew weak, but you restored it." He said that not the rain but the inheritance grew weak, and he called the uprisings of the impious "weakness." So too the Lord said to Paul, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." "But even in the time of uprising you confirm and support the athletes. For you have them as your inheritance, according to the prophecy that says, 'Ask of me, and I will give you nations as your inheritance, and the ends of the earth as your possession.'" Symmachus rendered it thus: ". . . which you acquired and established." Aquila more clearly: "And it was worn out, but you established it." "For when it labored in the persecutions you kept it unshaken."

Ps 68:9 (67:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 12:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 2:8 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:9: the voluntary rain is the teaching of grace freely received; God strengthened his inheritance, the nations, when it was weakened by persecution.

Symmachus's rendering is garbled in the OCR; translated by sense.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray bracket (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): κληρονο μίᾳ → κληρονομίᾳ; ἀλλὰ] τὴν → ἀλλὰ τὴν; παρ᾿ ἐμοῦτο, → παρ᾿ ἐμοῦ,; μεμοχθηκυῖαν τη σὺ → μεμοχθηκυῖαν σὺ.

Topics: Persecution

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.10 (PG 80 80:1381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-10). (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.

67.11PG 80 80:1381

« Τὰ ζῶά σου κατοικοῦσιν ἐν αὐτῇ. » Ζῶα Θεοῦ τοὺς ἱεροὺς ἀποστόλους καλεῖ· ὧν ἐπιβὰς τὴν πλάνην ἐξήλασε, καὶ τοὺς ἀνθρώπους εἰς θεογνωσίαν ἐπέστρεψεν. Οὕτω καὶ περὶ τοῦ Παύλου φησίν· • Ὅτι σκεῦος ἐκλογῆς μοί ἐστιν οὗτος, τοῦ βαστάσαι τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐνώπιον ἐθνῶν, καὶ βασιλέων. υἱῶν τε Ἰσραήλ. » Τούτου χάριν ἵππους αὐτοὺς ὁ θεῖος ὠνόμασεν Αβακούμ · Ἐπεβίβασας γὰρ, φησὶν, εἰς θάλασσαν τοὺς ἵππους σου, ταράσσοντας ὕδατα πολλά. » Τούτους οἰκεῖν ἐν τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ κληρονομίᾳ, τουτέστιν ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν, ὁ προφητικὸς ἐθέσπισε λόγος. Οἰκοῦσι δὲ μέχρι καὶ τήμερον, οὐ μόνον ταῖς θήκαις τῶν σωμάτων ἁγιάζοντες τοὺς πελάζοντας· ἀλλὰ καὶ τῇ διδαχῇ τῶν συγγραμμάτων τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων ψυχὰς ἐπιστρέφοντες. • Ἡτοίμασας ἐν τῇ χρηστότητί σου τῷ πτωχῷ ὁ Θεός.» Ταῦτα δὲ, φησὶ, τῇ πτωχῇ τῶν ἀνθρώπων φύσει διὰ τὴν σὴν ἐδωρήσω χρηστότητα.

« Ta zōa sou katoikousin en autę̄. » Zōa Theou tous hierous apostolous kalei; hōn epibas tēn planēn exēlase, kai tous anthrōpous eis theognōsian epestrepsen. Houtō kai peri tou Paulou phēsin; • Hoti skeuos eklogēs moi estin houtos, tou bastasai to onoma mou enōpion ethnōn, kai basileōn. huiōn te Israēl. » Toutou charin hippous autous ho theios ōnomasen Abakoum ; Epebibasas gar, phēsin, eis thalassan tous hippous sou, tarassontas hydata polla. » Toutous oikein en tę̄ tou Theou klēronomią, toutestin en tois ethnesin, ho prophētikos ethespise logos. Oikousi de mechri kai tēmeron, ou monon tais thēkais tōn sōmatōn hagiazontes tous pelazontas; alla kai tę̄ didachę̄ tōn syngrammatōn tas tōn anthrōpōn psychas epistrephontes. • Hētoimasas en tę̄ chrēstotēti sou tǭ ptōchǭ ho Theos.» Tauta de, phēsi, tę̄ ptōchę̄ tōn anthrōpōn physei dia tēn sēn edōrēsō chrēstotēta.

"Your living creatures dwell in it." He calls the holy apostles God's living creatures; mounted on them he drove out error and turned men to the knowledge of God. So too he says about Paul, "For this man is a chosen vessel of mine, to carry my name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel." For this reason the divine Habakkuk named them horses: "You mounted your horses on the sea," he says, "troubling many waters." The prophetic word foretold that these would dwell in God's inheritance, that is, among the nations. And they dwell there even today, not only sanctifying those who approach by the tombs of their bodies, but also turning the souls of men by the teaching of their writings. "In your goodness, O God, you prepared for the poor." "These things," he says, "you gave to the poor nature of men because of your goodness."

Ps 68:10 (67:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 9:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Hab 3:15 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:10: God's living creatures are the apostles, who still dwell among the nations through their relics and writings.

Theodoret refers to the shrines of the apostles' bodies as sanctifying those who visit them.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): Ζῶα ( Θεοῦ → Ζῶα Θεοῦ; μέχρι καὶ τήμερον, οὐ μόνον το ταῖς → μέχρι καὶ τήμερον, οὐ μόνον ταῖς; τοὺς πελάζοντας τη · → τοὺς πελάζοντας·.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.11 (PG 80 80:1381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-11). (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.

67.12PG 80 80:1381

« Κύριος δώσει ῥῆμα τοῖς εὐαγγελιζομένοις δυνάμει πολλῇ. » Οὓς ἄνω ζῶα προσηγόρευσεν, εὐαγγελιστὰς ἐνταῦθα καλεῖ. Καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἁλιεῖς ἦσαν, : καὶ τελῶναι, καὶ σκυτοτόμοι, ἐχειροτονήθησαν δὲ φιλοσόφων, καὶ σοφιστῶν, καὶ ῥητόρων, καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ εὐγλωττίᾳ βρενθυομένων διδάσκαλοι, εἰκότως διδάσκει πόθεν ἀρυόμενοι τῆς διδασκαλίας τὰ νάματα, τὴν ἀρδείαν προσφέρουσιν.

« Kyrios dōsei rhēma tois euangelizomenois dynamei pollę̄. » Hous anō zōa prosēgoreusen, euangelistas entautha kalei. Kai epeidē halieis ēsan, : kai telōnai, kai skytotomoi, echeirotonēthēsan de philosophōn, kai sophistōn, kai rhētorōn, kai tōn epi euglōttią brenthyomenōn didaskaloi, eikotōs didaskei pothen aryomenoi tēs didaskalias ta namata, tēn ardeian prospherousin.

"The Lord will give a word to those who preach good news with great power." Those whom above he called living creatures he here calls evangelists. And since they were fishermen and tax collectors and leatherworkers, yet were appointed teachers of philosophers, sophists, orators, and those who prided themselves on eloquence, he rightly teaches from where they drew the streams of teaching that they bring for watering.

Ps 68:11 (67:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:11: the Lord gave his word to the apostles, humble men who became teachers of philosophers.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): εὐαγ γελιστὰς → εὐαγγελιστὰς; ἐχειροτονήθησαν δὲ σε φιλοσόφων → ἐχειροτονήθησαν δὲ φιλοσόφων.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.12 (PG 80 80:1381; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-12). (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.

67.13PG 80 80:1383

« Ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν δυνάμεων τοῦ ἀγαπητοῦ, τῇ ὡραιότητι τοῦ οἴκου σου διελέσθαι σκῦλα. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως· Κύριος ἔδωκε ῥήσεις τοῖς εὐαγγελιζομένοις στρατιᾷ πολλῇ. Βασιλεῖς τῶν στρατιῶν ἠγαπήθησαν· ἀγαπητοὶ ἐγένοντο, καὶ ἡ δίαιτα τοῦ οἴκου διανεμεῖ λάφυρα. Καλεῖ δὲ στρατιὰν πολλὴν, τοὺς πεπιστευκότας · οὕτω δὴ καὶ ὁ ᾿Απόστολος Τιμοθέῳ γράφων λέγει · • Στρατεύου τὴν καλὴν στρατείαν. » Και· «Οὐδεὶς στρατευόμενος ἐμπλέκεται ταῖς τοῦ βίου πραγματείαις, ἵνα τῷ στρατολογήσαντι ἀρέσῃ. » Βασιλεῖς δὲ στρατιῶν, τοὺς τούτων διδασκάλους ὠνόμασεν· οὓς ἡγαπῆσθαι, καὶ ἀγαπητοὺς ὀνομάζεσθαί φησιν. Οὕτω δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ ὁ Κύριος καλεῖ· « Ὑμεῖς φίλοι μού ἐστε. Οὐκ ἔτι καλέσω ὑμᾶς δούλους, ἀλλὰ φίλους. • Οὕτω καὶ ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος λέγει· « Ἡ γὰρ ἀγάπη τοῦ Θεοῦ συνέχει ἡμᾶς. » Και· « Τις ἡμᾶς χωρίσει ἀπὸ τῆς ἀγάπης τοῦ Χριστοῦ; , Λάφυρα δὲ καλεῖ, τοὺς πάλαι μέλη τὰ οἰκεῖα δοῦλα τῆς ἁμαρτίας πεποιηκότας, καὶ τῷ διαβόλῳ ταῦτα εἰς δουλείαν ἐκδεδωκότας. Τούτους δὲ τοῖς ἱεροῖς διένειμεν ἀποστόλοις· τὸν μὲν Ῥωμαίων, τὸν δὲ Ἑλλήνων διδάσκαλον προστησάμενος · καὶ τοὺς μὲν Ἰνδῶν, τοὺς δὲ Αἰγυπτίων κήρυκας ἀποφήνας. Ταῦτα τοῖς ἱεροῖς ἀποστόλοις τὰ λάφυρα ἡ τοῦ οἴκου ὡραιότης διένειμεν. Οἶκος δὲ τοῦ Θεοῦ, κατὰ τὸν θεῖον Ἀπόστολον, οἱ πεπιστευκότες. Ωραιότης δὲ τοῦ οἴκου, ἡ χάρις τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματος, ἡ τοῦτον ὡραΐζουσά τε καὶ λαμπρύνουσα τῇ παντοδαπῇ φιλοτιμίᾳ τῶν δωρεῶν. Καὶ τοῦτο σαφέστερον διὰ τῶν ἐπαγομένων ἐδίδαξεν.

« Ho basileus tōn dynameōn tou agapētou, tę̄ hōraiotēti tou oikou sou dielesthai skyla. » Ho de Symmachos houtōs; Kyrios edōke rhēseis tois euangelizomenois stratią pollę̄. Basileis tōn stratiōn ēgapēthēsan; agapētoi egenonto, kai hē diaita tou oikou dianemei laphyra. Kalei de stratian pollēn, tous pepisteukotas ; houtō dē kai ho ᾿Apostolos Timotheǭ graphōn legei ; • Strateuou tēn kalēn strateian. » Kai; «Oudeis strateuomenos empleketai tais tou biou pragmateiais, hina tǭ stratologēsanti aresę̄. » Basileis de stratiōn, tous toutōn didaskalous ōnomasen; hous hēgapēsthai, kai agapētous onomazesthai phēsin. Houtō de autous kai ho Kyrios kalei; « Hymeis philoi mou este. Ouk eti kalesō hymas doulous, alla philous. • Houtō kai ho theios ᾿Apostolos legei; « Hē gar agapē tou Theou synechei hēmas. » Kai; « Tis hēmas chōrisei apo tēs agapēs tou Christou? , Laphyra de kalei, tous palai melē ta oikeia doula tēs hamartias pepoiēkotas, kai tǭ diabolǭ tauta eis douleian ekdedōkotas. Toutous de tois hierois dieneimen apostolois; ton men Rhōmaiōn, ton de Hellēnōn didaskalon prostēsamenos ; kai tous men Indōn, tous de Aigyptiōn kērykas apophēnas. Tauta tois hierois apostolois ta laphyra hē tou oikou hōraiotēs dieneimen. Oikos de tou Theou, kata ton theion Apostolon, hoi pepisteukotes. Ōraiotēs de tou oikou, hē charis tou hagiou Pneumatos, hē touton hōraïzousa te kai lamprynousa tę̄ pantodapę̄ philotimią tōn dōreōn. Kai touto saphesteron dia tōn epagomenōn edidaxen.

