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And even three made a symphony when Paul and Silvanus and Timothy gave instruction by letter to the Thessalonians. [6049] But if it be necessary also from the ancient Scriptures to bring forward the three who made a symphony on earth, so that the Word was in the midst of them making them one, attend to the superscription of the Psalms, as for example to that of the forty-first, which is as follows: "Unto the end, unto understanding, for the sons of Korah." [6050] For though there were three sons of Korah whose names we find in the Book of Exodus, [6051] Aser, which is, by interpretation, "instruction," and the second Elkana, which is translated, "possession of God," and the third Abiasaph, which in the Greek tongue might be rendered, "congregation of the father," yet the prophecies were not divided but were both spoken and written by one spirit, and one voice, and one soul, which wrought with true harmony, and the three speak as one, "As the heart panteth after the springs of the water, so panteth my soul after thee, O God." [6052] But also they say in the plural in the forty-fourth Psalm, "O God, we have heard with our ears." [6053] But if you wish still further to see those who are making symphony on earth look to those who heard the exhortation, "that ye may be perfected together in the same mind and in the same judgment," [6054] and who strove after the goal, "the soul and the heart of all the believers were one," [6055] who have become such, if it be possible for such a condition to be found in more than two or three, that there is no discord between them, just as there is no discord between the strings of the ten-stringed psaltery with each other.

[6049] 1 Thess. i. 1.

[6050] Ps. xlii.

[6051] Exod. vi. 24.

[6052] Ps. xlii. 1.

[6053] Ps. xliv. 1.

[6054] 1 Cor. i. 10.

[6055] Acts iv. 32.
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