Fragments on the Psalms · §83 · Origen of Alexandria

Psalm 18:10 — the judgments of the Lord are true, justified together

“The judgments of the Lord are true, justified together” (Psalm 19:9).

It was necessary that he added the third verse to the two former; for the judgments of God, for those who sin and transgress, have been established as fearful and to-be-sought-out; but for those who work the law of God and keep it they appear more honorable than all wealth, because of the hope of the recompense, and even sweeter than any pleasure.

Greek

18.10 Τὰ κρίματα Κυρίου ἀληθινὰ, δε δικαιωμένα ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό. ̓Αναγκαῖον τοῖς δύο στίχοις τοῖς προτέ ροις τὸν τρίτον προσέθηκε· τὰ γὰρ τοῦ Θεοῦ κρίματα, τοῖς μὲν ἁμαρτάνουσι καὶ παρα βάταις φοβερὰ καὶ ἀποζητητέα καθέστηκεν· τοῖς δὲ ἐργαζομένοις τοῦ Θεοῦ τὸν νόμον καὶ φυλάττουσι παντὸς πλούτου τιμιώτερα, διὰ τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆς ἀμοιβῆς, ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ πάσης ἡδονῆς γλυκύτερα φαίνεται.

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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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