Drunkenness of flesh, Edom penalty, and no second exile
To those who love falsehoods and passions, of whom drunkenness is indeed the mortification of the flesh, and overflow is also the making dead of its mind—You have measured out sufficient justice, in which Edom shall receive its turn. And the statement that it will not add to your exile or to your restoration says this (for you do not remain in captivity, having fulfilled the full measure; for God diminishes the justice, He does not add to it), that is, if it was said toward a second captivity as one that would not come to pass, how then did the captivity after it come about through the Romans? Perhaps, then, the word concerns the final event that has occurred through Christ, after which no other has happened. And "All Israel
Greek
πρὸς τοὺς φιληδοῦντας πλάναις καὶ πάθεσιν, ὧν μέθη μὲν ἡ νέκρωσις τῆς σαρκός, ὑπερέκχυσις δὲ καὶ τὸ νεκρῶσαι ταύτης τὸ φρόνημα. 118 Ἱκανὴν ἐξέτισας δίκην, ἐν ᾗ Ἐδὼμ διαδέξεται. τὸ δὲ οὐ προσθήσει τοῦ ἀποικίσαι σε ἢ πρὸς τὴν ἀνάκλησίν φησιν (οὐ γὰρ ἐπιμενεῖς τῇ αἰχμαλωσίᾳ τὸ τέλειον μέτρον πληρώσασα· μειοῖ γὰρ τὴν δίκην ὁ θεός, οὐ προστίθησιν), ἤγουν εἰ πρὸς δευτέραν ὡς μὴ γενησομένην ἅλωσιν εἴρηται, πῶς ἡ μετ' ἐκείνην ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ἐγένετο; μήποτε τοίνυν περὶ τῆς ἐσχάτης ὁ λόγος τῆς γεγονυίας διὰ Χριστόν, μεθ' ἣν οὐ γέγονεν ἑτέρα. καὶ «πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ
About this text
Origen of Alexandria, Fragmenta in Lamentationes (Greek).
Catalogue & scope
Khazarzar scan
Witnesses
- Copy-text PG 13 (Khazarzar) (Greek)
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