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12 Aug 2019

Exalting The Lord


Ὑποῦτε Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν, καὶ προσκυνεῖτε εἰς ὄρος ἅγιον αὐτοῦ, ὅτι  ἅγιος Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἡμῶν.

Μηδὲν τεπεινὸν, φησὶ, καὶ ἀνθρώπινον περὶ τοῦ Κυρίου φρονεῖτε· ἀλλ' ὑψοῦτε αὐτὸν ὑψηλὰ περὶ αὐτοῦ δοξάζοντες, καὶ τὸ προσῆκον αὐτῷ προσενέγκατε σέβας. Ὄρος δὲ ἅγιον πάλαι μὲν τὸ Σιὼν ἐκαλεῖτο, νῦν δὲ τῆς θεογνωσίας τὸ ὕψος· οὕτω γὰρ καὶ Ἠσαΐας καὶ Μιχαίας ἐθέπισαν· Ἔσται ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις ἡμέραις ἐμφαντὲς τὸ ὄρος Κυρίου· τουτέστιν ἡ τοῦ Θεοῦ γνῶσις πᾶσι δήλη γενήσετει. Οἴδε γὰρ καὶ ὁ Ἀπόστολος νοητὸν ὅρος Σιών· Προσεληλύθατε γὰρ ὄρει Σιὼν καὶ πόλει Θεοῦ ζῶντος Ἰερουσαλὴμ ἐπουρανίῳ. Προστετάγμεθα τοίνυν κατὰ τὴν δοθεῖσαν ἡμῖν ὑπὸ Θεοῦ γνῶσιν προσφέρειν αὐτῷ προσκύνησιν· ὅς καὶ Κύριος ἡμῶν ἐστιν ὡς δούλων, καὶ Θεὸς ὡς πλἀστης. Ἀλλ' οὕτω μὲν πνευματικώτερον τὸν ψαλμὸν νοήσαιμεν.

Εὐσέβιος ὁ Καισάρειος, Ὑπομνηματα Ἐις Τους ψαλμους, ψαλμος ϟΗ'

Source:  Migne PG 23.1237D- 1240A



Exalt the Lord your God and adore Him on His sacred mountain, because holy is the Lord our God. 1

He tells us that we should think nothing base or human concerning the Lord, but exalt Him by thinking high things, and so fulfill the duty of worship. For he names the mount holy that was Sion, and now it is the cognition of Divine sublimity, for thus Isaiah and Micah made the prophecy, 'And in the last days the mount of God shall be manifest.' 2 that is, the knowledge of God shall be open to all. For the Apostle also knew the spiritual mount Sion when he said, 'You have come to mount Sion and the city of the living God, the celestial Jerusalem.' 3 Thus we have been exhorted according to our gift of the knowledge of God to offer worship to Him; He who is our Lord as we are servants, and God as creator. This is the spiritual understanding of the Psalm.


Eusebius of Caesarea, Commentary on the Psalms, from Psalm 98

1 Ps 98.9
2 Is 2.2; Mich 4.1
3 Hebr 12.22

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