Псалтирь 17 глава 46 стих

​​Чуждые дети солгали Мне. Дети, которых нельзя назвать Моими, но скорее чужие дети, о которых справедливо сказано: «Вы от отца вашего диавола»,  (Ин. 8:44), солгали Мне. Чуждые дети приукрасили старый  (Пс. 17:45). Чуждые дети, которым я для обновления принес Новый Завет, остались в ветхом человеке. И они сошли со своего пути. И подобно немощным одной ногой, они, придерживаясь старого, отвергли новый Завет, они стали остановлены даже в своем старом Законе, следуя скорее своим собственным традициям, чем Божьим. Ибо они выдвинули легкомысленные обвинения в неумытых руках (Мф 15:2), потому что таковы были пути, которые сами проложили и изношены от долгого пребывания, уклоняясь от путей повелений Божиих.

At the hearing of the ear they have obeyed me. The children that are strangers have lied to me. This praise of the Gentiles is a great rebuke to the Jews, for those who did not see still served, and those who did not hear one most sacred word from His mouth none the less listened. As Scripture says: For they to whom it was not told of him will see, and they that heard not will beholds But understanding of the verse prompts an addition. The Jews who saw and heard, as He says later, showed a totally opposed disposition. Isaiah foretells this also: Blind the heart of this people, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes: lest they see with their eyes or understand with their heart and be converted, and I heal them.” This figure is called aposiopesis, a statement of which the end is left unsaid, so that the listener is either frightened or roused to longing. The children that are strangers are the devil’s children, to whom Christ says in the gospel: You are of your father the devil54 They have lied to me, that is, when they said: Master, we know that thou art from God and teachest the way of God in truth. Lying (mentiri) means speaking against the mind (contra mentem),   and saying with the tongue what the individual does not believe in his mind. Strange children have faded away, and have limped from their paths. He did well to say that strange children have limped, for the Lord’s sons are known to walk with straight steps. We use limp correctly of those lame in one foot, and this was clearly the experience of the Jews, who observed in the flesh the precepts of the Old Testament, but rejected the grace of the New, with the result that they limped on one side of their minds and became lame.5’ Some maintain that this was foretold in the famous struggle of the patriarch Jacob with the angel, when after his sinew was touched, one foot went lame. The addition of their is not otiose, because they abandoned understanding of the Law and were moved by their own superstitions, with the result that they did not accept the promise of the Lord Saviour, and unleashed their lunatic lies about the washing of hands and cups. They were indeed foul, but could not be cleansed by observance of this kind. They could have been purged of their filth if they had sought the bath of sacred baptism.  

Вновь покоренные и покорные Давиду народы будут его слушать в слух уха — полным слухом или вполне внимательно. Между тем, сынове чуждии — люди отложившиеся от власти Давида, — солгаша, т. е. клялись ему в верности, а потом изменили, даже вступили с ним в борьбу; нов этой борьбе они обетшали — истощили все свои силы; охромота — не могут уже идти ровно, бодро и поспешно, потому что таковы были их пути, — их образ мыслей был коварный и преступный, а потому и неприятный, затруднительный, как всякая не прямая, нерасчищенная и испорченная дорога.

Сынове чуждый разумеются жидове нечестивии, отвергшиися Христа Господа, и отчуждившиися благодати Его, обветшаша во гресех, не хотяще ветхаго человека совлещися. Охромоша же и от стезь, яко закон Ветхий прияша, а Новый отвергоша, и тако во едином законе суще храмлют (Афанасий).