In Good Time

Καὶ ἐγένετο Κύριος καταφυγὴ τῷ πένητι, βοηθὸς ἐν εὐκαιρίαις, ἐν θλίψεσι. Τὸ, ἐν εὐκαιρίαις, ὁ μὲν Ἀκύλας εἰς καιρὸν, ὁ δὲ Σύμμαχος ἐπικαίρως ἡρμήνευσε. Διδάσκει δὲ ὁ λόγος, ὡς ἐν προσφόρῳ καιρῷ τὴν ἡμετέραν ἐπαγματεύσατο σωτηρίαν. Πένητα γὰρ τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὴν φύσιν ἀποκαλεῖ, διὰ τὴν πολλὴν τῆς παρανομίας πτωχείαν. Τούτου τοῦ καιροῦ τὸ ἐπιτήδειον ὁ μακάριος διδάσκαι Παῦλος· Ὅτε γὰρ ἧμεν, φησὶ, νήπιοι, ὑπὸ τὰ στοιχεῖα τοῦ κόσμου ἧμεν δεουλωμένοι· ὅτε δε ἤλθε τὸ πλήρωμα τοῦ χρόνου, ἐξαπέστειλεν ὁ Θεὸς τὸν Υἱον αὐτοῦ, γενόμενον ἐκ γυναικὸς, γενόμενον ὑπὸ νόμον, ἵνα τοὺς ὑπὸ νόμον ἐξαγοράαῃ, ἵνα τὴν υἱοθεσίαν ἀπολάνωμεν. Θεοδώρητος Ἐπίσκοπος Κύρρος, Ἑρμηνεία εἰς Τους Ψαλμούς, Ψαλμός Θ' Source: Migne PG 80.925b-c

The Lord is a refuge for the poor man, a helper in good time, in tribulations. 1 For 'in good time', Aquila translates 'in season', and Symmachus 'seasonable'. And the line teaches that the good time is the working of our salvation. The poor man is given for our human nature, on account of the poverty of its iniquity. And the blessed Paul teaches the opportune nature of this time: 'When we were little, being beneath the elements of the world, held in servitude, when came the fullness of time, God sent His own Son, born from a woman, established beneath the law, that He redeem those beneath the law, and they receive the adoption of sons.' 2 Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Interpretation of the Psalms, from Psalm 9 1 Ps 9.10 2 Galat 4.3-5