Fragments on Lamentations · §64

Neighbors’ feast of refuge emptied by wrath

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Those dwelling round about me, she says, in Judea were thinking the feast unto me a refuge, hoping salvation from there; of whom none has been left because of your wrath brought upon them. For through the things in which I sinned, the enemies have become many and powerful (Lamentations 2:22).

Greek

Klagel. Jerem. 2, 22. Οἱ κύκλῳ μου, φησί, τὴν Ἰουδαίαν οἰκοῦντες τὴν εἰς ἐμὲ ἐορτὴν ἐνόμιζον καταφυγήν, σωτηρίαν ἐντεῦθεν ἐλπίζοντες· ὡν οὐδεὶς ὑπολέλειπται διὰ τὴν σὴν αὐτοῖς ἐπενεχθεῖσαν ὀργήν. δι΄ ὡν γὰρ ἥμαρτον, πολλοὶ καὶ δυνατοὶ γεγόνασιν οἱ ἐχθροί.

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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.

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