Mercy And Hope

Ἀκουστὸν ποίησόν μοι τὸ πρωὶ τὸ ἔλεός σου ὅτι ἐπὶ σοὶ ἤλπισα. Γνώρισόν μοι Kύριε ὁδὸν ἐν ᾗ πορεύσομαι ὅτι πρὸς σὲ ἦρα τὴν ψυχήν μου. Τὴν θεωρίαν ἐπιζητεῖ τοῦ μέλλοντος αἰῶνος, ἤν καὶ βασιλείαν οὐρανῶν ἔθος ὀνομάζειν τῇ θείᾳ Γραφῇ. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Δύναται τοῦτο εἰπεῖν περὶ γνωρισμοῦ ὁδοῦ φερούσης ἐπ' ἀρετὴν, ἤ τῆς ἤν μετὰ τὴν ἔχοδον ὀδεύει τις, ἤτις ἐστὶν ὁδὸς τοῦ ξύλου τῆς ζωῆς, ἤν φυλάσσει τὰ χερουβὶμ καὶ φλογίνη ῥομαφαία. Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. Γῆ ζώτων καὶ γῆ εὐθεῖα ἡ αὑτή ἐστιν ἀγαθὴ, ἐφ' ἤν τὸ ἀγαθὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ Πνεῦμα ὁδηγεῖ τοὺς ἀξίους. Καὶ ἐντεῦθεν τὴν ἀξίαν τοῦ πνεύματος ἐδιδάχθημεν. Ὥσπωερ γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς, οὕτω καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα ὠνόμασται ἀγαθόν· καὶ καθάπερ τὸν Θεὸν ὁδηγῆσαι αὐτὸν ἰκετεύσας, οὕτω καὶ τῆς τοῦ πνεύματος ὁδηγίας ἀπολαῦσαι παρακελεῖ, ὥστε μηδὲν αὐτῷ φανῆναι πρόσαντες μηδὲ δυσχερὲς, ἀλλ' εὐθεῖαν τὴν ὁδὸν ὁδεύειν καὶ λείαν καὶ πλάνης ἀπηλλαγμένην. Ὠριγένης, Εἰς Ψαλμους, Ψαλμος ΡΜΒ' Source: Migne PG 12.1668d-1669a

Make me hear your mercy in the morning, for in you I have hoped. Make known to me the way in which I should walk, for to you I have lifted up my soul. 1 He seeks the contemplation of the age to come, which by Sacred Scripture is named the kingdom of heaven. On the same: It is possible he speaks of the knowledge of the way which leads to virtue, or of the way which a man walks along after death, which is the way to the tree of life, which is guarded by the Cherubim with the flaming blade. On the same: The land of the living and the righteous land are the same good, to which the good Spirit of God leads those who are worthy of it. Whence we have taught the dignity of the Spirit. For as God, so the Spirit is named good, and as he entreats God that He lead him, so he prays that led by the Spirit no arduous or difficult things appear, so that he might walk on the right and level way free from error. Origen, Selecta On the Psalms, from Psalm 142 1 Ps 142.8