Chapter CVI.—Christ’s resurrection is foretold in the conclusion of the Psalm.
“The remainder of the Psalm makes it manifest that He knew His Father would grant
to Him all things which He asked, and would raise Him from the dead; and that He urged
all who fear God to praise Him because He had compassion on all races of believing men,
through the mystery of Him who was crucified; and that He stood in the midst of His
brethren the apostles (who repented of their flight from Him when He was crucified, after
He rose from the dead, and after they were persuaded by Himself that, before His passion
He had mentioned to them that He must suffer these things, and that they were announced
beforehand by the prophets), and when living with them sang praises to God, as is made
evident in the memoirs of the apostles. The words are the following: ‘I will declare Thy name
to my brethren; in the midst of the Church will I praise Thee. Ye that fear the Lord, praise
Him; all ye, the seed of Jacob, glorify Him. Let all the seed of Israel fear Him.’ And when it
is said that He changed the name of one of the apostles to Peter; and when it is written in
the memoirs of Him that this so happened, as well as that He changed the names of other
two brothers, the sons of Zebedee, to Boanerges, which means sons of thunder; this was an
announcement of the fact that it was He by whom Jacob was called Israel, and Oshea called
Jesus (Joshua), under whose name the people who survived of those that came from Egypt
were conducted into the land promised to the patriarchs. And that He should arise like a
star from the seed of Abraham, Moses showed beforehand when he thus said, ‘A star shall
arise from Jacob, and a leader from Israel;’593 and another Scripture says, ‘Behold a man;
the East is His name.’594 Accordingly, when a star rose in heaven at the time of His birth,
as is recorded in the memoirs of His apostles, the Magi from Arabia, recognising the sign
by this, came and worshipped Him.
593 Num. xxiv. 17.
594 [Or, “Dayspring.”] Zech. vi. 12 (according to LXX.).
Chapter CVI.—Christ’s resurrection is foretold in the conclusion of the Psalm.
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