"The king of the powers of the beloved, to divide spoils in the beauty of your house." Symmachus has: "The Lord gave sayings to those who preach good news with a great army. Kings of armies were loved; they became beloved, and the household of the house will distribute plunder." By "a great army" he means the believers; so too the apostle, writing to Timothy, says, "Wage the good warfare," and, "No one serving as a soldier entangles himself in the affairs of life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him." He named their teachers "kings of armies," and says they were loved and named beloved. So too the Lord calls them: "You are my friends. No longer will I call you slaves, but friends." So too the divine apostle says, "For the love of God constrains us," and, "Who will separate us from the love of Christ?" He calls "plunder" those who once made their own members slaves of sin and gave them over to the devil in slavery. These he distributed among the holy apostles, appointing one teacher of the Romans, another of the Greeks, and making some heralds of the Indians, others of the Egyptians. This plunder the beauty of the house distributed to the holy apostles. The house of God, according to the divine apostle, is the believers; and the beauty of the house is the grace of the Holy Spirit, which adorns it and makes it bright with the lavishness of gifts of every kind. And he taught this more clearly by what follows.

Ps 68:12 (67:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Tim 1:18 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Tim 2:4 (quotation, high confidence) · John 15:14 (quotation, high confidence) · John 15:15 (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 5:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:35 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 6:19 (allusion, medium confidence) · Heb 3:6 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:12: the beloved kings are the apostles, who as teachers of the army of believers divided among themselves the nations taken from the devil.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): Ὁ δε βε Σύμμαχος → Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.13 (PG 80 80:1383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-13). (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.

67.14PG 80 80:1383

· Ἐὰν κοιμηθῆτε ἀναμέσον τῶν κλήρων, πτέρυγες περιστερᾶς περιηργυρωμέναι, καὶ τὰ μετάφρενα αὐτῆς, ἐν χλωρότητι χρυσίου. » Πτέρυγας δὲ καλεῖ περιστερᾶς, τὴν χάριν τοῦ Πνεύματος. Ἐν εἴδει γὰρ περιστερᾶς παρὰ τὰ Ἰορδάνεια ἐπεφοίτησε ῥεῖθρα. Ταύτης δὲ τὰς μὲν πτέρυγας, περιηργυρῶσθαί φησι· τὰ δὲ μετάφρενα κεκοσμῆσθαι χρυσίῳ. Τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἁπλούστερα, καὶ εὐκολώτερα, τοῖς ἁπλουστέροις προσφέρει· τοῖς δὲ τελειοτέροις, τὰ βαθύτερα. « Τὰ γὰρ μυστήριά μου ἐμοὶ καὶ τοῖς ἐμοῖς. Καὶ τοὺς μὲν, ὡς ἀτελεῖς, γάλα ποτίζει· τοῖς δὲ τὴν στερεὰν προσφέρει τροφήν. Κλήρους δὲ καλεῖ τὰς δύο διαθήκας". Λέγει τοίνυν ἐν ἑκατέρᾳ διδασκαλίᾳ, Προσέλθετε καὶ ὄψεσθε τὴν παντοδαπὴν τοῦ ἁγίου • Πνεύματος χάριν. Οὐχ ἁπλῶς μέντοι προσελθεῖν, ἀλλὰ καὶ διηνεκῶς προσεδρεῦσαι προσέταξε. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκάλεσε κοιμηθῆναι· ὡς τοῦ καθεύδοντος ἀκινήτου μένοντος.

; Ean koimēthēte anameson tōn klērōn, pteryges peristeras periērgyrōmenai, kai ta metaphrena autēs, en chlōrotēti chrysiou. » Pterygas de kalei peristeras, tēn charin tou Pneumatos. En eidei gar peristeras para ta Iordaneia epephoitēse rheithra. Tautēs de tas men pterygas, periērgyrōsthai phēsi; ta de metaphrena kekosmēsthai chrysiǭ. Ta men gar haploustera, kai eukolōtera, tois haplousterois prospherei; tois de teleioterois, ta bathytera. « Ta gar mystēria mou emoi kai tois emois. Kai tous men, hōs ateleis, gala potizei; tois de tēn sterean prospherei trophēn. Klērous de kalei tas dyo diathēkas". Legei toinyn en hekaterą didaskalią, Proselthete kai opsesthe tēn pantodapēn tou hagiou • Pneumatos charin. Ouch haplōs mentoi proselthein, alla kai diēnekōs prosedreusai prosetaxe. Touto gar ekalese koimēthēnai; hōs tou katheudontos akinētou menontos.

"If you lie down among the lots, wings of a dove covered with silver, and her back in the sheen of gold." He calls the grace of the Spirit the wings of a dove; for in the form of a dove it came upon the streams of the Jordan. Its wings, he says, are covered with silver, and its back adorned with gold. For it offers the simpler and easier things to the simpler, and the deeper things to the more perfect. "For my mysteries are for me and for mine." And to some, as imperfect, it gives milk to drink, while to others it offers solid food. By "lots" he means the two testaments. So he says, "In each teaching, come and you will see the manifold grace of the Holy Spirit." Yet he commanded them not merely to come but to remain constantly. This he called "lying down," since one who sleeps stays still.

Ps 68:13 (67:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 3:16 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 3:2 (allusion, high confidence) · Heb 5:12 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:13: the dove's silver wings and golden back are the Spirit's grace, giving simple and deep teaching through the two Testaments to those who stay with them.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letter (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): τὰ μετάφρενα θα αὐτῆς → τὰ μετάφρενα αὐτῆς; περιηργυ ρῶσθαί → περιηργυρῶσθαί; χρυ σίῳ → χρυσίῳ; ἐμοὶὰ καὶ → ἐμοὶ καὶ; ὡς ὁ ἀτελεῖς → ὡς ἀτελεῖς.

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.14 (PG 80 80:1383; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-14). (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.

67.15PG 80 80:1385

« Ἐν τῷ διαστέλλειν τὸν ἐπουράνιον βασιλεῖς ἐπ᾿ αὐτῆς, χιονωθήσονται ἐν Σελμών. ἄνω βασιλεῖς τοὺς ἀποστόλους ἐκάλεσεν, ὡς κληρονόμους τῆς βασιλείας τῶν οὐρανῶν· ὡς καὶ ἐν τῷ μδ ψαλμῷ ἄρχοντας προσηγόρευσε · Καταστήσεις γὰρ αὐτοὺς, φησὶν, ἄρχοντας ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν. Προλέγει δὲ τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος τὴν ἐπιφοίτησιν, τὴν κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς Πεντηκοστῆς γενομένην, καθ᾿ ἣν αὐτοὶ τῆς τῶν γλωσσῶν διαφορᾶς τὴν χάριν ἐδέξαντο. Λέγει τοίνυν, ὡς κατ' ἐκεῖνον τὸν καιρὸν, ἐν ᾧ τὴν τῆς οἰκουμένης αὐτοῖς διαιρεῖ βασιλείαν, καὶ τῷ μὲν τούτων τῶν ἐθνῶν, τῷ δὲ ἐκείνων προστάττειν κελεύει, λαμπρυνεῖ αὐτοὺς, καὶ χιόνι δείξει παραπλησίους· προλέγει δὲ καὶ τὸν τόπον, ἐν ᾧ ταῦτα γενήσεται. Σελμὼν γὰρ τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ ὠνόμασεν· ἐν ἐκείνῃ γὰρ διάγων ὁ τῶν ἀποστόλων χορὸς, τῆς τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος ἀπήλαυσε χάριτος.

« En tǭ diastellein ton epouranion basileis ep᾿ autēs, chionōthēsontai en Selmōn. anō basileis tous apostolous ekalesen, hōs klēronomous tēs basileias tōn ouranōn; hōs kai en tǭ md psalmǭ archontas prosēgoreuse ; Katastēseis gar autous, phēsin, archontas epi pasan tēn gēn. Prolegei de tou panagiou Pneumatos tēn epiphoitēsin, tēn kata tēn hēmeran tēs Pentēkostēs genomenēn, kath᾿ hēn autoi tēs tōn glōssōn diaphoras tēn charin edexanto. Legei toinyn, hōs kat' ekeinon ton kairon, en hǭ tēn tēs oikoumenēs autois diairei basileian, kai tǭ men toutōn tōn ethnōn, tǭ de ekeinōn prostattein keleuei, lamprynei autous, kai chioni deixei paraplēsious; prolegei de kai ton topon, en hǭ tauta genēsetai. Selmōn gar tēn Hierousalēm ōnomasen; en ekeinę̄ gar diagōn ho tōn apostolōn choros, tēs tou panagiou Pneumatos apēlause charitos.

"When the heavenly one appoints kings over it, they will be made snow-white in Selmon." Above he called the apostles kings, as heirs of the kingdom of heaven, just as in the forty-fourth psalm he named them rulers: "For you will make them rulers over all the earth," it says. He foretells the coming of the all-holy Spirit that took place on the day of Pentecost, on which they received the grace of different tongues. He says, then, that at that time, when he divides among them the kingdom of the world and commands one to govern these nations and another those, he will make them bright and show them like snow. He also foretells the place where this will happen; for he named Jerusalem Selmon, since it was while staying in that city that the chorus of the apostles enjoyed the grace of the all-holy Spirit.

Ps 68:14 (67:15 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 45:16 (44:17 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 2:4 (allusion, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:14: the kings made white as snow are the apostles, who received the Spirit at Pentecost in Jerusalem, called Selmon.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray bracket and digit inside a word (OCR); stray letter (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): ἐκάλεσεν ] ὡς κλη-1 ρονόμους → ἐκάλεσεν, ὡς κληρονόμους; γενομένην ἣν ", καθ᾿ ἣν → γενομένην, καθ᾿ ἣν; Σελμὼν γὰρι → Σελμὼν γὰρ.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.15 (PG 80 80:1385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-15). (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.

67.16PG 80 80:1385

« ῎Ορος τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὅρος πῖον, ὄρος τετυρωμένον, ὄρος πῖον. • Οὓς ἐκάλεσε ζῶα , καὶ εὐαγγελιστὰς, καὶ βασιλεῖς, καὶ ὄρος ὀνομάζει. Οὕτω καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς Εὐαγγελίοις ἔφη. «Οὐ δύναται πόλις κρυβῆναι ἐπάνω ὅρους κειμένη» οὕτω καὶ ὁ Ἡσαΐας βοᾷ· · Ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου . » Πῖον δὲ αὐτὸ καὶ τετυρωμένον καλεῖ, ὡς πολλὴν τροφὴν ταῖς ἐν αὐτῷ νεμομέναις ἀγέλαις παρέχον, καὶ πολλὴν ὑπὸ τῆς θείας χάριτος δεξάμενον τὴν πιότητα.

