Fragments on Lamentations · §90 · Origen of Alexandria

Finish them; worship ended; no longer nation of God

He was also saying before: “finish them, and your word will be for me unto gladness and joy of my heart” (Jeremiah 15:16)—these things after the plot against the Savior, when they were scattered everywhere; for “every just blood” (Matthew 23:35) came upon them. The, then, shows the worship according to them taking an end, and no longer being named a nation of God (Matthew 23:35).

Greek

Klagel. Jerem. 3, 64. Ἕλεγε καὶ πρόσθεν· «συντέλεσον αὐτούς, καὶ ἔσται σου ὁ λόγος ἐμοὶ εἰς εὐφροσύνην καὶ χαρὰν καρδίας μου( ταῦτα ταῦτα μετὰ τὴν κατὰ τοῦ σωτῆρος ἐπιβουλήν, ὅτε πανταχοῦ διεσπάρησαν· ἠλθε γὰρ ἐπ' αὐτοὺς >πᾶν δίκαιον x003C;. τὸ τοίνυν δηλοῖ τὸ τέλος λαβεῖν τὴν κατ' αὐτοὺς λατρείαν, καὶ τὸ μηκέτι χρη- ματίζειν ἔθνος θεοῦ.

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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.

EditionKlostermann, Origenes Werke III (GCS 6, 1901)

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