God’s weakness stronger than the dragon; Job’s double reward
that one’s power. "The weakness of God is stronger than humans," says the Apostle; Origen adds — stronger than the dragon’s power.
"The fleshes of his body have been glued." Scripture could have said "united," but it did not. With him the one is many; things that seem one are glued, not truly united. "His heart is fixed like a stone; it stands like an unhammerable anvil" — not driven, not yielding to a word; hard and unbending. Whoever tears power from the devil and this dragon may keep that unhammerable heart. But whoever is gold and follows the golden Word yields until he becomes a golden leaf and takes the stamped letters of God, in Christ Jesus — to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Chapter 42: "The Lord gave Job double what he had before." The noble athlete who endured every trial receives the prize of endurance: everything double the former store. The Lord Jesus Christ gives not double but a hundredfold: "Whoever leaves father or mother, house, brothers, sisters for my sake or for the gospel will receive a hundredfold and inherit eternal life." Job would not have received double of the former things if he had not shown double virtue.
Greek
ἐκείνου τὴν δύναμιν. Τὸ γὰρ ἀσθενὲς τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὁ μὲν Ἀπόστολος λέγει, ἰσχυρότερον τῶν ἀνθρώπων· ἐγὼ δὲ ἂν εἴποιμι ἰσχυρότερον τῆς δυνάμεως τοῦ δράκοντος. Στίχ. ιδʹ. Σάρκες δὲ σώματος αὐτοῦ κεκόλληνται. Ἐδύνατο εἰρηκέναι· Σάρκες δὲ σώματος ἥνωνται. Ὁ δὲ οὐκ εἶπεν· οὐ γὰρ ἥνωνται· οὐκ ἔστι. Τὸ ἓν παρ' ἐκείνῳ πολλά ἐστιν· ἢ ἓν δοκοῦντα κεκολλῆσθαι, διὰ τοῦ λέγοντος κεκόλληνται, οὐχ ἥνωνται. Στίχ. ιεʹ. Ἡ καρδία αὐτοῦ πέπηγεν ὡς λίθος, ἕστηκε δὲ ὥσπερ ἄκμων ἀνήλατος. Οὐκ ἐλαυνόμενος, οὐκ ἀκολουθῶν λόγῳ, οἰκεῖοι 17.105 δὲ σκληρός ἐστιν ἀνήλατος, ἀνένδοτος. Καὶ εἴ τις ἀπὸ διαβόλου ἀπέσπασε δύναμιν, καὶ τούτου τοῦ δράκοντος, αὐτὸς ἔχει τὴν καρδίαν ἀνήλατον, καὶ οὐκ ἐλαυνομένην. Εἰ δέ τις χρυσός ἐστιν, ἀκολουθῶν τῷ λόγῳ χρυσοκῷ· οὕτως εἴκει, ἕως ἂν γένηται πέταλον χρυσοῦν, καὶ δέξηται τοὺς τύπους τῶν γραμμάτων τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἐν Χριστῷ Ἰησοῦ· ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας, ἀμήν. ΚΕΦ. ΜΒʹ. Στίχ. ιʹ. Ἔδωκεν δὲ ὁ Κύριος διπλᾶ, ὅσα ἦν ἔμ προσθεν Ἰὼβ εἰς διπλασιασμόν. Ὁ γενναῖος ἀθλητὴς, καὶ πάντα πειρασμὸν ὑποστὰς, ἀνδρειότατος Ἰὼβ, ἆθλα λαμβάνει τῆς ὑπομονῆς αὐτοῦ, ὡς ἡ Γραφή φησιν· Πάντα διπλᾶ παρὰ τὰ πρότερα. Ὁ δὲ Κύριος Ἰησοῦς Χριστὸς ἆθλα δίδωσιν οὐχὶ διπλασίονα, ἀλλ' ἑκατονταπλασίονα. Φησὶν γάρ· Ὃς ἐὰν καταλείπῃ πατέρα ἢ μητέρα, οἰκίαν, ἀδελφοὺς, ἀδελφὰς ἕνεκεν ἐμοῦ, ἢ ἕνεκεν τοῦ Εὐαγγελίου, ὡς ἐν τῷ κατὰ Μάρκον γέγραπται, ἑκατονταπλασίονα λήψεται, καὶ ζωὴν αἰώνιον κληρονομήσει. Οὐκ ἂν διπλάσια τῶν προτέρων ἔλαβεν, εἰ μὴ διπλασίονα τὴν ἀρετὴν ἐπεδείξατο.
About this text
Origen of Alexandria, Enarrationes in Job (Greek).
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 17 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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