Fear not those who kill the body
Together, keep the holy multiplication Scripture promises — of brothers and children and parents and fields and houses. But wife is not counted with these. For it is not said, 'Everyone who left brothers or sisters or parents or children or fields or houses or wife for my name's sake shall receive manifold.' 'For in the resurrection of the dead they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels in the heavens.' (Matthew 19:29) (Matthew 22:30)
Greek
τέχνα ἢ ἀγροὺς ἢ οἰκίας ἢ γυναῖχα ἕνεχεν τοῦ ὀνόματός μου, πολλα- πλασίονα λήψεται" „ev γὰρ τῇ ἀναστάσει τῶν νεχρῶν οὔτε γαμοῦσιν οὔτε γαμίσχονται, ἀλλ᾽ εἰσὶν αἷς οἱ ἄγγελοι οἱ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς."
XV. Ὅπερ τοίνυν εἶπεν Ἰησοῦς τῷ λαῷ καϑιστὰς αὐτοὺς ἐπὶ τὴν ἁγίαν γῆν, ταῦτα καὶ ἡμῖν ἂν λέγοι νῦν ἡ γραφή. ἔχει δὲ οὕτως ἡ λέξις νῦν φοβήϑητε κύριον καὶ λατρεύσατε αὐτῷ ἐν εὐϑύτητε καὶ
ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ.“ ἐρεῖ δὲ ἡμῖν ἀναπειϑομένοις εἰδωλολατρεῖν καὶ τὰ ἑξῆς οὕτως ἔχοντα' ,περιέλεσϑε τοὺς ϑεοὺς τοὺς ἀλλοτρίους, οἷς ἐλάτρευσαν οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἐν τῷ πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, καὶ λατρεύετε κυρίῳ."
χατ᾽ ἀρχὰς μὲν οὖν ὅτε κατηχεῖσϑαι ἐμέλλετε, εὐλόγως ἂν ὑμῖν εἴρητο" „el δὲ μὴ ἀρέσκει ὑμῖν λατρεύειν κυρίῳ, ἐκλέξασϑε ὑμῖν αὐτοῖς σήμερον τίνι λατρεύσετε, εἴτε τοῖς ϑεοῖς τῶν πατέρων ὑμῶν τῶν ἐν τῷ πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ εἴτε τοῖς ϑεοῖς τῶν ᾿ΔΑμοῤῥαίων, ἐν οἷς ὑμεῖς κατοικεῖτε ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς." καὶ ἔλεγεν ἂν ὑμῖν ὁ κατηχῶν" ,ἐγὼ δὲ καὶ ἡ οἰχία μου λατρεύσομεν κυρίῳ, ὅτι ayıög ἐστιν. νῦν δὲ ταῦ- τα 00x ἔχει χώραν ὑμῖν λέγεσϑαι᾽ τότε γὰρ εἴπετε" μὴ γένοιτο ἡμῖν καταλιπεῖν κύριον, ὥστε λατρεύειν ϑεοῖς ἕ ἑτέροις. κύριος ὁ ϑεὸς ἡμῶν αὐτὸς ϑεός ἐστιν, ὃς
About this text
Written to imprisoned friends: why martyrdom is the highest prayer, and how not to fear it.
English follows Paul Koetschau, Origenes Werke I (GCS, 1899). This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Koetschau, Origenes Werke I (GCS 2, 1899) (Greek · Exhortation to Martyrdom)
- Checked print Archive.org OCR of GCS 2 (Greek · Same print)
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