Oration on the Titles of the Songs of Ascents · §4 · Eustathius of Antioch

Shame of enemies and scattering by the Word's raising of his temple

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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.

openly 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.

Greek

ἐναντίων αἰσχύνην ἄντικρυς ἀραμένων. 34 Οἱ δὲ φθόνῳ τὸ μῖσος ἀράμενοι κατ' αὐτοῦ καὶ πεφραγμένοι πολεμίᾳ παρατάξει σκορπίζονται, τοῦ Λόγου τε καὶ Θεοῦ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ναὸν ἀξιοπρεπῶς ἀναστήσαντος.

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Oration on the Titles of the Songs of Ascents attributed to Eustathius of Antioch.

Eustathius of Antioch (fl. c. 320–337) wrote this treatise on the inscriptions of the Psalms of Ascents.

The surviving fragments explain the titles of the Psalms of Ascents. Eustathius argues that the Father does not receive acquired glory, since he is perfect, infinite, incomprehensible, and without need of beauty and every seemliness. Nor does the Word, who is God begotten from the Father and through whom all created things were made.

A reader will meet the Father, the Word, and the man of Christ. The man of Christ is raised from the dead, exalted, and glorified, while his enemies openly took up shame. The work comments on the Psalms of Ascents in the Septuagint numbering.

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