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9 Feb 2024

Entering The House

Ἐγὼ δὲ ἐν τῷ πλήθει τοῦ ἐλέους σου εἰσελεύσομαι εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου· προσκυνήσω πρὸς ναὸν ἅγιόν σου ἐν φόβῳ σου...

Τῶν πονηρευομένων καὶ παρανόμων οὐ παροικούντων σοι, οὐδὲ διαμενόντων ὑπὸ τὴν θεωρίαν σου, ἐγὼ ἐλέῳ τῷ σῷ εἰσελεύσομαι εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου. Οὕτω γὰρ καὶ εἰπεῖν δυνήσομαι· Τὸ πρωῒ παραστήσομαί σοι, καὶ ἐπόψει με. Καὶ ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄλλως ἢ ἐλέῳ τῷ σῷ εἰσελεύσομαι εἰς τὸν οἶκόν σου, σὺν εὐλαβείᾳ πολλῇ ὀνομα ζομένῃ φόβῳ σου προσκυνήσω σοι πνεύματι καὶ ἀληθείᾳ, ἐλθὼν πρὸς τὸν ἅγιόν σου ναόν. Ναὸς δὲ καὶ οἶκος Θεοῦ ἡ ἁγία καὶ ἐνάρετος κατάστασις, ἣν οἱ ἔχοντες μετὰ παῤῥησίας φασίν. Χριστὸς δὲ ὡς υἱὸς ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον αὑτοῦ, οὗ οἶκός ἐσμεν ἡμεῖς. Ἀλλὰ καὶ προσφωνοῦσιν ἑτέροις πιστοῖς γράφοντες· Ναὸς ἅγιός ἐστε, καὶ τὰ σώματα ὑμῶν ναὸς τοῦ ἁγίου Πνεύματός ἐστιν, οὗ ἔχετε ὑπὸ Θεοῦ. Πῶς γὰρ οὐκ οἶκος καὶ ναὸς Θεοῦ ὁ τηρῶν τὸν Ἰησοῦ λόγον, πρὸς ὃν ὁ Υἱὸς καὶ ὁ Πατὴρ μονὴν ποιοῦνται; Δυνατὸν καὶ τὴν ἐκκλησιαστικὴν γνώμην καὶ διδασκαλίαν οἶκον Κυρίου φάναι καὶ ναὸν αὐτοῦ. Δηλοῦται τοῦτο ἐκ τῶν γραφομένων Τιμοθέῳ· Ἵνα εἰδῇς πῶς δεῖ σε ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου ἀναστρέφεσθαι, ἥτις ἐστὶν Ἐκκλησία Θεοῦ ζῶντος.

Ὠριγένης, Εἰς Ψαλμοὺς, Ψαλμός E'

Source: Migne PG 12.1169c-1172a
For in the abundance of your mercy I shall enter into your house. I shall adore in your holy temple, in awe of you... 1

Since the wicked and inquitious do not dwell with you, nor do they remain in your sight, it is in your mercy that I shall enter into your house. For thus I shall be able to say: 'In the dawn I shall stand with you and you shall see me.' 2 Because I shall not enter into your house but by your mercy, and then with that great piety that is called 'awe of you,' I shall adore in spirit and truth, having entered into your holy temple. And the temple of God is holiness and the endowment of virtue, which he who has may speak with confidence. But Christ as the Son comes to the house and we are His house. So other faithful folk are told in the epistle: 'You are a holy temple and your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, which you have from God.' 3 For how is he not the house and temple of God, who keeps the word of Jesus and with whom the Father and the Son make their dwelling? 4 And then it is possible to call the law of the Church and its teaching the house of the Lord and His temple. This is made manifest from what is written to Timothy: 'That you know how you should conduct yourself in the Church of the living God.' 5

Origen, Selecta On the Psalms, from Psalm 5

1 Ps 5.8-9
2 Ps 5.5-6
3 1 Cor 6.19
4 Jn 14.23
5 2 Tim 3.15

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