Abandonment and Passion of Christ
I have abandoned my house, I have left my inheritance, I have given my beloved soul into the hands of its enemies. Behold the one existing in the form of God, who is in the heavens, behold his heavenly house. If you wish to see higher (for he is in the Father's), behold his house being God.
For that was his inheritance, the lands with the angels, the order with the holy powers. I have given my beloved soul into the hands of its enemies. He delivered his soul into the hands of the enemies of the soul, into the hands of Jews who killed him, into the hands of rulers who conspired against him, into the hands of kings, when 'the kings of the earth stood and the rulers conspired together against the Lord and against his Christ.'
Greek
«Ἐγκαταλέλοιπα τὸν οἶκόν μου, ἀφῆκα τὴν κληρονομίαν μου, ἔδωκα τὴν ἠγαπημένην ψυχήν μου εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν αὐτῆς. ἴδε μοι τὸν «ἐν μορφῇ θεοῦ« ὑπάρχοντα ὄντα έν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς, ἴδε αὐτοῦ τὸν οἶκον ὑπερουράνιον. εἰ βούλει καὶ ὑψηλότερον ἰδεῖν (ὅτι έν τῷ πατρί«), ἴδε αὐτοῦ οἶκον ὄντα τὸν θεόν. καταλείπει «τὸν πατέρα καὶ τὴν μητέρα«, τὴν «ἄνω Ἱερουσαλήμ«, καὶ ἔρχεται εἰς τὸν περίγειον τόπον τόπον καί φησιν· «ἐγκαταλέλοιπα τὸν οἶκόν μου, ἀφῆκα τὴν κληρονομίαν μου.
ἐκείνη γὰρ ἦν ἡ κληρονομία αὐτοῦ, τὰ χωρία τὰ μετὰ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἡ τάξις ἡ μετὰ τῶν ἀγίων δυνάμεων. «ἔδωκα τὴν ἠγαπημένην ψυχήν μου εἰς χεῖρας ἐχθρῶν αὐτῆς. παρέδωκεν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν εἰς τὰς χεῖρας τῶν ἐχθρῶν τῆς ψυχῆς, εἰς χεῖρας Ἰουδαίων τῶν ἀποκτεινάντων αὐτόν, εἰς χεῖρας ἀρχόντων συναχθέντων κατ' αὐτοῦ, εἰς χεῖρας βασιλέων, ὅτε «παρέστησαν οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντες συνήχθησαν ἑπὶ τὸ αὐτὸ κατὰ τοῦ κυρίου καὶ κατὰ τοῦ Χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ.
About this text
Origen on Jeremiah. Twenty Greek homilies survive. This page publishes the Pass B English for Homilies 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20. Homily 8 remains a machine draft and is not shipped yet. The rest of the volume is still being translated.
English follows Erich Klostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS, 1901). A second transcription of that same edition (First1KGreek TEI) was checked; where the TEI drops or garbles a line, the page image wins. This is a reading translation for study, not a new critical edition of the Greek. Homilies that survive only in Jerome’s Latin are not on this page yet. When they are, they will be marked at those homilies.
Witnesses
- Copy-text Klostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS, 1901) (Greek · Homilies 1–20 Greek (this page: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20))
- Checked print Archive.org page image and DjVu of GCS III (Greek · Same print as the copy-text)
- Checked print First1KGreek TEI of GCS III (Greek · Same print; encoding errors deferred to the page image)
Where the prints differ
- Homily 1.1 — The TEI omits Ἑβραῖον. English follows the GCS page image: Jonah is “a Hebrew prophet.”
- Homily 1.5 — The TEI dropped Ἰσαάκ. English follows the GCS page image: Isaac born of promise.
- Homily 1.11 — The TEI/OCR of this line is garbled. English follows the GCS page image and the quoted verse: “I have sanctified you.”
- Homily 3.2 — The TEI gaps Matthew 5:45 (sun on the evil and [gap]; rain on [gap] and the unjust). English follows the Gospel wording.
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Greek on each section for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.