Swallowed by fear; pride before fracture
Symmachus: “panic.” (Psalm 7:15) With a whole mouth they swallowed and we were carried down into a depth of evils, having been filled with fear and confusion; for “into what he dug the sinner falls,” (Proverbs 16:18) paying penalties of what he sinned. And since “before fracture insolence leads” (Psalm 36:11) according to Solomon—that is, arrogance—we were both lifted up and fractured. From which David sings: “let a foot of arrogance not come to me, and a hand of a sinner not shake me.” (Lamentations 3:46–47)
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 3, 46. 47. Σύμμαχος· πτόησις. ὅλῳ στόματι κατέπιον κατέπιον καὶ εἰς βάθος κακῶν ὑπηνέχθημεν φόβου καὶ ταραχῆς ἐμπλησθέντες· >ἐμπίπτει γὰρ εἰς ὅν ὤρυξε x003E; ὁ ἀμαρτωλὸς διδοὺς ὡν ἥμαρτε δίκας. καὶ ἐπεὶ «πρὸ συντριβῆς ἡγεῖται ὕβριος« κατὰ τὸν Σολομῶντα, τουτέστιν ὑπερηφανία, ἐπήρθημέν τε καὶ συνετρίβημεν. ὅθεν ὁ Δαβὶδ μελῳδεῖ· «νὴ ἐλθέτω μοι ποὺς ὑπερηφανίας, καὶ χεὶρ ὰμαρτωλοῦ μὴ σαλεύσαι με.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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