Fragments on the Psalms · §67 · Origen of Alexandria

Psalm 14:5 — he did not give his money on interest

“His silver he did not give on interest” (Psalm 15:5; LXX 14:5).

This is to be said to the usurers, as something that prevents tabernacling on the holy mountain. “The one who does these things will not be shaken forever.”

Eusebius: The one who has succeeded in all the things previously enumerated together, having become complete, and having kept the whole way of life according to God whole, as it were sound and furnished with all good things of words and of deeds — will not be shaken forever.

Greek

14.5 Τὸ ἀργύριον αὐτοῦ οὐκ ε δωκεν τόκῳ. Τοῦτο λεκτέον πρὸς τοὺς τοκιστὰς, ὡς κωλυτικὸν τῆς ἐν ἁγίῳ ο ρει κατασκηνώσεως. ̔Ο ποιῶν ταῦτα, οὐ σαλευθήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα. Εὐσεβίου. Ο γε μὴν ὁμοῦ πάντα προκα τηριθμημένα κατορθώσας, ἀντιτελὴς γενό μενος, καὶ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα τῆς κατὰ Θεὸν πο λιτείας ὁλόκληρον, ω σπερ καὶ ὑγιὲς καὶ πᾶσιν ἀγαθοῖς λόγων τε καὶ ε ργων ἀπηρτισ μένον διατηρήσας, οὐ σαλευθήσεται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα.

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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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Translated from PG 12 Fragmenta in Psalmos (Greek)

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