« ᾿Oros tou Theou, horos pion, oros tetyrōmenon, oros pion. • Hous ekalese zōa , kai euangelistas, kai basileis, kai oros onomazei. Houtō kai ho Kyrios en tois hierois Euangeliois ephē. «Ou dynatai polis krybēnai epanō horous keimenē» houtō kai ho Hēsaïas boą; ; Estai en tais eschatais hēmerais emphanes to oros Kyriou . » Pion de auto kai tetyrōmenon kalei, hōs pollēn trophēn tais en autǭ nemomenais agelais parechon, kai pollēn hypo tēs theias charitos dexamenon tēn piotēta.

"The mountain of God is a fat mountain, a curdled mountain, a fat mountain." Those he called living creatures and evangelists and kings, he also names a mountain. So too the Lord said in the holy Gospels, "A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden"; so too Isaiah cries, "In the last days the mountain of the Lord will be manifest." He calls it fat and curdled because it gives much food to the flocks that graze on it and has received much richness from divine grace.

Ps 68:15 (67:16 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 2:2 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:15: the rich mountain of God is the apostles, who feed the flocks with the richness of grace.

"Curdled" renders the Septuagint τετυρωμένον.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.16 (PG 80 80:1385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.17PG 80 80:1385

« Ινατί ὑπολαμβάνετε ὄρη τετυρωμένα; τὸ ὅρος ὁ εὐδόκησεν ὁ Θεὸς κατοικεῖν ἐν αὐτῷ. › Ὁ δὲ Ακύλας οὕτως • Εἰς τί ἐρίζετε, ὄρη ὠφρυωμένα, τὸ ὄρος ὁ ἐπεθύμησε ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ καθίσαι ἐπ᾿ αὐτό; Πρὸς Ἰουδαίους ὁ προφητικὸς ἀποτείνεται λόγος, καὶ πρὸς τοὺς παρανόμους τῶν αἱρετῶν συλλόγους· οἱ Ἐκκλησίας σφᾶς ἑαυτοὺς ὀνομάζουσι καί φησι, Τί ποτε ἐρίζειν καὶ παρισοῦσθαι ἀλαζονεύεσθε τῷ ὄρει, ὁ οἰκητήριον ἀπέφηνεν ὁ Θεός, • Καὶ γὰρ ὁ Κύριος κατασκηνώσει εἰς τέλος. » Οὐ γὰρ ὡς παρ᾽ ὑμῖν, ὦ Ἰουδαῖοι, ῥητόν τινα ᾤκησε χρόνον, οὕτως καὶ ἐν τούτῳ διάξει· ἀλλ᾽ αἰώνιον ἐν τούτῳ σχήσει τὴν οἴκησιν. Τοῦτο γὰρ δηλοῖ τὸ, εἰς τέλος.

« Inati hypolambanete orē tetyrōmena? to horos ho eudokēsen ho Theos katoikein en autǭ. › Ho de Akylas houtōs • Eis ti erizete, orē ōphryōmena, to oros ho epethymēse ho Theos tou kathisai ep᾿ auto? Pros Ioudaious ho prophētikos apoteinetai logos, kai pros tous paranomous tōn hairetōn syllogous; hoi Ekklēsias sphas heautous onomazousi kai phēsi, Ti pote erizein kai parisousthai alazoneuesthe tǭ orei, ho oikētērion apephēnen ho Theos, • Kai gar ho Kyrios kataskēnōsei eis telos. » Ou gar hōs par᾽ hymin, ō Ioudaioi, rhēton tina ǭkēse chronon, houtōs kai en toutǭ diaxei; all᾽ aiōnion en toutǭ schēsei tēn oikēsin. Touto gar dēloi to, eis telos.

"Why do you suppose curdled mountains? The mountain in which God was pleased to dwell." Aquila has: "Why do you contend, you proud mountains, with the mountain which God desired to sit upon?" The prophetic word is directed at the Jews and at the lawless assemblies of the heretics, who name themselves churches, and it says, "Why do you boastfully contend and claim equality with the mountain that God declared his dwelling?" "For the Lord will dwell there to the end." "For not as he dwelt among you, O Jews, for a set time, will he also live in this one; but he will have his dwelling in it forever." This is what "to the end" shows.

Ps 68:16 (67:17 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:16: the mountain God chose is the church, where he dwells forever; the Jews and the heretical assemblies should not contend with it.

The polemic against the Jews and the heretics is Theodoret's; translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (joined words (OCR)): Εἰς τίἐρίζετε → Εἰς τί ἐρίζετε.

Topics: Heresy

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.17 (PG 80 80:1385; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-17). (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.

67.18PG 80 80:1387

« Τὸ ἅρμα τοῦ Θεοῦ, μυριοπλάσιον χιλιάδες εὐθηνούντων. » Οὐ γὰρ ὡς παρ' ὑμῖν, ὦ Ἰουδαῖοι, ὀλίγους ἔσχεν ἁγίους, ὧν ἐπέβη, καὶ οἷς ἐκοινώνησεν, οὕτω καὶ νῦν σχήσει. Μυριοπλάσιοι γὰρ ἐκείνων , οἱ τῆς θείας ἐπιβάσεως ἄξιοι. Καὶ ἀριθμοῦ κρείττους χιλιάδας καὶ μυριάδας εὐθηνούντων, καὶ καρποφορούντων τῷ Θεῷ τὴν εὐσέβειαν, ἡ νέα ἔχει κληρονομία, ἰθυνομένας καὶ τῶν στεφάνων ἀξιουμένας, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸ βραβεῖον τῆς ἄνω κλήσεως ἐπειγομένας. « Κύριος ἐν αὐτοῖς, ἐν Σιναῖ, ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ. Ὁ ἐν τῷ Σινᾷ, φησὶ, τοῖς ἡμετέροις προγόνοις ἐπιφανείς, αὐτὸς καὶ τούτους ἡνιοχεῖ. Οὐ γὰρ ἄλλος ἐκεῖνος, καὶ ἄλλος οὗτος. «Ὁ γὰρ αὐτὸς Κύριος πάντων, πλουτῶν εἰς πάντας τοὺς ἐπικαλουμένους αὐτόν. » Οὕτω δείξας ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος καταβεβηκότα, καὶ καταλύσαντα τῶν πολεμίων τὸ στίφος, δείκνυσιν αὐτὸν ἀνιόντα, καὶ τοῖς πάλαι αἰχμαλώτοις τὴν ἐλευθερίαν δωρούμενον.

« To harma tou Theou, myrioplasion chiliades euthēnountōn. » Ou gar hōs par' hymin, ō Ioudaioi, oligous eschen hagious, hōn epebē, kai hois ekoinōnēsen, houtō kai nyn schēsei. Myrioplasioi gar ekeinōn , hoi tēs theias epibaseōs axioi. Kai arithmou kreittous chiliadas kai myriadas euthēnountōn, kai karpophorountōn tǭ Theǭ tēn eusebeian, hē nea echei klēronomia, ithynomenas kai tōn stephanōn axioumenas, kai epi to brabeion tēs anō klēseōs epeigomenas. « Kyrios en autois, en Sinai, en tǭ hagiǭ. Ho en tǭ Siną, phēsi, tois hēmeterois progonois epiphaneis, autos kai toutous hēniochei. Ou gar allos ekeinos, kai allos houtos. «Ho gar autos Kyrios pantōn, ploutōn eis pantas tous epikaloumenous auton. » Houtō deixas ho prophētikos logos katabebēkota, kai katalysanta tōn polemiōn to stiphos, deiknysin auton anionta, kai tois palai aichmalōtois tēn eleutherian dōroumenon.

"The chariot of God is ten-thousandfold, thousands of those who flourish." "For not as among you, O Jews, he had few saints whom he rode upon and with whom he shared, will he also have now. For those worthy of God's riding are ten thousand times as many as they." And the new inheritance has thousands and tens of thousands beyond number of those who flourish and bear piety as fruit to God, being directed, counted worthy of crowns, and pressing on toward the prize of the upward call. "The Lord is among them, in Sinai, in the holy place." "He who appeared to our forefathers on Sinai," he says, "is the one who drives these too; for he is not one and this another. 'For the same Lord is Lord of all, rich toward all who call upon him.'" Having thus shown him come down and destroying the throng of the enemies, the prophetic word shows him going up and giving freedom to those who were captives of old.

Ps 68:17 (67:18 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Phil 3:14 (allusion, high confidence) · Rom 10:12 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:17: God's chariot, the countless saints of the new covenant, is driven by the same Lord who appeared at Sinai.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.18 (PG 80 80:1387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.19PG 80 80:1387

« ᾿Ανέβης εἰς ὕψος, ἠχμαλώτευσας αἰχμαλωσίαν. » Ἡ ἀνάβασις δηλοῖ τὴν κατάβασιν · καὶ μάρτυς ὁ ᾿Απόστολος λέγων· « Τὸ δὲ ἀνέβη, τί ἐστιν, εἰ μὴ ὅτι καὶ κατέβη πρῶτον εἰς τὰ κατώτερα μέρη τῆς γῆς; Ὁ καταβὰς, αὐτὸς ἐστι καὶ ὁ ἀναβὰς σκηνῶσαι. Οὐκ ἀπέβλεψας, φησὶν, εἰς τὴν προτέὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν. » Ηχμαλώτευσε δὲ αἰχμαλωσίαν, τοὺς πάλαι γεγενημένους αἰχμαλώτους ἀπολαβών · καὶ οἰονεὶ ἀνταιχμαλωτίσας, καὶ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν αὐτοῖς δωρησάμενος. « Ἔλαβες δόματα ἐν ἀνθρώποις . › Ὁ ᾿Απόστολος ἔδωκεν εἴρηκεν ἀμφότερα δὲ γεγένηνται. Λαμβάνων γὰρ παρὰ τῶν προσιόντων τὴν πίστιν, δωρεῖται τὴν χάριν. [ Οὕτω γὰρ ὁ τῶν ἀποστόλων πιστεύσας χορὸς, ὅτι Θεὸς ἐκ Θεοῦ ὑπάρχει, τῆς τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείας κληρονόμος ἀνεδείχθη· οὕτω μυριάδες τῶν ἀθλοφόρων καὶ τῶν ἐπὶ πολιτείᾳ σεμνῶς βιοτευσάντων ὑπὲρ Θεοῦ ποιούμενοι τοὺς λόγους ἐδοξάσθησαν.] « Καὶ γὰρ ἀπειθοῦντας τοῦ κατασκηνῶσαι. » Τοῦτο σαφέστερον ὁ ᾿Ακύλας ἡρμήνευσε, καίπερ ἀπειθεῖς τοῦ καταραν αὐτῶν ἀπείθειαν· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἀντιλέγοντας ὁρῶν, ἐπέμεινας εὐεργετῶν, ἕως αὐτοὺς οἰκητήριον οἰκεῖον ἀπέφηνας.

« ᾿Anebēs eis hypsos, ēchmalōteusas aichmalōsian. » Hē anabasis dēloi tēn katabasin ; kai martys ho ᾿Apostolos legōn; « To de anebē, ti estin, ei mē hoti kai katebē prōton eis ta katōtera merē tēs gēs? Ho katabas, autos esti kai ho anabas skēnōsai. Ouk apeblepsas, phēsin, eis tēn proteuperanō pantōn tōn ouranōn. » Ēchmalōteuse de aichmalōsian, tous palai gegenēmenous aichmalōtous apolabōn ; kai oionei antaichmalōtisas, kai tēn eleutherian autois dōrēsamenos. « Elabes domata en anthrōpois . › Ho ᾿Apostolos edōken eirēken amphotera de gegenēntai. Lambanōn gar para tōn prosiontōn tēn pistin, dōreitai tēn charin. [ Houtō gar ho tōn apostolōn pisteusas choros, hoti Theos ek Theou hyparchei, tēs tōn ouranōn basileias klēronomos anedeichthē; houtō myriades tōn athlophorōn kai tōn epi politeią semnōs bioteusantōn hyper Theou poioumenoi tous logous edoxasthēsan.] « Kai gar apeithountas tou kataskēnōsai. » Touto saphesteron ho ᾿Akylas hērmēneuse, kaiper apeitheis tou kataran autōn apeitheian; alla kai antilegontas horōn, epemeinas euergetōn, heōs autous oikētērion oikeion apephēnas.

