A Good Man's House

Διεπορευόμην ἐν ἀκακίᾳ καρδίας μου ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου μου. Τῶν διαπορευομένων κατὰ τὰς τοῦ νόμου ἐνεργείας ὅσοι σὺν κακίᾳ κινοῦνται, ἐκτὸς ἑαυτῶν γίνονται, ἐμπαθῶς τοὶς αἰσθητοῖς προσκεχηνότες. Ἔθος γοῦν λέγειν τοὺς τοιούτους ἐκτὸς ἑαυτῶν καὶ ἐξεστηκότας εἴναι. Ὁ δὲ σὺν ἀκακίᾳ, τουτέστι σὺν ἀρετῇ, κινούμενος περὶ τὰ πρακτέα καὶ φρονητέα, πρὸς ἑαυτὸν κυκλικῶς τρέφεται ὅλως τοῦ νοῦ καὶ τῆς  ἐπιμελείας τοῦ ἔσω ἀνθρώπου γινόμενος, διαπορεύεται μεθ' ἔξεως βελτίστης ἐν μέσῳ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ. Οἴκος δὲ ἐκάστου τῶν σπουδαίων ἤν καθορθοῦσιν τὴν ἀρετήν. Δίδυμος Αλεξανδρεύς, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος  Ρ'

I walked in the innocence of my heart in the midst of my house. 1   They who walk according to the actions of the law, every time that evils beset, which seize by care for sensible things, are beyond them.  Whence this type of man we say is beyond these things and stands apart from them. He who is innocent, that is, he who possesses virtue, is moved regarding things to do and think only by those things which pertain to thought and care of the interior man, which thus surrounding him nourish him, and so in this best state in the midst of this house he walks, and the house of the righteous is that which virtue has perfected. Didymus the Blind, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 100 1 Ps 100.2