Why do those who hate me overpower me?
'Why do those who hate me overpower?' He had many affairs; he suffered from those not wanting to hear what is true, and those were more powerful than him here in this age, since the kingdom of God is not from this age but from the better places, as the Savior says: 'If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would have fought, that I not be handed over to the Jews.' So those grieving the prophet overpowered him in this world. That they are strong—look at the martyrs. The judge sits judging and living luxuriously in the lawcourt; the Christian, in whom Christ is being judged, was filled with bitternesses and has been overpowered by the unjust and is condemned.
Greek
«Ἵνα τί οἱ μισοῦντές με κατισχύουσι«; πολλὰ ἔσχε πράγματα, ἔπασχεν ἀπὸ τῶν μὴ θελόντων ἀκούειν τὸ ἀληθές, καὶ ἦσαν αὐτοῦ ἐκεῖνοι δυνατώτεροι [δὲ] ἐνταῦθα ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι τούτῳ, ἐπειδὴ οὐκ ἔστιν ἡ βασιλεία τοῦ θεοῦ ἐκ τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου, ἀλλὰ ἀπὸ τῶν κρειττόνων χωρίών, ὥς φησιν ὁ σωτήρ· «εἰ ἦν ἐκ τοῦ κόσμου τούτου ἡ βασιλεία ἡ ἐμή, οἱ ὑπηρέται οἱ ἐμοὶ ἠγωνίζοντο ἄν, ἵνα μὴ παραδοθῶ τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις. οἱ λυποῦντες οὖν τὸν προφήτην κατίσχυον αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ τούτῳ. ὅτι γὰρ ἰσχύουσι, βλέπετε τοὺς μάρτυρας. ὁ δικαστὴς καθέζεται δικάζων καὶ τρυφῶν ἐν τῷ δικαστηρίῳ· ὁ Χριστιανός, ἐν ᾧ ἐστι Χριστὸς δικαζόμενος, πικρίας ἐνεπλήσθη καὶ καταδεδυνάστευαι ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀδίκου καὶ καταδικάζεται.
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.