Interpretation of the Psalms 98.1–101.29
Greek text: PG 80.English: Claude (claude-opus-5-5), public domain (CC0).
Chapter 98
98.1PG 80 80:1663
« Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαβὶδ, ἀνεπίγραφος παρ' Ἑβραίοις. » Οὗτος ὁ ψαλμὸς προθεσπίζει μὲν καὶ τὴν ἀπὸ Βαβυλῶνος Ἰουδαίων ἐπάνοδον, προαγορεύει δὲ καὶ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν, καὶ τῶν Ἰουδαίων τὴν ἀπιστίαν. « Ὁ Κύριος ἐβασίλευσεν, ὀργιζέσθωσαν λαοί. » Καὶ Ἰουδαῖοι γὰρ, καὶ Ἕλληνες, μεμήνασι καὶ λυττῶσι τοῦ Δεσπότου Χριστοῦ τὴν βασιλείαν ἀκούοντες. Καὶ ἡνίκα δὲ τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἀπήλαυσαν Ἰουδαῖοι, πάντες οἱ πλησιόχωροι διεπρίοντο, τὴν παράδοξον αὐτῶν ἐπάνοδον θεασάμενοι. Ἐδήλου δὲ τοῦτο τοῦ ὑπ᾿ αὐτῶν προσκυνουμένου τὴν δύναμιν. « Ὁ καθήμενος ἐπὶ τῶν Χερουβίμ, σαλευθήτω ἡ γῆ. » Οὗτος δὲ, φησὶν, ὁ παρ' ἡμῶν κηρυττόμενος, καὶ τῶν ἄνω δυνάμεων Θεὸς ὑπάρχει καὶ Κύριος· τὸ δὲ, καθήμενος, ὡς πρὸς ἀνθρώπους διαλεγόμενος εἴρηκεν. Ἡ γὰρ ἀσώματος φύσις, ἡ ἀπερίληπτος, καὶ ἀπερίγραπτος, κατέχουσα τὸν γύρον τῆς γῆς, καὶ τοὺς ἐνοικοῦντας ἐν αὐτῇ ὡσεὶ ἀκρίδας, ποίας δεῖται καθέδρας; Σχηματίζει δὲ ὅμως τῷ λόγῳ τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεὸν, βασιλικῶς τοῖς Χερουβίμ ἐποχούμενον, καταπλήττοντα καὶ δεδιττόμενον τοὺς ἀκούοντας.
« Psalmos tǭ Dabid, anepigraphos par' Hebraiois. » Houtos ho psalmos prothespizei men kai tēn apo Babylōnos Ioudaiōn epanodon, proagoreuei de kai tou Sōtēros hēmōn tēn epiphaneian, kai tōn Ioudaiōn tēn apistian. « Ho Kyrios ebasileusen, orgizesthōsan laoi. » Kai Ioudaioi gar, kai Hellēnes, memēnasi kai lyttōsi tou Despotou Christou tēn basileian akouontes. Kai hēnika de tēs eleutherias apēlausan Ioudaioi, pantes hoi plēsiochōroi dieprionto, tēn paradoxon autōn epanodon theasamenoi. Edēlou de touto tou hyp᾿ autōn proskynoumenou tēn dynamin. « Ho kathēmenos epi tōn Cheroubim, saleuthētō hē gē. » Houtos de, phēsin, ho par' hēmōn kēryttomenos, kai tōn anō dynameōn Theos hyparchei kai Kyrios; to de, kathēmenos, hōs pros anthrōpous dialegomenos eirēken. Hē gar asōmatos physis, hē aperilēptos, kai aperigraptos, katechousa ton gyron tēs gēs, kai tous enoikountas en autę̄ hōsei akridas, poias deitai kathedras? Schēmatizei de homōs tǭ logǭ ton tōn holōn Theon, basilikōs tois Cheroubim epochoumenon, kataplēttonta kai dedittomenon tous akouontas.
"A psalm of David; without a title among the Hebrews." This psalm foretells the return of the Jews from Babylon, and it also foretells the appearing of our Savior and the unbelief of the Jews. "The Lord has become king; let the peoples be angry." For both Jews and Greeks rage and are maddened when they hear of the kingdom of Christ the Master. And when the Jews enjoyed their freedom, all their neighbors were enraged at seeing their extraordinary return. This showed the power of the one they worshiped. "He who sits upon the cherubim; let the earth be shaken." "This one whom we proclaim," he says, "is God and Lord of the powers above as well." He said "sits" as one speaking to human beings. For what seat does the bodiless nature need, the incomprehensible and uncircumscribed nature that holds the circle of the earth and those who dwell in it like grasshoppers? Yet in his words he depicts the God of all as riding royally on the cherubim, striking awe and fear into those who hear.
Ps 99:1 (98:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 40:22 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 99:1: the psalm foretells the return from Babylon, Christ's appearing, and Jewish unbelief; God's 'sitting' on the cherubim is a figure, since his nature is bodiless.
- The title is the Septuagint's; Theodoret notes that the Hebrew has none.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): ἐλευθε ρίας → ἐλευθερίας; κατέχουσα οι τὸν → κατέχουσα τὸν; ἐνοικοῦν· τας → ἐνοικοῦντας.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.1 (PG 80 80:1663; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-1). (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.
98.2PG 80 80:1665
« Κύριος ἐν Σιὼν μέγας, καὶ ὑψηλός ἐστιν ἐπὶ πάντας τοὺς λαούς. » Καὶ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐπανελθόντων, καὶ τὸν θεῖον δειμαμένων νεῶν, ἡ τοῦ Θεοῦ δύναμις ἅπασιν ἀπεδείχθη. Διαφερόντως γὰρ ὁ τὸν σταυρὸν ὑπομείνας οἰκουμένης ἀπάσης ἀπεφάνθη Δεσπότης, τῶν ἱερῶν ἀποστόλων τὸ σωτήριον κήρυγμα προσενεγκάντων τοῖς ἔθνεσιν .
« Kyrios en Siōn megas, kai hypsēlos estin epi pantas tous laous. » Kai tōn Ioudaiōn epanelthontōn, kai ton theion deimamenōn neōn, hē tou Theou dynamis hapasin apedeichthē. Diapherontōs gar ho ton stauron hypomeinas oikoumenēs apasēs apephanthē Despotēs, tōn hierōn apostolōn to sōtērion kērygma prosenenkantōn tois ethnesin .
"The Lord is great in Zion, and he is high above all the peoples." When the Jews had returned and built the divine temple, the power of God was shown to all. But in a special way he who endured the cross was declared Master of the whole world, when the holy apostles brought the saving proclamation to the nations.
Ps 99:2 (98:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 99:2: God's greatness was shown in the rebuilt temple, and above all when the crucified one was proclaimed Master of the world by the apostles.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.2 (PG 80 80:1665; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.3PG 80 80:1665
· Ἐξομολογησάσθωσαν τῷ ὀνόματί σου τῷ μεγάλῳ, ὅτι φοβερὸν καὶ ἅγιόν ἐστι. » Χρὴ τοίνυν ἅπαντας ἀνυμνεῖν σε, καὶ τὰς σὰς εὐεργεσίας διεξιέναι, καὶ τὴν ἄῤῥητόν σου μὴ περιεργάζεσθαι φύσιν, τῷ δὲ ὀνόματί σου προσφέρειν τὸ σέβας, καὶ φοβερῷ ὄντι, καὶ παναγίῳ. ῾Αγιάζει μὲν γὰρ τοὺς πιστεύοντας, ἐκδειματοῖ δὲ τοὺς ἀπιστοῦντας.
; Exomologēsasthōsan tǭ onomati sou tǭ megalǭ, hoti phoberon kai hagion esti. » Chrē toinyn hapantas anymnein se, kai tas sas euergesias diexienai, kai tēn arrhēton sou mē periergazesthai physin, tǭ de onomati sou prospherein to sebas, kai phoberǭ onti, kai panagiǭ. ῾Agiazei men gar tous pisteuontas, ekdeimatoi de tous apistountas.
"Let them confess your great name, for it is fearsome and holy." "All, then, must sing your praise and recount your benefits, and not pry into your ineffable nature, but offer reverence to your name, since it is both fearsome and all-holy." For it sanctifies those who believe and terrifies those who do not believe.
Ps 99:3 (98:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 99:3: all should praise God's name and his benefits rather than pry into his ineffable nature.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter): φωβερῷ → φοβερῷ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.3 (PG 80 80:1665; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.4PG 80 80:1665
« Καὶ τιμὴ βασιλέως κρίσιν ἀγαπᾷ. » Προσήκει δὲ ἡμᾶς δεδιέναι ὡς βασιλέα, καὶ δικαιοσύνῃ χρώμενον· ἴδιον γὰρ τῆς ἀληθοῦς βασιλείας τὸ δικαίως ἰθύνειν τοὺς ὑπηκόους. Τιμὴ γὰρ βασιλέως κρίσιν ἀγαπᾷ, τουτέστι τίμιον ποιεῖ βασιλέα τὸ στέργειν τὸ δίκαιον. Τοῦτο δὲ δηλοῖ καὶ τὸ ἐπαγόμενον. • Σὺ ἡτοίμασας εὐθύτητας· κρίσιν καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἐν Ἰακὼβ σὺ ἐποίησας. » Ὡς γὰρ δίκαιος βασιλεὺς, ὀρθὴν καὶ δικαίαν τὴν ψῆφον ἐξήνεγκας, καὶ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ τῆς τῶν καταδουλωσαμένων ἠλευθέρωσας δυναστείας, καὶ τὰ ἔθνη τῆς τοῦ διαβόλου δουλείας. Κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἑτέραν προφητείαν οὕτω νοητέον· Ἔδειξας τῆς ἐπαγγελίας σου τὴν ἀλήθειαν, τὰς πρὸς τοὺς προγόνους τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ γεγενημένας ὑποσχέσεις πληρώσας, καὶ τὴν διὰ τοῦ σπέρματος τοῦ ᾿Αβραὰμ δωρησάμενος σωτηρίαν.
« Kai timē basileōs krisin agapą. » Prosēkei de hēmas dedienai hōs basilea, kai dikaiosynę̄ chrōmenon; idion gar tēs alēthous basileias to dikaiōs ithynein tous hypēkoous. Timē gar basileōs krisin agapą, toutesti timion poiei basilea to stergein to dikaion. Touto de dēloi kai to epagomenon. • Sy hētoimasas euthytētas; krisin kai dikaiosynēn en Iakōb sy epoiēsas. » Hōs gar dikaios basileus, orthēn kai dikaian tēn psēphon exēnenkas, kai ton Israēl tēs tōn katadoulōsamenōn ēleutherōsas dynasteias, kai ta ethnē tēs tou diabolou douleias. Kata de tēn heteran prophēteian houtō noēteon; Edeixas tēs epangelias sou tēn alētheian, tas pros tous progonous tou Israēl gegenēmenas hyposcheseis plērōsas, kai tēn dia tou spermatos tou ᾿Abraam dōrēsamenos sōtērian.
"And the honor of a king loves judgment." It is fitting for us to fear him as a king, and as one who exercises justice; for it is the mark of true kingship to govern its subjects justly. "The honor of a king loves judgment": that is, love of what is just makes a king honored. What follows also shows this: "You have prepared uprightness; judgment and righteousness in Jacob you have performed." "For as a just king you passed a right and just sentence, and you freed Israel from the dominion of those who had enslaved them, and the nations from slavery to the devil." According to the other prophecy it is to be understood thus: "You have shown the truth of your promise, by fulfilling the pledges made to the forefathers of Israel and by granting the salvation that comes through the seed of Abraham."
Ps 99:4 (98:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 99:4: God rules as a just king, freeing Israel from its captors and the nations from the devil, and fulfilling his promise to Abraham's seed.
- A closing square bracket without an opening one stands after 'slavery to the devil'; it is removed. Migne may have bracketed part of this passage as a later addition, but its extent cannot be recovered.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR accent; unbalanced bracket (OCR)): Προσἡκει → Προσήκει; δουλείας.] → δουλείας..
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.4 (PG 80 80:1665; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.5PG 80 80:1665
« Ὑψοῦτε Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν, καὶ προσκυνεῖτε τῷ ὑποποδίῳ τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἅγιός ἐστιν. » ᾿Αμείψασθε τοίνυν τὸν εὐεργέτην, οἷς δύνασθε, καὶ τὸ πρόσφορον αὐτῷ προσενέγκατε σέβας· τὸ δὲ ὑψοῦτε, ἀντὶ Τὸ ὑψηλὸν αὐτοῦ κηρύττετε. Ὑποπόδιον δὲ τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ, πάλαι μὲν ὁ ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις νεὼς ἐνενόμιστο, νῦν δὲ αἱ κατὰ πᾶσαν γῆν καὶ θάλασσαν Ἐκκλησίαι, ἐν αἷς τῷ παναγίῳ Θεῷ προσφέρομεν τὴν προσκύνησιν.
« Hypsoute Kyrion ton Theon hēmōn, kai proskyneite tǭ hypopodiǭ tōn podōn autou, hoti hagios estin. » ᾿Ameipsasthe toinyn ton euergetēn, hois dynasthe, kai to prosphoron autǭ prosenenkate sebas; to de hypsoute, anti To hypsēlon autou kēryttete. Hypopodion de tōn podōn autou, palai men ho en Hierosolymois neōs enenomisto, nyn de hai kata pasan gēn kai thalassan Ekklēsiai, en hais tǭ panagiǭ Theǭ prospheromen tēn proskynēsin.
"Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at the footstool of his feet, for he is holy." "Repay your benefactor, then, with what you can, and offer him fitting reverence." "Exalt" stands for "proclaim his loftiness." The footstool of his feet was formerly considered to be the temple in Jerusalem, but now it is the churches throughout all land and sea, in which we offer worship to the all-holy God.
