Days of Jesus or days of the wicked
On what is written: The people served the Lord all the days of Jesus and all the days of the elders who had seen the Lord’s great works. The lector read “feared”; we have “served.” Each of us makes for himself either Jesus’ days or the wicked’s days. If the true light that enlightens everyone lights the soul and the sun of righteousness rises, we have Jesus’ days — days of salvation. If we take an extinguishable light, we have evil days of Manasseh or Pharaoh. In wicked Ahaz’s days Isaiah could not see the Lord until that bad king died.
Latin
De eo quod scriptum est: Servivit populus Domino omnibus diebus Iesu et omnibus diebus seniorum qui viderunt opera Domini. Lector legebat timuit; nos habemus servivit. Unusquisque sibi praestat dies Iesu vel dies impiorum. Si lumen verum illuminat animam et sol iustitiae oritur, habemus dies Iesu dies salutis. Si lucem exstinguibilem recipimus, dies mali Manasse vel Pharaonis. In diebus Achaz impii Esaias Dominum videre non potuit donec mortuus est rex nequam.
About this text
Origen’s Homilia I on Judges (Rufinus’s Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–4.
English follows Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII (GCS 30, 1921), Rufinus’s Latin of Homilia I. Modern FOTC was not used as wording. This page is Homilia I §§1–4 (closeout).
Witnesses
- Copy-text Baehrens, Origenes Werke VII = GCS 30 (1921) (Latin · Homilia I §§1–4)
English is newly prepared for study from the stated edition. Open Latin on each section (or the Latin source witness link) for the source text. This is not a complete critical edition.