Psalm 18:6 — he set his tent in the sun; bridegroom from the chamber; giant running the way
“In the sun he set his tent, and he as a bridegroom going forth from his chamber will exult as a giant to run his way” (Psalm 19:4-5).
Of Athanasius. He called the chamber the Virgin, from whom the bridegroom Christ went forth, clean of all defilement, coming forth from a clean chamber. And the holy Virgin is the chamber of Christ, since having given birth without a man, she reasonably had as bridegroom the one being born himself, who by invisible power worked the birth.
Giant is interpreted as falling-upon, and is taken for the Lord; for he himself exulted at the time of the economy, accomplishing our salvation, and he fell upon the demonic ranks, putting out of work their domination against us. And understand the way as the Lord’s becoming-man, in which as a giant, because of the strength done in the cross and the death, he was running exulting. Recently he exulted in the gospel because of the finding of the one sheep. For he left the ninety-nine sheep that did not wander, that is the angelic powers, upon the mountains, that is in the heavens, and came upon the wandered sheep, and finding it he exulted; or he ran the way upon the heavens exulting, or from earth into the underworld he ran.
Greek
18.6 ̓Εν τῷ ἡλίῳ ε θετο τὸ σκήνωμα αὐ τοῦ, καὶ αὐτὸς ὡς νυμφίος ἐκπορευόμενος ἐκ παστοῦ αὐτοῦ, ἀγαλλιάσεται ὡς γίγας δραμεῖν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ. ̓Αθανασίου. Παστὸν τὴν Παρθένον ἐκά λεσεν, ἐξ η ς ὁ νυμφίος Χριστὸς ἐπορεύετο, παντὸς ῥύπου καθαρὸς, ἀπὸ καθαρᾶς παστά δος προερχόμενος. Παστὰς δὲ τοῦ Χριστοῦ ἡ ἁγία Παρθένος, ἐπειδὴ χωρὶς ἀνδρὸς τε κοῦσα, νυμφίον ε σχεν εἰκότως τὸν τικτόμε νον αὐτὸν, ἀοράτῳ δυνάμει τὸν τόκον ἐνερ γήσαντα. –Γίγας ἑρμηνεύεται ἐπιπίπτων, λαμβάνεται δὲ εἰς τὸν Κύριον· αὐτὸς γὰρ ἠγαλλιάσατο κατὰ τὸν καιρὸν τῆς οἰκονο μίας, τὴν ἡμετέραν σωτηρίαν πραγματευό μενος, καὶ ἐπέπεσε ταῖς δαιμονικαῖς φά λαγξι, καταργήσας αὐτῶν καθ' ἡμῶν δυ ναστείαν. ̔Οδὸν δὲ τὴν τοῦ Κυρίου ἐνανθρώ πησιν νόησον, ἐν ῃ καθάπερ γίγας διὰ τὴν ἰσχὺν τὴν ἐν τῷ σταυρῷ καὶ τῷ θανάτῳ πε πραγμένην ἀγαλλιώμενος ε τρεχεν. ̓Αρτίως ἠγαλλιάσατο ἐν τῷ εὐαγγελίῳ διὰ τὴν ευ ρεσιν τοῦ ἑνὸς προβάτου. Ει ασε γὰρ τὰ ἐν νενήκοντα ἐννέα πρόβατα τὰ μὴ πλανη θέντα, τουτέστι τὰς ἀγγελικὰς δυνάμεις, ἐπὶ τὰ ο ρη, τουτέστιν ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, καὶ η λ θεν ἐπὶ τὸ πεπλανημένον πρόβατον, καὶ εὑ ρὼν αὐτὸ ἠγαλλιάσατο· η ε δραμε τὴν ἐπ' οὐ ρανοὺς ὁδὸν ἀγαλλιῶν, ει τε ἀπὸ γῆς εἰς τὰ καταχθόνια ε δραμε.