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Psalm 17:9 — smoke went up in his anger; coals are the chorus of the apostles
“Smoke went up in his anger, and fire from his face set ablaze, coals were kindled from him” (Psalm 18:8 ).
He was angry, he says, and he cast down the fire, through which again he burned the men. Coals: the chorus of the apostles; for having partaken of this fire on the day of Pentecost, and having received fiery tongues upon their heads, they were reasonably called coals, lighting the nations together and purifying; that these things happened, learn from the things brought next:
Greek 17.9 ̓Ανέβη καπνὸς ἐν ὀργῇ αὐτοῦ,
καὶ πῦρ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ κατεφλόγισεν, α νθρακες ἀνήφθησαν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ.
̓Ωργίσθη, φησὶ, καὶ κατέβαλεν τὸ πῦρ, δι' ου πάλιν τοὺς ἀνθρώπους κατέφλεγεν.
Ανθρακες, ὁ τῶν ἀποστόλων χορός· τούτου γὰρ τοῦ πυρὸς κατὰ τὴν ἡμέραν τῆς Πεν
τηκοστῆς μεταλαβόντες, καὶ γλώσσας ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν πυρίνας δεξάμενοι,
α νθρακες εἰκότως ἐχρημάτιζον, φωτίζοντες ὁμοῦ τὰ ε θνη καὶ καθάροντες· ο τι
ταῦτα ἐγένετο, τοῖς ἑξῆς ἐπαγομένοις μάνθανε·
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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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