Remnant of Israel after the nations’ fullness
Then, since we who come from the nations know that by Israel's trespass we received a way of salvation, and that they are cast outside until our fullness enters—and since we know that when the fullness of the nations enters, after that all Israel will be saved—we say first, 'Truly the hills were for a lie, and the power of the mountains,' and second, concerning Israel after the fullness of the nations: 'Yet through the Lord our God is the salvation of Israel.'
Having recalled the apostolic saying—that by the trespass in which Israel fell, salvation came to the nations, and that when the fullness of the nations enters, while Israel remains outside, then after that entering fullness all Israel will be saved—let us unfold what belongs to these places. Israel was being saved.
The greater part of Israel fell, yet 'a remnant according to the election of grace has come to be,' about which remnant it is said mystically in Elijah: 'I have left for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.' Interpreting that remnant, the apostle says: 'So then, at the present time also a remnant according to the election of grace has come to be.' So Israel is saved even as a remnant, while Israel has been left.
If you can, transfer these two ranks also onto those from the nations. He did not say, 'When all the nations are saved, then all Israel will be saved,' but, 'When the fullness of the nations enters'—then not that some Israelite is saved after all the nations, but after 'the fullness of the nations.'
If anyone can, let him take the rest as he found Israel being saved after the fullness of the nations, and by moving through the word consider when all will serve—according to what was said—'God under one yoke,' and 'sacrifices from the ends of Ethiopia'; when, as the sixty-seventh Psalm says, 'Ethiopia will stretch out her hand to God,' and the word commands the kingdoms of the earth: 'Sing to the Lord; make music to the God of Jacob.'
Greek
Εἶτα ἐπεὶ ἡμεῖς, οἱ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν, ἴσμεν ὅτι τῷ «παραπτώματι τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ὁδὸν ἐλάβομεν σωτηρίας«, καὶ ἐκεῖνοι ἔξω εἰσὶν ἐκβεβλημένοι μέχρι τὸ πλήρωμα ἡμῶν εἰσέλθῃ, ἴσμεν δὲ ὅτι ἐὰν >τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν εἰσέλθῃ, μετὰ τοῦτο πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται<, διὰ τοῦτό φαμεν πρῶτον μὲν τὸ «ὄντως εἰς ψεῦδος ἦσαν οἱ βουνοὶ καὶ ἠ δύναμις τῶν ὀρένω«, δεύτερον δὲ περὶ τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ μετὰ τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν Μνῶν· πλὴν διὰ κυρίου θεοῦ ἡμῶν ἡ σωτηρία τοῦ Ἰσραήλ.
ἐπεὶ δὲ ἅπαξ ἐμνήσθημεν τοῦ ἀποστολικοῦ ῥητοῦ λέγοντος ὅτι τῷ παραπτώματι, ᾧ παρέπεσεν ὁ Ἰσραήλ, ἡ σωτηρία γέγονε τοῖς ἔθνεσιν<, καὶ ὅταν «τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν εἰσέλθῃ«, ἔξω μένοντος τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, μετὰ τὸ εἰσερχόμενον πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν >τότε πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται<, φέρε τὰ κατὰ τοὺς τόπους τούτους ἀναπτύξωμεν. ἦν Ἰσραὴλ σῳζόμενος.
ἐξέπεσεν ὁ πολὺς Ἰσραήλ, ἀλλὰ «λεῖμμα κατ᾿ ἐκλογὴν χάριτος γέγονεν«, περὶ οὗ λείμμα- τος μυστικῶς «ἐν Ἠλίᾳ‘ λέλεκται· «κατέλιπον ἐμαυτῷ ἑπτακισχιλίους ἄνδρας, οἵτνες οὐκ ἔκαμψαν γόνυ τῇ Βαάλ. καὶ ἑρμηνεύων περὶ τοῦ λείμματος τούτου ὁ ἀπόστολός φησιν· «ἄρ᾿ οὗν καὶ ἐν τῷ νῦν καιρῷ λεῖμμα κατ᾿ ἐκλογὴν χάριτος γέγονεν. οὐκοῦν Ἰσραὴλ κἂν λεῖμμα σῳζόμενον, καταλειφθέντος τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. ταῦτα τὰ δύο τάγματα, εἰ δυνατὸς εἶ, μετάγαγέ μοι καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺς ἀπὸ τῶν ἐθνῶν. οὐ γὰρ εἶπεν· ὅταν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη σωθῇ, τότε πᾶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται· ἀλλ’ >ὅταν τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐΜῶν εἰσέλθῃ, τότε οὐ τὶς Ἰσραὴλ σωθήσεται μετὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη, ἀλλὰ μετὰ «τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν. εἴ τις δύναται, τὸ λοιπὸν ὥσπερ εὑρεν τὸν Ἰσραὴλ σῳζόμενον μετὰ τὸ πλήρωμα τῶν ἐθνῶν, διαβὰς τῷ λόγῳ κατανοησάτω, πότε πάντες δουλεύσουσιν< κατὰ τὰ ἐν τῷ εἰρημένα >τῷ θεῷ ὑπὸ ζυγὸν ἕνα καὶ ἐκ περάτων Αἰθιοπίας θυσίας · ὅτε, ὡς ἐν ἑξηκοστῷ ἑβδόμῳ λέλεκται Ψαλμῷ· «Αἰθιοπία προφθάσει χεῖρα αὐτῆς τῷ θεῷ«, καὶ ταῖς βασιλείαις «τῆς γῆς« προστάσσει ὁ λόγος λέγων· «ᾄσατε τῷ κυρίῳ, ψάλατε τῷ θεῷ Ἰακώβ.
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.