Judgement And Salvation

Κρινεῖ τοὺς πτωχοὺς τοῦ λαοῦ, καὶ σώσει τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν πενήτων, καὶ ταπεινώσει συκοφάντην. Εἰκότωη ὁ διάβολος κέκληται συκοφάντης τον τε γὰρ Θεὸν ἐσυκοφάντησε, διὰ φθόνον φήσας κεκωλυκέναι τὴν τοῦ ξύλου μετάληψιν· καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Ἰὼβ ταῖς αὐταῖς ψευδολογαις ἐχρήσατο, φήσας Μὴ δωρεὰν σέβεται Ἰὼβ τὸν Θεόν; Ἄψαι γὰρ, φησὶ, πάντων ὦν ἔχει, ἧ μὴν εἰς πρόσωπόν σε ευλογήσει. Τοῦτον ἐν τῷ ὀγδόῳ ψαλμῷ ἐχθρὸν καὶ ἐκδικητὴν ὠνόμασεν, ἐνταῦθα δὲ συκοφάντην. Ἀλλὰ τοῦτον μὲν ὁ Δεσπότης ἐταπείνωσε καὶ κατέλυσε· τοὺς δὲ ὑπ' αὐτοῦ τυρανουμένους ἐλευθερίας καὶ σωτηρίας ἠξίωσε. Θεοδώρητος Ἐπίσκοπος Κύρρος, Ἑρμηνεία εἰς Τους Ψαλμούς, Ψαλμός ΟΑ´ Source: Migne PG 80.1432b

He shall judge the poor of the people and save the sons of the needy, and he shall shame the caluminator. 1 Rightly the devil is named 'caluminator', he who has caluminated even God, saying that He prohibited the sharing of the tree of life on account of envy, 2 and concerning Job he made use of the same lies, saying, 'Does Job revere God freely?' 'For touch him,' he said, 'everything he owns, and see if he blesses your face.' 3 And this one in the eighth Psalm is named enemy and vengeful, 4 he who here is the caluminator. For this one the Lord crushed down and overthrew, and those who were under his tyranny He made worthy of liberty and salvation. Theodoret of Cyrrhus, Interpretation of the Psalms, from Psalm 71 1 Ps 71.4 2 Genes 3.1-5 3 Job 1.9,11 4 Ps 8.3