Justice and peace in his days
Of the Lord’s days the prophet says: In his days justice will arise and abundance of peace. Not only of the Savior’s fleshly sojourn — then his crucifiers had no peace. Each person by conduct acquires days of justice or of iniquity. For those who fear my name the sun of righteousness will rise. Great peace have those who love your law. The light of the righteous endures; the light of the wicked is put out — not another substance, but Christ the eternal light versus the devil’s false light when he transforms himself into an angel of light. Pleasure, riches, worldly glory — days of a light that will go out; so too heretics’ falsely named knowledge.
Latin
De diebus Domini propheta: Orietur in diebus eius iustitia et multitudo pacis. Non de sola carne Salvatoris — tunc crucifixores non habuerunt pacem. Unusquisque actibus acquirit dies iustitiae vel iniquitatis. Timentibus nomen meum orietur sol iustitiae. Pax multa diligentibus legem tuam. Lux iustorum permanet; lux impiorum exstinguitur — non alia substantia sed Christus lumen aeternum versus falsa lux diaboli se in angelum lucis transfigurantis. Voluptas divitiae gloria saeculi — dies lucis exstinguendae; haeretici falsi nominis scientia.
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)
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