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Psalm 12:1 — Unto the end, a psalm of David; the end as fruit of the labors
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“Unto the end, a psalm to David.” Hypothesis of Eusebius.
Because of the end, the one with God, he contended manfully in all the things before the end; and the end is the fruit of the labors, procuring eternal life and the kingdom of the heavens for those who genuinely contend.
Since then David also was one of these, he sent up the psalm and the ode to God unto the end. But at the beginning, as if still contending, he put forth the first utterances.
Greek 12.1 Εἰς τὸ τέλος,
ψαλμὸς τῷ ∆αυίδ. ̔Υπόθεσις Εὐσεβίου. ∆ιὰ τὸ τέλος, τὸ παρὰ τῷ Θεῷ, πάντα τὰ πρὸ
τοῦ τέλους ἀνδρικῶς ἠγωνίζετο· τὸ δὲ τέλος καρπὸς ὁ τῶν πό νων, ζωὴν αἰώνιον
καὶ βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν τοῖς γνησίως ἀγωνιζομένοις προξενῶν. ̓Επεὶ τοίνυν καὶ ὁ
∆αυὶδ τούτων ει ς η ν, εἰς μὲν τὸ τέλος τῷ Θεῷ τὸν ψαλμὸν καὶ τὴν ᾠδὴν ἀνέπεμπε.
Κατὰ δὲ τὴν ἀρχὴν, ὡσανεὶ ε τι ἀγωνιζόμενος, τὰς πρώτας προέφερε φωνάς·
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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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