Ps 99:5 (98:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 99:5: God's footstool, once the Jerusalem temple, is now the churches throughout the world.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.5 (PG 80 80:1665; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.6PG 80 80:1665
– Μωσῆς καὶ ᾿Ααρὼν ἐν τοῖς ἱερεῦσιν αὐτοῦ· καὶ Σαμουὴλ ἐν τοῖς ἐπικαλουμένοις τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ. » Οὐχ ἁπλῶς τοὺς ἄλλους προφήτας καταλιπών, τούτων ἐμνημόνευσε μόνον, ἀλλὰ τὴν σύντροφον Ἰουδαίων λύτταν καὶ τυραννίδα διδάσκων. Καὶ γὰρ ἐπὶ Μωσοῦ καὶ ᾿Ααρὼν ἁρπάσαι τὴν ἱερωσύνην ἐπειράθησαν· καὶ ἐπὶ Σαμουὴλ τὴν θείαν ἀτιμάσαντες βασιλείαν, τὴν ἀνθρωπείαν ἠγάπησαν. Διδάσκει τοίνυν ὁ λόγος, ὅτι καινὸν οὐδὲν δρῶσι κατὰ τοῦ Σωτῆρος ' λυττῶντες, καὶ τὴν σωτήριον οὐ δεχόμενοι βασιλείαν· ἄνωθεν γὰρ αὐτοῖς ἡ μανία συνήθης. « Ἐπεκαλοῦντο τὸν Κύριον, καὶ αὐτὸς εἰσήκουεν αὐτῶν . Ἐν στύλῳ νεφέλης ἐλάλει πρὸς αὐτούς. • Καί τοι, φησὶ, πολλὴν εἶχον πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν παῤῥησίαν. Οἱ μὲν γὰρ παρεκάλουν , ὁ δὲ ὑπήκουε, καὶ τὰς αἰτήσεις παρείχε, καὶ πάντων ὁρώντων τὴν πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐποιεῖτο διάλεξιν, διὰ τῆς νεφέλης τὴν οἰκείαν δεικνὺς ἐπιφάνειαν. Εἶτα διδάσκει, ὡς οὐκ ἀδίκως ταύτης αὐτοῖς μετεδίδου χάριτος. « "Ὅτι ὁ - ἐφύλασσον τὰ μαρτύρια αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὰ προστάγματα αὐτοῦ ', ἃ ἔδωκεν αὐτοῖς. » Ἐννόμως γὰρ πολιτευομένοις, καὶ κατὰ τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ βιοτεύουσι, ταύτην ἐδωρεῖτο τὴν χάριν.
– Mōsēs kai ᾿Aarōn en tois hiereusin autou; kai Samouēl en tois epikaloumenois to onoma autou. » Ouch haplōs tous allous prophētas katalipōn, toutōn emnēmoneuse monon, alla tēn syntrophon Ioudaiōn lyttan kai tyrannida didaskōn. Kai gar epi Mōsou kai ᾿Aarōn harpasai tēn hierōsynēn epeirathēsan; kai epi Samouēl tēn theian atimasantes basileian, tēn anthrōpeian ēgapēsan. Didaskei toinyn ho logos, hoti kainon ouden drōsi kata tou Sōtēros ' lyttōntes, kai tēn sōtērion ou dechomenoi basileian; anōthen gar autois hē mania synēthēs. « Epekalounto ton Kyrion, kai autos eisēkouen autōn . En stylǭ nephelēs elalei pros autous. • Kai toi, phēsi, pollēn eichon pros ton Theon parrhēsian. Hoi men gar parekaloun , ho de hypēkoue, kai tas aitēseis pareiche, kai pantōn horōntōn tēn pros autous epoieito dialexin, dia tēs nephelēs tēn oikeian deiknys epiphaneian. Eita didaskei, hōs ouk adikōs tautēs autois metedidou charitos. « "Hoti ho - ephylasson ta martyria autou, kai ta prostagmata autou ', ha edōken autois. » Ennomōs gar politeuomenois, kai kata tas entolas autou bioteuousi, tautēn edōreito tēn charin.
"Moses and Aaron among his priests, and Samuel among those who call upon his name." Not without reason did he pass over the other prophets and mention only these; he is teaching the Jews' habitual rage and arrogance. For in the time of Moses and Aaron they tried to seize the priesthood, and in Samuel's time they despised the divine kingship and loved the human. The text teaches, then, that they do nothing new in raging against the Savior and not accepting the saving kingdom, for this madness has been their habit from of old. "They called upon the Lord, and he heard them. In a pillar of cloud he spoke to them." "And yet," he says, "they had great freedom of speech with God. For they entreated, and he listened and granted their requests, and in the sight of all he conversed with them, showing his own appearing through the cloud." Then he teaches that it was not unjustly that he gave them a share in this grace: "For they kept his testimonies and his ordinances, which he gave them." For he granted this grace to those who lived by the law and spent their lives according to his commandments.
Ps 99:6 (98:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 99:7 (98:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Num 16:1 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Sam 8:7 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 99:6–7: Moses, Aaron, and Samuel are named because the people rebelled against them as later against the Savior; God heard these men because they kept his law.
- Theodoret's reading of the Jews' 'habitual madness' is polemical; it is translated as written.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter): παρῥησίαν → παῤῥησίαν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.6 (PG 80 80:1665; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.8PG 80 80:1667
« Κύριε ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν, σὺ ἐπήκουες αὐτῶν· ὁ Θεὸς σὺ ὁ εὐΐλατος ἐγένου αὐτοῖς.» Σὺ εἶ, Δέσποτα, φησὶν, ὁ ὑφ᾽ ἡμῶν κηρυττόμενος, ὁ τῆς τοσαύτης ἐκείνοις μεταδοὺς ὁ παῤῥησίας, καὶ πολλῆς αὐτοὺς ἀξιῶν εὐμενείας. « Καὶ ἐκδικῶν ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἐπιτηδεύματα αὐτῶν. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως· Καὶ ἔκδικος ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐπηρείαις αὐτῶν. Τοὺς μὲν γὰρ κατὰ τοῦ μεγάλου Μωσοῦ τυραννήσαντας 'πυρὶ παραδέδωκε, καὶ τοὺς τὴν φλόγα διαφυγόντας ζῶντας τῷ τάφῳ παρέπεμψε, χάναι κελεύσας τὴν γῆν, καὶ τάφον αὐτοῖς αὐτοσχέδιον τῆς τυραννίδος τὸ χωρίον ἀπέφηνε, καὶ τοὺς διὰ θαλάσσης ὁδεύσαντας, καὶ τὸν βυθὸν ἐκεῖνον πεζεύσαντας, πεποίηκεν ὑποβρυχίους ἐν γῇ, παραδόξοις χρησάμενος κύμασι· τοὺς δὲ κατὰ τοῦ προφήτου Σαμουήλ στασιάσαντας τῇ τοῦ Σαούλ δυναστείᾳ παρέδωκε, καὶ παντοδαπαῖς περιέβαλε συμφοραῖς.
« Kyrie ho Theos hēmōn, sy epēkoues autōn; ho Theos sy ho euïlatos egenou autois.» Sy ei, Despota, phēsin, ho hyph᾽ hēmōn kēryttomenos, ho tēs tosautēs ekeinois metadous ho parrhēsias, kai pollēs autous axiōn eumeneias. « Kai ekdikōn epi panta ta epitēdeumata autōn. » Ho de Symmachos houtōs; Kai ekdikos epi tais epēreiais autōn. Tous men gar kata tou megalou Mōsou tyrannēsantas 'pyri paradedōke, kai tous tēn phloga diaphygontas zōntas tǭ taphǭ parepempse, chanai keleusas tēn gēn, kai taphon autois autoschedion tēs tyrannidos to chōrion apephēne, kai tous dia thalassēs hodeusantas, kai ton bython ekeinon pezeusantas, pepoiēken hypobrychious en gę̄, paradoxois chrēsamenos kymasi; tous de kata tou prophētou Samouēl stasiasantas tę̄ tou Saoul dynasteią paredōke, kai pantodapais periebale symphorais.
"O Lord our God, you heard them; O God, you became gracious to them." "You, Master," he says, "who are proclaimed by us, are the one who gave them such freedom of speech and counted them worthy of great favor." "And taking vengeance on all their practices." Symmachus has: "And avenger of the outrages done to them." For those who rose up against the great Moses he handed over to fire, and those who escaped the flame he sent alive to the grave, ordering the earth to gape and making the very place of their insurrection their improvised tomb; and those who had traveled through the sea and crossed that deep on foot he made to go under on dry land, using marvelous waves. And those who rebelled against the prophet Samuel he handed over to the dominion of Saul and surrounded with all sorts of misfortunes.
Ps 99:8 (98:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Num 16:31 (allusion, high confidence) · Num 16:35 (allusion, high confidence) · 1 Sam 8:11 (allusion, low confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 99:8: God, who favored Moses and Samuel, punished those who rebelled against them: Korah's company by fire and the earth, and Israel under Saul.
- Symmachus' rendering makes God the avenger of wrongs done to Moses, Aaron, and Samuel; Theodoret's examples follow that sense.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letters): ἐπιδητεύματα → ἐπιτηδεύματα.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.8 (PG 80 80:1667; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-8). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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98.9PG 80 80:1667
« Ὑψοῦτε Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ημων, καὶ προσκυνεῖτε εἰς ὄρος ἅγιον αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἅγιος Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν. » Τούτων τοιγαροῦν τῶν θαυμασίων ἀνδρῶν μιμούμενοι τὴν εὐσέβειαν, τὸ προσῆκον σέβας τῷ Θεῷ προσενέγκατε. Ὄρος δὲ ἄγιον, πάλαι μὲν τὸ Σιὼν ἐκαλεῖτο, νῦν δὲ τῆς θεογνωσίας τὸ ὕψος. Οὕτω γὰρ καὶ Ἡσαΐας, καὶ Μιχαίας ἐθέσπισαν· « Ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐμφανὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου, » τουτέστιν, ἡ τοῦ Θεοῦ γνῶσις δήλη πᾶσι γενήσεται. Οἶδε καὶ ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος νοητὸν ὄρος Σιών· « Προσεληλύθατε γὰρ Σιὼν ὄρει καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος Ἱερουσαλήμ ἐπουρανίῳ. • Προστετάγμεθα τοίνυν κατὰ τὴν δοθεῖσαν ἡμῖν ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοῦ γνῶσιν προσφέρειν αὐτῷ τὴν προσκύνησιν, [ καὶ Θεὸν ἐκ Θεοῦ ὁμολογεῖν καὶ μονογενῆ τῷ Πατρὶ Υἱὸν, τὸν δι᾽ ἡμᾶς ἐνανθρωπήσαντα. Αμήν.]
« Hypsoute Kyrion ton Theon ēmōn, kai proskyneite eis oros hagion autou, hoti hagios Kyrios ho Theos hēmōn. » Toutōn toigaroun tōn thaumasiōn andrōn mimoumenoi tēn eusebeian, to prosēkon sebas tǭ Theǭ prosenenkate. Oros de agion, palai men to Siōn ekaleito, nyn de tēs theognōsias to hypsos. Houtō gar kai Hēsaïas, kai Michaias ethespisan; « Estai en tais eschatais hēmerais emphanes to oros Kyriou, » toutestin, hē tou Theou gnōsis dēlē pasi genēsetai. Oide kai ho theios ᾿Apostolos noēton oros Siōn; « Proselēlythate gar Siōn orei kai polei Theou zōntos Hierousalēm epouraniǭ. • Prostetagmetha toinyn kata tēn dotheisan hēmin hypo tou Theou gnōsin prospherein autǭ tēn proskynēsin, [ kai Theon ek Theou homologein kai monogenē tǭ Patri Huion, ton di᾽ hēmas enanthrōpēsanta. Amēn.]
"Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy mountain, for the Lord our God is holy." "Imitate, then, the piety of these wonderful men, and offer due reverence to God." The holy mountain was formerly the name of Zion, but now it is the height of the knowledge of God. So Isaiah and Micah prophesied: "In the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be manifest," that is, the knowledge of God will become plain to all. The divine Apostle also knows a spiritual Mount Zion: "For you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem." We are commanded, then, to offer him worship according to the knowledge given us by God, [and to confess God from God, and the only-begotten Son of the Father, who became man for us. Amen.]
Ps 99:9 (98:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Isa 2:2 (quotation, high confidence) · Mic 4:1 (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 12:22 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 99:9: the holy mountain, once Zion, is now the height of the knowledge of God, as Isaiah, Micah, and Hebrews show.
- The bracketed closing words are bracketed in Migne; they are probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter): Γἱὸν → Υἱὸν.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 98.9 (PG 80 80:1667; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/98-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 99
99.1PG 80 80:1669
« Ψαλμὸς τῷ Δαβὶδ", Εἰς ἐξομολόγησιν· ἀνεπίγραφος παρ' Ἑβραίοις. » Ὁ προφήτης ἐνταῦθα πάντας ἀνθρώπους εἰς ὑμνῳδίαν καλεῖ, παρεγγυῶν διὰ πάντων θεραπεῦσαι τὸν Σωτῆρα Θεόν.
« Psalmos tǭ Dabid", Eis exomologēsin; anepigraphos par' Hebraiois. » Ho prophētēs entautha pantas anthrōpous eis hymnǭdian kalei, parengyōn dia pantōn therapeusai ton Sōtēra Theon.
"A psalm of David, for confession; without a title among the Hebrews." Here the prophet calls all human beings to hymn-singing, urging them to serve God the Savior in every way.
Ps 100:1 (99:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 100 title: the prophet calls all people to praise God the Savior.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 99.1 (PG 80 80:1669; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/99-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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99.2PG 80 80:1669
« ᾿Αλαλάξατε τῷ Κυρίῳ πᾶσα ἡ γῆ. » "Απαντες ἄνθρωποι τὸν ἐπινίκιον ὕμνον προσενέγκατε τῷ Θεῷ · γῆν γὰρ τοὺς κατοικοῦντας τὴν γῆν καλεῖ. « Δουλεύσατε τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ. » Οὐ γάρ ἐστι κατὰ τὴν πικρὰν τοῦ διαβόλου τυραννίδα, τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἡ βασιλεία, ἀλλ᾽ ἤμερος αὐτοῦ καὶ φιλάνθρωπος ἡ δεσποτεία. Γεγηθότες τοίνυν τῇ δουλείᾳ προσέλθετε. « Εἰσέλθετε ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀγαλλιάσει. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος, μετ' εὐφημίας εἴρηκεν· ὁ δὲ ᾿Ακύλας, ἐν αἰνέσει, ἀγαλλομένων δὴ καὶ εὐφραινομένων ὁ ὕμνος.
« ᾿Alalaxate tǭ Kyriǭ pasa hē gē. » "Apantes anthrōpoi ton epinikion hymnon prosenenkate tǭ Theǭ ; gēn gar tous katoikountas tēn gēn kalei. « Douleusate tǭ Kyriǭ en euphrosynę̄. » Ou gar esti kata tēn pikran tou diabolou tyrannida, tou Theou kai Sōtēros hēmōn hē basileia, all᾽ ēmeros autou kai philanthrōpos hē despoteia. Gegēthotes toinyn tę̄ douleią proselthete. « Eiselthete enōpion autou en agalliasei. » Ho de Symmachos, met' euphēmias eirēken; ho de ᾿Akylas, en ainesei, agallomenōn dē kai euphrainomenōn ho hymnos.
