Fragments on the Psalms · §23 · Origen of Alexandria

Psalm 5:12 — let all who hope on you rejoice; you will tabernacle in them

“And let all who hope on you be glad in you; they will exult forever, and you will tabernacle in them” (Psalm 5:11).

When the plotters have been dissolved, the gladness is of you tabernacling in them forever. And how is it not exultation, for the one to whom God is present, dwelling and walking as in his own temple (2 Corinthians 6:16)? As being far from God, when sin takes captive, is worthy of lamentations. And the end of the good things is to receive an inheritance and to have as a lot God dwelling in one.

Greek

5.12 Καὶ εὐφρανθήτωσαν ἐπὶ σοὶ πάν τες οἱ ἐλπίζοντες ἐπὶ σὲ, εἰς αἰῶνα ἀγαλ λιάσονται, καὶ κατασκηνώσεις ἐν αὐτοῖς. Τῶν ἐπιβούλων καταλυθέντων, ἡ εὐφρο σύνη σοῦ κατασκηνοῦντος ἐν αὐτοῖς εἰς αἰῶ να. Καὶ πῶς γὰρ οὐκ ἀγαλλίασις, ῳ Θεὸς πάρεστιν, ὡς ἐν ἰδίῳ ναῷ ἐνοικῶν τε καὶ περιπατῶν; ὡς τὸ μακρύνεσθαι Θεοῦ, τῆς ἁμαρτίας αἰχμαλωτιζούσης, θρήνων ἐπάξιον. Τέλος δὲ τῶν ἀγαθῶν, ἀπολαβεῖν κληρονο μίαν καὶ κλῆρον ε χειν ἐνοικοῦντα Θεόν.

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Origen's verse-by-verse notes on Psalms 1 to 22, read as words about Christ and as steps in the soul's progress from shunning evil to doing good.

Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–c. 254) was a Christian teacher in Alexandria and later at Caesarea. This English is the Greek fragments of his comments on the Psalms.

The sections follow the Psalms in order, beginning with Psalm 1 and running through Psalm 22. He reads them as prophecies of Christ and as a picture of the soul's progress. These fragments are not Didymus the Blind's commentary on the Psalms, and they are not Didymus's separate book of fragments on the Psalms.

A reader meets the opening psalms, including the tree and the water of Psalm 1 and the king of Psalm 2, then the psalms that follow. Psalms are cited by the Septuagint numbering.

Fresh English from PG 12 Greek of Fragmenta in Psalmos, Psalms 1–22.3.

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Translated from PG 12 Fragmenta in Psalmos (Greek)

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