Interpretation of the Psalms 84.1–86.7
Greek text: PG 80.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 84
84.1PG 80 80:1545
« Εἰς τὸ τέλος, Τοῖς υἱοῖς Κορὲ ψαλμός. » Καὶ τὴν σκιὰν κατὰ ταυτὸν καὶ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ὁ ψαλμὸς προθεσπίζει. Ἐσκιαγράφησε γὰρ ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς τοῖς κατὰ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ πάντων ἀνθρώπων τὴν σωτηρίαν. Καὶ γὰρ ἐκείνους ἠλευθέρωσε, ποτὲ μὲν τῆς Αἰγυπτίων, ποτὲ δὲ τῆς Βαβυλωνίων δουλείας. Καὶ πάντων ἀνθρώπων τὴν φύσιν ἐῤῥύσατο τῆς ἐπικρατούσης διαβόλου τυραννίδος καὶ φθορᾶς. Προλέγει τοίνυν ὁ ψαλμὸς, τὴν τε Ἰουδαίων ἐκ Βαβυλῶνος ἐπάνοδον, καὶ τῆς οἰκουμένης ἀπάσης τὴν σωτηρίαν.
« Eis to telos, Tois huiois Kore psalmos. » Kai tēn skian kata tauton kai tēn alētheian ho psalmos prothespizei. Eskiagraphēse gar ho tōn holōn Theos tois kata ton Israēl pantōn anthrōpōn tēn sōtērian. Kai gar ekeinous ēleutherōse, pote men tēs Aigyptiōn, pote de tēs Babylōniōn douleias. Kai pantōn anthrōpōn tēn physin errhysato tēs epikratousēs diabolou tyrannidos kai phthoras. Prolegei toinyn ho psalmos, tēn te Ioudaiōn ek Babylōnos epanodon, kai tēs oikoumenēs apasēs tēn sōtērian.
"To the end; for the sons of Korah, a psalm." The psalm foretells at the same time both the shadow and the truth. For the God of all sketched in shadow, in the events of Israel, the salvation of all people. For he freed them now from slavery to the Egyptians, now from slavery to the Babylonians; and he rescued the nature of all men from the prevailing tyranny of the devil and from corruption. So the psalm foretells both the return of the Jews from Babylon and the salvation of the whole world.
Ps 85:1 (84:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85, title: Israel's deliverances are a shadow of the salvation of all mankind from the devil, which the psalm also foretells.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.1 (PG 80 80:1545; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-1). (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.
84.2PG 80 80:1545
« Εὐδόκησας, Κύριε, τὴν γῆν σου. » Εὐδοκῆσαί ἐστι τὸ ἀγαθόν τι θελῆσαι. Ἐπειδὴ τοίνυν καὶ τῆς Ἰουδαίας διὰ τὴν τῶν οἰκητόρων παρανομίαν ἐρημίαν κατεψηφίσατο · [καὶ τῷ ᾿Ἀδὰμ μετὰ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τιμωρίαν ἐπήγαγε τῆς γῆς ἀρὰν. • ᾿Ακάνθας γὰρ, ἔφη, καὶ τριβόλους ἀνατελεῖ σοι ·] τὴν τῶν λυπηρῶν ἀποβολὴν διὰ τῆς εὐδοκίας ὁ προφητικὸς παρεδήλωσε λόγος, [καὶ τῆς φύσεως ἀπάσης τὴν ἀνανέωσιν.] • ᾿Απέστρεψας τὴν αἰχμαλωσίαν Ἰακώβ. ᾿Αφῆκας τὰς ἀνομίας τῷ λαῷ σου, ἐκάλυψας πάσας τὰς ἁμαρτίας αὐτῶν. » Ἔλυσας τὰ λυπηρὰ τῆς δουλείας δεσμὰ, καὶ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἐδωρήσω τοῖς αἰχμαλώτοις, τὰ πεπλημμελημένα παριδεῖν ἐθελήσας· ὅτι δὲ καὶ πᾶσα τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἡ φύσις αἰχμάλωτος ἦν, καὶ παρὰ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν Θεοῦ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ἐδέξατο, μάρτυς αὐτὸς διὰ Ἡσαΐου βοῶν · • Πνεῦμα Κυρίου ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ, οὗ ἕνεκεν ἔχρισέ με, εὐαγγελίσασθαι πτωχοῖς ἀπέσταλκέ με, ἱάσασθαι τοὺς συντετριμμένους τὴν καρδίαν, κηρύξαι αἰχμαλώτοις ἄφεσιν, καὶ τυφλοῖς ἀνάβλεψιν. » Ταύτην γὰρ ἐν τῇ Συναγωγῇ τὴν προφητείαν ἀναγνοὺς ὁ Δεσπότης ἔφη πρὸς Ἰουδαίους· « Σήμερον ἡ γραφὴ αὕτη ἐπληρώθη ἐν τοῖς ὠσὶν ὑμῶν.
« Eudokēsas, Kyrie, tēn gēn sou. » Eudokēsai esti to agathon ti thelēsai. Epeidē toinyn kai tēs Ioudaias dia tēn tōn oikētorōn paranomian erēmian katepsēphisato ; [kai tǭ ᾿Adam meta tēn hamartian timōrian epēgage tēs gēs aran. • ᾿Akanthas gar, ephē, kai tribolous anatelei soi ;] tēn tōn lypērōn apobolēn dia tēs eudokias ho prophētikos paredēlōse logos, [kai tēs physeōs apasēs tēn ananeōsin.] • ᾿Apestrepsas tēn aichmalōsian Iakōb. ᾿Aphēkas tas anomias tǭ laǭ sou, ekalypsas pasas tas hamartias autōn. » Elysas ta lypēra tēs douleias desma, kai tēn eleutherian edōrēsō tois aichmalōtois, ta peplēmmelēmena paridein ethelēsas; hoti de kai pasa tōn anthrōpōn hē physis aichmalōtos ēn, kai para tou Sōtēros hēmōn Theou tēn eleutherian edexato, martys autos dia Hēsaïou boōn ; • Pneuma Kyriou ep᾿ eme, hou heneken echrise me, euangelisasthai ptōchois apestalke me, hiasasthai tous syntetrimmenous tēn kardian, kēryxai aichmalōtois aphesin, kai typhlois anablepsin. » Tautēn gar en tę̄ Synagōgę̄ tēn prophēteian anagnous ho Despotēs ephē pros Ioudaious; « Sēmeron hē graphē hautē eplērōthē en tois ōsin hymōn.
"You have been pleased, Lord, with your land." To be pleased is to will something good. Since he decreed desolation for Judea because of the lawlessness of its inhabitants, [and brought on Adam after the sin the punishment of the curse of the earth: "For thorns and thistles," he said, "it will bring forth for you";] the prophetic word indicated by "being pleased" the removal of the sorrows, [and the renewal of all nature.] "You turned back the captivity of Jacob. You forgave the iniquities of your people; you covered all their sins." "You loosed the grievous bonds of slavery and gave freedom to the captives, choosing to overlook their offenses." And that the whole nature of mankind was captive and received freedom from our Savior God, he himself is witness, crying through Isaiah: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me; he has sent me to preach good news to the poor, to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind." For the Master, having read this prophecy in the synagogue, said to the Jews, "Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your ears."
Ps 85:1 (84:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 85:2 (84:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Gen 3:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 61:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 4:18 (allusion, high confidence) · Luke 4:21 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:1-2: God's favor ended the exile and forgave Israel's sins, and also freed all mankind, as Christ announced from Isaiah in the synagogue.
- The bracketed passages are bracketed in Migne (opening brackets supplied), probably additions from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR accent slip; opening bracket lost in the OCR; split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): Εὐδοκῆσαἱ ἐστι → Εὐδοκῆσαί ἐστι; καὶ τῷ ᾿Ἀδὰμ μετὰ → [καὶ τῷ ᾿Ἀδὰμ μετὰ; καὶ τῆς φύσεως ἀπάσης τὴν ἀνανέωσιν.] → [καὶ τῆς φύσεως ἀπάσης τὴν ἀνανέωσιν.]; τὰ λυπηρά " τῆς → τὰ λυπηρὰ τῆς; ἐθε λήσας → ἐθελήσας; μάρτυς τὸ αὐτὸς → μάρτυς αὐτὸς; ἡ γρα φὴ → ἡ γραφὴ.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.2 (PG 80 80:1545; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-2). (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.
84.4PG 80 80:1547
Κατέπαυσας πᾶσαν τὴν ὀργὴν σου ἀπέστρεψας ἀπὸ ὀργῆς θυμοῦ σου. » Ἔλυσας τὴν καθ' ἡμῶν ἀγανάκτησιν, καὶ τὴν εὐμένειαν ἔδειξας. « Ἐπίστρεψον ἡμᾶς, ὁ Θεὸς, τῶν σωτηρίων ἡμῶν· καὶ ἀπόστρεψον τὸν θυμόν σου ἀφ᾿ ἡμῶν.» Ἐοίκασι καὶ οὗτοι κἀκεῖνοι τὰ μὲν εὐαγγέλια τῆς ἐλευθερίας δεδέχθαι, μηδέπω δὲ ταύτης τετυχηκέναι · οὗ δὴ χάριν ἀντιβολοῦσι τελείως τυχεῖν τῆς φιλανθρωπίας.
Katepausas pasan tēn orgēn sou apestrepsas apo orgēs thymou sou. » Elysas tēn kath' hēmōn aganaktēsin, kai tēn eumeneian edeixas. « Epistrepson hēmas, ho Theos, tōn sōtēriōn hēmōn; kai apostrepson ton thymon sou aph᾿ hēmōn.» Eoikasi kai houtoi kakeinoi ta men euangelia tēs eleutherias dedechthai, mēdepō de tautēs tetychēkenai ; hou dē charin antibolousi teleiōs tychein tēs philanthrōpias.
"You made all your anger cease; you turned from the anger of your wrath." "You ended your indignation against us and showed favor." "Turn us, O God of our salvation, and turn away your wrath from us." Both these and those seem to have received the good news of freedom but not yet to have obtained it; for this reason they beg to obtain love for humankind completely.
Ps 85:3 (84:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 85:4 (84:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:3-4: God has ended his anger; the people ask him to complete their restoration.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray word (OCR); verse number leaked into the text (OCR)): ἔδειξας. ε'ε Ἐπίστρεψον → ἔδειξας. « Ἐπίστρεψον; καὶ δὲ ἀπόστρεψον → καὶ ἀπόστρεψον.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.4 (PG 80 80:1547; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-4). (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.
84.6PG 80 80:1547
« Μὴ εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ὀργισθῇς ἡμῖν, ἢ διατενεῖς τὴν ὀργὴν σου ἀπὸ γενεᾶς εἰς γενεάν. » Πρέπει καὶ τοῖς ἀπαλλαγεῖσι τῶν συμφορῶν τούτοις κεχρῆσθαι τοῖς ῥήμασι, καὶ μὴ θαῤῥεῖν τῇ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἀφέσει, ἀλλὰ δεδιέναι καὶ τὸν κριτὴν ἐκμειλίσσεσθαι. Ικετεύουσι τοίνυν καὶ οὗτοι, μὴ ἐπιταθῆναι τὴν αὐτὴν ὀργὴν ὥστε εἰς ἑτέραν γενεὰν διαρκέσαι, ἀλλὰ λυθῆναι ταχέως. «Ὁ Θεὸς, σὺ ἐπιστρέψας ζωώσεις ἡμᾶς, καὶ ὁ λαός σου εὐφρανθήσεται ἐπὶ σοί. » Ἴσμεν σου, Δέσποτα, τὸ φιλάνθρωπον, καὶ πεποίθαμεν, ὅτι σὺ καὶ τὴν ἐπάνοδον παρέξεις, καὶ τὴν ζωήν· ἡμεῖς δὲ τούτων ἀπολαύσαντες, μετ᾿ εὐφροσύνης σοι τὸν ὕμνον προσοίσομεν.
« Mē eis tous aiōnas orgisthę̄s hēmin, ē diateneis tēn orgēn sou apo geneas eis genean. » Prepei kai tois apallageisi tōn symphorōn toutois kechrēsthai tois rhēmasi, kai mē tharrhein tę̄ tōn hamartēmatōn aphesei, alla dedienai kai ton kritēn ekmeilissesthai. Iketeuousi toinyn kai houtoi, mē epitathēnai tēn autēn orgēn hōste eis heteran genean diarkesai, alla lythēnai tacheōs. «Ho Theos, sy epistrepsas zōōseis hēmas, kai ho laos sou euphranthēsetai epi soi. » Ismen sou, Despota, to philanthrōpon, kai pepoithamen, hoti sy kai tēn epanodon parexeis, kai tēn zōēn; hēmeis de toutōn apolausantes, met᾿ euphrosynēs soi ton hymnon prosoisomen.
"Will you be angry with us forever, or stretch out your anger from generation to generation?" It befits even those freed from misfortunes to use these words, and not to be confident in the forgiveness of sins, but to fear and to propitiate the judge. So these too beg that the same anger not be prolonged so as to last into another generation, but be quickly ended. "O God, you will turn and give us life, and your people will rejoice in you." "We know your love for humankind, Master, and trust that you will grant both the return and life; and having enjoyed these, we will offer you the hymn with gladness."
