Oration on the Titles of the Songs of Ascents · §2 · Eustathius of Antioch

The Father does not receive acquired glory

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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.

But the Father does not receive acquired glory, for he is perfect, infinite, incomprehensible, and without need of beauty and every kind of seemliness.

Greek

Oratio in inscriptione psalmorum graduum (fragmenta) Ο ΛΟΓΟΣ ΕΙΣ ΤΑΣ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΑΣ ΤΩΝ ΑΝΑΒΑΘΜΩΝ 33 ∆όξαν δὲ ἐπίκτητον ὁ Πατὴρ οὐκ ἐπιδέχεται, τέλειος, ἄπειρος, ἀπερινόητος ὢν, ἀπροσδεὴς κάλλους καὶ παντοίας εὐπρεπείας.

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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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