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 40:2
    The pit of misery is evil and ignorance.… The rock is faith in Christ. “And he directs my steps” by actions and true teachings.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 39[40].3

  2. Psalms 40:3
    After we are made free from all unbridled emotion, we sing a new song, having been renewed in our home.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 39[40].4

  3. Psalms 42:3
    Nothing nourishes like that which nourishes the spirit. Blessed are those who weep, for they will laugh.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS

  4. Psalms 42:3
    Seeing that God is Creator, he is in everything made; seeing that he is excellence and wisdom, he is in all holy powers.… God is even in people sometimes in excellence, sometimes in accomplishment: it is of angels to behave always according to God; of demons, never; of people to behave sometimes rightly, sometimes not.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 41[42].4

  5. Psalms 42:6
    When we come up against the demon of acedia, then with tears let us divide the soul and have one part offer consolation and the other receive consolation. And sowing within ourselves goodly hopes, let us chant with holy David this [verse].

    PRAKTIKOS 27

  6. Psalms 42:10
    It is of the greatest ignorance to think that God is in a place. God does not stand in a place. He is free.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 41[42].11

  7. Psalms 43:3
    The holy mount of God is Christ. His tabernacle indwells the virtues of the righteous.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 42[43].3

  8. Psalms 44:8
    Blessed is the one engaged in praise the whole day, namely, through his life, which lacks the uproar of emotions and is filled with an understanding of God.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 43[44].9

  9. Psalms 45:3
    The sword separates the spirit from evil and the mind from ignorance, destroying the old man and making him new in Christ.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 44[45].4

  10. Psalms 46:4
    The city of God, or the church, is the reasonable spirit. The flowing of the river is the gifts of the Spirit.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 45[46].5

  11. Psalms 46:9
    In this place the writer understands the worst habits and wicked thoughts in the words of bow, weapons and bucklers.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 45[46].10

  12. Psalms 47:7
    Pray as is fitting and without trouble, practice psalmody with understanding and harmony, and you will be like a young eagle soaring in the heights.

    CHAPTERS ON PRAYER 82

  13. Psalms 47:8
    The throne of God is Christ. The throne of Christ is the reasonable nature.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 46[47].9

  14. Psalms 48:2
    Joy is rooted in Christ.… His root is God the Word, which is in himself.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 47[48].3

  15. Psalms 48:10
    The right hand of God is Christ, who is filled with righteousness and from his fullness we receive everything.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 47[48].11

  16. Psalms 49:4
    One who is in a calm spirit sings psalms. Through psalms he opens teaching. Through tranquility of spirit he understands teaching.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 48[49].4, 5

  17. Psalms 50:2
    Our God will come openly. Our God is Christ. Christ will come openly in the flesh. We, therefore, understand that openly means “in the flesh.” And this flesh is perceived by the senses.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 49[50].3

  18. Psalms 50:10-11
    All created things are under the providence of God. Does not even one sparrow fall without the Father who is in heaven knowing?

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 49[50].10

  19. Psalms 50:17
    Discipline is the moderation of the emotions.

    NOTES ON THE PSALMS 49[50].17

  20. Psalms 127:1
    The cowl is a symbol of the charity of God our Savior. It protects the most important part of the body and keeps us, who are children in Christ, warm. Thus it can be said to afford protection against those who attempt to strike and wound us. Consequently, all who wear this cowl on their heads sing these words aloud: “If the Lord does not build the house and keep the city, in vain does the builder labor and the watchman stand his guard.” Such words as these instill humility and root out that long-standing evil, which is pride and which caused Lucifer, who rose like the day star in the morning, to be cast down to the earth.

    PRAKTIKOS, INTRODUCTORY LETTER TO ANATOLIUS

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