Ps 85:5 (84:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 85:6 (84:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:5-6: even the forgiven should fear and pray that God's anger not last, trusting him to give them life.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR); verse number and stray letters (OCR)): Πρέ πει → Πρέπει; καὶ μὴ ετ θαῤῥεῖν → καὶ μὴ θαῤῥεῖν; ταχέως. ζ΄ «Ὁ Θεὸς, σὺ οἱ ἐπιστρέψας → ταχέως. «Ὁ Θεὸς, σὺ ἐπιστρέψας.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.6 (PG 80 80:1547; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.8PG 80 80:1547
«Δεῖξον ἡμῖν, Κύριε, τὸ ἔλεός σου· καὶ τὸ σωτήριόν σου δῴης ἡμῖν. » Κύρου τοῦ Περσῶν βασιλεύσαντος κατὰ τὴν Ἡσαΐου προφητείαν δεδωκότος τῆς ἐπανόδου τὴν ἐξουσίαν, ἐπείγονται τὴν ἐνεγκοῦσαν καταλαβεῖν. Διὰ δὴ τοῦτο τὸν Θεὸν ἱκετεύουσι, ταχεῖαν αὐτοῖς διὰ φιλανθρωπίας παρασχεῖν σωτηρίαν. Τάχιστα, φησὶν, ὦ Δέσποτα, τὴν σὴν ἡμῖν ἀγαθότητα δεῖξον, καὶ τύχωμεν τῆς σωτηρίας, καὶ τῆς ἐντεῦθεν ἀπαλλαγῆς. Οὕτω τὴν ἱκετείαν ὁ Προφήτης ὡς ἐξ ἐκείνων προσενεγκών, δέχεται τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν ἀπόκρισιν, καὶ φησί ·
«Deixon hēmin, Kyrie, to eleos sou; kai to sōtērion sou dǭēs hēmin. » Kyrou tou Persōn basileusantos kata tēn Hēsaïou prophēteian dedōkotos tēs epanodou tēn exousian, epeigontai tēn enenkousan katalabein. Dia dē touto ton Theon hiketeuousi, tacheian autois dia philanthrōpias paraschein sōtērian. Tachista, phēsin, ō Despota, tēn sēn hēmin agathotēta deixon, kai tychōmen tēs sōtērias, kai tēs enteuthen apallagēs. Houtō tēn hiketeian ho Prophētēs hōs ex ekeinōn prosenenkōn, dechetai tou Theou tēn apokrisin, kai phēsi ;
"Show us your mercy, Lord, and grant us your salvation." When Cyrus became king of the Persians and, according to Isaiah's prophecy, gave permission for the return, they hasten to reach their homeland. For this reason they beg God to give them speedy salvation through love for humankind. "Show us your goodness quickly, Master, and let us obtain salvation and release from here." Having thus offered the supplication as from them, the prophet receives God's answer and says:
Ps 85:7 (84:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 44:28 (allusion, high confidence) · Ezra 1:1 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:7: after Cyrus permitted the return, the exiles ask God for speedy deliverance.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray word (OCR)): Τάχιστα, φησὶν δὲ, ὦ → Τάχιστα, φησὶν, ὦ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.8 (PG 80 80:1547; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.9PG 80 80:1549
« Ακούσομαι τί λαλήσει ἐν ἑμοὶ Κύριος ὁ Θεός· ὅτι λαλήσει εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ὁσίους αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐπιστρέφοντας καρδίαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν. » "Ηκουσε, φησὶ, τῆς ἱκετείας ὁ φιλάνθρωπος Δεσπότης, καὶ τῆς εἰρήνης τὴν ψῆφον ἐξήνεγκε, καὶ δεδώρηται ταύτην τοῖς μεταμελείᾳ χρησαμένοις, καὶ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν νεύειν τὸν λογισμὸν ἐκπαιδεύσασιν. Ἡ γὰρ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν τῆς καρδίας ἐπιστροφή, τοῦ πταίειν ἀπαλλαγὴ, καὶ τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἀρχή. [ Εἴρηται δὲ καὶ ἐκ προσὡπου τοῦτο μὲν τῶν μακαρίων ἀποστόλων, τοῦτο δὲ καὶ τῶν πιστευόντων δι᾿ αὐτῶν τῷ Σωτῆρι. Καὶ φησίν · Ακούσομαι τί λαλήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς, ὅτι λαλήσει εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ, ἣν διὰ τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐχαρίσατο τοῖς τροφίμοις τῆς χάριτος. Τοῦτο γὰρ λέγει διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς · καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ὁσίους αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἐπιστρέφοντας τὴν καρδίαν ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν. Καὶ πότε ταύτην ἐδωρήσατο; Ὅτε ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους τῶν ἐλαιῶν ὁ ἁπανταχοῦ καὶ τοῦ πατρὸς ἀχώριστος ἀνελαμβάνετο, ὅθεν καὶ καταβάς. • Εἰρήνην τὴν ἐμὴν δίδωμι ὑμῖν, εἰρήνην τὴν ἐμὴν ἀφίημι ὑμῖν. » Αὕτη γὰρ τῆς δικαιοσύνης ἡ ἀρχή.] Τούτοις καὶ τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα συμφωνεί.
« Akousomai ti lalēsei en hemoi Kyrios ho Theos; hoti lalēsei eirēnēn epi ton laon autou; kai epi tous hosious autou; kai epi tous epistrephontas kardian ep᾿ auton. » "Ēkouse, phēsi, tēs hiketeias ho philanthrōpos Despotēs, kai tēs eirēnēs tēn psēphon exēnenke, kai dedōrētai tautēn tois metameleią chrēsamenois, kai pros ton Theon neuein ton logismon ekpaideusasin. Hē gar pros ton Theon tēs kardias epistrophē, tou ptaiein apallagē, kai tēs dikaiosynēs archē. [ Eirētai de kai ek prosōpou touto men tōn makariōn apostolōn, touto de kai tōn pisteuontōn di᾿ autōn tǭ Sōtēri. Kai phēsin ; Akousomai ti lalēsei en emoi Kyrios ho Theos, hoti lalēsei eirēnēn epi ton laon autou, hēn dia tōn apostolōn echarisato tois trophimois tēs charitos. Touto gar legei dia tōn hexēs ; kai epi tous hosious autou kai epi tous epistrephontas tēn kardian ep᾿ auton. Kai pote tautēn edōrēsato? Hote ek tou orous tōn elaiōn ho hapantachou kai tou patros achōristos anelambaneto, hothen kai katabas. • Eirēnēn tēn emēn didōmi hymin, eirēnēn tēn emēn aphiēmi hymin. » Hautē gar tēs dikaiosynēs hē archē.] Toutois kai ta epipheromena symphōnei.
"I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me; for he will speak peace to his people and to his holy ones and to those who turn their heart to him." "The Master who loves humankind," he says, "heard the supplication and brought out the verdict of peace, and gave it to those who repented and trained their thinking to incline toward God." For turning the heart toward God is release from stumbling and the beginning of righteousness. [This is also said in the person, now of the blessed apostles, now of those who through them believe in the Savior. And he says: "I will hear what the Lord God will speak in me, for he will speak peace to his people," which he granted through the apostles to the nurslings of grace. For he says this through what follows: "and to his holy ones and to those who turn their heart to him." And when did he give this? When from the Mount of Olives he, who is everywhere and inseparable from the Father, was taken up, from where he had also come down: "My peace I give you, my peace I leave you." For this is the beginning of righteousness.] What follows agrees with these words.
Ps 85:8 (84:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · John 14:27 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 1:12 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:8: God speaks peace to those who turn their hearts to him; an addition applies it to Christ's gift of peace to the apostles.
- The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): ἐξήνεγκε ", καὶ → ἐξήνεγκε, καὶ; τοῦ πταίειν ὁ ἀπαλλαγὴ → τοῦ πταίειν ἀπαλλαγὴ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.9 (PG 80 80:1549; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.10PG 80 80:1549
« Πλὴν ἐγγὺς τῶν φοβουμένων αὐτὸν τὸ σωτήριον αὐτοῦ · τοῦ κατασκηνῶσαι δόξαν ἐν τῇ γῇ ἡμῶν. » Πελάζει γὰρ τοῖς τὸν Θεὸν φοβουμένοις ἡ σωτηρία, καὶ ταύτης ἀπολαύουσιν οἱ τοὺς θείους πληροῦν προαιρούμενοι νόμους. Ἡ τοιαύτη μεταβολὴ καὶ ἡμῖν κεχάρισται τὴν ἐπάνοδον, ἣν μετ᾿ εὐκλείας ποιησόμεθα, καὶ τὴν προτέραν τῆς πατρίδος ὀψόμεθα περιφάνειαν
« Plēn engys tōn phoboumenōn auton to sōtērion autou ; tou kataskēnōsai doxan en tę̄ gę̄ hēmōn. » Pelazei gar tois ton Theon phoboumenois hē sōtēria, kai tautēs apolauousin hoi tous theious plēroun proairoumenoi nomous. Hē toiautē metabolē kai hēmin kecharistai tēn epanodon, hēn met᾿ eukleias poiēsometha, kai tēn proteran tēs patridos opsometha periphaneian
"But his salvation is near those who fear him, that glory may dwell in our land." "For salvation draws near to those who fear God, and those who choose to fulfill the divine laws enjoy it. Such a change has granted us too the return, which we shall make with honor, and we shall see the former splendor of our homeland."
Ps 85:9 (84:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:9: salvation is near those who fear God, and the exiles will see their homeland's glory again.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter (OCR)): τὸν Θεὸν ὁ φοβουμένοις → τὸν Θεὸν φοβουμένοις; ποιησόμεθα, δ, καὶ → ποιησόμεθα, καὶ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.10 (PG 80 80:1549; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.11PG 80 80:1549
« Ἔλεος καὶ ἀλήθεια συνήντησαν, δικαιοσύνη καὶ εἰρήνη κατεφίλησαν. » Ἁμαρτάνουσι μὲν, καὶ μεταμελείᾳ χρωμένοις, χορηγοῦσι τὸν ἔλεον οἱ τῆς φιλανθρωπίας κρουνοὶ, τοῖς δὲ τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἀσπαζομένοις ἐπικλύζουσι τοῦ ἐλέου τὰ νάματα. Διὰ τοῦτο ἔφη, « Ἔλεος καὶ ἀλήθεια συνήντησαν. » Ἰουδαῖοι μὲν γὰρ, καὶ πᾶσα των ἀνθρώπων ἡ φύσις, προσενηνόχασι τῷ Θεῷ τὴν τῆς ἀληθείας ἐπίγνωσιν· ἀντέδωκε δὲ τὸν ἔλεον ὁ φιλάνθρωπος. Οὕτω πάλιν τὴν δικαιοσύνην τούτων προσενεγκάντων, τὴν εἰρήνην αὐτοῖς ἐδωρήσατο, καὶ τὰς καταλλαγὰς ἐχαρίσατο, καὶ κατέλυσε τὴν προτέραν δυσμένειαν. Καὶ προσέδραμεν, ἡ μὲν εἰρήνη τῇ δικαιοσύνῃ, τῇ δὲ ἀληθείᾳ ὁ ἔλεος. [Θεωρεῖτε δὲ τὸ, « Ἕλεος καὶ ἀλήθεια συνήντησαν.» Ὁ γὰρ ἐλεήμων ὁ φέρων τὰ πάντα ἐφέρετο ὑπὸ τῆς παρθένου καὶ μητρός · καὶ ὁ δικαιος Ἰωάννης ἐσκίρτα ἐν τῇ μήτρᾳ τῆς Ἐλισάβετ. Ἥ γ᾽ οὖν φέρουσα τὴν δικαιοσύνην, τουτέστι τὸν Ἰωάννην, κατεφίλει τὴν φέρουσαν τὴν εἰρήνην. « Αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστιν, ὥς φησιν ὁ ᾿Απόστολος, ἡ εἰρήνη ἡμῶν, ὁ ποιήσας τὰ ἀμφότερα ἕν. » ] Καὶ τοῦτο σαφέστερον διὰ τῶν ἐπιφερομένων ἐδήλωσε.
« Eleos kai alētheia synēntēsan, dikaiosynē kai eirēnē katephilēsan. » Hamartanousi men, kai metameleią chrōmenois, chorēgousi ton eleon hoi tēs philanthrōpias krounoi, tois de tēn alētheian aspazomenois epiklyzousi tou eleou ta namata. Dia touto ephē, « Eleos kai alētheia synēntēsan. » Ioudaioi men gar, kai pasa tōn anthrōpōn hē physis, prosenēnochasi tǭ Theǭ tēn tēs alētheias epignōsin; antedōke de ton eleon ho philanthrōpos. Houtō palin tēn dikaiosynēn toutōn prosenenkantōn, tēn eirēnēn autois edōrēsato, kai tas katallagas echarisato, kai katelyse tēn proteran dysmeneian. Kai prosedramen, hē men eirēnē tę̄ dikaiosynę̄, tę̄ de alētheią ho eleos. [Theōreite de to, « Heleos kai alētheia synēntēsan.» Ho gar eleēmōn ho pherōn ta panta ephereto hypo tēs parthenou kai mētros ; kai ho dikaios Iōannēs eskirta en tę̄ mētrą tēs Elisabet. Hē g᾽ oun pherousa tēn dikaiosynēn, toutesti ton Iōannēn, katephilei tēn pherousan tēn eirēnēn. « Autos gar estin, hōs phēsin ho ᾿Apostolos, hē eirēnē hēmōn, ho poiēsas ta amphotera hen. » ] Kai touto saphesteron dia tōn epipheromenōn edēlōse.
"Mercy and truth met; righteousness and peace kissed." The springs of love for humankind supply mercy to those who sin and repent, and they flood those who embrace the truth with the streams of mercy. This is why he said, "Mercy and truth met." For the Jews, and the whole nature of men, offered God the knowledge of the truth, and the one who loves humankind gave mercy in return. So again, when they offered righteousness, he granted them peace, gave reconciliation, and ended the former enmity. And peace ran to righteousness, and mercy to truth. [Consider "Mercy and truth met." For the Merciful One, who carries all things, was carried by the virgin mother; and the righteous John leapt in the womb of Elizabeth. So she who carried righteousness, that is, John, kissed her who carried peace. "For he is," as the apostle says, "our peace, who made both one."] He showed this more clearly through what follows.
Ps 85:10 (84:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 1:41 (allusion, high confidence) · Eph 2:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:10: God's mercy met human truth and his peace answered righteousness; an addition sees the meeting of Mary and Elizabeth, carrying Christ and John.
- The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena. A fragment displaced to the end of this section by the OCR is restored to 84.12.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (fragment of 84.12 displaced here by the OCR, restored there; opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray letter (OCR)): τοῖς δὲ ο τὴν ἀλήθειαν → τοῖς δὲ τὴν ἀλήθειαν; Θεωρεῖτε δὲ τὸ → [Θεωρεῖτε δὲ τὸ; γ' οὖν ἀνέτειλεν ἡ ὄντως ἀλήθεια.] « Καὶ δικαιοσύνη → .
