Fragments on the Psalms · §4 · Origen of Alexandria

Psalm 2 hypothesis — the first psalm is almost the title of the second

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Hypothesis. But since not to be ungodly was set first in the beginning of the blessing, the second word sets out the things that have come to be outside ungodliness, the evangelical mystery spoken beforehand; so that in a way the first psalm is an inscription of the second.

For it speaks the generation through flesh there of Christ who has been begotten “today” for us (and “today” is a part of time), but who always is Son and God from the Father and in the Father; and it speaks the kingdom over those without a king, who because they did not slave for God had been counted among the nations.

Greek

2.π ̔Υπόθεσις. ̓Αλλ' ἐπειδὴ τὸ μὴ δεῖν ἀσεβεῖν ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ τοῦ μακαρισμοῦ προετάχθη, τὸ δεύτερον ε πος [τὰ] ε ξω τῆς ἀσεβείας γενόμενα ὑποτίθεται, τὸ εὐαγγελικὸν προαναφωνῆσαν μυστήριον· ω στε τρόπον τινὰ ἐπιγραφὴν τοῦ δευτέρου ψαλμοῦ τὸν πρῶτον ει ναι· λέγει γὰρ τὴν διὰ σαρκὸς ἐκεῖ γέννησιν τοῦ σή μερον μὲν γεννηθέντος δι' ἡμᾶς Χριστοῦ (χρόνου δὲ μέρος ἐστὶ τὸ σήμερον), ἀεὶ δὲ ἐκ τοῦ Πατρὸς καὶ ἐν τῷ Πατρὶ ο ντος Υἱοῦ καὶ Θεοῦ· τήν τε βασίλειαν [λέγει] ἐπὶ τῶν ἀβασιλεύτων, οἱ διὰ τὸ μὴ δουλεύειν Θεῷ ἐπ' ε θνεσιν η σαν κατειλεγμένοι.

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