"You went up on high; you led captivity captive." The going up shows the coming down; and the apostle is witness, saying, "What does 'he went up' mean, except that he also first came down to the lower parts of the earth? He who came down is the same as he who went up far above all the heavens." He led captivity captive by taking back those who long ago became captives, as if capturing them in return, and giving them freedom. "You received gifts among men." The apostle said "he gave"; and both have happened. For receiving faith from those who come to him, he grants grace. [For so the chorus of the apostles, believing that he is God from God, was shown heir of the kingdom of heaven; so tens of thousands of the prize-bearers and of those who lived a life of holy discipline were glorified, speaking on God's behalf.] "And indeed the disobedient, that he might dwell." Aquila rendered this more clearly: "Even though they were disobedient, that he might dwell." "You did not look at their former disobedience," he says; "but even seeing them speak against you, you persisted in doing them good until you made them your own dwelling."

Ps 68:18 (67:19 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 4:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 4:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 4:8 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:18: Christ's ascent presupposes his descent; he freed the captives and, receiving faith, gives grace, making even the disobedient his dwelling.

The OCR has exchanged two pieces of this section: the end of the Ephesians quotation ("far above all the heavens") and the start of the last comment ("... that he might dwell. You did not look at their former disobedience"). The translation follows the evident order. The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): μέρη & τῆς γῆς → μέρη τῆς γῆς; τῶν προσιόντων δε τὴν πίστιν → τῶν προσιόντων τὴν πίστιν; ἀθλοφό ρων → ἀθλοφόρων.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.19 (PG 80 80:1387; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.20PG 80 80:1389

« Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς εὐλογητός · εὐλογητὸς Κύριος ἡμέραν καθ' ἡμέραν. » Εἰκότως ὁ Προφήτης εἰς ὑμνῳδίαν τὴν γλῶτταν ἐκίνησεν. ᾿Αεὶ, φησὶν, ὑμνεῖσθαι δίκαιος εἶ, τοσαύτῃ σε φιλανθρωπίᾳ χρησάμενος. • Κατευοδώσει ἡμῖν ὁ Θεὸς τῶν σωτηρίων ἡμῶν. › Ὁ τὴν σωτηρίαν ἡμῖν, φησὶ, δωρησάμενος, οὗτος ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν ὁδὸν ἐξομαλίσει, ὥστε τοσούτων μὴ διαμαρτεῖν ἀγαθῶν.

« Kyrios ho Theos eulogētos ; eulogētos Kyrios hēmeran kath' hēmeran. » Eikotōs ho Prophētēs eis hymnǭdian tēn glōttan ekinēsen. ᾿Aei, phēsin, hymneisthai dikaios ei, tosautę̄ se philanthrōpią chrēsamenos. • Kateuodōsei hēmin ho Theos tōn sōtēriōn hēmōn. › Ho tēn sōtērian hēmin, phēsi, dōrēsamenos, houtos hēmin kai tēn hodon exomalisei, hōste tosoutōn mē diamartein agathōn.

"Blessed be the Lord God; blessed be the Lord day by day." The prophet rightly moved his tongue to hymnody. "You deserve always to be hymned," he says, "since you have shown such love for humankind." "The God of our salvation will prosper our way." "He who gave us salvation," he says, "will also make the road smooth for us, so that we do not miss such great good things."

Ps 68:19 (67:20 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:19: God deserves constant praise and will smooth the way of those he saved.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letter and split word (OCR)): φησὶνὶ ὑμνεῖ-σθαι → φησὶν, ὑμνεῖσθαι.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.20 (PG 80 80:1389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.21PG 80 80:1389

«Ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ σώζειν. » Παρἐξει δὲ τοῦτο σωτηρίας ὑπάρχων πηγή ". « Καὶ τοῦ Κυρίου Κυρίου, αἱ διέξοδοι τοῦ θανάτου. » Αὐτὸς γὰρ διήνοιξεν ἡμῖν καὶ τὴν ἀδιεξόδευτον τοῦ θανάτου φρουράν, καὶ συνέτριψε πύλας χαλκᾶς, καὶ μοχλοὺς σιδηροῦς συνέθλασε. Καὶ τοῦτο διὰ τῶν ἐπαγομένων ἐδήλωσε .

«Ho Theos hēmōn ho Theos tou sōzein. » Parexei de touto sōtērias hyparchōn pēgē ". « Kai tou Kyriou Kyriou, hai diexodoi tou thanatou. » Autos gar diēnoixen hēmin kai tēn adiexodeuton tou thanatou phrouran, kai synetripse pylas chalkas, kai mochlous sidērous synethlase. Kai touto dia tōn epagomenōn edēlōse .

"Our God is the God who saves." "He will provide this, being the spring of salvation." "And of the Lord, the Lord, are the ways out of death." "For he opened for us the prison of death, from which there was no way out; he broke bronze gates and shattered iron bars." And he showed this by what follows.

Ps 68:20 (67:21 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 107:16 (106:16 LXX) (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:20: God, the spring of salvation, has opened the way out of death's prison.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (OCR letter slip): ἀδιεξόδευτων → ἀδιεξόδευτον.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.21 (PG 80 80:1389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-21). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.22PG 80 80:1389

« Πλὴν ὁ Θεὸς συνθλάσει κεφαλὰς ἐχθρῶν αὐτοῦ· κορυφήν τριχὸς διαπορευομένων ἐν πλημμελείαις αὐτῶν. » Ἤνοιξεν ἡμῖν, φησὶ, τοῦ θανάτου τὰς θύρας, συνθλάσας τὰς τῶν ἐχθρῶν κεφαλὰς, τῶν διερευνωμένων τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὰς πλημμελείας, καὶ μηδὲ τῆς κεφαλῆς τὰς τρίχας ἀνερευνήτους ἀνεχομένων καταλιπεῖν. Λέγει δὲ διὰ τῆς τριχὸς, τὸ σμικρότατον πλημμέλημα. Ὁ δὲ λέγει, τοιοῦτόν ἐστι · Τοῖς ἁμαρτάνουσιν ὁ Θεὸς ὥρισε τὸν θάνατον ἐπιτίμιον. Διερευνῶν δὲ ὁ διάβολος, οἷόν τις πικρὸς δήμιος, τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὸν βίον, οὐδὲ τὸ σμικρότατον ἀνέχεται παριδεῖν, ἀλλὰ τῷ θανάτῳ παραπέμπει τὴν φύσιν. Τὴν αὐτὴν τοίνυν περικείμενον φύσιν θεασάμενος τὸν Δεσπότην Χριστὸν, προσῆλθεν ἐπιζητῶν τοῦ θανάτου τὰ αἴτια. Τοῦτο γὰρ καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς Εὐαγγελίοις ἔφη· « Ἔρχεται ὁ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἄρχων, καὶ ἐν ἐμοὶ εὑρήσει οὐδέν. » ᾿Αλλ' ὅμως καὶ μηδὲν εὑρὼν, ἀδίκως τῷ θανάτῳ παρέδωκε. Τοῦτο τὸ ἀδίκημα ἐκείνου μὲν τὸ κράτος κατέλυσε, τοῖς δὲ ἀνθρώποις τὸν ἄδην ἠνέωξεν · ἅπερ ἐν τοῖς Περὶ τῆς Προνοίας λόγοις διὰ πλειόνων ἐῤῥήθη. Καὶ ὁ θεῖος δὲ ᾿Απόστολος τὸν διάβολον ἔχειν ἔφη τοῦ θανάτου τὸ κράτος.

« Plēn ho Theos synthlasei kephalas echthrōn autou; koryphēn trichos diaporeuomenōn en plēmmeleiais autōn. » Ēnoixen hēmin, phēsi, tou thanatou tas thyras, synthlasas tas tōn echthrōn kephalas, tōn diereunōmenōn tōn anthrōpōn tas plēmmeleias, kai mēde tēs kephalēs tas trichas anereunētous anechomenōn katalipein. Legei de dia tēs trichos, to smikrotaton plēmmelēma. Ho de legei, toiouton esti ; Tois hamartanousin ho Theos hōrise ton thanaton epitimion. Diereunōn de ho diabolos, hoion tis pikros dēmios, tōn anthrōpōn ton bion, oude to smikrotaton anechetai paridein, alla tǭ thanatǭ parapempei tēn physin. Tēn autēn toinyn perikeimenon physin theasamenos ton Despotēn Christon, prosēlthen epizētōn tou thanatou ta aitia. Touto gar kai ho Kyrios en tois hierois Euangeliois ephē; « Erchetai ho tou kosmou toutou archōn, kai en emoi heurēsei ouden. » ᾿All' homōs kai mēden heurōn, adikōs tǭ thanatǭ paredōke. Touto to adikēma ekeinou men to kratos katelyse, tois de anthrōpois ton adēn ēneōxen ; haper en tois Peri tēs Pronoias logois dia pleionōn errhēthē. Kai ho theios de ᾿Apostolos ton diabolon echein ephē tou thanatou to kratos.

"But God will crush the heads of his enemies, the hairy crown of those who go on in their offenses." "He opened for us the doors of death," he says, "by crushing the heads of the enemies, who search out the offenses of men and will not leave even the hairs of the head unsearched." By the hair he means the smallest offense. What he means is this: God set death as the penalty for those who sin. The devil, searching out the life of men like a bitter executioner, will not overlook even the smallest thing, but hands nature over to death. Seeing, then, Christ the Lord clothed in the same nature, he came seeking the causes of death. For this is what the Lord too said in the holy Gospels: "The ruler of this world is coming, and he will find nothing in me." Yet though he found nothing, he unjustly handed him over to death. This injustice destroyed his power and opened Hades to men; these things were said at greater length in the discourses On Providence. And the divine apostle too said that the devil had the power of death.

Ps 68:21 (67:22 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · John 14:30 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 2:14 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:21: the devil, who handed sinners over to death, unjustly put the sinless Christ to death and so lost his power.

"The discourses On Providence" are Theodoret's own ten orations On Providence (not on this site).

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letter (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): ἐχθρῶν αὐτοῦ σε · → ἐχθρῶν αὐτοῦ·; ἐν α τοῖς ἱεροῖς → ἐν τοῖς ἱεροῖς; Προνοίας το λόγοις → Προνοίας λόγοις.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.22 (PG 80 80:1389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-22). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.23PG 80 80:1389

Εἶπε Κύριος· Ἐκ Βασὰν ἐπιστρέψω· ἐπιστρέψω ἐν βυθοῖς θαλάσσης. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως· Εἶπε Κύριος, ᾿Από Βασὰν ἐπιστρέψω, ἀπὸ βυθῶν θαλάσσης. Ἡ Βασὰν δὲ ἑρμηνευομένη τὴν αἰσχύνην δηλοῖ. Αἰσχύνη δὲ τῆς ἁμαρτίας καρπός. ᾿Απὸ ταύτης τοίνυν ἡμᾶς ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς ἐπιστρέψει καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν τῆς θαλάσσης βυθῶν. Τίς δὲ ὁ τῆς θαλάσσης βυθός, αὐτὸς διδάσκει ὁ Προφήτης βοῶν, « Ῥυσθείην ἐκ τῶν μισούντων με, καὶ ἐκ τῶν βαθέων τῶν ὑδάτων. » [Μή με καταποντισάτω καταιγὶς ὕδατος, μηδὲ καταπιέτω με βυθός.]