"Shout to the Lord, all the earth." "All you people, offer God the hymn of victory"; for by "earth" he means those who dwell on the earth. "Serve the Lord with gladness." For the kingdom of our God and Savior is not like the bitter tyranny of the devil; his lordship is gentle and full of love for humankind. Come, then, rejoicing in this service. "Enter before him with exultation." Symmachus said "with acclamation," and Aquila "with praise": the hymn belongs to those who exult and rejoice.
Ps 100:1 (99:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 100:2 (99:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 100:1–2: all people are called to serve God gladly, since his rule, unlike the devil's tyranny, is gentle.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 99.2 (PG 80 80:1669; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/99-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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99.3PG 80 80:1669
• Γνῶτε ὅτι αὐτός ἐστιν ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν. [Εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἄνθρωπος είλετο ὁ φιλάνθρωπος γενέσθαι, ἀλλὰ τὸ εἶναι Θεὸς ἔμεινεν ἔχων ἀεί· λέγει δὲ ὅτι] δι᾿ αὐτῶν μάθετε τῶν πραγμάτων, ὡς ὁ ἡμέτερος Δεσπότης αὐτός ἐστιν τῶν ὅλων Θεός. Ταῦτα τοῖς ἔθνεσι προσέφερε τὰ παιδεύματα καὶ ὁ ἱερὸς τῶν ἀποστόλων χορὸς, ὡς ἡ τῶν πράξεων Ιστορία διδάσκει. « Αὐτὸς ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ οὐχ ἡμεῖς. • Οὐ γὰρ ἡμεῖς ἡμῶν αὐτοὶ δημιουργοί καθεστήκαμεν, ἀλλ᾽ ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐπλάσθημεν. Ούτως ὁ μακάριος Παῦλος Αθηναίους ἐδίδασκεν· «Ὁ Θεὸς ὁ ποιήσας τὸν κόσμον, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ, οὗτος οὐρανοῦ καὶ γῆς Κύριος ὑπάρχων, οὐκ ἐν χειροποιήτοις ναοῖς κατοικεῖ, οὐδὲ ὑπὸ χειρῶν ἀνθρώπων θεραπεύεται προσδεόμενός τινος, αὐτὸς διδοὺς πᾶσι ζωὴν καὶ πνοὴν καὶ τὰ πάντα· ἐποίησέ τε ἐξ ἑνὸς αἵματος πᾶν ἔθνος κατοικεῖν ἐπὶ πᾶν τὸ πρόσωπον τῆς γῆς. • Τοῦτο καὶ ἐνταῦθα ὁ Προφήτης διδάσκει· « Αὐτὸς ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶς, καὶ οὐχ ἡμεῖς. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως, Αὐτὸς ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶς οὐκ ὄντας. « Ἡμεῖς δὲ λαὸς αὐτοῦ, καὶ πρόβατα νομῆς αὐτοῦ. • Διὰ τούτων οὐ μόνον τὴν δεσποτείαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὴν κηδεμονίαν ἐδήλωσεν. Οὐ μόνον γὰρ ἡμῶν Δεσπότης ἐστὶν , ἀλλὰ καὶ ποιμὴν, τὴν ἀγαθὴν ἡμῖν προσφέρων νομήν· ἡμεῖς δὲ αὐτοῦ καὶ λαὸς ὡς βασιλέως, καὶ πρόβατα ὡς ποιμένος.
• Gnōte hoti autos estin ho Theos hēmōn. [Ei gar kai anthrōpos eileto ho philanthrōpos genesthai, alla to einai Theos emeinen echōn aei; legei de hoti] di᾿ autōn mathete tōn pragmatōn, hōs ho hēmeteros Despotēs autos estin tōn holōn Theos. Tauta tois ethnesi prosephere ta paideumata kai ho hieros tōn apostolōn choros, hōs hē tōn praxeōn Istoria didaskei. « Autos epoiēsen hēmas, kai ouch hēmeis. • Ou gar hēmeis hēmōn autoi dēmiourgoi kathestēkamen, all᾽ hyp᾿ autou eplasthēmen. Outōs ho makarios Paulos Athēnaious edidasken; «Ho Theos ho poiēsas ton kosmon, kai panta ta en autǭ, houtos ouranou kai gēs Kyrios hyparchōn, ouk en cheiropoiētois naois katoikei, oude hypo cheirōn anthrōpōn therapeuetai prosdeomenos tinos, autos didous pasi zōēn kai pnoēn kai ta panta; epoiēse te ex henos haimatos pan ethnos katoikein epi pan to prosōpon tēs gēs. • Touto kai entautha ho Prophētēs didaskei; « Autos epoiēsen hēmas, kai ouch hēmeis. » Ho de Symmachos houtōs, Autos epoiēsen hēmas ouk ontas. « Hēmeis de laos autou, kai probata nomēs autou. • Dia toutōn ou monon tēn despoteian, alla kai tēn kēdemonian edēlōsen. Ou monon gar hēmōn Despotēs estin , alla kai poimēn, tēn agathēn hēmin prospherōn nomēn; hēmeis de autou kai laos hōs basileōs, kai probata hōs poimenos.
"Know that he is our God." [For even if he who loves humankind chose to become man, yet he always remained God. He says:] "Learn from the events themselves that our Master is himself the God of all." The sacred choir of the apostles also offered these teachings to the nations, as the history of the Acts teaches. "He made us, and not we ourselves." For we are not our own makers; we were formed by him. So the blessed Paul taught the Athenians: "God, who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made by hands, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all life and breath and all things; and he made from one blood every nation to dwell on the whole face of the earth." The prophet teaches the same here: "He made us, and not we ourselves." Symmachus has: "He made us when we did not exist." "And we are his people and the sheep of his pasture." By these words he showed not only his lordship but also his care. For he is not only our Master but also our shepherd, providing good pasture for us; and we are his people, as of a king, and his sheep, as of a shepherd.
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Ps 100:3 (99:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 17:24 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 17:25 (quotation, high confidence) · Acts 17:26 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 100:3: Christ the Master is the God of all and our maker, as Paul taught at Athens; we are his people and the sheep he cares for.
- The opening bracket of Migne's bracketed passage is lost in the scan; it is restored before 'For even if', where the added words begin. They are probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (opening bracket lost (OCR); split word (OCR)): ἡμῶν. Εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἄνθρωπος → ἡμῶν. [Εἰ γὰρ καὶ ἄνθρωπος; χει ροποιήτοις → χειροποιήτοις.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 99.3 (PG 80 80:1669; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/99-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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99.4PG 80 80:1669
« Εἰσέλθετε εἰς τὰς πύλας αὐτοῦ ἐν ἐξομολογήσει, εἰς τὰς αὐλὰς αὐτοῦ ἐν ὕμνοις. » Πύλας αὐτοῦ, καὶ αὐλὰς αὐτοῦ, τὰς ἐκκλησίας καλεῖ. Αὗται γὰρ ἡμῶν τὴν πρὸς αὐτὸν παρέχουσιν εἴσοδον, ἐν αἷς προσήκει τὰς θείας αὐτοῦ καὶ σωτηρίους ἐργασίας διεξιέναι, καὶ τὸν χαριστήριον ὕμνον οἷόν τι δῶρον προσφέρειν. • Ἐξομολογεῖσθε αὐτῷ· αἰνεῖτε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ. Ὅτι χρηστὸς Κύριος, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τὸ ἔλεος αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἕως γενεᾶς καὶ γενεᾶς ἡ ἀλήθεια αὐτοῦ. » Πῶς γὰρ οὐ δίκαιον ὑμνεῖν τὸν ἀῤῥήτῳ φιλανθρωπίᾳ χρώμενον, καὶ ταῖς ἀγαθαῖς ὑποσχέσεσιν ἐπιτιθέντα τὸ πέρας; "Α γὰρ ἐπὶ τῆς τῶν προγόνων ὑπέσχετο γενεᾶς, ταῦτα ἐπὶ τῆς ἡμετέρας πεπλήρωκεν, καὶ ἣν ἐπηγγείλατο σωτηρίαν, ἀληθῶς έδωρήσατο, διὰ σταυροῦ καὶ θανάτου τὴν ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν πραγματευσάμενος. Αμήν.
« Eiselthete eis tas pylas autou en exomologēsei, eis tas aulas autou en hymnois. » Pylas autou, kai aulas autou, tas ekklēsias kalei. Hautai gar hēmōn tēn pros auton parechousin eisodon, en hais prosēkei tas theias autou kai sōtērious ergasias diexienai, kai ton charistērion hymnon hoion ti dōron prospherein. • Exomologeisthe autǭ; aineite to onoma autou. Hoti chrēstos Kyrios, eis ton aiōna to eleos autou, kai heōs geneas kai geneas hē alētheia autou. » Pōs gar ou dikaion hymnein ton arrhētǭ philanthrōpią chrōmenon, kai tais agathais hyposchesesin epitithenta to peras? "A gar epi tēs tōn progonōn hypescheto geneas, tauta epi tēs hēmeteras peplērōken, kai hēn epēngeilato sōtērian, alēthōs edōrēsato, dia staurou kai thanatou tēn hēmeteran sōtērian pragmateusamenos. Amēn.
"Enter his gates with confession, his courts with hymns." By his gates and his courts he means the churches. For they give us entrance to him, and in them it is fitting to recount his divine and saving works and to offer the hymn of thanksgiving as a kind of gift. "Confess him; praise his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is for ever, and his truth from generation to generation." For how is it not just to sing the praise of one who shows ineffable love for humankind and brings his good promises to fulfillment? What he promised in the generation of our forefathers he has fulfilled in ours, and the salvation he promised he truly gave, achieving our salvation through cross and death. Amen.
Ps 100:4 (99:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 100:5 (99:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 100:4–5: the gates and courts are the churches, where God is thanked for fulfilling his promises of salvation through the cross.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); unbalanced bracket (OCR)): εἴσ οδον → εἴσοδον; Αμήν]. → Αμήν..
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 99.4 (PG 80 80:1669; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/99-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Chapter 100
100.1PG 80 80:1671
« Τῷ Δαβὶδ ψαλμός. » Ἔνια τῶν ἀντιγράφων ἔχει · · Τετράδι Σαββάτων. • Οὔτε δὲ παρὰ τῷ Ἑβραίῳ, οὔτε παρὰ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἑρμηνευταῖς, οὔτε παρὰ τοῖς Ἑβδομήκοντα ταύτην εὑρήκαμεν τὴν προσθήκην. Ὑπόθεσιν δὲ ὁ ψαλμὸς ταύτην ἔχει· Ἰωσίας ὁ βασιλεὺς ἀνέσπασεν ἅπαντας ἐκ βάθρων τοὺς τῶν εἰδώλων βωμούς· τοὺς δὲ τούτων κατηκόντισεν ἱερέας· εἰς δὲ τὴν προτέραν εὐσέβειαν ἐποδήγησε τὸν λαόν. Οὐ μόνης δὲ τῆς τῶν δογμάτων ἐφρόντισεν ὑγείας, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν τῆς ἀρετῆς ἐπεμελήθη κατορθωμάτων, ὀρθῶς δικάζων, γεραίρων τὸ δίκαιον, ἐπαρκῶν ἀδικουμένοις, τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας κολάζων, τῆς τῶν συνοικούντων ὠφελείας ἐπιμελούμενος. Ταῦτα πόρρωθεν ὁ μακάριος Δαβὶδ θεασάμενος, τοῦτον συνέγραψε τὸν ψαλμὸν, καὶ τὴν ἐκείνου διεξιὼν ἀρετὴν, καὶ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποις τελειότητος προστιθεὶς χαρακτῆρα. «Ἔλεον καὶ κρίσιν ᾄσομαί σοι, Κύριε. · Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ καὶ τοὺς ἀδικουμένους ἠλέει, καὶ τῶν ἀδικούντων ὁ θαυμάσιος Ἰωσίας κατεψηφίζετο, τὴν περὶ ἐκείνων διήγησιν, εὐφημίαν ἐλέου καὶ κρίσεως προσηγόρευσε.
« Tǭ Dabid psalmos. » Enia tōn antigraphōn echei ; ; Tetradi Sabbatōn. • Oute de para tǭ Hebraiǭ, oute para tois allois hermēneutais, oute para tois Hebdomēkonta tautēn heurēkamen tēn prosthēkēn. Hypothesin de ho psalmos tautēn echei; Iōsias ho basileus anespasen hapantas ek bathrōn tous tōn eidōlōn bōmous; tous de toutōn katēkontisen hiereas; eis de tēn proteran eusebeian epodēgēse ton laon. Ou monēs de tēs tōn dogmatōn ephrontisen hygeias, alla kai tōn tēs aretēs epemelēthē katorthōmatōn, orthōs dikazōn, gerairōn to dikaion, eparkōn adikoumenois, tous adikountas kolazōn, tēs tōn synoikountōn ōpheleias epimeloumenos. Tauta porrōthen ho makarios Dabid theasamenos, touton synegrapse ton psalmon, kai tēn ekeinou diexiōn aretēn, kai pasin anthrōpois teleiotētos prostitheis charaktēra. «Eleon kai krisin ąsomai soi, Kyrie. ; Epeidē gar kai tous adikoumenous ēleei, kai tōn adikountōn ho thaumasios Iōsias katepsēphizeto, tēn peri ekeinōn diēgēsin, euphēmian eleou kai kriseōs prosēgoreuse.
"A psalm of David." Some copies have "On the fourth day of the week." But we have found this addition neither in the Hebrew, nor in the other translators, nor in the Seventy. The psalm has this subject. King Josiah tore up from their foundations all the altars of the idols, shot down their priests, and led the people back to their former piety. He cared not only for soundness of doctrine but also attended to the achievements of virtue: judging rightly, honoring justice, aiding the wronged, punishing wrongdoers, and caring for the welfare of those who lived under him. The blessed David saw this from afar and wrote this psalm, both recounting that man's virtue and setting before all people a pattern of perfection. "Of mercy and judgment I will sing to you, O Lord." Since the admirable Josiah both showed mercy to the wronged and condemned the wrongdoers, he called the account of these things a praise of mercy and judgment.
