Nations feed on the dragon; eyes like Morning Star
By grace Satan is bound for infants and nursing ones, from whose mouth God prepared praise. Nations feed on him: as the Lord feeds the faithful, the dragon feeds the impious — food for the Ethiopians read as sons of darkness. Every word we take is either empty hearing from the dragon or a building word from Christ.
No fleet of human bodies can by itself strip even one hide from his tail; only under divine oversight is he finished. He is folded; the holy can expose the fold, and to the holy he is not folded. Spirit will not pass him means nothing escapes him — all must come through. Prepare not to be seized. His eyes have the look of the Morning Star — not that they are that star.
Greek
δεδεμένος γεγένηται τοῖς νηπίοις καὶ θηλάζουσιν, ὧν ἐκ στόματος κατηρτήσατο αἶνον ὁ Θεός. Ἐνσιτοῦνται δὲ ἐν αὐτῷ ἔθνη. Ὥσπερ τῶν πιστῶν βρῶμα ὁ Κύριος, οὕτως ὁ δράκων τῶν ἀσεβῶν· «Ἔδωκας γὰρ αὐτὸν βρῶμα λαοῖς τοῖς Αἰθίοψι·» τουτέστι, τοῖς υἱοῖς τοῦ σκότους, τοῖς ἐν ἀγνωσίᾳ. Καθ' ἕκαστον γὰρ λόγον ὃν παραδεχόμεθα, ἤτοι ἀπὸ τοῦ δράκοντος ἐσθίομεν, ἐὰν παραδεξώμεθα ἀκοὴν ματαίαν, ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ Χριστοῦ, ἐὰν παραδεξώμεθα λόγον οἰκοδομοῦντα καὶ ὠφελοῦντα. Πᾶν δὲ πλωτὸν συνελθὸν οὐ μὴ ἐνέγκωσι βύρσαν μίαν οὐρᾶς αὐτοῦ. Σαφέστερον δὲ εἰπεῖν· Οἱ ἄνθρωποι, οἱ πλοίοις τοῖς σώμασι χρώμενοι, τὰ τελευταῖα τοῦ δράκοντος καὶ τὰ ἔσχατα νεκρῶσαι αὐτοὶ καθ' ἑαυτοὺς οὐ δύνανται· θείας δὲ δυνάμεως ἐπισκοπούσης, καὶ ὅλον αὐτὸν κομίσαι καὶ νεκρῶσαι δυνάμεθα. Νεκροῦμεν δὲ ἕκαστος, τὸ ὅσον ἐφ' ἑαυτῷ, τὸν διάβολον, κατὰ τό· «Ὁ δὲ Θεὸς συντρίψει τὸν σατανᾶν ὑπὸ τοὺς πόδας ὑμῶν ἐν τάχει.» Εἰς πτύξιν θώρακος αὐτοῦ τίς ἂν εἰσέλθοι, Θώραξ καὶ στῆθος ὀνομάζεται, ὅπου ἐστὶ τὸ ἡγεμονικόν. Οὐχ ἁπλοῦς ἐστιν ὁ θώραξ αὐτοῦ· δόλιός ἐστιν, ἐπτυγμένος ἐστίν· ἅγιος δὲ ἐλέγχειν αὐτὸν δύναται, καὶ δεῖξαι, ὅτι ἔπτυκται· τῷ γὰρ ἁγίῳ οὐκ ἔπτυκται. Πνεῦμα δὲ οὐ μὴ διέλθῃ αὐτόν. Τὸ, «οὐ μὴ διέλθῃ,» οὐχ ὅτι οὐ διέρχεται καὶ παρέρχεται, ἀλλ' ὅτι οὐδὲν αὐτὸν λανθάνει· πάντας δεῖ δι' αὐτοῦ ἐλθεῖν. Ἑαυτοὺς οὖν παρασκευάσωμεν, τοῦ μὴ κατασχεθῆναι ὑπ' αὐτοῦ. Οἱ δὲ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ εἶδος Ἑωσφόρου. Οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ γοῦν αὐτοῦ οὐκ εἰσὶν Ἑωσφόροι,
About this text
Origen of Alexandria, Selecta in Job (Greek).
Original English Translation of Origen’s Selecta in Job — new OET from PG 12 Greek.
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 12 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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