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.11 (PG 80 80:1549; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.12PG 80 80:1551
« ᾿Αλήθεια ἐκ τῆς γῆς ἀνέτειλε · › [Καὶ μυριάκις ἐστὶ καθαρὰ ἡ Θεοτόκος· ἀλλ᾽ ὅμως ἐκ τοῦ ᾿Ἀδὰμ, ἐκ τοῦ ᾿Αβραὰμ, ἐκ τοῦ Δαβὶδ, ἐξ αὐτῆς γ' οὖν ἀνέτειλεν ἡ ὄντως ἀλήθεια.] « Καὶ δικαιοσύνη ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ διέκυψεν. » [Ἡ δικαία ἐπὶ τὸν μονογενῆ Υἱὸν τοῦ Πατρὸς μαρτυρία · ἡ φάσκουσα, • Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητὸς, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα. »] Ασπασαμένων γὰρ τὴν ἀλήθειαν τῶν ἀνθρώπων, τούτων δικαίαν ἐποιήσατο πρόνοιαν ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς, καὶ τὸν διάβολον τῆς τυραννίδος ἐξέβαλεν, καὶ τοῦ θανάτου τὰ κέντρα συνέτριψε. Τοῦτο γὰρ λέγει διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς ·
« ᾿Alētheia ek tēs gēs aneteile ; › [Kai myriakis esti kathara hē Theotokos; all᾽ homōs ek tou ᾿Adam, ek tou ᾿Abraam, ek tou Dabid, ex autēs g' oun aneteilen hē ontōs alētheia.] « Kai dikaiosynē ek tou ouranou diekypsen. » [Hē dikaia epi ton monogenē Huion tou Patros martyria ; hē phaskousa, • Houtos estin ho Huios mou ho agapētos, en hǭ eudokēsa. »] Aspasamenōn gar tēn alētheian tōn anthrōpōn, toutōn dikaian epoiēsato pronoian ho tōn holōn Theos, kai ton diabolon tēs tyrannidos exebalen, kai tou thanatou ta kentra synetripse. Touto gar legei dia tōn hexēs ;
"Truth sprang up from the earth." [And the Theotokos is pure ten thousand times; yet she is from Adam, from Abraham, from David, and from her the true Truth sprang up.] "And righteousness looked down from heaven." [The righteous testimony to the only-begotten Son of the Father, which says, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased."] For when men embraced the truth, the God of all took righteous providence for them, cast the devil out of his tyranny, and broke the stings of death. For he says this through what follows.
Ps 85:11 (84:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 3:17 (quotation, high confidence) · 1 Cor 15:55 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:11: truth from the earth and righteousness from heaven; additions apply it to Christ born of the Virgin and to the Father's witness at his baptism.
- The bracketed passages are bracketed in Migne (opening brackets supplied), probably additions from the catena. Part of this section was displaced by the OCR to the end of 84.11 and is restored.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR slip; closing bracket lost in the OCR; duplicated letter (OCR); fragment displaced into 84.11 by the OCR, restored; opening bracket lost; opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray bracket (OCR)): Καὶ μυριάκις ἐστὶ → [Καὶ μυριάκις ἐστὶ; ἐκ τοῦ ᾿ΑἈβραὰμ → ἐκ τοῦ ᾿Αβραὰμ; ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ διέκυψεν. » Ἡ δικαία → ἐξ αὐτῆς γ' οὖν ἀνέτειλεν ἡ ὄντως ἀλήθεια.] « Καὶ δικαιοσύνη ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ διέκυψεν. » [Ἡ δικαία; μαρτυρία · ἡ φάσκουσα, • Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητὸς, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα. » → μαρτυρία · ἡ φάσκουσα, • Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητὸς, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα. »]; τῆς τυραννίδος ἐξα έβαλεν → τῆς τυραννίδος ἐξέβαλεν; διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς ·] → διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς ·.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.12 (PG 80 80:1551; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.13PG 80 80:1551
« Καὶ γὰρ ὁ Κύριος δώσει χρηστότητα · καὶ ἡ γῆ ἡμῶν δώσει τὸν καρπὸν αὐτῆς.» Τῇ αὐτῇ πάλιν ἐχρήσατο συζυγίᾳ · ἔφη γὰρ, τὸν μὲν Θεὸν οἴκτῳ καὶ φιλανθρωπίᾳ χρήσασθαι, αὐτοὺς δὲ τῷ Θεῷ τὸν προσφυᾶ προσοίσειν καρπόν. Οὐ γὰρ εὐετηρίαν διὰ τούτων ἐδήλωσεν, ἀλλὰ τὴν καρπογονίαν τῆς ἀρετῆς.
« Kai gar ho Kyrios dōsei chrēstotēta ; kai hē gē hēmōn dōsei ton karpon autēs.» Tę̄ autę̄ palin echrēsato syzygią ; ephē gar, ton men Theon oiktǭ kai philanthrōpią chrēsasthai, autous de tǭ Theǭ ton prosphya prosoisein karpon. Ou gar euetērian dia toutōn edēlōsen, alla tēn karpogonian tēs aretēs.
"For indeed the Lord will give goodness, and our land will yield its fruit." Again he used the same pairing; for he said that God would use compassion and love for humankind, and they would offer God the fruit that suits. For by these words he did not show a good harvest, but the fruitfulness of virtue.
Ps 85:12 (84:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:12: God gives goodness and the people yield the fruit of virtue.
- A fragment of a quotation displaced here by the OCR is restored to 84.14.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (fragment of the John quotation displaced here by the OCR, restored to 84.14): μου ἐρχόμενος ἔμπροσθέν μου γέγονεν, ὅτι πρῶτός → .
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.13 (PG 80 80:1551; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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84.14PG 80 80:1551
« Δικαιοσύνη ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ προπορεύσεται.» [Ὁ Ἰωάννης δηλαδή. Περὶ γὰρ τούτου ᾿Αμβακοὺμ ὁ προφήτης φησὶ, «Πρὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, λέγων, πορεύσεται λόγος, καὶ ἐξελεύσεται εἰς παιδείαν κατὰ πόδας αὐτοῦ. » Ὁμοίως καὶ Ζαχαρίας πρὸς τὸν ἑαυτοῦ παῖδα · « Καὶ σὺ, παιδίον, προφήτης Ὑψίστου κληθήσῃ· προπορεύσῃ γὰρ πρὸ προσώπου Κυρίου ἑτοιμάζων ὁδοὺς αὐτῷ. » Καλῶς οὖν ἔχει ὁ προφητικὸς νοῦς (περὶ τοῦ Ἰωάννου ἔφη, « Δικαιοσύνη ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ προπορεύσεται καὶ θήσει εἰς ὁδὸν τὰ διαβήματα αὐτοῦ, ὁ ἀντὶ τοῦ, Κύριος εἶ ὁ ἐνανθρωπήσας Θεὸς Λόγος ) τῶν ἀμφοτέρων τὴν πρόῤῥησιν. Ἰωάννου γάρ ἐστι φωνὴ τὸ « Ὁ ὀπίσω μου ἐρχόμενος ἔμπροσθέν μου γέγονεν, ὅτι πρῶτός μου ἦν. » » Καὶ ἵνα συνελὼν εἴπω, « Ἴδε ὁ ἀμνὸς τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ αἴρων τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου.»] « Καὶ θήσει εἰς ὁδὸν τὰ διαβήματα αὐτοῦ. » Τὸ τέλος μάλιστα τοῦ ψαλμοῦ διδάσκει ἡμᾶς σαφῶς, ὡς τὴν κοινὴν πάντων ἀνθρώπων προλέγει σωτηρίαν ἡ προκειμένη προφητεία. Λέγει γὰρ, ὅτι δικαιοσύνῃ χρώμενος ὁ Δεσπότης, οἷόν τις ξεναγὸς τῆς ἡμετέρας ἡγεῖται πορείας, τρίβων τῆς ἀρετῆς τὴν ὁδὸν, καὶ τοῖς οἰκείοις ἴχνεσι δήλην ταύτην ἡμῖν ἐργαζόμενος. Βεβαιοῖ δὲ τὸν λόγον αὐτὸς ὁ Δεσπότης, νῦν μὲν πρὸς τὸν Ἰωάννην, « ῎Αφες ἄρτι· οὕτω γὰρ δεῖ πληρωθῆναι πᾶσαν δικαιοσύνην · · νῦν δὲ πρὸς τοὺς οἰκείους μαθητὰς · · Μάθετε ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ, ὅτι πρᾷός εἰμι, καὶ ταπεινὸς τῇ καρδίᾳ, καὶ εὐρήσετε ἀνάπαυσιν ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν. » "Αλλοτε δὲ νίψας αὐτῶν τοὺς πόδας, μεθ᾽ ἕτερα καὶ ταῦτα ἔφη « Ἐγὼ ὁ Κύριος καὶ ὁ διδάσκαλος ἔνιψα ὑμῶν τοὺς πόδας · ὑπόδειγμα γὰρ ἔδωκα ὑμῖν, ἵνα καθὼς ποιῶ, καὶ ὑμεῖς ποιῆτε. » Αὐτὸς τοίνυν πρότερος ὧδευσεν τὴν τῆς δικαιοσύνης ὁδὸν, καὶ μετέβαλε τὰ σκολιὰ εἰς εὐθεῖαν, καὶ τὴν τραχεῖαν εἰς ὁδοὺς λείας, καὶ γέγονεν ἡμῖν ὁδὸς, ᾗ φησὶν αὐτὸς ὁ Δεσπότης • Ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ὁδὸς, καὶ ἡ ἀλήθεια καὶ ἡ ζωή · οὐδεὶς ἔρχεται πρὸς τὸν Πατέρα, εἰ μὴ δι' ἐμοῦ. ›
« Dikaiosynē enōpion autou proporeusetai.» [Ho Iōannēs dēladē. Peri gar toutou ᾿Ambakoum ho prophētēs phēsi, «Pro prosōpou autou, legōn, poreusetai logos, kai exeleusetai eis paideian kata podas autou. » Homoiōs kai Zacharias pros ton heautou paida ; « Kai sy, paidion, prophētēs Hypsistou klēthēsę̄; proporeusę̄ gar pro prosōpou Kyriou hetoimazōn hodous autǭ. » Kalōs oun echei ho prophētikos nous (peri tou Iōannou ephē, « Dikaiosynē enōpion autou proporeusetai kai thēsei eis hodon ta diabēmata autou, ho anti tou, Kyrios ei ho enanthrōpēsas Theos Logos ) tōn amphoterōn tēn prorrhēsin. Iōannou gar esti phōnē to « Ho opisō mou erchomenos emprosthen mou gegonen, hoti prōtos mou ēn. » » Kai hina synelōn eipō, « Ide ho amnos tou Theou ho airōn tēn hamartian tou kosmou.»] « Kai thēsei eis hodon ta diabēmata autou. » To telos malista tou psalmou didaskei hēmas saphōs, hōs tēn koinēn pantōn anthrōpōn prolegei sōtērian hē prokeimenē prophēteia. Legei gar, hoti dikaiosynę̄ chrōmenos ho Despotēs, hoion tis xenagos tēs hēmeteras hēgeitai poreias, tribōn tēs aretēs tēn hodon, kai tois oikeiois ichnesi dēlēn tautēn hēmin ergazomenos. Bebaioi de ton logon autos ho Despotēs, nyn men pros ton Iōannēn, « ᾿Aphes arti; houtō gar dei plērōthēnai pasan dikaiosynēn ; ; nyn de pros tous oikeious mathētas ; ; Mathete ap᾿ emou, hoti prąos eimi, kai tapeinos tę̄ kardią, kai eurēsete anapausin tais psychais hymōn. » "Allote de nipsas autōn tous podas, meth᾽ hetera kai tauta ephē « Egō ho Kyrios kai ho didaskalos enipsa hymōn tous podas ; hypodeigma gar edōka hymin, hina kathōs poiō, kai hymeis poiēte. » Autos toinyn proteros hōdeusen tēn tēs dikaiosynēs hodon, kai metebale ta skolia eis eutheian, kai tēn tracheian eis hodous leias, kai gegonen hēmin hodos, hę̄ phēsin autos ho Despotēs • Egō eimi hē hodos, kai hē alētheia kai hē zōē ; oudeis erchetai pros ton Patera, ei mē di' emou. ›
"Righteousness will go before him." [That is, John. For about him the prophet Habakkuk says, "Before his face," he says, "a word will go, and it will go out for instruction at his feet." Likewise Zechariah to his own child: "And you, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways." So the prophetic mind did well to say about John, "Righteousness will go before him and will set his steps on the way" (that is, "You are Lord, God the Word made man"), the prediction about both. For John's is the saying, "He who comes after me has become before me, because he was before me"; and, to put it briefly, "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world."] "And will set his steps on the way." The end of the psalm especially teaches us clearly that the present prophecy foretells the common salvation of all people. For it says that the Master, using righteousness, leads our journey like a guide, treading the road of virtue and making it plain to us by his own footprints. The Master himself confirms the word, now to John: "Let it be so now; for thus it is fitting to fulfill all righteousness"; now to his own disciples: "Learn from me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls." At another time, having washed their feet, he said among other things, "I, the Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet; for I have given you an example, that as I do, you also should do." He himself, then, first walked the road of righteousness, made the crooked straight and the rough into smooth roads, and became our way, as the Master himself says: "I am the way and the truth and the life; no one comes to the Father except through me."
Ps 85:13 (84:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Hab 3:5 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 1:76 (quotation, high confidence) · John 1:15 (quotation, high confidence) · John 1:29 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 3:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 11:29 (quotation, high confidence) · John 13:14 (quotation, high confidence) · John 13:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 3:5 (allusion, medium confidence) · John 14:6 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 85:13: Christ leads the way of righteousness by his own example (an addition makes the righteousness that goes before him John the Baptist).
- The bracketed passage is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena. Habakkuk is cited in the Septuagint form (Hab 3:5). Part of the John quotation, displaced by the OCR into 84.13, is restored.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (duplicated letters (OCR); joined words (OCR); opening bracket lost in the OCR; split word (OCR); split word and letter slip (OCR); words displaced into 84.13 by the OCR, restored): προπορεύσε ται → προπορεύσεται; Ὁ Ἰωάννης δηλαδή → [Ὁ Ἰωάννης δηλαδή; τὴν ἀμαρτίαντοῦ κόσμου.»]« → τὴν ἁμαρτίαν τοῦ κόσμου.»] «; ὑ ὑμῖν, , ἵνα καθὡς → ὑμῖν, ἵνα καθὼς; μετ- έβαλε τὰ σκυλιὰ → μετέβαλε τὰ σκολιὰ; ἡ ἀλή θεια → ἡ ἀλήθεια; φωνὴ τὸ Ὁ ὀπίσω μου ἦν. → φωνὴ τὸ « Ὁ ὀπίσω μου ἐρχόμενος ἔμπροσθέν μου γέγονεν, ὅτι πρῶτός μου ἦν. ».