Ps 101:1 (100:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 23:4 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 23:20 (allusion, medium confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:1: David foresaw King Josiah's reform and just rule and wrote this psalm as a pattern of perfection.
- Theodoret reads the psalm as a prophecy of Josiah (2 Kgs 22–23; 2 Chr 34–35).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): ἀντιγρά φων → ἀντιγράφων.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.1 (PG 80 80:1671; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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100.2PG 80 80:1671
« Ψαλῶ, καὶ συνήσω ἐν ὁδῷ ἀμώμῳ. Σύμμαχος οὕτως· Μελῳδήσω. ἐννοήσω ὁδὸν ἄμωμον" Ην διὰ τῆς τοῦ Πνεύματος χάριτος ἐθεασάμην ἄμωμον ὁδὸν, καὶ θυμήρη Θεῷ, ταύτην νῦν διὰ τῆς μελῳδίας προσθήσω. « Πότε ἥξεις πρός με;» τοσαύτην γὰρ ὁ θαυμάσιος οὗτος ἀνὴρ ἐκτήσατο καθαρότητα, ὡς μετὰ παῤῥησίας βοῆσαι πρὸς τὸν Θεὸν, • Πότε ἥξεις πρός με; ᾿Αντὶ τοῦ, πρεπῆ σοι τὰ βασίλεια κατέστησα, ποθῶ σου [ τὴν παρουσίαν ὦ, Δέσποτα· ἱμείρομαί σου] τῆς ἐπιφανείας, ἀλλὰ δὸς τὸ ποθούμενον. « Διεπορευόμην ἐν ἀκακίᾳ καρδίας μου ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου μου.» Απλότητι συζῶν διετέλεσα· οὐκ ἐχρώμην διπλόῃ, οὐδὲ ἄλλος μὲν τοῖς ἐκτὸς ἐφαινόμην, ἐν δὲ τῇ οἰκίᾳ τἀναντία δρᾶν ἡνειχόμην, ἀλλὰ συνέβαινε τοῖς φαινομένοις τὰ κεκρυμμένα.
« Psalō, kai synēsō en hodǭ amōmǭ. Symmachos houtōs; Melǭdēsō. ennoēsō hodon amōmon" Ēn dia tēs tou Pneumatos charitos etheasamēn amōmon hodon, kai thymērē Theǭ, tautēn nyn dia tēs melǭdias prosthēsō. « Pote hēxeis pros me?» tosautēn gar ho thaumasios houtos anēr ektēsato katharotēta, hōs meta parrhēsias boēsai pros ton Theon, • Pote hēxeis pros me? ᾿Anti tou, prepē soi ta basileia katestēsa, pothō sou [ tēn parousian ō, Despota; himeiromai sou] tēs epiphaneias, alla dos to pothoumenon. « Dieporeuomēn en akakią kardias mou en mesǭ tou oikou mou.» Aplotēti syzōn dietelesa; ouk echrōmēn diploę̄, oude allos men tois ektos ephainomēn, en de tę̄ oikią tanantia dran hēneichomēn, alla synebaine tois phainomenois ta kekrymmena.
"I will sing and understand in a blameless way." Symmachus has: "I will make melody; I will consider a blameless way." "The blameless way, pleasing to God, that I beheld through the grace of the Spirit, I will now set forth in melody." "When will you come to me?" For this admirable man acquired such purity that he could cry to God with confidence, "When will you come to me?" That is: "I have made the palace fit for you; I long for your [presence, O Master; I yearn for your] appearing; grant what I long for." "I walked in the innocence of my heart in the midst of my house." "I continued living in simplicity. I did not practice duplicity; I did not appear one way to outsiders and allow myself to do the opposite at home; what was hidden matched what was seen."
Ps 101:2 (100:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:2: Josiah longed for God's presence and lived the same blameless life at home as in public.
- The bracketed words are bracketed in Migne.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): Διε πορευό μην → Διεπορευόμην.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.2 (PG 80 80:1671; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-2). (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.
100.3PG 80 80:1673
« Οὐ προσετιθέμην πρὸ ὀφθαλμῶν μου πρᾶγμα παράνομον. » Οὐ μόνον τὰς παρανόμους πράξεις ἑβδελυττόμην, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὰς περὶ τούτων ἐνθυμήσεις ἀπεσειόμην, τὸν λογισμὸν πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων ἁπάντων ῥυθμίζων καὶ διευθύνων. «Ποιοῦντας παραβάσεις· ἐμίσησα. » ᾿Απεστρεφόμην δὲ καὶ τοὺς τῶν θείων καταφρονοῦντας θεσμῶν.
« Ou prosetithemēn pro ophthalmōn mou pragma paranomon. » Ou monon tas paranomous praxeis hebdelyttomēn, alla kai tas peri toutōn enthymēseis apeseiomēn, ton logismon pro tōn allōn hapantōn rhythmizōn kai dieuthynōn. «Poiountas parabaseis; emisēsa. » ᾿Apestrephomēn de kai tous tōn theiōn kataphronountas thesmōn.
"I did not set before my eyes any lawless thing." "I not only loathed lawless deeds but also shook off thoughts of them, regulating and directing my reasoning before everything else." "I hated those who commit transgressions." "I turned away also from those who despise the divine laws."
Ps 101:3 (100:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:3: Josiah rejected not only lawless deeds but lawless thoughts, and turned from those who despised God's laws.
Topics: Ethics
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.3 (PG 80 80:1673; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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100.4PG 80 80:1673
« Οὐκ ἐκολλήθη, μοι καρδία σκαμβή.» Συνἡθεις δέ μοι ἦσαν οἱ τιμῶντες τὸ δίκαιον· τοὺς δὲ τὰ ἐναντία προαιρουμένους, καὶ τὸν ὀρθὸν λογισμὸν οὐκ ἐθέλοντας ἔχειν, πόῤῥω τῶν ἐμῶν ἐποιούμην συλλόγων. « Ἑκκλίνοντος ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ σε τοῦ πονηροῦ οὐκ ἐγίνωσκον. » Εἰ δέ τις τῶν συνόντων πονηρία χρώμενος ἀποστῆναι τῆς ἐμῆς ἠθέλησε συνουσίας, οὐδὲ χωρισμὸν ὑπελάμβανον τὸν τοιοῦτον χωρισμόν. Οΰτως εὐκαταφρόνητος ἦν μοι λίαν ὁ τὴν κακίαν αἱρούμενος.
« Ouk ekollēthē, moi kardia skambē.» Synētheis de moi ēsan hoi timōntes to dikaion; tous de ta enantia proairoumenous, kai ton orthon logismon ouk ethelontas echein, porrhō tōn emōn epoioumēn syllogōn. « Hekklinontos ap᾿ emou se tou ponērou ouk eginōskon. » Ei de tis tōn synontōn ponēria chrōmenos apostēnai tēs emēs ēthelēse synousias, oude chōrismon hypelambanon ton toiouton chōrismon. Oÿtōs eukataphronētos ēn moi lian ho tēn kakian hairoumenos.
"A crooked heart did not cling to me." "Those who honored justice were my intimates; those who chose the opposite and did not want to have right reasoning I kept far from my company." "When the wicked turned away from me, I did not know it." "If any of my companions who practiced wickedness wanted to withdraw from my company, I did not even consider such a separation a separation. So very contemptible to me was the one who chose vice."
Ps 101:4 (100:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:4: Josiah kept company with the just and did not miss the wicked who left him.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): συλ λόγων → συλλόγων.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.4 (PG 80 80:1673; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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100.5PG 80 80:1673
« Τὸν καταλαλοῦντα λάθρα τοῦ πλησίον αὐτοῦ, τοῦτον ἐξεδίωκον. » Τὰς δὲ λάθρα γινομένας κατηγορίας οὐ προσιέμην, ἀλλὰ τοὺς τοῦτο δρᾷν πειρωμένους ἐξήλαυνον. « Ὑπερηφάνῳ ὀφθαλμῷ καὶ ἀπλήστῳ καρδίᾳ, τούτῳ οὐ συνήσθιον.» Οὔτε τοὺς ἀλαζονείᾳ καὶ πλεονεξίᾳ χρωμένους ἐποιούμην συσσίτους.
« Ton katalalounta lathra tou plēsion autou, touton exediōkon. » Tas de lathra ginomenas katēgorias ou prosiemēn, alla tous touto drąn peirōmenous exēlaunon. « Hyperēphanǭ ophthalmǭ kai aplēstǭ kardią, toutǭ ou synēsthion.» Oute tous alazoneią kai pleonexią chrōmenous epoioumēn syssitous.
"The one who secretly slanders his neighbor, him I drove out." "I did not admit accusations made in secret, but drove out those who tried to make them." "With the one of proud eye and insatiable heart I would not eat." "Nor did I make those given to arrogance and greed my table companions."
Ps 101:5 (100:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:5: Josiah refused secret slanderers and would not eat with the proud and greedy.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (unbalanced bracket for iota subscript (OCR)): πλεονεξία] → πλεονεξίᾳ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.5 (PG 80 80:1673; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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100.6PG 80 80:1673
« Οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου ἐπὶ τοὺς πιστοὺς τῆς γῆς, τοῦ συγκαθῆσθαι αὐτοὺς μετ᾿ ἐμοῦ. › Συνεδρίων δέ μοι καὶ βουλῆς ἐκοινώνουν οἱ πίστει κοσμούμενοι, καὶ περὶ πολλοῦ τὰ θεῖα ποιούμενοι. « Πορευόμενος ἐν ὁδῷ ἀμώμῳ, οὗτός μοι ἐλειτούργει. » Οὐ μόνον δὲ φίλων καὶ συμβούλων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν διακόνων πολλὴν ἐποιούμην φροντίδα. Ὑπηρέταις γὰρ ἐχρώμην ἀρετῆς ἐπιμελομένοις, καὶ κακίας ἀπηλλαγμένοις.
« Hoi ophthalmoi mou epi tous pistous tēs gēs, tou synkathēsthai autous met᾿ emou. › Synedriōn de moi kai boulēs ekoinōnoun hoi pistei kosmoumenoi, kai peri pollou ta theia poioumenoi. « Poreuomenos en hodǭ amōmǭ, houtos moi eleitourgei. » Ou monon de philōn kai symboulōn, alla kai tōn diakonōn pollēn epoioumēn phrontida. Hypēretais gar echrōmēn aretēs epimelomenois, kai kakias apēllagmenois.
"My eyes are on the faithful of the land, that they may sit with me." "Those adorned with faith and who set great store by divine things shared in my councils and deliberations." "The one who walks in a blameless way, he served me." "I took great care not only over my friends and counselors but also over my attendants. For I used servants who cultivated virtue and were free of vice."
Ps 101:6 (100:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:6: Josiah chose faithful counselors and virtuous servants.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (Cyrillic letters for Greek (OCR); split word and stray letter (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): δε σε μοι → δέ μοι; κοσμού- σ μενοι → κοσμούμενοι; Поρευόμενος → Πορευόμενος.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.6 (PG 80 80:1673; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-6). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-6
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100.7PG 80 80:1673
« Οὐ κατῴκει ἐν μέσῳ τῆς οἰκίας μου ποιῶν ὑπερηφανίαν. » Οὐδένα δὲ τῶν ὑπεροψίᾳ χρωμένων σύνοικον ἔχειν ἡρούμην. « Λαλῶν ἄδικα οὐ κατεύθυνεν ἐνώπιον τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν μου. » Εἰ δέ τις συνεβούλευσεν, ἢ ἐξῄτησεν ἄδικα, διαμαρτὼν ἀπελήλυθεν· [" σπουδή γάρ μοι ἀποκλείειν τὰς ἀκοὰς τοῖς διαβάλλειν ἐθέλουσιν.]
« Ou katǭkei en mesǭ tēs oikias mou poiōn hyperēphanian. » Oudena de tōn hyperopsią chrōmenōn synoikon echein hēroumēn. « Lalōn adika ou kateuthynen enōpion tōn ophthalmōn mou. » Ei de tis synebouleusen, ē exę̄tēsen adika, diamartōn apelēlythen; [" spoudē gar moi apokleiein tas akoas tois diaballein ethelousin.]
"The one who acts proudly did not dwell in the midst of my house." "I chose to have no one given to arrogance living with me." "The one who speaks unjust things did not prosper before my eyes." "If anyone advised or demanded unjust things, he went away having failed; [for I was eager to shut my ears to those who wished to slander.]"
Ps 101:7 (100:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:7: Josiah kept the proud from his house and refused unjust counsel and slander.
- The bracketed words are bracketed in Migne; they are probably an addition from the catena.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): Εἰ δὲ το τις → Εἰ δέ τις.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.7 (PG 80 80:1673; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
Permanent link: https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-7
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100.8PG 80 80:1673
«Εἰς τὰς πρωΐας ἀπέκτενον πάντας τοὺς ἁμαρτωλοὺς τῆς γῆς, τοῦ ἐξολοθρεῦσαι ἐκ πόλεως Κυρίου πάντας τοὺς ἐργαζομένους τὴν ἀνομίαν. Τοῦτο σαφῶς παρὰ τῆς ἱστορίας ἐμάθομεν. Απαντας γὰρ τοὺς δυσσεβεῖς ἱερέας τῷ θανάτῳ παρέπεμψε, καὶ τὴν ἱερὰν ἐξεκάθηρε πόλιν. [ Πρωΐαν δὲ καλεῖ τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς αὐτοῦ βασιλείας· ὡς ὄρθρος γὰρ αὐτὸς ἀνέτειλε μετὰ τῆς πρεπούσης καὶ φωτιζούσης δικαιοσύνης.] Ὁ δὲ βουλόμενος τὴν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς ἀρετὴν καταμαθεῖν ἀκριβέστερον, εὑρήσεται ταύτην ἔκ τε τῆς δευτέρας τῶν Παραλειπομένων, καὶ ἐκ τῆς τετάρτης τῶν Βασιλειῶν ἱστορίας. Σπουδασάτω τοίνυν ἕκαστος μιμητὴς τοῦδε τοῦ ἀνδρὸς γενέσθαι · ἵνα τῆς ἴσης αὐτῷ κοινωνήσῃ παρὰ Χριστῷ παρρησίας. ᾿Αμήν.
