Fragments on Lamentations · §115

Mountains did not save; apostles’ eagle youth renewed

For Josephus narrates that not even the mountains saved those fleeing. There, then, dragging us they were fastening, or rather toward judgment they were kindled against us. And it would also be understood about the apostles whose “youth was renewed as an eagle’s.”

Greek

Klagel. Jerem. 4, 19. Ἰστορεῖ γὰρ Ἰώσηππος ὡς οὐδὲ τὰ ὄρη τοὺς φεύγοντας διέσωσεν. ἐκεῖ τοίνυν ἡμᾶς ἕλκοντες ἥπτοντο, ἤγουν πρὸς δίκην ἀνήφθησαν καθ’ ἡμῶν. νοοῖτο δ’ ἂν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἀποστόλων ὧν >ἀνεκαινίσθη ὡς ἀετοῦ ἡ νεότης<.

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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations. Original English Translation from the Greek (Klostermann).

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