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Psalm 12:3 — how long shall I set counsels in my soul, pains in my heart day and night
“How long shall I set counsels in my soul, pains in my heart day and night?” (Psalm 13:2 ).
Of the same. Instead of which Symmachus interpreted saying: “Care in my mind by day.” And these things, he says, were written for our admonition, so that we too, with the mindset of the one who has said these things, if there should be need of repentance and confession for some things not rightly done by us, might use the same methods, as it were saving medicines of the soul, timely using the present words of confession.
Greek 12.3
Εως τίνος
θήσομαι βουλὰς ἐν ψυχῇ μου, ὀδύνας ἐν καρδίᾳ μου ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός;
Τοῦ
αὐτοῦ. ̓Ανθ' ου ὁ Σύμμαχος ἡρμή νευσεν εἰπών· Μέριμναν ἐν τῇ διανοίᾳ μου καθ'
ἡμέραν. Ταῦτα δὲ, φησὶν, ἐγράφη εἰς νουθεσίαν ἡμῶν, ο πως καὶ αὐτοὶ, διαθέσει
τοῦ ταῦτα εἰρηκότος, εἰ γένοιτο ἡμῖν χρεία μετα νοίας καὶ ἐξομολογήσεως ἐπί τισιν
οὐκ ὀρθῶς ἡμῖν πεπραγμένοις, ταῖς αὐταῖς χρησώμεθα μεθόδοις, ω σπερ φαρμάκοις
ψυχῆς σωτηρίοις, εὐκαίρως τοῖς παροῦσι λόγοις τῆς ἐξομολο γήσεως χρώμενοι.
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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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