Let their evil come under oversight unto healing
That is: let their wickedness not still more be left free to use, but let it come to be in your oversight—as if someone should pray that wounds come into sight of a physician toward obtaining complete healing; for this is the “all.” For most blessed is first not to sin, and second that all our wickedness be overseen by God.
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 1, 22. Τουτέστι· μὴ ἐπὶ πλέον ἀφεθῇ χρῆσθαι αὐτῶν ἡ κακία, γέ- νοιτο δέ σου ἐν ἐπισκοπῇ, ὡς εἴ τις εὔξαιτο τραύματα εἰς ὄφιν ἐλθεῖν ἰατροῦ πρὸς τὸ τυχεῖν τελείας ἰάσεως· τοῦτο γὰρ τὸ πᾶσα· μακάριον γὰρ μάλιστα μὲν τὸ μὴ ἁμαρτεῖν, δεύτρον δὲ τὸ πᾶσαν ἡμῶν ἐπισκοπεῖσθαι παρὰ θεοῦ τὴν κακίαν.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations. Original English Translation from the Greek (Klostermann).
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