[B-Greek] Eusebius of Caesarea on Psalm 23
Alex Poulos
apviper at gmail.com
Thu Jun 24 12:13:05 EDT 2010
Thanks for the note! That's quite helpful. The more I read Eusebius the
easier it gets, but it's still pretty difficult ;-).
Alex
2010/6/24 James Ernest <j.d.ernest at bc.edu>
> 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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