Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Maximus the Confessor Interpreting "Israel" as "[he who] sees God"

  

Through these activities [Joshua] prefigures the Savior Word, who, after the death of the letter of the law, assumed from the summit of intelligible reality the leadership of the true Israel that sees God [GK: του αληθινου Ισραηλ και ορωντος Θεον]. (Maximus the Confessor, Ambigua to John: Ambiguum 10, in On Difficulties in the Church Fathers: The Ambigua, 2 vols. [trans. Nicholas Constas; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014], 1:175)