Commentary on the Song of Songs, Book IV · §15 · Origen of Alexandria

Judas’s little fox — love of money

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Judas had a little fox in love of money; the Lord entrusted him with the money-bags that greed might be healed, but free will did not use the remedies. So an evil thought, once grown, tends toward the deed of sin.

Latin

Iudas vulpem pusillam habuit in amore pecuniae; Dominus loculos commisit ut cupiditas sanaretur, sed libertas arbitrii medelis non usus est. Sic cogitatio mala adulta ad peccati effectum tendit.

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