Eipe Kyrios; Ek Basan epistrepsō; epistrepsō en bythois thalassēs. » Ho de Symmachos houtōs; Eipe Kyrios, ᾿Apo Basan epistrepsō, apo bythōn thalassēs. Hē Basan de hermēneuomenē tēn aischynēn dēloi. Aischynē de tēs hamartias karpos. ᾿Apo tautēs toinyn hēmas ho tōn holōn Theos epistrepsei kai apo tōn tēs thalassēs bythōn. Tis de ho tēs thalassēs bythos, autos didaskei ho Prophētēs boōn, « Rhystheiēn ek tōn misountōn me, kai ek tōn batheōn tōn hydatōn. » [Mē me katapontisatō kataigis hydatos, mēde katapietō me bythos.]

"The Lord said, 'From Bashan I will turn back; I will turn back in the depths of the sea.'" Symmachus has: "The Lord said, 'From Bashan I will turn back, from the depths of the sea.'" Bashan, when interpreted, means "shame"; and shame is the fruit of sin. From this, then, the God of all will turn us back, and from the depths of the sea. What the depth of the sea is, the prophet himself teaches, crying, "May I be rescued from those who hate me and from the deep waters." ["Let not the storm of water drown me, nor the deep swallow me."]

Ps 68:22 (67:23 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 69:14 (68:15 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 69:15 (68:16 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:22: God will bring his people back from Bashan, meaning shame, the fruit of sin, and from the depths of distress.

The closing words are bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena.

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Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray mark (OCR)): ᾿Από» Βασὰν → ᾿Από Βασὰν; ἐπιστρέψει καὶ᾿ ἀπὸ → ἐπιστρέψει καὶ ἀπὸ; » Μή με καταποντισάτω → » [Μή με καταποντισάτω.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.23 (PG 80 80:1389; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.24PG 80 80:1391

«Ὅπως ἂν βαφῇ ὁ πούς σου ἐν αἵματι· ἡ γλῶσσα τῶν κυνῶν σου ἐξ ἐχθρῶν παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ. Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως · "Ὅπως ἂν συγκατεάξῃ ὁ ποὺς σου μετὰ αἵματος, καὶ λάψῃ ἡ γλῶσσα τῶν κυνῶν σου ἀπὸ ἑκάστου τῶν ἐχθρῶν σου. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἔδειξε τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεὸν, οἷόν τινα ἀριστέα, τοὺς πολεμίους καταγωνιζόμενον, καὶ τοὺς ἀδίκως δεδουλωμένους ἐλευθεροῦντα , διαγράφει τῷ λόγῳ, καὶ αἱμάτων ῥύακας, καὶ συμπατουμένους νεκροὺς, καὶ τούτους ἀτάφους ἐῤῥιμμένους, καὶ κυσὶ βορὰν προκειμένους. Οὕτω καὶ διὰ Ἡσαῖου βοᾷ • Ληνὸν ἐπάτησα μονώτατος, καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν οὐδεὶς ἦν μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ· συνεπάτησα αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ θυμῷ μου, καὶ συνέθλασα αὐτοὺς ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, καὶ κατἡγαγον εἰς γῆν τὸ αἷμα αὐτῶν· καὶ κατεῤῥαντίσθη τῷ κατανικήματι αὐτῶν τὰ ἱμάτιά μου. »

«Hopōs an baphę̄ ho pous sou en haimati; hē glōssa tōn kynōn sou ex echthrōn par᾿ autou. Ho de Symmachos houtōs ; "Hopōs an synkateaxę̄ ho pous sou meta haimatos, kai lapsę̄ hē glōssa tōn kynōn sou apo hekastou tōn echthrōn sou. Epeidē gar edeixe ton tōn holōn Theon, hoion tina aristea, tous polemious katagōnizomenon, kai tous adikōs dedoulōmenous eleutherounta , diagraphei tǭ logǭ, kai haimatōn rhyakas, kai sympatoumenous nekrous, kai toutous ataphous errhimmenous, kai kysi boran prokeimenous. Houtō kai dia Hēsaiou boą • Lēnon epatēsa monōtatos, kai tōn ethnōn oudeis ēn met᾿ emou; synepatēsa autous en tǭ thymǭ mou, kai synethlasa autous en tę̄ orgę̄ mou, kai katēgagon eis gēn to haima autōn; kai katerrhantisthē tǭ katanikēmati autōn ta himatia mou. »

"That your foot may be dipped in blood, the tongue of your dogs from the enemies, by him." Symmachus has: "That your foot may trample with blood, and the tongue of your dogs lap from each of your enemies." Since he showed the God of all like a champion overcoming the enemies and setting free those unjustly enslaved, he depicts in words streams of blood, corpses trampled underfoot and thrown out unburied, lying as food for dogs. So too he cries through Isaiah: "I trod the winepress alone, and of the nations no one was with me; I trod them down in my wrath and crushed them in my anger, and brought down their blood to the earth; and my garments were spattered with their defeat."

Ps 68:23 (67:24 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 63:3 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 63:6 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:23: the image of blood and dogs depicts God's victory over his enemies, as in Isaiah's winepress.

A stray closing bracket inside the Isaiah quotation is removed. The quotation combines Isa 63:3 and 63:6.

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Digital text corrected (stray bracket (OCR)): ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου,] καὶ → ἐν τῇ ὀργῇ μου, καὶ.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.24 (PG 80 80:1391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-24). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.25PG 80 80:1391

· Ἐθεωρήθησαν αἱ πορεῖαί σου, ὁ Θεός· αἱ πορεῖαι τοῦ Θεοῦ μου, τοῦ βασιλέως, τοῦ ἐν τῷ ἁγίῳ. » Πορείας τοῦ ἁγίου τὰς οἰκονομίας καλεῖ, ἅγιον δὲ, τὸν ἐκ σπέρματος Δαβὶδ ἀνειλημμένον ναόν Δήλη, φησὶ, πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις ἡ σὴ γέγονε προμήθεια, καὶ τὰς διαφόρους σου οἰκονομίας διέγνωσαν ἅπαντες.

; Etheōrēthēsan hai poreiai sou, ho Theos; hai poreiai tou Theou mou, tou basileōs, tou en tǭ hagiǭ. » Poreias tou hagiou tas oikonomias kalei, hagion de, ton ek spermatos Dabid aneilēmmenon naon Dēlē, phēsi, pasin anthrōpois hē sē gegone promētheia, kai tas diaphorous sou oikonomias diegnōsan hapantes.

"Your goings were seen, O God, the goings of my God, the King, who is in the holy place." By the goings of the holy one he means the dispensations; by "the holy" he means the temple assumed from the seed of David. "Your providence," he says, "has become plain to all people, and all have recognized your various dispensations."

Ps 68:24 (67:25 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:24: God's goings are his saving dispensations, and the holy place is the human nature from David's seed that he assumed.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (Latin letter in a Greek word (OCR)): αl πορεῖαι → αἱ πορεῖαι.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.25 (PG 80 80:1391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-25). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.26PG 80 80:1391

« Προέφθασαν ἄρχοντες ἐχόμενοι ψαλλόντων, ἐν μέσῳ νεανίδων τυμπανιστριῶν. » Ἐντεῦθεν λοιπὸν τῶν Ἐκκλησιῶν τὴν εὐφροσύνην διδάσκει. "Αρχοντας δὲ καλεῖ τοὺς ἱεροὺς ἀποστόλους, ὡς τούτων ἀρχιτέκτονας γενομένους, νεανίδας δὲ τυμπανιστρίας, τὰς τὴν παρθενίαν ἀσκούσας, καὶ τὴν θείαν μελῳδίαν τῷ Θεῷ προσφερούσας. Εἶτα σαφέστερα τὰ εἰρημένα ποιεῖ.

« Proephthasan archontes echomenoi psallontōn, en mesǭ neanidōn tympanistriōn. » Enteuthen loipon tōn Ekklēsiōn tēn euphrosynēn didaskei. "Archontas de kalei tous hierous apostolous, hōs toutōn architektonas genomenous, neanidas de tympanistrias, tas tēn parthenian askousas, kai tēn theian melǭdian tǭ Theǭ prospherousas. Eita saphestera ta eirēmena poiei.

"Rulers went first, joined with singers, in the midst of young women playing timbrels." From here on he teaches the gladness of the churches. He calls the holy apostles "rulers," since they became their master builders; and "young women playing timbrels" those who practice virginity and offer the divine song to God. Then he makes what was said clearer.

Ps 68:25 (67:26 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:25: the rulers are the apostles who founded the churches, and the young women are the consecrated virgins who sing to God.

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Digital text corrected (stray letter (OCR); words broken and interleaved across a line (OCR)): ἐχόμενοι ψαλ• Ἐντεῦλόντων, ἐν μέσῳ νεανίδων τυμπανιστριῶν. θεν λοιπὸν → ἐχόμενοι ψαλλόντων, ἐν μέσῳ νεανίδων τυμπανιστριῶν. » Ἐντεῦθεν λοιπὸν; τῷ Θεῶ προσφερούσας θ. → τῷ Θεῷ προσφερούσας..

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.26 (PG 80 80:1391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.27PG 80 80:1391

« Ἐν ἐκκλησίαις εὐλογεῖτε τὸν Θεὸν Κύριον ἐκ πηγῶν Ἰσραήλ. » Ἔδειξε τῆς παλαιᾶς διαθήκης τὴν παῦλαν· εἷς γὰρ ἦν ὁ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ναός· ἐνταῦθα δὲ τῶν ἐκκλησιῶν προθεσπίζει τὸ πλῆθος · ἐν αἷς ἐκ τῶν Ἰσραηλιτικῶν πηγῶν ὑμνεῖσθαι κελεύει τὸν τῶν ὅλων Κύριον. Πηγαὶ δὲ Ἰσραὴλ εἰκότως ἂν κληθεῖεν αἱ προφητικαὶ βίβλοι, ἐξ ὧν τῷ Θεῷ τὴν μελῳδίαν προσφέρομεν. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ πρὸς ταῖς προφητικαῖς καὶ τὰς ἀποστολικὰς ἡμῖν πηγάς ἐδωρήσατο, εἰκότως ἐπάγει·

« En ekklēsiais eulogeite ton Theon Kyrion ek pēgōn Israēl. » Edeixe tēs palaias diathēkēs tēn paulan; heis gar ēn ho tōn Ioudaiōn naos; entautha de tōn ekklēsiōn prothespizei to plēthos ; en hais ek tōn Israēlitikōn pēgōn hymneisthai keleuei ton tōn holōn Kyrion. Pēgai de Israēl eikotōs an klētheien hai prophētikai bibloi, ex hōn tǭ Theǭ tēn melǭdian prospheromen. Epeidē de pros tais prophētikais kai tas apostolikas hēmin pēgas edōrēsato, eikotōs epagei;

"In assemblies bless God, the Lord, from the springs of Israel." He showed the end of the old covenant; for the temple of the Jews was one, but here he foretells the multitude of the churches, in which he orders the Lord of all to be hymned from the springs of Israel. The prophetic books could rightly be called the springs of Israel, from which we offer song to God. And since besides the prophetic springs he also gave us the apostolic ones, he rightly adds:

Ps 68:26 (67:27 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:26: the many churches replace the one temple and praise God from the springs of Israel, the prophetic and apostolic writings.

"Assemblies" renders ἐκκλησίαις, which Theodoret reads as "churches."

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): ἐν ταῦθα δὲ → ἐνταῦθα δὲ.

