''80.5: yalmw/do;n... Dabivd: the series of Old Testament quotations closes with
David and his Psalms. Ps. 2.12 is also partially quoted in Strom. 5.85.1. Here it is a
longer quotation, which again exhorts to have faith in God with promises of blessing
(makavrioi..) and threats of condamnation (mh; ajpolei'sqe ejx oJdou'). The latter sentence
collaborates to the metaphor of the journey which is the axis of the concept of
conversion (cf. introduction p. 9).
81.1: swthvrion... mevlo": the epithet “saviour” had been applied to the song
(a[/sma) in 6.3 and 77.2. Now the word changes within the same metaphor to “melody”,
perhaps because it is more adequate to be compared to a rhythmic war-march
(ejmbathvrion rJuqmovn). The comparison may come from the vocative of Ps. 4.3, which
does remind the traditional beginning of exhortative poems and discourses.''