Hope And Fulfillment

In te speraverunt patres nostri; speraverunt, et liberasti eos. Ne duritiam quisquam putaret Patris, sicut dictum est, quod se Filius non profitetur auditum, tanguntur ab ipso breviter illa quae gesta sunt. Eripuit enim populum Israel de terra Aegypti; eruit tres pueros de camino; liberavit Danielem de lacu leonum; et alia seu quae fiunt, seu quae leguntur innumera. Sed cum haec tanta supplicantibus sive praestiterit, sive praestet, tamen Filio proprio non pepercit, sed pro nobis omnibus tradidit illum, ut implerentur videlicet Scripturae, et salus mundi ipsius passione proveniret. Patres autem suos quod Christus Dominus dicit, ex illa parte debet intelligi, qua et fratres suos apostolos vocavit; sicut in Evangelio post resurrectionem suam dixit: Vade ad fratres meos, et dices ad eos: Ascendo ad Patrem meum, et Patrem vestrum. Cassiodorus, Expositio In Psalterium, Psalmus XXI Source: Migne PL 70.155a-b

In you our fathers hoped, they hoped and you liberated them. 1 Lest anyone think that by some hard heartedness of the Father, as it has been said, the Son's cry for Himself was not heard, things which have been done are touched on by him briefly here. For He delivered the people of Israel from the land of Egypt, and He seized the three boys from the furnace, and He freed Daniel from the den of lions, and so with the other innumerable things which are done and read about. But when with such things either having been given, or which are given, to those who entreat them, 'yet His own Son He did not spare, but gave Him up for all of us', 2 it was certainly so that Scripture would be fulfilled, and that by His passion would come the salvation of the world. That the Lord Christ spoke of His fathers, should be understood in the way in which He calls the Apostles His brothers, as in the Gospel, after His resurrection, when He says: 'Go to my brothers and say to them: I ascend to my Father and your Father.' 3 Cassiodorus, Commentary On The Psalms, Psalm 21 1 Ps 21.4 2 Rom 8.32 3 Jn 20.17