Commentary on Psalm 92
Commentarius in Psalmum 92
The anointed man's dishonor, not the indwelling God's§1
Eustathius has just distinguished the one who anoints (God by nature) from the anointed one (the man who receives acquired virtue), and now cites Isaiah's description of the suffering servant's lack of appearance and beauty.
1It is clear, then, that if the one who anoints proves God—the one whose throne he called eternal—then the one who anointed is evidently God by nature, begotten from God. The anointed one, however, received acquired virtue, adorned by the exceptional fashioning of a temple through the divinity of the one dwelling in him.
At any rate, the prophet Isaiah, when he goes through the very traces of his sufferings, adds this among other things with a louder cry: “We saw him, and he had neither appearance nor beauty; but his appearance was dishonored and failing in comparison with the sons of men” (Isaiah 53:2-3).
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Suffering belongs to the man, not the indwelling God§2
Eustathius has just quoted Isaiah 53:2-3 about the servant's dishonored appearance, and now explains that these forms and sufferings attach to the man, not to the divine nature.
2Then, showing plainly that the forms, that is, the sufferings, of splendor are attached to the man and not to the divine, he immediately brings in another quotation, adding: “A man in affliction, knowing how to bear weakness” (Isaiah 53:3). So this is the one who, after his insults, was seen without appearance and without form, and then again from change clothed himself with splendor. For the God dwelling in him was not led to death like a lamb or slaughtered like a sheep, since he is invisible by nature.
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The man, not the indwelling God, suffered dishonor and death§3
Eustathius has just quoted Isaiah 53:3 about a man in affliction and is now explaining that this man, not the God dwelling in him, is the one who suffered dishonor and then regained splendor.
3Immediately he brings in another quotation, adding: “A man in affliction, knowing how to bear weakness” (Isaiah 53:3). So this is the one who was seen without appearance and without form after his insults, and then again put on splendor from change. For the God dwelling in him was not led to death like a lamb or slaughtered in the manner of a sheep, since he is invisible by nature.
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