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Fragments on the Psalms · §52 · Origen of Alexandria

Psalm 9:37-38 — the Lord reigns forever; he heard the desire of the poor

“The Lord reigns forever and to the age of the age; you nations shall perish from his land. The Lord heard the desire of the poor” (Psalm 10:16-17).

For the Lord must reign through the ages, until the Lord heard the desire of the poor, until he put all the enemies as a footstool of his feet (1 Corinthians 15:25).

For his kingdom is the contemplation of all the ages that have come to be and that will come to be; through which contemplation the enemies also become friends. And the land of the Lord is the contemplation of the ages that have come to be. And the kingdom, we say, is this: the Lord then hearkens to the desire, whenever he grants the desired thing to the soul that has desired.

Greek

9.37,38 Βασιλεύει Κύριος εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνος· ἀπολεῖσθε, ε θνη, ἐκ τῆς γῆς αὐτοῦ· τὴν ἐπιθυμίαν τῶν πενήτων εἰσήκουσεν Κύριος. ∆εῖ γὰρ τὸν Κύριον βασιλεύειν διὰ τῶν αἰώνων, α χρις ου ἐπιθυμίαν τῶν πενήτων εἰ σήκουσε Κύριος, α χρις ου θῇ πάντας τοὺς ἐχ θροὺς ὑποπόδιον τῶν ποδῶν αὐτοῦ. ̔Η γὰρ βασιλεία αὐτοῦ ἐστιν ἡ θεωρία πάντων τῶν γεγονότων καὶ γενησομένων αἰώνων· δι' η ς θεωρίας καὶ οἱ ἐχθροὶ φίλοι γίνονται· ἡ δὲ γῆ τοῦ Κυρίου, ἡ θεωρία τῶν γεγονότων αἰώ νων· ἡ δὲ βασιλεία, φαμὲν, τό· τηνικαῦτα ἐπακούει τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ὁ Κύριος, ὁπηνίκα α ν παράσχῃ τὸ ἐπιθυμητὸν τῇ ἐπιθυμη σάσῃ ψυχῇ.

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