«Eis tas prōïas apektenon pantas tous hamartōlous tēs gēs, tou exolothreusai ek poleōs Kyriou pantas tous ergazomenous tēn anomian. Touto saphōs para tēs historias emathomen. Apantas gar tous dyssebeis hiereas tǭ thanatǭ parepempse, kai tēn hieran exekathēre polin. [ Prōïan de kalei tēn archēn tēs autou basileias; hōs orthros gar autos aneteile meta tēs prepousēs kai phōtizousēs dikaiosynēs.] Ho de boulomenos tēn tou andros aretēn katamathein akribesteron, heurēsetai tautēn ek te tēs deuteras tōn Paraleipomenōn, kai ek tēs tetartēs tōn Basileiōn historias. Spoudasatō toinyn hekastos mimētēs toude tou andros genesthai ; hina tēs isēs autǭ koinōnēsę̄ para Christǭ parrēsias. ᾿Amēn.
"In the mornings I killed all the sinners of the land, to destroy from the city of the Lord all who work lawlessness." We have learned this clearly from the history. For he put all the ungodly priests to death and cleansed the holy city. [He calls the beginning of his reign "morning," for he rose like the dawn with fitting and enlightening righteousness.] Whoever wishes to learn the man's virtue more precisely will find it in the history of the Second book of Chronicles and of the Fourth of Kingdoms. Let each one, then, strive to become an imitator of this man, so as to share with him equal freedom of speech before Christ. Amen.
Ps 101:8 (100:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Kgs 23:20 (allusion, high confidence) · 2 Chr 34:3 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 101:8: Josiah put the idolatrous priests to death and purified Jerusalem; readers are urged to imitate him.
- The bracketed sentence is bracketed in Migne; it is probably an addition from the catena. A further unmatched closing bracket after the final 'Amen' is removed.
- The 'Fourth of Kingdoms' is 2 Kings.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word and stray mark (OCR); stray letters (OCR); stray mark (OCR); unbalanced bracket (OCR)): παρέπεμψε, ! καὶ → παρέπεμψε, καὶ; αὐ- | τὸς → αὐτὸς; εὑρήσεται το ταύτην → εὑρήσεται ταύτην; ᾿Αμήν.] → ᾿Αμήν..
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 100.8 (PG 80 80:1673; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/100-8). (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.
Chapter 101
101.1PG 80 80:1675
« Προσευχὴ τῷ πτωχῷ· ὅταν ἀκηδιάσῃ, καὶ - ἔναντι" Κυρίου ἐκχέῃ τὴν δέησιν αὐτοῦ. » Πρόβρησιν μὲν ὁ ψαλμὸς ἔχει τῆς ἐν Βαβυλῶνι τοῦ λαοῦ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ταλαιπωρίας, καὶ τῆς ἐκεῖθεν ἐπανόδου. Προαγορεύει δὲ κατ᾿ αὐτὸν, καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν τὴν κλῆσιν καὶ σωτηρίαν. Αρμόττει δὲ καὶ παντὶ συμφορᾷ τινι προσπαλαίοντι, καὶ τῆς θείας ῥοπῆς τυχεῖν ἱκετεύοντι. Πτωχὸν γὰρ καλεῖ, τὸν θείας ἐνδεῆ προμηθείας.
« Proseuchē tǭ ptōchǭ; hotan akēdiasę̄, kai - enanti" Kyriou ekcheę̄ tēn deēsin autou. » Probrēsin men ho psalmos echei tēs en Babylōni tou laou tōn Ioudaiōn talaipōrias, kai tēs ekeithen epanodou. Proagoreuei de kat᾿ auton, kai tōn ethnōn tēn klēsin kai sōtērian. Armottei de kai panti symphorą tini prospalaionti, kai tēs theias rhopēs tychein hiketeuonti. Ptōchon gar kalei, ton theias endeē promētheias.
"A prayer for the poor man, when he is weary and pours out his petition before the Lord." The psalm contains a prediction of the misery of the Jewish people in Babylon and of their return from there. In the same psalm it also foretells the calling and salvation of the nations. It also suits everyone who is wrestling with some misfortune and begs to obtain the divine help. For he calls "poor" the one in need of divine providence.
Ps 102:1 (101:1 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102 title: the psalm foretells the Babylonian exile and return and the calling of the nations, and fits anyone in distress who seeks God's help.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.1 (PG 80 80:1675; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-1). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.2PG 80 80:1675
« Κύριε, εἰσάκουσον τῆς προσευχῆς μου, καὶ ἡ κραυγή μου πρὸς σὲ ἐλθέτω. Δέξαι μου τὴν ἱκετηρίαν, ὦ Δέσποτα, καὶ ποτνιωμένῳ τὴν σὴν βοήθειαν ὄρεξον. Τὴν γὰρ κραυγήν, οἰμωγὴν ὁ Σύμμαχος εἴρηκεν.
« Kyrie, eisakouson tēs proseuchēs mou, kai hē kraugē mou pros se elthetō. Dexai mou tēn hiketērian, ō Despota, kai potniōmenǭ tēn sēn boētheian orexon. Tēn gar kraugēn, oimōgēn ho Symmachos eirēken.
"O Lord, hear my prayer, and let my cry come to you." "Accept my supplication, Master, and stretch out your help to one who implores you." For "cry" Symmachus said "wailing."
Ps 102:1 (101:2 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:1: the psalmist begs God to hear his plea.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (unbalanced bracket (OCR)): ἐλθέτω]. → ἐλθέτω..
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.2 (PG 80 80:1675; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-2). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.3PG 80 80:1675
« Μὴ ἀποστρέψῃς τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπ᾿ ἐμοῦ.» Εὐμενής μοι γενοῦ, καὶ λῦσον τὴν ἀγανάκτησιν. «Ἐν (ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ θλίβωμαι, κλίνον πρός με τὸ οὖς σου· ἐν ᾗ ἂν ἡμέρᾳ ἐπικαλέσωμαί σε, ταχὺ ἐπάκουσόν μου. » Δηλοῖ καὶ ταῦτα τοῦ ψαλμοῦ τὰ ῥήματα, ὡς μελλόντων ἐστὶ πρόῤῥησις, καὶ οὐ γεγενημένων διήγησις. Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ ἐν εὐκληρίᾳ πολλῇ, καὶ περιφανείᾳ ἐτύγχανεν ὢν ὁ λαὸς ἐν τῇ τοῦ θεσπεσίου Δαβὶδ βασιλείᾳ· εἰκότως ὁ προφήτης, τῷ ἐκείνων κεχρημένος προσώπῳ, προσφέρει τὴν ἱκετείαν, καὶ τυχεῖν ἀντιβολεῖ τῆς θείας κηδεμονίας, ἡνίκα ἂν γένοιτο τούτου καιρός.
« Mē apostrepsę̄s to prosōpon sou ap᾿ emou.» Eumenēs moi genou, kai lyson tēn aganaktēsin. «En (hę̄ an hēmerą thlibōmai, klinon pros me to ous sou; en hę̄ an hēmerą epikalesōmai se, tachy epakouson mou. » Dēloi kai tauta tou psalmou ta rhēmata, hōs mellontōn esti prorrhēsis, kai ou gegenēmenōn diēgēsis. Epeidē gar en euklērią pollę̄, kai periphaneią etynchanen ōn ho laos en tę̄ tou thespesiou Dabid basileią; eikotōs ho prophētēs, tǭ ekeinōn kechrēmenos prosōpǭ, prospherei tēn hiketeian, kai tychein antibolei tēs theias kēdemonias, hēnika an genoito toutou kairos.
"Do not turn your face away from me." "Be favorable to me and put an end to your indignation." "In whatever day I am afflicted, incline your ear to me; in whatever day I call upon you, hear me quickly." These words of the psalm also show that it is a prediction of what was to come, not a narrative of what had happened. For since the people were in great prosperity and renown in the reign of the divine David, the prophet fittingly takes on their person, offers the supplication, and pleads that they may obtain the divine care whenever the time for it should come.
Ps 102:2 (101:3 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:2: the prayer is a prophecy, since in David's time the people were prospering; the prophet prays in the person of the future exiles.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letters (OCR)): ἐπάκουσόν το μου → ἐπάκουσόν μου; γέ νοιτο → γένοιτο.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.3 (PG 80 80:1675; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-3). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.4PG 80 80:1675
« Ὅτι ἐξέλιπον ὡσεὶ καπνὸς αἱ ἡμέραι μου· καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ μου ὡσεὶ φρύγιον συνεφρύγησαν. Ἐντεῦθεν κατὰ τὸ οἰκεῖον ἰδίωμα τὰς ἐσομένας ὡς γεγενημένας συμφορὰς διηγεῖται, καί φησι καπνῷ παραπλησίως τὸν τῆς ζωῆς ἀναλωθῆναι χρόνον, καὶ ἐξ ἀθυμίας δαλὸν ξηρὸν γεγενῆσθαι τὸ σῶμα, ὡς ὑπό τινος καταφλεχθέν πυρὸς προσβολῆς. Οὕτω γὰρ καὶ ὁ ᾿Ακύλας ἡρμήνευσεν, Καὶ τὰ ὀστᾶ μου ὡς καῦσις ἐψαθυρώθη.
« Hoti exelipon hōsei kapnos hai hēmerai mou; kai ta osta mou hōsei phrygion synephrygēsan. Enteuthen kata to oikeion idiōma tas esomenas hōs gegenēmenas symphoras diēgeitai, kai phēsi kapnǭ paraplēsiōs ton tēs zōēs analōthēnai chronon, kai ex athymias dalon xēron gegenēsthai to sōma, hōs hypo tinos kataphlechthen pyros prosbolēs. Houtō gar kai ho ᾿Akylas hērmēneusen, Kai ta osta mou hōs kausis epsathyrōthē.
"For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a dry stick." From here on, in his own idiom, he narrates the future misfortunes as if they had happened, and says that the time of his life has been consumed like smoke and that from despondency his body has become a dry firebrand, as if burned by the onset of some fire. So also Aquila rendered: "And my bones crumbled like a burning."
Ps 102:3 (101:4 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:3: in the prophetic manner, future sufferings are told as past: life consumed like smoke, the body burned dry by grief.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letters (OCR)): ξηρὸνες → ξηρὸν.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.4 (PG 80 80:1675; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-4). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.5PG 80 80:1675
· Ἐπλήγην ὡσεὶ χόρτος, καὶ ἐξηράνθη ἡ καρδία μου. » ᾿Αλλὰ γὰρ καὶ χόρτῳ παραπλησίως ἀπἐσβην· καὶ τὸ πρότερον ἄνθος ἀπώλεσα. • Ὅτι ἐπελαθόμην τοῦ φαγεῖν τὸν ἄρτον μου. ᾿Απὸ φωνῆς τοῦ στεναγμοῦ μου ἐκολλήθη τὸ ὀστοῦν μου τῇ σαρκί μου. » Πάσης μὲν γὰρ τροφῆς ἀπεβαλόμην ὄρεξιν· τῆς δὲ προτέρας εὐπαθείας παντελῶς ἐγυμνώθην. Τῇ γὰρ ἐξ ἀθυμίας τηκεδόνι κατηναλώθην τὸ σῶμα. Γυμνοῖς δὲ τοῖς ὀστοῖς ἐπίκειμαι τὸ δέρμα. [῎Αρτος οὖν ἡμῶν τὴς ψυχῆς ὁ τοῦ Θεοῦ λόγος· ὥσπερ γὰρ ὁ ἄποιος ἄρτος τὸ σῶμα τρέφει, οὕτως ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ λόγος τὴν οὐσίαν τῆς ψυχῆς. Καὶ τοῦτον ὁ Χριστὸς τὴν προσευχὴν παραδιδοὺς ἔλεγε τοῖς ἀποστόλοις, « Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον. » Ὃς ἂν τοίνυν τοῦτον φαγεῖν ἐπιλάθηται, τουτέστιν ἐργάσασθαι· τοῦ γὰρ νοητοῦ ἄρτου βρῶσιν ἐργασία καθέστηκεν· δηλοῖ δὲ οὗ εἶπεν τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ὁ Κύριος, « Ἐργάζεσθε μὴ τὴν βρῶσιν τὴν ἀπολλυμένην, ἀλλὰ τὴν μένουσαν εἰς ζωὴν αἰώνιον· · τούτου ἡ καρδία δίκην χόρτου πληγείσα ξηραίνεται. Πῶς δὲ ὁ χόρτος πλήττεται καὶ ξηραίνεται; ὅταν ὑετὸς ἐπ᾿ αὐτὸν ἐπανήσῃ. Ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ καρδία, ὅταν ἐνδείᾳ νοσήσῃ τοῦ λόγου, τότε πλήττεται καὶ ξηραίνεται, ἄνθος ἀρετῆς βλαστῆσαι οὐκ ἰσχύουσα. ]
; Eplēgēn hōsei chortos, kai exēranthē hē kardia mou. » ᾿Alla gar kai chortǭ paraplēsiōs apesbēn; kai to proteron anthos apōlesa. • Hoti epelathomēn tou phagein ton arton mou. ᾿Apo phōnēs tou stenagmou mou ekollēthē to ostoun mou tę̄ sarki mou. » Pasēs men gar trophēs apebalomēn orexin; tēs de proteras eupatheias pantelōs egymnōthēn. Tę̄ gar ex athymias tēkedoni katēnalōthēn to sōma. Gymnois de tois ostois epikeimai to derma. [᾿Artos oun hēmōn tēs psychēs ho tou Theou logos; hōsper gar ho apoios artos to sōma trephei, houtōs ho ex ouranou logos tēn ousian tēs psychēs. Kai touton ho Christos tēn proseuchēn paradidous elege tois apostolois, « Ton arton hēmōn ton epiousion dos hēmin sēmeron. » Hos an toinyn touton phagein epilathētai, toutestin ergasasthai; tou gar noētou artou brōsin ergasia kathestēken; dēloi de hou eipen tois apostolois ho Kyrios, « Ergazesthe mē tēn brōsin tēn apollymenēn, alla tēn menousan eis zōēn aiōnion; ; toutou hē kardia dikēn chortou plēgeisa xērainetai. Pōs de ho chortos plēttetai kai xērainetai? hotan hyetos ep᾿ auton epanēsę̄. Hōsper kai hē kardia, hotan endeią nosēsę̄ tou logou, tote plēttetai kai xērainetai, anthos aretēs blastēsai ouk ischyousa. ]
"I was struck like grass, and my heart withered." "Yes, and like grass I was extinguished and lost my former bloom." "For I forgot to eat my bread. From the sound of my groaning my bone clung to my flesh." "I cast away all appetite for food, and I was utterly stripped of my former well-being. For I was consumed in body by the wasting that comes from despondency, and my skin lies on bare bones." [The bread of our soul, then, is the word of God. For as ordinary bread nourishes the body, so the word from heaven nourishes the substance of the soul. Christ spoke of this when he handed on the prayer to the apostles: "Give us today our daily bread." Whoever, then, forgets to eat this bread, that is, to work for it (for the eating of spiritual bread consists in working, as the Lord shows when he said to the apostles, "Work not for the food that perishes, but for that which endures to eternal life"), his heart is struck like grass and withers. How is grass struck and withered? When rain ceases to come upon it. So too the heart, when it falls sick from lack of the word, is then struck and withers, unable to put forth the flower of virtue.]