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 84.14 (PG 80 80:1551; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/84-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 85
85.1PG 80 80:1553
• Προσευχὴ τῷ Δαβίδ. » Ὁ μὲν μακάριος Δαβίδ, κατὰ τὴν ἐπιγραφήν, προσενήνοχε τὴν προσευχὴν τῷ Δεσπότη Θεῷ, ἐπικουρίας τινὸς ἀπολαῦσαι δεόμενος. Προθεσπίζει δὲ καὶ τὴν τῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων τὴν κατὰ τῆς Ἱερουσαλήμ προσβολὴν, καὶ τοῦ Εζεκίου δὲ τὴν πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν ἐλπίδα. Προαγορεύει δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἁπάντων τὴν κλῆσιν, καὶ σωτηρίαν « Κλίνον, Κύριε, τὸ οὖς σου, καὶ ἐπάκουσόν μου, ὅτι πτωχὸς καὶ πένης εἰμὶ ἐγώ. » Ταπεινοῦ φρονήματος τῆς προσευχῆς τὸ προοίμιον. Τῆς γὰρ δικαιοσύνης ἄμφω κεκτημένοι τὸν πλοῦτον, καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος Δαβίδ, καὶ ὁ θαυμάσιος Εζεκίας, τοῦτον μὲν οὐχ ἑώρων, εἰς δὲ τὴν τῆς φύσεως πενίαν ἀπέβλεπον, καὶ τὸν Θεὸν ἠντιβόλουν οἰκτεῖραι ταύτην πτωχείᾳ συνεζευγμένην. Τὸ δὲ, « Κλίνον, Κύριε, τὸ οὖς σου, » ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τέθεικεν ἀῤῥώστου τινὸς ὑπ' ἀσθενείας γεγωνότερον οὐ δυναμένου λαλεῖν, καὶ τὸν ἰατρὸν προσκλίνειν τῷ στόματι τὴν ἀκοὴν ἀναγκάζοντος.
• Proseuchē tǭ Dabid. » Ho men makarios Dabid, kata tēn epigraphēn, prosenēnoche tēn proseuchēn tǭ Despotē Theǭ, epikourias tinos apolausai deomenos. Prothespizei de kai tēn tōn ᾿Assyriōn tēn kata tēs Hierousalēm prosbolēn, kai tou Ezekiou de tēn pros ton Theon elpida. Proagoreuei de kai tōn ethnōn hapantōn tēn klēsin, kai sōtērian « Klinon, Kyrie, to ous sou, kai epakouson mou, hoti ptōchos kai penēs eimi egō. » Tapeinou phronēmatos tēs proseuchēs to prooimion. Tēs gar dikaiosynēs amphō kektēmenoi ton plouton, kai ho thespesios Dabid, kai ho thaumasios Ezekias, touton men ouch heōrōn, eis de tēn tēs physeōs penian apeblepon, kai ton Theon ēntiboloun oikteirai tautēn ptōcheią synezeugmenēn. To de, « Klinon, Kyrie, to ous sou, » ek metaphoras tetheiken arrhōstou tinos hyp' astheneias gegōnoteron ou dynamenou lalein, kai ton iatron prosklinein tǭ stomati tēn akoēn anankazontos.
"A prayer of David." According to the title, the blessed David offered the prayer to God the Master, asking to enjoy some help. It also foretells the Assyrians' attack on Jerusalem and Hezekiah's hope in God, and it foretells the calling and salvation of all the nations. "Incline your ear, Lord, and hear me, for I am poor and needy." The opening of the prayer is of a humble mind. For though both the inspired David and the wonderful Hezekiah possessed the wealth of righteousness, they did not look at it, but at the poverty of their nature, and begged God to pity it, yoked as it was with poverty. He put "Incline your ear, Lord" as a figure taken from a sick man who from weakness cannot speak loudly and makes the doctor bend his ear to his mouth.
Ps 86:1 (85:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 18:13 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86, title and verse 1: David's prayer, which also foretells Hezekiah's plight and the nations' calling, opens humbly, confessing human poverty.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): ἐκ μεταφορᾶς δι τέθεικεν ἀῤῥώστου τινὸς δὲ ὑπ' ἀσθενείας δε γεγωνότερον δε οὐ → ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τέθεικεν ἀῤῥώστου τινὸς ὑπ' ἀσθενείας γεγωνότερον οὐ.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.1 (PG 80 80:1553; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.2PG 80 80:1553
« Φύλαξον τὴν ψυχήν μου, ὅτι ὅσιός εἰμι. » Οὐκ ἐναντία ὁ Προφήτης ἐφθέγξατο, πτωχὸν ὁμοῦ καὶ ὅσιον ὀνομάσας · ἀλλ᾽ ἐπειδὴ καὶ οὗτος κἀκεῖνος πολεμίους εἶχον ἀδίκους καὶ παρανόμους, οὐδὲν μὲν παρ᾿ αὐτῶν ἠδικημένους, ἀδίκου δὲ σφαγῆς ἐφιεμένους. Ὅσιον δὲ καὶ ἑαυτὸν καὶ τὸν Ἐζεκίαν ὠνόμασεν, οὐδεμίαν αἰτίαν δεδωκότας τοῖς πολεμίοις. Ὁ δὲ λέγει τοιοῦτόν ἐστι· Πτωχός εἰμι καὶ πένης κατ᾿ ἐμαυτὸν κρινόμενος, καὶ οὐδεμίαν ἀρετῆς ἔχω περιουσίαν · τοῖς μέντοι πολεμίοις παραβαλλόμενος, ὅσιος ἀποφανθήσομαι. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ δυσσεβεῖς καὶ παράνομοι· ἐγὼ δὲ τὴν σὴν ἐπίγνωσιν ἔχω· καὶ οἱ μὲν ἀδίκως ἐπίασιν· ἐγὼ δὲ τὴν ἄδικον προσδέχομαι προσβολήν. [ Ταῦτα δ᾽ ἂν εἴποι καὶ μέχρι τοῦ παρόντος καὶ παντὸς βίου ὁ παρὰ τὸ δοκοῦν αὐτῷ τῷ δικαίῳ πολεμούμενος ὑπὸ τῶν ἀδικεῖν ἐθελόντων. Καλῶς οὖν ἔχων διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς ἔφησε·] « Σῶσον τὸν δοῦλόν σου, ὁ Θεός μου, τὸν ἐλπίζοντα ἐπὶ σέ. · Ἐγὼ ἤλπισά σοι, Δέσποτα, σῶσον · δὸς τῇ ἐλπίδι τῆς σωτηρίας ἀντίδοσιν.
« Phylaxon tēn psychēn mou, hoti hosios eimi. » Ouk enantia ho Prophētēs ephthenxato, ptōchon homou kai hosion onomasas ; all᾽ epeidē kai houtos kakeinos polemious eichon adikous kai paranomous, ouden men par᾿ autōn ēdikēmenous, adikou de sphagēs ephiemenous. Hosion de kai heauton kai ton Ezekian ōnomasen, oudemian aitian dedōkotas tois polemiois. Ho de legei toiouton esti; Ptōchos eimi kai penēs kat᾿ emauton krinomenos, kai oudemian aretēs echō periousian ; tois mentoi polemiois paraballomenos, hosios apophanthēsomai. Hoi men gar dyssebeis kai paranomoi; egō de tēn sēn epignōsin echō; kai hoi men adikōs epiasin; egō de tēn adikon prosdechomai prosbolēn. [ Tauta d᾽ an eipoi kai mechri tou parontos kai pantos biou ho para to dokoun autǭ tǭ dikaiǭ polemoumenos hypo tōn adikein ethelontōn. Kalōs oun echōn dia tōn hexēs ephēse;] « Sōson ton doulon sou, ho Theos mou, ton elpizonta epi se. ; Egō ēlpisa soi, Despota, sōson ; dos tę̄ elpidi tēs sōtērias antidosin.
"Guard my soul, for I am holy." The prophet did not speak contradictorily in naming himself poor and holy at once. Both this man and that one had unjust and lawless enemies who had suffered no wrong from them but longed for an unjust slaughter. He named both himself and Hezekiah holy as having given the enemies no cause. What he means is this: "Judged by myself I am poor and needy and have no abundance of virtue; but compared with the enemies I shall be shown holy. For they are impious and lawless, while I have the knowledge of you; they attack unjustly, while I receive the unjust attack." [Anyone too, down to the present and through all of life, who is warred on by those who wish to do wrong, contrary to what seems right to the just man himself, could say this. So he did well to say through what follows:] "Save your servant, my God, who hopes in you." "I have hoped in you, Master; save me; give a reward of salvation to my hope."
Ps 86:2 (85:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:2: the psalmist is poor in virtue by himself but holy compared with his unjust enemies, and asks God to save him.
- 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)): Ὅσιον δὲ καὶ στ ἑαυτὸν → Ὅσιον δὲ καὶ ἑαυτὸν; δυσ σεβεῖς → δυσσεβεῖς; προσδέχομαι σε προσβολήν → προσδέχομαι προσβολήν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.2 (PG 80 80:1553; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.3PG 80 80:1555
«Ἐλέησόν με, Κύριε, ὅτι πρός σε κεκράξομαι ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν., Τὴν σὴν μοι, Δέσποτα, φιλανθρωπίαν παράσχου· διηνεκῶς γὰρ τὸν σὸν ἔλεον ἐπαγγέλλω . Τὸ γὰρ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ὁ Σύμμαχος καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν εἴρηκεν.
«Eleēson me, Kyrie, hoti pros se kekraxomai holēn tēn hēmeran., Tēn sēn moi, Despota, philanthrōpian paraschou; diēnekōs gar ton son eleon epangellō . To gar holēn tēn hēmeran ho Symmachos kath' hekastēn hēmeran eirēken.
"Have mercy on me, Lord, for I will cry to you all the day." "Grant me your love for humankind, Master; for I continually appeal to your mercy." For "all the day" Symmachus said "every day."
Ps 86:3 (85:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:3: the psalmist cries daily for God's mercy.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.3 (PG 80 80:1555; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.4PG 80 80:1555
« Εὔφρανον τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ δούλου σου · [Καὶ τίνος ἕνεκεν λέγει.] « Ὅτι πρὸς σὲ ἦρα τὴν ψυχήν μου. Λῦσον τὴν ἀθυμίαν τῷ τὴν σὴν δουλείαν ἀσπαζομένῳ, καὶ παράσχου θυμηδίαν ψυχῇ πρός σε νευούσῃ [καὶ τὸν σὸν ἔλεον προσμενούσῃ].
« Euphranon tēn psychēn tou doulou sou ; [Kai tinos heneken legei.] « Hoti pros se ēra tēn psychēn mou. Lyson tēn athymian tǭ tēn sēn douleian aspazomenǭ, kai paraschou thymēdian psychę̄ pros se neuousę̄ [kai ton son eleon prosmenousę̄].
"Gladden the soul of your servant." [And for what reason he says it:] "For to you I lifted up my soul." "End the despondency of one who embraces your service, and give gladness to a soul inclined toward you [and waiting for your mercy]."
Ps 86:4 (85:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:4: the psalmist asks God to gladden the soul lifted up to him.
- The bracketed words are bracketed in Migne (one opening bracket supplied), probably additions from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR): Καὶ τίνος ἕνεκεν λέγει.] → [Καὶ τίνος ἕνεκεν λέγει.].
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.4 (PG 80 80:1555; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.5PG 80 80:1555
«Ὅτι σὺ, Κύριε, χρηστὸς, καὶ ἐπιεικὴς, καὶ πολυέλεος πᾶσι τοῖς ἐπικαλουμένοις σε. • Πέφυκας ἀγαθὸς, καὶ φιλάνθρωπος, καὶ χορηγεῖς τοῖς δεομένοις τὰς τοῦ ἐλέου πηγάς. Τὸ δὲ ἐπιεικὴς ᾿Ακύλας καὶ Θεοδοτίων ἱλαστὴς εἰρήκασι. Καὶ ἡ ἐπιείκεια τοίνυν τὴν μακροθυμίαν αἰνίττεται.
«Hoti sy, Kyrie, chrēstos, kai epieikēs, kai polyeleos pasi tois epikaloumenois se. • Pephykas agathos, kai philanthrōpos, kai chorēgeis tois deomenois tas tou eleou pēgas. To de epieikēs ᾿Akylas kai Theodotiōn hilastēs eirēkasi. Kai hē epieikeia toinyn tēn makrothymian ainittetai.
"For you, Lord, are kind and gentle, and abundant in mercy to all who call upon you." "You are by nature good and loving to mankind, and you supply the springs of mercy to those who ask." For "gentle" Aquila and Theodotion said "propitiating"; and gentleness hints at long-suffering.
Ps 86:5 (85:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:5: God is good, gentle, and rich in mercy to all who call on him.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.5 (PG 80 80:1555; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.6PG 80 80:1555
« Ενώτισαι ὁ Θεὸς τὴν προσευχήν μου· καὶ πρόσχες τῇ φωνῇ τῆς δεήσεώς μου.» Τοσαύτῃ τε τοίνυν ἀγαθότητι χρώμενος, εὐμενῶς μου δέξαι τὴν δέησιν. [ Ὁμοῦ δὲ καὶ τὸν καιρὸν ἐσήμανε διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς, ἐν ᾧ ἠντιβόλει τὴν ἱκετείαν δεκτὴν γενέσθαι].
« Enōtisai ho Theos tēn proseuchēn mou; kai prosches tę̄ phōnę̄ tēs deēseōs mou.» Tosautę̄ te toinyn agathotēti chrōmenos, eumenōs mou dexai tēn deēsin. [ Homou de kai ton kairon esēmane dia tōn hexēs, en hǭ ēntibolei tēn hiketeian dektēn genesthai].
