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Psalm 9:36 — shatter the arm of the sinner and the wicked; the arm is the soul that worked wickedness
“Shatter the arm of the sinner and the wicked” (Psalm 10:15 ).
A sinner is the one who sins from pleasure-loving and licentiousness; a wicked one is the one who is voluntarily an evildoer. And he said “arm” of the soul that has worked wickedness. The shattering of the arm makes the sins vanish; and to be delivered from sins is a benefit of someone’s arm being shattered; thus I also am persuaded that God punishes.
Greek 9.36 Σύντριψον τὸν βραχίονα τοῦ ἁμαρ
τωλοῦ καὶ πονηροῦ. ̔Αμαρτωλός ἐστιν ὁ ἐξ ἡδυπαθείας καὶ ἀκολασίας ἁμαρτάνων·
πονηρὸς δὲ ὁ ἑκου σίως κακοποιητικός. –Βραχίονα δὲ ει πε τὴν πονηρὰ
κατεργασαμένην ψυχήν. ̔Η συν τριβὴ τοῦ βραχίονος ἀφανίζει τὰς ἁμαρτίας· τὸ δὲ
ἀπαλλαγῆναι τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν εὐεργε σία ἐστὶ τοῦ συντριβῆναί τινος βραχίονα· ου τω
καὶ ἐγὼ πείθομαι κολάζειν Θεῷ.
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About this text Origen of Alexandria, first half of the third century. This page is part of the Greek psalm fragments, not a complete commentary.
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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