Cutting short of sins; turning back upon her own good
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It shows the cutting-short of Jerusalem’s sins—she no longer stretching forward unto the former stumbles nor coming to be in the advance of the sins, but turning away backward upon her own good (Lamentations 1:8) (Philippians 3:13).
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 1, 8. Δηλοῖ τὴν ἀνακοπὴν τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων τῆς Ἱερουσαλήμ, οὐκέτι τοῖς ἕμπροσθεν ἐπεκτεινομένης< τῶν πταισμάτων οὐδὲ ἐν τῇ τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων γινομένης, ἀλλ’ ἀποστρεφομένης εἰς τὰ ὀπίσω ἐπὶ τῶ ἰδίω καλῶ.
About this text
Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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