"Give ear, O God, to my prayer, and attend to the voice of my petition." "Using such goodness, then, receive my petition kindly." [At the same time he indicated through what follows the time in which he begged the supplication to be accepted.]
Ps 86:6 (85:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:6: the psalmist asks the good God to hear his prayer.
- The bracketed sentence is bracketed in Migne, probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): ὁ Θεὸς το τὴν προσευχήν μου· καὶ ῾῾ πρόσχες → ὁ Θεὸς τὴν προσευχήν μου· καὶ πρόσχες.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.6 (PG 80 80:1555; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 80 (Bavarian State Library OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
85.7PG 80 80:1555
«Ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θλίψεώς μου ἐκέκραξα πρὸς σὲ, ὅτι ἐπήκουσάς μου. » Πεῖραν ἔχων τῆς σῆς ἡμερότητος, προσφέρω τὴν ἱκετείαν· καὶ ἤδη γὰρ ἀντιβολήσαντί μοι τὴν αἴτησιν ἔδωκας.
«En hēmerą thlipseōs mou ekekraxa pros se, hoti epēkousas mou. » Peiran echōn tēs sēs hēmerotētos, prospherō tēn hiketeian; kai ēdē gar antibolēsanti moi tēn aitēsin edōkas.
"In the day of my affliction I cried to you, for you heard me." "Having experience of your gentleness, I offer the supplication; for already, when I begged, you granted the request."
Ps 86:7 (85:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:7: the psalmist prays confidently because God has answered him before.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): θλίψεώς μου το ἐκέκραξα → θλίψεώς μου ἐκέκραξα; Πεῖραν ἔχων " τῆς → Πεῖραν ἔχων τῆς.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.7 (PG 80 80:1555; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-7
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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.
85.8PG 80 80:1555
« Οὐκ ἔστιν ὅμοιός σοι ἐν θεοῖς, Κύριε, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι κατὰ τὰ ἔργα σου.» Ἐπειδὴ Ῥαψάκης ὁ δυσσεβὴς τοῖς ἀλαζονικοῖς ἐκείνοις ἐχρήσατο λόγοις· «Μὴ ἡδυνήθησαν οἱ θεοὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἕκαστος ῥύσασθαι τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χώραν ἐκ χειρός μου, ὅτι ῥύσεται Κύριος τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ ἐκ χειρός μου;» διδάσκει τοίνυν Ἐζεκίαν ἡ προφητεία βοᾷν • Οὐκ ἔστιν ὅμοιός σοι ἐν θεοῖς, Κύριε, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι κατὰ τὰ ἔργα σου.» Ἐκεῖνοι μὲν γὰρ πράγματος ἔρημον ἔχουσιν ὄνομα, καὶ τοῦτο συλήσαντες ἔλαβον· σὺ δὲ συμβαίνουσαν ἔχεις προσηγορίαν τῷ πράγματι. Μάλα γάρ προσφυῶς τὰ ἔργα τῇ θείᾳ προσηγορίᾳ συνέζευξεν · · Οὐκ ἔστιν ὅμοιός σοι ἐν θεοῖς, Κύριε, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι κατὰ τὰ ἔργα σου. » Οἱ μὲν γὰρ ἄψυχοι παντελῶς εἰσιν, οὐδὲ σφίσιν αὐτοῖς ἐπαμῦναι δυνάμενοι· ἡ δὲ σὴ μεγαλοπρέπεια τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων γλώττας νικᾷ.
« Ouk estin homoios soi en theois, Kyrie, kai ouk esti kata ta erga sou.» Epeidē Rhapsakēs ho dyssebēs tois alazonikois ekeinois echrēsato logois; «Mē hēdynēthēsan hoi theoi tōn ethnōn hekastos rhysasthai tēn heautou chōran ek cheiros mou, hoti rhysetai Kyrios tēn Hierousalēm ek cheiros mou?» didaskei toinyn Ezekian hē prophēteia boąn • Ouk estin homoios soi en theois, Kyrie, kai ouk esti kata ta erga sou.» Ekeinoi men gar pragmatos erēmon echousin onoma, kai touto sylēsantes elabon; sy de symbainousan echeis prosēgorian tǭ pragmati. Mala gar prosphyōs ta erga tę̄ theią prosēgorią synezeuxen ; ; Ouk estin homoios soi en theois, Kyrie, kai ouk esti kata ta erga sou. » Hoi men gar apsychoi pantelōs eisin, oude sphisin autois epamynai dynamenoi; hē de sē megaloprepeia tas tōn anthrōpōn glōttas niką.
"There is none like you among the gods, Lord, and there are no works like yours." Since the impious Rabshakeh used those boastful words, "Did the gods of the nations each rescue his own land from my hand, that the Lord should rescue Jerusalem from my hand?", the prophecy teaches Hezekiah to cry, "There is none like you among the gods, Lord, and there are no works like yours." "For they have a name empty of reality, and that they took by theft; but you have a title that agrees with the reality." He very fittingly joined the works to the divine title: "There is none like you among the gods, Lord, and there are no works like yours." "For they are wholly lifeless and cannot even defend themselves; but your majesty surpasses the tongues of men."
Ps 86:8 (85:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 18:35 (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 36:20 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:8: against Rabshakeh's boast, Hezekiah confesses that no god is like the Lord, whose works match his name.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR); stray word (OCR)): ἐκ χειρός δ' μου → ἐκ χειρός μου; καὶ τοῦτο δὲ συλήσαντες → καὶ τοῦτο συλήσαντες.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.8 (PG 80 80:1555; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-8
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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.
85.9PG 80 80:1557
« Πάντα τὰ ἔθνη ὅσα ἐποίησας ἥξουσι, καὶ προσκυνήσουσιν ἐνώπιόν σου, Κύριε. › Τοῦτο δὲ ἐπὶ μὲν τοῦ μακαρίου Δαβὶδ οὐδαμῶς γεγενῆσθαι μεμαθήκαμεν· ἐπὶ δὲ τοῦ Ἐζεκίου εἰκός τινας τὴν τῶν Ασσυρίων καταπλαγέντας ἀναίρεσιν τῷ Θεῷ προσδραμεῖν. Τὴν δὲ τῆς προφητείας ἀλήθειαν ἔδειξεν ὁ μετὰ τὴν ἐνανθρώπησιν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν καιρός· μετὰ γὰρ τὸ σωτήριον πάθος ἀπεστάλη μὲν εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν οἰκουμένην ὁ θεῖος τῶν ἀποστόλων χορός. Ἔφη γὰρ πρὸς αὐτοὺς ὁ Δεσπότης « Πορευθέντες μαθητεύσατε πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. · Ἐμαθήτευσαν δὲ ὡς προσετάχθησαν καὶ τὸ τῆς ἀγνοίας ἀποσκεδάσαντες νέφος, ἰδεῖν παρεσκεύασαν [· τοὺς πιστεύοντας] τῆς δικαιοσύνης τὸν Ἥλιον, καὶ τὸν σεσωκότα προσκυνῆσαι Θεόν. Τοῦτο καὶ τὰ ἐπιφερόμενα διδάσκει. • Καὶ δοξάσουσι τὸ ὄνομά σου. Ὅτι μέγας εἶ σύ· καὶ ποιῶν θαυμάσια, σὺ ὁ Θεὸς μόνος. » Προσοίσουσι δέ σοι τὸν ὕμνον, σὲ μόνον μεμαθηκότες εἶναι Θεόν· ἡ γὰρ τῶν σῶν θαυμάτων μεγαλουργία ταύτην αὐτοῖς παρέξει τὴν γνῶσιν. [Καὶ ὄρα πῶς σαφέστερον αὐτὸ διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς ἔθηκεν ἐν τῷ εἰπεῖν· ]
« Panta ta ethnē hosa epoiēsas hēxousi, kai proskynēsousin enōpion sou, Kyrie. › Touto de epi men tou makariou Dabid oudamōs gegenēsthai memathēkamen; epi de tou Ezekiou eikos tinas tēn tōn Assyriōn kataplagentas anairesin tǭ Theǭ prosdramein. Tēn de tēs prophēteias alētheian edeixen ho meta tēn enanthrōpēsin tou Theou kai Sōtēros hēmōn kairos; meta gar to sōtērion pathos apestalē men eis pasan tēn oikoumenēn ho theios tōn apostolōn choros. Ephē gar pros autous ho Despotēs « Poreuthentes mathēteusate panta ta ethnē. ; Emathēteusan de hōs prosetachthēsan kai to tēs agnoias aposkedasantes nephos, idein pareskeuasan [; tous pisteuontas] tēs dikaiosynēs ton Hēlion, kai ton sesōkota proskynēsai Theon. Touto kai ta epipheromena didaskei. • Kai doxasousi to onoma sou. Hoti megas ei sy; kai poiōn thaumasia, sy ho Theos monos. » Prosoisousi de soi ton hymnon, se monon memathēkotes einai Theon; hē gar tōn sōn thaumatōn megalourgia tautēn autois parexei tēn gnōsin. [Kai ora pōs saphesteron auto dia tōn hexēs ethēken en tǭ eipein; ]
"All the nations that you made will come and worship before you, Lord." We have learned that this in no way happened under the blessed David; under Hezekiah it is likely that some, struck by the slaughter of the Assyrians, ran to God. But the time after the incarnation of our God and Savior showed the truth of the prophecy. For after the saving passion the divine chorus of the apostles was sent into the whole world; for the Master said to them, "Go and make disciples of all the nations." They made disciples as they were commanded, and scattering the cloud of ignorance, they made [believers] see the Sun of righteousness and worship the God who saved them. What follows teaches this too: "And they will glorify your name. For you are great and do wonders; you alone are God." "They will offer you the hymn, having learned that you alone are God; for the greatness of your miracles will give them this knowledge." [And see how he set this more clearly through what follows, saying:]
Ps 86:9 (85:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 86:10 (85:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 28:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Mal 4:2 (3:20 LXX) (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:9-10: the prophecy that all nations will worship God was fulfilled after the passion, when the apostles made disciples of all nations.
- The bracketed words are bracketed in Migne (one opening bracket supplied), probably additions from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray letters (OCR); stray letters and marks (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): προσδραμεῖνος → προσδραμεῖν; ὁ θεῖος; τῶν → ὁ θεῖος τῶν; Θεόν”, Τοῦτο → Θεόν. Τοῦτο; τὸ ὄνομά σου". "Ὅτι μέγας σ εἶ σύ· καὶ ποιῶν θαυμάσια σὺς, ὁ Θεὸς μόνος δ. » Προσοίσουσι δέ σοι” → τὸ ὄνομά σου. Ὅτι μέγας εἶ σύ· καὶ ποιῶν θαυμάσια, σὺ ὁ Θεὸς μόνος. » Προσοίσουσι δέ σοι; Καὶ ὄρα πῶς σαφέστερον → [Καὶ ὄρα πῶς σαφέστερον.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.9 (PG 80 80:1557; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-9
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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.
85.11PG 80 80:1557
« Οδήγησόν με, Κύριε, ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ σου· καὶ πορεύσομαι ἐν τῇ ἀληθείᾳ σου. » Προθεσπίσας τοῖς ἔθνεσι τὴν ἐσομένην τῆς πλάνης ἀπαλλαγὴν, ἱκετεύει καὶ αὐτὸς ταύτης ἀπολαῦσαι τῆς ποδηγίας, καὶ ἐν τῇ τῆς ἀληθείας ὁδῷ τὴν πορείαν ποιήσασθαι. [Καὶ ὅρα τί φησι διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς. ] « Εὐφρανθήτω ἡ καρδία μου, τοῦ φοβεῖσθαι τὸ ὄνομά σου. » Ὁ τὴν περὶ Θεὸν εὐλάβειαν κεκτημένος τὴν ἔννομον ἀσπάζεται πολιτείαν· μήτηρ δὲ εὐφροσύνης ἡ τοιαύτη ζωή. Εἰκότως τοίνυν ὁ Προφήτης τῷ φόβῳ τῷ θείῳ τὴν οἰκείαν εὐφρανθῆναι καρδίαν ἱκέτευσεν. Οὕτω γὰρ καὶ ἀλλαχοῦ φησιν • Εὐφρανθήτω καρδία ζητούντων τὸν Κύριον. » Καὶ πάλιν· « Ἐμνήσθην τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ηὐφράνθην. »
« Odēgēson me, Kyrie, en tę̄ hodǭ sou; kai poreusomai en tę̄ alētheią sou. » Prothespisas tois ethnesi tēn esomenēn tēs planēs apallagēn, hiketeuei kai autos tautēs apolausai tēs podēgias, kai en tę̄ tēs alētheias hodǭ tēn poreian poiēsasthai. [Kai hora ti phēsi dia tōn hexēs. ] « Euphranthētō hē kardia mou, tou phobeisthai to onoma sou. » Ho tēn peri Theon eulabeian kektēmenos tēn ennomon aspazetai politeian; mētēr de euphrosynēs hē toiautē zōē. Eikotōs toinyn ho Prophētēs tǭ phobǭ tǭ theiǭ tēn oikeian euphranthēnai kardian hiketeusen. Houtō gar kai allachou phēsin • Euphranthētō kardia zētountōn ton Kyrion. » Kai palin; « Emnēsthēn tou Theou, kai ēuphranthēn. »
"Guide me, Lord, in your way, and I will walk in your truth." Having foretold to the nations the coming release from error, he begs to enjoy this guidance himself and to make his journey on the road of truth. [And see what he says through what follows.] "Let my heart be glad to fear your name." The one who possesses reverence toward God embraces the lawful way of life; and such a life is the mother of gladness. So the prophet rightly begged that his own heart be gladdened by the fear of God. So too he says elsewhere, "Let the heart of those who seek the Lord be glad," and again, "I remembered God and was glad."
Ps 86:11 (85:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 105:3 (104:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 77:3 (76:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:11: the psalmist asks to walk in God's truth and to find gladness in fearing him.
- The bracketed sentence is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR; stray letter (OCR)): τοῖς ἔθνεσιὰ τὴν → τοῖς ἔθνεσι τὴν; Καὶ ὅρα τί φησι διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς. ] → [Καὶ ὅρα τί φησι διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς. ].
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.11 (PG 80 80:1557; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-11). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-11
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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.
