[B-Greek] Eusebius of Caesarea on Psalm 23

James Ernest j.d.ernest at bc.edu
Thu Jun 24 10:57:23 EDT 2010


Alex,
I think κεχαρακτηρισμένοις [KEXARAKTHRISMENOIS] has to be a typo in Migne
(or in TLG?) for κεχαρακτηρισμένος [KEXARAKTHRISMENOS] .

The preceding sentence locates "sheep" in the middle morally between the
progress of the mature and the wickedness of those who are bogged down and
for that reason get compared to serpents and wild beasts:

Μέση τυγχάνει κατάστασις ἡ τῶν προβάτων τῆς τε τῶν τελείων προκοπῆς καὶ τῶν
ἐν βυθῷ κακίας καλινδουμένων͵ καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἑρπετοῖς καὶ θηρίοις ἀγρίοις
παραβαλλομένων.

Then we get to the sentence you quoted:

Ὁ μὲν γὰρ τέλειος γένοιτ' ἂν ὁ κατὰ τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τὴν
ὁμοίωσιν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν τοῖς κατ' ἀρετὴν τρόποις κεχαρακτηρισμένοις·* ὁ
καὶ βασιλέα τὸν Κύριον*, *ἀλλ' οὐ ποιμένα ἐπιγραφόμενος*· ὁ δὲ ἐκπεσὼν
ταύτης...

"For the mature person would be the one whose soul is stamped with the
traits of virtue according to the image of God and his likeness, and who
calls God not his shepherd but his king. But the one who falls away from
this status (reaching back to KATASTASIS for the antecedent of TAUTHS)"  . .
. and so on through the hose and wolf images that Carl noted and others,
with biblical allusion that you can probably trace fairly easily.

James Ernest

> > Ὁ μὲν γὰρ τέλειος γένοιτ' ἂν ὁ κατὰ τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ Θεοῦ καὶ τὴν ὁμοίωσιν
> > > αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν τοῖς κατ' ἀρετὴν τρόποις κεχαρακτηρισμένοις·* ὁ καὶ
> > βασιλέα
> > > τὸν Κύριον*, *ἀλλ' οὐ ποιμένα ἐπιγραφόμενος*· ὁ δὲ ἐκπεσὼν ταύτης...
> > >
>


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