Prophets as clouds; spirits from Christ’s treasuries
If you have understood the example, look also at the intelligible cloud. Moses was a cloud; Joshua son of Nun was a cloud. These two speak to one another, and from their words lightning comes. Jeremiah was a cloud; Baruch was a cloud. They converse with each other, and lightning came from Jeremiah’s words and from Baruch’s words. So if you are able, gather from the writings how lightning comes. And in the new covenant Paul and Silvanus were two clouds.
They came together, and the lightning of the letter occurred. “Lightnings,” therefore, God “made into rain and brought forth winds from his treasuries.” Are these winds, then, in the treasuries? Or does it not appear how their nature, blowing upon the earth, subsists? But there are treasuries of winds, treasuries of spirits: “spirit of wisdom and understanding, spirit of counsel and might, spirit of knowledge and godliness,” “spirit of the fear of the Lord,” “spirit of power and love and a sound mind.” And you yourself are able from the writings to gather these winds. These spirits are in the treasuries. What are the treasuries? “In whom are hid the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.” These treasuries are in Christ.
Therefore from there come these winds, these spirits, that one may be wise, another faithful, another having knowledge, another having received some gift of God. “For to one is given through the Spirit a word of wisdom, and to another a word of knowledge according to the same Spirit, and to another faith in the same Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:8–9)
Greek
εἰ νενόηκας τὸ παράδειγμα, ἴδε μοι καὶ τὴν νοητὴν νεφέλην. Μωσῆς νεφέλη ἦν, Ἰησοῦς ὁ τοῦ Ναυῆ νεφέλη ἦν. αὐται δὴ ὁμιλοῦσιν ἀλλή- λαις, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων αὐτῶν ἀστραπὴ γίνεται. Ἱερεμίας νεφέλη ἦν, Βαροὺχ νεφέλη ἦν. διαλέγονται πρὸς ἀλλήλους, ἡλθεν ἡ ἀστραπὴ ἀπὸ τῶν λόγων Ἱερεμίου καὶ τῶν λόγων Βαρούχ. οὕτως εἰ δύνασαι συνάγαγε ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν, τίνα τρόπον ἀστραπὴ ἔρχεται. καὶ ἐν τῇ καινῇ διαθήκῃ Παῦλος καὶ Σιλουανὸς δύο νεφέλαι ἡσαν.
ἡλθον ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, γέγονεν ἡ τῆς ἐπιστολῆς ἀστραπή. «Ἀστραπὰς« οὐν ὁ θεὸς «εἰς ὑετὸν ἐποίησεν καὶ ἐξήγαγεν ανέμους ἐκ θησαυρῶν αὐτοῦ. ἀρα οὑν οὑτοι οἱ ἄνεμοι ἐν θησαυροῖς εἰσιν; ἢ οὐχὶ φαίνεται ἡ τούτων φύσις πνεόντων ἐπὶ γῆς τίνα τρόπον ὑφίσταται; ἀλλ’ εἰσί τινες ἀνέμων θησαυροί, πνευμάτων θησαυροί, «πνεῦμα σοφίας καὶ συνέσεως, πνεῦμα βουλῆς καὶ ἰσχύος, «πνεῦμα γνώσεως καὶ εὐσεβείας‘ «, «πνεῦμα φόβου θεοῦ«, «πνεῦμα δυνάμεως καὶ ἀγάπης καὶ σωφρονισμοῦ. καὶ δύνασαι αὐτὸς ἀπὸ τῶν γραφῶν συναγαγεῖν αγαγεῖν τοὺς ἀνέμους τούτους. τὰ πνεύματα ταῦτα ἐν θησαυροῖς ἐστιν· οἱ θησαυροὶ τίνες εἰσίν; «ἐν ᾠ εἰσιν οἱ θησαυροὶ τῆς σοφίας καὶ γνώσεως ἀπόκρυφοι«; οὐτοι οἱ θησαυροὶ έν Χριστῷ εἰσιν.
ἐκεῖθεν οὖν ἔρχονται οἱ ἄνεμοι οὑτοι, τὰ πνεύματα ταῦτα, ἵν ὁ μέν τις ᾐ σοφός, ὁ δέ τις πιστός, ὁ δέ τις ᾖ ἔχων γνῶσιν, ὁ δέ τις ὁτιποτοῦν ἄναλαβὼν χάρισμα θεοῦ· «ᾦ μὲν γὰρ διὰ τοῦ πνεύματος δίδοται λόγος σοφίας, ἄλλῳ δὲ λόγος γνώσεως κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ πνεῦμα, ἐτέρῳ πίστις ἐν τῷ αὐτῷ πνεύματι.
About this text
Origen on Jeremiah. Twenty Greek homilies survive. This page has Homilies 1–20. The rest of the volume is still being translated.
English follows Erich Klostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS, 1901). A second transcription of that same edition (First1KGreek TEI) was checked; where the TEI drops or garbles a line, the page image wins. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition of the Greek. Homilies that survive only in Jerome’s Latin are not on this page yet. When they are, they will be marked at those homilies.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Klostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS, 1901) (Greek · Homilies 1–20 Greek (this page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20))
- Checked print Archive.org page image and DjVu of GCS III (Greek · Same print as the copy-text)
- Checked print First1KGreek TEI of GCS III (Greek · Same print; encoding errors deferred to the page image)
Where the prints differ
- Homily 1.1 — The TEI omits Ἑβραῖον. English follows the GCS page image: Jonah is “a Hebrew prophet.”
- Homily 1.5 — The TEI dropped Ἰσαάκ. English follows the GCS page image: Isaac born of promise.
- Homily 1.11 — The TEI/OCR of this line is garbled. English follows the GCS page image and the quoted verse: “I have sanctified you.”
- Homily 3.2 — The TEI gaps Matthew 5:45 (sun on the evil and [gap]; rain on [gap] and the unjust). English follows the Gospel wording.
This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.