War And Peace

Ἐκεῖ συνέτριψε τὰ κράτη τῶν τόξων, ὅπλον καὶ ῥομφαίαν καὶ πόλεμον.    Καὶ ἐνταῦτα πέπρακτο, οὐδὲ ἔδει φθονεῖν Ἰουδαίοις οὕτως ἐνδέχεσθαι βουλομένοις· εἰ δὲ πᾶν ποὺναντίον ἐξ αὐτῶν ὁρᾶται τῶν πραγμάτων, διὰ τὸ ἠρημῶσθαι τὴν Σιὼν ἐκ τῆς τῶν πολεμίων πολιορκίας, ἀνάγκη τῇ ἀποδοθείσῃ εἰρήνῃ καταλλήλως καὶ τὴν Σιὼν ἐκλαμβάνειν, ἥτοι τὴν Ἐκκλησίαν τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἢ τὴν ἐπουράνιον, ἢν ὁ Θεῖος Ἀπόστολος παρίστη λέγων· Προσεληλύθατε Σιὼν ὅρει, καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ, καὶ μυριάσιν ἀγγέλων πανηγύρει, καὶ Ἐκκλησίᾳ πρωτοτόκων ἀπογεγραμμένων ἐν οὐρανοῖς. Ἐνταῦθα γὰρ μηδεμιᾶς ἁμαρτίας ἐνεργούσης, μηδέ τινος ὑφεστῶτος ψυχῶν πολεμίου, συντέτριπται τὰ κράτη τῶν τόξων, ἀνήρηταί τε ὅπλον καὶ ῥομφαία· ὡς λέγεσθαι περὶ τῶν καταξιομένων τῆς ἐκεῖ διατριβῆς· Ἀπέδρα ὀδύνη καὶ στεναγμός. Εὐσέβιος ὁ Καισάρειος, Ὑπομνηματα Ἐις Τους ψαλμους, ψαλμος ΟΕ' Source Migne PG 23.880-1

There He broke the strength of the archers, the spear and the sword and war. 1 Here again though these things were done in the sensible and terrestrial Zion, there should be no wish to understand them according to the manner of the Hebrews, lest the very opposite appear by these deeds, because in the ruinous siege of Zion by the enemy they indeed were, and so necessary here it is to understand this Sion, to which peace befits, as the Church of God, or indeed that celestial city, 2 concerning which the blessed Apostle says, 'You have come to mount Zion and the city of the living God, and amid a great throng of thousands of angels and the assembly of the first ones who are written in heaven.' 3 Here indeed there is no power of sin, no mighty struggle of souls, the strength of the archers is broken and the spear and sword are blunted, and so concerning this place of rest it is worthy to say, 'Grief has been cut off and groaning.' 4 Eusebius of Caesarea, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 75 1 Psalm 75.4 2 Galat 4.26 3 Hebr 12.22 4 Isai 51.11