Men And Mountains

Οἱ πεποιθότες καὶ Κύριον ὡς ὄρος Σιὼν, κ.τ.ἑ. Οἱ προσερχόμενοι Σιὼν ὄρει καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος, Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ, φοροῦσι τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου, καὶ πεποιθότες ἐπὶ Κύριον γίνονται ὡς ἐκεῖνο τὸ Σιὼν ὄρος. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Εἰ ἐκ τοῦ πεποιθέναι ἐπὶ Κύριον γίνεται τις ὡς ὄρος Σιὼν, ἄλλος ἂν ἐξ ἄλλου τινὸς γένοιτ' ἂν ὡς ὄρος Χωρὴβ, καὶ ἄλλος ὡς ὄρος Σινά· καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἐναντίων εἴη ἄν τις ὡς ὄρος Αἰγύπτου, καὶ ὄρος Βαβυλῶνος, καὶ τοιούτων τῶν παρὰ τοῖς ἐχθροῖς ὄρον. Ἥ ὥσπερ οἱ πεποιθότες ἐπὶ Κύριον ὡς ὄρος εἰσὶ Σιὼν, οὕτως οἱ ὑποδεέστεροι ὡς τὰ κύκλῳ αὐτῆς ὄρη. Ὠριγένης, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος ΡΛΗ' Source: Migne PG 12 1637

'Those who trust in the Lord are like mount Zion.' 1 Those who come to mount Zion and the city of the living God, the celestial Jerusalem, are those who bear the heavenly image, and trusting in the Lord they become like mount Sion. On the same. If by faith in God a man may be made like mount Sion, another from other things may be made like Mount Horeb and another like Mount Sinai, and in opposition a man may be made like a mountain of Egypt and a mountain of Babylon, and likewise with all those who are hostile. For as those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Sion, so those who fall short of this are like the mountains which surround it. 2 Origen, Excerpta On the Psalms, from Psalm 124 1 Ps 124.1 2 Ps 124.2