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Автор: Susan Gillingham
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the light of Rev. 20:12.52

      His hand holds forth a dreadful cup,

      With purple wine ‘tis crowned;

      The deadly mixture, which his wrath

      Deals out to nations round.

      Of this his saints may sometime taste;

      But wicked men shall squeeze

      The bitter dregs, and be condemn’d,

      So the psalm as a whole is an example of the very different, irreconcilable interpretations given by Jewish and Christian interpreters, although each speak about God’s judgement on their enemies.

      Psalm 76: God’s Abode is in Zion (ii)

      Psalm 76 has some correspondences with Psalms 46 and 48.59 Its mood is more positive: here the God of Zion can redeem his people. However, the more prophetic elements in Psalm 76, and its references to the terror of God’s judgement, make it closer to the more negative tenor of Psalm 75. If one reads ‘Salem’ in verse 2 as a reference to a northern sanctuary, then verses 1–3 of the psalm might pertain to the Assyrian crisis; these verses would then have been ‘received’ in the South sometime after Sennacherib’s siege of the city in 701. This is certainly the way this was understood in the *Septuagint: an addition to the title reads ‘A Song against [in view of] Assyria’, whilst verses 1–3, the most likely verses from this period, are presented in the past tense. Later Jewish tradition tended to read the psalm as influenced by the Assyrian crisis.

      The celebration of the faithful over the wicked is vividly portrayed in the *Eadwine Psalter (fol. 132r) in its reinterpretation of the *Utrecht Psalter in colour. The *Christ-Logos sits on a globe in the heavens, surrounded by six angels, and just below it is a fortification which appears to be the tabernacle (verse 2) where the righteous are praising God (verse 11); also taken from this verse is a man outside the walls, with his hand to his mouth, making his vow. The Christ-figure is also in the middle of the scene, subduing the wicked (verse 3). Below him three men on horseback appear to be in some sort of stupor (verses 5–6). This is an allegory of Christ’s defence of the church.68