85.12PG 80 80:1559
· Ἐξομολογήσομαί σοι, Κύριε, ὁ Θεός μου ἐν ὅλῃ καρδίᾳ μου, καὶ δοξάσω τὸ ὄνομά σου εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Ὅτι τὸ ἔλεός σου μέγα ἐπ᾿ ἐμέ. Οἶδα, φησὶν, ὡς παρέξεις τὴν αἴτησιν, καὶ λύσεις τὰ σκυθρωπά, καὶ παρασκευάσεις με τὴν χαριστήριον ὑμνῳδίαν ὑπὲρ τῆς εἰς ἐμὲ γεγενημένης φιλανθρωπίας προσενεγκεῖν. « Καὶ ἐῤῥύσω τὴν ψυχήν μου ἐξ ᾄδου κατωτάτου.» Τὸ μέγεθος τῶν κινδύνων διὰ τούτων ἐδήλωσε· καὶ γὰρ ὁ θεῖος Δαβὶδ τοιούτους πολλάκις ὑπέμεινε, καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ Σαούλ πολεμούμενος, καὶ ὑπὸ τοῦ ᾿Αβεσαλώμ διωκόμενος. Καὶ τῶν ᾿Ασσυρίων δὲ ἡ προσβολὴ προῦπτος ἦν ὅλεθρος. Οὗ δὴ χάριν θάνατον ἔσχατον, καὶ ἅδην κατώτατον, τοὺς τοιούτους κινδύνους ὠνόμασεν. ᾿Αλλ᾿ ὅτι καὶ ὁ τοῦ παντὸς δημιουργός, τουτέστιν ὁ Θεὸς Λόγος σαρκωθεὶς ἐκ Παρθένου καὶ σταυρὸν καὶ θάνατον ἑλόμενος εἰς τὰ κατώτερα μέρη τῆς γῆς κατέβη, ἵνα τοὺς ἀπ' αἰώνων κρατηθέντας ὑπὸ τῆς φθορᾶς μὴ μόνον ἐγείρῃ, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀθανασίας ἐμπλήσῃ. Εἶτά φησι·
; Exomologēsomai soi, Kyrie, ho Theos mou en holę̄ kardią mou, kai doxasō to onoma sou eis ton aiōna. Hoti to eleos sou mega ep᾿ eme. Oida, phēsin, hōs parexeis tēn aitēsin, kai lyseis ta skythrōpa, kai paraskeuaseis me tēn charistērion hymnǭdian hyper tēs eis eme gegenēmenēs philanthrōpias prosenenkein. « Kai errhysō tēn psychēn mou ex ądou katōtatou.» To megethos tōn kindynōn dia toutōn edēlōse; kai gar ho theios Dabid toioutous pollakis hypemeine, kai hypo tou Saoul polemoumenos, kai hypo tou ᾿Abesalōm diōkomenos. Kai tōn ᾿Assyriōn de hē prosbolē prouptos ēn holethros. Hou dē charin thanaton eschaton, kai hadēn katōtaton, tous toioutous kindynous ōnomasen. ᾿All᾿ hoti kai ho tou pantos dēmiourgos, toutestin ho Theos Logos sarkōtheis ek Parthenou kai stauron kai thanaton helomenos eis ta katōtera merē tēs gēs katebē, hina tous ap' aiōnōn kratēthentas hypo tēs phthoras mē monon egeirę̄, alla kai tēs athanasias emplēsę̄. Eita phēsi;
"I will confess you, Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever. For your mercy is great toward me." "I know," he says, "that you will grant the request, end the gloomy things, and enable me to offer the hymn of thanksgiving for the love for humankind shown me." "And you rescued my soul from the lowest Hades." By these words he showed the greatness of the dangers. For the divine David often endured such, both warred on by Saul and pursued by Absalom; and the attack of the Assyrians was manifest destruction. For this reason he named such dangers extreme death and lowest Hades. But [it also means] that the Creator of all, that is, God the Word, made flesh of the Virgin and choosing cross and death, descended into the lower parts of the earth, in order not only to raise those held by corruption from of old, but also to fill them with immortality. Then he says:
Ps 86:12 (85:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 86:13 (85:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 4:9 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:12-13: the psalmist thanks God for rescue from the depths, which also points to the Word's descent to raise the dead to immortality.
- The sentence about the Word's descent is incomplete in the text as printed and is probably an unbracketed catena addition; a word is supplied in brackets.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (joined words (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): Ὅτι " τὸ ἔλεός → Ὅτι τὸ ἔλεός; ἐξᾄδου κατωτάτου → ἐξ ᾄδου κατωτάτου.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.12 (PG 80 80:1559; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-12
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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.
85.14PG 80 80:1559
«Ὁ Θεὸς, παράνομοι ἐπανέστησαν ἐπ᾿ ἐμέ καὶ συναγωγή κραταιῶν ἐζήτησαν τὴν ψυχήν μου. » Καὶ οἱ τοῦ Δαβὶδ πολέμιοι παρανομίᾳ συνέζων, καὶ οἱ ᾿Ασσύριοι δυσσεβείας ἦσαν καὶ πονηρίας ἐργάται. [Τοὺς γὰρ ἀμφοτέρους συνάψας συναγωγὴν κραταιὰν πρὸς τὴν τότε κρατοῦσαν κατάστασιν ὠνόμασεν.] Καὶ οὗτοι μέντοι κἀκεῖνοι δύναμιν εἶχον τῇ πονηρᾷ γνώμῃ συμπράττουσαν διπλοῦν δὲ ἐντεῦθεν τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις τὸ δέος ἐφύετο. Διὸ πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν καταφεύγουσι, καὶ τὴν ἐκεῖθεν αἰτοῦσιν ἐπικουρίαν. « Καὶ οὐ προέθεντό σε ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν. » Τὴν σὴν πρόνοιαν οὐκ ἔλαβον εἰς διάνοιαν.
«Ho Theos, paranomoi epanestēsan ep᾿ eme kai synagōgē krataiōn ezētēsan tēn psychēn mou. » Kai hoi tou Dabid polemioi paranomią synezōn, kai hoi ᾿Assyrioi dyssebeias ēsan kai ponērias ergatai. [Tous gar amphoterous synapsas synagōgēn krataian pros tēn tote kratousan katastasin ōnomasen.] Kai houtoi mentoi kakeinoi dynamin eichon tę̄ ponērą gnōmę̄ symprattousan diploun de enteuthen tois adikoumenois to deos ephyeto. Dio pros ton Theon katapheugousi, kai tēn ekeithen aitousin epikourian. « Kai ou proethento se enōpion autōn. » Tēn sēn pronoian ouk elabon eis dianoian.
"O God, lawless men have risen against me, and an assembly of the mighty has sought my soul." Both David's enemies lived in lawlessness, and the Assyrians were workers of impiety and wickedness. [For joining both, he named them a mighty assembly with respect to the condition prevailing then.] Both these and those had power cooperating with their evil mind; and from this a double fear grew in the wronged. So they flee to God and ask help from there. "And they did not set you before them." "They did not take your providence into account."
Ps 86:14 (85:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:14: David's and Hezekiah's enemies were lawless and powerful and did not reckon with God.
- The bracketed sentence is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR; split word (OCR)): Τοὺς γὰρ ἀμφοτέρους συνάψας → [Τοὺς γὰρ ἀμφοτέρους συνάψας; ἐπικου-' ρίαν → ἐπικουρίαν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.14 (PG 80 80:1559; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.15PG 80 80:1559
« Καὶ σὺ, Κύριε, ὁ Θεός μου οἰκτίρμων καὶ ἐλεήμων, μακρόθυμος, καὶ πολυέλεος, καὶ ἀληθινός. Ἐπίβλεψον ἐπ᾿ ἐμὲ καὶ ἐλέησόν με. Ἐπειδὴ φιλανθρωπίας ὑπάρχεις πηγὴ, καὶ οἴκτου, καὶ ἐλέους προχέεις τὰ νάματα, πρόσεστι δέ σοι καὶ ἀλήθεια, καὶ κρίνεις τοὺς πονηρίᾳ συζῶντας· τῶν τῆς ἀγαθότητος μετάδος ψεκάδων, καὶ κρείττονα δεῖξον τῶν πολεμούντων. « Δὸς τὸ κράτος σου τῷ παιδί σου · καὶ σῶσον τὸν υἱὸν τῆς παιδίσκης σου. » Δοῦλός τε γάρ εἰμι σὸς, καὶ σῆς θεραπαίνης υἱός· ἀντὶ τοῦ, ἄνωθεν καὶ ἐκ προγόνων ὑπὸ τὴν σὴν δεσποτείαν τελῶ· διόπερ ὡς δοῦλος παρὰ Δεσπότου τὴν σωτηρίαν αἰτῶ.
« Kai sy, Kyrie, ho Theos mou oiktirmōn kai eleēmōn, makrothymos, kai polyeleos, kai alēthinos. Epiblepson ep᾿ eme kai eleēson me. Epeidē philanthrōpias hyparcheis pēgē, kai oiktou, kai eleous procheeis ta namata, prosesti de soi kai alētheia, kai krineis tous ponērią syzōntas; tōn tēs agathotētos metados psekadōn, kai kreittona deixon tōn polemountōn. « Dos to kratos sou tǭ paidi sou ; kai sōson ton huion tēs paidiskēs sou. » Doulos te gar eimi sos, kai sēs therapainēs huios; anti tou, anōthen kai ek progonōn hypo tēn sēn despoteian telō; dioper hōs doulos para Despotou tēn sōtērian aitō.
"And you, Lord my God, are compassionate and merciful, long-suffering, abundant in mercy, and true. Look upon me and have mercy on me." "Since you are the spring of love for humankind and pour out streams of pity and mercy, and you also have truth and judge those who live with wickedness, give me a share of the drops of your goodness and show me stronger than those who war on me." "Give your strength to your servant, and save the son of your handmaid." "For I am your servant and the son of your maidservant; that is, from of old and from my forefathers I am under your lordship. So as a servant I ask salvation from the Master."
Ps 86:15 (85:15 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 86:16 (85:16 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Exod 34:6 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:15-16: appealing to God's mercy and truth, the psalmist, God's servant by birth, asks for strength and salvation.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR accent slip): καὶ οἱκτου → καὶ οἴκτου; δείξον → δεῖξον.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.15 (PG 80 80:1559; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-15). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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85.17PG 80 80:1561
« Ποίησον μετ' ἐμοῦ σημεῖον εἰς ἀγαθόν. » Τῶν σημείων τὰ μὲν ἐστι τιμωρίας, ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων· τὰ δὲ σωτηρίας, ὡς ἐπὶ τῶν Ἑβραίων. Διάτοι τοῦτο καὶ ὁ προφήτης τῷ διορισμῷ προσεχρήσατο, καὶ οὐχ ἁπλῶς σημεῖον, ἀλλ᾿ ἀγαθὸν σημεῖον ἐξήτησεν· ἀντὶ τοῦ, Ποίησον σημεῖον ἐμοὶ φέρον τὴν σωτηρίαν, καὶ τῇ θαυματουργίᾳ ἐμοὶ πραγματευόμενον τῶν ἀγαθῶν τὴν φοράν. [ Λέγει καὶ τίνος ἕνεκεν ἀντιβολεῖ δοθήσεσθαι αὐτῷ τὸ σημεῖον τοῦτο.] « Καὶ ἰδέτωσαν οἱ μισοῦντές με, καὶ αἰσχυνθήτωσαν. ὅτι σὺ, Κύριε, ἐβοήθησάς μοι, καὶ παρεκάλεσάς με. Τὴν γὰρ εἰς ἐμὲ πρόνοιαν οἱ δυσμενεῖς θεώμενοι, αἰσχύνης ἀναπλησθήσονται, καὶ ἐπονείδιστοι παρὰ πᾶσι γενήσονται. [ Κυρίως δὲ σημεῖον ἀγαθὸν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν ὁ ἐκ Θεοῦ Θεὸς τὸν σταυρὸν ἐχαρίσατο, δι' οὗ τὸν κοινὸν ἐχθρὸν ἐτροπώσατο καὶ τρόπαιον κατὰ δαιμόνων καὶ παθῶν ἔπηξεν. ᾿Αμήν.]
« Poiēson met' emou sēmeion eis agathon. » Tōn sēmeiōn ta men esti timōrias, hōs epi tōn Aigyptiōn; ta de sōtērias, hōs epi tōn Hebraiōn. Diatoi touto kai ho prophētēs tǭ diorismǭ prosechrēsato, kai ouch haplōs sēmeion, all᾿ agathon sēmeion exētēsen; anti tou, Poiēson sēmeion emoi pheron tēn sōtērian, kai tę̄ thaumatourgią emoi pragmateuomenon tōn agathōn tēn phoran. [ Legei kai tinos heneken antibolei dothēsesthai autǭ to sēmeion touto.] « Kai idetōsan hoi misountes me, kai aischynthētōsan. hoti sy, Kyrie, eboēthēsas moi, kai parekalesas me. Tēn gar eis eme pronoian hoi dysmeneis theōmenoi, aischynēs anaplēsthēsontai, kai eponeidistoi para pasi genēsontai. [ Kyriōs de sēmeion agathon tois ethnesin ho ek Theou Theos ton stauron echarisato, di' hou ton koinon echthron etropōsato kai tropaion kata daimonōn kai pathōn epēxen. ᾿Amēn.]
"Work a sign with me for good." Of signs, some are of punishment, as with the Egyptians; others of salvation, as with the Hebrews. For this reason the prophet used a distinction and asked not simply for a sign but for a good sign; that is, "Work for me a sign that brings salvation, and by a miracle procure for me an abundance of good things." [He says too for what reason he begs that this sign be given him:] "And let those who hate me see and be ashamed, for you, Lord, helped me and comforted me." "For when the enemies see your providence toward me, they will be filled with shame and become a reproach to all." [But properly God from God granted the cross to the nations as a good sign, by which he routed the common enemy and set up a trophy over demons and passions. Amen.]
Ps 86:17 (85:17 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 86:17: the psalmist asks for a sign of salvation that will shame his enemies; an addition names the cross as the good sign.
