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20 Aug 2018

The Melting Mountains

Τὰ ὄρη ὠσεὶ κηρὸς ἐτάκησαν.

Ὄρη δέ φησιν τὰς ὑψηλὰς καὶ ὑπερηφάνους δυνάμεις τὰς ἀντικειμένας, ἥγουν τοὺς κοσμοκράτορας τοῦ σκότους τούτου, διὰ πολλὴν ἄγαν ὑπερηφανίαν ὄρεσι παρεικαζομένους. Ἅς κατέτηξεν ὁ Σωτὴρ ὡσεὶ κηρὸν, οἵον τι πῦρ κηρῷ προσβεβληκός.


Ἅγιος Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Εἰς Τους Ψαλμους, Ψαλμός ϞϚ'
'The mountains melted like wax.' 1 

Mountains he names the high and proud and hostile powerful ones who are the world rulers in this darkness, those who on account of their great pride are likened to mountains. These the Savior melted like wax, as a fire falling on wax.

Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 96 

1 Ps 96.5

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