Psalm 4:8 — gladness from wheat, wine, and oil; intelligible, not sensible
“You gave gladness into my heart, from fruit of wheat and wine and oil” (Psalm 4:8).
These things are promised in many places of the Scripture to the holy, and the deprivation of them is threatened to sinners — clearly of the intelligible and not of the sensible. Some, thinking them evils because of the smallness of the promise, wanted to worship another God fabricated by them. For when it partakes of the better things, each soul is both sanctified and in good condition toward being able to complete the works that fall to it.
And into the coming age Paul also brought these: “Let no one judge you in food or in drink, or in part of a feast, or new moon, sabbaths, which are a shadow of the things to come” (Colossians 2:16-17). Wheat and wine and oil multiply sinners; but the gladness of God gladdens the righteous.
Greek
4.8 Εδωκας εὐφροσύνην εἰς τὴν καρ δίαν μου, ἀπὸ καρποῦ σίτου καὶ οι νου καὶ ἐλαίου. ̓Επήγγελται δὲ ταῦτα πολλαχοῦ τῆς γρα φῆς τοῖς ἁγίοις, καὶ ἀπειλεῖται τοῖς ἁμαρ τωλοῖς τούτων ἡ στέρησις, δηλαδὴ τῶν νοη τῶν καὶ οὐκ αἰσθητῶν. Κακὰ νομίσαντές τι νες, διὰ τὴν σμικρότητα τῆς ἐπαγγελίας, ἑτέρῳ Θεῷ ὑπ' αὐτῶν ἀναπεπλασμένῳ προσ κύνειν ἠβουλήθησαν· τῶν γὰρ κρειττόνων μεταλαμβάνουσα, ἑκάστη ψυχὴ ἁγιάζεταί τε καὶ εὐεκτεῖ πρὸς τὸ δύνασθαι τὰ ἐπι βάλλοντα αὐτῇ ε ργα ἐπιτελεῖν. Καὶ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα δὲ τὸν μέλλοντα ταῦτα Παῦλος εἰσ ήγαγεν. Μήτις ὑμᾶς κρινέτω ἐν βρώσει η ἐν πόσει, η ἐν μέρει ἑορτῆς, η νουμηνίας σαββάτων, α ἐστι σκιὰ τῶν μελλόντων. – Σῖτος καὶ οι νος καὶ ε λαιον πληθύνει ἁμαρ τωλούς· εὐφροσύνη δὲ Θεοῦ εὐφραίνει δι καίους.
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New English from locked PG 12 / Khazarzar Greek of Fragmenta in Psalmos, Psalms 1–22.3. Earlier lemma-led SERIES-CLOSEOUT English was discarded.
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- Copy-text PG 12 Fragmenta in Psalmos (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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