- The bracketed passages are bracketed in Migne, probably additions from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter slip): παρὰ πᾶσε γενήσονται → παρὰ πᾶσι γενήσονται.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 85.17 (PG 80 80:1561; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/85-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 86
86.1PG 80 80:1561
« Τοῖς υἱοῖς Κορὲ, Ψαλμὸς ᾠδῆς. » Τῶν ἐθνῶν καὶ οὗτος ὁ ψαλμὸς προαγορεύει τὴν σωτηρίαν, καὶ τὴν εὐσεβῆ πολιτείαν προλέγει, ἣν ὁ Δεσπότης Χριστὸς ἐνανθρωπήσας ἐδίδαξεν. « Οἱ θεμέλιοι αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖς ὅρεσι τοῖς ἁγίοις. » Θεμέλια τῆς εὐσεβείας, τὰ θεῖα παιδεύματα· Ὄρη δὲ ἄγια, ἐφ᾽ ὧν ταῦτα πέπηγε τὰ θεμέλια, οἱ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἀπόστολοι. Περὶ τούτων γὰρ ὁ μακάριος ἔφη Παῦλος· « Ἐποικοδομηθέντες ἐπὶ τῷ θεμελίῳ τῶν ἀποστόλων καὶ προφητῶν, ὄντος ἀκρογωνιαίου αὐτοῦ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ. » Καὶ πάλιν • Πέτρος καὶ Ἰάκωβος καὶ Ἰωάννης, οἱ δοκοῦντες στύλοι εἶναι. » Καὶ ὁ Κύριος τῷ Πέτρῳ, μετὰ τὴν ἀληθῆ καὶ θείαν ἐκείνην ὁμολογίαν· « Σὺ εἶ Πέτρος, καὶ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ πέτρᾳ οἰκοδομήσω μου τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν, καὶ πύλαι ᾄδου οὐ κατισχύσουσιν αὐτῆς. » Καὶ αὖθις· « Ὑμεῖς ἐστε τὸ φῶς τοῦ κόσμου · οὐ δύναται πόλις κρυβῆναι ἐπάνω ὄρους κειμένη.» Ἐπὶ τούτων τῶν ἁγίων ὀρῶν ὁ Δεσπότης Χριστὸς κατέπηξε τὰ τῆς εὐσεβείας θεμέλια .
« Tois huiois Kore, Psalmos ǭdēs. » Tōn ethnōn kai houtos ho psalmos proagoreuei tēn sōtērian, kai tēn eusebē politeian prolegei, hēn ho Despotēs Christos enanthrōpēsas edidaxen. « Hoi themelioi autou en tois horesi tois hagiois. » Themelia tēs eusebeias, ta theia paideumata; Orē de agia, eph᾽ hōn tauta pepēge ta themelia, hoi tou Sōtēros hēmōn apostoloi. Peri toutōn gar ho makarios ephē Paulos; « Epoikodomēthentes epi tǭ themeliǭ tōn apostolōn kai prophētōn, ontos akrogōniaiou autou Iēsou Christou. » Kai palin • Petros kai Iakōbos kai Iōannēs, hoi dokountes styloi einai. » Kai ho Kyrios tǭ Petrǭ, meta tēn alēthē kai theian ekeinēn homologian; « Sy ei Petros, kai epi tautę̄ tę̄ petrą oikodomēsō mou tēn Ekklēsian, kai pylai ądou ou katischysousin autēs. » Kai authis; « Hymeis este to phōs tou kosmou ; ou dynatai polis krybēnai epanō orous keimenē.» Epi toutōn tōn hagiōn orōn ho Despotēs Christos katepēxe ta tēs eusebeias themelia .
"For the sons of Korah, a psalm of an ode." This psalm too foretells the salvation of the nations and predicts the pious way of life that Christ the Lord taught when he became man. "Its foundations are on the holy mountains." The foundations of piety are the divine teachings; and the holy mountains on which these foundations are fixed are the apostles of our Savior. For about them the blessed Paul said, "Built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the cornerstone"; and again, "Peter and James and John, who were reputed to be pillars." And the Lord said to Peter after that true and divine confession, "You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hades will not prevail against it"; and again, "You are the light of the world; a city set on a mountain cannot be hidden." On these holy mountains Christ the Lord fixed the foundations of piety.
Ps 87:1 (86:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Eph 2:20 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 2:9 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 16:18 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 5:14 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 87, title and verse 1: the foundations on the holy mountains are the divine teachings laid on the apostles, as Paul and Christ's words to Peter show.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR accent slip; stray letter (OCR)): ἀποστόλων καὶ ο προφητῶν → ἀποστόλων καὶ προφητῶν; όμολογίαν → ὁμολογίαν.
Topics: Church office
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 86.1 (PG 80 80:1561; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/86-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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86.2PG 80 80:1561
« ᾿Αγαπᾷ Κύριος τὰς πύλας Σιὼν, ὑπὲρ πάντα τὰ σκηνώματα Ἰακώβ. » Τίς δὲ αὕτη ἡ Σιὼν, ὁ θεσπέσιος Παῦλος ἑρμηνευέτω • Προσεληλύθατε Σιὼν ὄρει, καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος, Ἱερουσαλήμ ἐπουρανίῳ, καὶ μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων, πανηγύρει καὶ Ἐκκλησίᾳ πρωτοτόκων ἀπογεγραμμένων ἐν οὐρανοῖς. » Καὶ πάλιν· « Ἡ δὲ ἄνω Ἱερουσαλήμ ἐλευθέρα ἐστὶν, ἥ τίς ἐστι μήτηρ ἡμῶν » Καὶ περὶ τοῦ πατριάρχου Ἀβραὰμ ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ἑβραίους διαλεγόμενος, καὶ ταῦτα προστέθεικεν · • Ἐξεδέχετο γὰρ τὴν τοὺς θεμελίους ἔχουσαν πόλιν, ἧς τεχνίτης καὶ δημιουργὸς ὁ Θεός. » Καὶ αὖθις περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ἁγίων· « Οἱ γὰρ τοιαῦτα λέγοντες ἐμφανίζουσιν, ὅτι πατρίδα ἐπιζητοῦσι. Καὶ εἰ μὲν ἐκείνης μνημονεύουσιν, ἀφ᾿ ἧς ἐξῆλθον, εἶχον ἂν καιρὸν ἀνακάμψαι · νῦν δὲ κρείττονος ὀρέγονται, τουτέστιν ἐπουρανίου. » Διδασκόμεθα τοίνυν εἶναί τινα πόλιν ἐπουράνιον, καὶ Ἱερουσαλήμ ὀνομαζομένην, οὐ πύργους ἔχουσαν, καὶ περιβόλους, οὐδὲ λίθων μαρμαρυγαῖς ἀποστίλβουσαν, ἀλλὰ χοροῖς ἁγίων λαμπρυνομένην, καὶ ἀγγελικῇ πολιτείᾳ καλλυνομένην. Ταύτης τῆς πόλεως οὐκ ἄν τις ἁμάρτοι πύλας προσαγορεύσας τὰς ἐπὶ γῆς Ἐκκλησίας · διὰ τούτων γὰρ εἰσελθεῖν εἰς ἐκείνην δυνατόν. Ἐν ταύταις γὰρ παιδευόμενοι καὶ προγυμναζόμενοι, ἐκείνης τῆς πόλεως διδασκόμεθα πολιτείαν. Ταύτας ἔφη τὰς πύλας ὁ προφητικὸς λόγος ἐπεράστους εἶναι τῷ τῶν ὅλων Θεῷ, καὶ τῶν Ἰουδαικῶν σκηνωμάτων προτετιμῆσθαι.
« ᾿Agapą Kyrios tas pylas Siōn, hyper panta ta skēnōmata Iakōb. » Tis de hautē hē Siōn, ho thespesios Paulos hermēneuetō • Proselēlythate Siōn orei, kai polei Theou zōntos, Hierousalēm epouraniǭ, kai myriasin angelōn, panēgyrei kai Ekklēsią prōtotokōn apogegrammenōn en ouranois. » Kai palin; « Hē de anō Hierousalēm eleuthera estin, hē tis esti mētēr hēmōn » Kai peri tou patriarchou Abraam en tę̄ pros Hebraious dialegomenos, kai tauta prostetheiken ; • Exedecheto gar tēn tous themelious echousan polin, hēs technitēs kai dēmiourgos ho Theos. » Kai authis peri tōn allōn hagiōn; « Hoi gar toiauta legontes emphanizousin, hoti patrida epizētousi. Kai ei men ekeinēs mnēmoneuousin, aph᾿ hēs exēlthon, eichon an kairon anakampsai ; nyn de kreittonos oregontai, toutestin epouraniou. » Didaskometha toinyn einai tina polin epouranion, kai Hierousalēm onomazomenēn, ou pyrgous echousan, kai peribolous, oude lithōn marmarygais apostilbousan, alla chorois hagiōn lamprynomenēn, kai angelikę̄ politeią kallynomenēn. Tautēs tēs poleōs ouk an tis hamartoi pylas prosagoreusas tas epi gēs Ekklēsias ; dia toutōn gar eiselthein eis ekeinēn dynaton. En tautais gar paideuomenoi kai progymnazomenoi, ekeinēs tēs poleōs didaskometha politeian. Tautas ephē tas pylas ho prophētikos logos eperastous einai tǭ tōn holōn Theǭ, kai tōn Ioudaikōn skēnōmatōn protetimēsthai.
"The Lord loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob." What this Zion is, let the inspired Paul interpret: "You have come to Mount Zion and the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, to the festal gathering and church of the firstborn enrolled in heaven"; and again, "But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother." And discussing the patriarch Abraham in the Letter to the Hebrews, he added this too: "For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God." And again about the other saints: "For those who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. If they had been thinking of that from which they came out, they would have had opportunity to return; but now they desire a better one, that is, a heavenly one." We are taught, then, that there is a heavenly city, named Jerusalem, not with towers and walls nor gleaming with the sparkle of stones, but bright with choirs of saints and adorned with the angelic way of life. One would not err in calling the churches on earth the gates of this city; for through them one can enter it. For being trained and exercised beforehand in them, we are taught the way of life of that city. The prophetic word said these gates are beloved by the God of all and preferred to the Jewish dwellings.
Ps 87:2 (86:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 12:22 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 12:23 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 11:10 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 11:14 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 11:15 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 11:16 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 87:2: Zion is the heavenly Jerusalem, and its gates are the churches on earth, which God loves more than the dwellings of Jacob.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): οὐ δ' πύργους → οὐ πύργους; Ἐν δε ταύταις γὰρ → Ἐν ταύταις γὰρ.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 86.2 (PG 80 80:1561; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/86-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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86.3PG 80 80:1563
« Δεδοξασμένα ἐλαλήθη περί σου, ἡ πόλις τοῦ Θεοῦ. » Θαυμαστά τινα καὶ παράδοξα τὰ περὶ σοῦ θεσπιζόμενα, καὶ πᾶσαν ἀνθρωπίνην ὑπερβαίνοντα προσδοκίαν· ὅτι δὲ οὐδαμῶς τῇ κάτω Σιὼν ἀρμόττει τὰ εἰρημένα, τὰ ἐπαγόμενα μαρτυρεῖ.
« Dedoxasmena elalēthē peri sou, hē polis tou Theou. » Thaumasta tina kai paradoxa ta peri sou thespizomena, kai pasan anthrōpinēn hyperbainonta prosdokian; hoti de oudamōs tę̄ katō Siōn armottei ta eirēmena, ta epagomena martyrei.
"Glorious things have been spoken of you, city of God." "Wonderful and astonishing are the things prophesied about you, surpassing all human expectation." And that what was said in no way fits the Zion below, what follows bears witness.
Ps 87:3 (86:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 87:3: the glorious things said of God's city surpass anything fitting the earthly Zion.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark (OCR)): ὑπερβαίνοντα & προσδοκίαν → ὑπερβαίνοντα προσδοκίαν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 86.3 (PG 80 80:1563; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/86-3). (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.