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Ps 102:4 (101:5 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:5 (101:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Matt 6:11 (quotation, high confidence) · John 6:27 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:4–5: the exile's grief wasted his body; an added passage reads the forgotten bread as the word of God, without which the soul withers.
- Migne brackets the passage on the bread of the soul as an addition, probably from the catena; its opening bracket is lost in the scan and is restored.
- In 'when rain ceases to come upon it' the printed ἐπανήσῃ is unclear; translated by sense (perhaps for ἐπανίῃ with a negative lost, or a form of ἀνίημι).
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (doubled stop (OCR); opening bracket lost (OCR); stray word (OCR)): ἀπώλεσα.. → ἀπώλεσα.; ὀστοῖς δὲ ἐπίκειμαι → ὀστοῖς ἐπίκειμαι; τὸ δέρμα. ῎Αρτος → τὸ δέρμα. [῎Αρτος.
Topics: Scripture and canon
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.5 (PG 80 80:1675; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-5). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.7PG 80 80:1677
« Ωμοιώθην πελεκᾶνι ἐρημικῷ, ἐγενήθην ὡσεὶ νυκτικόραξ ἐν οἰκοπέδῳ. Ἡγρύπνησα, καὶ ἐγενόμην ὡς στρουθίον μονάζον ἐπὶ δώματι. » Πολλαῖς κέχρηται παραβολαῖς, ἀξίως βουλόμενος παραστῆσαι τὰς συμφοράς· δι᾽ ἑκάστου δὲ τῶν εἰρημένων ὀρνίθων τὴν δειλίαν δηλοῖ, καὶ τοῦ κηδεμόνος τὴν ἐρημίαν. Το τε γὰρ στρουθίον ὑπ᾿ ἀγωνίας ἐξελαύνει τὸν ὕπνον, καὶ ὁ νυκτικόραξ τὰς οἰκουμένας φεύγων τῶν οἰκιῶν, ταῖς ἐρήμοις καὶ καταλελειμμέναις προστρέχει. Τὰ γὰρ οἰκόπεδα, ἐρείπια ὁ Σύμμαχος εἴρηκεν· οὕτω καὶ τὸ ἄλλο ὄρνεον ταῖς ἐρήμοις ἐνδιαιτᾶται.
« Ōmoiōthēn pelekani erēmikǭ, egenēthēn hōsei nyktikorax en oikopedǭ. Hēgrypnēsa, kai egenomēn hōs strouthion monazon epi dōmati. » Pollais kechrētai parabolais, axiōs boulomenos parastēsai tas symphoras; di᾽ hekastou de tōn eirēmenōn ornithōn tēn deilian dēloi, kai tou kēdemonos tēn erēmian. To te gar strouthion hyp᾿ agōnias exelaunei ton hypnon, kai ho nyktikorax tas oikoumenas pheugōn tōn oikiōn, tais erēmois kai kataleleimmenais prostrechei. Ta gar oikopeda, ereipia ho Symmachos eirēken; houtō kai to allo orneon tais erēmois endiaitatai.
"I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; I have become like a night raven in a ruined house. I kept watch, and became like a sparrow alone on a roof." He uses many comparisons, wishing to portray the misfortunes worthily; through each of the birds he mentions he shows the fear and the desolation of one bereaved. For the sparrow drives away sleep from anxiety, and the night raven flees inhabited houses and hurries to deserted and abandoned ones. (For "ruined houses" Symmachus said "ruins.") So too the other bird lives in deserted places.
Ps 102:6 (101:7 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:7 (101:8 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:6–7: the comparisons with solitary birds express the exile's fear and desolation.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR)): κηδε μόνος → κηδεμόνος.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.7 (PG 80 80:1677; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-7). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.9PG 80 80:1677
« Ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν ὠνείδιζόν με οἱ ἐχθροί μου, καὶ οἱ ἐπαινοῦντές με κατ' ἐμοῦ ὤμνυον. Καταγέλαστος ἐγενόμην τοῖς δυσμενέσι· καὶ ὁ ποτὲ ζηλωτὸς, καὶ περίβλεπτος, νῦν ὅρκος γέγονα τοῖς πάλαι θαυμάζουσι· κατὰ γὰρ τῶν ἐμῶν ὀμνύουσι συμφορῶν· Μὴ πάθοιμι ἃ οἱ δεῖνες πεπόνθασιν.
« Holēn tēn hēmeran ōneidizon me hoi echthroi mou, kai hoi epainountes me kat' emou ōmnyon. Katagelastos egenomēn tois dysmenesi; kai ho pote zēlōtos, kai peribleptos, nyn horkos gegona tois palai thaumazousi; kata gar tōn emōn omnyousi symphorōn; Mē pathoimi ha hoi deines peponthasin.
"All day long my enemies reproached me, and those who praised me swore by me." "I became a laughingstock to my foes; and I who was once envied and admired have now become an oath for those who formerly admired me. For they swear by my misfortunes: 'May I not suffer what So-and-so have suffered.'"
Ps 102:8 (101:9 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:8: the once-admired people became a byword used in oaths.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR misreading): πάθοιμι & οἱ → πάθοιμι ἃ οἱ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.9 (PG 80 80:1677; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-9). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.10PG 80 80:1677
« Ὅτι σποδὸν ὡσεὶ ἄρτον ἔφαγον, καὶ τὸ πόμα μου μετὰ κλαυθμοῦ ἐκίρνων. ᾿Απὸ προσώπου τῆς ὀργῆς σου, καὶ τοῦ θυμοῦ σου. » Ταῦτα καὶ ὁ ο' καὶ θ' ἔφη ψαλμός. « Ψωμιεῖς ἡμᾶς ἄρτον δακρύων, καὶ ποτιεῖς ἡμᾶς ἐν δάκρυσιν ἐν μέτρῳ. » Τὴν δὲ τῆς ὀδύνης ὑπερβολὴν διὰ τούτων δηλοῖ. Εἰ γὰρ ὁ τῆς τροφῆς καιρὸς ὀδύνης ὑπῆρχε μεστὸς, σχολῇ γε ἂν ἄλλος καιρὸς ταύτης ἐλεύθερος ἦν. Τούτοις δέ φησι περικλύζομαι τοῖς κακοῖς, ἐπειδὴ, Δέσποτα, κατ᾿ ἐμοῦ κεκίνηκας τὴν ὀργὴν. «Ὅτι ἐπάρας κατέῤῥαξάς με. » Ὑψηλὸν γάρ με δείξας, καὶ περίβλεπτον ἀποφήνας, ἐξαίφνης ἀπέῤῥιψας. Τὸ γὰρ κατέῤῥαξας ἐκ μεταφορᾶς τέθεικε τῶν ἐπαιρόντων εἰς ὕψος τι, καὶ κατὰ τοῦ ἐδάφους καταῤῥηγνύντων.
« Hoti spodon hōsei arton ephagon, kai to poma mou meta klauthmou ekirnōn. ᾿Apo prosōpou tēs orgēs sou, kai tou thymou sou. » Tauta kai ho o' kai th' ephē psalmos. « Psōmieis hēmas arton dakryōn, kai potieis hēmas en dakrysin en metrǭ. » Tēn de tēs odynēs hyperbolēn dia toutōn dēloi. Ei gar ho tēs trophēs kairos odynēs hypērche mestos, scholę̄ ge an allos kairos tautēs eleutheros ēn. Toutois de phēsi periklyzomai tois kakois, epeidē, Despota, kat᾿ emou kekinēkas tēn orgēn. «Hoti eparas katerrhaxas me. » Hypsēlon gar me deixas, kai periblepton apophēnas, exaiphnēs aperrhipsas. To gar katerrhaxas ek metaphoras tetheike tōn epairontōn eis hypsos ti, kai kata tou edaphous katarrhēgnyntōn.
"For I ate ashes like bread and mixed my drink with weeping, because of your anger and your wrath." The seventy-ninth psalm also said this: "You will feed us the bread of tears and give us tears to drink in full measure." By these words he shows the excess of the pain. For if the time of eating was full of pain, hardly could any other time have been free of it. "I am flooded with these evils," he says, "since you, Master, have stirred up your anger against me." "For you lifted me up and dashed me down." "For after showing me lofty and making me admired, you suddenly cast me off." He used "dashed down" as a metaphor from those who lift something up to a height and smash it on the ground.
Ps 102:9 (101:10 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:10 (101:11 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 80:5 (79:6 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:9–10: the exile's grief pervades even his meals, because God, who had exalted the people, has cast them down.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR accent; split word (OCR)): προσὡπου → προσώπου; ἑπ. άρας → ἐπάρας; καταῤῥηγνύν· των → καταῤῥηγνύντων.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.10 (PG 80 80:1677; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-10). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.12PG 80 80:1679
« Αἱ ἡμέραι μου ὡσεὶ σκιὰ ἐκλίθησαν· κἀγὼ ὡσεὶ χόρτος ἐξηράνθην. » Παρ' αὐτὰς εἰμι, φησὶ, τὰς τοῦ βίου δυσμάς· καὶ ἔοικα σκιᾷ κλινάσῃ, καὶ ληγούσῃ λοιπόν· καὶ χόρτου δὲ μεμίμημαι τὴν ξηρότητα, τῶν θεριζόντων προσκαλουμένου τὰς χεῖρας.
« Hai hēmerai mou hōsei skia eklithēsan; kagō hōsei chortos exēranthēn. » Par' autas eimi, phēsi, tas tou biou dysmas; kai eoika skią klinasę̄, kai lēgousę̄ loipon; kai chortou de memimēmai tēn xērotēta, tōn therizontōn proskaloumenou tas cheiras.
"My days have declined like a shadow, and I have withered like grass." "I am at the very sunset of life," he says, "and I am like a shadow that has lengthened and is now fading; and I imitate the dryness of grass that calls for the hands of the reapers."
Ps 102:11 (101:12 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:11: the sufferer's life is fading like an evening shadow and drying like grass ready for reaping.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.12 (PG 80 80:1679; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-12). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.13PG 80 80:1679
« Σὺ δὲ, Κύριε, εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα μένεις, καὶ τὸ μνημόσυνόν σου εἰς γενεὰν καὶ γενεάν. » ᾿Αλλ' ἐγὼ μὲν καὶ τὴν φύσιν τοιαύτην ἔχω, καὶ συμφοραῖς συνεζύγην τοσαύταις · σὺ δὲ, ἀΐδιος ὢν καὶ αἰώνιος, μεταβολήν τινα τῶν παρόντων κακῶν ῥᾳδίως ἄν μοι χαρίσαιο. Τοῦτο γὰρ ἐπιφέρει ·
« Sy de, Kyrie, eis ton aiōna meneis, kai to mnēmosynon sou eis genean kai genean. » ᾿All' egō men kai tēn physin toiautēn echō, kai symphorais synezygēn tosautais ; sy de, aïdios ōn kai aiōnios, metabolēn tina tōn parontōn kakōn rhądiōs an moi charisaio. Touto gar epipherei ;
"But you, O Lord, remain for ever, and your memorial is from generation to generation." "I have such a nature, and I am yoked to so many misfortunes; but you, being everlasting and eternal, could easily grant me some change from the present evils." For he adds this:
Ps 102:12 (101:13 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:12: unlike frail humanity, the eternal God can easily change the people's misfortune.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.13 (PG 80 80:1679; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-13). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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Translation: Translated by Claude (Opus) from the Greek as printed in Migne PG 80 (Bavarian State Library OCR); no public-domain or FOTC English exists, so each batch was re-read against the Greek.
101.14PG 80 80:1679
« Σὺ ἀναστὰς οἰκτειρήσεις τὴν Σιών· ὅτι καιρὸς τοῦ οἰκτειρῆσαι αὐτὴν, ὅτι ἥκει καιρός.» Δὸς, φησί, μεταβολὴν ἀμείνω τῇ συμφορᾷ· ὁ γὰρ καιρὸς τὸν ἔλεον ἀπαιτεῖ. Αἰνίττεται δὲ διὰ τούτων τῆς τοῖς ἑβδομήκοντα ἔτεσιν περιωρισμένης τιμωρίας τὸ τέλος. Οὕτω καὶ ὁ θαυμάσιος Δανιήλ, ἀριθμήσας τῆς αἰχμαλωσίας τὸν χρόνον, προσφέρει καὶ τὴν ἱκετηρίαν. Τούτοις συνάδει καὶ τῆς πνευματικῆς μελῳδίας τὰ ῥήματα· • Ὅτι καιρὸς τοῦ οἰκτειρῆσαι αὐτὴν, ὅτι ἥκει καιρός. "Ὅτι εὐδόκησαν οἱ δοῦλοί σου τοὺς λίθους αὐτῆς, καὶ τὸν χοῦν αὐτῆς οἰκτειρήσουσι. » Τριπόθητος γὰρ ἡμῖν Σιὼν, καὶ λίαν ἔρημος γενομένη· ἀξιέραστοι δὲ καὶ οἱ καταλελυμένοι λίθοι, καὶ τῶν ἐκ τῆς πορθήσεως γεγενημένων χωμάτων· ἡ μνήμη οἶκτον ἡμῖν ἐντίθησιν.
« Sy anastas oikteirēseis tēn Siōn; hoti kairos tou oikteirēsai autēn, hoti hēkei kairos.» Dos, phēsi, metabolēn ameinō tę̄ symphorą; ho gar kairos ton eleon apaitei. Ainittetai de dia toutōn tēs tois hebdomēkonta etesin periōrismenēs timōrias to telos. Houtō kai ho thaumasios Daniēl, arithmēsas tēs aichmalōsias ton chronon, prospherei kai tēn hiketērian. Toutois synadei kai tēs pneumatikēs melǭdias ta rhēmata; • Hoti kairos tou oikteirēsai autēn, hoti hēkei kairos. "Hoti eudokēsan hoi douloi sou tous lithous autēs, kai ton choun autēs oikteirēsousi. » Tripothētos gar hēmin Siōn, kai lian erēmos genomenē; axierastoi de kai hoi katalelymenoi lithoi, kai tōn ek tēs porthēseōs gegenēmenōn chōmatōn; hē mnēmē oikton hēmin entithēsin.
