Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Origen (?) on Psalm 132:8

The following is from a collection of Fragments of Origen on the Psalms, at Psalm 132 (Septuagint 131), verse 8. This collection is designated as "doubtful," presumably because it is sourced through second-hand collections, quotations, or the like.
(8) "Arise, O Lord, into Your rest; You and the ark of Your sanctification."

Indeed, the flesh is the ark of the Lord; and the ark of God is Christ, if indeed God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself. Furthermore, they call the divine service according to the law the "rest of God", not because He needed it, but because He rested therein for the devout. They deem it worthy that the divine grace and manifestation be granted again in the temple. And he recalls the ark, since it lay in the Holy of Holies, holding the tablets, through which some divine manifestations were revealed to the high priest.

(8) Ἀνάστηθι, Κύριε, εἰς τὴν ἀνάπαυσίν σου, σὺ καὶ ἡ κιβωτὸς τοῦ ἁγιάσματός σου.

Ἡ σὰρξ μέν ἐστι κιβωτὸς τοῦ Κυρίου· κιβωτὸς δὲ Θεοῦ ὁ Χριστὸς, εἴπερ ὁ Θεὸς ἦν ἐν Χριστῷ κόσμον καταλλάσσων ἑαυτῷ. Καὶ ἄλλως ἀνάπαυσιν Θεοῦ καλοῦσιν τὴν κατὰ νόμον λατρείαν, οὐχ ὅτι δεόμενος ἦν, ἀλλ’ ὅτι τοῖς εὐσεβοῦσιν ἀνανεπαύετο. Τῷ δὲ ναῷ τὴν θείαν χάριν καὶ τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν ἀξιοῦσιν αὖθις ἀποδοθῆναι. Μέμνηται δὲ τῆς κιβωτοῦ, ἐπειδὴ ἐν τοῖς ἁγίοις τῶν ἁγίων ἔκειτο, τὰς πλάκας ἔχουσα, δι’ οὗ τῷ ἀρχιερεῖ μηνύματά τινα τῆς θείας ἐπιφανείας ἐγίνετο.

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