Every nation puts the Christian word on trial
And still you will understand this way how 'he is judged and examined in all the earth.' Who then does not judge the Christian word? Who among the nations, even simply, does not scrutinize it? Who among the Jews does not speak the things about Christians? Who among the Greeks? Who among the philosophers? Who among private persons? Everywhere Jesus is judged and decided about; and by some he is condemned, by others he is not condemned. If he is not condemned, he is accepted; you open the windows to him, he enters to you; you believe in him, he dines with you.
But if you do not accept when you hear about Christianity, you have done nothing other than condemn Jesus as lying, as leading humans astray, as not speaking truly—through not having believed the word he teaches. 'As whom did you bear me, a man judged and examined in all the earth?' As many as wholly disbelieve condemn him; as many as do not disbelieve but are of two minds about him are examining about him. Jesus suffers two things among humans: by the unbelieving he is condemned, by the double-souled he is examined. If you put on 'the image of the heavenly' after putting off 'the image of the dusty,' you are not earth condemning him, nor are you earth in which he is condemned, nor are you still earth examining him.
Greek
καὶ ἔτι δὲ οὕτως νοήσεις, πῶς «δικάζεται καὶ διακρίνεται ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ. τίς οὖν οὐ δικάζει τὸν Χριστιανὸν λόγον; τίς τῶν ἐθνῶν κἂν ἁπλῶς οὐκ ἐξετάζει αὐτόν; τίς οὐ λέγει τῶν Ἰουδαίων τὰ περὶ Χριστιανῶν; τίς τῶν Ἑλλήνων; τίς τῶν φιλοσόφων; τίς τῶν ἰδιωτῶν; [καὶ ἔτι δὲ οὕτως νοήσεις, πῶς «δικάζεται καὶ διακρίνετει ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.] πανταχοῦ Ἰησοῦς δικάζεται καὶ κρίνεται· καὶ ὑφ᾿ ὧν μὲν καταδικάζεται, ὑφ᾿ ὧν δὲ οὐ καταδικάζεται. ἐὰν μὴ καταδικάζηται, παράδεκτος γίνεται· ἀνοίγεις αὐτῷ τὰς θυρίδας, εἰσέρχεται πρός σε· πιστεύεις εἰς αὐτόν, δειπνεῖ μετὰ σοῦ.
ἐὰν δὲ μὴ παραδέξῃ περὶ Χριστιανισμοῦ ἀκούων, οὐδὲν ἄλλο πεποίηκας ἢ κατεδίκασας τὸν Ἰησοῦν ὡς ψευδόμενον, ὡς πλανήσαντα τοὺς ἀνθρώπους, ὡς οὐκ ἀληθεύοντα, διὰ τοῦ μὴ πεπιστευκέναι τῷ λόγῳ ᾧ διδάσκει. «ὡς τίνα με ἔτεκες ἄνδρα δικαζόμενον καὶ διακρινόμενον ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ;« ὅσοι μὲν τέλεον ἀπιστοῦσι, καταδικάζουσιν αὐτόν· ὅσοι δὲ οὐκ ἀπιστοῦσιν ἀλλὰ ἀμφιβάλλουσι περὶ αὐτοῦ, διακρίνονται περὶ αὐτοῦ. δύο πάσχει ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἐν ἀνθρώποις· ὑπὸ μὲν τῶν ἀπίστων καταδικάζεται, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν διψύχων διακρίνεται. ἐὰν φορέσῃς «τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ ἐπουρανίου« ἀποθέμενος «τὴν εἰκόνα τοῦ χοϊκοῦ«, οὐκ εἶ γῆ καταδικάζουσα αὐτόν, οὐδὲ εἶ γῆ ἐν ᾗ καταδικάζεται, οὐκέτι γῆ εἶ διακρίνουσα αὐτόν.
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.