"You will arise and have compassion on Zion; for it is time to have compassion on her, for the time has come." "Grant a change for the better in our misfortune," he says, "for the time calls for mercy." By these words he hints at the end of the punishment limited to seventy years. So also the admirable Daniel, having counted the time of the captivity, offers his supplication. The words of the spiritual song agree with this: "For it is time to have compassion on her, for the time has come. For your servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they will have compassion on her dust." "For Zion is thrice longed for by us, even though she has become utterly desolate; dear to us are even her overthrown stones, and the memory of the mounds made by the sacking moves us to pity."
Ps 102:13 (101:14 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:14 (101:15 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Jer 25:11 (allusion, medium confidence) · Dan 9:2 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 102:13–14: the time of mercy is the end of the seventy years of exile, as Daniel reckoned; the exiles love even Zion's ruins.
- A displaced line at the end of this section in the scan ("they made war on them at the same time. Here") belongs to the comment on verse 15 and is moved there.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (line displaced by the OCR from the comment on verse 16 (101.16); split word (OCR)): και ρός → καιρός; Τρι– πόθητος → Τριπόθητος; οἶκτον ἡμῖν ἐντίθησιν. πρὸς αὐτοὺς κατὰ ταυτὸν ἥραντο πόλεμον. Ἐνταῦθα → οἶκτον ἡμῖν ἐντίθησιν..
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.14 (PG 80 80:1679; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-14). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.16PG 80 80:1679
«Καὶ φοβηθήσονται τὰ ἔθνη τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου, καὶ πάντες οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς τὴν δόξαν σου., Ὁρῶντες γὰρ ἡμῶν τὴν ἐπάνοδον, καὶ τὴν οἰκοδομίαν τῆς πόλεως, οἱ τὰς προτέρας ἡμῶν θεασάμενοι συμφορὰς, καὶ βασιλεῖς, καὶ ἄρχοντες, καὶ ἀρχόμενοι, θαυμάσονταί σου τὴν δύναμιν, καὶ δείσαντές σε Θεὸν εἶναι μόνον πιστεύσουσιν. Τοῦτο δὲ κυρίως καὶ ἀληθῶς μετὰ τὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ Σωτῆρος ἡμῶν ἐνανθρώπησιν γέγονε. Μετὰ γὰρ τὴν Ἰουδαίων ἀνάκλησιν, ἐθαύμασαν μὲν τὸ γεγονὸς οἱ περίοικοι· τοσοῦτον δὲ ἀπέσχον τοῦ πιστεῦσαι τῷ τῶν ὅλων Θεῷ, ὅτι καὶ πρὸς αὐτοὺς κατὰ ταυτὸν ἥραντο πόλεμον. Ἐνταῦθα δὲ ὁ λόγος καὶ τῶν ἐθνῶν ἁπάντων, καὶ τῶν βασιλέων μεταβολὴν προθεσπίζει. Ὧν τὰ μὲν ὁρῶμεν γεγενημένα, τὰ δὲ ἐλπίζομεν ἔσεσθαι. Φησὶ γὰρ ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος· « Οὕπω γὰρ ὁρῶμεν αὐτῷ τὰ πάντα ὑποτεταγμένα. » ᾿Αλλ' ὅμως ἐδίδαξεν, ὅτι αὐτῷ κάμψει πᾶν γόνυ ἐπουρανίων, καὶ ἐπιγείων, καὶ καταχθονίων,
«Kai phobēthēsontai ta ethnē to onoma Kyriou, kai pantes hoi basileis tēs gēs tēn doxan sou., Horōntes gar hēmōn tēn epanodon, kai tēn oikodomian tēs poleōs, hoi tas proteras hēmōn theasamenoi symphoras, kai basileis, kai archontes, kai archomenoi, thaumasontai sou tēn dynamin, kai deisantes se Theon einai monon pisteusousin. Touto de kyriōs kai alēthōs meta tēn tou Theou kai Sōtēros hēmōn enanthrōpēsin gegone. Meta gar tēn Ioudaiōn anaklēsin, ethaumasan men to gegonos hoi perioikoi; tosouton de apeschon tou pisteusai tǭ tōn holōn Theǭ, hoti kai pros autous kata tauton hēranto polemon. Entautha de ho logos kai tōn ethnōn hapantōn, kai tōn basileōn metabolēn prothespizei. Hōn ta men horōmen gegenēmena, ta de elpizomen esesthai. Phēsi gar ho theios ᾿Apostolos; « Houpō gar horōmen autǭ ta panta hypotetagmena. » ᾿All' homōs edidaxen, hoti autǭ kampsei pan gony epouraniōn, kai epigeiōn, kai katachthoniōn,
"And the nations will fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth your glory." "Seeing our return and the rebuilding of the city, those who had seen our former misfortunes, kings, rulers, and subjects, will marvel at your power and, fearing, will believe that you alone are God." This came about properly and truly after the incarnation of our God and Savior. For after the recall of the Jews, the neighbors marveled at what had happened; but they were so far from believing in the God of all that they waged war on them all at once. Here, however, the text foretells a change of all the nations and of the kings. Some of this we see has happened; the rest we hope will be. For the divine Apostle says, "For we do not yet see all things subjected to him." Yet he taught that to him every knee shall bow, of things in heaven and on earth and under the earth, …
Textual problem in this passage: see the notes.
Ps 102:15 (101:16 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 2:8 (quotation, high confidence) · Phil 2:10 (allusion, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:15: the nations' fear of God was truly fulfilled not after the return, when the neighbors made war, but after the incarnation, and will be completed when every knee bows to Christ.
- A line displaced in the scan into the previous section ("they made war on them at the same time. Here") is restored here, where the sentence is broken.
- The section breaks off in the middle of the allusion to Phil 2:10; the rest is lost in the scan.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter; line displaced by the OCR into 101.14, restored; stray mark (OCR)): Κυρίου", → Κυρίου,; ὅτι τὸν δὲ ὁ λόγος → ὅτι καὶ πρὸς αὐτοὺς κατὰ ταυτὸν ἥραντο πόλεμον. Ἐνταῦθα δὲ ὁ λόγος; γὰφ → γὰρ.
Topics: Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.16 (PG 80 80:1679; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-16). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.17PG 80 80:1681
« Ὅτι οἰκοδομήσει Κύριος τὴν Σιών, καὶ ὀφθήσεται ἐν τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ. · Ἐπειδὴ γὰρ οἱ τὰς θείας ἀγνοοῦντες οἰκονομίας, ἀσθένειαν ὑπελάμβανον τοῦ Θεοῦ τὴν Ἰουδαίων δουλείαν, καὶ τῆς Ἱερουσαλήμ τὴν ἐρημίαν, εἰκότως δόξαν ἐκάλεσε τοῦ Θεοῦ, τὴν τῆς πόλεως νεουργίαν· ἀντὶ τοῦ, Πάλιν τῆς Σιὼν οἰκοδομηθείσης, ἐν τῇ προτέρᾳ δόξῃ πάντες ὄψονται τὸν τῶν ὅλων Θεόν.
« Hoti oikodomēsei Kyrios tēn Siōn, kai ophthēsetai en tę̄ doxę̄ autou. ; Epeidē gar hoi tas theias agnoountes oikonomias, astheneian hypelambanon tou Theou tēn Ioudaiōn douleian, kai tēs Hierousalēm tēn erēmian, eikotōs doxan ekalese tou Theou, tēn tēs poleōs neourgian; anti tou, Palin tēs Siōn oikodomētheisēs, en tę̄ proterą doxę̄ pantes opsontai ton tōn holōn Theon.
"For the Lord will build up Zion and will appear in his glory." Since those ignorant of the divine dispensations took the slavery of the Jews and the desolation of Jerusalem for weakness on God's part, he fittingly called the renewal of the city the glory of God; that is, "When Zion is built again, all will see the God of all in his former glory."
Ps 102:16 (101:17 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:16: the rebuilding of Zion shows God's glory to those who took the exile for divine weakness.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.17 (PG 80 80:1681; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-17). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.18PG 80 80:1681
« Ἐπέβλεψεν ἐπὶ τὴν προσευχὴν τῶν ταπεινῶν , καὶ οὐκ ἐξουδένωσε τὴν δέησιν αὐτῶν. » Οὐ κατεφρόνησε γὰρ, ὡς αἰχμαλώτων καὶ δούλων· ἀλλ᾿ ἐδέξατο τὴν ἱκετείαν, καὶ δέδωκε τὴν ἐλευθερίαν.
« Epeblepsen epi tēn proseuchēn tōn tapeinōn , kai ouk exoudenōse tēn deēsin autōn. » Ou katephronēse gar, hōs aichmalōtōn kai doulōn; all᾿ edexato tēn hiketeian, kai dedōke tēn eleutherian.
"He looked upon the prayer of the lowly and did not despise their petition." For he did not scorn them as captives and slaves, but accepted their supplication and gave them freedom.
Ps 102:17 (101:18 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:17: God heard the captives' prayer and freed them.
Topics: Prayer
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.18 (PG 80 80:1681; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-18). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.19PG 80 80:1681
« Γραφήτω αὕτη εἰς γενεὰν ἑτέραν, καὶ λαὸς ὁ κτιζόμενος αἰνέσει τὸν Κύριον. » Ταύτην δὲ τὴν εὐεργεσίαν ἀνάγραπτον εἰς ἀεὶ ποιήσομεν· ὥστε καὶ τοὺς ἐσομένους· τὴν σὴν φιλανθρωπίαν μαθεῖν. Λαὸν δὲ κτιζόμενον τὸν ἐξ ἐθνῶν συλλεγέντα καλεῖ, περὶ οὗ καὶ ὁ μακάριος λέγει Παῦλος· « Εἴ τις ἐν Χριστῷ καινή κτίσις. » Καὶ αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ θεσπέσιος Δαβὶδ ἐν τῷ κ' καὶ α' ἔφη ψαλμῷ· · ᾿Αναγγελήσεται τῷ Κυρίῳ γενεὰ ἡ ἐρχομένη, καὶ ἀναγγελοῦσι τὴν δικαιοσύνην αὐτοῦ λαῷ τῷ τεχθησομένῳ, ὃν ἐποίησεν ὁ Κύριος. » Οὗτος ὁ λαὸς καὶ τὰ παλαιὰ καὶ τὰ νέα παιδευόμενος τὸν προσήκοντα ὕμνον ἀναπέμπει τῷ Σωτῆρι Θεῷ.
« Graphētō hautē eis genean heteran, kai laos ho ktizomenos ainesei ton Kyrion. » Tautēn de tēn euergesian anagrapton eis aei poiēsomen; hōste kai tous esomenous; tēn sēn philanthrōpian mathein. Laon de ktizomenon ton ex ethnōn syllegenta kalei, peri hou kai ho makarios legei Paulos; « Ei tis en Christǭ kainē ktisis. » Kai autos de ho thespesios Dabid en tǭ k' kai a' ephē psalmǭ; ; ᾿Anangelēsetai tǭ Kyriǭ genea hē erchomenē, kai anangelousi tēn dikaiosynēn autou laǭ tǭ techthēsomenǭ, hon epoiēsen ho Kyrios. » Houtos ho laos kai ta palaia kai ta nea paideuomenos ton prosēkonta hymnon anapempei tǭ Sōtēri Theǭ.
"Let this be written for another generation, and a people that is being created will praise the Lord." "We will make this benefit a written record for ever, so that those to come may also learn your love for humankind." By "a people that is being created" he means the people gathered from the nations, of whom the blessed Paul also says, "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation." And the inspired David himself said in the twenty-first psalm: "The generation to come will be announced to the Lord, and they will announce his righteousness to a people that will be born, whom the Lord has made." This people, taught both the old and the new, sends up the fitting hymn to God the Savior.
Ps 102:18 (101:19 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · 2 Cor 5:17 (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 22:30 (21:31 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 22:31 (21:32 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 102:18: the 'people being created' are the Gentiles who become a new creation in Christ and praise God, as Psalm 22 also foretells.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.19 (PG 80 80:1681; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-19). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.20PG 80 80:1681
Ὅτι ἐξέκυψεν ἐξ ὕψους ἁγίου αὐτοῦ Κύριος, ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐπέβλεψε. Τοῦ ἀκοῦσαι τοῦ στεναγμοῦ τῶν πεπεδημένων, τοῦ λῦσαι τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν τεθανατωμένων. Τοῦ ἀναγγεῖλαι ἐν Σιὼν τὸ ὄνομα Κυρίου, καὶ τὴν αἴνεσιν αὐτοῦ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. » Πάντα γὰρ ἐφορῶν καὶ πρυτανεύων ὁ τῶν ὅλων Θεὸς τῶν ἐφορωμένων ἐπήκουσε, καὶ τὴν τῆς ἐλευθερίας ἐξενήνοχε ψῆφον, ὥστε τοὺς πεπεδημένους ἀντὶ τῶν ἀνῃρημένων ἐπανελθεῖν, καὶ τὴν πόλιν τὴν πατρώαν οἰκοδομῆσαι, καὶ συνήθως ἐν ἐκείνῃ τὴν κατὰ τὸν νόμον λατρείαν προσενεγκεῖν τῷ Θεῷ.
Hoti exekypsen ex hypsous hagiou autou Kyrios, ex ouranou epi tēn gēn epeblepse. Tou akousai tou stenagmou tōn pepedēmenōn, tou lysai tous huious tōn tethanatōmenōn. Tou anangeilai en Siōn to onoma Kyriou, kai tēn ainesin autou en Hierousalēm. » Panta gar ephorōn kai prytaneuōn ho tōn holōn Theos tōn ephorōmenōn epēkouse, kai tēn tēs eleutherias exenēnoche psēphon, hōste tous pepedēmenous anti tōn anę̄rēmenōn epanelthein, kai tēn polin tēn patrōan oikodomēsai, kai synēthōs en ekeinę̄ tēn kata ton nomon latreian prosenenkein tǭ Theǭ.
"For the Lord looked down from his holy height; from heaven he looked upon the earth, to hear the groaning of the prisoners, to set free the sons of those put to death, to announce the name of the Lord in Zion and his praise in Jerusalem." For the God of all, who oversees and governs all things, heard those he was watching over and issued the decree of freedom, so that the prisoners might return in place of those who had been slain, rebuild their ancestral city, and, as was their custom, offer the worship prescribed by the law to God in it.
