Letter 777

To the same person. The inspired David, having advanced far in years and giving great thanks to the God who chose him, says, toward the closing portions of his blessing, that: "Now at last your servant has found his heart [ready] to pray this prayer" [2 Kingdoms (2 Samuel) 7:27] - signifying to us thereby the blessedness, and that holy condition which is peaceful and radiant, [the one that exists before] where no memory whatever shines through of any of the temporary and perceptible creation.

Ἐπὶ πολὺ τῆς ἡλικίας προκόψας ὁ θεσπέσιος Δαυῒδ εὐχαριστῶν μεγάλως τῷ ἐκλεξαμένῳ αὐτὸν Θεῷ, φησὶ περὶ τὰ τελευταῖα τῆς εὐλογίας, ὅτι Νῦν μόλις εὗρεν ὁ δοῦλός σου τὴν καρδίαν ἑαυτοῦ εἰς τὸ εὔξασθαι τὴν εὐχὴν ταύτην, σημαίνων ἡμῖν τὴν μακαριότητα, καὶ τὴν ἁγίαν κατάστασιν ἐκείνην τὴν εἰρηνικὴν καὶ λάμπουσαν, [πρὸ τοῦ] ἔνθα μηδεμία μνήμη διαφαίνεται πάσης τῆς προσκαίρου καὶ αἰσθητῆς κτίσεως.