Evagrius Ponticus

Nicene & Post-Nicene · AD 325–500

114 passages across 8 books of the Bible · Who was this?

On Psalms

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  1. Psalms 2:10-12
    If you remember the Judge only when you are in difficulties as one who inspires fear and who is incorruptibly honest, then you have not as yet learned to “serve the Lord in fear and to rejoice in him with trembling.” For understand this point well: one is to worship him even in spiritual relaxations and in times of good cheer with even more piety and reverence.

    CHAPTERS ON PRAYER 143

  2. Psalms 3:7
    The teeth of sinners are thoughts foreign to reason coming to us on account of our nature by which our enemies approach us, just like using their teeth time after time again to devour our flesh. That is, those [are] things that spring forth from the flesh: “Manifest are the works of the flesh,” as the apostle says.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 3:8

  3. Psalms 4:1
    Whenever we realize the reasons why we suffer and are tested, then our minds are greatly opened.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 4.2

  4. Psalms 5:7
    The holy temple of God is Christ, concerning which “God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself.” In the fear of God each one turns away from evil; in fear he worships in the temple of the Lord that is Christ.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 5:8

  5. Psalms 7:12-13
    The ones who are burning are those who have received the flaming arrows of the devil.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 7:14

  6. Psalms 10:7-10
    [By contrast] the righteous person praises God at all times.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 9[10].28-29

  7. Psalms 10:15
    The sinner is the one who sins out of lust and weakness; the wicked one is he who follows after evil with a deliberated plan.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 9[10].36

  8. Psalms 11:4
    If the eyes of God look on the poor, let us be numbered among the poor, so that the eyes of the Lord may look down on us. If the rich do not become poor, very little will the eyes of the Lord look on them.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 10[11].4

  9. Psalms 11:5
    If the one who values iniquity hates his own life, then the one who hates iniquity esteems his own life.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 10[11].5

  10. Psalms 12:2
    First the righteous fail, then the truth is diminished. Not only is there no truth among the righteous, there is no holiness among honest people. Now, since the righteous have failed, truth is diminished. Perhaps the poverty of righteous people is the reason why so many heresies have shot up.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 11[12].2

  11. Psalms 16:5
    The inheritance is the contemplation of the present and future ages; the inheritance of Christ is the understanding of God.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS

  12. Psalms 16:6
    If the line is measured, how is it written the Gospel of John: “For God gives the Spirit without measure” and “I will pour out my spirit on you.” Perhaps by chance it is called “measure” not in terms of knowledge itself but on account of him who receives it, because its receptivity cannot be greater. The rain itself also may exceed the measure, yet it is measured in that vessel in which it is received.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 15[16].6

  13. Psalms 17:5
    Even if now [the way] is full of pain and without joy, later it will bear the fruit of righteousness for those who have been trained in it.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 16[17].3, 4

  14. Psalms 17:12
    Through impure thoughts our adversary like a lion overcomes our mind.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 16[17].12

  15. Psalms 18:14
    When we compare spiritual things with spiritual things, we flash forth lightnings, indicating the knowledge advancing from them.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 17[18].15, 16

  16. Psalms 18:35
    He who sits on the right of the Father corrects us with discipline, and accordingly he teaches us. For he directs the spirit with a right foundation; true understanding leads one into fullness.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 17[18].36

  17. Psalms 18:37
    If you pray against your passions or the demons that assail you recall to mind [this verse].… You are to say this at the appropriate moment, thus arming yourself against your adversary with humility.

    CHAPTERS ON PRAYER 135

  18. Psalms 18:39
    If fighters find themselves being assailed and assailing in return, and if the demons fight against us, then they too when they assail us will be assailed by us in return. Scripture says, “I will assail them, and they will not be able to stand”; and again, “Those who assail me and are my enemies, they have weakened and fallen.”

    PRAKTIKOS 72

  19. Psalms 20:5
    People rejoice in riches, or in glory or in nobility of birth, but the righteous in the salvation of God.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS

  20. Psalms 21:3
    Christ is the crown of the rational nature.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS

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