Taking Within

Καὶ τον νόμον σου ἐν μέσῳ τῆς καρδίας μου. Ἔχων δὲ τὸ σὸν θέλημα κεκρυμμένον ἐν ἑμαυτῷ, τοῦτο γὰρ, οἶμαι, δηλοῖ τὸ, Ἐν μέσῷ τῆς κοιλίας μου, τοῖς γνησίοις αὐτὸ ἐναργὲς καταστήσω. Εἰδέναι γὰρ ἡμᾶς ἀναγκαῖον, ὅτι τὰ τῶν μαθημάτων ἐξηρημένα τοῖς ἐξειλεγμένοις προσελάλει Χριστὸς, καὶ οὐχ ἄπασιν ἁπλῶς καὶ ἀδιακρίτως προσδιελέγετο. Καὶ γοῦν τοῖς μὲν Ἰουδαίοις ἐν παραβολαῖς ἐλαλει· τοῖς γε μὴν ἁγίοις ἀποστόλοις, ἅτε δὴ καὶ ἀκραιφνῆ τὴν διάνοιαν ἔχουσι καὶ τελεωτάτων μαθημάτων δεκτικὴν, Ὑμῖν δέδοται φησὶ γνῶναι τὰ μυστήρια τῆς βασιλείας, ἐκείνοις δὲ οὐ δέδοται. Καλὸν δὲ ἡμᾶς τὴν κοιλίαν καθαίρειν ὅτι μάλιστα καὶ ποιεῖν λεπτοτέραν ὥστε τὸν νόμον Κυρίου ἐν μέσῳ δέχεσθαι, Ψυχῆς δὲ κοιλία, τὸ δοχεῖον τῶν πνευματικῶν τροφῶν, εἴτουν τὸ διανοητικόν. Ἅγιος Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Εἰς Τους Ψαλμους, Ψαλμός ΛΘ' Source: Migne PG 69.989c-d

And your law in the midst of my heart. 1 Having your will established within me, that is what I think the words mean; in my depths I shall set that to which I clearly have affinity. For one must know that Christ revealed his special teachings to his chosen ones alone, for He did not speak to all openly, nor without discrimination. To the Jews he spoke in parables, but to his holy Apostles, endowed with purified minds, capacious of sublime teaching, He said, 'To you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom, and not to them at all.' 2 And we do well to purge the heart, that is, that we lift it upon high, that it is able to receive this law of the Lord within itself. For this stomach of the soul is the receptacle of spiritual bread, that is, the capability of the mind. Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on the Psalms, Psalm 39 1 Ps 39.9 2 Mt 13.11