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Fragments on the Psalms · §60 · Origen of Alexandria

Psalm 12:2 — how long, Lord, will you forget me unto the end

“How long, Lord, will you forget me unto the end? How long will you turn your face from me?” (Psalm 13:1).

Of the same. Teaching that forgetfulness has fallen from the memory of God at a certain time (for God makes forgetfulness of those who escape his notice; and everyone who sins escapes his notice); but also since he turns his own face from those who do something shameful, unworthily of his eyes, that is of his contemplative and overseeing power, of those living who think greatly about the judgment of God, and being in agony over what he knew with himself, being struck by conscience, and the soul being distressed by reasonings, he adds:

Greek

12.2 Εως πότε, Κύριε, ἐπιλήσῃ μου εἰς τέλος; ε ως πότε ἀποστρέψεις τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἀπ' ἐμοῦ; Τοῦ αὐτοῦ. ∆ιδάσκων, τῆς μνήμης τοῦ Θεοῦ καιρῷ τινι ἀποπεπτωκέναι [τὴν λήθην]· (λήθην γὰρ ὁ Θεὸς ποιεῖται τῶν λανθανόν των αὐτοῦ· λανθάνει δὲ αὐτοῦ πᾶς ὁ ἁμαρ τάνων)· ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπεὶ ἀποστρέφει τὸ πρόσω πον αὑτοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν αἰσχρόν τι πραττόντων ἀναξίως τῶν αὐτοῦ ὀφθαλμῶν, τουτέστι τῆς θεωρητικῆς καὶ ἐπισκοπικῆς αὐτοῦ δυνά μεως, βιούντων μεγάλως φροντιζόντων περὶ τῆς κρίσεως τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἀγωνιῶν ἐφ' οι ς ἑαυτῷ συνῄδει, πληττόμενός τε ὑπὸ τοῦ συνειδότος, καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ὑπὸ λογισμῶν ἀνιώμενος, ἐπιλέγει·

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