86.4PG 80 80:1563
« Μνησθήσομαι Ῥαὰβ καὶ Βαβυλῶνος τοῖς γινώσκουσί με· καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀλλόφυλοι καὶ Τύρος, καὶ λαὸς τῶν Αἰθιόπων, οὗτοι ἐγενήθησαν ἐκεῖ. › Ταῦτα, φησὶν, ὦ θεία πόλις, λελάληται περὶ σοῦ · ὥστε τοὺς πάλαι σε δυσσεβείᾳ συζῶντας, καὶ τῷ ζόφῳ τῆς ἀγνοίας κατεχομένους, τῆς ἐν σοὶ κατοικίας ἀξιωθῆναι, καὶ τῆς σῆς πολιτείας μεταλαχεῖν. Διά τοι τοῦτο τῶν προειρημένων ἐθνῶν ἀνέμνησεν, ὡς παρανομωτάτων, καὶ τῆς ἀσεβείας ἀναδησαμένων τὸ κράτος, ἵνα διὰ τούτων καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους δηλώσῃ. Ῥαὰβ μὲν γὰρ καὶ Χαναναία καὶ πόρνη · Βαβυλὼν δὲ, θηριώδης καὶ δυσσεβής· οἱ δὲ ἀλλόφυλοι ἤτοι Φυλιστιαῖοι · δεδηλώκαμεν δὲ ἤδη τίνες οὗτοι · καὶ δεισιδαίμονες καὶ παράνομοι. Τῆς δὲ Τύρου καὶ τὴν ἀσέβειαν καὶ τὴν ἀσέλγειαν, ὁ προφήτης Ἰεζεκιὴλ ἐτραγώδησε· λαὸν δὲ τῶν Αἰθιόπων, οὐ μόνον αὐτοὺς Αἰθίοπας, ὧν αἱ ψυχαὶ τὴν τοῦ σώματος ἐμιμήσαντο χροὰν, ἀλλὰ καὶ πάντας τοὺς μέλανας τῇ ψυχῇ, ὁ προφητικὸς ἐκάλεσε λόγος. Καὶ γὰρ ἐν τῷ ᾿Ασματι τῶν ἀσμάτων ἡ Νύμφη βοᾷ • « Μέλαινά εἰμι καὶ καλὴ, θυγατέρες Ἱερουσαλήμ. » [Μέλαινα μὲν ἐξηπατημένη, τῇ κνίσῃ τῶν ἀλόγων κατεσπιλωμένη· καλὴ δὲ περιμένουσά σε τὸν ἐξ οὐρανῶν ἥξοντα Δεσπότην διὰ τὴν ἐμὴν σωτηρίαν.] Καὶ δεδήλωκε κατὰ ταυτὸν τῆς τε δυσσεβείας τὸν ζόφον, καὶ τὴν δεδομένην ὑπὸ τῆς θείας χάριτος ὥραν. Ταῦτα μέντοι τὰ ἔθνη, ἐπὶ μὲν τῶν Ἰουδαίων, εἰς τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ οὐ συνἦλθεν, οὐδὲ τὴν νομικὴν πολιτείαν ἠγάπησεν. μετὰ δὲ τὴν τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐνανθρώπησιν, καὶ ταύτην κατοικεῖ τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ τὰς κατὰ τὴν οἰκουμένην ἐκκλησίας πληροῖ, καὶ εἰς τὴν ἄνω μεταβαίνει Σιὼν, καὶ τῆς μακαρίας ἐκείνης πολιτείας μεταλαγχάνει. [" Ἐκ ποίων γὰρ ἐθνῶν οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν τῷ Σωτῆρι; Τίνες δὲ τούτων οἱ μὴ καταλαβόντες καὶ τὴν κάτω Ἱερουσαλήμ διὰ τὸ προσκυνῆσαι τοὺς ἐπιφανεστάτους καὶ σεπτοὺς τόπους, ἐν οἷς οὐ μόνον ὁ ἐκ Θεοῦ Θεὸς σαρκωθεὶς, ἀλλὰ καὶ ποσὶ φιλανθρωπίας ἐβάδισε. Καλῶς οὖν ἔχων διὰ τῶν ἑξῆς ἔφησε · ]
« Mnēsthēsomai Rhaab kai Babylōnos tois ginōskousi me; kai idou allophyloi kai Tyros, kai laos tōn Aithiopōn, houtoi egenēthēsan ekei. › Tauta, phēsin, ō theia polis, lelalētai peri sou ; hōste tous palai se dyssebeią syzōntas, kai tǭ zophǭ tēs agnoias katechomenous, tēs en soi katoikias axiōthēnai, kai tēs sēs politeias metalachein. Dia toi touto tōn proeirēmenōn ethnōn anemnēsen, hōs paranomōtatōn, kai tēs asebeias anadēsamenōn to kratos, hina dia toutōn kai tous allous dēlōsę̄. Rhaab men gar kai Chananaia kai pornē ; Babylōn de, thēriōdēs kai dyssebēs; hoi de allophyloi ētoi Phylistiaioi ; dedēlōkamen de ēdē tines houtoi ; kai deisidaimones kai paranomoi. Tēs de Tyrou kai tēn asebeian kai tēn aselgeian, ho prophētēs Iezekiēl etragōdēse; laon de tōn Aithiopōn, ou monon autous Aithiopas, hōn hai psychai tēn tou sōmatos emimēsanto chroan, alla kai pantas tous melanas tę̄ psychę̄, ho prophētikos ekalese logos. Kai gar en tǭ ᾿Asmati tōn asmatōn hē Nymphē boą • « Melaina eimi kai kalē, thygateres Hierousalēm. » [Melaina men exēpatēmenē, tę̄ knisę̄ tōn alogōn katespilōmenē; kalē de perimenousa se ton ex ouranōn hēxonta Despotēn dia tēn emēn sōtērian.] Kai dedēlōke kata tauton tēs te dyssebeias ton zophon, kai tēn dedomenēn hypo tēs theias charitos hōran. Tauta mentoi ta ethnē, epi men tōn Ioudaiōn, eis tēn Hierousalēm ou synēlthen, oude tēn nomikēn politeian ēgapēsen. meta de tēn tou Sōtēros hēmōn enanthrōpēsin, kai tautēn katoikei tēn Hierousalēm, kai tas kata tēn oikoumenēn ekklēsias plēroi, kai eis tēn anō metabainei Siōn, kai tēs makarias ekeinēs politeias metalanchanei. [" Ek poiōn gar ethnōn ouk episteusan tǭ Sōtēri? Tines de toutōn hoi mē katalabontes kai tēn katō Hierousalēm dia to proskynēsai tous epiphanestatous kai septous topous, en hois ou monon ho ek Theou Theos sarkōtheis, alla kai posi philanthrōpias ebadise. Kalōs oun echōn dia tōn hexēs ephēse ; ]
"I will remember Rahab and Babylon to those who know me; and behold, foreigners and Tyre and the people of the Ethiopians, these were born there." "These things, divine city," he says, "have been spoken about you: that those who once lived in impiety and were held in the gloom of ignorance would be counted worthy to dwell in you and share your way of life." For this reason he recalled these nations as most lawless and as having won the crown of impiety, to indicate the others through them. Rahab was both a Canaanite and a harlot; Babylon was savage and impious; the foreigners, that is, the Philistines (we have already shown who they are), were superstitious and lawless. The prophet Ezekiel lamented the impiety and licentiousness of Tyre. By "the people of the Ethiopians" the prophetic word meant not only the Ethiopians themselves, whose souls imitated the color of their bodies, but all who are black in soul. For in the Song of Songs too the Bride cries, "I am black and beautiful, daughters of Jerusalem." [Black as deceived, stained with the fat of irrational sacrifices; but beautiful as waiting for you, the Master who will come from heaven for my salvation.] At the same time she showed both the gloom of impiety and the beauty given by divine grace. These nations did not come to Jerusalem in the time of the Jews, nor love the way of life of the law; but after the incarnation of our Savior they dwell in this Jerusalem, fill the churches throughout the world, pass to the Zion above, and share that blessed way of life. [For from what nations have they not believed in the Savior? And which of them has not come even to the Jerusalem below to worship the most famous and venerable places, in which God from God not only took flesh but, out of love for humankind, walked with his feet? So he did well to say through what follows:]
Ps 87:4 (86:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Josh 2:1 (allusion, high confidence) · Ezek 28:18 (allusion, medium confidence) · Song 1:5 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 87:4: Rahab, Babylon, the Philistines, Tyre, and Ethiopia, the most impious peoples, stand for the nations who would become citizens of God's city after the incarnation.
- Theodoret reads Rahab as the harlot of Jericho rather than as a name for Egypt.
- The bracketed passages are bracketed in Migne, probably additions from the catena; the second refers to pilgrimage to the holy places.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letter (OCR); stray letters (OCR); stray mark (OCR)): Ῥαάβετ καὶ → Ῥαὰβ καὶ; ή τοι Φυλιστιαῖοι → ἤτοι Φυλιστιαῖοι; [ο Μέλαινα μὲν → [Μέλαινα μὲν; κατεσπιλωμένη τι· → κατεσπιλωμένη·; καὶ ποσὶ ( φιλανθρωπίας → καὶ ποσὶ φιλανθρωπίας.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 86.4 (PG 80 80:1563; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/86-4). (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.
86.5PG 80 80:1565
« Μήτηρ Σιὼν ἐρεῖ ἄνθρωπος. • Μητέρα δὲ ἕκαστος τὴν Σιὼν ὀνομάσει, καὶ πᾶς ἄνθρωπος ἐρεῖ, ὅτι μήτηρ ἡ Σιών. [Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος λέγει Παῦλος · « Ἡ δὲ ἄνω Ἱερουσαλήμ ἐλευθέρα ἐστὶν, ἥτις ἐστὶ μήτηρ πάντων ἡμῶν. »] « Καὶ ἄνθρωπος ἐγενήθη ἐν αὐτῇ.» Τῷ Ἐρεῖ ἄνθρωπος καὶ τοῦτο συνῆπται. Ὁ γὰρ τὴν Σιὼν ὀνομάζων μητέρα, ὁμολογήσει καὶ τοῦ ἐν αὐτῇ τεχθέντος ἀνθρώπου τὴν γέννησιν · καὶ ἵνα μὴ τις ἄνθρωπον τοῦτον ὑπολάβοι ψιλὸν, εὐθὺς ἐπήγαγεν· « Καὶ αὐτὸς ἐθεμελίωσεν αὐτὴν ὁ Ὕψιστος. » Οὗτος γὰρ ὁ ἐν αὐτῇ τεχθεὶς ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ποιητής ἐστι, καὶ δημιουργός, ὕψιστος ὢν, καὶ Θεός. « Κύριος διηγήσεται ἐν γραφῇ λαῶν, καὶ ἀρχόντων τούτων γεγενημένων ἐν αὐτῇ. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως · Κύριος ἀριθμήσει γράφων λαούς· οὗτος ἐτέχθη ἐκεῖ. Ὁ γὰρ τοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ πολιτευομένους λαοὺς τῆς παρ᾿ αὐτοῦ γραφῆς ἀξιῶν, ἐν αὐτῇ κατὰ τὸ ἀνθρώπινον ἐγεννήθη Κύριος ὢν καὶ Θεός. Ταύτην δὲ τὴν ἀρίθμησιν καὶ ὁ Κύριος ἡμῶν ἐδίδαξε πρὸς τοὺς ἱεροὺς εἰρηκὼς ἀποστόλους· · Ὑμῶν δὲ καὶ αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς ἠριθμημέναι εἰσί. » Καὶ τὴν ἀναγραφὴν δὲ τοῖς οἰκείοις μαθηταῖς ἐδήλωσε λέγων • • Μὴ χαίρετε, ὅτι τὰ δαιμόνια ὑμῖν ὑποτάσσεται, ἀλλ᾽ ὅτι τὰ ὀνόματα ὑμῶν ἐγγέγραπται ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς . »
« Mētēr Siōn erei anthrōpos. • Mētera de hekastos tēn Siōn onomasei, kai pas anthrōpos erei, hoti mētēr hē Siōn. [Houtō kai ho makarios legei Paulos ; « Hē de anō Hierousalēm eleuthera estin, hētis esti mētēr pantōn hēmōn. »] « Kai anthrōpos egenēthē en autę̄.» Tǭ Erei anthrōpos kai touto synēptai. Ho gar tēn Siōn onomazōn mētera, homologēsei kai tou en autę̄ techthentos anthrōpou tēn gennēsin ; kai hina mē tis anthrōpon touton hypolaboi psilon, euthys epēgagen; « Kai autos ethemeliōsen autēn ho Hypsistos. » Houtos gar ho en autę̄ techtheis anthrōpos, kai poiētēs esti, kai dēmiourgos, hypsistos ōn, kai Theos. « Kyrios diēgēsetai en graphę̄ laōn, kai archontōn toutōn gegenēmenōn en autę̄. » Ho de Symmachos houtōs ; Kyrios arithmēsei graphōn laous; houtos etechthē ekei. Ho gar tous en autę̄ politeuomenous laous tēs par᾿ autou graphēs axiōn, en autę̄ kata to anthrōpinon egennēthē Kyrios ōn kai Theos. Tautēn de tēn arithmēsin kai ho Kyrios hēmōn edidaxe pros tous hierous eirēkōs apostolous; ; Hymōn de kai hai triches tēs kephalēs ērithmēmenai eisi. » Kai tēn anagraphēn de tois oikeiois mathētais edēlōse legōn • • Mē chairete, hoti ta daimonia hymin hypotassetai, all᾽ hoti ta onomata hymōn engegraptai en tois ouranois . »
"'Mother Zion,' a man will say." Each one will name Zion mother, and every man will say that Zion is mother. [So too the blessed Paul says, "But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all."] "And a man was born in her." This too is joined to "a man will say." For he who names Zion mother will also confess the birth of the man born in her; and so that no one should take this man to be a mere man, he at once added, "And the Most High himself founded her." For this man born in her is both maker and creator, being Most High and God. "The Lord will recount in the writing of peoples and of these rulers who were born in her." Symmachus has: "The Lord will number, writing down the peoples: this one was born there." For the one who counts the peoples living in her worthy of being written by him was born in her as man, being Lord and God. Our Lord taught this numbering when he said to the holy apostles, "Even the hairs of your head are all numbered"; and he showed the enrollment to his own disciples, saying, "Do not rejoice that the demons are subject to you, but that your names are written in heaven."
Ps 87:5 (86:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 87:6 (86:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 4:26 (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 10:30 (quotation, high confidence) · Luke 10:20 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 87:5-6: all will call Zion mother; the man born in her is the Most High who founded her, the Lord who enrolls her citizens in heaven.
- The bracketed sentence is bracketed in Migne (opening bracket supplied), probably an addition from the catena. A verse number leaked into the text is removed.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost in the OCR; split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR); verse number leaked into the text (OCR)): Μητέρατο δὲ → Μητέρα δὲ; Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος λέγει Παῦλος → [Οὕτω καὶ ὁ μακάριος λέγει Παῦλος; καὶ Θεός. ς'. « → καὶ Θεός. «; Ὁ δ Σύμμαχος οὕτως · Κύριος ἀριθμήσει ι γράφων → Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως · Κύριος ἀριθμήσει γράφων; ἀποστό λους → ἀποστόλους.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 86.5 (PG 80 80:1565; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/86-5). (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.
86.7PG 80 80:1567
« Ὡς εὐφραινομένων πάντων ἡ κατοικία ἐν σοί. » Ἡ γὰρ ἐν οὐρανοῖς πολιτεία, πάσης ἀθυμίας κεχωρισμένη, τὴν ἀκραιφνῆ καὶ καθαρὰν εὐφροσύνην ἔχει, καὶ θυμηδίαν. Ταύτην δὲ οὐ παροικοῦσιν, ἀλλ᾽ εἰς αἰῶνα κατοικοῦσιν, τῆς εὐσεβείας οἱ τρόφιμοι.
« Hōs euphrainomenōn pantōn hē katoikia en soi. » Hē gar en ouranois politeia, pasēs athymias kechōrismenē, tēn akraiphnē kai katharan euphrosynēn echei, kai thymēdian. Tautēn de ou paroikousin, all᾽ eis aiōna katoikousin, tēs eusebeias hoi trophimoi.
"As of all who rejoice is the dwelling in you." For the life in heaven, separated from all despondency, holds pure and unmixed gladness and joy. The nurslings of piety do not sojourn there as strangers but dwell there forever.
Ps 87:7 (86:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 87:7: the heavenly city is a dwelling of pure, everlasting joy.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 86.7 (PG 80 80:1567; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/86-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/86-7
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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.