Topics: Scripture and canon

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.27 (PG 80 80:1391; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-27). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.28PG 80 80:1393

· Ἐκεῖ Βενιαμὶν νεώτερος ἐν ἐκστάσει. ι Ὁ δὲ ᾿Ακύλας, Ἐκεῖ Βενιαμὶν βραχὺς, ἐπικρατῶν αὐτῶν· κατὰ δὲ τὸν Θεοδοτίωνα, παιδευτής αὐτῶν . Βενιαμὶν δὲ νεώτερος, ὁ μακάριος Παῦλος, ὁ ἐκ τῆς Βενιαμίτιδος βλαστήσας φυλῆς· νεώτερος, ὡς ὁ μετὰ πάντας κληθεὶς ὁ καὶ προσαγορευόμενος · ἄλλως τε καὶ νεανίαν αὐτὸν ἡ τῶν Πράξεων ἱστορία καλεῖ. Οὗτος ἐπικρατεῖ τῆς Ἐκκλησίας, καὶ παιδεύει τὰ θεῖα, καὶ ποδηγεῖ πρὸς σωτηρίαν τοὺς βουλομένους. Ἐγένετο δὲ καὶ ἐν ἐκστάσει” μαθὼν ἐν οὐρανοῖς εἶναι τὸν ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ διωκόμενον, καὶ νεκρὸν νομιζόμενον. Ἐπειδὴ δὲ οὐ μόνον ὁ μακάριος Παῦλος, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὁ λοιπὸς τῶν ἀποστόλων χορὸς, τὰ θεῖα τοὺς πιστεύοντας ἐκπαιδεύει, εἰκότως καὶ τούτων ὁ προφητικὸς ἐμνημόνευσε λόγος. « ῎Αρχοντες Ἰούδα ἡγεμόνες αὐτῶν, ἄρχοντες Ζαβουλών, ἄρχοντες Νεφθαλείμ., Ἐκ γὰρ τούτων τῶν φυλῶν τὸ γένος οἱ λοιποὶ κατἤγον ἀπόστολοι. Καὶ οἱ μὲν καλούμενοι ἀδελφοὶ τοῦ Κυρίου, τὴν Ἰούδα φυλὴν πάντως εἶχον πηγήν. Πέτρος δὲ, καὶ ᾿Ανδρέας, καὶ Ἰάκωβος, καὶ Ἰωάννης, καὶ Φίλιππος, ἀπὸ Βεθσαϊδᾶ τῆς κώμης ἐτύγχανον ὄντες. Ματθαῖος δὲ καὶ Ἰάκωβος ἐν τῇ Καπερναὺμ διάγειν ἱστόρηνται. Σιμὼν ὁ ζηλωτής Κανανίτης ὠνόμασται. Ταῦτα δὲ πάντα χωρία τῆς Γαλιλαίας ἐστί. Ζαβουλὼν δὲ καὶ Νεφθαλεὶμ ἐκεῖνον εἶχον τὸν κλῆρον. Καὶ τούτου μάρτυρες δύο· ὁ μὲν προφήτης, ὁ δὲ εὐαγγελιστής· ὁ μὲν προλέγων, ὁ δὲ τὴν μαρτυρίαν προφέρων. Φασὶ δὲ οὕτως· • Γῆ Ζαβουλών, καὶ γῆ Νεφθαλεὶμ, καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ τὴν παραλίαν κατοικοῦντες, καὶ πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου, Γαλιλαία τῶν ἐθνῶν· ὁ λαὸς ὁ καθήμενος ἐν σκότει εἶδε φῶς μέγα. »

; Ekei Beniamin neōteros en ekstasei. i Ho de ᾿Akylas, Ekei Beniamin brachys, epikratōn autōn; kata de ton Theodotiōna, paideutēs autōn . Beniamin de neōteros, ho makarios Paulos, ho ek tēs Beniamitidos blastēsas phylēs; neōteros, hōs ho meta pantas klētheis ho kai prosagoreuomenos ; allōs te kai neanian auton hē tōn Praxeōn historia kalei. Houtos epikratei tēs Ekklēsias, kai paideuei ta theia, kai podēgei pros sōtērian tous boulomenous. Egeneto de kai en ekstasei” mathōn en ouranois einai ton hyp᾿ autou diōkomenon, kai nekron nomizomenon. Epeidē de ou monon ho makarios Paulos, alla kai ho loipos tōn apostolōn choros, ta theia tous pisteuontas ekpaideuei, eikotōs kai toutōn ho prophētikos emnēmoneuse logos. « ᾿Archontes Iouda hēgemones autōn, archontes Zaboulōn, archontes Nephthaleim., Ek gar toutōn tōn phylōn to genos hoi loipoi katēgon apostoloi. Kai hoi men kaloumenoi adelphoi tou Kyriou, tēn Iouda phylēn pantōs eichon pēgēn. Petros de, kai ᾿Andreas, kai Iakōbos, kai Iōannēs, kai Philippos, apo Bethsaïda tēs kōmēs etynchanon ontes. Matthaios de kai Iakōbos en tę̄ Kapernaum diagein historēntai. Simōn ho zēlōtēs Kananitēs ōnomastai. Tauta de panta chōria tēs Galilaias esti. Zaboulōn de kai Nephthaleim ekeinon eichon ton klēron. Kai toutou martyres dyo; ho men prophētēs, ho de euangelistēs; ho men prolegōn, ho de tēn martyrian propherōn. Phasi de houtōs; • Gē Zaboulōn, kai gē Nephthaleim, kai hoi loipoi tēn paralian katoikountes, kai peran tou Iordanou, Galilaia tōn ethnōn; ho laos ho kathēmenos en skotei eide phōs mega. »

"There is Benjamin the younger, in ecstasy." Aquila has: "There is little Benjamin, ruling them"; and according to Theodotion, "their instructor." Benjamin the younger is the blessed Paul, sprung from the tribe of Benjamin; "younger" as one called after all the others; besides, the history of the Acts also calls him a young man. He rules the church, instructs it in divine things, and guides to salvation those who are willing. He was also "in ecstasy" when he learned that the one he was persecuting, and thought dead, was in heaven. And since not only the blessed Paul but the rest of the chorus of the apostles too instructs believers in divine things, the prophetic word rightly mentioned them as well: "Rulers of Judah, their leaders; rulers of Zebulun, rulers of Naphtali." For the rest of the apostles traced their descent from these tribes. Those called the Lord's brothers surely had the tribe of Judah as their source. Peter, Andrew, James, John, and Philip happened to be from the village of Bethsaida. Matthew and James are recorded as living in Capernaum. Simon the Zealot was named the Canaanite. All these are places of Galilee, and Zebulun and Naphtali had that allotment. Of this there are two witnesses, one a prophet and the other an evangelist, one foretelling and the other bearing witness. They say: "Land of Zebulun and land of Naphtali, and the rest who inhabit the coast and beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations: the people sitting in darkness saw a great light."

Ps 68:27 (67:28 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Phil 3:5 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:8 (allusion, medium confidence) · Acts 7:58 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 9:4 (allusion, high confidence) · John 1:44 (allusion, high confidence) · Mark 2:1 (allusion, low confidence) · Luke 6:15 (allusion, medium confidence) · Isa 9:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 9:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 4:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 4:16 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:27: Benjamin the younger is Paul, and the rulers of Judah, Zebulun, and Naphtali are the other apostles, from Judah and Galilee.

The quotation combines Isa 9:1-2 and Matt 4:15-16.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated word (OCR); stray letter (OCR)): κατὰὶ δὲ τὸν Θεοδοτίωνα → κατὰ δὲ τὸν Θεοδοτίωνα; νεανίαν αὐτὸν ὁ ἡ τῶν → νεανίαν αὐτὸν ἡ τῶν; μαθὼν ἐν ὁ οὐρανοῖς → μαθὼν ἐν οὐρανοῖς; οὐ μόνον ὁ ὁ μακάριος → οὐ μόνον ὁ μακάριος; ἡγεμόνες αὐτῶν αὐτῶν → ἡγεμόνες αὐτῶν.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.28 (PG 80 80:1393; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.29PG 80 80:1393

« "Ἔντειλαι, ὁ Θεὸς, τῇ δυνάμει σου δυνάμωσον, ὁ Θεὸς, τοῦτο ὃ κατειργάσω ἐν ἡμῖν. ᾿Απὸ τοῦ ναοῦ σου ἐπὶ Ἱερουσαλήμ. Ο δε Σύμμαχος οὕτως · Πρόσταξον, ὁ Θεὸς, περὶ ἰσχύος σου· ἐνίσχυσον, ὁ Θεὸς, τοῦτο ὁ ἐποίησας ἡμῖν, διὰ τὸν ναόν σου τὸν ἐπάνω τῆς Ἱερουσαλήμ. Βεβαίωσον, φησὶν, ἣν ἐδωρήσω, Δέσποτα, χάριν, διὰ τὸν ναὸν σου, ὃν ἐξ ἡμῶν ἀνείληφας · ὃν ἐκάθισας ἐπάνω πάσης ἀρχῆς, καὶ ἐξουσίας, καὶ δυνάμεως, καὶ παντὸς ὀνόματος ὀνομαζομένου, οὐ μόνον ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῷ μέλλοντι. Ἱερουσαλήμ γὰρ τὴν ἄνω πόλιν καλεῖ, περὶ ἧς ὁ μακάριος Παῦλος λέγει • « Ἡ δὲ ἄνω Ἱερουσαλήμ ἐλευθέρα ἐστίν · ἥτις ἐστὶ μήτηρ πάντων ἡμῶν. » Αἰτοῦσι τοίνυν διὰ τὴν πρὸς τὸν ναὸν συγγένειαν, τὴν δεδομένην βεβαιωθῆναι χάριν· καὶ διὰ τὴν ἀπαρχὴν, τῆς παρασχεθείσης δωρεᾶς ἀπολαῦσαι τὸ φύραμα. Ἐντεῦθεν προλέγει καὶ τὴν τῶν βασιλέων μεταβολήν. « Σοὶ οἴσουσι βασιλεῖς δῶρα. » Τοῦ γὰρ διώκειν παυσάμενοι, τὸ πρέπον ὡς Θεῷ προσοίσουσι σέβας· καὶ ὥσπερ αὐτοὶ δασμὸν παρὰ τῶν ὑπηκόων λαμβάνουσιν, οὕτως αὐτοὶ, καθάπερ δοῦλοι καὶ ὑπήκοοι, δῶρά σοι προσκομιοῦσι. Καὶ τούτου μάρτυρες οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ θεωροῦντες τὴν τῆς προφητείας ἀλήθειαν.

« "Enteilai, ho Theos, tę̄ dynamei sou dynamōson, ho Theos, touto ho kateirgasō en hēmin. ᾿Apo tou naou sou epi Hierousalēm. O de Symmachos houtōs ; Prostaxon, ho Theos, peri ischyos sou; enischyson, ho Theos, touto ho epoiēsas hēmin, dia ton naon sou ton epanō tēs Hierousalēm. Bebaiōson, phēsin, hēn edōrēsō, Despota, charin, dia ton naon sou, hon ex hēmōn aneilēphas ; hon ekathisas epanō pasēs archēs, kai exousias, kai dynameōs, kai pantos onomatos onomazomenou, ou monon en tǭ aiōni toutǭ, alla kai en tǭ mellonti. Hierousalēm gar tēn anō polin kalei, peri hēs ho makarios Paulos legei • « Hē de anō Hierousalēm eleuthera estin ; hētis esti mētēr pantōn hēmōn. » Aitousi toinyn dia tēn pros ton naon syngeneian, tēn dedomenēn bebaiōthēnai charin; kai dia tēn aparchēn, tēs paraschetheisēs dōreas apolausai to phyrama. Enteuthen prolegei kai tēn tōn basileōn metabolēn. « Soi oisousi basileis dōra. » Tou gar diōkein pausamenoi, to prepon hōs Theǭ prosoisousi sebas; kai hōsper autoi dasmon para tōn hypēkoōn lambanousin, houtōs autoi, kathaper douloi kai hypēkooi, dōra soi proskomiousi. Kai toutou martyres hoi ophthalmoi theōrountes tēn tēs prophēteias alētheian.

