Hands, feet, the wise man's head
Origen went on: And since she touched with his divine touch, for this reason power of Jesus went out upon her divine touch. He says then: Who touched me? For I knew power had gone out from me.
About this more divine touch John speaks: And our hands handled concerning the word of life. So we have other hands, about which it is said: The lifting of my hands is an evening sacrifice. For if I lift these hands, but the hands of my soul lie below, and I do not lift them through holy and good deeds, the lifting of my hands does not become an evening sacrifice.
I have other feet as well, about which Solomon promised me, saying: Your foot shall not stumble. Something strange is said in Ecclesiastes. To the one who does not understand it will seem senseless; but to the wise it has been said from Ecclesiastes: The eyes of the wise man are in his head. In what head? For of every human being, even of the senseless and the fool, the perceptible eyes are in a perceptible head; but the eyes of the wise man, the ones spoken of before, the ones lit by the Lord's commandment, are in his head — in Christ, since the head of a man is Christ, the apostle says. The thinking faculty is in Christ. My belly, my belly I ache, said Jeremiah (Luke 8:46) (1 John 1:1) (Psalm 141:2) (Proverbs 3:23) (Ecclesiastes 2:14) (1 Corinthians 11:3) (Jeremiah 4:19) (Psalm 91:12).
Greek
τοῦ Ἰησοῦ ἐξῆλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν θείαν αὐτῆς ἁφήν. Λέγει οὖν· «»Τίς ἥψατό μου; Ἐγὼ γὰρ ἔγνων δύναμιν ἐξεληλυθυῖαν ἀπ' ἐμοῦ»«. Περὶ ταύτης τῆς θειοτέρας ἁφῆς Ἰωάννης λέγει. «Καὶ αἱ χεῖρες ἡμῶν ἐψηλάφησαν περὶ τοῦ λόγου τῆς ζωῆς.». Οὕτως ἔχομεν ἄλλας χεῖρας, περὶ ὧν λέγεται· «Ἔπαρσις τῶν χειρῶν μου θυσία ἑσπερινή.». Οὐ γὰρ ἐὰν ταύτας ἐπάρω τὰς χεῖρας, κάτω δέ μου κέωνται αἱ χεῖρες τῆς ψυχῆς, καὶ μὴ ἐπάρω αὐτὰς διὰ τῶν ἁγίων καὶ ἀγαθῶν πράξεων γίνεταί μου «ἔπαρσις τῶν χειρῶν θυσία ἑσπερινή».
Ἔχω καὶ ἄλλους πόδας, περὶ ὧν ἐπηγγείλατό μοι ὁ Σολομὼν λέγων· «Ὁ πούς σου μὴ προσκόψῃ.». Λέγεται <ἄτοπόν> τι ἐν τῷ Ἐκκλησιαστῇ· τῷ μὴ συνιέντι γὰρ δόξει ἀνόητον εἶναι, τῷ δὲ σοφῷ ἀπὸ Ἐκκλησιαστοῦ εἴρηται· «Τοῦ σοφοῦ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ ἐν κεφαλῇ αὐτοῦ.». Ἐν ποίᾳ κεφαλῇ; Παντὸς γὰρ ἀνθρώπου, καὶ τοῦ ἀνοήτου καὶ τοῦ ἄφρονος, οἱ αἰσθητοὶ ὀφθαλμοὶ ἐν κεφαλῇ αἰσθητῇ εἰσιν, ἀλλὰ «τοῦ σοφοῦ οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ» οἱ προειρημένοι, οἱ φωτιζόμενοι ὑπὸ τῆς τοῦ Κυρίου ἐντολῆς, «ἐν κεφαλῇ» αὐτοῦ, ἐν Χριστῷ, ἐπεὶ «Κεφαλὴ ἀνδρὸς ὁ Χριστός», ὁ ἀπόστολος λέγει.
Τὸ διανοητικόν ἐστιν ἐν Χριστῷ. «Τὴν κοιλίαν μου, τὴν κοιλίαν μου ἀλγῶ», εἶπεν
About this text
Bishops examine Heraclides on the Father, the Son, and the soul. Gaps in the Greek are marked, not filled.
English follows the Greek of the Toura dialogue in the Scherer tradition, from Documenta Catholica Omnia. Gaps in the papyrus are marked, not filled. Sources Chrétiennes 67 was not used as copy-text.
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- Copy-text Scherer tradition via Documenta Catholica Omnia (Greek · Dialogue with Heraclides)
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