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Psalm 17:49 — my deliverer from wrathful enemies; their wrath like the serpent
“My deliverer from wrathful enemies” (Psalm 18:48 ).
In those in whom wrath prevails, in these also is irascibility; and if our enemies are irascible, our enemies then are wrathful; for their wrath, he says, is according to the likeness of the serpent, and in his wrath being angered upon us.
Greek 17.49 ̔Ο ῥύστης μου ἐξ ἐχθρῶν ὀργίλων. ̓Εν οι ς θυμὸς ἐπικρατεῖ, ἐν τούτοις καὶ
ὀργιλότης· εἰ δὲ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν ο ργιλοί εἰσιν, οἱ ἐχθροὶ ἡμῶν α ρα θυμωδεῖς εἰσιν·
θυμὸς γὰρ αὐτῶν, φησὶ, κατὰ τὴν ὁμοίωσιν τοῦ ο φεως, καὶ ἐν τῷ ὀργισθῆναι τὸν
θυμὸν αὐτοῦ ἐφ' ἡμᾶς.
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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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