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Flee the unclean; apostles turn to the nations
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He commands the apostles to flee from the midst of the Jews who have been polluted upon Christ’s blood, and he also entrusted their calling to the angels. Unless perhaps he orders the apostles to call them unclean unto repentance, which they did saying: “to you it was necessary for the word to be spoken first” (Acts 13:46 ); and when they were not willing, he commands to flee, for which reason they say as of those not willing: “behold, we turn unto the nations.” (Acts 13:46 )
Greek Klagel. Jerem. 4, 15. Τοῖς ἀποστόλοις ἐντέλλεται ἐκ μέσου τῶν Ἰουδαίων φυγεῖν ἐπὶ τῷ αἵματι μολυνθέντων Χριστοῦ, τὴν δὲ κλῆσιν αὐτῶν καὶ τοῖς ἀγγέλοις ἐπέτρεψεν. εἰ μὴ ἄρα τοῖς ἀποστόλοις καλεῖν εἰς μετάνοιαν αὐτοὺς ἀκαθάρτους κελεύει, ὅπερ ἐποίησαν εἰπόντες· «ὑμῖν ἠν ἀναγκαῖον πρῶτον λαληθῆναι τὸν λόγον( μὴ βουλομένων δέ, προστάττει φυγεῖν, διό φασιν ὡς μὴ θελόντων τὸ «ἰδοὺ στρεφόμεθα εἰς τὰ ἔθνη.
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About this text Origen on Lamentations: Jeremiah's grief for captive Jerusalem, read also as the soul taken captive by sin and set free by Christ.
Origen of Alexandria (c. 185–c. 254) was a Christian teacher in Alexandria and head of the catechetical school. This English is his fragments on Lamentations.
The full commentary is lost. What survives are short passages kept in later chains of quotations. He sets out the literal sense, the Hebrew form of the book, and its historical setting, and he compares the Greek translations.
A reader meets Jeremiah lamenting the fall of Jerusalem, and Jerusalem read both as the city and as the soul. Origen quotes Symmachus, Aquila, and Theodotion. He also cites Paul, David, Isaiah, Ezekiel, Habakkuk, Zechariah, and Daniel. He uses Septuagint book names and Psalm numbering.
Edition Klostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS 6, 1901)
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