"Command, O God, your power; strengthen, O God, this which you have wrought in us. From your temple at Jerusalem." Symmachus has: "Give command, O God, concerning your strength; strengthen, O God, this which you did for us, because of your temple that is above Jerusalem." "Confirm, Master," he says, "the grace you gave, because of your temple, which you assumed from us, which you seated above every rule and authority and power and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in the one to come." For he calls the city above Jerusalem, about which the blessed Paul says, "But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all." They ask, then, because of their kinship with the temple, that the grace given be confirmed, and that because of the firstfruits the lump may enjoy the gift bestowed. From here he foretells the change of the kings as well: "To you kings will bring gifts." "For ceasing to persecute, they will offer you the reverence due to God; and just as they themselves receive tribute from their subjects, so they, as slaves and subjects, will bring gifts to you." And our eyes, which behold the truth of the prophecy, are witnesses of this.

Ps 68:28 (67:29 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 68:29 (67:30 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 1:21 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 11:16 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:28-29: believers ask God to confirm his grace because of the temple he assumed from them, the humanity of Christ seated above every power; kings will bring him gifts.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): καὶ διὰ ἐὲ τὴν ἀπαρχὴν → καὶ διὰ τὴν ἀπαρχὴν.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.29 (PG 80 80:1393; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.31PG 80 80:1395

« Ἐπιτίμησον τοῖς θηρίοις τοῦ καλάμου.» Ἔνια δὲ τῶν ἀντιγράφων δρυμοῦ ἔχει. Εἴτε δὲ δρυμός, εἴτε κάλαμος, ἡ ἀκαρπία διὰ τούτων σημαίνεται. Ταῦτα δὲ οἰκητήριον ἔχει τὰ ἀνοητὰ θηρία, ἃ καὶ διὰ τῆς θείας ἐπικλήσεως ὁ Προφήτης [ ἡμᾶς] ἐξελαύνειν ἐδίδαξεν. « Ἡ συναγωγή τῶν ταύρων ἐν ταῖς δαμάλεσι τῶν λαῶν, τοῦ ἐγκλεισθῆναι τοὺς δεδοκιμασμένους τῷ ἀργυρίῳ. » Ταύρους καλεῖ τὴν τῶν Ἰουδαίων πληθὺν, διὰ τὴν συνήθη θρασύτητα· δαμάλεις δὲ λαῶν τοὺς ἐξ ἐθνῶν πεπιστευκότας ὠνόμασε, διὰ τὸ νέον τῆς κλήσεως. Προλέγει τοίνυν ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος, τὰς ἐν ἀρχῇ τοῦ κηρύγματος κατὰ τῶν εὐσεβῶν γεγενημένας τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐπαναστάσεις. Τοῦτο δὲ, φησὶ, δρῶσιν, ἐκκλεῖσαι αὐτοὺς βουλόμενοι, καὶ τῆς δεδομένης εὐκληρίας στερῆσαι· οἴ τινες δίκην άργυρίου πυρωθέντες, ἀπεφάνθησαν δόκιμοι. Τοῦτο περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ ὁ μακάριος ἔφη Παῦλος· « Ζηλοῦσιν ὑμᾶς οὐ καλῶς· ἀλλ᾽ ἐκκλεῖσαι ὑμᾶς θέλουσιν . » Ἐπειδὴ δὲ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ἦσαν οἱ ἀντιλέγοντες, καὶ παντοδαπὰς ἁγίων σφαγὰς ἐργαζόμενοι, εἰκότως καὶ περὶ τούτων φησί· « Διασκόρπισον ἔθνη τὰ τοὺς πολέμους θέλοντα. » Οὕτω περὶ τῶν ἀντιλεγόντων θεσπίσας, μεταφέρει τὸν λόγον εἰς τοὺς πιστεύσαντας.

« Epitimēson tois thēriois tou kalamou.» Enia de tōn antigraphōn drymou echei. Eite de drymos, eite kalamos, hē akarpia dia toutōn sēmainetai. Tauta de oikētērion echei ta anoēta thēria, ha kai dia tēs theias epiklēseōs ho Prophētēs [ hēmas] exelaunein edidaxen. « Hē synagōgē tōn taurōn en tais damalesi tōn laōn, tou enkleisthēnai tous dedokimasmenous tǭ argyriǭ. » Taurous kalei tēn tōn Ioudaiōn plēthyn, dia tēn synēthē thrasytēta; damaleis de laōn tous ex ethnōn pepisteukotas ōnomase, dia to neon tēs klēseōs. Prolegei toinyn ho prophētikos logos, tas en archę̄ tou kērygmatos kata tōn eusebōn gegenēmenas tōn Ioudaiōn epanastaseis. Touto de, phēsi, drōsin, ekkleisai autous boulomenoi, kai tēs dedomenēs euklērias sterēsai; oi tines dikēn argyriou pyrōthentes, apephanthēsan dokimoi. Touto peri autōn kai ho makarios ephē Paulos; « Zēlousin hymas ou kalōs; all᾽ ekkleisai hymas thelousin . » Epeidē de kai en tois ethnesin ēsan hoi antilegontes, kai pantodapas hagiōn sphagas ergazomenoi, eikotōs kai peri toutōn phēsi; « Diaskorpison ethnē ta tous polemous thelonta. » Houtō peri tōn antilegontōn thespisas, metapherei ton logon eis tous pisteusantas.

"Rebuke the beasts of the reed." Some copies have "of the thicket." Whether thicket or reed, barrenness is meant by these. The irrational beasts have them as their dwelling, which the prophet taught [us] to drive out by calling on God. "The gathering of the bulls among the heifers of the peoples, to shut out those tested with silver." He calls the multitude of the Jews "bulls" because of their usual boldness; and he named those who believed from the nations "heifers of the peoples" because of the newness of their calling. So the prophetic word foretells the uprisings of the Jews against the pious at the beginning of the preaching. "They do this," he says, "wishing to shut them out and deprive them of the good fortune given them; but they, refined by fire like silver, were shown to be tested." The blessed Paul too said this about them: "They are zealous for you not rightly, but they want to shut you out." And since among the nations too there were those who spoke against it and carried out slaughters of the saints of every kind, he rightly says about them as well: "Scatter the nations that want wars." Having foretold this about those who speak against it, he moves the word to those who believed.

Ps 68:30 (67:31 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:17 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:30: the bulls are the Jews who opposed the first believers from the nations, tested like silver; God will scatter the warlike nations who persecuted the saints.

The bracketed "us" is bracketed in Migne.
The identification of the bulls with the Jews is Theodoret's; translated as written.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): τὰς φιαν ἐν ἀρχῇ → τὰς ἐν ἀρχῇ.

Topics: Persecution

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.31 (PG 80 80:1395; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-31). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.32PG 80 80:1397

« Ἥξουσι πρέσβεις ἐξ Αἰγύπτου. » Τῆς Αἰγύπτου δὲ προτέρας ἐμνημόνευσεν, ὡς τῆς ἀσεβείας ἀναδησαμένης πάλαι τὸ κράτος. Μέμνηται δὲ αὐτῶν καὶ ἡ τῶν Πράξεων ἱστορία, διηγουμένη τοὺς συνειλεγμένους κατὰ τὴν τῆς Πεντηκοστῆς ἡμέραν, ἐν ᾗ τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ἐπεφοίτησεν ἡ χάρις. « Αἰθιοπία προφθάσει χεῖρα αὐτῆς τῷ Θεῷ. » Τέλους καὶ τοῦτο τετύχηκε. Καὶ μάρτυς ὁ εὐνοῦχος Κανδάκης τῆς βασιλίσσης τῶν Αἰθιόπων, ὃν ὁ Φίλιππος πρὸς τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐποδήγησεν. Εἶτα πάσης τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰς βασιλείας καλεῖ.

« Hēxousi presbeis ex Aigyptou. » Tēs Aigyptou de proteras emnēmoneusen, hōs tēs asebeias anadēsamenēs palai to kratos. Memnētai de autōn kai hē tōn Praxeōn historia, diēgoumenē tous syneilegmenous kata tēn tēs Pentēkostēs hēmeran, en hę̄ tou panagiou Pneumatos tois apostolois epephoitēsen hē charis. « Aithiopia prophthasei cheira autēs tǭ Theǭ. » Telous kai touto tetychēke. Kai martys ho eunouchos Kandakēs tēs basilissēs tōn Aithiopōn, hon ho Philippos pros tēn alētheian epodēgēsen. Eita pasēs tēs oikoumenēs tas basileias kalei.

"Ambassadors will come from Egypt." He mentioned Egypt first because of old it had won the crown of impiety. The history of the Acts also mentions them, recounting those gathered on the day of Pentecost, on which the grace of the all-holy Spirit came upon the apostles. "Ethiopia will stretch out her hand first to God." This too has been fulfilled; and the eunuch of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, whom Philip guided to the truth, is witness. Then he calls the kingdoms of the whole world.

Ps 68:31 (67:32 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 2:10 (allusion, high confidence) · Acts 8:27 (allusion, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:31: Egypt and Ethiopia's turning to God was fulfilled at Pentecost and in the Ethiopian eunuch.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): πρέσβεις δι ἐξ Αἰγύπτου → πρέσβεις ἐξ Αἰγύπτου.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.32 (PG 80 80:1397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-32). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.33PG 80 80:1397

« Αἱ βασιλεῖαι τῆς γῆς, ᾄσατε τῷ Θεῷ· ψάλατε τῷ Κυρίῳ. » ῎Απαντες, φησὶν, οἱ κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην, δέξασθε τῆς θεογνωσίας τὸ φῶς · καὶ τὴν ὑπὲρ τῆς εὐσεβείας προσενέγκατε ὑμνῳδίαν .

« Hai basileiai tēs gēs, ąsate tǭ Theǭ; psalate tǭ Kyriǭ. » ᾿Apantes, phēsin, hoi kata tēn oikoumenēn, dexasthe tēs theognōsias to phōs ; kai tēn hyper tēs eusebeias prosenenkate hymnǭdian .

"Kingdoms of the earth, sing to God; sing psalms to the Lord." "All you throughout the world," he says, "receive the light of the knowledge of God, and offer hymnody for piety."

