Oration on the Titles of the Songs of Ascents
Oratio in inscriptione psalmorum graduum
Eustathius of Antioch (fl. c. 320–337) wrote this treatise on the inscriptions of the Psalms of Ascents.
Acquired glory belongs to the man of Christ, not to Father or Word§1
Eustathius is explaining why the Psalms of Ascents speak of glory being given: it cannot belong to the Father or the Word, but only to the man of Christ raised from the dead.
1The Father does not receive acquired glory, for he is perfect, infinite, incomprehensible, and without need of beauty and every seemliness. Nor does his Word receive it, for he is God begotten from the Father, through whom angels and heavens and the boundless expanses of the earth have come to be, and in short all the materials and constitutions of created things. Rather, it is the man of Christ who, being raised from the dead, is exalted and glorified, while his enemies openly took up shame. Those who took up hatred against him out of envy and were fenced in by a hostile battle-line are scattered, since the Word and God has fittingly raised his own temple.
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The Father does not receive acquired glory§2
The author is beginning his explanation of why acquired glory is not fitting for the Father, stating the first reason in a series that will also cover the Word and the man of Christ.
2But the Father does not receive acquired glory, for he is perfect, infinite, incomprehensible, and without need of beauty and every kind of seemliness.
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The Word does not receive acquired glory; the man of Christ does§3
Eustathius continues his argument about who receives acquired glory, now turning from the Father to the Word and then to the man of Christ.
3Nor does the Word receive it, for he is God begotten from the Father, through whom angels and heavens and the boundless magnitudes of earth and all the materials and compositions of created things together have come to be. Rather, it is the man of Christ who, being raised from the dead, is exalted and glorified, while his enemies
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Shame of enemies and scattering by the Word's raising of his temple§4
Eustathius is closing his argument that acquired glory belongs to the man of Christ, not to the Father or the Word, and now describes the fate of Christ's enemies.
4openly took up shame. But those who, out of envy, took up hatred against him and were fenced in by a hostile battle-line are scattered, since the Word and God fittingly raised his own temple.
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