Palaces as virtues razed; demolition not of proud heights
“Palaces” (2 Corinthians 10:5) he says for the houses, which Symmachus rendered “kingdoms.” And he takes up the laments again, as someone greatly pained upon mourning. And again he shows that she has taken on a lowly reckoning and a lowly thought, the things like houses and fortresses having been taken down, as filling the leading part. For virtues are the houses—for by them we are sheltered—and fortifications the irrefutable reasonings. For the demolition now is not of worse heights, “lifting themselves up against the knowledge of God,” (Lamentations 2:5) nor of lowliness according to which one “learns the judgments of God”; for these are of a character for joy, not for grief.
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 2, 5. Βάρεις τὰς οἰκίας φησίν, ἅπερ βασιλείας ἐξέδωκε Σύμμαχος. ἐπαναλαμβάνει δὲ τοὺς θρήνους, ὡς ἄν τις ἐπὶ πένθει περιαλγὼν. πάλιν δὲ δείκνυσιν, ὡς ταπεινὸν λογισμὸν καὶ ταπεινὴν ἀνείληφεν ἕννοιαν, καθαιρεθέντων τῶν ὡς οἰκημάτων τε καὶ φρουρίων, καθάπερ πληρούντων τὸ ἡγεμονικόν. ἀρεταὶ μὲν γὰρ τὰ οἰκήματα, ὑπ' αὐτῶν γὰρ σκεπόμεθα, ὀχυρώματα δὲ οἱ ἀναντίρρητοι λογισμοἰ. οὐ γὰρ ἐπὶ χειρόνων νῦν ἡ καθαίρεσις ὑψωμάτων, ἐπαιρομένων κατὰ τῆς γνώσεως τοῦ θεοῦ<, οὐδὲ ταπεινότητος καθ’ έ)ν >μανθάνει τὰ δικαιώματα τοῦ · ταῦτα γὰρ χαρᾶς, ἀλλ’ οὐ πέφυκεν ἄξια.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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