Ps 102:19 (101:20 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:20 (101:21 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:21 (101:22 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 102:19–21: God, who oversees all, heard the captives and decreed their return to rebuild Jerusalem and worship there.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray mark (OCR)): τῶν ἐφορωμένων· ἐπήκουσε → τῶν ἐφορωμένων ἐπήκουσε.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.20 (PG 80 80:1681; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-20). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.23PG 80 80:1681
« Ἐν τῷ ἐπισυναχθῆναι λαοὺς ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ καὶ βασιλεῖς, τοῦ δουλεύειν τῷ Κυρίῳ. ᾿Απεκρίθη αὐτῷ ἐν ὁδῷ ἰσχύος αὐτοῦ, τὴν ὀλιγότητα τῶν ἡμερῶν μου ἀνάγγειλόν μοι· μὴ ἀναγάγῃς με ἐν ἡμίσει ἡμερῶν μου. » Ὅταν, φησὶ, τῆς ἐπανόδου τύχωμεν, ἀθροίσονται λαοὶ καὶ βασιλεῖς, τὴν σὴν θαυμάζοντες δύναμιν. Τηνικαῦτα τοίνυν τοσαύτην ἕξομεν εὐφροσύνην, ὡς καὶ δεηθῆναί σου τῆς ἀγαθότητος, προσθήκην ἡμῖν ἐτῶν χαρίσασθαι, καὶ μὴ μεσοῦντος ἡμῶν τοῦ χρόνου τῷ θανάτῳ παραδοῦναι· ὁδὸν δὲ ἰσχύος καλεῖ τὴν διὰ τὴν ἰσχὺν τοῦ Θεοῦ παρασχεθεῖσαν ἐπάνοδον. « Ἐν γενεᾷ γενεῶν τὰ ἔτη σου. » Σὺ γὰρ ἀπέραντον ἔχεις τὸ εἶναι, καὶ ῥᾳδιόν σοι καὶ τοὺς ἄλλους μακροβίους ἐργάσασθαι.
« En tǭ episynachthēnai laous epi to auto kai basileis, tou douleuein tǭ Kyriǭ. ᾿Apekrithē autǭ en hodǭ ischyos autou, tēn oligotēta tōn hēmerōn mou anangeilon moi; mē anagagę̄s me en hēmisei hēmerōn mou. » Hotan, phēsi, tēs epanodou tychōmen, athroisontai laoi kai basileis, tēn sēn thaumazontes dynamin. Tēnikauta toinyn tosautēn hexomen euphrosynēn, hōs kai deēthēnai sou tēs agathotētos, prosthēkēn hēmin etōn charisasthai, kai mē mesountos hēmōn tou chronou tǭ thanatǭ paradounai; hodon de ischyos kalei tēn dia tēn ischyn tou Theou paraschetheisan epanodon. « En geneą geneōn ta etē sou. » Sy gar aperanton echeis to einai, kai rhądion soi kai tous allous makrobious ergasasthai.
"When the peoples gather together, and kings, to serve the Lord. He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare to me the fewness of my days; do not take me away in the half of my days." "When we obtain the return," he says, "peoples and kings will assemble, marveling at your power. At that time, then, we will have such gladness that we will beg your goodness to grant us an addition of years and not to hand us over to death in the middle of our time." He calls "the way of strength" the return granted through the strength of God. "Your years are in the generation of generations." "For you have being without end, and it is easy for you to make others long-lived too."
Ps 102:22 (101:23 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:23 (101:24 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:24 (101:25 LXX) (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 102:22–24: after the return, amid the nations' wonder, the people will ask the eternal God for long life.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (stray letter (OCR)): ὁ λαοὺς → λαοὺς; βασιλεῖς ὁ, τοῦ → βασιλεῖς, τοῦ.
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.23 (PG 80 80:1681; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-23). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.26PG 80 80:1683
« Κατ᾿ ἀρχὰς σὺ, Κύριε, τὴν γῆν ἐθεμέλίωσας, καὶ ἔργα τῶν χειρῶν σού εἰσιν οἱ οὐρανοί. Αὐτοὶ ἀπολοῦνται, σὺ δὲ διαμένεις. » Τι γὰρ ἀδύνατον τῷ τῶν ὅλων Δημιουργῷ; τῇ γῇ τὸ εἶναι σὺ δέδωκας, τοὺς οὐρανοὺς μὴ ὄντας ἐποίησας, καὶ τούτων μεταβολὴν δεχομένων, σὺ τὸ ἄτρεπτον ἔχεις. Ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν περιεκτικῶν στοιχείων, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων αὐτὸν ἁπάντων ἔδειξε ποιητήν. « Καὶ πάντες ὡς ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσονται, καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἐλίξεις αὐτοὺς καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος οὕτως· Καὶ πάντες ὡσεὶ ἱμάτιον παλαιωθήσονται, καὶ ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον ἀλλάξεις αὐτοὺς, καὶ ἀλλαγήσονται. "Απαντα γὰρ τὰ ὁρώμενα καταγηράσει, καὶ ἱματίων μιμήσεται παλαιότητα· σὺ δὲ αὐτὰ ἀλλάξεις, καὶ νεουργήσεις, καὶ ἄφθαρτα ποιήσεις ἀντὶ φθαρτῶν. Τοῦτο καὶ ὁ θεσπέσιος Απόστολος ἔφη· «Ὅτι καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ κτίσις ἐλευθερωθήσεται ἀπὸ τῆς δουλείας τῆς φθορᾶς. εἰς τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τῆς δόξης τῶν τέκνων τοῦ Θεοῦ.»
« Kat᾿ archas sy, Kyrie, tēn gēn ethemeliōsas, kai erga tōn cheirōn sou eisin hoi ouranoi. Autoi apolountai, sy de diameneis. » Ti gar adynaton tǭ tōn holōn Dēmiourgǭ? tę̄ gę̄ to einai sy dedōkas, tous ouranous mē ontas epoiēsas, kai toutōn metabolēn dechomenōn, sy to atrepton echeis. Apo de tōn periektikōn stoicheiōn, kai tōn allōn auton hapantōn edeixe poiētēn. « Kai pantes hōs himation palaiōthēsontai, kai hōsei peribolaion elixeis autous kai allagēsontai. » Ho de Symmachos houtōs; Kai pantes hōsei himation palaiōthēsontai, kai hōsei peribolaion allaxeis autous, kai allagēsontai. "Apanta gar ta horōmena katagērasei, kai himatiōn mimēsetai palaiotēta; sy de auta allaxeis, kai neourgēseis, kai aphtharta poiēseis anti phthartōn. Touto kai ho thespesios Apostolos ephē; «Hoti kai autē hē ktisis eleutherōthēsetai apo tēs douleias tēs phthoras. eis tēn eleutherian tēs doxēs tōn teknōn tou Theou.»
"In the beginning, O Lord, you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the works of your hands. They will perish, but you remain." For what is impossible for the Creator of all? "You gave the earth its being, you made the heavens when they did not exist; and while they undergo change, you have immutability." From the elements that contain all things he showed him to be the maker of all the others as well. "And they will all grow old like a garment, and like a cloak you will roll them up, and they will be changed." Symmachus has: "And they will all grow old like a garment, and like a cloak you will change them, and they will be changed." For all visible things will grow old and resemble the oldness of garments; but you will change them, renew them, and make them incorruptible instead of corruptible. The inspired Apostle also said this: "For the creation itself will be set free from the bondage of corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God."
Ps 102:25 (101:26 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Ps 102:26 (101:27 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Rom 8:21 (quotation, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 102:25–26: the unchanging Creator will renew the aging creation and make it incorruptible, as Paul teaches.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (OCR letter): ὡσεὶς ἱμάτιον → ὡσεὶ ἱμάτιον.
Topics: Eschatology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.26 (PG 80 80:1683; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-26). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.28PG 80 80:1683
« Σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ, καὶ τὰ ἔτη σου οὐκ ἐκλείψουσιν. » Τὴν μὲν οὖν κτίσιν μεταῤῥυθμίζεις ὡς ἐθέλεις, ὦ Δέσποτα· σὺ δὲ ἄτρεπτον ἔχεις τὴν φύσιν, καὶ ἀλλοιώσεως κρείττονα. Ταῦτα μέντοι ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος τῇ τοῦ Υἱοῦ περιτέθεικεν ἰδιότητι, ἐν τῇ πρὸς Ἑβραίους Ἐπιστολῇ. Αλλ' ὅμως ἐν τῷ Υἱῷ θεωροῦμεν τὸν Πατέρα. "Α γὰρ ἂν ἐκεῖνος ποιεῖ, ταῦτα καὶ ὁ Υἱὸς ὡσαύτως ποιεῖ· καὶ τὸ ταυτὸν τῆς φύσεως ἐν ἑκατέρῳ γνωρίζεται· μίαν γὰρ ἴσμεν τὴν τῆς Τριάδος ἐνέργειαν.
« Sy de ho autos ei, kai ta etē sou ouk ekleipsousin. » Tēn men oun ktisin metarrhythmizeis hōs etheleis, ō Despota; sy de atrepton echeis tēn physin, kai alloiōseōs kreittona. Tauta mentoi ho theios ᾿Apostolos tę̄ tou Huiou peritetheiken idiotēti, en tę̄ pros Hebraious Epistolę̄. All' homōs en tǭ Huiǭ theōroumen ton Patera. "A gar an ekeinos poiei, tauta kai ho Huios hōsautōs poiei; kai to tauton tēs physeōs en hekaterǭ gnōrizetai; mian gar ismen tēn tēs Triados energeian.
"But you are the same, and your years will not fail." "You reshape creation as you will, Master; but you have an unchangeable nature, beyond alteration." The divine Apostle, in the Letter to the Hebrews, applied these words to what is proper to the Son. Yet in the Son we behold the Father. For whatever the one does, the Son likewise does the same; and the sameness of nature is recognized in each, for we know that the operation of the Trinity is one.
Ps 102:27 (101:28 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Heb 1:12 (allusion, high confidence) · John 5:19 (allusion, high confidence)
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Summary: Psalm 102:27: Hebrews applies these words to the Son; since Father and Son act alike, they share one nature and the Trinity has one operation.
- A Trinitarian argument from Heb 1:10–12 and John 5:19; translated as written.
Topics: Trinity, Christology
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.28 (PG 80 80:1683; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-28). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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101.29PG 80 80:1683
« Οἱ υἱοὶ τῶν δούλων σου κατασκηνώσουσι, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα κατευθυνθήσεται. » Ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος διαμενεῖ τέθεικε. Σημαίνει δὲ ὡς οἱ μὲν τῆς δουλείας ἀπαλλαγέντες τὴν Ἱερουσαλήμ οἰκήσουσι, τὸ δὲ ἐξ αὐτῶν σπέρμα εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα διαμενεῖ. Περὶ τούτου δὲ τοῦ σπέρματος ὁ θεῖος ᾿Απόστολος ἔφη· « ῎Αχρις οὗ ἔλθῃ τὸ σπέρμα ὁ ἐπήγγελται. » Καὶ, « Τῷ Ἀβραὰμ ἐῤῥήθησαν αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, καὶ τῷ σπέρματι αὐτοῦ. Οὐ λέγει Καὶ τοῖς σπέρμασιν ὡς ἐπὶ πολλῶν, ἀλλ᾿ ὡς ἐφ᾽ ἑνὸς, Καὶ τῷ σπέρματί σου, ὅς ἐστι Χριστός· » Τοῦτο τὸ σπέρμα εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα διαμενεῖ. Ἑνωθὲν γὰρ τῷ θεῷ Λόγῳ ἀνώλεθρον ἔχει τὸ εἶναι, καὶ δωρεῖται ζωὴν τοῖς πιστεύουσι, κατὰ τὴν αὐτοῦ Κυρίου φωνήν· • Ὁ τρώγων μου τὴν σάρκα, καὶ πίνων μου τὸ αἷμα, ζήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.
« Hoi huioi tōn doulōn sou kataskēnōsousi, kai to sperma autōn eis ton aiōna kateuthynthēsetai. » Ho de Symmachos diamenei tetheike. Sēmainei de hōs hoi men tēs douleias apallagentes tēn Hierousalēm oikēsousi, to de ex autōn sperma eis ton aiōna diamenei. Peri toutou de tou spermatos ho theios ᾿Apostolos ephē; « ᾿Achris hou elthę̄ to sperma ho epēngeltai. » Kai, « Tǭ Abraam errhēthēsan hai epangeliai, kai tǭ spermati autou. Ou legei Kai tois spermasin hōs epi pollōn, all᾿ hōs eph᾽ henos, Kai tǭ spermati sou, hos esti Christos; » Touto to sperma eis ton aiōna diamenei. Henōthen gar tǭ theǭ Logǭ anōlethron echei to einai, kai dōreitai zōēn tois pisteuousi, kata tēn autou Kyriou phōnēn; • Ho trōgōn mou tēn sarka, kai pinōn mou to haima, zēsetai eis ton aiōna.
"The sons of your servants will dwell, and their seed will be directed for ever." Symmachus put "will remain." It signifies that those freed from slavery will inhabit Jerusalem, and their seed will remain for ever. Of this seed the divine Apostle said: "Until the seed should come to whom the promise was made"; and, "The promises were spoken to Abraham and to his seed. It does not say 'and to seeds,' as of many, but as of one, 'and to your seed,' which is Christ." This seed will remain for ever. For united to God the Word it has indestructible being, and it gives life to those who believe, according to the Lord's own saying: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood will live for ever."
Ps 102:28 (101:29 LXX) (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 3:19 (quotation, high confidence) · Gal 3:16 (quotation, high confidence) · John 6:54 (quotation, high confidence)
Notes and citation
Summary: Psalm 102:28: the enduring seed is Christ, whose flesh, united to God the Word, is indestructible and gives life to believers.
Notes on the original text
- Digital text corrected (split word (OCR); stray letter (OCR)): σπέρ μα → σπέρμα; θεῷ ἱ Λόγῳ → θεῷ Λόγῳ.
Topics: Christology, Eucharist
Cite (SBL): Theodoret, Interp. Ps. 101.29 (PG 80 80:1683; trans. Sophia Scriptura, https://sophiascriptura.com/p/theodoret-interpretatio-psalmos/101-29). (abbreviation not yet checked)
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