Flee the unclean; apostles turn to the nations
He commands the apostles to flee from the midst of the Jews who have been polluted upon Christ’s blood, and he also entrusted their calling to the angels. Unless perhaps he orders the apostles to call them unclean unto repentance, which they did saying: “to you it was necessary for the word to be spoken first” (Lamentations 4:15); and when they were not willing, he commands to flee, for which reason they say as of those not willing: “behold, we turn unto the nations.” (Acts 13:46)
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 4, 15. Τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ἐντέλλεται ἐκ μέσου τῶν Ἰουδαίων φυγεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ αἵματι μολυνθέντων Χριστοῦ, τὴν δὲ κλῆσιν αὐτῶν καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις ἐπέτρεψεν. εἰ μὴ ἄρα τοῖς ἀποστόλοις καλεῖν εἰς μετάνοιαν αὐτοὺς ἀκαθάρτους κελεύει, ὅπερ ἐποίησαν εἰπόντες· «ὑμῖν ἠν ἀναγκαῖον πρῶτον λαληθῆναι τὸν λόγον( μὴ βουλομένων δέ, προστάττει φυγεῖν, διό φασιν ὡς μὴ θελόντων τὸ «ἰδοὺ στρεφόμεθα εἰς τὰ ἔθνη.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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