Ps 68:32 (67:33 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:32: all the kingdoms of the world are called to praise God.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.33 (PG 80 80:1397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-33). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.34PG 80 80:1397

« Τῷ ἐπιβεβηκότι δὲ ἐπὶ τὸν οὐρανὸν τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατὰ ἀνατολάς. » Ὁ γὰρ Δεσπότης Χριστὸς οὐ μόνον εἰς τὸν ὁρώμενον οὐρανὸν ἀνελήλυθεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ εἰς τὸν ὑπέρτερον, καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἐν δεξιᾷ τῆς μεγαλωσύνης, ἐν ὑψηλῷ ὑπερώῳ · τῆς οἰκείας ἀνατολῆς, τὰς ἀκτῖνας πᾶσι καταπέμπων ἀνθρώποις. » Ἰδοὺ δώσει τῇ φωνῇ αὐτοῦ φωνὴν δυνάμεως. • Σημαίνει δὲ διὰ τούτων, τὴν μετὰ τὴν ἀνάληψιν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν γενομένην τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος ἐπιφοίτησιν. Δύναμιν γὰρ ταύτην καὶ ὁ Κύριος προσηγόρευσε. «Μείνατε γὰρ, φησὶν, ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, ἕως ἂν ἐνδύσησθε δύναμιν ἐξ ὕψους. • Ταύτης δὲ τῆς φωνῆς καὶ ὁ μακάριος μέμνηται Λουκᾶς λέγων • • Εγένετο δὲ φωνὴ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, ὥσπερ φερομένης πνοῆς βιαίας, καὶ ἐπλήρωσε τὸν οἶκον, οὗ ἦσαν καθήμενοι. »

« Tǭ epibebēkoti de epi ton ouranon tou ouranou kata anatolas. » Ho gar Despotēs Christos ou monon eis ton horōmenon ouranon anelēlythen, alla kai eis ton hyperteron, kai ekathisen en dexią tēs megalōsynēs, en hypsēlǭ hyperōǭ ; tēs oikeias anatolēs, tas aktinas pasi katapempōn anthrōpois. » Idou dōsei tę̄ phōnę̄ autou phōnēn dynameōs. • Sēmainei de dia toutōn, tēn meta tēn analēpsin tou Sōtēros hēmōn genomenēn tou panagiou Pneumatos epiphoitēsin. Dynamin gar tautēn kai ho Kyrios prosēgoreuse. «Meinate gar, phēsin, en tę̄ polei tautę̄, heōs an endysēsthe dynamin ex hypsous. • Tautēs de tēs phōnēs kai ho makarios memnētai Loukas legōn • • Egeneto de phōnē ek tou ouranou, hōsper pheromenēs pnoēs biaias, kai eplērōse ton oikon, hou ēsan kathēmenoi. »

"To him who rides upon the heaven of heaven toward the east." For Christ the Lord went up not only into the visible heaven but also into the one above it, and sat at the right hand of the majesty on high, sending down the rays of his own dawning upon all people. "Behold, he will give to his voice a voice of power." By these words he indicates the coming of the all-holy Spirit that took place after the ascension of our Savior. For the Lord too named it power: "Stay in this city," he says, "until you are clothed with power from on high." And the blessed Luke mentions this voice too, saying, "There came a sound from heaven like a violent rushing wind, and it filled the house where they were sitting."

Ps 68:33 (67:34 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 1:3 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 24:49 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 2:2 (quotation, high confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:33: Christ ascended above the heavens, and the voice of power is the coming of the Spirit at Pentecost.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (split word and stray letters (OCR); stray word (OCR)): Χρι στὸς σε οὐ → Χριστὸς οὐ; ἕως ἂν δὲ ἐνδύσησθε → ἕως ἂν ἐνδύσησθε.

Topics: Christology

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.34 (PG 80 80:1397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-34). (abbreviation not yet checked)

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67.35PG 80 80:1397

« Δότε δόξαν τῷ Θεῷ. » Ἔοικε τοῦτο τῇ τοῦ Ἀποστόλου νομοθεσίᾳ. • Δοξάσατε γὰρ, φησὶ, τὸν Θεὸν ἐν τῷ σώματι ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐν τῷ πνεύματι ὑμῶν, ἅτινά ἐστιν αὐτοῦ. » Τοὺς γὰρ τοσούτων ἀπολαύοντας δίκαιον διὰ πάντων τὸν εὐεργέτην δοξάζειν. « Ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ ἡ μεγαλοπρέπεια αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἡ δύναμις αὐτοῦ ἐν ταῖς νεφέλαις. » Ἐξ Ἰσραὴλ γὰρ τὸ γένος κατάγοντες οἱ ἱεροὶ ἀπόστολοι, τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ μεγαλουργίαν δι' ὧν εἰργάζοντο θαυμάτων ὑπέδειξαν· καὶ οἱ μετ᾿ ἐκείνους δὲ τὸ διδασκαλικὸν δεξάμενοι χάρισμα, καθάπερ τινὲς νεφέλαι ἐκ τῆς τοῦ παναγίου Πνεύματος θαλάττης τὸν ὑετὸν ἀνιμώμεναι, τὴν ἀρδείαν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις προσφέρουσι.

« Dote doxan tǭ Theǭ. » Eoike touto tę̄ tou Apostolou nomothesią. • Doxasate gar, phēsi, ton Theon en tǭ sōmati hymōn, kai en tǭ pneumati hymōn, hatina estin autou. » Tous gar tosoutōn apolauontas dikaion dia pantōn ton euergetēn doxazein. « Epi ton Israēl hē megaloprepeia autou; kai hē dynamis autou en tais nephelais. » Ex Israēl gar to genos katagontes hoi hieroi apostoloi, tēn tou Theou megalourgian di' hōn eirgazonto thaumatōn hypedeixan; kai hoi met᾿ ekeinous de to didaskalikon dexamenoi charisma, kathaper tines nephelai ek tēs tou panagiou Pneumatos thalattēs ton hyeton animōmenai, tēn ardeian tois anthrōpois prospherousi.

"Give glory to God." This is like the apostle's command: "For glorify God," he says, "in your body and in your spirit, which are his." For it is right that those who enjoy such great things glorify their benefactor in every way. "His majesty is over Israel, and his power is in the clouds." For the holy apostles, who traced their descent from Israel, showed God's mighty works by the miracles they performed; and those after them who received the gift of teaching, like clouds drawing up rain from the sea of the all-holy Spirit, bring watering to men.

Ps 68:34 (67:35 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 6:20 (quotation, high confidence)

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Summary: Psalm 68:34: God's majesty was shown through the apostles of Israel, and the teachers after them are clouds that rain the Spirit's teaching.

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.35 (PG 80 80:1397; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-35). (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.

67.36PG 80 80:1399

« Θαυμαστὸς ὁ Θεὸς ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις αὐτοῦ. » Καὶ ἄλλοι δὲ, φησὶν, ἅπαντες τῆς ἀρετῆς ἐρασταὶ τὸν Θεὸν ὑμνεῖσθαι παρασκευάζουσι, κατὰ τὴν τοῦ Κυρίου φωνὴν τὴν λέγουσαν· « Λαμψάτω τὸ φῶς ὑμῶν ἔμπροσθεν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, ὅπως ἴδωσι τὰ καλὰ ἔργα ὑμῶν, καὶ δοξάσωσι τὸν Πατέρα ὑμῶν, τὸν ἐν οὐρανοῖς. Ὁ Θεὸς Ἰσραὴλ αὐτὸς δώσει δύναμιν καὶ κραταίωσιν τῷ λαῷ αὐτοῦ. » Οὐχ ἁπλῶς δὲ ἐνταῦθα τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἐμνημόνευσεν· ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ δείσας ὁ Ἰακὼβ τὸν Ἠσαῦ, εἶτα τῆς θείας ἐπιφανείας ἀξιωθεὶς, ἀνερῥώσθη, καὶ τὸ δέος τῆς διανοίας ἐξέβαλε. Διδάσκει δὲ ἡμᾶς ὁ λόγος, ὅτι ὁ ἑκεῖνον ἰσχυρὸν ἀποφήνας, καὶ κρείττονα δείξας τῶν δυσμενῶν, αὐτὸς τὸν νέον αὐτοῦ κραταιώσει λαὸν, καὶ ἄμαχον ἐργάσεται καὶ ἀήτητον. « Εὐλογητὸς ὁ Θεός. » [ ᾿Αλλ᾿ ἀκούων, φιλομαθέστατε, Θεὸν καὶ Θεὸν πολλάκις εἰρημένον καὶ Κύριον καὶ Σωτῆρα, μὴ ἄλλον ὑπολάβῃς. Οὐδὲ γάρ ἐστιν, οὐκ ἔστιν εἰ μὴ μόνος Πατὴρ καὶ Υἱὸς καὶ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα· ἀλλ᾽ οὐ τριθεῖᾳ, ἄπαγε · ὡς πολλάκις ἡμῖν εἴρηται. Τὸ γὰρ Θεὺς ὄνομα καὶ τὸ Κύριος καὶ τὸ Βασιλεὺς καὶ τὸ Δημιουργὸς καὶ τὸ Παντοκράτωρ, καὶ ὅσα τοιαῦτα, ἐπὶ τῆς ἀδιαιρέτου λαμβάνεται Τριάδος.] Αρμόδιον τῷ ψαλμῷ τὸ τέλος "". Ἔδει γὰρ τῶν τοσούτων ἀγαθῶν τὴν διήγησιν ὕμνῳ θείῳ συμπερανθῆναι.

« Thaumastos ho Theos en tois hagiois autou. » Kai alloi de, phēsin, hapantes tēs aretēs erastai ton Theon hymneisthai paraskeuazousi, kata tēn tou Kyriou phōnēn tēn legousan; « Lampsatō to phōs hymōn emprosthen tōn anthrōpōn, hopōs idōsi ta kala erga hymōn, kai doxasōsi ton Patera hymōn, ton en ouranois. Ho Theos Israēl autos dōsei dynamin kai krataiōsin tǭ laǭ autou. » Ouch haplōs de entautha tou Israēl emnēmoneusen; all᾽ epeidē deisas ho Iakōb ton Ēsau, eita tēs theias epiphaneias axiōtheis, anerrhōsthē, kai to deos tēs dianoias exebale. Didaskei de hēmas ho logos, hoti ho hekeinon ischyron apophēnas, kai kreittona deixas tōn dysmenōn, autos ton neon autou krataiōsei laon, kai amachon ergasetai kai aētēton. « Eulogētos ho Theos. » [ ᾿All᾿ akouōn, philomathestate, Theon kai Theon pollakis eirēmenon kai Kyrion kai Sōtēra, mē allon hypolabę̄s. Oude gar estin, ouk estin ei mē monos Patēr kai Huios kai hagion Pneuma; all᾽ ou tritheią, apage ; hōs pollakis hēmin eirētai. To gar Theus onoma kai to Kyrios kai to Basileus kai to Dēmiourgos kai to Pantokratōr, kai hosa toiauta, epi tēs adiairetou lambanetai Triados.] Armodion tǭ psalmǭ to telos "". Edei gar tōn tosoutōn agathōn tēn diēgēsin hymnǭ theiǭ symperanthēnai.

"God is wonderful in his saints." "And all other lovers of virtue too," he says, "cause God to be hymned," according to the Lord's saying, "Let your light shine before men, so that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven." "The God of Israel himself will give power and strength to his people." He did not mention Israel here idly, but because Jacob, having feared Esau, was then counted worthy of a divine appearance, was strengthened, and cast out the fear from his mind. The word teaches us that he who made that man strong and showed him stronger than his enemies will himself strengthen his new people and make it invincible and unconquered. "Blessed be God." [But when you hear, most studious reader, "God" and "God" said many times, and "Lord" and "Savior," do not suppose another. For there is not, there is not, except only Father and Son and Holy Spirit; yet not a tritheism, far from it, as we have often said. For the name "God" and "Lord" and "King" and "Creator" and "Almighty," and all such, are taken of the undivided Trinity.] The ending suits the psalm; for the account of such great good things had to be concluded with a divine hymn.

Ps 68:35 (67:36 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:16 (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 32:7 (allusion, medium confidence) · Gen 32:28 (allusion, medium confidence)

Notes and citation

Summary: Psalm 68:35: God is glorified through his saints; as he strengthened Jacob he will strengthen his new people; an addition explains the divine names as belonging to the undivided Trinity.

The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena.

Notes on the original text

Digital text corrected (repeated word (OCR); split word (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): αὐ τοῦ. » → αὐτοῦ. »; αὐτὸς τὸ τὸν νέον → αὐτὸς τὸν νέον; τὴν διήγησιν ( ὕμνῳ → τὴν διήγησιν ὕμνῳ.

Topics: Trinity

Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 67.36 (PG 80 80:1399; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/67-36). (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.