Ways blocked; fire of the Word; prophet not of sinners
For having set out many times he was not allowed to decline the ministry. For he was saying: “I will not name the name of the Lord,” and as by fire he was being driven. And he also blocks the roads of the sinners, not allowing them to sin. But the prophet is not such—he who says: “I did not sit with a council of those playing.”
Greek
Klagel. Jerem. 3, 9. Ορμήσας γὰρ πολλάκις οὐ συνεχωρήθη παραιτήσασθαι τὴν διακονίαν. ἔφασκε γάρ· «ού μὴ ὀνομάσω τὸ ὅνομα κυρίου«, καὶ ὥσπερ ὑπὸ πυρὸς συνηλαύνετο. ἐμφράττει δὲ καὶ τὰς ὁδοὺς τῶν ἀμαρτωλῶν οὐ συγχωρῶν ἀμαρτεῖν. ἀλλ' οὐ τοιοῦτος ὁ προφήτης , ὅς γέ φησιν· «οὐκ ἐκάθισα μετὰ συνεδρίου παιζόντων.
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Origen, Fragments on Lamentations. Original English Translation from the Greek (Klostermann).
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