Gold-sons become clay pots in slavery
Those prideful upon wealth, he says, or even more honorable than gold—how were they so likened to the cheap and shatterable ones, having been led away unto slavery? And he said they were likened to these also when, having gone down into the potter’s house and taking a vessel, he shattered it; and Isaiah also likened them to a city that has fallen, “and its falls will be as shatterings of a vessel.” (Lamentations 4:2) (Jeremiah 18:2–4) (Isaiah 30:14)
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 4, 2. Οἱ κομῶντες ἐπὶ πλούτῳ , φησίν, ἢ καὶ χρυσίου τιμιώτεροι πῶς οὔτω τοῖς εὐτελέσι καὶ συντριβομένοις ἀπαχθέντες εἰς δουλείαν εἰκάσθησαν; ἔφη δὲ τούτοις αὐτοὺς ἀπεικάζεσθαι καὶ ἡνίκα κατελθὼν x003E;εἰς τὸν οἶκον τοῦ κεραμέως< λαβὼν ἀγγεῖον δὲ αὐτοὺς καὶ Ἡσαΐας πόλει πεσούσῃ, >καὶ τὰ πτώματα< >αὐτῆς ἔσται ὡς συντρίμματα ἀγγείου<.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations.
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