Strength failed among those who curse me
'My strength failed among those who curse me.'
The apostle says about the Savior that 'he was crucified from weakness.' And the prophet says things near these in 'Lord, who believed our report? And to whom was the Lord's arm revealed? We announced before him as a child, as a root in thirsty ground; we saw him, and he had no form or beauty, but his form was without honor, failing beside the sons of humans. A man being in blow and in toil and knowing how to bear weakness, because his face was turned away from dishonor, he was dishonored and not reckoned. This one bears our lawless deeds and is in pain about us, and we reckoned him to be in toil and in blow and in mistreatment. But he was wounded through our lawless deeds, and has been softened through our sins; the discipline of our peace was upon him; by his bruise we were healed.' So he took up the weakness of our sins and wore us and came to those who curse him, and his strength failed from those who curse him as he came down from heavens. For at once he took up the form of the slave and emptied himself, as the apostle said that 'he emptied himself, taking a slave's form.' So he says: 'My strength failed among those who curse me.'
Greek
«Ἡ ἰσχύς μου ἐξέλιπεν ἐν τοῖς καταρωμένοις με.
ὁ ἀπόστολος λέγει περὶ τοῦ σωτῆρος ὅτι «ἐσταυρώθη ἐξ ἀσθενείας. καὶ ὁ προφήτης δὲ παραπλήσια τούτοις λέγει ἐν τῷ «κύριε, τίς ἐπίστευσε τῇ ἀκοῇ ἡμῶν; καὶ ὁ βραχίων κυρίου τίνι ἀπεκαλύφθη; ἀνηγγείλαμεν ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ ὡς παιδίον, ὡς ῥίζα ἐν γῇ διψώσῃ· εἴδομεν αὐτόν, καὶ οὐκ εἶχεν εἶδος οὐδὲ κάλλος, ἀλλὰ τὸ εἶδος αὐτοῦ ἄτιμον, ἐκλεῖπον παρὰ τοὺς υἱοὺς τῶν ἀνθρώπων. ἄνθρωπος ἐν πληγῇ ὢν καὶ ἐν πόνῳ καὶ εἰδὼς φέρειν μαλακίαν, ὅτι ἀπέστραπται τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ ἀτιμίας, ἠτιμάσθη καὶ οὐκ ἐλογίσθη. οὗτος τὰς ἀνομίας ἡμῶν φέρει καὶ περὶ ἡμῶν ὀδυνᾶται, καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐλογισάμενθα αὐτὸν εἶναι ἐν πόνῳ καὶ ἐν πληγῇ καὶ καὶ ἐν κακώσει. αὐτὸς δὲ ἐτραυματίσθη διὰ τὰς ἀνομίας Ἡμῶν, καὶ μεμαλάκισται διὰ τὰς ἁμαρτίας ἡμῶν· παιδεία εἰρήνης ἡμῶν ἐπ᾿ αὐτόν, τῷ μώλωπι αὐτοῦ ἡμεῖς ἰάθημεν. οὐκοῦν ἀνέλαβε τὴν ἀσθένειαν τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων ἡμῶν καὶ ἐφόρεσεν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἦλθε πρὸς τοὺς καταρωμένους αὐτόν, καὶ ἡ ἰσχὺς αὐτοῦ ἐξέλιπεν ἀπὸ τῶν καταρωμένων ἀπ᾿ οὐρανῶν καταβαίνοντος. ἅμα γὰρ ἀνέλαβε τὴν τοῦ δούλου μορφὴν καὶ ἑαυτὸν ἐκένωσεν, ὡς ὁ ἀπόστολος εἶπεν ὅτι «ἐκένωσεν ἑαυτὸν μορφὴν δούλου λαβών. «ἐξέλιπεν« οὖν φησιν «ἡ ἰσχύς μου ἐν τοῖς καταρωένοις με.
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.